Existing law authorizes the Director of General Services to acquire and convey real property for the state, whenever that transfer of the real property is authorized or contemplated by law. This bill would authorize the director to sell, exchange, lease, as defined, or any combination thereof, all or a portion of the Cypress Property, approximately 3 acres of real property in the City of Redding, currently used by the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection as its Shasta-Trinity Unit Headquarters, that is specifically declared not to be surplus to the needs of the state. The bill would require the director to use the proceeds of any sale, exchange, lease, or combination thereof of all or a portion of the Cypress Property to acquire or lease a substitute location and substitute facilities for the Shasta-Trinity Unit Headquarters, thereby making an appropriation. The bill would require the state to retain ownership of the portion of the Cypress Property where the telecommunications tower and the vault are located. The bill would prohibit the director from disposing of that portion of the Cypress Property, unless the director makes a specified determination. The bill would authorize the director to enter into one or more agreements, contracts, or leases to provide a substitute location and substitute facilities for the Shasta-Trinity Unit Headquarters, but would also require the director to provide for the continuous operation of the Shasta-Trinity Unit Headquarters at the Cypress Property until relocation is accomplished. The bill would require the director to initially offer the Cypress Property for disposition, subject to specified terms and conditions, to the City of Redding. The bill would authorize the director to offer the Cypress Property to the public through a competitive selection process determined by the director to be in the best interest of the state, if the City of Redding is unable to enter an agreement for the disposition of the Cypress Property, consistent with the requirements of the initial offer and within 120 days after notice from the Department of General Services. The bill would provide that any use or redevelopment of the Cypress Property awarded to a nongovernmental entity not involving the exercise of sovereign activities of the state or another government agency would be subject to the zoning and building code regulations of the City of Redding. The bill would require the Department of General Services to notify the chairperson of the committee in each house of the Legislature that considers appropriations and the Chairperson of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee in writing of the director's intention to enter into a lease or an agreement not less than the minimum time that the Chairperson of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee is authorized to determine in each instance.
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Existing law authorizes the Director of General Services to acquire and convey real property for the state, whenever that transfer of the real property is authorized or contemplated by law. This bill would authorize the director to sell, lease, exchange, or any combination thereof, all or a portion of the Fir Street Property, approximately 1.69 acres of real property in the City of Chico, currently used by the Department of the California Highway Patrol as its Chico area office, that is specifically declared not to be surplus to the needs of the state. The bill would also authorize the director to use the proceeds of any sale, lease, exchange, or any combination thereof, of all or a portion of the Fir Street Property to acquire the land and facilities necessary to provide a substitute location for the Chico area office of the Department of the California Highway Patrol capable of accommodating its presently necessary and future expansion, thereby making an appropriation. The bill would require the director to initially offer the Fir Street Property for disposition to the City of Chico for local government purposes and under terms and conditions that provide for continuous operation of the state's facilities at the Fir Street Property until relocation is accomplished. The bill would authorize the director to offer the Fir Street Property to the public through a competitive selection process determined by the director to be in the best interest of the state, if the City of Chico is unable to enter an agreement for the disposition of the Fir Street Property within 120 days after notice from the Department of General Services. The bill would require the Department of General Services to be reimbursed for any reasonable cost or expense incurred in the disposition of the Fir Street Property from the proceeds of the disposition. The bill would also require the Department of General Services to obtain approval from the Department of Finance prior to the execution of any disposition agreement regarding the Fir Street Property, and to notify the Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, the Chairperson of the Assembly Committee on Appropriations, and the Chairperson of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, or his or her designee, in writing of the director's intention to enter into a lease or an agreement, not less than the minimum time that the Chairperson of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee may in each instance determine.
This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 99 in Oroville as the Milton La Malfa Memorial Highway. The measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.
Existing law authorizes the Director of General Services to acquire and convey real property for the state, whenever that transfer of the real property is authorized or contemplated by law. This bill would authorize the director to sell, lease, exchange, or any combination thereof approximately 3.14 acres of real property in the City of Red Bluff that is specifically declared not to be surplus to the needs of the state, and, in return, to acquire up to 40,000 net square feet of usable office and related space for consolidated administrative operations of the state. The bill would also provide that the funds derived from the disposition of the real property would be appropriated to the Department of General Services to expend for the purposes of the bill.
This measure would designate the month of September 2009 as Prostate Cancer Awareness Month in the State of California and would encourage public officials and citizens to observe the month with appropriate activities and programs.
Existing law makes it unlawful for a city or county to prohibit a person, authorized by one of the agencies of the Department of Consumer Affairs to engage in a particular business, from engaging in that business, occupation, or profession or any portion thereof. This bill would also make it unlawful for a city, county, or city and county to prohibit a healing arts licensee from engaging in any act or performing any procedure that falls within the professionally recognized scope of practice of that licensee, but would prohibit construing this provision to prohibit the enforcement of a local ordinance in effect prior to January 1, 2010, as specified, or to prohibit the adoption or enforcement of a local ordinance governing zoning, business licensing, or reasonable health and safety requirements, as specified.
