This measure would urge the Congress of the United States to enact HR 3729 or S 166 to permanently extend and expand the federal charitable tax deduction for contributions of food inventory.
This measure would recognize the 45th anniversary of Kwanzaa and proclaim December 26 through January 1 each year as Kwanzaa Week.
This measure would recognize the month of September 2012, and each September thereafter, as Sickle Cell Anemia Awareness Month in California, and would urge the President and the Congress of the United States to restore and continue funding for sickle cell anemia centers and research to make sickle cell anemia and other genetic hemoglobin disorders a public health priority.
(1) Existing law provides for emergency apportionments to school districts subject to specified conditions, including, in certain circumstances, the repayment of an emergency loan over a period of no more than 20 years and the appointment by the Superintendent of Public Instruction of an administrator who would exercise the powers and responsibilities of the governing board of the school district. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to provide emergency apportionment assistance to the Inglewood Unified School District, and require the Superintendent to assume all the rights, duties, and powers of the governing board of the Inglewood Unified School District and to appoint, in consultation with the Los Angeles County Superintendent of Schools, a state administrator to act on behalf of the Superintendent in exercising the Superintendent's authority over the school district. The bill would continue the authority of the Superintendent and the state administrator over the Inglewood Unified School District until certain enumerated conditions are met, including the completion of assessment and improvement plans for the school district. The bill would require the County Office Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team (FCMAT) to provide specified assistance relating to the development of a multiyear financial recovery plan, the preparation of budget reports, and the recommendation of activities that could enhance revenue or achieve cost savings. The bill would require the Inglewood Unified School District to bear 100% of the costs associated with implementing the provisions of the bill relating to the administration of the emergency apportionment assistance and the activities of the FCMAT, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program. The bill would appropriate up to $29,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent for apportionment as an emergency loan to the Inglewood Unified School District, and would specify procedures for repayment of the loan unless the loan has been refinanced, as specified. The bill would authorize the school district to augment the emergency apportionment or loan with an additional $26,000,000 of bank financing, as provided. The bill would authorize the school district to sell property owned by the school district from September 1, 2012, to June 30, 2015, inclusive, and use the proceeds from the sale to reduce or retire the emergency loan, and would prohibit the school district from being eligible for financial hardship assistance under the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998 from June 1, 2012, to June 30, 2015, inclusive. (2) This bill would make legislative findings and declarations that the unique circumstances of the Inglewood Unified School District warrant the enactment of a special statute. (3) 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. (4) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
(1) The Administrative Procedure Act generally sets forth the requirements for the adoption, publication, review, and implementation of regulations by state agencies. The act specifically provides that a regulation or order of repeal required to be filed with the Secretary of State shall become effective on the 30th day after the date of filing, subject to certain exceptions. This bill would instead provide that a regulation or order of repeal is effective on January 1, April 1, July 1, or October 1, as specified, subject to certain exceptions, including, but not limited to, specified regulations adopted by the Fish and Game Commission. (2) The act requires the Office of Administrative Law to make a free copy of the full text of the California Code of Regulations available on its Internet Web site. This bill would also require the office to provide on its Internet Web site a list of, and a link to the full text of, each regulation filed with the Secretary of State that is pending effectiveness, as specified. (3) Existing law requires that every state agency subject to the act that maintains an Internet Web site or similar forum for the electronic publication or distribution of written material publish on that Internet Web site or other forum specified information regarding a proposed regulation or regulatory repeal or amendment. This bill would also require a state agency to post on its Internet Web site each regulation that is filed with the Secretary of State, as specified, and to send to the office the Internet Web site link of the regulation. The bill would not apply to a state agency that does not maintain an Internet Web site. This bill would also make a conforming change. This bill would incorporate additional changes in Section 116064 of the Health and Safety Code, proposed by AB 2114, to be operative only if AB 2114 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2013, and this bill is chaptered last.
Existing law establishes the Cal Grant Program under the administration of the Student Aid Commission, and establishes eligibility requirements for awards under the program for participating students attending qualifying institutions. Existing law requires each Cal Grant participating institution, as a condition for its voluntary participation in the Cal Grant Program, to annually report to the commission specified information for its undergraduate programs. This bill would require the commission, commencing on a specified date, to provide on its Internet Web site the information submitted by a Cal Grant participating institution pursuant to the reporting requirement described above, which would be required to be made available in a searchable database, and other specified information and links that are useful to students and parents who are in the process of selecting a college or university.
This measure would designate the interchange at Hazel Avenue and State Highway Route 50 in the County of Sacramento as the Senator Dave Cox Memorial Interchange. This measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering those costs, to erect those signs.
This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 15 in the County of San Diego as the Tuskegee Airmen Highway. The measure would request that the Department of Transportation determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.
This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 1 in the County of Los Angeles as the Honorable Jenny Oropeza Memorial Overcrossing. This measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering those costs, to erect those signs.
(1) The Ralph M. Brown Act requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a legislative body of a local agency be open and public and all persons be permitted to attend. The act authorizes a legislative body to use teleconferencing, subject to specified requirements, including that each teleconference location be accessible to the public and that at least a quorum of the members of the body participate from locations within the boundaries of the territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction. Existing law provides that, in counties selected by the Director of Health Care Services with the concurrence of the county, a special county health authority may be established in order to meet the problems of delivery of publicly assisted medical care in each county, and to demonstrate ways of promoting quality care and cost efficiency. This bill, until January 1, 2018, would provide that, notwithstanding the provisions of the act on teleconferencing, with respect to a teleconference meeting of a county health authority established in a county under specified provisions, members of a health authority who are outside the jurisdiction may be counted toward the establishment of a quorum when participating in the teleconference if at least 50% of the number of members that would establish a quorum are present within the jurisdiction and the health authority provides a teleconference number and associated access codes, if any, that allows any person to call in to participate in the meeting, and that number and access codes are identified in the notice and agenda of the meeting. (2) 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.
