(1) The Enterprise Zone Act provides for the designation of enterprise zones by the Department of Community Housing and Development based on the department's approval of applications from a city, county, or city and county with a geographic area meeting certain criteria. Certain entities within a designated enterprise zone may receive regulatory, tax, and other incentives for private investment and employment. Existing law provides that no more than 42 enterprise zones be designated at any one time pursuant to the act. Upon the expiration or termination of a designation, existing law authorizes the department to designate another enterprise zone to maintain a total of 42 enterprise zones. This bill would authorize the department to designate one special enterprise zone within the City of Fremont consisting of a geographical area encompassing a facility that manufactures automobiles and to designate, until 90 days after the act takes effect, an additional 10 special enterprise zones limited to one nonrenewable 15-year term. The bill would exclude these enterprise zones from the calculation of the overall number of enterprise zones authorized under the act. The bill would also make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute. (2) The California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority Act established the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority. The authority is authorized to do all things necessary and convenient to carry out the purposes of the act. The authority is also required to establish a renewable energy program to provide financial assistance, as defined, to certain entities for projects to generate new and renewable energy sources, develop clean and efficient distributed generation, and demonstrate the economic feasibility of new technologies. Existing law provides that the transfer of title of tangible personal property constituting a project under the act to the authority by a participating party or the lease or transfer of tangible personal property constituting a project under the act by the authority to a participating party pursuant to the act is not a "sale" or "purchase" for the purposes of the Sales and Use Tax Law. This bill would include as a project, machinery, or equipment that is utilized for the design, technology transfer, manufacture, production, assembly, distribution, or service of an alternative source component. The bill would include as "financial assistance" for the purposes of the act purchases, sales, or lease arrangements that qualify for exclusion from the Sales and Use Tax Law. The bill would require the authority to consider specified criteria in approving a project for which the purchase, sale, or lease of tangible personal property qualifies for the sales and use tax exclusion. The bill would require, when the sales and use tax exclusion for projects approved by the authority exceed $100,000,000 annually, the authority to provide a 20-day notice to the Legislature for additional project approval.
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Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income persons receive health care benefits. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid provisions. Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal Hospital/Uninsured Care Demonstration Project Act, which revises hospital reimbursement methodologies under the Medi-Cal program in order to maximize the use of federal funds consistent with federal Medicaid law and stabilize the distribution of funding for hospitals that provide care to Medi-Cal beneficiaries and uninsured patients. This demonstration project provides for funding, in supplementation of Medi-Cal reimbursement, to various hospitals, including designated public hospitals, nondesignated public hospitals, and private hospitals, as defined, in accordance with certain provisions relating to disproportionate share hospitals. Existing law establishes the continuously appropriated Private Hospital Supplemental Fund, and allows the California Medical Assistance Commission to distribute certain amounts from the fund to private hospitals that satisfy specified criteria. Existing law requires the County of Los Angeles to, for the 2007–08, 2008–09, and 2009–10 project years, make intergovernmental transfers to the state to fund the nonfederal share of increased Medi-Cal payments to those private hospitals that serve the South Los Angeles population formerly served by Los Angeles County Martin Luther King, Jr.-Harbor Hospital. Existing law requires the intergovernmental transfers to be funded by county tax revenues and to total $5,000,000 per project year, subject to specified exceptions. Existing law requires these moneys to be deposited in the Private Hospital Supplemental Fund, thus constituting an appropriation, and distributed to the private hospitals designated by the county. This bill would additionally require the County of Los Angeles to make intergovernmental transfers to the state to fund the nonfederal share of increased Medi-Cal payments to those private hospitals that serve the South Los Angeles population formerly served by Los Angeles County Martin Luther King, Jr.-Harbor Hospital for the 2010–11, 2011–12, and 2012–13 project years in accordance with the above-described provisions, thereby constituting an appropriation. Existing law provides for the payment of safety net care pool funds to designated public hospitals, or governmental entities with which they are affiliated, pursuant to the demonstration project. Existing law requires a maximum of $100,000,000 of the safety net care pool funds claimed and received by the state pursuant to the demonstration project, that are based on the certified public expenditures of the County of Los Angeles, or its designated public hospitals, to be deposited in the continuously appropriated South Los Angeles Medical Services Preservation Fund, for each of the 3 project years, 2007–08, 2008–09, and 2009–10, for the purpose of reimbursing counties for specified costs. This bill would extend the requirement for deposits into the South Los Angeles Medical Services Preservation Fund to the 2010–11, 2011–12, and 2012–13 project years, thus making an appropriation.
This measure would designate the portion of State Highway Route 405 between State Highway Route 10 and State Highway Route 90 in the County of Los Angeles as the Kevin Murray Highway. The measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost for appropriate signs showing this designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.
Existing law sets forth the powers and duties of the Division of Juvenile Facilities in the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation with respect to wards in its custody, including, but not limited to, the return of persons to the court of commitment for redisposition by the court, determination of offense category, and setting of parole consideration dates. Existing law requires the department to promulgate policies and regulations implementing a departmentwide system of graduated sanctions for addressing ward disciplinary matters, including extending a ward's parole consideration date, subject to appeal, from one to not more than 12 months, for a sustained serious misconduct violation, as specified. The department is also authorized to promulgate regulations to establish a process for granting wards who have successfully responded to disciplinary sanctions a reduction of up to 50% of any time acquired for disciplinary matters. This bill would prohibit the department from extending a ward's parole consideration date, and would require the department to promulgate regulations to establish a process for granting a ward whose parole consideration hearing date was delayed due to disciplinary sanctions prior to January 1, 2011, a reduction of up to 100% of any time acquired for disciplinary matters.
