Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation shall have full possession and control of the state highway system and specifies the duties and responsibilities of the department on various other transportation matters. Existing law requires the department to prepare the interregional transportation improvement program which, along with the regional transportation improvement programs adopted by regional transportation agencies, becomes part of the state transportation improvement program and identifies most transportation capital improvements to be undertaken over a multiyear period with state and federal funds. Existing law also requires the department to separately prepare the state highway operation and protection program, which identifies capital projects limited to maintenance, safety, and rehabilitation work necessary to preserve and protect the state highway system. Existing law requires the California Transportation Commission to, among other things, adopt the state transportation improvement program and approve the state highway operation and protection program, and further provides for the commission to allocate transportation capital funds to specific projects contained in the state transportation improvement program, but not the state highway operation and protection program, which is managed by the department. This bill would authorize the commission to prescribe study areas for analysis and evaluation by the department and to establish guidelines for updates to the California Transportation Plan, commencing with the plan required to be updated by December 31, 2020. The bill would require the department, on or before June 30, 2015, to submit to the commission for approval an interregional transportation strategic plan directed at achieving a high functioning and balanced interregional transportation system. The bill would revise the procedures for the development of the interregional transportation improvement program by requiring the department to submit a draft 5-year interregional transportation improvement program to the commission by October 15 of each odd-numbered year. The bill would require projects included in the draft interregional transportation improvement program to be consistent with the interregional transportation strategic plan. The bill would require the commission to hold public hearings by November 15 of each odd-numbered year regarding the draft program and to attempt to reconcile any objections. The department would be required to consider the input received at the hearings and develop and submit a final interregional transportation improvement program to the commission for approval not later than December 15 of each odd-numbered year. The bill would require the department, in consultation with the commission, to prepare a robust asset management plan to guide selection of projects for the state highway operation and protection, which plan would be subject to approval by the commission. The bill would require the department to specify, for each project in the program, a capital and support budget and projected delivery date for various components of the project. The bill would specifically authorize the commission to decline to adopt the program if it determines that the program is not sufficiently consistent with the asset management plan. This bill would require the department to report quarterly to the commission on the approved capital and support budgets compared to expenditures at contract construction acceptance for each major state highway operation and protection program project completed in the previous quarter. Existing law requires the department, by June 30, 1994, to apply for federal funding to be used for conversion of data pertaining to the state highway system from paper storage to intelligent computer information, and to commence implementation of the conversion process within 6 months of receiving federal funding approval. This bill would repeal these provisions. The bill would also make legislative findings and declarations.
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Existing law requires each campaign committee formed or existing primarily to support or oppose a statewide ballot measure to file with the Secretary of State periodic reports identifying the sources and amounts of contributions received during specified periods. Existing law, including the Political Reform Act of 1974, also specifies information required to be included in the state ballot pamphlet for each statewide ballot measure to be voted upon. This bill would require the Secretary of State to create an Internet Web site, or use other available technology, to consolidate information about each ballot measure in a manner that is easy for voters to access and understand. The Internet Web site would be required to include a summary of each ballot measure, the total amount of reported contributions made to support or oppose a ballot measure, and a list of a committee's top 10 contributors, as specified. The bill would require the state ballot pamphlet to include for each ballot measure a printed statement that refers voters to the Secretary of State's Internet Web site for a list of committees primarily formed to support or oppose a ballot measure, and information on how to access the committee's top 10 contributors. This bill would incorporate additional changes in Section 9082.7 of the Elections Code proposed by SB 1253, that would become operative only if SB 1253 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2015, and this bill is chaptered last. The bill would, contingent upon the enactment of SB 1442, incorporate additional changes. The Political Reform Act of 1974, an initiative measure, generally provides that the Legislature may amend the act to further the act's purposes upon a 23 vote of each house and compliance with specified procedural requirements. The act also provides that, notwithstanding this requirement, the Legislature may add to the ballot pamphlet information regarding candidates or other information. This bill, which would permit or require additional information to be included in the ballot pamphlet, would therefore require a majority vote.
