Sen. Cathleen Galgiani

Existing law, the Horse Racing Law, directs the California Horse Racing Board to adopt rules governing, permitting, and regulating parimutuel wagering on horse races. Existing law provides that a person within the inclosure where a horse racing meeting is authorized may wager on the result of a horse race held at that meeting, as specified. Existing law states that wagering in this way is not unlawful, notwithstanding any other California law. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to this provision.

Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, in consultation with each council of governments, to determine each region's existing and projected housing need, as provided. Existing law requires each council of governments, or the department for cities and counties without a council of governments, to adopt a final regional housing need plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each city, county, or city and county and that furthers specified objectives. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relative to the affordable housing crisis in California.

Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a city to purchase, lease, exchange, or receive personal property and real estate as necessary or proper for municipal purposes, and authorizes the legislative body to control, dispose of, or convey that property for the benefit of the city, unless the property is a water front, as provided. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.

Existing law makes it a crime to maliciously, and with the intent to obstruct justice or the due administration of laws, or with the intent or threat to inflict imminent bodily harm in retaliation for the due administration of the laws, to publish, disseminate, or otherwise disclose the residence address or telephone number of any peace officer, nonsworn police dispatcher, employee of a city police department or county sheriff's office, or public safety official, or that of the spouse or children of those persons, as specified. This bill would broaden this crime to include taking those actions with the intent to cause intimidation, harassment, as defined, or a threat to inflict bodily harm in retaliation for the due administration of laws. The bill would also make this crime apply to those actions taken against an elected or appointed official, or the immediate family, as defined, of any of the officials listed above, and would make the crime apply to the release of a license plate or description of the vehicle of any of those individuals. By expanding the scope of a crime, this bill would create 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.

Existing law, the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, authorizes the creation of a not-for-profit entity to be designated as the California Organ and Tissue Donor Registrar and requires that entity to establish and maintain the Donate Life California Organ and Tissue Donor Registry for persons who have identified themselves as organ and tissue donors upon their death. Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, upon issuance of a new driver's license or a renewal of a driver's license or the issuance of an identification card, to provide information on organ and tissue donation. Existing law requires an application for an original or renewal driver's license or identification card to contain a space for the applicant to enroll in the Donate Life California Organ and Tissue Donor Registry and requires the application to include specified check boxes for an applicant to indicate whether to add the applicant's name to the registry. Existing law requires the back of the application to include a specified disclosure statement informing the applicant that by marking 'Yes' in the check boxes the applicant is legally authorizing the recovery of organs and tissues in the event of their death. This bill would require the back of the application to contain a statement informing the applicant that by registering as an organ donor or changing a prior donor decision, they are consenting to the department electronically transmitting the applicant's information, as specified, to Donate Life California.

This measure would declare the first Wednesday in February as the California Girls and Women in Sports Day to acknowledge the contributions of, and to recognize, girls and women in sports in California.

Existing law requires the Department of Justice to operate a statewide, toll-free hotline to receive information regarding missing children and at-risk adults and to relay the information to the appropriate law enforcement authorities. When a missing person has been found, existing law requires the law enforcement agency locating the missing person to report that information to the Attorney General and requires the report to be made available to the law enforcement agency that reported the person missing within 24 hours. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to define what constitutes "recovery" of human remains from a crime scene, require that the family of a missing person be notified if the person is removed from any missing persons database, and to require that families be made aware of federal and state victims rights laws.

Existing law requires all local police and sheriffs' departments to accept reports of missing persons without delay and to use a specified form in order to obtain the release of dental or skeletal X-ray records, as provided. If the missing person is under 21 years of age, or the person is determined to be at risk, existing law requires the police department or sheriff's department to broadcast a "Be On the Lookout" bulletin and to transmit the report to the Department of Justice, as provided. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.

Existing law requires the Attorney General to establish an online, automated computer system designed to effect an immediate law enforcement response to reports of missing persons. Existing law requires the online missing persons registry to accept and generate specified information on a missing person. Existing law also requires the Attorney General to establish a separate and confidential historic database relating to missing children and at-risk adults, for statistical and research purposes, as specified. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those provisions.

Existing law requires the Attorney General to establish and maintain within the Violent Crime Information Center an investigative support unit and an automated violent crime method of operation system to facilitate the identification and apprehension of persons responsible for murder, kidnapping, false imprisonment, or sexual assault. Existing law requires the Attorney General to make specified files available to the unit, as specified. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision.