Existing law requires persons who have been convicted of specified crimes, and other persons as required by a court, to register as a sex offender. Existing law sets forth the procedure for doing so and provides that a violation of the sex offender registration law is a crime, punishable as specified. This bill would, in addition, make it a misdemeanor for any person who is on probation or parole for the conviction of a crime that requires him or her to register as a sex offender to use any Internet social networking Web site, as defined, during that period of probation or parole if the victim of the offense was under 18 years of age at the time of the offense or the Internet was used in the commission of the crime. The bill would authorize the person to seek an exception to the prohibition for legitimate professional purposes by applying through the appropriate parole or probation supervising agency. Approval would be valid for one year, unless revoked. The bill would authorize an annual application for renewal. By creating a new crime, this 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.
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Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, administered by the State Department of Health Services, under which qualified low-income persons are provided with health care services. Existing law allows the Director of Health Care Services to contract with any qualified individual, organization, or entity, including counties, to provide services to, or arrange for or case manage the care of, Medi-Cal beneficiaries. Existing law authorizes the department to establish pilot programs, as prescribed, for the establishment of reimbursement methodologies for local initiative and commercial plans providing services under the above-mentioned contracts. This bill would make technical, nonsubsantive changes to these provisions.
Existing law provides for local health care districts that are empowered to own and operate certain health facilities, including hospitals. Each health care district has specific duties and powers respecting the creation, administration, and maintenance of the districts, including to purchase, receive, take, hold, lease, use, and enjoy property of every kind and description of property within the district. Existing law permits the Sonoma Valley Health Care District, upon the approval of its board of directors, to use a prescribed design-build procedure set forth in a specific code section when assigning contracts for the construction of a building and improvements directly related to a hospital or health facility building at the Sonoma Valley Hospital. Under existing law, that code section would be repealed on January 1, 2011, unless that date is deleted or extended. This bill would also allow the Corcoran District Hospital, upon approval by its board of directors, to use the above-mentioned design-build procedure described in that code section to assign contracts for the construction of an outpatient facility building. Existing law requires that, under the existing design-build procedure, a health care district would be required to pay a fee into the continuously appropriated State Public Works Enforcement Fund, the moneys in which are used by the Department of Industrial relations to enforce applicable prevailing wage and labor requirements. Because this bill would authorize additional fees to be paid into a continuously appropriated fund, the bill would constitute an appropriation. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Corcoran District Hospital.
Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish the capacity to provide transition services such as employment and academic training, strategic planning, interagency coordination, and parent training for a broad range of individuals with exceptional needs, including autism spectrum disorders and other disabilities. This bill, contingent upon the availability of federal funds for this purpose, would authorize a county office of education or consortium of county offices of education to establish pilot programs for the purposes of providing combined academic and occupational training to secondary school pupils with autism spectrum disorders and other exceptional needs. The bill would require a county office of education or consortium of county offices of education that establishes a pilot program pursuant to these provisions to submit an evaluation containing specified information about the program to the State Department of Education, the Assembly Committee on Education, and the Senate Committee on Education on or before January 1, 2014. These provisions would be repealed on January 1, 2015.
The Golden State Scholarshare Trust Act establishes the Golden State Scholarshare Trust, under the administration of the Scholarshare Investment Board, to provide financial aid for postsecondary education costs of participating students. The act requires the board to segregate moneys received by the trust into 2 funds, one of which is the administrative fund. Existing law requires the funds in the administrative fund to be available for expenditure, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for specified purposes. This bill would expand the purpose for which funds in the administrative fund can be expended, to include reimbursement of the Franchise Tax Board's actual cost of implementing and maintaining a specified designation on the form of the return. The Personal Income Tax Law imposes taxes on taxable income which are administered by the Franchise Tax Board. Existing law authorizes taxpayers to contribute amounts in excess of their tax liability for the support of specified funds. This bill would, until December 31, 2014, authorize a taxpayer to designate on his or her tax return that a contribution in excess of tax liability, as specified, be deposited by the Franchise Tax Board into a qualified tuition program account, as specified. This bill would require the Franchise Tax Board to revise the form of the return to include the necessary information that will allow a taxpayer to make this designation, as provided. This bill would require the Scholarshare Investment Board to reimburse the Franchise Tax Board for the actual cost of implementing and maintaining this designation on the form of the return, as provided.
Existing law provides for the direct marketing of agricultural produce, including through certified farmers' markets, field retail stands, or farm stands, subject to specified conditions. This bill would authorize a victory garden grower, as defined, that files a notice with, and pays a $50 filing fee to, the county agricultural commissioner to sell fruits, nuts, or vegetables that he or she grows in his or her garden directly to the public, including at a farmers' market, or to a retailer or distributor or others, within a 15-mile radius from the garden. The license would be effective upon the filing of the notice and payment of the fee and would be renewable annually. A licensed victory garden grower would be subject to applicable state and local laws and ordinances, except as provided. Because this bill would impose new duties on local agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. A violation of any of these provisions would be a misdemeanor. Because this bill would create a new crime, it 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 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.
California statutory law provides that the Secretary of Food and Agriculture may order any animal raised for the production of any food product, to be held and segregated if the secretary determines that the animal is or may be carrying in its body pesticides, poisons, or other deleterious substances, including, among others, antibiotics, which may render any food product from the animal injurious to human health. This measure would provide that, as of January 1, 2015, no person shall, for a nontherapeutic purpose, cause any animal raised for the production of any human food product to ingest, or administer to any such animal, any antibiotic. This measure would make the violation of that provision a misdemeanor.
Existing law provides for the In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program, under which qualified aged, blind, and disabled persons receive services enabling them to remain in their own homes. Existing law permits services to be provided under the IHSS program either through the employment of individual providers, a contract between the county and an entity for the provision of services, the creation by the county of a public authority, or a contract between the county and a nonprofit consortium. Counties are responsible for administering the program. Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which health care services are provided to qualified low-income persons, including specified in-home services. Under existing law, IHSS recipients who are eligible for the Medi-Cal program, are provided with personal care option services, as defined, in lieu of receiving these services under the IHSS program. Under existing law, the State Department of Social Services is required, in consultation and coordination with county welfare departments, to establish and implement statewide hourly task guidelines and instructions to provide counties with a standard tool for consistently and accurately assessing service needs and authorizing service hours to meet those needs. This bill would authorize a county human services department responsible for administering specified in-home services, at its option, to use electronic timekeeping, as defined, for purposes of verifying hours completed for in-home recipients, as defined. The bill would authorize a provider of the specified services to retain the option of using paper timesheets, as specified. This bill would authorize the State Department of Social Services to implement and administer the bill through all-county letters or similar instructions from the director, as specified. This bill would require electronic timekeeping procedures under the bill to comply with information and data requirements of the existing Case Management Information and Payroll System (CMIPS) or its successor system, when it is implemented. The bill would provide that, if any part of the bill conflicts with federal requirements prescribing conditions for the allocation of federal funds to the state, the conflicting part shall not be implemented, solely to the extent of the conflict.
Under the federal State Community Development Block Grant Program, funds are allocated to the state and administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development for projects and programs that meet the housing and economic development needs of persons and families of low or moderate income. This bill would enact the Community Equity Investment Act of 2010. The bill would make legislative findings and declarations relating to disadvantaged unincorporated communities. The bill would specify how funds received pursuant to the federal State Community Development Block Grant Program are expended at the local government level and would impose various requirements on a local government in receipt of those funds that would, among other things, ensure the representation and participation of citizens of disadvantaged unincorporated communities.