Existing law requires the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Department of General Services, to approve and adopt appropriate standards for the purpose of storing and recording documents in electronic media and requires the standards to include a requirement that a trusted system, as defined, be used. Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to make photographic, microfilm, or electronic copies of records of the district and to destroy the original after the copy is made if provision is made for permanently maintaining the copy in the files of the district, except that an original record that is basic to a required audit is prohibited from being destroyed before the second July 1st after the completion of the audit. This bill, commencing January 1, 2012, would authorize the destruction of an original of a school district record of which a photographic or microfilm copy has been made when provisions are made for permanently maintaining that copy in the files of the district and would authorize the destruction of an original record of which an electronic copy has been made if the governing board of a school district annually certifies that provisions are made to maintain the copies in a trusted system, as defined, and the copy is a nonalterable optical image reproduction produced by technology that does not permit alterations, changes, additions, or deletions to be made of the original record. The bill would state that these provisions do not relieve the governing board of a school district from a requirement in law to produce an original record that is basic to a required audit, unless that record can be reproduced from the copy that was made from the original record.
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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.
This resolution would respectfully request that the International Maritime Organization, a specialized agency of the United Nations, adopt the North American Emission Control Area, as proposed by the United States, Canada, and France at the 60th session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee, scheduled for March 2010.
Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, upon the registration of a vehicle, to issue to the owner of the vehicle license plates meeting specified requirements for the vehicle. This bill would authorize the department to take specified actions for the purposes of developing and evaluating the potential use of digital electronic license plates, as defined. The bill would authorize the department to contract with a private vendor for the purposes of researching, reporting, developing, acquiring, and exploring the utilization of digital electronic license plates. The bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2013, if it enters into a contract with a private vendor, to submit to the Legislature a report on its investigation on the utilization of digital electronic license plates.
Existing law provides that an employer may not ask an applicant for employment to disclose, and an employer may not utilize in an employment-related decision, information concerning an arrest or detention that did not result in a conviction. This bill, in addition, would prohibit an employer from denying an application for employment for the reason that the applicant has previously been convicted of a criminal offense unless the employer determines that there is a direct relationship between the prior conviction and the employment sought or the granting of employment would involve an unreasonable risk to property or persons. This bill would require the employer to consider specified factors when determining whether either of those 2 circumstances exist. Because this bill would create a new crime, it 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
This measure would urge various state and private entities to withhold financial support of Arizona businesses in response to recent Arizona state laws relating to illegal immigration.
This measure would declare February 19, 2010, 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 establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of his or her employment. Existing law requires the administrative director, after public hearings, to adopt and revise periodically an official medical fee schedule that shall establish reasonable maximum fees paid for medical services, drugs and pharmacy services, health care facility fees, home health care, and all other treatment, care, services, and goods, other than physician services. Existing law, commencing January 1, 2004, and continuing until the time the administrative director has adopted an official medical fee schedule, as specified, requires maximum reasonable fees to be 120% of the estimated aggregate fees prescribed in the relevant Medicare payment system for the same class of services before application of certain inflation factors, except that for pharmacy services and drugs that are not otherwise covered by a Medicare fee schedule payment for facility services, existing law requires the maximum reasonable fees to be 100% of fees prescribed in the relevant Medi-Cal payment system. This bill would, instead, provide that for pharmacy services and drugs that are not otherwise covered by a Medicare fee schedule payment for facility services, the maximum reasonable fees shall be the lowest of the average wholesale price minus 17%, the federal upper limit, as defined, or the maximum allowable ingredient costs, as defined, plus a professional fee for dispensing that is no less than $7.25 per prescription.