Existing law authorizes the Director of General Services to execute grants to real property belonging to the state in the name and upon behalf of the state, whenever the sale or exchange of real property is authorized or contemplated by law, if no other state agency is specifically authorized and directed to execute the grants. This bill would authorize the Director of General Services to transfer state property, known as the Harts Mill Forest Fire Station (Old) , to the County of Butte, as prescribed. If the property is transferred, the bill would require the County of Butte to maintain the property in perpetuity for parks and open-space purposes.
(1) Existing law imposes an excise tax on motor vehicle fuel (gasoline) . Existing law, as a result of the elimination of the sales tax on gasoline effective July 1, 2010, provides for a commensurate increase in the excise tax on gasoline. Article XIX of the California Constitution requires gasoline excise tax revenues from motor vehicles traveling upon public streets and highways to be deposited in the Highway Users Tax Account, for allocation to city, county, and state transportation purposes. Existing law generally provides for statutory allocation of gasoline excise tax revenues attributable to other modes of transportation, including aviation, boats, agricultural vehicles, and off-highway vehicles, to particular accounts and funds for expenditure on purposes associated with those other modes. Expenditure of the gasoline excise tax revenues attributable to those other modes is not restricted by Article XIX of the California Constitution. This bill, with respect to the increase in gasoline excise taxes as a result of the elimination of the sales tax on gasoline, would instead transfer the revenues attributable to aviation, boats, agricultural vehicles, and off-highway vehicles to the General Fund, commencing July 1, 2012, and ending June 30, 2015. The bill, with respect to these revenues already transferred to the particular nonhighway accounts and funds in the 2010–11 and 2011–12 fiscal years, would also transfer those revenues to the General Fund. Commencing July 1, 2015, the bill would instead transfer these revenues to the Highway Users Tax Account for allocation to state and local transportation purposes. Because that account is continuously appropriated, the bill would make an appropriation. (2) Existing law provides for the payment of current year general obligation bond debt service for specified voter-approved transportation bonds from various revenues deposited in the Transportation Debt Service Fund, including revenues from vehicle weight fees in the State Highway Account. Existing law also authorizes certain loans of vehicle weight fee revenue to the General Fund. Existing law, for the 2011–12 fiscal year, appropriates $866,300,000 from weight fee revenues in the State Highway Account for transfer to the General Fund as debt service reimbursement and loans. Existing law requires the Controller, upon notification by the Director of Finance that all debt service costs for the 2011–12 fiscal year have been reimbursed, to transfer any remaining weight fee revenues for that fiscal year in the State Highway Account to the General Fund as a loan until the $866,300,000 has been transferred to the General Fund. This bill would instead appropriate, for the fiscal year 2011–12, all annual revenue generated from the weight fees in the State Highway Account, excluding an amount equal to a loan of $43,700,000 authorized pursuant to the Budget Act of 2011, for transfer to the General Fund as debt service reimbursement and loans. Any revenues for that fiscal year that remain after reimbursement of the debt service costs would be transferred to the General Fund as a loan, and the bill would require $42,000,000 of those revenues to be transferred on July 1, 2012. (3) Existing law appropriates, commencing with the 2012–13 fiscal year, all weight fee revenues deposited into the State Highway Account for transfer to the General Fund as reimbursement for debt service costs until all of the debt service paid on specified transportation bonds have been reimbursed or to redeem or defease bonds that are maturing in a subsequent year. This bill would require the Controller, upon notification by the Director of Finance that all debt service costs for the fiscal year have been reimbursed, to transfer any remaining revenue generated from the weight fees for that fiscal year to the General Fund as a loan. (4) Existing law requires public notice of a project under the State Contract Act to be given by publication in a newspaper or trade paper of general circulation, as specified. This bill would authorize the Department of Transportation to alternatively meet the public notice requirement through electronic publication on the department's Internet Web site. (5) This bill would require the Controller, upon order of the Director of Finance, to transfer $432,200,000 from the Motor Vehicle Account to the General Fund as a loan in the 2012–13 fiscal year, to be repaid upon order of the Director of Finance and no later than June 30, 2016. (6) The bill would make other related changes. (7) This bill would appropriate $1,000 to the California Transportation Commission from the General Fund relative to implementation of the bill. (8) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.
Existing law provides for the CalFresh program, under which supplemental nutrition assistance benefits allocated to the state by the federal government are distributed to eligible individuals by each county. Existing law provides that a person convicted of a drug-related felony, with certain exceptions, is eligible for aid under CalFresh, if any one of specified eligibility requirements is met. This bill instead would provide that a person convicted of any drug felony shall be eligible for aid under CalFresh, eliminate the above-referenced exceptions, and make related changes. The bill would authorize the State Department of Social Services to implement its provisions through an all-county letter or similar instruction from the director. By changing the eligibility standards under CalFresh, this bill would increase the responsibilities of counties in the administration of the program, 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 sets forth the duties and powers of the board of supervisors of a county and the county recorder and county assessor of each county. Existing law requires the county recorder to, upon payment of proper fees and taxes, accept for recordation any instrument, paper, or notice that is authorized or required by statute or court order to be recorded, as specified. Existing law allows any instrument or judgment affecting the title to, or possession of, real property to be recorded. Existing law requires a document that effects or evidences a transfer or encumbrance of an interest in real property to include the name or names in which the interest appears of record. Existing law requires the county recorder of each county to establish a social security truncation program for the redaction of social security numbers to create a public record version of official records. This bill would authorize the board of supervisors of a county to establish a program that requires the names of certain public safety officials to be redacted from any property record of principal residence that is disclosed to the public by that county, except as specified. The bill would authorize a county to charge a fee for participation in the program. The bill would set forth requirements that would apply to the sale of aggregate data. The bill would require a county that establishes a program pursuant to this act to also ensure that the property record of a public safety official is redacted, as defined, in a specified manner when a search is conducted by index by name of the public safety official. Existing law, the California Public Records Act, requires state and local agencies to make public records available upon receipt of a request that reasonably describes an identifiable record not otherwise exempt from disclosure, and upon payment of fees covering direct costs of duplication. Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.
Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law authorizes licensed nonphysician providers that contract with a medical group, physician, or independent practice association to provide services to health care service plan enrollees to directly bill the plan for services rendered under certain circumstances. Existing law requires group health care service plans to authorize and permit assignment of a Medi-Cal beneficiary's right to reimbursement for covered services to the State Department of Health Care Services, except as specified. Existing law provides for the direct payment of group insurance medical benefits by a health insurer to the person or persons furnishing or paying for hospitalization or medical or surgical aid, as specified. This bill would require a health care service plan or health insurer that pays a contracting dental provider directly for covered services rendered to an enrollee or insured to also pay a noncontracting dental provider directly for covered services rendered to an enrollee or insured where the provider submits a written assignment of benefits signed by the enrollee or insured or the legal representative thereof, as specified. The bill would specify that a plan or insurer's payment pursuant to this provision discharges the plan or insurer's obligation with respect to the amount paid. The bill would also require a noncontracting dental provider to disclose to the enrollee or insured or the legal representative thereof that the provider is a noncontracting provider prior to accepting an assignment of benefits, and to provide additional specified written notices to the enrollee or insured or the legal representative thereof, including a written notice of the estimated full cost of the planned treatment and the estimated amount of those costs payable by the enrollee or insured. The bill would also prohibit a provider from collecting from an enrollee or insured any amount over the enrollee's or insured's estimated cost, and would require the provider to refund any overpayment to the enrollee or insured. Because a willful violation of the bill's requirements with respect to health care service plans would be a crime, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of residential care facilities for the elderly, as defined, by the State Department of Social Services. Existing law requires the admission agreement for a residential care facility for the elderly to contain specified elements. Under existing law, a violation of these provisions is punishable as a misdemeanor. This bill would prohibit a residential care facility for the elderly from assessing personal care fees upon notice of the death of a resident, and would prohibit the facility from assessing fees for the residential living unit of a deceased resident once all personal property of the deceased is removed. This bill would require an admission agreement to include a clear explanation of this prohibition. This bill would limit the liability for the payment of these fees that are not prohibited to prescribed individuals and entities. This bill would also require for a recipient receiving SSI/SSP, that a residential care facility for the elderly meet the requirements for the SSI/SSP program in assessing these fees, as prescribed by law. By expanding the definition of a crime, this bill would result in 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.
Existing law requires all moneys in the State Treasury or under control of the Treasurer belonging to or in the custody of the state to be deposited by the Treasurer to the credit of the state in eligible banks, as specified. Existing law authorizes the Treasurer to determine what amounts of money shall be deposited as time deposits or demand deposits. This bill would require the Treasurer to ensure that at least 30% of the moneys invested in the time deposit program are invested in time deposits with community banks, as defined to mean a bank or savings institution in California with aggregate assets of less than $10,000,000,000, and credit unions, subject to specified considerations and a reporting requirement and to the extent consistent with liquidity requirements and prudent management.
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of marriage and family therapists, educational psychologists, clinical social workers, and professional clinical counselors by the Board of Behavioral Sciences and imposes continuing education requirements for license renewal. Existing law specifies that certain accredited schools shall be deemed to be approved continuing education providers for these licensees. Existing law requires the board to approve other continuing education providers and authorizes the board to revoke or deny the right of those providers to offer coursework if they fail to comply with specified requirements. This bill would require continuing education providers other than accredited educational institutions and certain other institutions to be approved by an accrediting organization, and would delete the requirement for the board to approve or revoke those providers. The bill would make other conforming changes.
This measure would proclaim the month of June to be June Dairy Month in California, in honor of the work of dairy producers in California, and would encourage all Californians to continue to support the American dairy industry by including dairy products as part of a healthy diet.
Existing law, the Outdoor Advertising Act, regulates the placement of outdoor advertising displays along highways. Certain exemptions from the regulations of the act are provided, including exemptions for certain on-premises advertising displays that advertise the business conducted, services rendered, or goods produced or sold on the property where the displays are located. This bill would provide an exemption from the regulations of the Outdoor Advertising Act for an advertising display located at Post Mile 31.51, 510 feet south of Magellan Road, on State Route 1, in the County of San Mateo, if certain conditions, including conditions relating to the size of the display, are satisfied. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of San Mateo.
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various healing arts professions and vocations by boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law requires the rules and regulations of these healing arts boards to provide for methods of evaluating education, training, and experience obtained in military service if such training is applicable to the requirements of the particular profession or vocation regulated by the board. Under existing law, the Department of Veterans Affairs has specified powers and duties relating to various programs serving veterans. This bill would require, by January 1, 2014, and annually thereafter, every healing arts board to issue a specified written report to the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Legislature, as specified, that clearly details the methods of evaluating the education, training, and experience obtained in military service and whether that education, training, and experience is applicable to the board's requirements for licensure. The bill would declare the intent of the Legislature in this regard.
This measure would proclaim January 26, 2012, as India Republic Day, and would urge all Californians to join in celebrating India Republic Day.
