Existing law provides that a person in possession or control of property on or with respect to which a fee for the privilege of taking birds or mammals is imposed or collected, or on or with respect to which a fee for any type of entry or use permit that includes the privilege of taking birds or mammals on the property is imposed or collected, is maintaining a commercial hunting club if birds or mammals are taken on the property, and requires a person to procure a "commercial hunting club license" from the Department of Fish and Game before birds or mammals are taken. Existing law authorizes the department to issue a license to any person upon submission of a completed application and payment of a fee, in accordance with a fee schedule based on the number of properties used by the club, including a $1,000 fee for 6 to 10, inclusive, properties and a $2,000 fee for 11 or more properties. This bill would delete the fee category for 11 or more properties, and would revise the $1,000 fee category to apply to 6 or more properties.
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This measure would declare that there is an ongoing emergency due to the threat of wildfire, call on the federal government to take immediate measures to prevent imminent catastrophic wildfires, and request Governor Schwarzenegger to advocate at the federal level for the United States Forest Service to undertake prevention and maintenance work in the state's federal forest lands.
This measure would designate Friday, May 7, 2010, as California Peace Officers' Memorial Day and would urge all Californians to use that day to honor California peace officers.
This measure would designate a specified portion of Highway Route 94 in San Diego County as Historic Highway Route 94 and would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.
(1) The existing California Environmental Quality Act requires a lead agency to prepare an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment, as defined, unless the project is exempt from the act. This bill would exempt from those CEQA requirements the expansion of an existing overpass, onramp, or offramp that is built on an easement or right‑of‑way under the control of a state or local transportation agency, or a city, county, or city and county. By imposing new duties on local governments with respect to determining whether that exemption is applicable to specified highway expansion projects, the bill would impose 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. (3) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
This measure would urge the Department of Justice to ensure compliance with a requirement that the department develop a standard format to be used statewide for purposes of reporting secondhand dealer transactions.
Existing law designates air pollution control districts and air quality management districts as having the primary responsibility for the control of air pollution from all sources other than vehicular sources. This bill would prohibit a district from adopting or implementing a rule or regulation that prohibits the installation of a wood-burning fireplace, wood-burning heater, or wood-burning stove in a new or existing residential structure.
Existing law establishes the Milton Marks "Little Hoover" Commission on California State Government Organization and Economy. The commission reviews reports and submits recommendations to increase the efficiency and accountability of agencies, departments, and programs to the Governor and the Legislature. This bill would establish the Office of the Chief Inspector General, which would be headed by the Chief Inspector General. This bill would require the Chief Inspector General to identify and categorize each agency, department, and program, and submit a proposed sunset timeline for those agencies to the Legislature. This bill would also require the Chief Inspector General to review each agency, department, and program using prescribed criteria and prepare a recommendation report, as specified. This bill would require the Chief Inspector General to monitor legislation related to agencies, departments, and programs, as specified. This bill would require the commission to hold a public hearing to review the Chief Inspector General's recommendation report, and act on the report, as specified. This bill would also require the commission to submit its recommendations, along with the Chief Inspector General's report, to the Legislature in the form of a bill that the Legislature shall consider without modification.
Existing law creates the Milton Marks "Little Hoover" Commission on California State Government Organization and Economy, which has a prescribed membership that includes 4 members of the Legislature, as prescribed. Existing law specifies that the Members of the Legislature serving as members of the commission be considered a joint committee of the 2 houses of the Legislature constituted and acting as an investigating committee. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions. The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to declare a fiscal emergency and to call the Legislature into special session for that purpose. The Governor issued a proclamation declaring a fiscal emergency, and calling a special session for this purpose, on January 8, 2010. This bill would state that it addresses the fiscal emergency declared by the Governor by proclamation issued on January 8, 2010, pursuant to the California Constitution.
The existing Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 was enacted to provide aggrieved employees with a nonexclusive remedy acting as private attorneys general to seek civil penalties for violations of the Labor Code on their own behalf or on behalf of other employees, which penalties previously could be assessed and collected only by the Labor and Workforce Development Agency or its subordinate entities. This bill would repeal that act.