Existing law provides that there is established within the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation the Corrections Standards Authority and provides for its membership, as specified. Existing law abolished the former Commission on Correctional Peace Officer Standards and Training and provided that all references to it shall refer to the Corrections Standards Authority. This bill would abolish the Corrections Standards Authority and establish the Board of Community Corrections to replace it, with modifications to its membership, as specified. The bill would specify that the Board of Community Corrections shall be an entity independent of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The bill would repeal provisions that abolished the Commission on Correctional Peace Officer Standards and Training and reestablish, within the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Commission on Correctional Peace Officer Standards and Training, as specified, and make conforming changes. Existing law provides that it is the duty of the Corrections Standards Authority to make a study of the entire subject of crime, as specified, and to report its findings, conclusions, and recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature at such times as they may require. This bill would make this study the duty of the Board of Community Corrections and make certain revisions in regards to what that study is to include. This bill would take effect on July 1, 2010.
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Existing law generally requires voters who wish to vote and who do not cast their ballots by mail to cast their ballot at the precinct polling place on election day. This bill would permit, until December 31, 2016, the Secretary of State, in conjunction with the county elections officials, the University of California, the California State University, and the California Community Colleges, to select 3 college campuses, one each within the University of California, the California State University, and the California Community Colleges, to serve as vote by mail ballot dropoff locations for any precinct in the county's jurisdiction during at least one general election. The bill would require voluntary consent from the local elections official within whose jurisdiction a vote by mail ballot dropoff location would be located. The bill would require that the vote by mail ballot dropoff locations be available to receive votes on the 5 business days preceding election day. The bill would require each county elections official who has a vote by mail ballot dropoff location within his or her jurisdiction during an election to report to the Legislature and the Secretary of State regarding the use of the vote by mail ballot dropoff location within 6 months of the date of the election. The Secretary of State would then be required to report to the Legislature regarding an assessment of designated vote by mail ballot dropoff locations on college campuses by examining the participation in the program and the costs to the state for implementing the program.
Existing law requires the Governor to call a special election to fill a vacancy in a congressional or legislative office within 14 calendar days of the occurrence of the vacancy and provides that all candidates be listed on the ballot and, if any candidate receives a majority of all votes cast, he or she shall be declared elected. If a candidate does not receive a majority of all votes cast, the names of the candidates receiving the most votes representing a qualified political party are placed on the special general election ballot as that party's candidate. Under existing law, the special primary and the special general elections are required to be conducted within specified time periods. This bill would instead authorize the board of supervisors of a county or counties affected by a vacancy in the office of United States Representative in Congress, State Senator, or Member of the Assembly, if certified by the Secretary of State, to make a determination to fill the vacancy using an optional, prescribed instant runoff voting method, except that if 2 or more counties are affected, all affected counties would have to agree to use the instant runoff voting method.
Existing law provides that an employer may not ask an applicant for employment to disclose, and an employer may not utilize in an employment-related decision, information concerning an arrest or detention that did not result in a conviction. This bill, in addition, would prohibit an employer from denying an application for employment for the reason that the applicant has previously been convicted of a criminal offense unless the employer determines that there is a direct relationship between the prior conviction and the employment sought or the granting of employment would involve an unreasonable risk to property or persons. This bill would require the employer to consider specified factors when determining whether either of those 2 circumstances exist. Because this bill would create a new crime, it 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 measure would urge various state and private entities to withhold financial support of Arizona businesses in response to recent Arizona state laws relating to illegal immigration.
Existing provisions of the California Constitution prohibit a Senator from serving more than 2 terms of 4 years each and a Member of the Assembly from serving more than 3 terms of 2 years each. This measure would instead prohibit a person who is first elected as a Member of the Legislature on or after November 2, 2010, from serving, during his or her lifetime, more than 12 years in the Senate, the Assembly, or both, in any combination.
