Existing law specifies that there is in the Department of Veterans Affairs a Veterans Home of California, Yountville, and that the department may establish and construct a second veterans home located on one or more sites in specified counties. Existing law specifies the particular sites of the second home. This bill would revise and recast these provisions to state, in the same order as listed in current law, that there is a veterans home at Yountville and at each of the locations currently specified as a site of the second home. This bill would provide for the Veterans Home of California, Chula Vista, to also be known as the "John Smith Memorial Veterans Home," and for the Veterans Home of California, Lancaster, to also be known as the "William J. 'Pete' Knight Veterans Home."
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Existing law, the Public School Performance Accountability Program, provides a state assessment program for schools, an intervention program for low-performing schools, and a reward system for high-achieving schools, as specified. This bill would require that any primary language assessment developed by the department and administered to limited-English-proficient students, as identified pursuant to existing law, on or after July 1, 2013, be included in the state's assessment system or any successor system and in the state's federal and state accountability system and any successor system. The bill would require the results of the primary language assessment to be used in any successor measure or results reported for the state's assessment systems and in any other successor measure, as specified. The bill would also require the results to be used in any measure, index, or results reported for the state's federal and state accountability system, or any successor system. These provisions would become operative on July 1, 2013. This bill would make various findings and declarations.
(1) Existing constitutional provisions require each house of the Legislature to pass a bill appropriating money from the General Fund, except appropriations for the public schools, by a 23 vote. This measure would also exempt from this 23-vote requirement appropriations made in a Budget Bill, and appropriations made in a bill identified in the Budget Bill as containing only changes in law necessary to implement the Budget Bill. Instead, this measure would require that a Budget Bill, and any bill identified in the Budget Bill as containing only changes in law necessary to implement the Budget Bill, be passed by a 55% vote in each house. (2) Existing constitutional provisions provide that a statute takes immediate effect upon enactment if the statute calls for an election, provides for a tax levy or makes an appropriation for the usual and current expenses of the state, or is an urgency statute. In addition, the Constitution exempts these statutes from the power of referendum, which is the power to approve or reject statutes or parts of statutes. This measure would add, as statutes that take effect immediately and are exempt from referendum, statutes enacting the Budget Bill and statutes enacting bills identified in the Budget Bill as containing only changes in law necessary to implement the Budget Bill. (3) The California Constitution requires a change in state taxes enacted for the purpose of increasing state revenues to be by a23vote of each house of the Legislature. This measure would delete that 23 vote requirement. (4) This measure would find and declare that certain changes to Section 12 of Article IV of the California Constitution proposed by this measure and SCA 13 of the 2007−08 Regular Session, as amended by SCA 30 of the 2007−08 Regular Session, are complementary, and not in conflict. The measure would incorporate the changes proposed by both measures in Section 12 if both measures are approved by the voters.
Existing law provides that there is established within the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation the Corrections Standards Authority and provides for its membership, as specified. Existing law abolished the former Commission on Correctional Peace Officer Standards and Training and provided that all references to it shall refer to the Corrections Standards Authority. This bill would abolish the Corrections Standards Authority and establish the Board of Community Corrections to replace it, with modifications to its membership, as specified. The bill would specify that the Board of Community Corrections shall be an entity independent of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The bill would repeal provisions that abolished the Commission on Correctional Peace Officer Standards and Training and reestablish, within the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Commission on Correctional Peace Officer Standards and Training, as specified, and make conforming changes. Existing law provides that it is the duty of the Corrections Standards Authority to make a study of the entire subject of crime, as specified, and to report its findings, conclusions, and recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature at such times as they may require. This bill would make this study the duty of the Board of Community Corrections and make certain revisions in regards to what that study is to include. This bill would take effect on July 1, 2010.
This measure would urge various state and private entities to withhold financial support of Arizona businesses in response to recent Arizona state laws relating to illegal immigration.
This bill would make appropriations for support of state government for the 2010–11 fiscal year. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law generally provides for the licensure of health facilities, including rural general acute care hospitals, by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law requires the department to provide expert technical assistance to strategically located, high-risk rural hospitals, as defined, to assist the hospitals in carrying out an assessment of potential business and diversification of service opportunities. Existing law also requires the department to continue to provide regulatory relief when appropriate through program flexibility for such items as staffing, space, and physical plant requirements. This bill would, until January 1, 2020, establish a demonstration project authorizing a rural hospital, as defined, that meets specified conditions, to employ up to 10 physicians and surgeons at one time, except as provided, to provide medical services at the rural hospital or other health facility that the rural hospital owns or operates, and to retain all or part of the income generated by the physicians and surgeons for medical services billed and collected by the rural hospital if the physician and surgeon in whose name the charges are made approves the charges. The bill would require a rural hospital that employs a physician and surgeon pursuant to those provisions to develop and implement a policy regarding the independent medical judgment of the physician and surgeon. The bill would require these physicians and surgeons to biennially sign a specified statement. The bill would impose various duties on the department and the Medical Board of California including, not later than January 1, 2019, a requirement that the board deliver a report to the Legislature regarding the demonstration project.
Existing law, the San Diego Unified Port District Act, provides for the San Diego Unified Port District. Under the act, the Board of Commissioners of the San Diego Unified Port District has the sole authority to adopt and modify a master plan for harbor and port improvement and for the use of the tidelands and submerged lands under the San Diego Unified Port District's jurisdiction. This bill would require the board, in implementing the master plan, to include funding for cooperative infrastructure and capital projects on and off tidelands and submerged lands, consistent with the public trust doctrine, that directly address maritime industrial impacts by the port in cities that host maritime terminals. The bill would specify conditions for eligibility for cities to receive funding for cooperative infrastructure and capital projects. By requiring the board to provide this funding, 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, 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 statutory law, which has been held invalid by existing case law, requires an employer who has no permanent and fixed place of business in the state and who enters into a contract of employment involving commissions as a method of payment with an employee for services to be rendered within the state to put the contract in writing and to set forth the method by which the commissions are required to be computed and paid. An employer who does not comply with those requirements is liable to the employee in a civil action for triple damages. This bill would, by January 1, 2012, make this contract requirement applicable to all employers entering into a contract of employment involving commissions as a method of payment with an employee for services to be rendered in the state.
This bill would make appropriations for support of state government for the 2010–11 fiscal year.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.