| AB 308 |
(Ammiano D)
Criminal investigations: eyewitness identification: lineups. |
Amended:
5/27/2011
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Status: 8/26/2011
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Summary: Existing law does not regulate how law enforcement officials prepare or conduct eyewitness photo or live lineup identifications. This bill would declare the legislative intent that law enforcement officials study and consider adopting the policies and procedures regulating eyewitness lineup identifications that are recommended by the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice in order to ensure that eyewitness identification procedures in California minimize the chance of misidentification of a suspect. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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Position:
Oppose
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| AB 344 |
(Furutani D)
Public employees' retirement. |
Amended:
4/25/2011
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Status: 9/9/2011
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Location: 9/9/2011
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Summary: The Public Employees' Retirement Law (PERL) requires contributions to the retirement fund based on compensation earnable by a member , including a school member , which includes the member's payrate and special compensation, as specified. "Payrate" is defined as the normal monthly rate of pay or base pay of the member paid in cash to similarly situated members of the same group or class of employment, as specified. For a member who is not in a group or class, "payrate" means the monthly rate of pay or base pay of the member, as specified. PERL provides that increases in compensation earnable granted to an employee who is not in a group or class shall be limited during the final compensation period applicable to the employees, as well as the 2 years immediately preceding the final compensation period, to the average increase in compensation earnable during the same period reported by the employer for all employees who are in the same membership classification, except as may otherwise be determined pursuant to regulations adopted by the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System that establish reasonable standards for granting exceptions. This bill would delete the authorization for the board to adopt regulations to permit those exceptions to the average increase limitation for increases in compensation earnable granted to an employee who is not in a group or class. This bill contains other existing laws.
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Position:
Watch
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| AB 345 |
(Atkins D)
Vehicles: traffic control device uniform standards: advisory committee. |
Amended:
6/29/2011
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Status: 9/1/2011
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Location: 9/1/2011
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Summary: Existing law requires the Department of Transportation to consult with local agencies before adopting rules and regulations prescribing uniform standards and specifications for official traffic control devices. This bill would additionally require the department to establish , after consulting with groups representing users of streets, roads, and highways, a specified committee to advise the department , and to hold public hearings regarding all of the above. The bill would require the committee to include various representatives , including representatives from organizations representing the interests of nonmotorized users of the highway.
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Position:
Watch
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| AB 472 |
(Ammiano D)
Infrastructure financing districts: America's Cup venues and Treasure Island. |
Amended:
9/2/2011
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Status: 2/2/2012
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Location: 2/2/2012
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G. & F. |
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Summary: Existing law authorizes the City and County of San Francisco to create infrastructure financing districts, including districts that include specified waterfront property, adopt infrastructure financing plans for those districts, and issue bonds financed by projected increases in ad valorem property taxes to fund certain public facilities, pursuant to a specified procedure. Existing property tax law establishes various procedures and requirements with respect to the annual apportionment and allocation of ad valorem property tax revenues, including increased revenues from these infrastructure financing districts. This bill would authorize the adoption under these provisions of financing plans for special waterfront districts that include the waterfront area in the City and County of San Francisco designated as the America's Cup venues and certain lands on Treasure Island, and the use of specified tax revenues produced in the districts for the construction of the Port of San Francisco's maritime facilities at Pier 27, improvement of publicly held waterfront lands used as viewing sites, affordable housing, and other matters, subject to specified allocation procedures. It would require the county board of supervisors to submit a fiscal analysis to the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank for review and approval before adopting the resolution authorizing the issuance of debt pursuant to these provisions. The bill would exempt the issuance of tax increment bonds in a waterfront district from local voter approval requirements and would authorize those bonds to be sold at a negotiated sale. The bill would enact other related provisions. This bill contains other related provisions.
