The California Health Facilities Financing Authority Act authorizes the California Health Facilities Financing Authority to make loans from the continuously appropriated California Health Facilities Financing Authority Fund to participating health institutions for financing or refinancing the acquisition, construction, or remodeling of health facilities. The act defines a health facility to include various specified facilities and facilities operated in conjunction with these facilities. It also defines a participating health institution to mean specified entities authorized by state law to provide or operate a health facility and undertake the financing or refinancing of the construction or acquisition of a project or of working capital, as defined. Existing law authorizes the authority to award grants to any eligible health facility, as defined, for purposes of financing defined projects. This bill would authorize the authority to award one or more grants that, in the aggregate, do not exceed $1,500,000 to one or more projects designed to demonstrate new or enhanced cost-effective methods of delivering health care services, as specified. This bill would create the California Health Access Model Program Account in the California Health Facilities Financing Authority Fund, and would transfer up to $1,500,000 from the fund to the account for the purposes of the bill. The bill would require that any moneys remaining in the account as of January 1, 2015, revert to the fund. This bill would require the authority to report to the Governor and the Legislature on the outcomes of the demonstration grant program, as specified. By expanding the purposes for which a continuously appropriated fund may be used, this bill would make an appropriation. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law authorizes the development and implementation of various electronic bridge and highway toll collection mechanisms. Existing law prohibits a transportation agency, as defined, from selling or providing personally identifiable information of a person obtained pursuant to the person's participation in an electronic toll collection system or use of a toll facility that uses an electronic toll collection system, subject to specified exceptions. Existing law requires a transportation agency that uses an electronic toll collection system to establish a privacy policy regarding the collection and storage of personally identifiable information in that regard, to provide the policy to subscribers, and to post the policy on its Internet Web site. Existing law permits a transportation agency to share data collected via an electronic toll collection system with another transportation agency solely to comply with interoperablility specifications and standards for electronic toll collection devices. Existing law also permits a transportation agency to perform billing and other financial functions necessary to operate and manage toll facilities. This bill would permit a transportation agency or its designee to share data regarding a vehicle's use of toll facilities with another transportation agency, whether in the state or not, solely to comply with the above specifications and standards. This bill would also permit a transportation agency to share specified information with transportation agencies in other states as part of a nationwide interoperability toll collection program. This bill would also permit a transportation agency to perform toll collection and violation enforcement functions required to operate and manage toll facilities, whether in the state or not.
Existing law creates the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012, which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $11,140,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance a safe drinking water and water supply reliability program. Existing law provides for the submission of the bond act to the voters at the November 6, 2012, statewide general election. This bill would instead provide for the submission of the bond act to the voters at the November 4, 2014, statewide general election. The bill would appropriate $1,000 to the Secretary of State to implement the requirements of the bill. This bill would declare that it is to take immediate effect as an urgency statute and a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.
The Donahoe Higher Education Act authorizes the activities of the 4 segments of the higher education system in the state. These segments include the 3 public segments: the University of California, which is administered by the Regents of the University of California, the California State University, which is administered by the Trustees of the California State University, and the California Community Colleges, which is administered by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. Private and independent institutions of higher education constitute the other segment. Provisions of the Donahoe Higher Education Act apply to the University of California only to the extent that the regents act, by resolution, to make them applicable. Existing law urges textbook publishers to take specified actions aimed at reducing the amounts that postsecondary education students currently pay for textbooks. Existing law requires the Trustees of the California State University and the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, and requests the Regents of the University of California, among other things, to work with the academic senates of each respective segment to encourage faculty to give consideration to the least costly practices in assigning textbooks, to encourage faculty to disclose to students how new editions of textbooks are different from previous editions and the cost to students for textbooks selected, to review procedures for faculty to inform college and university bookstores of textbook selections, and to encourage faculty to work closely with publishers and college and university bookstores in creating bundles and packages that are economically sound and deliver cost savings to students. Existing law expresses the intent of the Legislature to encourage private colleges and universities to work with their respective academic senates and to encourage faculty to consider practices in selecting textbooks that will result in the lowest costs to students. This bill would require a publisher that supplies textbooks or other instructional material to a postsecondary educational institution, as defined to include both public and private postsecondary educational institutions, or to a faculty member of a postsecondary educational institution, to provide information about that textbook or item of instructional material in a specified order using a standard XML or comma-delimited format. This bill would encourage a postsecondary educational institution to provide a textbook adoption search engine, as specified, for purposes of discovery, evaluation, and selection of course materials that allows faculty or course coordinators to view, compare, and contrast textbooks and other course materials and to communicate adoption choices to the appropriate procurement staff and colleagues. The bill would, for a postsecondary educational institution that provides the faculty textbook adoption search engine, require an institutional bookstore, as defined, to provide course and adoption information in an open protocol, as defined and specified, to allow an outside organization or company full and free access to specified information. The bill also would encourage a postsecondary educational institution that currently provides a faculty textbook adoption search engine to comply with the specified requirements. This bill would require an institutional bookstore to provide a student textbook comparison engine, as defined, on its Internet Web site to demonstrate the price difference between a textbook purchased through the bookstore and the same textbook purchased through an online competitor, which will enable students to ensure that they are purchasing needed textbooks at the best price. The bill would encourage, but not require, institutional bookstores at the University of California to comply with these provisions. To the extent new requirements would be placed on community college districts, 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, 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.
