This measure would designate the week of May 2 to May 8, 2010, as Public Service Recognition Week, and encourage all Californians to recognize the crucial role of public employees in this state.
Existing law prescribes the course of study a pupil is required to complete while in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, in order to receive a diploma of graduation. Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to adopt rules specifying additional coursework requirements. Existing law requires each school district maintaining any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to offer to all otherwise qualified pupils in those grades a course of study that provides an opportunity for those pupils to attain entry-level employment skills in business or industry upon graduation from high school. This bill would prohibit a school district from adopting a graduation requirement that commences with the 2010–11 school year and requires the completion of additional coursework to meet or exceed the requirements and prerequisites for admission to a 4-year California public university unless the district also requires the completion of a sequence of at least 3 career and technical education courses. However, this provision would not apply to a school district that, by June 30, 2009, has adopted graduation requirements that require the completion of all minimum coursework necessary to meet the requirements and prerequisites for admission to a 4-year California public university. The bill also would make conforming and clarifying changes.
The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law define gross income as all income from whatever source derived, unless specifically excluded. This bill would, under both laws, exclude from the computation of gross income any voucher issued or specified payment made pursuant to the federal Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Act of 2009 received as a result of a purchase of a vehicle described in that act. This bill would make a legislative finding and declaration that it serves a public purpose, as specified. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
This measure would designate that January 18, 2010, be observed as the official memorial of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth, commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement in changing public policy in California and in the United States of America.
Existing law establishes various student financial aid programs under the administration of the Student Aid Commission, and establishes eligibility requirements for the receipt of awards under those programs for participating students attending qualifying institutions. Existing law establishes the Military Department, which includes the California National Guard, the State Military Reserve, and the Naval Militia, to perform various duties regarding the state militia. This bill would establish the California National Guard Education Assistance Award Program on behalf of qualifying members of the California National Guard, the State Military Reserve, and the Naval Militia under the administration of the commission. The bill would require the Student Aid Commission, in consultation with the Military Department, to adopt emergency rules and regulations for the purpose of implementing the program. The bill would require the Student Aid Commission to report annually to the Legislature regarding program participation. The bill would require the Legislative Analyst, on or before January 1, 2016, to prepare and submit to the Legislature a report on the program. The bill would provide that the program would become operative only if funds are appropriated for the purposes of the program. The bill would also provide that implementation of the program would be contingent upon the receipt of federal funds. The program would become inoperative on July 1, 2019, and would be repealed on January 1, 2020.
Existing law, the General Corporation Law, requires a corporation to give each shareholder a written notice prior to a shareholders' meeting. Existing law requires a corporate board to send a specified annual report to shareholders no later than 120 days after the close of the fiscal year, except as specified. This bill would provide that, where 2 or more shareholders have the same address on the books of the corporation, these requirements would be satisfied if, after receiving the consent of, or being requested by, those shareholders, the corporation sends a single written notice or report to the address of those shareholders.
Existing law provides, other things being equal, different liens upon the same property have priority according to the time of their creation, except as specified. Under existing law, a hospital and any hospital affiliated health facility that furnishes emergency and ongoing medical or other services to the victim of an accident or negligent or other wrongful conduct have a lien upon any damages recovered by the victim against a 3rd party in the amount of the services provided. Existing law provides that, if prescribed notice of the lien is given to the persons known to the hospital and alleged to be liable on the claim, any person so notified who is liable on the claim and who makes payment on the claim to the injured person or his or her attorney or representative without paying the lienholder is liable to the hospital for the amount of the lien, as specified. Under existing law, a county that furnishes hospital, medical, surgical, or dental care and treatment to a person who is injured or suffers a disease, under circumstances creating a tort liability upon a 3rd party to pay damages, has the right to recover the reasonable value of the care and treatment provided from the 3rd party, including a first lien against any judgment recovered by the injured or diseased person against the 3rd party to the extent of the reasonable value of the care and treatment provided, as specified. Existing law provides that the Director of Health Care Services has a right to recover the reasonable value of benefits provided to a beneficiary because of an injury for which a 3rd party or an insurance carrier is liable. Subject to the director's prior right of recovery and first lien, a medical care provider who has rendered services to the beneficiary and who has received payment under the Medi-Cal program is entitled to file a 2nd lien for services provided against any judgment, award, or settlement obtained by the beneficiary or director against the 3rd party, as specified. The liens of the director and any provider are payable after payment of litigation expenses and attorney's fees. Existing law provides that no lien asserted by a licensee of the Department of Managed Health Care or the Department of Insurance, and no lien of a medical group or an independent practice association, to the extent it asserts or enforces a lien, for the recovery of money paid or payable to or on behalf of an enrollee or insured for medical services provided under a health care service plan contract or disability insurance policy, may exceed specified amounts. This bill would provide that the provider of any medical care or services to an injured party shall have an implied lien upon any damages recovered by that person by judgment, settlement, or compromise in the amount of the reasonable charges of the provider for that care or services, if the attorney for the injured party submits a claim for settlement purposes to an insurance company for that medical care or services on behalf of the injured party. The implied lien would be limited in application to only the attorney, and would not apply as to the insurance company.
(1) The Personal Income Tax Law, in modified conformity to specified provisions of the federal Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007, allows an exclusion from a taxpayer's income for the discharge of qualified principal residence indebtedness, as defined, if that debt is discharged after January 1, 2007, and before January 1, 2009, as provided. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 extended the operation of those federal provisions to debt that is discharged before January 1, 2013. This bill would provide further conformity to those federal acts, including allowance of the exclusion for debt that is discharged before 2013, as provided. (2) This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt rules and regulations pursuant to a specified provision of law relating to mobile emission standards that, in conjunction with other measures adopted by the state board, air pollution control and air quality management districts, and the United States Environmental Protection Agency, will achieve ambient air quality standards, and if necessary to carry out this duty, to adopt and enforce rules and regulations that anticipate the development of new technologies or the improvement of existing technologies. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this requirement.
This measure would memorialize the Congress and the President of the United States to uphold protections of women's equality and to encourage all Americans to participate in the celebration of Women's Equality Day on August 26, 2010, the 90th anniversary of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave women the right to vote.
