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.
This measure would designate March 2009, as Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.
This measure would provide that the 2009–10 Second Extraordinary Session of the Legislature shall stand adjourned sine die at midnight on the date that this measure has been adopted by both houses of the Legislature.
The California Constitution requires the Legislature to prescribe compensation for judges of courts of record. Existing law authorizes a county to deem judges and court employees as county employees for purposes of providing employment benefits. These provisions were held unconstitutional as an impermissible delegation of the obligation of the Legislature to prescribe the compensation of judges of courts of record. This bill would provide that judges who received supplemental judicial benefits provided by a county or court, or both, as of July 1, 2008, shall continue to receive supplemental benefits from the county or court then paying the benefits on the same terms and conditions as were in effect on that date. The bill would authorize a county to terminate its obligation to provide benefits upon providing 180 days' written notice to the Administrative Director of the Courts and the impacted judges, but that termination would not be effective as to any judge during his or her current term while that judge continues to serve as a judge in that court or, at the election of the county, when that judge leaves office. The bill also would authorize the county to elect to provide benefits for all judges in that county. The bill would require the Judicial Council to report to the Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review, the Assembly Committee on Budget, and both the Senate and Assembly Committees on Judiciary on or before December 31, 2009, analyzing the statewide benefits inconsistencies. This bill would provide that no governmental entity, or officer or employee of a governmental entity, shall incur any liability or be subject to prosecution or disciplinary action because of benefits provided to a judge under the official action of a governmental entity prior to the effective date of the bill on the ground that those benefits were not authorized under law. This bill would provide that nothing in its provisions shall require the Judicial Council to increase funding to a court for the purpose of paying judicial benefits or obligate the state or the Judicial Council to pay for benefits previously provided by the county, city and county, or the court.
Existing law establishes the Immediate and Critical Needs Account of the State Court Facilities Construction Fund, the proceeds of which may be used for the planning, design, construction, rehabilitation, renovation, replacement, or acquisition of court facilities, for the repayment of moneys appropriated for lease of court facilities pursuant to the issuance of lease-revenue bonds, and for the payment for lease or rental of court facilities. Existing law also requires any moneys remaining in, or that would otherwise be payable into, the Immediate and Critical Needs Account of the State Court Facilities Construction Fund, to be transferred to the Controller for deposit into the State Trial Court Operations Trust Fund, upon the retirement of any bonded indebtedness that may be incurred in connection with immediate and critical trial court projects. This bill also would authorize the proceeds of the Immediate and Critical Needs Account to be used for payment of service contracts. The bill would require any moneys remaining, upon the retirement of all bonded indebtedness incurred in connection with the immediate and critical trial court projects, to be transferred to the Controller for deposit into the State Trial Court Operations Trust Fund. Existing law requires the Judicial Council to collect and make available information regarding moneys in the Immediate and Critical Needs Account, as specified, and to make recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature for projects based on its determination that the need for a project is most immediate and critical, as specified. This bill would instead require the Judicial Council to make recommendations to the State Public Works Board before it undertakes projects based on its determination that the need for a project is most immediate and critical, subject to the availability of funds in the Immediate and Critical Needs Account, as specified. This bill would authorize the Judicial Council, upon certification of the availability of funds and establishment of the project scope and cost by the State Public Works Board, to acquire real property and complete preliminary plans, as provided. This bill would require the Judicial Council to report to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee and the chairs of the Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review and the Assembly Committee on Budget both prior to seeking the board's establishment of project scope and cost, and by March 1 of each year on the status of each project, as provided. This bill would continuously appropriate the Immediate and Critical Needs Account, until July 1, 2012, for the purpose of acquiring real property and completing preliminary plans. Existing law specifies various uniform fees for filing specified documents in connection with certain civil proceedings, including a fee schedule for filing a first petition or first account in connection with a trust or estate. Existing law also provides for a specified portion of all of those fees to be deposited into the Immediate and Critical Needs Account. This bill would specify the date that will be used for the calculation of the portion to be transferred.
This measure adopts the Joint Rules of the Senate and Assembly for the 2009–10 Regular Session, as set forth in Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 1, as the Joint Rules, except as specified, for the 2009–10 Second Extraordinary Session.
This measure would provide that the 2009–10 Second Extraordinary Session of the Legislature shall stand adjourned sine die at midnight on the date that this measure has been adopted by both houses of the Legislature.
