Existing law regulates fireworks and pyrotechnic displays and requires that a permit be obtained from the State Fire Marshal in certain instances. The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared by contract, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project, as defined, that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment, or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. The California Coastal Act of 1976 provides for the planning and regulation of development, under a coastal development permit process, within the coastal zone. Existing law defines development for these purposes. This bill would exempt a municipal fireworks display, as defined, from the provisions of CEQA. Because a lead agency would have to determine the applicability of the exemption and to take certain specified action upon a determination of exemption, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would provide that a coastal development permit is not required for a municipal fireworks display and would specify that "development" does not include a municipal fireworks display. 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.
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Existing law generally regulates the ownership and transfer of firearms, but does not authorize business entities to own or register firearms. This bill would establish procedures allowing Private Patrol Operators to own firearms and to assign those firearms to employees of the Private Patrol Operator who are licensed security guards. The bill would state findings and declarations of the Legislature, and the intent of the Legislature in connection with these procedures. The bill would direct the Department of Justice to modify and create forms, and charge reasonable fees for the filing and processing of those forms and for enforcement of these provisions. The bill would require security guards, within 48 hours of the Private Patrol Operator's request, for any reason, and within 48 hours of separation of employment or revocation of the security guard's firearm qualification card, to return the firearm to the Private Patrol Operator. Failure to comply with the 48-hour return requirement would be a misdemeanor. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would make other conforming changes. 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.
(1) Existing law requires school districts and community college districts adopting the merit system in existing law for classified employees to appoint a personnel commission. Existing law requires the personnel commission to appoint a personnel director of the commission who is responsible to the commission for carrying out all procedures in the administration of the classified personnel in accordance with the requirements of existing law and rules of the commission. This bill would require the personnel commission, consistent with the commission rules applicable to all classified employees, to determine the compensation for, evaluate, and supervise the personnel director. The bill would require the personnel commission to make an annual performance evaluation of the personnel director, thus imposing a state-mandated local program. The bill would authorize the exclusive representatives of classified employees of the applicable school or community college district and the district administration to participate in the annual performance evaluation of the director of the personnel commission by completing an evaluation or comment form distributed by the commission. The bill would require the personnel commission to review the submitted evaluation and comment forms, if any, and would require the commission to consider them as part of the overall evaluation process. The bill would require the personnel commission to be responsible for completing the final evaluation. The bill would grant the personnel commission the authority to impose discipline upon the personnel director if cause has been established in accordance with commission rules applicable to all classified employees. The bill, in order to ensure due process for the personnel director, would grant the personnel director the option of requesting a hearing from an impartial hearing officer regarding disciplinary action imposed on the personnel director. The bill would require the method for selecting the hearing officer to be designated in commission rules and would bind the commission by the findings of the hearing officer. The bill would require actions taken by the personnel commission relating to the employment of the personnel director, as specified, be ratified by the governing board of the applicable school district or community college district, and would make these actions, when ratified, final and binding on the commission. The bill would require that the procedures authorized by the bill be integrated into the regular personnel commission activities and be conducted within the amount otherwise budgeted for the personnel commission of the district. To the extent that these provisions would impose additional duties on local officials, the bill would establish a state-mandated local program. (2) 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.
The California Cigarette and Tobacco Products Licensing Act of 2003 requires a retailer to have and maintain a license from the State Board of Equalization to engage in the sale of cigarette and tobacco products in California. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change in those provisions.
Existing law requires that child care be provided in 3 stages to recipients of benefits under the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program. The first stage of child care begins upon the entry of a person into the CalWORKs program. The 2nd stage of child care begins when a county determines that the work or approved work activity of the recipient is stable or when a recipient is making the transition off of aid and child care is available through a local stage 2 program. The 3rd stage of child care, which is administered by programs contracting with the State Department of Education, begins when a funded child care space becomes available for the child or children of the eligible CalWORKs recipient. This bill would reappropriate $60,000,000 in unobligated balances appropriated in the Budget Act of 2009 to the State Department of Education for CalWORKs Stage 3 child care services. The bill would also require the State Department of Education to use those funds for families that were receiving, or would have been eligible to receive, CalWORKs Stage 3 child care services, before, on, or after October 31, 2010. The bill would declare that it makes appropriations for the usual and current expenses of the state, thereby taking immediate effect.
Existing law, the Stop Tobacco Access to Kids Enforcement Act (STAKE Act) , establishes various requirements for retailers relating to tobacco sales to minors. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these provisions.
Existing law, the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998 (the Greene Act) , requires the State Allocation Board to allocate to applicant school districts prescribed per-unhoused-pupil state funding for construction and modernization of school facilities, including hardship funding and supplemental funding for site development and acquisition. Under existing law, all new construction projects submitted to the Division of the State Architect pursuant to the Greene Act are required to include locks that allow doors to classrooms and rooms with an occupancy of 5 or more persons to be locked from the inside, except as specified. Existing law requires the Department of General Services to pass upon, and approve or reject, all plans for the construction of, or, if the estimated cost exceeds $25,000, the alteration of, any building used, or designed to be used, for community college purposes. This bill, on and after July 1, 2012, would require modernization projects for school facilities submitted under the Greene Act to the Division of the State Architect that include rehabilitation in a classroom or a room with an occupancy of 5 or more persons, as well as construction plans for community college facilities submitted to the Department of General Services and plans for the alteration of community college facilities that include rehabilitation in a classroom or a room with an occupancy of 5 or more persons, to include the installation of locks that allow doors to be locked from the inside, except as specified.
Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to administer various programs related to children's health. This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that addresses chronic health issues facing children.
This measure would designate that January 16, 2012, be observed as the official memorial of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth, commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement in changing public policy in California and in the United States of America.
Existing law establishes procedures for local public agencies to follow when engaged in public works projects, and authorizes agencies to elect to become subject to uniform construction cost accounting provisions. Existing law specifies that a board of supervisors or a county road commissioner is not prohibited by those provisions from utilizing, as an alternative, other procedures governing county highway contracts. This bill would revise the above provision that specifies that a board of supervisors or a county road commissioner is not prohibited from using alternative procedures governing county highway contracts to limit the use of those alternative procedures on or after January 1, 2013, to maintenance and emergency work and new road construction and road reconstruction, as provided. The bill would permit counties with a population of less than 50,000, on or after January 1, 2013, to continue to utilize alternative procedures for county highway contracts. Existing law authorizes public projects of $30,000 or less to be performed by the employees of the public agency by force account, negotiated contract, or purchase order. This bill would increase the amount for which public projects are authorized to be performed by the employees of the public agency, as specified above, to $45,000. Existing law also authorizes public projects of $125,000 or less to be let to contract by informal procedures, as specified, and requires public projects of more than $125,000 to be let to contract by formal bidding procedure, except as provided. This bill would increase the above limits from $125,000 to $175,000. Existing law governing public contracts establishes procedures that public agencies, as defined, are required to follow when performing public works projects, and authorizes the governing board of the public agency to adopt a resolution, by a 4/5 vote, to award the contract at $137,500 or less to the lowest responsible bidder when all informal bids on the public works project are in excess of $125,000. This bill would increase the above limits from $125,000 to $175,000, and from $137,500 to $187,500, respectively.