Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies and community development agencies, as of February 1, 2012, and provides for the designation of successor agencies, as defined. Existing law imposes various requirements on successor agencies and subjects successor agency actions to the review of oversight boards. Existing law requires successor agencies to wind down the affairs of the dissolved redevelopment agencies and to, among other things, dispose of assets and properties of the former redevelopment agencies, as directed by the oversight board. Proceeds from the sale of assets are transferred to the county auditor-controller for distribution as property tax proceeds to taxing entities, as prescribed. This bill would establish a Sustainable Economic Development and Housing Trust Fund, to be administered by a Sustainable Communities Investment Authority (authority) , to serve as a repository of the unencumbered balances and assets of the former redevelopment agency. The bill would authorize moneys from the fund to be expended for specified purposes relating to economic development and affordable housing. The bill would require an authority to prepare a long-range asset management plan that governs the disposition and ongoing use of the fund. The bill would require an authority to submit the plan to the Department of Finance by December 1, 2012, and would require the department to approve or return the plan for revision to the authority prior to final approval by December 31, 2012.
Existing law authorizes counties and cities to issue dog licenses and dog license tags for a fee, as specified. Existing law also prohibits a public animal control agency, animal or humane shelter, or a rescue group, as defined, from selling or giving away to a new owner any dog that has not been spayed or neutered, except as specified. A violation of provisions governing the regulation and licensing of dogs is an infraction or a misdemeanor, except as specified. This bill, until January 1, 2018, and only in the Counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Sacramento, San Diego, and Santa Clara, would additionally require each pet dealer, as defined, humane society, rescue group, society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, or other specified entity to submit once a month, except as specified, a report to the local governmental entity that is responsible for licensing dogs in the city or county in which the pet dealer, humane society, rescue group, society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, or other specified entity is located. The bill would require the report to contain the name, address, and telephone number of the person who receives a dog, and other information regarding the dog that was adopted or sold in the previous month, as specified, by the entity submitting the report. The bill would require the entity that submits the report to retain a copy of the report for 12 months. The bill would prohibit the use, distribution, or release of the information contained in the report for any purpose except to ensure compliance with existing state and local law for the purposes of (1) providing notice to the person adopting or purchasing the dog regarding laws requiring the person to obtain a license for the dog and (2) providing notice to another local governmental entity responsible for licensing dogs in the jurisdiction in which the person resides that the person has adopted or purchased a dog, if the person does not reside in the jurisdiction of the local governmental entity that is providing the notice. The bill would exclude a rescue group that places fewer than 20 dogs in a calendar year from these reporting requirements. A violation of these provisions would be punishable by a civil fine of $50 for the first offense and $100 for each subsequent offense. The bill would exempt an act in violation of the above-described provisions from the provision which makes the violation a crime. The bill would authorize other counties not described above to enact local ordinances implementing a program consistent with these provisions. This bill would authorize a licensing agency to issue a puppy license to the owner of a puppy that is 6 months of age or less, which would expire when the puppy reaches one year of age, except as specified. The bill would require the owner of a puppy to obtain a dog license tag upon the expiration of the puppy license. Because a violation of this provision would be an infraction, the bill would create a new crime, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program. The bill would also make conforming changes. Existing law authorizes a dog license tag to be issued for 12 or less of the usual fee required for a dog if a certificate indicating that the dog has been spayed or neutered is presented from a licensed veterinarian. This bill would authorize the city, county, or city and county to specify the means by which the dog owner may provide proof that the dog has been spayed or neutered. 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, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975 (Knox-Keene Act) , provides for the 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 provides that health care service plans shall not be deemed to be engaged in the practice of a profession, and may employ, or contract with, any licensed health care professional to deliver professional services, and may directly own, and may directly operate through its professional employees or contracted licensed professionals, offices and subsidiary corporations. Existing law provides that those professionals may not own or control offices or branch offices unless otherwise expressly authorized. This bill would authorize a registered dispensing optician, an optical company, a manufacturer or distributor of optical goods, or a nonoptometric corporation to own a specialized health care service plan that provides or arranges for the provision of vision care services, share profits with the specialized health care service plan, contract for specified business services with the specialized health care service plan, and jointly advertise vision care services with the specialized health care service plan. The bill would prohibit those persons or entities from engaging in conduct that would influence or interfere with the clinical decisions of an optometrist, as specified, and would set forth provisions that apply to medical records. Because a willful violation of these provisions would be a crime under the Knox-Keene Act, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law requires the Department of Managed Health Care to conduct periodic onsite medical surveys of the health delivery system of each health care service plan. Survey results are publicly reported and subject to public inspection. Existing law requires the Director of the Department of Managed Health Care to notify a health care service plan of any deficiencies found by a survey. This bill would require the director to provide to a health care service plan and to the executive officer of the State Board of Optometry or the Medical Board of California a copy of information relating to the quality of care of any licensed optometrist or optician contained in any survey report that, in the judgment of the director, indicates incompetent or negligent treatment, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Existing law requires a board under the Business and Professions Code, including the Contractors' State License Board, to provide legal representation to any person hired or under contract who provides expertise to the board in the evaluation of an applicant or the conduct of a licensee when that person is named vas a defendant in a civil action arising out of the evaluation or any opinions rendered, statements made, or testimony given to the board. Existing law provides that the board is not liable for any judgment rendered against that person. Existing law requires the Attorney General to be utilized in the action and his or her services charged to the board. Existing law authorizes the Contractors' State License Board to contract with professionals whose skills or expertise are required to aid in the investigation or prosecution of a licensee, registrant, applicant for a license or registration, or those subject to licensure or registration by the board. This bill would require the Contractors' State License Board to provide for representation to any professional who provides expertise to the board in the evaluation of the conduct of a licensee, registrant, or applicant when, as a result of providing that expertise, the professional is named as a defendant in a civil action. The bill would further require that representation in any proceeding instituted by the board or to which the board is a party, and would require the board to pay for any services rendered by the Attorney General. The bill would require indemnification for any judgment rendered against the professional, as specified.
Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law, known as the Seymour-Campbell Matriculation Act of 1986, defines "matriculation" as a process that brings a college and a student who enrolls for credit into an agreement for the purpose of realizing the student's educational objectives. The act specifies the matriculation services that community colleges are required to provide, including the processing of the application for admission, orientation and preorientation services, assessment and counseling upon enrollment, and postenrollment evaluation of a student's progress. This bill would establish the California Community Colleges Student Success and Support Program Act of 2012 to provide the necessary faculty counseling and instructional infrastructure at the California Community Colleges to ensure that students have the necessary access to support services and classroom instructors to increase their opportunities for success. The bill would require the board of governors each fiscal year to develop a plan for supporting the goals of the act and another related act that is consistent with the needs of individual districts and statewide policies regarding student success. The bill would require the board of governors to incorporate those elements that contribute to increasing student success as part of the implementation of another related act, and to ensure that submitted budget requests propose sufficient funding to support both this act and the related act.
Read. Amended. Adopted. (Page 5343.).
Existing law, the Chiropractic Act, enacted by initiative act, provides for the licensure and regulation of chiropractors by the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners. Under the act, a license authorizes its holder to practice chiropractic as taught in chiropractic schools or colleges but does not authorize its holder to practice medicine, surgery, osteopathy, dentistry, or optometry. Existing law prohibits a chiropractor, among other healing arts practitioners, from disseminating any form of public communications containing a false, fraudulent, misleading, or deceptive statement for the purpose of inducing the rendering of professional services, as specified. This bill would specify that the practice of chiropractic does not include the treatment of hypersensitivity to foods, medications, environmental allergens, or venoms, and would prohibit a chiropractor from advertising that he or she provides or is able to provide those services, as specified. The bill would specify that a violation of these provisions constitutes a cause for discipline by the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners.
Existing law requires a county assessor, upon the request of the governing body of the jurisdiction where the assessor performs the duty of assessing taxes, to furnish an estimate of the assessed valuation of property within the jurisdiction for the succeeding fiscal year. This bill would require the assessor, upon a request by the board of supervisors to furnish an estimate of the assessed valuation of property within the county for the succeeding fiscal year, to estimate whether property valuations have decreased by 3% or more and, if so, require the assessor to issue a written report to the board of supervisors within 30 days. This bill would require the assessor to, within 15 days of notifying the board of supervisors, also notify the Department of Finance and all cities and affected school districts within the county.
Read. Amended. Adopted. (Page 5341.).
(1) Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, upon registering a vehicle, to issue to the owner two partially or fully reflectorized license plates or devices for a motor vehicle and requires that the number and letter characters on the plates have a minimum height of 2 34 inches, a minimum width of 1 14 inches, and a minimum spacing of characters of 516 of an inch. This bill would instead require that the number and letter characters on the license plates have a minimum width of 1316 inches, and a minimum spacing of characters of 14 of an inch. (2) Existing law authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue or renew environmental license plates and other specialized license plates to provide revenue for the California Environmental License Plate Fund, the Specialized License Plate Fund, and other specified license plate funds or accounts that indicate on the plates, among other design criteria, the combination of letters or numbers, or both, requested as a registration number by the applicant, to be displayed on the applicant's vehicle in lieu of regular license plates. Existing law requires that the department not establish a specialized license plate program for an agency, as defined, until the department has received 7,500 applications. Existing law also establishes procedures for the cancellation, transfer, or retention of the license plates and for the charging of additional fees. This bill would establish a specialized license plate program to be known as the "8-letter license plate" program for the support of the Natural and Agricultural Open Space and State Recreational Support Fund which would be created in the State Treasury. The bill would require that all revenue derived from the fees, after deducting the department's administrative costs, be deposited in the fund for specified purposes that include, among other things, subventions for open-space land programs, assistance to California fairs, and support of programs administered by the Department of Parks and Recreation.
The Joint Exercise of Powers Act permits 2 or more public agencies to enter into an agreement to jointly exercise any power common to the contracting parties. Existing law, notwithstanding this provision, authorizes certain private, nonprofit hospitals to enter into joint powers agreements with specified public agencies. This bill would authorize St. Rose Hospital, a private, nonprofit hospital in the County of Alameda, to enter into a joint powers agreement with the Washington Township Healthcare District. The bill would state the finding and declaration of the Legislature that a special law is necessary and that a general law cannot be made applicable.
Existing law makes it a crime to drive a vehicle, with gross negligence, in the commission of an unlawful act, not amounting to a felony, or in the commission of a lawful act which might produce death, in an unlawful manner. Existing law provides that those acts are punishable either by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year or by imprisonment in the state prison for 2, 4, or 6 years. Existing law also makes it a crime to perform either of those acts without gross negligence. Existing law provides that this crime is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year. Existing law also sets forth various time limits to prosecute crimes. Except as otherwise specified, prosecution for an offense that is not punishable by death or imprisonment in the state prison is required to be commenced within one year after commission of the offense. This bill would provide that notwithstanding any other limitation of time, as specified, if a person flees the scene of an accident, a criminal complaint for the crimes described above may be filed either one or 3 years after the commission of the offense, as specified, or one year after the person is initially identified by law enforcement as a suspect in the commission of that offense, whichever is later.