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Position:
Watch
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| AB 639 |
(Norby R)
Controlled substances. |
Amended:
5/27/2011
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Status: 8/26/2011
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Summary: Existing law provides that in all cases where property used or intended to be used to facilitate any violation of specified controlled substance offenses is seized and forfeited to a state or local governmental entity and, where necessary, sold, the moneys forfeited or the proceeds of sale shall be distributed by the state or local governmental entity to specified persons or entities for specified purposes, including for the purpose of combating drug abuse. This bill would provide that property is deemed to be seized whenever any agency takes possession or control of it. The bill would add provisions that provide that seizing agencies or prosecuting attorneys authorized to bring civil forfeiture proceedings shall not directly or indirectly transfer seized property, including any property seized by state or local law enforcement officers who are detached to, deputized or commissioned by, or working in conjunction with, a federal agency to any federal agency or any governmental entity not created under and subject to state law, unless the court enters an order, as specified, authorizing the property to be transferred. The bill would provide that where a state or local agency transfers seized property to any federal agency for forfeiture in violation of these provisions, the state or local agency shall be liable to the state in an action brought by the Attorney General for 24% of the proceeds received by the state or local agency from the federal government and would provide that the funds would be required to be deposited in the General Fund for expenditure, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for drug prevention and treatment services. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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Position:
Oppose
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| AB 770 |
(Torres D)
Emergency telephone systems. |
Amended:
6/1/2011
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Status: 8/26/2011
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Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/16/2011) |
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Location: 8/26/2011
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Summary: Existing law, the Warren-911-Emergency Assistance Act, requires the office of the State Chief Information Officer to review and update technical and operational standards for public agency systems in each even-numbered year, after consultation with specified entities and individuals. The bill would require the review and update of technical and operational standards for public agency systems to include standards for recruitment and training of public safety dispatchers. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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Position:
Watch
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| AB 801 |
(Swanson D)
Code enforcement officers. |
Amended:
1/11/2012
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Status: 2/2/2012
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Location: 2/2/2012
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PUB. S. |
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Summary: Existing law defines "code enforcement officer" to mean specified persons employed by any governmental subdivision, public or quasi-public corporation, public agency, public service corporation, any town, city, county, or municipal corporation, whether incorporated or chartered, who have enforcement authority for health, safety, and welfare requirements, and whose duties include enforcement of any statute, rules, regulations, or standards, and who are authorized to issue citations, or file formal complaints. The term also refers to any person who is employed by the Department of Housing and Community Development who has enforcement authority for health, safety, and welfare requirements relating to housing, as specified. This bill would delete references to "illegal dumping enforcement officers" and would instead authorize a code enforcement officer, as specified, to exercise the powers of arrest of a peace officer in the manner described above. This bill contains other existing laws.
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Position:
Support
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| AB 828 |
(Swanson D)
Food stamps: eligibility: drug felonies. |
Introduced:
2/17/2011
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Status: 8/26/2011
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Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 6/27/2011) |
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Summary: Existing law provides for the Food Stamp Program, under which food stamps allocated to the state by the federal government are distributed to eligible individuals by each county. Existing law provides that a person convicted of a drug-related felony, with certain exemptions, is eligible for aid under the Food Stamp Program, if specified requirements are met. This bill would, instead, provide that a person convicted of a drug felony shall be eligible for aid under the Food Stamp Program, and would eliminate the above-referenced eligibility requirements. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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Position:
Oppose
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| AB 877 |
(Skinner D)
Vehicles: nonfelony offenses and infractions: removal of records. |
Amended:
8/29/2011
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Status: 8/29/2011
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Location: 8/29/2011
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Summary: Existing law requires that a person not be subject to prosecution for any nonfelony offense arising out of the operation of a motor vehicle, or a violation of the Vehicle Code as a pedestrian, that is pending against him or her at the time of his or her commitment to the custody of the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation or the Division of Juvenile Facilities. This bill would also apply these provisions and the exemption from prosecution to a person for any pending infraction arising out of the operation of a motor vehicle or for a violation of the Vehicle Co de as a pedestrian, upon serving 90 days or longer in a consecutive 12-month period after the date of the violation in a county jail or other county correctional facility, court or county rehabilitation facility, or involuntary in home detention. This bill contains other existing laws.
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Position:
Watch
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| AB 1017 |
(Ammiano D)
Marijuana cultivation: reduced penalty. |
Introduced:
2/18/2011
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Status: 1/31/2012
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Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(3). (Last location was THIRD READING on 1/5/2012) |
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Location: 1/31/2012
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Summary: Existing law requires that every person who plants, cultivates, harvests, dries, or processes any marijuana, or any part thereof, except as otherwise provided by law, be punished by imprisonment in the state prison. This bill would make that crime punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period of not more than one year or by imprisonment in the state prison. By changing the penalty for this crime to authorize imprisonment in a county jail, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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Position:
Oppose
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| AB 1047 |
(Jeffries R)
Vehicles: motorcycle safety. |
Amended:
1/12/2012
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Status: 2/2/2012
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Location: 2/2/2012
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T. & H. |
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Summary: Existing law establishes the motorcyclist safety program in the Department of the California Highway Patrol, to be administered by the commissioner of the department . Existing law authorizes the commissioner, through contracts with other public agencies or with private entities, to fund projects to enhance motorcycle operation or safety such as rider training programs, to sponsor and coordinate efforts to increase motorists' awareness of motorcyclists, to sponsor research on communicating motorcyclist safety to highway users, and to adopt standards relating to a novice motorcyclist training program. This bill would expressly prohibit state and local law enforcement agencies receiving grant money for a motorcycle safety program from using that money for the implementation of motorcycle only checkpoints.