(1) Existing law establishes the Trial Court Trust Fund, the proceeds of which are apportioned for the purpose of funding trial court operations. This bill would establish a Court Security Account in the Trial Court Trust Fund, and require that all court security funds from whatever source be deposited into the account and expended only for court security services. (2) Existing law imposes a fee of $30 upon every conviction for a criminal offense, other than parking offenses, for funding of court security until July 1, 2011, and a court security fee of $20 thereafter. Existing law provides that proceeds of the court security fee be transferred monthly from the counties for deposit in the Trial Court Trust Fund to fund trial court operations, including those marshals and sheriffs as the court deems necessary for court operations. This bill would continue the increased court security fee until July 1, 2013. The bill would require proceeds of the court security fee to be deposited in the Court Security Account in the Trial Court Trust Fund. This bill would require the Judicial Council to provide for administration of these provisions.
Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, restricts the employment of licensed physicians and surgeons and podiatrists by a corporation or other artificial legal entity, subject to specified exemptions, and makes it a crime to practice medicine without a license. Existing law establishes, until January 1, 2011, a pilot project to allow qualified district hospitals that, among other things, provide more than 50% of patient days to the care of Medicare, Medi-Cal, and uninsured patients, to employ a physician and surgeon, if the hospital does not interfere with, control, or otherwise direct the professional judgment of the physician and surgeon. The pilot project authorizes the direct employment of a total of 20 physicians and surgeons by those hospitals to provide medically necessary services in rural and medically underserved communities, and specifies that each qualified district hospital may employ up to 2 physicians and surgeons, subject to specified requirements. This bill would delete that pilot project and would instead, until January 1, 2021, authorize a health care district, as defined, and a clinic owned or operated by a health care district, as specified, to employ physicians and surgeons if the health care district's service area includes a Medically Underserved Area (MUA) or a Medically Underserved Population (MUP) , or has been federally designated as a Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) ; the district board conducts a public hearing and adopts a specified resolution declaring the need for the district to recruit and directly employ one or more physicians and surgeons; and the executive officer of the district provides specified documentation to the Medical Board of California. Upon receipt of that documentation, the bill would require the board to approve the employment of up to 5 primary or specialty care physicians and surgeons by the district, and, upon receipt of additional documentation after that employment, to approve an additional 5 primary or specialty care physicians and surgeons. The bill would provide that a district may, until December 31, 2020, enter into, renew, or extend any employment contract with a physician and surgeon for up to 10 years. The bill would require the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, in consultation with the State Department of Public Health and the board, to report to the Legislature by June 1, 2018, with regard to the efficacy of the employment of physicians and surgeons by health care districts, as specified.
This measure would recognize the Lunar New Year 4708 celebration.
This measure would declare February 23, 2010, to be Spay Day USA 2010 in California, and would request that Californians observe that day by having their dogs and cats spayed or neutered and by providing voluntary services or other support to organizations that provide spay and neuter services.
This measure would recognize February 2010 as Black History Month, urge all residents to join in celebrating the accomplishments of African Americans during Black History Month, and encourage the people of California to recognize the many talents, achievements, and contributions that African Americans make to their communities.
(1) Existing law authorizes specified school districts to enter into joint use agreements with other public entities for operation of joint use facilities. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to increase the flexibility of joint use policies and practices that will allow schools and communities to optimize resources, share costs, and identify creative solutions to increase access to safe places to play and exercise. (2) Existing law establishes the After School Education and Safety Program to serve pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 9, inclusive, at participating public elementary, middle, junior high, and charter schools. Each component of a program shall consist of 2 specified elements. This bill would require, by the start of the 2013–14 school year, an additional physical fitness element that includes at least 30 minutes per day of moderate to vigorous physical activity as specified. Because this bill would require participating schools to conduct a new program, it would constitute a state mandated local program. (3) Existing law provides that the department shall select applicants to participate in the program from among applicants who apply on forms and in a manner prescribed by the department. The application submitted shall certify that specified content, including opportunities for physical activity, is a part of the program. This bill would require that opportunities for physical fitness to include at least 30 minutes per day of moderate to vigorous physical activity, as defined in the Physical Education Model Content Standards and Physical Education Framework as specified, commencing by the start of the 2013–14 school year. (4) Existing law requires that the adopted course of study for grades 1 to 6, inclusive, include instruction, in specified areas of study, including physical education. This bill would require that, by the start of the 2013–14 school year, at least 50% of the time spent in physical education be spent in moderate to vigorous physical activity within the context of the physical education content standards and framework as adopted by the State Board of Education. Existing law requires that all pupils, except pupils excused or exempted as specified, attend courses of physical education for a total period of time of not less than 400 minutes each 10 schooldays. This bill would require that, by the start of the 2013–14 school year, at least 50% of the time spent in physical education be spent in moderate to vigorous physical activity within the context of the physical education content standards and framework as adopted by the State Board of Education. (5) 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.