Existing law prescribes various duties for the Department of General Services in connection with development and maintenance of the park around the State Capitol Building. This bill would authorize the Ronald Reagan Centennial Capitol Foundation, in consultation with the Department of General Services, to plan a statue of Ronald Reagan in the State Capitol Building Annex. The bill would require the Department of General Services and the Ronald Reagan Centennial Capitol Foundation to approve the design and any other aspect of the statue. The bill would require that the planning, construction, and maintenance of the statue be funded with private donations through the Ronald Reagan Centennial Capitol Foundation. The bill would prohibit construction of the statue until the Joint Committee on Rules has approved and adopted the plan for the statue, and the Joint Committee on Rules and the Department of Finance have determined that sufficient private funding is available to construct and maintain the statue.
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Existing law vests in the State Department of Developmental Services jurisdiction over state hospitals referred to as developmental centers for the provision of residential care to persons with developmental disabilities. Existing law requires a developmental center to immediately report all resident deaths and serious injuries of unknown origin to the appropriate local law enforcement agency. Existing law establishes the Office of Protective Services within the State Department of Developmental Services. This bill would rename a certain position within the Office of Protective Services as the Director of Protective Services, require the director to meet specified qualifications, and require that the director be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the Secretary of California Health and Human Services, as specified. This bill would require the department to report certain events involving death or harm involving a developmental center resident to a designated protection and advocacy agency. The bill also would require the State Department of State Hospitals to report the same categories of events to the protection and advocacy agency, with respect to a resident of a state mental hospital. Existing law requires specified people, known as mandated reporters, to report cases of elder or dependent adult abuse, as defined. Failure to make a report as required by existing law is a misdemeanor. This bill would require mandated reporters in the State Department of Developmental Services to immediately report suspected abuse to the Office of Protective Services or to the local law enforcement agency. By creating new duties for local officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 4427.5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code proposed by SB 1522, to be operative only if SB 1522 and this bill are both enacted, both bills become effective on or before January 1, 2013, and this bill is enacted last. This bill would also incorporate additional changes to Section 15630 of the Welfare and Institutions Code proposed by AB 40, to be operative only if AB 40 and this bill are both enacted, both bills become effective on or before January 1, 2013, and this bill is enacted last. 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 with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
(1) Existing law makes it unlawful to engage in specified practices, unfair methods of competition, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in a transaction intended to result or that results in the sale or lease of goods or services, including making false or misleading statements concerning the existence of price reductions, or the home solicitation of a consumer who is a senior citizen where a loan is made encumbering the primary residence of that consumer for purposes of paying for home improvements. A consumer who suffers damages as a result of the use or employment of the prohibited acts or practices may bring an action to recover civil damages of at least $1,000, and, if the victim is a senior citizen and the trier of fact makes specified findings, including that the consumer has suffered substantial physical, emotional, or economic damage resulting from the defendant's conduct, to recover an additional amount of up to $5,000. This bill would expand that provision to include advertising or promoting any event, presentation, seminar, workshop, or other public gathering regarding veterans' benefits or entitlements that does not include a statement that the person disseminating the statement is not authorized to file an initial application for veterans' benefits or that the event is not sponsored by or affiliated with specified veterans' organizations, including the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. The bill would also make a conforming change. (2) Existing law provides that all insurers, brokers, agents, and others engaged in the transaction of insurance owe a prospective insured who is 65 years of age or older, a duty of honesty, good faith, and fair dealing. This duty is in addition to any other duty, whether express or implied, that may exist. This bill would make it unlawful for an insurance agent who is not licensed as an attorney to deliver to a person who is 65 years of age or older, or for an insurance agent who is licensed as an attorney to deliver to a person who is 65 years of age or older, a living trust or other legal document, other than an insurance contract or other insurance product document, except as specified. (3) Existing law requires any person who meets with a senior in the senior's home to deliver a specified notice to the senior in writing and in 14-point type no less than 24 hours prior to that individual's initial meeting in the senior's home. This bill would additionally require the notice to be delivered no more than 14 days prior to the meeting. The bill would also require that the notice be a stand-alone document in 16-point, rather than 14-point, type, that the notice include specified information regarding the agent, including his or her full name and license number, and that the notice include a specified statement. (4) Existing law sets certain standards with regard to any advertisement, as defined, or other device designed to produce leads based on a response from a potential insured that is directed to a person 65 years of age or older, including, but not limited to, disclosing certain information, not using certain language, names, letters, or symbols, and not using specified deceptive or misleading practices and materials. This bill would change the definition of advertisement to also include worksheets, questionnaires, or other materials designed to collect personal or financial information about a prospective insured or annuitant. The bill would also add veterans organizations or agencies and the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to the list of those entities that cannot be used in specified deceptive or misleading advertising practices and materials.