Existing law creates the California Integrated Waste Management Board with specified powers and duties. Chapter 21 of the Statutes of 2009, which will go into effect on January 1, 2010, will abolish the California Integrated Waste Management Board and transfer its duties and responsibilities to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, which Chapter 21 of the Statutes of 2009 will create in the Natural Resources Agency, under the direction of an executive officer known as the Director of Resources Recycling and Recovery. Chapter 21 of the Statutes of 2009 will authorize the director to accept on behalf of the department federal grants, and will require the grants to be deposited in the Special Deposit Fund, which is continuously appropriated. Under existing law, the Department of Conservation administers the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act. Chapter 21 of the Statutes of 2009 will transfer those duties to the Division of Recycling that Chapter 21 of the Statutes of 2009 will establish within the newly created Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery. Existing law establishes the Office of Education and the Environment in the California Integrated Waste Management Board. Chapter 21 of the Statutes of 2009 will transfer the Office of Education and the Environment to the California Environmental Protection Agency. This bill would delay the operative date of the changes made by Chapter 21 of the Statutes of 2009 to January 1, 2011.
Existing law establishes the partnership academies program as a school-business partnership program to provide occupational training to educationally disadvantaged high school pupils. Under existing law, the Superintendent of Public Instruction is required to award grants to school districts maintaining high schools to plan, establish, and maintain these partnership academies. Existing law requires the surcharge imposed on the consumption of electricity in the state to be transferred to the Energy Resources Programs Account in the General Fund, which is available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for ongoing energy programs and projects. This bill would require the Controller annually to allocate $8,000,000 from the Energy Resources Program Account, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for expenditure in the form of local grants to be allocated pursuant to the existing provisions for creating and maintaining partnership academies. The bill would require a grantee to implement or maintain a partnership academy that focuses on employment in clean technology businesses and renewable energy businesses and provides skilled workforces for the products and services for energy or water conservation, or both, renewable energy, pollution reduction, or other technologies. The bill would require the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to develop guidelines, that would be exempted from the Administrative Procedure Act, to ensure that programs receiving grants reflect current state energy policies and priorities as well as provide skills and education linked to the needs of relevant industries. The bill would authorize a school district to apply for planning grants for implementing a partnership academy and would allow the Superintendent to expend up to 5% of the funds transferred to the Superintendent to pay the costs incurred in the administration of this program. The bill would require the State Department of Education in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to provide a report to the Legislature that includes a description of the curriculum and substance of the programs funded by grants awarded pursuant to these provisions, and specified data. The bill would provide that the bill's provisions would become inoperative on June 30, 2016, and, as of January 1, 2017, would repeal these provisions.
Existing law provides for the establishment of partnership academies for pupils at risk of dropping out of school by participating school districts that meet specified eligibility requirements, and requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to issue grants to school districts for planning, establishing, and maintaining the partnership academies. The Superintendent is authorized to issue a maximum of 155 grants per year for purposes of planning partnership academies. Existing law sets forth criteria for a pupil to be considered at risk of dropping out of school. This bill would delete the limit on the number of grants the Superintendent is authorized to issue for planning partnership academies. The bill would expand the criteria for determining whether a pupil is at risk of dropping out of school, and would revise the requirements for the enrollment of pupils who are not at risk. The bill would require a school district to provide an assurance that each academy pupil will be provided with career technical courses in each grade level that are part of an occupational course sequence that targets comprehensive skills, and meets certain other requirements. The bill would make other conforming changes, and would also make technical, nonsubstantive changes. The bill would become operative on July 1, 2011, and would require its provisions to be implemented commencing with the 2011–12 school year.
Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, administered by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in the state. Existing law establishes community college districts under the administration of community college governing boards, and authorizes these districts to provide instruction at community college campuses throughout the state. Existing law authorizes the governing board of a community college district to require students and employees at a campus of the district to pay a fee for the transportation costs incurred by the district or the costs of reducing fares for services provided by common carriers or municipally owned transit systems to students and employees. Existing law limits the amount of that fee to an amount that does not exceed $60 per semester and $30 per intersession when combined with a specified parking services fee. This bill would increase the combined limit of the transportation fee and the parking services fee to $70 per semester or $35 per intersession. The bill would require these fee limits to increase annually based on a specified calculation.