Existing law establishes the Transportation Agency, which consists of the Department of the California Highway Patrol, the California Transportation Commission, the Department of Motor Vehicles, the Department of Transportation, the High-Speed Rail Authority, and the Board of Pilot Commissioners for the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun. This bill would require the Chair of the California Transportation Commission to create a Road Usage Charge (RUC) Technical Advisory Committee in consultation with the Secretary of the Transportation Agency. The bill would require the technical advisory committee to study RUC alternatives to the gas tax and to make recommendations to the Secretary of the Transportation Agency on the design of a pilot program, as specified. The bill would also authorize the technical advisory committee to make recommendations on the criteria to be used to evaluate the pilot program. The bill would require the technical advisory committee to consult with specified entities and to consider certain factors in carrying out its duties. The bill would require the Transportation Agency, based on the recommendations of the technical advisory committee, to implement a pilot program to identify and evaluate issues related to the potential implementation of an RUC program in California by January 1, 2017. The bill would require the agency to prepare and submit a report of its findings to the technical advisory committee, the commission, and the appropriate fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature by no later than June 30, 2018, as specified. The bill would also require the commission to include its recommendations regarding the pilot program in its annual report to the Legislature, as specified. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2019.
(1) Existing law establishes the State Department of Public Health and sets forth its powers and duties, including, but not limited to, the duties as State Registrar relating to the uniform administration of provisions relating to vital records and health statistics. Existing law requires the State Registrar, local registrar, or county recorder to, upon request and payment of the required fee, supply to an applicant a certified copy of the record of a birth, fetal death, death, marriage, or marriage dissolution registered with the official. Existing law authorizes the issuance of certain records without payment of the fee. This bill would, on or after July 1, 2015, require each local registrar or county recorder to issue, without a fee, a certified record of live birth to any person who can verify his or her status as a homeless person or a homeless child or youth, as defined. The bill would require a homeless services provider, as described, that has knowledge of a person's housing status to verify the person's status as a homeless person or homeless child or youth for purposes of this provision. The bill would require the State Department of Public Health to develop an affidavit attesting to an applicant's status as a homeless person or homeless child or youth, and would provide that the affidavit is sufficient verification for purposes of obtaining the certified record of live birth, as specified. By imposing additional duties on county employees, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) Existing law authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue an identification card to any person attesting to the true full name, correct age, and other identifying data as certified by the applicant for the identification card, and authorizes the assessment of related fees. This bill would, on and after January 1, 2016, require the department to issue, without a fee, an original or replacement identification card to a person who can verify his or her status as a homeless person or homeless child or youth, as defined. The bill would authorize a homeless services provider, as described, that has knowledge of a person's housing status to verify the person's status as a homeless person or homeless child or youth for purposes of this provision. 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, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.