Existing law makes it a felony, generally known as human trafficking, to deprive or violate the personal liberty of another with the intent to effect or maintain a felony violation of, among other crimes, pimping, pandering, and abducting a minor for the purpose of prostitution. Under existing law, the crime of human trafficking is punishable by a fine not to exceed $1,000 or by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment. Existing law requires the court to order a person who is convicted of a crime to pay a restitution fine, as prescribed, and restitution to the victim or victims for the full amount of economic loss, unless the court finds compelling and extraordinary reasons for not doing so and states them on the record. Additionally, under existing law, real property used to facilitate the commission of human trafficking may be determined to be a nuisance and remedies may be imposed against that property. This bill would authorize the prosecuting agency, at the same time as the filing of a complaint or indictment charging human trafficking, to file a petition for protective relief necessary to preserve property or assets that could be used to pay for remedies relating to human trafficking, including, but not limited to, restitution and fines. The bill would specify the process by which a preliminary injunction, temporary restraining order, or sale of property or assets may be ordered and the process for distribution of the assets if the defendant is convicted.
Existing law authorizes a court with jurisdiction over a criminal matter, upon a good cause belief that harm to, or intimidation or dissuasion of, a victim or witness has occurred or is reasonably likely to occur, to issue specified orders, including an order protecting victims of violent crime from all contact by the defendant, or contact, with the intent to annoy, harass, threaten, or commit acts of violence, by the defendant. Existing law also authorizes the issuance of a restraining order, valid for up to 10 years, in all cases in which a defendant has been convicted of a crime of domestic violence. This bill would authorize a court, when issuing a protective or restraining order pursuant to the above provisions, to require electronic monitoring of the defendant if the local government, as defined, adopts a policy, with the concurrence of the county sheriff or the chief probation officer with jurisdiction, to authorize electronic monitoring of defendants and to specify the agency with jurisdiction for this purpose. The bill would require the defendant to pay for the monitoring if the court finds that the defendant is able to pay the costs of that monitoring and, if the court finds the defendant is unable to pay the costs, would authorize the court to order the costs to be paid by the local government that adopted the policy to authorize electronic monitoring. The bill would limit the duration of the electronic monitoring to one year.
Existing law prohibits domestic insurers from acquiring foreign investments from or located in foreign jurisdictions designated as state sponsors of terrorism by the United States Secretary of State. Existing law, the Iran Contracting Act of 2010, provides that a person whose name appears on a list developed or contracted for development by the Department of General Services as a person determined by the department to be engaged in investment activities in Iran is ineligible to bid on, submit a proposal for, enter into, or renew a contract with a public entity. This bill would require that above-referenced investments by a domestic insurer in companies that are included on the list maintained by the Department of General Services be treated as nonadmitted assets on the financial statements of the domestic insurer. The bill would deem use of the list developed for purposes of the Iran Contracting Act of 2010 as automatic compliance with these requirements. The bill would require the insurer to provide the Department of Insurance, on an annual basis, with a list of the investments the insurer has in companies included on the Department of General Services list.
Existing law requires specified information to be provided to patients regarding their health care. Existing federal law requires a written report of the results of each mammography examination and requires a summary of that report to be sent to the patient within a specified time period. This bill, from April 1, 2013, until January 1, 2019, would require, under specified circumstances, a health facility at which a mammography examination is performed to include in the summary of the written report that is sent to the patient a prescribed notice on breast density.
Existing law refers to mental retardation or a mentally retarded person in provisions relating to, among other things, educational and social services, commitment to state facilities, and criminal punishment. This bill would revise these provisions to refer instead to intellectual disability or a person with an intellectual disability. This bill would provide that it is the intent of the Legislature that the bill not be construed to change the coverage, eligibility, rights, responsibilities, or substantive definitions referred to in the amended provisions of the bill. This bill would make related and technical changes.
Existing federal Medicaid provisions require a state to describe its Medicaid program in its state plan, which is required by federal law to provide for, among other things, a public process for determination of rates of payment under the plan for hospital services, nursing facility services, and services of intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded. Under existing law, various state statutes refer to mentally retarded persons in provisions relating to, among other things, services, commitment to state facilities, and criminal punishment. This bill, which would be known as the Shriver "R-Word" Act, would revise various statutes to, instead, refer to a person with an intellectual disability. The bill would also state the intent of the Legislature that the bill not be construed to change the coverage, eligibility, rights, responsibilities, or substantive definitions referred to in the amended provisions of the bill.
This measure would (1) designate a specified bridge on State Highway Route 15 in San Diego County as the Chelsea King Memorial Bridge, and (2) designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 78 as the Amber Dubois Memorial Highway. The measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing these special designations and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.