This measure would designate the month of February 2010, and February 2011, as Step Up California Month, designate February 3, 2010, and February 3, 2011, as Step Up California Day, and encourage and support various activities relating to the reduction of poverty.
This measure would proclaim October 2010 as Lupus Awareness Month and would wish Lupus International every success in the future.
Existing law provides for the acquisition of public park property and facilities and compensation for that transfer under specified circumstances. The Safe Neighborhood Parks, Clean Water, Clean Air, and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2000 (the Villaraigosa-Keeley Act) authorizes, for the purpose of financing a program for the acquisition, development, improvement, rehabilitation, restoration, enhancement, and protection of park, recreational, cultural, historical, fish and wildlife, lake, riparian, reservoir, river, and coastal resources, the issuance, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, of bonds in the amount of $2,100,000,000. The act prohibits the use of the grant funds unless the applicant has agreed to certain conditions, including but not limited to, using the property only for the purposes for which the grant was made and to make no other use or sale or other disposition of the property, except as authorized by a specific act of the Legislature. The act requires that if the use of the property is changed to a use that is not permitted by the act or if the property is sold or otherwise disposed of, an amount equal to the amount of the grant, the fair market value of the real property, as specified, or the proceeds from the sale or other disposition be used by the grantee for a purpose authorized by the act or that this amount be reimbursed to the fund. This bill would authorize the City of Los Angeles to transfer to the Los Angeles Unified School District parkland known as the Vernon Branch Library Pocket Park and the facilities on that land, conditioned upon, among other things, the city complying with the requirements of the Villaraigosa-Keeley Act and providing a copy of the recorded deed and title policy for, and map of, a substitute parkland. The bill would also prohibit the transfer until the Department of Parks and Recreation determines that all required conditions have been met.
This measure would ask the Internal Revenue Service to issue a new ruling with respect to the federal income tax treatment of registered domestic partners and same-sex married couples.
Existing law, until January 1, 2012, generally prohibits a person from possessing, importing, shipping, or transporting in the state, or from placing, planting, or causing to be placed or planted in any water within the state, dreissenid mussels, and authorizes the Director of Fish and Game or his or her designee to engage in various enforcement activities. Existing law exempts a public or private agency that operates a water supply system from those enforcement activities, if the operator of the facilities has prepared and implemented a prescribed plan to control or eradicate dreissenid mussels. Existing law provides that a person who violates or resists, delays, obstructs, or interferes with the implementation of these provisions is subject to a penalty, in an amount not to exceed $1,000, that is imposed administratively by the department. This bill would provide that an operator of water delivery and storage facilities, who has prepared, initiated, and is in compliance with a plan to control and eradicate dreissenid mussels in accordance with the above existing provisions of law, would not be subject to any civil or criminal liability for the introduction of dreissenid mussel species as a result of operations of those facilities. The bill would provide that neither the director's enforcement activities, nor the prohibition on a person possessing, importing, shipping, or transporting dreissenid mussels in the state would apply to an operator who has prepared, initiated, and is in compliance with a plan to control and eradicate dreissenid mussels, unless the department had required the operator to update its plan and the operator failed to do so.
This measure would recognize April 2010 as County Government Month.
This measure would recognize March 2, 2010, as "Read Across America Day."
This bill would declare August 2010 as Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month.
This measure would establish, until January 1, 2014, the California Task Force on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education for the purpose of promoting the improvement of mathematics, science, engineering, and technology education across the state. The task force would consist of Members of the Legislature and experts appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly and the Senate Committee on Rules. The task force would conduct its business on a volunteer basis, be able to accept private funds, and would submit an annual report on its work to the Legislature.
This measure would request that the Congress and the President of the United States enact the Medicare Secondary Payer Enhancement Act of 2010.
