Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to compute the percentage of unduplicated pupils, defined as pupils enrolled in a school district or a charter school who are either classified as English learners, eligible for free or reduced-price meals, or foster youths. This bill would require the State Department of Education to develop and post on its Internet Web site a list of high schools with 75% or greater enrollment in this classification. Existing law establishes certain block grants to be apportioned to a school district or charter school for specified purposes. This bill would establish the K–12 College Readiness Block Grant for the purposes of preparing California's high school pupils, particularly unduplicated pupils, to be eligible for admission into a postsecondary institution, and increasing the 4-year-college-going rates of these pupils. This program would be contingent on the appropriation of funding for its purposes in the annual Budget Act or another statute. The California Constitution provides that the University of California constitutes a public trust administered by the Regents of the University of California, a corporation in the form of a board, with full powers of organization and government, subject to legislative control only for specified purposes. Existing law, until June 30, 2017, requests the Regents of the University of California, with the approval of the Concurrence Committee, to establish and maintain cooperative endeavors designed to accomplish specified purposes related to teacher professional development. This bill would include among the goals of these endeavors providing administrators, counselors, and teachers of students at certain schools with strategies for improving A–G course completion rates, college readiness, and college-going rates. This bill would also add the California College Readiness Project to the list of authorized endeavors and grant priority for admission to programs offered by the California College Readiness Project to school personnel employed by local educational agencies eligible for supplemental or concentration grant funding under the local control funding formula. This bill would extend the operation of these provisions relating to teacher professional development indefinitely. Existing policy of the Board of Admissions and Relations of the Academic Senate of the University of California allows pupils who, in addition to other criteria, graduate in the top 9% of their high school class to be granted admission into the University of California. This bill would require the University of California, as a condition of Budget Act funding for specified enrollment increases, to develop an implementation plan to increase California resident admissions, significantly increase admissions for pupils enrolled in high schools with 75% or greater enrollment of unduplicated pupils, and satisfy related objectives. This bill would also require the University of California, as a condition of Budget Act funding for specified enrollment increases, to annually report information related to these objectives to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature and the Department of Finance. This bill would also make findings and declarations related to college readiness.
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This measure would recognize May 2016 as Better Hearing and Speech Month.
This measure would recognize May 2016 as Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month.
Existing law requires that supervisors of state employees represented by State Bargaining Unit 5, 6, or 8 receive salary and benefits changes that are at least generally the economic equivalent to the salary and benefits granted to employees they supervise. Existing law requires that the specific benefits that these supervisors receive be determined through a meet and confer process. This bill would extend these requirements to apply to the salary and benefits changes for supervisors of state employees represented by State Bargaining Unit 7 who are classified as peace officers by the California Department of Human Resources.
Existing law prescribes the manner in which contracts or agreements may be created. The Fee Collection Procedures Law, the violation of which is a crime, provides procedures for the collection of certain fees and surcharges. This bill would establish, in a rental agreement of heavy equipment property by a qualified heavy equipment renter, a rebuttable presumption that the parties agreed to the addition of estimated personal property tax reimbursement to the rental price of heavy equipment property to a lessee if specified conditions occur, including that the rental agreement states that the estimated personal property tax reimbursement amount charged is the amount estimated by the qualified heavy equipment renter owed for personal property tax on that heavy equipment property for a specified lien date and that any amounts in excess of the actual amount of personal property taxes owed on the heavy equipment property will be remitted to the State Board of Equalization for deposit into the state General Fund. This bill would require every qualified heavy equipment renter to register with the State Board of Equalization, as provided, and would require a qualified heavy equipment renter to file an annual return with the board, in a form prescribed by the board, that shows the ad valorem property tax levied on qualified heavy equipment property for the previous fiscal year lien date and the property tax reimbursement collected in the aggregate on any heavy equipment property for the 12-month period ending August 31. This bill would require any property tax reimbursement that is collected in excess of the ad valorem property tax levied to be paid to the board and would require the board to collect those excess reimbursement amounts pursuant to the procedures set forth in the Fee Collection Procedures Law. This bill would require all amounts, less refunds, to be deposited into the General Fund. By expanding the application of the Fee Collection Procedures Law, which imposes criminal penalties for various acts, this 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.
This bill would proclaim the month of April 2016 as School Librarians Month and would acknowledge the excellent work being done by credentialed teacher librarians and school library staff in all of California's schools from primary grades to universities.
