Existing law requires persons who have been convicted of specified crimes, and other persons as required by a court, to register as sex offenders. Existing law sets forth the procedure for registering and provides that a violation of the sex offender registration law is a crime, punishable as specified. The bill would, commencing January 1, 2013, require a person who is required to register as a sex offender to provide to the law enforcement agency with which he or she last registered all of his or her online names, addresses, e-mail addresses, and instant messaging user names for all of his or her accounts on social networking Internet Web sites, as defined, at the time of original registration or any subsequent registration and within 30 days of establishing a new online name, address, or account, as specified, and would make it a misdemeanor to fail to do so. This bill would permit information received pursuant to these provisions to be shared with other local law enforcement agencies, upon request. By creating a new crime, this bill 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
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Existing law prescribes procedures for the issuance of registered warrants and provides that a registered warrant is acceptable and may be used as security for the performance of any public or private trust or obligation. This bill would require a state agency to accept, from any person or entity, a registered warrant issued by the Controller that is endorsed by that payee, at full face value, for the payment of any obligations owed by that payee to that state agency. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law requires insurers to fulfill certain requirements with regard to life insurance policies. This bill, the Life Insurance Proceeds Disclosure Act of 2011, would require insurers to provide written disclosures to life insurance beneficiaries, as specified, at the time a claim is made and before a retained asset account, as defined, is selected or established as the benefit payment. The bill would require an insurer that settles life insurance benefits through a retained asset account to provide the beneficiary with a supplemental contract that clearly discloses the rights of the beneficiary and the obligations of the insurer under the supplemental contract. The bill would also require, if the life insurance benefits are placed in a retained asset account, the insurer to send the beneficiary at least one statement per quarter, and a statement for any month in which there has been any account activity other than the crediting of interest. The bill would provide that an insurer that fails to conform to the requirements of the above provisions would be subject to provisions of existing law that provide for the imposition of a civil penalty against any person who engages in any unfair method of competition or any unfair or deceptive act or practice in the business of insurance, as provided. The bill would become operative only if SB 599 of the 2011–12 Regular Session is enacted and becomes effective.
Existing law provides for the formation and operation of general corporations, and specifies that directors shall be elected to the board of directors at each annual meeting of shareholders to serve until the next annual meeting, except as provided for a publicly listed corporation. This bill would provide that a mutual water company incorporated as a general corporation may elect directors to staggered 4-year terms and allow the initially elected directors to determine by lot which of them shall instead serve a 2-year term, as specified. The bill would require the mutual water company to notify its shareholders, prior to the election, that the directors shall determine their terms by lot.
This measure would designate a portion of State Highway Route 8 in the County of San Diego as the Border Patrol Agent Robert W. Rosas Jr. Memorial Highway. The measure would request that the Department of Transportation 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 June 2011 as Scleroderma Awareness Month.
This measure would declare June 26, 2011, a Day in Support of Victims of Torture in California, and would urge the Office of Refugee Resettlement to direct torture treatment funding through the Torture Victims Relief Act of 1998 so as to reflect California's role as the nation's largest resettlement destination for torture survivors.
This measure would designate Monday, May 2, 2011, as California Peace Officers' Memorial Day and would urge all Californians to use that day to honor California peace officers.
This measure would state the intent of both houses of the Legislature to begin each of their respective floor sessions, following the opening prayer and the pledge of allegiance to the flag, with a recitation of an excerpt from the United States Constitution, and to begin their respective floor sessions held nearest in time to the 4th of July of each year with a recitation of the full text of the Declaration of Independence.
Under existing law, the purpose of the California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, is to reduce, recycle, and reuse solid waste generated in the state to the maximum extent feasible. This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to address landfill and waste disposal management.