This measure would commemorate the 40th anniversary of Title IX on June 23, 2012, commend the movement toward increased equality and fair treatment of female athletes, and praise the goal of greater opportunities in sports for girls and young women in California.
This measure would proclaim June 2012 as Scleroderma Awareness Month.
Existing law makes it a crime for certain persons, including an employee or officer of a public entity detention facility, or an employee, officer, or agent of a private person or entity that provides a detention facility or staff for a detention facility, or a person or agent of a public or private entity detention facility, to engage in sexual activity with a consenting adult who is confined in a detention facility. For purposes of those provisions, "detention facility" includes a vehicle used to transport a person during a person's period of confinement. This bill would make those provisions applicable to peace officers, and would specify that transport of a person during confinement also includes transporting a person after he or she has been arrested but has not been booked. By expanding the scope of a crime, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
The Public Cemetery District Law specifies the procedures for the formation of public cemetery districts, procedures for the selection of the district board of trustees and officers, and the powers and duties of the board. That law limits interments in public cemetery district cemeteries to residents of the district and nonresidents who meet specified criteria. Existing law also permits interments of nonresidents in designated public cemetery districts, under certain circumstances. This bill would authorize the Cottonwood Cemetery District in Shasta County, the Anderson Cemetery District in Shasta County, and the Silveyville Cemetery District in Solano County, to use their cemeteries for up to a total of 400 interments each, not to exceed 40 interments each per calendar year, to inter nonresidents and nonproperty taxpayers, if specified conditions are met. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for Shasta and Solano Counties.
This measure would make various statements regarding the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , would request the President and the United States Congress to repeal PPACA, and would encourage federal, state, and local officials to enact health care reform that, among other things, puts the citizen and his or her family at the center of the health care system, as specified. The measure would also request the United States Congress to, among other things, reform federal tax laws, allow Americans to buy health care coverage across state lines, allow businesses to create association health plans, and lift restrictions on employers so they can offer lower premiums to employees who practice healthy lifestyles, and would request the Legislature to enact reforms consistent with those changes, as specified.
The Tort Claims Act provides for the liability and immunity of a governmental entity for its acts or omissions that cause harm to persons. Existing law provides that any claim for money or damages against the state is required to be presented to the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board within a specified period of time. Existing law requires the board, upon allowing a claim for which the Director of Finance certifies that a sufficient appropriation for the payment of the claim exists, to designate the fund from which the claim is to be paid. This bill would require the board to provide notice to the chairpersons of the committees in each house of the Legislature that consider appropriations and the annual Budget Act, and the Chairperson of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, within a specified period of time prior to allowing either the use of a current year appropriation to pay claims for prior year costs of $500,000 or more, or claims from a single provider of goods or services with respect to a single department that exceed $500,000 within one year.
Existing law authorizes the sheriff of a county or the chief or other head of a municipal police department of any city or city and county to issue a license to carry a concealed firearm to an applicant for that license if the applicant is of good moral character, good cause exists for issuance of the license, the applicant meets specified residency requirements, and the applicant has completed a specified course of training, including firearm safety. This bill would require the sheriff or head of a municipal police department to issue that license if the applicant meets those requirements. The bill would also specify that good cause, for purposes of these provisions, includes personal protection or self-defense. Because the bill would impose new duties on local law enforcement officials who will be required to issue these licenses if all of the requirements are met, 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.
Existing law, the California High-Speed Rail Act, creates the High-Speed Rail Authority to develop and implement a high-speed rail system in the state, with specified powers and duties. Existing law, pursuant to the Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act for the 21st Century, approved by the voters as Proposition 1A at the November 4, 2008, general election, provides for the issuance of $9 billion in general obligation bonds for high-speed rail purposes and $950 million for other related rail purposes. Article XVI of the California Constitution authorizes the Legislature, at any time after the approval of a general obligation bond act by the people, to reduce the amount of the indebtedness authorized by the act to an amount not less than the amount contracted at the time of the reduction or to repeal the act if no debt has been contracted. This bill would reduce the amount of general obligation debt authorized for high-speed rail purposes pursuant to the Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act for the 21st Century to the amount contracted as of January 1, 2013.
This measure would designate November 2012 as California Sikh American Awareness and Appreciation Month. It would recognize and acknowledge the significant contributions made by Californians of Sikh heritage to the state and afford all Californians the opportunity to understand, recognize, and appreciate the rich history and shared principles of Sikh Americans.
