Existing law regulates the labeling requirements on various consumer products. This bill would prohibit, on or after January 1, 2012, a person from packaging or labeling a consumer product, as defined, for distribution or sale in California if that product is contained in a package, or has an affixed label, that states that the product is flushable, sewer and septic safe, or other like term or phrase unless the product meets specified criteria. The bill would require a person who has packaged or labeled a consumer product for distribution or sale in California that is labeled as flushable, sewer and septic safe, or other like term or phrase, to maintain, in written form, documentation of the testing substantiating the validity of the claim, except as specified. The bill would exempt certain retailers and wholesalers from these provisions. The bill would make violation of this provision punishable by a fine of up to $2,500.
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Existing law imposes various taxes and allows specified credits, deductions, exclusions, and exemptions in computing those taxes. This bill would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2011, require any bill that would authorize a personal income or corporation tax credit to contain, among other provisions, (1) specified goals, purposes, and objectives that the tax credit will achieve, (2) detailed performance indicators to measure whether the tax credit is meeting those goals, purposes, and objectives, and (3) a requirement that the tax credit cease to be operative 7 taxable years after its effective date, as specified.
This measure would memorialize the Congress and the President of the United States to uphold protections of women's equality and to encourage all Americans to participate in the celebration of Women's Equality Day on August 26, 2010, the 90th anniversary of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave women the right to vote.
Existing law establishes various categorical education programs, including regional occupational centers and programs, and appropriates the funding for those programs in the annual Budget Act. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, for the 2008–09 to 2012–13 fiscal years, inclusive, to apportion from the amount provided in the annual Budget Act for specified categorical education programs an amount based on the same relative proportion that the local educational agency received in the 2008–09 fiscal year for those programs and authorizes school districts, for those fiscal years, to use these funds, with specified exceptions, for any educational purpose, to the extent permitted by federal law. Existing law, for those fiscal years, deems local educational agencies that use these categorical education program funds for any educational purpose to be in compliance with the program and funding requirements of those categorical education programs. This bill, for the 2011–12 fiscal year, would restrict the authority of a school district to withdraw from a regional occupational center or program if the county board of education or the State Board of Education determines that doing so would negatively impact the career technical education services received by high school pupils of other school districts or charter schools in the region. The bill would require a recipient of funds allocated for career technical education services to expend those funds in accordance with the regional plan for occupational course sequences, in order to meet documented labor market demand, and focus on the needs of high school pupils. The bill would make legislative findings and declarations regarding career technical education programs organized and implemented as occupational course sequences.
Existing law, the Ortiz-Pacheco-Poochigian-Vasconcellos Cal Grant Act, establishes the Cal Grant C Program under the administration of the Student Aid Commission and establishes eligibility requirements for awards under this program. The act requires that a Cal Grant C award be used only for occupational or technical training, as defined, in a course of not less than 4 months. The act requires the commission, after consultation with state and federal agencies, to determine the areas of occupational or technical training for which Cal Grant C awards shall be awarded. This bill would require the Student Aid Commission to develop, and regularly review and update at least every 5 years, the areas of occupational or technical training for which students may utilize Cal Grant C awards. The bill would require the commission to give priority in granting the awards to students pursuing occupational or technical training in areas that meet specified criteria. The bill would require the commission to publish, and retain, on its Internet Web site a current list of the areas of occupational or technical training meeting those specified criteria. The bill would require the Legislative Analyst's Office to submit a report to the Governor and the Legislature, containing specified data on the outcomes of the Cal Grant C Program, on or before April 1, 2014, and on or before April 1 of each even-numbered year thereafter.
Existing law provides that a gift certificate sold after January 1, 1997, is redeemable in cash or subject to replacement with a new gift certificate. Existing law also provides that a gift certificate with a cash value of less than $10 may be redeemed in cash, as defined, for its cash value. Existing law prohibits the sale of a gift certificate that contains a dormancy fee, subject to specified exceptions. This bill would delete those exceptions and expressly prohibit the sale of a gift certificate that contains a dormancy fee.
Existing law establishes the California Firefighter Joint Apprenticeship Program and prescribes requirements for classes of related and supplemental instruction in order to qualify for funding, including that the person providing instruction is qualified, by means of education or experience, as a journeyman, and shares the responsibility for supervision of the apprentices participating in the classes with the certified community college or adult education coordinator. This bill would provide, for purposes of issuing credentials to instructors who are required to obtain a specified credential in order to provide instruction as part of the program, that completion of a specified training instructor course and certification as an EMT-I, EMT-II, or EMT-P meet certain of the requirements for that credential.
Existing law provides for the registration, certification, and licensure of various healing arts professionals, including, but not limited to, setting forth the scope of practice, establishing the regulatory boards, department, or bureaus, and setting forth the powers and duties of these entities. This bill would establish similar registration, certification, and licensure provisions relating to alcohol and other drug counselors to be administered by the State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs, and would authorize the department to commence issuing these licenses, registrations, and certificates on January 1, 2013, and would make conforming changes related to child, elder, and dependent adult abuse reporting provisions. The bill would make a violation of these provisions a misdemeanor, and would specify various unlawful acts related to its provisions. The bill would authorize the department to assess related fees, and would require deposit of the fees into the Alcohol and Other Drug Counselor License Fund, which the bill would establish for expenditure for the purposes of this bill, upon appropriation by the Legislature. By establishing a new crime, 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.
The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act contains various provisions regulating the application for, the issuance of, the suspension of, and the conditions imposed upon, alcoholic beverage licenses by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, including a distilled spirits manufacturer's license that authorizes the licensee to conduct specified activities within the state. This bill would authorize a licensed distilled spirits manufacturer that distills fewer than 50,000 gallons of spirit annually to sell distilled spirits to specified licensees and consumers directly, as provided. The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act provides that a violation of its provisions is a misdemeanor, unless otherwise specified. This bill, by including provisions that would be subject to those existing criminal sanctions, 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.
(1) The Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the State Department of Education, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer child care and development programs. Existing law authorizes funds appropriated for purposes of the act to be used for child care resource and referral programs, which may be operated by public or private nonprofit entities and are required to provide certain information and services to parents and child care providers relating to child care services in a defined geographic area. This bill would require a child care resource and referral program to provide specified additional services, including providing training and workshops relating to child care services, community resource assistance, and collaborating with and assisting other community agencies in planning, coordinating, and improving child care. The bill would delete provisions authorizing a resource and referral program to provide short-term respite care, as defined. The bill would require a resource and referral program to provide basic child care referrals, as defined, at no cost. The bill would require a child care resource and referral program to include additional information in the documentation that a resource and referral program is required to maintain. (2) Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to prevent the use of lists containing names, addresses, and other identifying information of facilities identified as small family day care homes, with certain exceptions. This bill, in addition, would require a child care resource and referral program to limit the distribution of lists of small family day care homes except when necessary to collaborate with federal, state, and local emergency response organizations for emergency preparedness and response efforts. (3) Existing law establishes the California Child Care Initiative Project for certain purposes, including increasing the availability of qualified child care programs in the state. This bill would instead establish 2 projects, to be known as the California Child Care Initiative Project - State Program, and the California Child Care Initiative Project - Quality Plan Program. (4) Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to establish a trustline registry for purposes of conducting background checks for specified child care service providers, and imposes certain responsibilities on resource and referral programs in the administration of the trustline. This bill would impose additional requirements on resource and referral programs relating to the trustline, including reviewing trustline applications for in-home or license-exempt home-based child care providers who are being paid through state-funded child care subsidies, and facilitating the trustline automated registration process or the trustline Web-based application process. The bill would make other conforming changes.