(1) Existing law, the Healthy Schools Act of 2000, requires each schoolsite to maintain records of all pesticide use at the schoolsite for a period of 4 years and to make these records available to the public upon request, as specified. Existing law authorizes a schoolsite to meet these requirements by retaining a copy of the warning sign posted for each pesticide application, as specified, and recording on the copy the amount of pesticide used. Existing law requires a schoolsite or school district to identify an individual, known as a school designee, to carry out the requirements of the act. This bill, if a schoolsite chooses to use certain pesticides, would require the school designee, at the end of each calendar year, or more often at his or her discretion, to submit to the Director of Pesticide Regulation a copy of the records, as specified, of all pesticide use at the schoolsite. The bill, if a schoolsite chooses to use certain pesticides, would require the school designee to develop and post on the Internet Web site of the schoolsite, or, if the schoolsite does not maintain an Internet Web site, the school district, an integrated pest management plan, as defined, for the schoolsite or school district, except if neither the schoolsite nor the school district maintains an Internet Web site, the school designee would be required to include the integrated pest management plan with a certain annual notification sent to staff and parents or guardians of pupils enrolled at the schoolsite. The bill would authorize a school designee to do these things related to an integrated pest management plan if the schoolsite does not choose to use certain pesticides. (2) Existing law requires the Department of Pesticide Regulation to promote and facilitate the voluntary adoption of integrated pest management programs for schoolsites that voluntarily choose to do so, excluding privately operated child day care facilities. For these schoolsites, existing law requires the department to establish an integrated pest management program for schoolsites. Existing law, in establishing the program, requires the department to develop criteria for identifying least-hazardous pest control practices and encourage their adoption as part of an integrated pest management program at each schoolsite and develop a model program guidebook, as specified, that prescribes essential program elements for schoolsites that have adopted a least-hazardous integrated pest management program. Existing law provides that a violation of the laws, and the regulations adopted pursuant to those laws, relating to pesticides is generally a misdemeanor. This bill would require the Department of Pesticide Regulation to develop a training course to train any person who intends to apply pesticides on a schoolsite, and would require the training course to cover integrated pest management and the safe use of pesticides in relation to the unique nature of schoolsites and children's health. The bill would require the training course to be provided by the department or an agent authorized by the department. The bill would, commencing July 1, 2016, and except as provided, require a school designee, and any person who intends to apply a pesticide at a schoolsite subject to the act, to annually complete a training course provided by the department or an agent authorized by the department. The bill would, commencing July 1, 2016, require any person hired to apply a pesticide at a schoolsite subject to the act, to complete at least a one-hour training course in integrated pest management and the safe use of pesticides in relation to the unique nature of schoolsites and children's health before applying pesticides at such a schoolsite, and during each subsequent licensing period in which he or she applies a pesticide at a schoolsite subject to the act, and would provide that this training course may be applied to his or her professional continuing education requirements. The bill would require the one-hour training course to be developed by the department, would authorize a provider approved by the Structural Pest Control Board to also develop the one-hour training course if the training course has been approved by the department, and would require the department to ensure that the one-hour training course it develops or approves meets the requirements for continuing education credit required by the Structural Pest Control Board and the department. The bill would exclude the violation of the provisions requiring the completion of an annual training course from being a crime. (3) Existing law provides for the regulation of registered structural pest control companies by the Structural Pest Control Board. Existing law authorizes any individual 18 years of age or over to apply for a license as an operator, field representative, or applicator, as specified. Existing law requires the board to require as a condition of the renewal of an operator's, field representative's, or applicator's license that the licenseholder submit proof satisfactory to the board that he or she has completed courses of continuing education in pest control or pesticide application and use approved by the board or equivalent activity approved by the board. Existing law provides that any person who violates any provision related to structural pest control operators, or who conspires with another person to violate those provisions, is guilty of a misdemeanor and is punishable, as specified. This bill, commencing July 1, 2016, would require a licensee to comply with the training requirements of the Healthy Schools Act of 2000 if the licensee intends to apply a pesticide at a schoolsite, as defined. The bill would provide that training courses completed in furtherance of the Healthy Schools Act of 2000 count toward the continuing education requirements of the board and qualify as continuing education in integrated pest management. By expanding the scope of a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (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. (5) This bill would make conforming changes and various nonsubstantive changes.