Under existing law, the State Department of Mental Health is authorized and required to perform various functions relating to the care and treatment of persons with mental disorders. Existing law, the Mental Health Services Act, an initiative measure enacted by the voters as Proposition 63 at the November 2, 2004, statewide general election, establishes the continuously appropriated Mental Health Services Fund to fund various county mental health programs. Existing law establishes the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission (commission) to oversee the administration of various parts of the Mental Health Services Act. The act provides that it may be amended by the Legislature by a 23 vote of each house as long as the amendment is consistent with and furthers the intent of the act, and that the Legislature may also clarify procedures and terms of the act by majority vote. This bill would require the commission to assist in providing technical assistance, as specified, and would require the commission to work in collaboration with, and in consultation with, various entities in designing a comprehensive joint plan for coordinated evaluation of client outcomes. This bill would require the California Health and Human Services Agency to lead the comprehensive joint plan effort. This bill would transfer various functions of the State Department of Mental Health under the Mental Health Services Act to the State Department of Health Care Services and the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development. This bill would make various technical and conforming changes to reflect the transfer of those mental health responsibilities. This bill would require all projects included in the innovative programs portion of the county plan to meet specified requirements. Existing law requires each county mental health program to prepare and submit a 3-year plan that includes specified components. This bill, in this regard, would require the plan to be a 3-year program and expenditure plan adopted by the county board of supervisors and submitted to the commission, would require annual updates, and would require plans to be certified by the county mental health director and the county auditor controller, as specified. This bill would require the State Department of Health Care Services to inform the California Mental Health Directors Association and the commission of the methodology used for revenue allocation to the counties. This bill would require the State Department of Health Care Services, in consultation with the commission and the California Welfare Directors Association, to develop and administer instructions for the Annual Mental Health Services Act Revenue and Expenditure Report, as prescribed. This bill would require the Governor or the Director of Health Care Services to appoint, subject to confirmation by the Senate, a Deputy Director of Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Services of the State Department of Health Care Services. This bill would declare that it clarifies procedures and terms of the Mental Health Services Act.
Existing law establishes a first-line service provider as an industry partner that receives information from the Department of Motor Vehicles and then transmits it to another industry partner. Existing law authorizes the director of the department to establish, through the adoption of regulations, the maximum amount that a qualified private industry partner may charge its customers in providing services for license plate processing, postage, registration, and titling transactions. This bill would instead prohibit a first-line service provider from charging a dealer more than $22 for providing the specified services unless the director determines that this amount is insufficient, and by regulation increases the maximum amount that a first-line service provider may charge a dealer. The bill would declare that it would take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law, until July 1, 2014, authorizes counties to use alternative procedures, known as design-build, for bidding on specified types of construction projects in the county in excess of $2,500,000, in accordance with specified procedures. These procedures include a requirement for contracts awarded after a certain date that a county board of supervisors pay a fee into the State Public Works Enforcement Fund, which funds are continuously appropriated for the Department of Industrial Relations' enforcement of prevailing wage requirements on public works projects. These procedures also require specified information to be verified under oath. This bill would extend these provisions until July 1, 2018. Because the additionally authorized projects would require payment of fees into the State Public Works Enforcement Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, it would make an appropriation. Also, because the bill would authorize additional contracts to be awarded under these provisions, which would be subject to the requirement that certain information be verified under oath, it would impose a state-mandated local program by expanding the scope of an existing crime. 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.
