Under existing law, various higher education facilities bond acts authorize the sale of bonds for the purpose of funding the construction of facilities for the University of California, the California State University, the California Community Colleges, the Hastings College of the Law, and the California Maritime Academy. This bill would enact the Higher Education Facilities Bond Act of 2010, to become operative only if approved by the voters at the November 2, 2010, statewide general election, and would provide for its submission to the voters at that election. The bond act, if approved by the voters, would provide for the issuance of state general obligation bonds in a total amount of $8,630,000,000, to provide aid to the California Community Colleges, the University of California, the Hastings College of the Law, and the California State University to construct and modernize education facilities.
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Existing law, the Leroy Greene California Assessment of Academic Achievement Act, requires each school district, charter school, and county office of education to administer to each of its pupils in grades 2 to 11, inclusive, certain achievement tests. This bill would, commencing July 1, 2010, exclude pupils in grade 2 from the standards-based achievement test requirement and make conforming changes.
Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. Existing law provides that, notwithstanding open course provisions in statute or regulations of the board of governors, the governing board of a community college district that provides classes for inmates of certain facilities, including a federal correctional facility, may include the units of full-time equivalent students generated in those classes for purposes of state apportionments. This bill would instead require the open course provisions in statute or regulations of the board of governors to be waived for any governing board of a community college district that provides those classes for inmates, including inmates of state correctional facilities, and would authorize the board of governors to include the units of full-time equivalent students generated in those classes for purposes of state apportionments. Existing law provides for the method of computing apportionments for purposes of these inmate education programs. This bill would make revisions to that method of computation. The bill would prohibit a community college district from claiming, under the bill, for purposes of apportionments, any class for which a district receives full compensation for its direct education costs for the conduct of the class from any public or private agency, individual, or group of individuals, and any class offered pursuant to a contract or instructional agreement entered into between the district and a public or private agency, individual, or group of individuals that has received from another source full compensation for the costs the district incurs under that contract or instructional agreement, as prescribed.
(1) Existing law authorizes the Regents of the University of California, with the approval of the Concurrence Committee, to establish and maintain cooperative endeavors designed to develop and enhance teachers' subject matter and content knowledge in 6 subject matter project areas. Under existing law the Concurrence Committee is composed of representatives selected by the regents, the Board of Trustees of the California State University, the State Board of Education, among others. Existing law provides goals to be accomplished by the subject matter projects. Among these is the goal to provide support to teachers to develop and enhance the content knowledge and pedagogical skills necessary to implement State Board of Education standards. This bill would clarify that this support includes assistance to career technical education teachers. The bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to select a representative to the Concurrence Committee. The bill would also authorize 3 additional subject matter projects: the California Physical Education-Health Project, the California Arts Project, and the California Foreign Language Project. (2) Existing law establishes a project advisory board in each subject matter project area to set guidelines, make recommendations, and monitor activities for compliance with existing law. Each project advisory board is composed of representatives who are selected, in varying numbers, by various individuals and entities. Some of the representatives, as provided, are required to be classroom teachers in subject areas addressed by the project. This bill would change the composition of each project advisory board to consist of only one representative selected by each appointing entity to the respective board, except that the Superintendent of Public Instruction would select two representatives. The bill would also delete the requirement that certain representatives be classroom teachers and instead require that those representatives be educators with expertise in the subject areas addressed by the project. (3) Under existing law, the above provisions become inoperative on June 30, 2012, and are repealed on January 1, 2013. This bill would delete these inoperative and repeal dates, thereby extending the operation of these provisions indefinitely. (4) Existing law prohibits any of the provisions related to instructional strategies from applying to the University of California unless the Regents of the University of California, by resolution, make those provisions applicable. This bill would apply to the University of California only if the regents, by resolution, make these provisions applicable.
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt regulations to require the reporting and verification of emissions of greenhouse gases and to monitor and enforce compliance with the reporting and verification program, and requires the state board to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions levels in 1990 to be achieved by 2020. The act requires the state board to adopt rules and regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emission reductions. The act authorizes the state board to include the use of market-based compliance mechanisms. The act authorizes the state board to adopt a schedule of fees to be paid by the sources of greenhouse gas emissions regulated pursuant to the act, and requires the revenues collected pursuant to that fee to be deposited into the Air Pollution Control Fund and be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for purposes of carrying out the act. This bill would provide that revenues generated from fees to fund expenditures beyond the administrative costs of implementing the act, revenues generated as a result of the implementation of market-based compliance mechanisms, or revenues generated from compliance mechanism, as defined, shall be appropriated by the Legislature in furtherance of the act for purposes determined by the Legislature.
(1) Existing law requires the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Chancellor of the California State University, the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction to enter into interagency agreements in order to encourage greater involvement of educational institutions in planning and developing prison-based educational programs, and to appoint an advisory committee to accomplish various duties. Existing law requires the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to appoint a Superintendent of Correctional Education to oversee all prison education programs. This bill, the Prison Education Reform Act, would instead require those officers to appoint members to the Correctional Education Committee. The bill would rename the position of the Superintendent of Correctional Education as the Deputy Director of Correctional Education, who would be required to perform specified duties in consultation with the committee, including the adoption and enforcement of all necessary rules and regulations for the management and operation of education programs within the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, approval of education programs in correctional institutions, and the adoption of rules and regulations for the admission of inmate students to those education programs. (2) The bill would establish the Correctional Education Committee in the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, which would be composed of 15 members, as specified. The committee would be required to advise the Deputy Director of Correctional Education regarding various goals and objectives, including the development of a 5-year comprehensive plan for a unified correctional school system by June 1, 2012, and to submit a report to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2012, on specified matters relating to correctional education in this state.
