(1) Existing law requires the Director of the Department of Public Health to establish rules and regulations establishing minimum standards for organized camps and regulating the operation of organized camps that the director determines are necessary to protect the health and safety of the campers. This bill would require the department, in amending the rules and regulations pertaining to organized camps, to obtain the input and advice of organizations in the field. (2) Existing law permits a participating program operated by a city, county, or nonprofit organization in the After School Learning and Safe Neighborhoods Partnership Program to operate for up to 30 hours per week without obtaining a license or special permit otherwise required under existing law. The bill would increase the authorization to 60 hours per week and provide that no individual child can be in care in the program for more than 30 hours per week. (3) Existing law regulates the licensure and administration of day care centers and family day care centers and exempts specified recreation programs conducted for children from these regulations. The bill would expand the scope of this exemption. (4) Existing law establishes minimum standards for the operation, regulation, and enforcement of organized camps, as defined. The bill would modify the definition of the term "organized camp." The bill would define the term "organized day camp" and require an organized camp and organized day camp to develop an operating plan. The bill would provide that a director or camp counselor may have direct supervision of any child if that director or counselor is registered with a specified child care provider trustline registry, and, if not so registered, may have direct, unsupervised contact with a child only after a specified confirmation. This bill would also strongly encourage a director or counselor to seek a criminal history check.
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Existing federal law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act, beginning in 2014, requires most individuals to maintain minimum essential health care coverage or pay a penalty. This measure would amend the California Constitution to prohibit a federal, state, or local law or rule from compelling a person or business to participate in a health care system, as defined; imposing penalties or fines, as defined, for failure to maintain coverage; or prohibiting the sale or purchase of health care or health insurance, subject to specified exceptions.
Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue or renew a license certificate for a driving school owner or operator, a driving school instructor or all-terrain vehicle safety instructor, a traffic violator school owner or traffic violator school operator, or a traffic violator school instructor if specified criteria are met. This bill would require the department to approve or disapprove an application for renewal within 30 days of receipt of an application, provided the application includes all required information, as determined by the department.
Existing law creates the Public Employees' Retirement System which provides a defined benefit to its members based on age at retirement, service credit, and final compensation. This bill would require the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System to create a hybrid retirement plan for public employees who become members on or after January 1, 2012, that offers a defined contribution plan and defined benefit plan for retirement for service and a defined benefit plan for retirement for disability or for death. The bill would prohibit those plans from creating a vested property right for the member with respect to any employer contributions before retirement, as specified. The bill would prohibit those members from being eligible to enroll in the defined benefit plan for retirement for service that existed before January 1, 2012.
Existing law, the California Financial Information Privacy Act, states the intent of the Legislature to provide greater protection of a person's nonpublic personal information provided to a financial institution and defines certain terms for its purposes. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those definitions.
Existing law makes it a crime for a person who knows or reasonably should know that a person is an elder or dependant adult, under circumstances likely to produce great bodily harm or death, to willfully cause or permit any elder or dependent adult to suffer, or inflict unjustifiable physical pain or mental suffering thereon, or to cause or permit the elder or dependent adult to be placed in a situation in which his or her person or health is endangered, as specified. Existing law punishes a violation of this provision by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine not to exceed $6,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment, or by imprisonment in the state prison for 2, 3, or 4 years. Under existing law, a person who knows or reasonably should know that a person is an elder or dependent adult and who, under circumstances or conditions other than those likely to produce great bodily harm or death, willfully causes an elder or dependent adult to suffer, or inflicts unjustifiable physical pain or mental suffering thereon, or permits the health of the elder or dependent adult to be endangered is guilty of a misdemeanor. Existing law punishes a 2nd or subsequent violation of that provision by a fine not to exceed $2,000 or by imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment. The bill would instead provide that a violation of the above provisions shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine not to exceed $6,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment, or by imprisonment in the state prison for 2, 3, or 4 years, without regard to whether or not the violation occurred under circumstances likely to produce great bodily harm or death. This bill would accordingly delete the provisions regarding elder or dependent adult abuse under circumstances or conditions other than those likely to produce great bodily harm or death. This bill would make other conforming changes. By increasing the punishment for a crime, this bill would create 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.
The Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System is required, upon application by a public agency, as defined, to execute an agreement with the federal government for the coverage of the public employees of the agency under the federal Social Security Act in conformity with specified regulations. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to the provision of law that defines those entities that constitute a "public agency" that is eligible to execute an agreement for coverage under the federal Social Security Act.
Existing law authorizes certain members of the Public Employees' Retirement System, the State Teachers' Retirement System, and county, city, and district retirement systems that have adopted specified provisions, to make additional contributions to the retirement system and receive up to 5 years of additional retirement service credit for time that does not qualify for public service, as specified. The bill would repeal the provisions that authorize these additional contributions and service credit, and would make related technical changes.
Existing law governs the tort liability and immunity of, and claims and actions against, public entities and their officers and employees. A public entity, as defined, is not liable for an injury, except as otherwise provided by statute, whether the injury arises out of an act or omission of the public entity or a public employee or any other person. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this provision.
The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, the Ralph C. Dills Act, the provisions commonly referred to as the Educational Employment Relations Act, and the Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act each provide for the representation of state or local public employees by recognized employee organizations, and provide that the scope of this representation includes negotiations concerning wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment between the state or local public employer and representatives of those employee organizations. This bill would exclude matters relating to pension benefits from the scope of representation of public employees by recognized employee organizations, and would thereby prohibit these employee organizations from negotiating pension benefits with public employers, except for the amount of employee contributions to the pension plans.