The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, administered by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, regulates the sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages and the granting of licenses for the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcoholic beverages within the state. The act also provides for specified labeling requirements for containers of alcoholic beverages sold within this state, and requires that all beer sold in the state have a label affixed to its package or container with the true and correct name and address of the manufacturer of the beer and the true and correct name of the bottler of the beer if other than the manufacturer. This bill would require a beer manufacturer that refills any container supplied by a consumer to affix a label, as specified, on the container prior to its resale to the consumer. The bill would require information concerning any beer previously packaged in the container, including, but not limited to, information regarding the manufacturer and bottler of the beer, to be removed or completely obscured in a manner not readily removable by the consumer prior to resale. The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act provides that a violation of its provisions is a misdemeanor. 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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(1) Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified. Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt regulations that govern the expenditure of funds apportioned on the basis of the number and concentration of unduplicated pupils, as specified. This bill would require the state board, on or before January 31, 2015, to amend those regulations to require an expenditure made pursuant to the local control funding formula for the primary benefit of unduplicated pupils to be expended on programs or services that are evidence based and have been shown to be effective in increasing the academic performance of those pupils, to require the State Department of Education to suspend funding received pursuant to the local control funding formula if the department makes a specified finding, and to prohibit a school district, county office of education, or charter school from receiving funding if the school district, county office of education, or charter school does not submit a local control and accountability plan that includes evidence-based programs that have been proven to be effective. The bill would state a related intent of the Legislature. (2) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law authorizes the governing board of a high school district, the governing board of a joint powers regional occupational center or program, or the county superintendent of schools that conducts any county-operated regional occupational center or program, to establish and maintain, in connection with a high school or regional occupational center or program under its or his or her jurisdiction, cooperative career technical education programs or community classrooms as part of a career technical education course in accordance with prescribed rules and regulations. This bill would state findings and declarations of the Legislature regarding the need for career technical education programs, and would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State Board of Education to consider various measures to enhance and improve career technical education.
(1) Existing law appropriates $1,250,000,000, from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for transfer to Section A of the State School Fund to support the integration of academic content standards in instruction, as specified, and requires the Superintendent to apportion these funds to school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and the state special schools using an equal rate per pupil based on prior year enrollment. Existing law, among other things, requires the school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, or state special schools receiving these funds to use them for certain purposes, including professional development of teachers, administrators, paraprofessional educators, or other classified employees involved in the direct instruction of pupils, as specified. This bill would make these provisions inoperative on May 15, 2014, and repealed as of January 1, 2015, and would, except as provided in (2) , require the Superintendent to apportion any of the appropriated moneys not already apportioned pursuant to the authority described above to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools using an equal rate per unit of average daily attendance. (2) This bill, on May 15, 2014, would, from the appropriated moneys not already apportioned pursuant to the authority described in (1) , appropriate $50,000,000 to the Superintendent for purposes of establishing pilot programs in urban, suburban, and rural school districts that measure the effectiveness of the adopted common core academic content standards and adopted curriculum frameworks that are aligned to the adopted common core academic content standards. The bill would require a school district receiving funding to establish a pilot program, to develop, on or before July 1, 2015, and in consultation with parental organizations in the district, the pilot program. The bill would require the school district to review and revise, in consultation with parental organizations in the district, the pilot program every 6 months. The bill would require the school district to submit to the State Department of Education the pilot program and revisions of the pilot program for review. The bill would require the school district to make available to the public the pilot program and revisions to the pilot program. (3) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law makes it a misdemeanor to acquire or retain, with the intent to defraud, possession of the personal identifying information of another person. Under existing law, a 2nd commission of this offense and the commission of this crime against 10 or more victims may be charged as either a misdemeanor or a felony. Existing law makes it a crime, punishable as either a misdemeanor or a felony, to sell, transfer, or convey the personal identifying information of another with the intent to defraud. Existing law also makes it a felony to sell personal information with the knowledge that it will be used for an unlawful purpose. Under existing law a misdemeanor is punishable by a term of imprisonment of not more than one year in county jail and, unless otherwise provided, a fine not to exceed $1,000. This bill would specify that the fine for committing any of the above crimes, other than acquiring or retaining possession of the personal identifying information of 10 or more victims, if charged as a misdemeanor, is not to exceed $5,000, and the fine for acquiring or retaining possession of the personal identifying information of 10 or more victims, if charged as a misdemeanor, is not to exceed $10,000.
Existing law requires the Department of Transportation, in cooperation with the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District and all known entities planning to implement a toll facility, to develop and adopt functional specifications and standards for an automatic vehicle identification system, as specified, and generally requires any automatic vehicle identification system purchased or installed after January 1, 1991, to comply with those specifications and standards. Existing federal law, pursuant to the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act, requires all toll facilities on federal-aid highways to implement technologies or business practices that provide for the interoperability of electronic toll collection programs no later than a specified date. This bill would authorize the Department of Transportation and local and regional transportation agencies with existing or planned toll facilities to conduct a pilot project that uses automated toll collection technologies as an alternative to the existing radio-frequency identification tolling technology, in order to identify opportunities to facilitate lower cost tolling infrastructure, lower related operating costs, and more rapid deployment of high-occupancy toll lane networks. The bill would allow the test of tolling technologies that may not meet the interoperability requirements in existing law. The bill would authorize pilot projects in that regard for a period of up to 4 years. The bill would require any vendor participating in a pilot project to cover all related costs incurred by the participating agency. The bill would require each participating agency to make a specified report within 4 years of commencement of the pilot project to the Governor and the Legislature.
