This measure would recognize the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Existing law, the California Fostering Connections to Success Act, revises and expands the scope of various programs relating to cash assistance and other services to and for the benefit of certain foster and adopted children, and other children who have been placed in out-of-home care, including children who receive Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Foster Care (AFDC-FC) , Adoption Assistance Program, California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) , and Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment (Kin-GAP) benefits. Among other provisions, the act extends specified foster care benefits to youth up to 21 years of age, if specified conditions are met. Existing law defines a nonminor dependent for these purposes as a foster child who is a current dependent child or ward of the juvenile court, or who is a nonminor under the transition jurisdiction of the juvenile court pursuant to a voluntary reentry agreement, and in accordance with a transitional independent living case plan who has attained 18 years of age while under an order of foster care placement by the juvenile court and is not older than 21 years of age. Existing law defines a nonminor former dependent or ward as a person who meets these criteria who reached 18 years of age while subject to an order for foster care placement, for whom dependency, delinquency, or transition jurisdiction has been terminated, and who is still under the general jurisdiction of the court. This bill would revise the definition of a nonminor dependent and former nonminor dependent to include a person who has not attained 21 years of age, if he or she was adjudged a ward of the court on the basis of criminal activity, was subject to an order for foster care placement at the time the petition to adjudge him or her a ward of the court was filed, and was held in secure confinement when he or she attained 18 years of age. This bill would make conforming changes to allow a court to assume or resume dependency jurisdiction or transition jurisdiction over a nonminor who satisfies this criteria. Because the bill would expand the application of the above county administered programs, the 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, 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.
The Escrow Law requires the licensing of escrow agents by the Commissioner of Business Oversight, and further requires licensees to participate as members of the Escrow Agents' Fidelity Corporation, a nonprofit corporation established to pay members for loss of trust fund obligations, as specified. The law requires a licensed escrow agent to maintain a bond based on the previous year's average annual trust fund obligations, as specified. This bill would make findings and declarations regarding the role of Fidelity Corporation to support and enhance trust in licensed escrow agents, and specify that Fidelity Corporation is required to indemnify a member escrow agent against loss in accordance with the Escrow Law. The bill would state the intent of the Legislature for the commissioner to utilize the services of private 3rd parties, with prior escrow or escrow conservation, liquidation, or receivership experience, who are independent of the department to perform conservation, liquidation, and receiver functions, and would require the full amount of any penalty revenue, up to $125,000 at any one time, as specified, to be available for use by the commissioner to compensate an appointed conservator, liquidator, or receiver. The bill would also authorize the commissioner to utilize all or a portion of the bond or other required obligations, and all or a portion of a licensee's assets remaining following conservation, liquidation, or receivership to compensate an appointed conservator, liquidator, or receiver. By making this penalty revenue and other revenue available to the commissioner in this regard, this bill would make an appropriation.
Existing law requires that each member of a precinct board be a voter of the county, except that an elections official may appoint not more than 5 pupils per precinct to serve under the direct supervision of designated board members, as specified. Among other qualifications, such a pupil must be a United States citizen or be a citizen at the time of the election for which he or she is serving as a member of the precinct board. This bill would additionally authorize an elections official to appoint a pupil who is lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States, as defined in federal law, to serve as a precinct board member.
This measure would urge each University of California campus to adopt a resolution condemning all forms of anti-Semitism and racism, and would condemn any act of anti-Semitism at all publicly funded schools in the State of California.
This measure would state the Legislature's support for the memorandum of understanding for strategic partnerships for joint innovation, exchanges, and cooperation between California and Israel.
This measure would declare the month of May 2015 as National Stroke Awareness Month in California.
Existing law prohibits a public entity from demanding a fee or compensation for, among other things, a certified copy of specified military records, and of public records to be used in a claim related to veterans' benefits, as specified, provided to the person who is the subject of the record, a family member or legal representative of that person, a county office that provides veterans' benefits services, or a federal official upon written request. This bill would permit a county recorder to furnish a certified copy of these specified military records in response to a written, faxed, or digitized image of a request accompanied by a legible notarized statement that the requester is the person who is the subject of the record, a family member or legal representative of that person, a county office that provides veterans' benefits services, or a federal official, as specified. The bill would also permit an official to furnish a certified copy of these records to a requester in person upon taking a sworn statement, as provided. By placing new duties on local officials and by expanding the scope of the crime of perjury, 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 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.
(1) Except as otherwise provided by law, existing law provides that the governing board of a school district or community college district may, when in its judgment it is advisable, and shall, upon a petition of the majority of the qualified electors residing in the school district or community college district, order an election and submit to the electors of the district the question whether the bonds of the district shall be issued and sold for the purpose of raising money for certain school facilities purposes, including the purchasing of school lots and the building or purchasing of school buildings. If the bond measure is approved by the electors, existing law requires the board of supervisors of the county whose county superintendent of schools has jurisdiction over the school district or community college district to annually, at the time of making the levy of taxes for county purposes, levy a tax for that year upon the property in the district for the interest and redemption of all outstanding bonds of the school district or community college district. Existing law requires that all taxes levied, when collected, to be paid into the county treasury, as provided, to be used for the payment of the principal and interest of the bonds and for no other purpose. This bill would require bonds issued and sold pursuant to these provisions to be secured by a statutory lien on all revenues received pursuant to the levy and collection of the tax, as provided. (2) Existing law authorizes local agencies to issue general obligation bonds, as provided. This bill would require general obligation bonds issued and sold by or on behalf of a local agency to be secured by a statutory lien on all revenues received pursuant to the levy and collection of the property tax imposed to service those bonds, as provided.
Existing law provides that certain peace officers, firefighters, and other specified state and local public employees are entitled to a leave of absence without loss of salary while disabled by injury or illness arising out of and in the course of employment. The leave of absence is in lieu of temporary disability payments or maintenance allowance payments otherwise payable under the workers' compensation system. This bill would extend this leave of absence entitlement to lifeguards employed year round on a regular, full-time basis by the City of Imperial Beach. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for these employees of the City of Imperial Beach.