This measure would declare June 2009 as Scleroderma Awareness Month.
This measure would designate Friday, May 8, 2009, as California Peace Officers' Memorial Day and would urge all Californians to use that day to honor California peace officers.
(1) Existing law establishes the California Major Risk Medical Insurance Program (MRMIP) that is administered by the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board (MRMIB) to provide major risk medical coverage to residents, as defined, who, among other matters, have been rejected for coverage by at least one private health plan. Existing law authorizes MRMIB to provide that coverage through participating health plans, including health insurers and health care service plans, and authorizes MRMIB to provide or purchase stop-loss coverage under which MRMIP and participating health plans share the risk for health plan expenses that exceed plan rates. This bill would require that a person either be rejected for coverage by at least 3 different health plans or have a qualified medically uninsurable condition, as specified, in order to be eligible for MRMIP and would also revise the definition of the term "resident" for purposes of MRMIP eligibility, as specified. The bill would require MRMIB to offer at least 4 different options for major risk medical coverage, including at least one Health Savings Account-compatible option, and would authorize MRMIB to subsidize the Health Savings Account-compatible option, as specified. The bill would also authorize MRMIB, until a specified date and if sufficient funds are available, to participate in deductible and out-of-pocket maximum reinsurance using specified products. The bill would require MRMIB to release all program actuarial data for 2004 to 2007, inclusive, to the Legislative Analyst's Office, as requested by that office. Existing law specifies the minimum scope of benefits offered by participating health plans in MRMIP and requires the exclusion of benefits that exceed $75,000 in a calendar year or $750,000 in a lifetime, as specified. Existing law requires MRMIB to establish program contribution amounts for each category of risk for each participating health plan. Under existing law, the risk categories are based on age and geographic region. This bill would, until January 1, 2015, increase the annual benefit limit to $150,000 and the lifetime benefit limit to $1,000,000, and would require the board to adopt regulations eliminating the annual benefit limit if sufficient funds are available, as specified. The bill would authorize MRMIB, by regulation, to develop additional risk categories based on morbid obesity and tobacco use, as specified, and would also require MRMIB to adopt regulations that allow participating health plans to incorporate wellness programs, case management services, and disease management services, and offer enrollee rewards based on health risk reduction. The bill would require that those regulations remain in effect until January 1, 2015. Existing law creates the Major Risk Medical Insurance Fund, continuously appropriates the fund to MRMIB for purposes of MRMIP, and requires specified moneys to be deposited annually in the fund from the Cigarette and Tobacco Products Surtax Fund. This bill would increase the moneys to be deposited into the fund from the Cigarette and Tobacco Products Surtax Fund by a specified amount, thereby making an appropriation. (2) Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975 (the Knox-Keene Act) , provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the Knox-Keene Act a crime. Existing law also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. This bill would, commencing July 1, 2010, require each health care service plan and health insurer to add a surcharge to each life covered by an individual health plan contract or individual health insurance policy, as specified, and would require the deposit of those revenues in the Major Risk Medical Insurance Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, thereby making an appropriation. The bill would require the suspension of the assessment if state funds appropriated to MRMIP are less than a certain amount. The bill would require health care service plans and health insurers to report to the Department of Managed Health Care or the Department of Insurance, and MRMIB, the number of lives covered by the plan's or insurer's individual health care service plan contracts or individual health insurance policies annually, as specified. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2015. Because a willful violation of these requirements by a health care service plan would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law prohibits health care service plan contracts and health insurance policies from excluding coverage on the basis of a preexisting condition provision for more than a specified period of time. This bill would authorize MRMIB to create a rider pool consisting of applicants with no more than 2 health conditions that made them uninsurable in the private market, as specified. The bill would authorize an individual health care service plan contract or individual health insurance policy issued to one of the rider pool members to temporarily or permanently exclude coverage for those conditions. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2015. Existing law requires a health care service plan or a health insurer offering individual plan contracts or individual insurance policies to fairly and affirmatively offer, market, and sell certain individual contracts and policies to all federally eligible defined individuals, as defined, in each service area in which the plan or insurer provides or arranges for the provision of health care services. For those contracts and policies that offer services through a preferred provider arrangement, existing law requires that the premium not exceed the average premium paid by a similar subscriber of MRMIP, as specified. For all other contracts and policies, existing law requires that the premium not exceed 170% of the standard premium charged to a similar individual, as specified. This bill would require that the premium for all contracts and policies not exceed 170% of the standard premium charged to a similar individual, as specified, regardless of whether services are offered through a preferred provider arrangement, and would make related changes. Because a willful violation of these requirements by a health care service plan would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (3) This bill would result in a change in state taxes for the purpose of increasing state revenues within the meaning of Section 3 of Article XIIIA of the California Constitution, and thus would require for passage the approval of 23 of the membership of each house of the Legislature. (4) 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.