Existing law authorizes the creation by a city, county, or city and county of an infrastructure financing district, as defined, for the sole purpose of financing public facilities, subject to adoption of a resolution by the legislative body and affected taxing entities proposed to be subject to division of taxes and 23 voter approval. Existing law authorizes the legislative body to, by majority vote, initiate proceedings to issue bonds for the financing of district projects by adopting a resolution, subject to specified procedures and 23 voter approval. Existing law requires an infrastructure financing plan to include the date on which an infrastructure financing district will cease to exist, which may not be more than 30 years from the date on which the ordinance forming the district is adopted. Existing law prohibits a district from including any portion of a redevelopment project area. Existing law, the Polanco Redevelopment Act, authorizes a redevelopment agency to take any action that the agency determines is necessary and consistent with state and federal laws to remedy or remove a release of hazardous substances on, under, or from property within a project area, whether the agency owns that property or not, subject to specified conditions. Existing law also declares the intent of the Legislature that the areas of the district created be substantially undeveloped, and that the establishment of a district should not ordinarily lead to the removal of dwelling units. This bill would authorize the creation by a city, county, city and county, or joint powers authority of an infrastructure and revitalization financing district, as defined, and the issuance of debt with 23 voter approval. The bill would authorize the creation of a district for up to 40 years and the issuance of debt with a final maturity date of up to 30 years, as specified. The bill would authorize a district to finance projects in redevelopment project areas and former redevelopment project areas and former military bases. The bill would authorize the legislative body to dedicate any portion of its funds received from the Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund to the district, if specified criteria are met. The bill would authorize the formation of a district to finance a project or projects on a former military base, if specified conditions are met. The bill would authorize a district to fund various projects, including, among others, watershed land used for the collection and treatment of water for urban uses, flood management, levees, bypasses, open space, habitat restoration, brownfields restoration, environmental mitigation, purchase of land and property for development purposes, including commercial property, hazardous cleanup, former military bases, and specified transportation purposes. The bill would authorize a district to implement hazardous cleanup pursuant to the Polanco Redevelopment Act, as specified. The bill would impose a specified reporting requirement on districts. The bill would state that it is the intent of the Legislature that the establishment of a district should not ordinarily lead to the removal of existing functional, habitable, and safe dwelling units, as specified. The bill would define the term "public works" for purposes of these provisions. This bill would incorporate additional substantive changes in Section 33459 of the Health and Safety Code made by SB 470, to become operative if SB 470 and this bill become effective on or before January 1, 2014, and this bill is enacted last.
Under existing law, a person between the ages of 6 and 18 years who is not exempted by law is subject to compulsory full-time education. Existing law excludes a child under 6 years of age from the public schools, subject to specified exceptions. Existing law requires a school district maintaining a kindergarten to admit a child who will have his or her 5th birthday on or before certain specified dates during that school year. Existing law also requires that a child who will have his or her 6th birthday on or before specified dates be admitted to the first grade of an elementary school. This bill, beginning with the 2016–17 school year, would require a child to have completed one year of kindergarten before he or she may be admitted to the first grade, thereby imposing 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, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.
Existing law provides for the formation of local health care districts and specifies district powers. Existing law establishes the Major Risk Medical Insurance Fund in the State Treasury and continuously appropriates moneys in the fund, except as specified, to the State Department of Health Care Services for purposes of the California Major Risk Medical Insurance Program. This bill would appropriate $3,000,000 from the Major Risk Medical Insurance Fund to the West Contra Costa Healthcare District for support of the Doctors Medical Center. This bill would declare that it makes appropriations for the usual current expenses of the state, and shall go into effect immediately.
