(1) Existing law authorizes, until January 1, 2022, the County of Orange (county) to establish a specified neighborhood electric vehicle (NEV) transportation plan for the Ranch Plan Planned Community in that county the purpose of which is to further the community's vision of creating a sustainable development that reduces gasoline demand and vehicle emissions by offering a cleaner, more economical means of local transportation within the plan area. Existing law authorizes the county by ordinance or resolution to adopt the plan and requires that the plan have received a prior review and the comments of the transportation planning agency and any agency having traffic law enforcement responsibilities in the county. Existing law provides that the plan may include the use of a state highway, or any crossing of the highway, subject to the approval of the Department of Transportation. Existing law requires the county, if it adopts an NEV plan, to establish (A) minimum general design criteria for the development, planning, and construction of separated NEV lanes, including, but not limited to, the design speed of the facility, the space requirements of the NEV, and roadway design criteria, and (B) , in cooperation with the department, uniform specifications and symbols for signs, markers, and traffic control devices to control NEV traffic, to warn of dangerous conditions, obstacles, or hazards, to designate the right-of-way as between NEVs, other vehicles, and bicycles, to state the nature and destination of the NEV lane, and to warn pedestrians, bicyclists, and motorists of the presence of NEV traffic. Existing law also requires the county, if it adopts the NEV plan, to submit a report to the Legislature on or before November 1, 2020, in consultation with the department, the Department of the California Highway Patrol, and local law enforcement agencies. This bill would, until January 1, 2029, authorize the County of San Diego or any city in the county to establish a similar NEV transportation plan, as specified. The bill would require, if the county or any city in the county adopts an NEV plan, the entity to consult with the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) and any agency having traffic law enforcement responsibilities in an entity included in the plan area. The bill would require the County of San Diego or a city in the county that has adopted an NEV transportation plan to consult with SANDAG, the Department of Transportation, the Department of the California Highway Patrol, and any applicable local law enforcement agency in preparing a specified report to the Legislature. The bill would require the report to be submitted to the Legislature within 2 years of the date the NEV transportation plan is adopted. The bill would require, among other things, as part of the plan, restrictions limiting the operation of NEVs to NEV routes identified in the NEV transportation plan and allowing only those NEVs that meet the safety equipment requirements specified in the plan to be operated on those routes. The bill would provide that a person who operates an NEV in violation of these restrictions is guilty of an infraction punishable by a fine not exceeding $100. By creating a new crime, 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.
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This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 395 in the County of Mono as the Senator David E. Cogdill, Sr., 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 that cost, to erect those signs.
This measure would declare that the State of California welcomes the hosting of World Cup 2026, would declare the state's full support of local organizing committees in the San Francisco Bay area and Los Angeles area to be selected as World Cup 2026 sites, and would encourage the Governor and all affected state departments to cooperate with those committees.
This measure would designate the portion of Interstate 5 between Camino Las Ramblas and the Ortega Highway in the County of Orange as the Long Beach Fire Captain David Rosa Memorial Highway. The measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost for appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.
Existing law authorizes 2 or more public agencies, by agreement, to form a joint powers authority to exercise any power common to the contracting parties, as specified. Existing law authorizes the agreement to set forth the manner by which the joint powers authority will be governed. This bill would authorize the creation of the Orange County Housing Finance Trust, a joint powers authority, for the purposes of funding housing specifically assisting the homeless population and persons and families of extremely low, very low, and low income within the County of Orange, as specified. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Orange.
This measure would proclaim September 24, 2018, to September 30, 2018, inclusive, as Military and Veteran Suicide Prevention Awareness Week in California.
This measure would proclaim October 13, 2018, as Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day, and requests the citizens of California, on that day, to become informed and aware of this disease.
Existing law authorizes an individual to contribute amounts in excess of his or her personal income tax liability for the support of specified funds. Under existing law, there are general administrative provisions applicable to these voluntary contributions, which, among other things, provide for the disbursement of contributions following the repeal of the fund provisions and require undesignated funds to be transferred to the General Fund. Existing law requires any new or extended voluntary contribution to include the words "voluntary tax contribution" in the name of the fund, to require the administering agency to include specified information about the fund on its Internet Web site, to continuously appropriate from the fund the contributions made to the administering agency, and to set a minimum contribution amount for the continuation of any voluntary tax contribution fund provisions on the tax return form and a generally applicable repeal date for voluntary tax contribution provisions. This bill would allow an individual to designate on his or her tax return that a specified amount in excess of his or her personal income tax liability be transferred to the National Alliance on Mental Illness California Voluntary Tax Contribution Fund, which would be created by this bill. The bill would conform with those aforementioned administrative requirements by continuously appropriating those funds to the Franchise Tax Board, the Controller, and the Department of the California Highway Patrol for administrative costs and by requiring the Department of the California Highway Patrol to post specified information provided by the National Alliance on Mental Illness about those funds on its Internet Web site. The bill would require remaining funds in the National Alliance on Mental Illness California Voluntary Tax Contribution Fund to be transferred to the Department of the California Highway Patrol for disbursement to the National Alliance on Mental Illness California to fund the Crisis Intervention Team program that trains peace officers to assist, and engage safely with, persons living with mental illness. The bill would also conform by repealing the provisions as of December 1 of the year that the minimum contribution amount of $250,000 is not met or by the specified repeal date. By continuously appropriating these funds, the bill would make an appropriation.
Existing law requires, until January 1, 2019, a health facility at which a mammography examination is performed to include a prescribed notice on breast density in the summary of the written report that is sent to a patient, if specified circumstances apply. This bill would extend the operation of that provision until January 1, 2025. The bill would also make technical and conforming changes.
(1) Existing law requires a county board of supervisors, upon request of the county assessor or sheriff, to contract with legal counsel to assist the assessor or sheriff with duties for which the district attorney or county counsel would have a conflict of interest in representing the assessor or sheriff. In the event the board of supervisors does not concur with the assessor or sheriff that a conflict of interest exists, existing law authorizes the county assessor or sheriff to initiate an ex parte proceeding before the presiding judge of the superior court, as provided. This bill would extend these provisions to additionally require the board of supervisors to contract with legal counsel to assist the auditor-controller, as described above. The bill would also, if the presiding judge determines that a conflict exists and the creation of an ethical wall within the county counsel's or district attorney's office is inappropriate, require the presiding judge to select the legal counsel that the board of supervisors employs for the assessor, auditor-controller, or sheriff, as provided. By adding to the duties of county boards of supervisors with respect to contracts for legal counsel, this 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, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.