Existing law provides that a person sentenced to death shall have the opportunity to elect to have the punishment imposed by lethal gas or by an intravenous lethal injection of a nonspecified substance or substances by standards established under the direction of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. If no election is made, the penalty of death shall be imposed by lethal injection. This bill would specify that, on or after January 1, 2013, the substance to be used for the lethal injection shall be an ultra-short-acting barbiturate or other similar drug, not to be used in combination with a chemical paralytic. The bill would require the department to develop and implement a lethal injection protocol for this drug to be available for use on and after January 1, 2013. The bill would delete the requirement that the lethal injection be intravenous.
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This measure would declare May as Aquatics Safety Month.
The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act provides for the issuance of licenses for which various annual fees are charged depending upon the type of license issued. The act authorizes the issuance of an on-sale general license, upon application to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, for the sale of beer, wine, and distilled spirits for consumption on the premises where sold. Existing law allows a licensee under an on-sale license to apply for an event permit to authorize, at events held no more frequently than four days in any single calendar year, the sale of beer, wine, or distilled spirits for consumption on property adjacent to the licensed premises and owned or under the control of the licensee, as specified. This bill would allow an event license to authorize the sale of beer, wine, and distilled spirits at up to 14 events in a single year.
Existing law establishes various offenses relating to the unauthorized provision of specified items to persons confined in local and state correctional facilities. This bill would provide, subject to exceptions, that any inmate or ward who possesses any cellular telephone or other wireless communication device or any component thereof, including, but not limited to, a subscriber identity module (SIM card) or memory storage device, or any person who possesses with the intent to deliver, or delivers, to an inmate or ward in the custody of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation any cellular telephone or other wireless communication device or any component thereof, including, but not limited to, a subscriber identity module (SIM card) or memory storage device, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not exceeding $5,000. The bill would also provide that if a person visiting an inmate or ward is found to be in possession of a cellular telephone or other wireless communication device or any component thereof, including, but not limited to, a subscriber identity module (SIM card) or memory storage device, when searched or subjected to a metal detector, as specified, that cellular telephone or wireless communication device or component shall be subject to confiscation. The bill would require posted notices regarding those search and confiscation provisions, as specified. By creating a new crime, this 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
This measure would exhort the Congress and President of the United States to exhibit responsible leadership by enacting comprehensive immigration reform; develop a fair, purposeful immigration reform solution that controls the country's borders and the costs to state and local governments; preserve the paramount importance of lawful immigration to our culture, economy, and future; and balance the need for secure borders and sound residency requirements with America's fundamental values.
Existing law makes various legislative findings and declarations relating to air pollution. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these legislative findings and declarations.
The State Assistance for Fire Equipment Act authorizes the Secretary of Emergency Management to acquire specified firefighting apparatus and equipment for resale to a local agency, as defined, that provides fire suppression services or a fire company. Existing law also establishes the State Assistance for Fire Equipment Account, a continuously appropriated fund, for purposes of the act. Existing law requires the secretary to consult with a specified committee before adopting regulations implementing the act. This bill would annually appropriate $45,600,000 of revenue received by the state from the accessing of oil and gas reserves located beneath state coastal waters, generally known as the "T-Ridge Project," for firefighting purposes, including, but not limited to, the purchase of firefighting and rescue vehicles and equipment, vegetation management and defensible space projects, and specified training courses and materials, thereby making an appropriation. This bill would also require the secretary to consult with additional specified individuals involved in firefighting before adopting certain regulations.
Existing law provides for the liability and immunity of a public entity or public employee for acts or omissions that cause injury to persons. Under existing law, a public entity is not liable for an injury proximately caused by any prisoner or an injury to any prisoner. "Prisoner" is defined for these purposes to include an inmate of the state prison, a county jail, or a penal or correctional facility. Existing law further provides that neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for failure to provide a prison, jail, or penal or correctional facility or, if the facility is provided, for failure to provide sufficient equipment, personnel, or facilities therein. This bill would exempt from liability a public entity and its officers, employees, and agents acting within the course and scope of their employment or duties for a claim for injury arising out of an act or omission within the course and scope of employment, if the claimant, at the time the claim arises, is an inmate, ward, or prisoner at the state prison, a county jail, or any detention center, juvenile correctional center, adult or juvenile conservation camp, or other similar institution, or a parolee, regardless of when the claim is filed, unless the officer, employee, or agent acted with wanton and willful misconduct.
Existing law, the Nursing Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of registered nurses by the Board of Registered Nursing and makes a violation of the act a crime. Existing law requires a licensee renewing his or her license to submit proof to the board that during a specified time the licensee has been informed of developments in the registered nursing field either by pursuing a continuing education course offered by a provider approved by the board or by other means deemed equivalent by the board. Existing law requires the board to establish, by regulation, standards for continuing education. Existing law requires these standards to make a variety of alternative forms of continuing education available to licensees. Existing law requires the content of all courses of continuing education to be relevant to the practice of nursing. This bill would provide that continuing education courses, as specified, that advance or promote labor organizing on behalf of a union, or that advance or promote statutory or regulatory changes, political candidates, political advocacy, or political strategy shall not be considered content relevant to the practice of nursing and shall not be acceptable for meeting requirements for licensure renewal. The bill would also prohibit an approved provider from representing that such a continuing education course is acceptable for meeting requirements for licensure renewal and would require the board, subject to specified procedural requirements, to withdraw its approval of a provider that violates that requirement for no less than 5 years, as specified. Because a violation of these requirements by a provider would constitute a crime, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
This measure would call upon the State Air Resources Board, prior to any regulatory action being taken consistent with the scoping plan for the implementation of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, to perform an economic analysis that will give the State of California a more complete and accurate picture of the costs and benefits of the act's implementation. The measure would also call upon the Governor to use the authority granted by the act to adjust any applicable deadlines for regulations.