This measure would memorialize the Congress and President of the United States to restore federal funding cuts, due to sequestration, to senior nutrition programs, and to declare senior nutrition services and programs exempt from further budget cuts.
(1) Existing law, the Horse Racing Law, notwithstanding any other law, authorizes fairs that conduct live horse racing meetings in the northern zone to allow a joint powers authority to administer and distribute purses and authorizes the California Horse Racing Board to annually allocate a maximum of 28 racing days to any county fair in the northern zone which did not conduct horse racing prior to January 1, 1985. This bill would authorize the board, notwithstanding any other law, to allocate racing days to a fair in the northern zone to be conducted by the fair or, at the request of the fair, to authorize the board to license a racing association that was licensed by the board to conduct racing meetings in California prior to 2010 to conduct live horse racing at the fair during the dates allocated to the fair by the board. The bill would require the live horse racing days, whether they are conducted by the fair or the racing association contracting with the fair, to be subject to the same provisions of law as are presently applicable to a fair race meeting in the northern zone. (2) The Horse Racing Law requires the total percentage deducted from wagers at satellite wagering facilities in the northern zone to be the same as deductions for wagers at the racetrack where the racing meeting is being conducted and to be distributed as specified. That law also requires an additional amount not to exceed 4% of the amount handled by the satellite wagering facility on conventional and exotic wagers to be distributed to the organization formed to operate the audiovisual signal system with the mutual consent of the racing association, the organization representing the horsemen participating in the meeting, and the board from January 1, 2010, until December 31, 2013. That law also requires, commencing January 1, 2014, an amount not to exceed the amount of actual operating expenses, as determined by the board, or 2.5% of the amount handled by the satellite wagering facility on conventional and exotic wagers, whichever is less, to be distributed to the organization formed to operate the audiovisual signal system. This bill would extend these dates to December 31, 2016, and January 1, 2017, respectively. A violation of the Horse Racing Law is generally a misdemeanor. Because the bill would change the definition of an existing crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (3) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. (4) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
This measure would declare February 19, 2014, as a Day of Remembrance in order to increase public awareness of the events surrounding the internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II.
Existing law creates in the State Treasury the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund for the receipt and deposit of moneys received by the state from certain Indian tribes pursuant to the terms of gaming compacts entered into with the state. Existing law authorizes moneys in that fund to be used for specified purposes, including for grants for the support of state and local government agencies impacted by tribal government gaming. Existing law, until January 1, 2021, establishes the method of calculating the distribution of appropriations from the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund for those grants to local government agencies impacted by tribal gaming and requires the Department of Finance, in consultation with the California Gambling Control Commission, to calculate the total revenue in the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund that will be available for the current budget year for the local government agencies. This bill would require the Department of Finance, in consultation with the California Gambling Control Commission, to calculate and provide a recommendation regarding the total revenue in the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund that will be available for the current budget year for the local government agencies. The bill would require the department, in making its recommendation, to consider any anticipated revenue from additional tribal gaming operations. The bill would additionally require the department to include certain information with the recommendation, including, among other things, the total amount of payments projected to be received into the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund during the current budget year, as specified, and the amount of appropriations made each budget year in the previous 10 years from the fund for local government agencies impacted by tribal gaming pursuant to certain tribal-gaming compacts. This bill would appropriate $13 million from the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund to the California Gambling Control Commission to provide grants to local agencies for the 2013–14 fiscal year, as described above.
Existing law requires local legislative bodies, before authorizing changes in public retirement plan benefits or other postemployment benefits, to secure the services of an actuary to provide a statement of the actuarial impact of the changes. This bill would require, whenever a local ordinance or measure qualifies for the ballot that proposes to alter, replace, or eliminate the retirement benefit plan of employees of a local government entity, whether by initiative or legislative action, the governing body of the local government entity to secure the services of an independent actuary to provide a statement, or a summary of the statement, not to exceed 500 words in length, of the actuarial impact of the proposed measure upon future annual costs of the retirement benefit plan, and to have this statement printed in the voter information portion of the sample ballot. The bill would require a specified notice regarding obtaining a copy of the measure to be printed in the voter information portion of the sample ballot, if the text of the measure is not printed on the ballot, nor in the voter information portion of the sample ballot. The requirements of the bill would apply to a city, including a charter city; a county, including a charter county; a city and county, including a charter city and county; a community college district; or a special district. By imposing new requirements on local governments, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.
