This measure would designate the second full week in April as California Public Safety Telecommunicators Week.
This measure would proclaim May 6, 2012, to May 12, 2012, inclusive, to be California Charter Schools Week, and would state that the Legislature joins the California Charter Schools Association in congratulating charter schools for the accomplishments and contributions they have made to public education.
This measure would designate April 18, 2012, as DMV/Donate Life California Day in the State of California, and April 2012 as DMV/Donate Life California Month in the State of California, and would encourage all Californians to be organ, tissue, and blood donors.
This measure would designate February 2012 as No Place for Hate (registered trademark) Month.
This measure would honor and recognize the service and sacrifice made by members of the Armed Forces and their families on the occasion of Armed Forces Day on May 19, 2012.
This measure would recognize April 23, 2012, to April 30, 2012, inclusive, as Black April Memorial Week, and April 2012 as Vietnamese American month.
This measure would acknowledge the month of April 2012 as Child Abuse Prevention Month, and encourage the people of the State of California to work together to support youth-serving child abuse prevention activities in their communities and schools.
Existing law requires the Department of Food and Agriculture, headed by the Secretary of Food and Agriculture, to promote and protect the agricultural industry of the state. Existing law also establishes the California Healthy Food Financing Initiative for the purpose of promoting healthy food access in the state, and requires the department to implement the initiative. This bill would require the department to establish the California Healthy Choices Program to certify grocery stores, as defined, that promote healthy food choices. The bill would require the department to charge grocery stores that apply for certification a fee which would be deposited into the California Healthy Choices Program Fund, which would be established by this bill. Moneys in the fund would be made available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to the department to promote the program. The bill would be implemented only after the Director of Finance makes a specified determination.
(1) Existing law requires the governing board of a school district or community college district to establish the workday and workweek schedules of a classified employee, as defined. Existing law requires the regular workweek of a classified employee to be 40 hours and the regular workday of a classified employee to be 8 hours. Existing law authorizes a governing board of a school district or community college district to establish alternate workweek schedules of classified employees provided the establishment of such a workweek has the concurrence of the concerned employee or employee organization, as specified. This bill would require the regular workweek schedule of a school district employee in a position not requiring certification qualifications, as specified, and a community college employee in a nonacademic position, as specified, to be 40 hours a week and the regular workday schedule to be 8 hours a day. The bill would authorize a governing board of a school district or community college district to establish alternate workday and workweek schedules of school district employees, as specified, and community college district employees in nonacademic positions provided the establishment of such a workweek has the concurrence of the concerned employee or employee organization, as specified. (2) Existing law requires the governing board of a school district or community college district to provide the extent to which, and establish the method by which, ordered overtime is compensated for all classified positions or for certain classes of classified positions, as specified. This bill would require the governing board of a school district to provide the extent to which, and establish the method by which, ordered overtime is compensated for all positions not requiring certification or for certain classes of positions not requiring certification. The bill also would require the governing board of a community college district to provide the extent to which, and establish the method by which, ordered overtime is compensated for all nonacademic positions or for certain classes of nonacademic positions. (3) Existing law requires the governing board of every school district and community college district, or the personnel commission in any merit system school district or community college district, to determine the practices relating to morning and night shift salary differentials in the private employment fields in which it must compete for employees for its classified staff and to consider the advisability of providing comparable salary differentials for its classified staff. Existing law defines "shift" as the number of hours worked and includes a duty-free meal period, as specified. This bill would revise the definition of "shift" to also include a duty-free rest period, as specified, and would provide that an employee who is not provided a meal period or rest period would be required to receive one additional hour of pay at the employee's regular rate of compensation for each workday that the meal period or rest period is not provided. The bill also would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
Existing law provides that every person who sells, dispenses, distributes, furnishes, administers, or gives, or offers to sell, dispense, distribute, furnish, administer, or give, or possesses for sale any synthetic cannabinoid compound, or any synthetic cannabinoid derivative, to any person, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding 6 months, or by a fine not exceeding $1,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment. Existing law defines a synthetic cannabinoid compound for purposes of this provision. Existing law also provides that every person who sells, dispenses, distributes, furnishes, administers, or gives, or offers to sell, dispense, distribute, furnish, administer, or give, any synthetic stimulant compound, as specified, or any synthetic stimulant derivative, to any person, or who possesses that compound or derivative for sale, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding 6 months, or by a fine not exceeding $1,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment. This bill would provide that, except as otherwise authorized by law, every person who possesses, under circumstances that do not include possession for sale as proscribed pursuant to existing law, 28.5 grams or less of any synthetic cannabinoid is guilty of an infraction punishable by a fine of not more than $100. The bill would provide that, except as otherwise authorized by law, every person who possesses, under circumstances that do not include possession for sale as proscribed pursuant to existing law, 28.5 grams or less of any synthetic stimulant compound, as specified, or any synthetic stimulant derivative, shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail for a period of not more than one month, or by a fine not exceeding $500, or by both that fine and imprisonment. In addition, the bill would also provide that, except as otherwise authorized by law, every person who possesses, under circumstances that do not include possession for sale as proscribed pursuant to existing law, more than 28.5 grams of any synthetic cannabinoid, any synthetic stimulant compound, as specified, or any synthetic stimulant derivative, shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail for a period of not more than 6 months, or by a fine not exceeding $1,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment. The bill would provide that a synthetic cannabinoid or synthetic stimulant may be obtained and used for bona fide research, instruction, or analysis if that possession and use does not violate federal law. The bill would also expand the definition of synthetic cannabinoids for purposes of the prohibitions described above to mean synthetic cannabinoid agonists that include, among other compounds, naphthoylindoles, naphthylmethylindoles, naphthoylpyrroles, naphthylmethylindenes, phenylacetylindoles, cyclohexylphenols, benzoylindoles, and adamantoylindoles. Because the bill would create new crimes, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law authorizes the suspension or expulsion of a pupil from school if the superintendent or the principal of the school determines that the pupil has unlawfully possessed, used, sold, furnished, or was under the influence of a controlled substance, an alcoholic beverage, or an intoxicant of any kind. This bill would expand those provisions to include synthetic cannabinoid compounds and synthetic stimulant compounds. 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.