Existing law establishes various programs for the prevention of disease and the promotion of health to be administered by the State Department of Public Health, including, but not limited to, programs relating to the reporting of pesticide poisoning. Existing law establishes a program under the jurisdiction of the Department of Food and Agriculture for invasive pest planning, including, but not limited to, invasive pest eradication through aerial spraying of urban areas. This bill would, in the event of an emergency exemption from registration pursuant to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) , or a Federal Domestic Quarantine Order issued by the United States Department of Agriculture, prohibit the use of a pesticide in aerial application within or near residential or sensitive sites, as specified, where humans are likely to become exposed to the pesticide unless the manufacturer of the pesticide has previously and voluntarily made the complete ingredient list, including, but not limited to, all inert ingredients, as defined, available to the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. The bill would require the director to provide a complete list of all ingredients to specified officials and care providers, and would require the director to seek federal reimbursement for all state costs associated with the emergency, as permitted by federal law. This bill would declare that its provisions are severable, and that if any provision or its application is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application.
Existing law requires the Department of Justice to maintain certain information related to firearms transactions. This bill would extend those provisions to information concerning the registration of large-capacity magazines, as specified. Existing provides that commencing January 1, 2000, and subject to exceptions, any person who manufacturers or causes to be manufactured, imports into the state, keeps for sale, or offers or exposes for sale, or who gives, or lends any large-capacity magazine is guilty of an offense. This bill would, commencing January 1, 2011, and subject to specified exceptions, prohibit the possession of large-capacity magazines. Violation of these provisions would be punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would, commencing January 1, 2011, and subject to exceptions, require registration of large-capacity magazines with the Department of Justice. The bill would require registration of large-capacity magazines no later than January 1, 2011, for magazines that are already possessed, as specified, and would provide that large-capacity magazines acquired after January 1, 2011, be registered within 30 days of taking possession. The bill would establish exceptions to these provisions. The bill would require local and state entities to register their large-capacity magazines as institutionally owned, as specified, and would require those entities to report to the department the disposition of large-capacity magazines by those entities that constitute a nuisance, as specified. The bill would authorize the Department of Justice to charge a fee, not to exceed $20, for registration of large-capacity magazines, and would authorize increases in that fee, as specified. The bill would exempt local and state entities from that registration fee. By imposing additional duties on local governments in connection with the registration of large-capacity magazines and the disposition of large-capacity magazines that are a nuisance, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law authorizes the Department of Justice to issue a permit to a licensed firearms dealer for the purpose of transporting, possessing, and selling a large-capacity magazine to an out-of-state purchaser. This bill would require the registration of large-capacity magazines that are subject to those provisions, and notification to the department of the identity of the purchaser, as specified 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 with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Existing law authorizes the county superintendent of schools of each county, with the consent of the State Board of Education, to establish and maintain at least one regional occupational center or program (ROC/P) in the county to provide education in career technical education courses. Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that ROC/Ps provide career technical and occupational instruction related to the attainment of skills so that trainees are prepared for gainful employment in the area for which training was provided, or are upgraded so that they have the higher level skills required because of new and changing technologies or so that they are prepared for enrollment in more advanced training programs. This bill would enact the California Apprenticeship Preparation Program Act of 2009. The bill would authorize an ROC/P, upon approval and certification by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, to offer a California Apprenticeship Preparation Program. The Superintendent would be required to approve and certify an ROC/P as a California Apprenticeship Preparation Program if the ROC/P completes specified requirements, including, but not limited to, entering into at least one memorandum of understanding with a local Division of Apprenticeship Standards certified building and trades construction apprenticeship program, including state-approved joint labor-management and unilateral nonunion apprenticeship programs, for the provision of occupational and academic support that includes specified criteria. The bill would require the State Department of Education, in collaboration with representatives from building trades and construction apprenticeship training organizations, ROC/P faculty members, and ROC/P curriculum coordinators, to develop curriculum covering all aspects of the building trades and construction industry.
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt regulations to require the reporting and verification of emissions of greenhouse gases and to monitor and enforce compliance with the reporting and verification program, and requires the state board to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020. This bill would create the Voluntary Greenhouse Gas Emission Offset Program Fund, and would provide that funds received by the state on a voluntary basis from the federal government, individuals, businesses, organizations, industry, or other sources for the mitigation of climate change impacts related to greenhouse gas emissions be deposited in this fund. The moneys in the fund would be available, upon appropriation, for expenditure by the Natural Resources Agency for specified projects through a competitive grant process. The bill would require that moneys from the fund be directed to the California Conservation Corps and local conservation corps for specified projects. The Natural Resources Agency would be required, by October 1, 2012, to adopt guidelines for the distribution of moneys from the fund and to develop strategies for the sale of voluntary greenhouse gas emission offsets by the state and other opportunities for contributions by the public to the Voluntary Greenhouse Gas Emission Offset Program Fund.