This measure would designate the month of April 2016 as Autism Awareness Month and would encourage residents to show support for autism awareness by lighting their homes, businesses, schools, and places of worship with blue light bulbs.
This measure would declare February 19, 2016, as a Day of Remembrance in order to increase public awareness of the events surrounding the internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II.
Existing law, the Stop Tobacco Access to Kids Enforcement (STAKE) Act, prohibits a person from selling or otherwise furnishing tobacco products to a person under 18 years of age. Existing law permits enforcing agencies to assess various civil penalties for violations of the STAKE Act. Existing law makes it a crime to furnish tobacco products to a person under 18 years of age. Existing law also prohibits a person from selling or otherwise furnishing an electronic cigarette to a person under 18 years of age, and makes a violation punishable as an infraction. This bill would define the term "smoking" for purposes of the STAKE Act. The bill would also change the STAKE Act's definition of "tobacco products" to include electronic devices, such as electronic cigarettes, that deliver nicotine or other vaporized liquids, and make furnishing the tobacco product to a minor a misdemeanor. Existing law, the Cigarette and Tobacco Products Tax Law, imposes a tax on the distribution of cigarettes and tobacco products at specified rates, and defines tobacco products for those purposes. Existing law, the Cigarette and Tobacco Products Licensing Act of 2003, requires the State Board of Equalization to administer a statewide program to license manufacturers, importers, distributors, wholesalers, and retailers of cigarettes and tobacco products, as defined. Under existing law, a violation of this act is a misdemeanor. Existing law requires a retailer to have in place and maintain a license to engage in the sale of cigarettes or tobacco products, as defined, and prescribes procedures for the issuance of and grounds for revocation or suspension of a license. Existing law requires a retailer who seeks to obtain a license to engage in the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products to pay a one-time license fee of $100, as specified. Existing law authorizes the State Board of Equalization or a law enforcement agency that discovers that a retailer or other person possesses, stores, owns, or has made a retail sale of tobacco products on which a tax is due but has not been paid to seize those products, and deems those products forfeited, as specified. This bill would include in the definition of tobacco products for the purposes of those provisions relating to licenses for retailers the STAKE Act's new definition of tobacco products. The bill would impose a specified fee on retailers, to be submitted with each license or renewal application for the sale or distribution of tobacco products that are not subject to a tax imposed by the Cigarette and Tobacco Products Tax Law, unless the retailer is already in possession of a valid license to sell cigarette and tobacco products that are subject to that tax. The bill would include the STAKE Act's new definition of tobacco products in the provision authorizing seizure of tobacco products described above. The bill would make these provisions operative on January 1, 2017. Existing law makes it a crime for a person or entity to engage in the business of selling cigarettes or tobacco products without a valid license or after a license has been suspended or revoked, as specified. Existing law also makes it a crime for a person to continue selling or gifting cigarettes or tobacco products without a valid license or after a notification of suspension or revocation, as specified. This bill would include in the definition of tobacco products for the purposes of those provisions the STAKE Act's new definition of tobacco products. The bill would require all cartridges for electronic cigarettes and solutions for filling or refilling an electronic cigarette to be in child-resistant packaging, as prescribed. The bill would make these provisions operative on October 1, 2016. Existing law prohibits the smoking of cigarettes and other tobacco products in a variety of specified areas. Under existing law, a violation of some of these prohibitions is punishable as an infraction. This bill would change the location restrictions for smoking cigarettes and other tobacco products to reflect the STAKE Act's definitions of smoking and tobacco products. The bill would make the use of electronic cigarettes in some of these restricted locations a violation punishable as an infraction. Existing law prohibits the smoking of medical marijuana in any place where smoking is prohibited by law. This bill would declare that its provisions do not affect any law or regulation regarding medical marijuana. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 6404.5 of the Labor Code proposed by certain bills in the 2nd Extraordinary Session of the 2015–16 Legislative Session that would become operative if this bill and those bills are enacted, as specified, and this bill is enacted last. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 22958 of the Business and Professions Code and Section 308 of the Penal Code proposed by SB 7 and AB 8 of the 2015–16 2nd Extraordinary Session of the Legislature. Those other bills would prohibit selling, advertising, or furnishing tobacco products to, or the purchasing of tobacco products by, persons under 21 years of age. If this bill and those bills are enacted, as specified, and this bill is enacted last, then this bill would prohibit selling, advertising, or furnishing an electronic device that delivers nicotine or other vaporized liquids, as specified, to persons under 21 years of age. 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.