Existing law requires that a person employed to teach adult or community college classes for not more than 67% of the hours per week of a full-time employee having comparable duties, excluding substitute service, be classified as a temporary employee and not become a contract employee. Existing law provides that service in professional ancillary services, including, but not necessarily limited to, governance, staff development, grant writing, and advising student organizations, by persons employed under these provisions shall not be used for purposes of calculating eligibility for contract or regular status unless otherwise provided for in a collective bargaining agreement applicable to a person employed under this provision. This bill would provide that dual enrollment shall not be used for purposes of calculating eligibility for contract or regular status, as specified. To the extent that this provision would impose additional duties on community college districts when they are required to determine the status of academic employees as contract, regular, or temporary employees, it would impose 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, 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 these statutory provisions.
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Existing federal law requires the federal government to compensate a state for the costs of incarcerating undocumented criminal illegal immigrants, or to take the undocumented criminal immigrant into federal custody, as specified. This bill would require the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to annually bill the federal government for the costs of incarcerating undocumented criminal immigrants. The bill would require the Attorney General to utilize all available legal resources to obtain reimbursement if the federal government fails to make payment. This bill would also require the Department of Justice to collect data on the total number of and percentage of undocumented immigrant inmates in all state and local correctional institutions in the state and to publish the data on its Internet Web site, as specified. The data would be required to be annually updated and published.
Existing law generally prohibits a manufacturer of alcoholic beverages and a winegrower from paying, crediting, or compensating a retailer for advertising or paying or giving anything of value for the privilege of placing a sign or advertisement with a retail licensee. It authorizes, as an exception, the holder of a beer manufacturer's or winegrower's license, a distilled spirits rectifier or manufacturer, or a distilled spirits manufacturer's agent, to purchase advertising space and time from, or on behalf of, an on-sale retail licensee, under certain conditions, if the on-sale retail licensee is the owner, manager, agent, assignee, or major tenant of a specified facility, including an exposition park of not less than 50 acres that includes an outdoor stadium with a fixed seating capacity in excess of 8,000 seats and a fully enclosed arena with an attendance capacity in excess of 4,500 people, located in San Bernardino County. This bill would modify this exception to provide that the fully enclosed arena has an attendance capacity in excess of 4,000. This bill would make findings regarding the need for special legislation.
Existing law provides the Department of Transportation with full possession and control of all state highways and authorizes the department to lay out and construct all state highways, as specified. This bill would state intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would address the need for highway construction.
Existing law sets forth the duties and authority of the Bureau of State Audits generally. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these provisions.
Existing law requires each county to provide cash assistance and other social services to needy families through the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program using federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) block grant program, state, and county funds. Existing law establishes criminal penalties, including the imposition of specified fines, for violation of certain provisions relating to, among other offenses, willfully and knowingly making a false statement or failing to disclose a material fact in order to obtain designated public social services, including CalWORKs program benefits. Existing law authorizes counties to conduct an early fraud prevention and detection program in administering the CalWORKs program, pursuant to specified criteria, including requiring the county to make a referral for welfare fraud investigation under certain circumstances. This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to the prosecution of persons who engage in Welfare fraud in connection with the CalWORKs program.
Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, provides for the operation of public water systems, and requires the State Department of Public Health to adopt regulations for these purposes. Under existing law, regulations adopted by the department are required to include requirements governing the use of point-of-entry and point-of-use treatment by public water systems in lieu of centralized treatment, where feasible. Existing law authorizes the department to develop limited emergency regulations governing the permitted use of point-of-entry and point-of-use treatment by public water systems in lieu of centralized treatment and requires that these emergency regulations remain in effect until the earlier of January 1, 2014, or the effective date of the required nonemergency regulations. Existing law limits these regulations to public water systems with less than 200 service connection. This bill would, instead, limit these regulations to public water systems with less than 2,500 service connections and would permit the emergency regulations to remain in effect until the earlier of January 1, 2016, or the effective date of the required nonemergency regulations.
Existing law defines the term "handgun" for specified provisions of law to mean any pistol, revolver, a firearm capable of being concealed upon the person. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to the provisions defining the term "handgun."
This bill would urge the United States Patent and Trademark Office to place a satellite office in California.
Existing law authorizes contracting between state agencies and private contractors and sets forth requirements for the procurement of goods and services by state agencies and the various responsibilities of state agencies and the Department of General Services in implementing state contracting procedures and policies. This bill would prohibit a scrutinized company, as defined, from entering into a contract with a state agency for goods or services, as provided. This bill would not become operative until the later of January 1, 2012, or the date the United States Securities and Exchange Commission issues the final rules and regulations on the implementation of Section 1502 of Public Law 111-203, and would become inoperative upon a specified date.