The Corporate Flexibility Act of 2011 authorizes and regulates the formation and operation of flexible purpose corporations. This bill would rename the act as the Social Purpose Corporations Act and rename the type of corporation authorized and regulated under that act as a social purpose corporation. Under the act, an existing business association organized as a trust under the laws of this state or of a foreign jurisdiction may incorporate under the act upon approval by its board of trustees or similar governing body and approval by the affirmative vote of a majority of the outstanding voting shares of beneficial interest, and the filing of articles with a certificate. This bill would revise the approval by the affirmative vote of a majority of the outstanding voting shares of beneficial interest requirement to approval by the affirmative vote of 23 of those shares. Under the act, the articles of incorporation are required to set forth specified statements, including the name of the corporation. This bill would revise the statements that are required to be contained in the articles of incorporation. This bill would authorize a corporation formed pursuant to the act before January 1, 2015, to elect to change its status from a flexible purpose corporation to a social purpose corporation by amending its articles of incorporation, as provided. The bill would require that any reference in the act to social purpose corporation be deemed a reference to flexible purpose corporation, for any flexible purpose corporation formed prior to January 1, 2015, that has not amended its articles of incorporation to change its status to a social purpose corporation. This bill would require, for corporations organized on and after January 1, 2015, a statement that the corporation is organized as a social purpose corporation under the Social Purpose Corporations Act. Under the act, the director, in discharging his or her duties, may consider those factors, and give weight to those factors, as the director deems relevant, including the short-term and long-term prospects of the corporation, the best interests of the corporation and its shareholders, and the purposes of the corporation as set forth in its articles. This bill would revise one of the factors and would require the director to consider those factors. This bill would authorize shareholders to maintain a derivative lawsuit to enforce this requirement. Under the act, certificates representing the shares of a corporation formed under the act are required to contain specified statements. This bill would revise the statements required to be on those certificates. This bill would provide that the certificates representing shares of a corporation formed pursuant to this act as a "flexible purpose corporation" before January 1, 2015, continue to be valid, and that any reference to a "flexible purpose corporation" or any abbreviation of that term in those certificates is also a reference to "social purpose corporation." Under the act, a corporation formed under the act may, by amendment of its articles as specified in the act, convert to a domestic corporation. This bill would instead provide that a corporation formed under the act may change its status to that of a business corporation. This bill would provide that if the status change is approved, shareholders with dissenting shares may exercise dissenters' rights set forth in the General Corporation Law. Under the act, certain mergers require approval by an affirmative vote of at least 23 of the outstanding shares of each class, or a greater vote if required in the articles, regardless of whether that class is entitled to vote thereon by the provisions of the articles, of the disappearing corporation. This bill would provide that if the merger is approved, shareholders with dissenting shares may exercise dissenters' rights set forth in the General Corporation Law. Under the act, a corporation formed under the act may be converted into a domestic other business entity if specified conditions are met. The act requires the approval of a plan of conversion. This bill would provide that if the plan is approved, shareholders with dissenting shares may exercise dissenters' rights set forth in the General Corporation Law. Under the act, the principal terms of a reorganization are required to be approved by the outstanding shares of any class of a corporation formed under that act that is a party to a merger or sale-of-assets reorganization if holders of shares of that class receive shares of the surviving or acquiring corporation formed under that act or parent party having different rights, preferences, privileges, or restrictions than those surrendered. This bill would instead require the principal terms of a reorganization to be approved by the affirmative vote of at least 23 of each class, or a greater vote if required in the articles, of the outstanding shares of any class of a corporation formed under that act that is a party to a merger or sale-of-assets reorganization if holders of shares of that class receive shares of the surviving or acquiring corporation formed under that act or parent party having different rights, preferences, privileges, or restrictions than those surrendered. Under the act, the board of a corporation formed under the act is required to cause an annual report to be sent to the shareholders, provided with a management discussion and analysis (special purpose MD&A) that contains specified information concerning the corporation's stated purposes. Existing law exempts the annual report and special purpose MD&A requirement for corporations formed under the act with fewer than 100 holders of record of its shares if specified conditions exist. This bill would revise the information required to be contained in the special purpose MD&A. This bill would repeal the exemption. Existing law sets forth procedures for how a corporation formed pursuant to the Corporate Flexibility Act of 2011 may convert or change its status into other types of entities and how other entities may convert or change their status to a corporation formed pursuant to the Corporate Flexibility Act of 2011. This bill would revise those procedures. This bill would make other changes to correct erroneous cross-references. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Sections 1155 and 3304 of the Corporations Code proposed by SB 1041 that would become operative only if this bill and SB 1041 are both chaptered and this bill is chaptered last.
The Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act requires that all meetings of a state body, as defined, be open and public and that all persons be permitted to attend and participate in any meeting of a state body, subject to certain conditions and exceptions. This bill would modify the definition of "state body" to exclude an advisory body with less than 3 individuals, except for certain standing committees. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.