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The state board is required to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020, and to adopt rules and regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum, technologically feasible, and cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions. The act authorizes the state board to include the use of market-based compliance mechanisms. Existing state board regulations require specified entities to comply with a market-based compliance mechanism beginning January 1, 2013, and require additional specified entities to comply with that market-based compliance mechanism beginning January 1, 2015. This bill instead would exempt categories of persons or entities that did not have a compliance obligation, as defined, under a market-based compliance mechanism beginning January 1, 2013, from being subject to that market-based compliance mechanism through December 31, 2020. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law requires the adopted course of study for grades 1 to 6, inclusive, and grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to include courses in the social sciences for the purpose of, among other things, providing pupils with a foundation for understanding the history, resources, development, and government of California and the United States of America. This bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State Board of Education to devise a curriculum for enhancing pupil knowledge of our history and form of government and for increasing civic participation. The bill would require the Superintendent and the state board to require that high school students demonstrate proficiency in their knowledge of our history, government, and legal system, as it developed over time and in comparison to the history, forms of government, and legal systems of other countries. Existing law requires each pupil completing grade 12 to satisfy certain requirements as a condition of receiving a diploma of graduation from high school. These requirements include the successful passage of the high school exit examination and the completion of designated coursework in grades 9 to 12, inclusive. The coursework requirements include the completion of 3 courses, each course having a duration of one year, in social studies, including United States history and geography, world history, culture, and geography, a one-semester course in American government and civics, and a one-semester course in economics. Commencing with the 2019–20 school year, this bill would increase this American government and civics course requirement to a one-year course. By increasing this course requirement to one year, the bill would impose additional duties on school districts and would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, with the approval of the State Board of Education, to develop a high school exit examination in English language arts and mathematics in accordance with state academic content standards. Existing law requires, commencing with the 2003–04 school year and each school year thereafter, each pupil completing grade 12 to successfully pass the high school exit examination as a condition of receiving a diploma of graduation or as a condition of graduation from high school. Existing law requires that each pupil take the high school exit examination in grade 10 beginning in the 2001–02 school year and allows each pupil to take the examination during each subsequent administration, until each section of the examination has been passed. This bill would require the Superintendent, with the approval of the state board, to develop an additional section to be included in the high school exit examination that tests United States history and government in accordance with the statewide academically rigorous content standards for history-social science adopted by the state board, as specified. The bill would require the Superintendent to subject the United States history and government section to specified field testing and review requirements before adoption by the state board. The bill would require the state board, by January 1, 2017, to adopt a United States history and government section developed by the Superintendent for inclusion in the high school exit examination. The bill would require, commencing with the 2020–21 school year and each school year thereafter, each pupil completing grade 12 to, in addition to successfully passing the English language arts and mathematics sections of the high school exit examination, to successfully pass the United States history and government section adopted by the state board. The bill would require, commencing with the 2018–19 school year, each pupil to take the high school exit examination, including the United States history and government section, in grade 10 and would allow each pupil to take the examination during each subsequent administration, until each section of the examination has been passed. The bill would make conforming changes and other nonsubstantive changes. 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.
Existing law establishes the office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and specifies that the Superintendent is the ex officio Director of the State Department of Education. Under existing law, the State Department of Education administers numerous programs relating to elementary and secondary education. This bill would enact the Educational Apprenticeship Innovation Act, pursuant to which a competitive grant, known as the Educational Apprenticeship Innovation Prize (EdPrize) , would be distributed to applicant school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and community college campuses for purposes of promoting apprenticeships, preapprenticeships, and career pathways between local educational agencies, institutions of higher education, and businesses of importance to local economies. The bill would specify certain minimum criteria to determine the competitive value of an application for the grant. Existing law establishes the California Career Pathways Trust, administered by the department as a competitive grant program for kindergarten and grades 1 to 14, inclusive. This bill would require applicants of the EdPrize to use the California Career Pathways Trust application and would give EdPrize applicants special consideration for a California Career Pathways Trust grant. The bill would provide that it is the Legislature's intent that educational apprenticeships, as defined, be considered as an option to provide career technical education for high school pupils in school districts beyond those that are participating in the EdPrize program.
Existing law requires each pupil completing grade 12 to satisfy certain requirements as a condition of receiving a diploma of graduation from high school. These requirements include the successful passage of the high school exit examination and the completion of designated coursework in grades 9 to 12, inclusive. The coursework requirements include the completion of at least 2 courses in mathematics. Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to adopt additional coursework requirements. This bill would authorize the governing board of a school district that requires more than 2 courses in mathematics for graduation to award a pupil up to one mathematics course credit for successfully completing an approved computer science course, as provided.