Under the Sales and Use Tax Law, Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax Law, Use Fuel Tax Law, Cigarette and Tobacco Products Tax Law, Alcoholic Beverage Tax Law, Timber Yield Tax Law, Energy Resources Surcharge Law, Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act, Hazardous Substances Tax Law, Integrated Waste Management Fee Law, Oil Spill Response, Prevention, and Administration Fees Law, Underground Storage Tank Maintenance Fee Law, Fee Collection Procedures Law, Diesel Fuel Tax Law, and the laws governing the taxation of insurers, a taxpayer or feepayer against whom a notice of determination or notice of deficiency assessment is issued or a person directly interested may file a petition of redetermination within 30 days after service upon the person of notice. This bill would extend that time period to 60 days after service upon the person of notice. Section 92 of Chapter 11 of the First Extraordinary Session of 2011 provides that that act is inoperative if any of its provisions are amended or repealed. This bill would provide that, notwithstanding Section 92 of Chapter 11 of the First Extraordinary Session of the Statutes of 2011, the provisions of Chapter 11 of the First Extraordinary Session of the Statutes of 2011 would not become inoperative by reason of the amendments to specified provisions of that act made in this bill.
The Bergeson-Peace Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank Act establishes in the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank for the purpose of funding specified types of infrastructure development projects. This bill would instead establish the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank within the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development.
Existing law requires a lender to file a notice of default in the case of nonjudicial foreclosure prior to enforcing a power of sale as a result of a default on an obligation secured by real property, as specified. Existing law also requires that a notice of sale be given before the power of sale may be exercised. Existing law requires the notice of sale to contain specified information regarding the property and the sale, and to be recorded with the county recorder, as specified. As of April 1, 2012, existing law also requires that the notice of sale contain language notifying potential bidders of specified risks involved in bidding on property at a trustee's sale, and a notice to the property owner informing the owner about how to obtain information regarding any postponement of the sale. This bill would prohibit a mortgagee, trustee, beneficiary, or authorized agent from recording a notice of sale pursuant to the above provisions after providing written approval of a short sale, as defined. The bill would also authorize a mortgagee, beneficiary, or authorized agent to withdraw an approval of a short sale if the mortgagor or trustor fails to comply with a condition of the written short sale agreement. The bill would also require a written notice to be provided to a mortgagor or trustor not less than 3 days following the written withdrawal of approval that includes the reason or reasons for the withdrawal. The bill would also provide that the prohibition against recording a notice of sale would not apply after written withdrawal of a short sale approval is provided to a mortgagor or trustor, unless subsequent approval of a short sale is provided.
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of mortgage loan originators under the Real Estate Law, the California Finance Lenders Law, and the California Residential Mortgage Lending Act. Existing law defines a mortgage loan originator to mean an individual who takes a residential mortgage loan application or offers or negotiates terms of a residential mortgage loan for compensation or gain, as specified. This bill would specify that a mortgage loan originator means an individual who performs those acts habitually or repeatedly and would also specify that a mortgage loan originator does not include an individual who takes a residential mortgage loan application or offers or negotiates terms of a residential mortgage loan for no more than 5 residential mortgage loans in a calendar year where the loans are made in connection with the sale of residential property and the loan proceeds are from the seller's own funds.
(1) Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, as defined. Decisions of the PUC adopted the California Solar Initiative. Existing law requires the PUC to undertake certain steps in implementing the California Solar Initiative. Existing law requires the governing body of a local publicly owned electric utility that sells electricity at retail to adopt, implement, and finance a solar initiative program for the purpose of investing in, and encouraging the increased installation of, residential and commercial solar energy systems. This bill would move the above-described requirements for local publicly owned electric utilities from an area of the Public Utilities Code pertaining to electrical restructuring, to the area of the code pertaining to the implementation of the California Solar Initiative. (2) Existing law requires a local publicly owned electric utility that sells electricity at retail to 75,000 or more customers to adopt and implement a tariff for electricity purchased from an electric generation facility meeting certain size, deliverability, and interconnection requirements and to consider certain factors. Existing law requires the local publicly owned electric utility to make the tariff available to owners and operators of an electric generation facility within the service territory of the utility, upon request, on a first-come-first-served basis, until the utility meets its proportionate share of a statewide cap of 750 megawatts cumulative rated generation capacity served under the feed-in tariffs adopted pursuant to the above-described requirements. Existing law provides that the electricity purchased from an electric generation facility counts toward meeting the local publicly owned electric utility's renewables portfolio standard annual procurement targets. This bill would move this requirement to that portion of the Public Utilities Code concerning the California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program. The bill would make other technical and nonsubstantive changes. (3) The bill would make other conforming and corrective changes.
