(1) Under existing law, various measures have been approved by the voters to provide funds for water supply and protection facilities and programs. This bill would enact the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2010, which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $11,140,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance a safe drinking water and water supply reliability program. The bill would provide for the submission of the bond act to the voters at the November 2, 2010, statewide general election. (2) This bill would take effect only if SB 1 of the 2009–10 7th Extraordinary Session is enacted and becomes effective. (3) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
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Existing law authorizes the Director of General Services to acquire and dispose of state real property under specified conditions. This bill would authorize the department to dispose of 3 specified parcels of real property pursuant to certain provisions.
This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 15 in Temecula as the Deputy Kent Hintergardt Memorial Highway. The measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering those costs, to erect those signs.
Existing law provides that the Director of Mental Health shall provide each person who is committed as a sexually violent predator with an annual written report which shall include consideration of whether the committed person currently meets the definition of a sexually violent predator and whether conditional or unconditional release is in the best interests of the committed person and the community, as specified. Existing law also provides that if the department determines that the person is no longer a sexually violent predator or conditional release is in the best interests of the person and that conditions can be imposed to adequately protect the community, the director shall authorize the committed person to petition the court for conditional release or unconditional discharge, as specified. Existing law further provides that, upon receipt of a petition for conditional release or unconditional discharge, the court shall hold a show cause hearing to determine that probable cause exists to believe that the person's diagnosed mental disorder has so changed that he or she is not a danger or likely to engage in sexually violent criminal behavior if discharged. If probable cause is found, then the court shall set a hearing on the issue. This bill would require that, at the hearing on the issue of whether the committed person should be conditionally released or unconditionally discharged, where the person's failure to participate in or complete treatment is relied upon as proof that the person's condition has not changed, and there is evidence that supports that reliance, the jury be instructed that the committed person's failure to participate in or complete the State Department of Mental Health Sex Offender Commitment Program may, if proved, be considered evidence that his or her condition has not changed.
Existing law provides that no disaster worker who is performing disaster services during a state of war emergency, a state of emergency, or a local emergency shall be liable for civil damages on account of personal injury to or death of any person or property, as provided. This bill would provide that disaster service workers shall not be liable when acting within the scope of their responsibilities under the authority of the governmental emergency organization, as provided. This bill would provide that these provisions apply exclusively to any legal action filed on or after the effective date of this bill. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law, the Sex Offender Registration Act, requires persons convicted of specified sex offenses to register with local authorities for life while residing, located, attending school, or working in California, and requires preregistration and reregistration, as specified. Existing law also provides that the failure to provide information required on registration and reregistration forms of the Department of Justice, or the provision of false information, is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed one year. This bill would provide that nothing in the latter provision shall be construed to limit or prevent prosecution under any applicable provision of law.
Existing law requires the Department of Justice to make available to the public via an Internet Web site certain information relating to certain registered sex offenders, including the address at which the person resides, as specified. This bill would, commencing January 1, 2012, require the department to record each address at which a registered sex offender resides with a unique identifier that shall include the nature of the dwelling, as specified. This bill would also require, commencing January 1, 2012, the department to maintain those classifications within the database maintained for sex offender registrations and to provide that information to other state agencies, including the State Department of Social Services, when those agencies need the information for law enforcement purposes relating to investigative responsibilities relative to sex offenders.
(1) Existing law authorizes the State Lands Commission to enter into a lease for the extraction of oil or gas from state-owned tide and submerged lands in the California Coastal Sanctuary if the commission determines that those oil and gas deposits are being drained by means of producing wells upon adjacent federal lands and if the lease is in the best interests of the state. This bill would create the Interim Resources Management Board, consisting of the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency, the Secretary for Environmental Protection, and the Controller. The bill would authorize the board to consider a lease, lease application, or revised lease application filed. The bill would authorize the board to approve that lease if specified terms and conditions are met. The bill would provide for the repeal of these provisions on January 1, 2011. The bill would set forth related declarations and findings. (2) 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 July 1, 2009. This bill would state that it addresses the fiscal emergency declared by the Governor by proclamation issued on July 1, 2009, pursuant to the California Constitution.
Existing law, that becomes operative on January 1, 2010, makes it a crime to import into California for commercial purposes, to possess with intent to sell, or to sell any part or product of the dead body of a crocodile or alligator. This bill would instead provide that this provision become operative on January 1, 2015. The bill would specify that it shall not be construed to authorize the importation or sale of any alligator or crocodilian species, or any products thereof, that is listed as endangered or that would be in violation of any federal law or international treaty, as specified.
This measure would declare June 2009 as Scleroderma Awareness Month.