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Position:
Oppose
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| AB 1184 |
(Gatto D)
Public employees' retirement benefits. |
Amended:
8/22/2011
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Status: 9/9/2011
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Location: 9/9/2011
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Summary: The Public Employees' Retirement Law (PERL) creates the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS), which provides a defined benefit to its employees based on age at retirement, service credit, and final or highest compensation paid to the employee. Existing law authorizes any public agency to participate in, and make its employees members of, PERS by contract. In the case of an employee who has been employed by one or more contracting public agencies, retirement benefits distributed to that employee are based on the highest final compensation under any system, and each system makes a separate retirement payment to the employee based upon the number of years that the employee worked for each of those agencies. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature that a contracting agency not experience a significant increase in actuarial liability due to increased compensation paid by another contracting agency to a nonrepresented employee. The bill would require the Board of Administration of PERS to develop guidelines in this regard and to implement program changes to ensure that a contracting agency that creates a significant increase in actuarial liability due to increased compensation bears the associated liability. The bill would require the system actuary to assess an increase in liability in this regard to the employer that created it at the time the increase is determined and to make adjustments to that employer's rates as needed. The bill would apply these requirements to any significant increase in actuarial liability due to increased compensation paid to a nonrepresented employee regardless of when the increase in compensation occurred. The bill would require the board to report to the Legislature on the implementation of these provisions. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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Position:
Watch
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| AB 1280 |
(Hill D)
Ephedrine: retail sale. |
Amended:
2/9/2012
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Status: 2/9/2012
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From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. |
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Summary: Existing law classifies controlled substances into 5 schedules, with the most restrictive limitations placed on controlled substances classified in Schedule I, and the least restrictive limitations placed on controlled substances classified in Schedule V. A controlled substance in any of the schedules may be possessed or dispensed only upon a lawful prescription, as specified. Existing law does not classify ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, norpseudoephedrine, or phenylpropanolamine within any of these 5 schedules, but provides that it is a crime, punishable as specified, for a person in this state who engages in specified transactions involving those drugs to fail to submit a report to the Department of Justice of all of those transactions, or to fail to submit an application to, and obtain a permit for the conduct of that business from, the Department of Justice, as specified. Existing law prohibits the sale of more than 3 packages or 9 grams of a nonprescription product containing ephedrine or the other drugs, as specified. This bill would instead provide that it is a misdemeanor, punishable as specified, for any retail distributor, except pursuant to a valid prescription from a licensed practitioner with prescriptive authority, to sell or distribute to a person specified amounts of nonprescription products containing ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, norpseudoephedrine, or phenylpropanolamine within specified time limits, to sell or distribute any of those substances to a person whose information has generated an alert, or, except under specified conditions, to sell or distribute to any purchaser a nonprescription product containing any amount of those substances. The bill would contain provisions requiring the secure storage and monitoring of products containing any amount of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, norpseudoephedrine, or phenylpropanolamine, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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Position:
Oppose
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| AB 1387 |
(Solorio D)
Emergency medical services. |
Amended:
9/2/2011
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Status: 9/9/2011
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Emergency Medical Services System and the Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act, which governs local emergency medical service systems and establishes the Emergency Medical Services Authority, which is responsible for the coordination and integration of all state activities concerning emergency medical services. The act requires a county to enter into a written agreement with a city or fire district that contracted for, or provided, as of June 1, 1980, prehospital emergency medical services regarding the provision of these services for the city or fire district, as specified. The act requires, until an agreement is reached, prehospital emergency medical services to be continued at not less than the existing level, unless reduced by the city council or the governing body of the fire district, as specified. This bill would continue the authorization of a city or fire district that had continuously contracted for or provided prehospital emergency medical services (EMS) since June 1, 1980, to contract for or provide the administration of the same type of prehospital EMS that it has continuously provided or contracted for during that time, within the geographical service area that it continuously served during that time, if the city or fire district makes a formal written request to the local EMS agency prior to January 1, 2014, and if specified conditions are met. The bill would authorize a city or fire district to increase its geographical area if specified conditions are met. The bill would prohibit a local EMS agency from creating an exclusive operating area for a type of prehospital EMS provided or contracted for by a city or fire district that is providing continuing prehospital EMS. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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Position:
Support
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| AB 1434 |
(Feuer D)
Child abuse reporting: mandated reporters. |
Introduced:
1/4/2012
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Status: 1/19/2012
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Referred to Com. on PUB. S. |
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Location: 1/19/2012
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Summary: Existing law, the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act, requires a mandated reporter, as defined, to report whenever he or she, in his or her professional capacity or within the scope of his or her employment, has knowledge of or observed a child whom the mandated reporter knows or reasonably suspects has been the victim of child abuse or neglect. Failure to report an incident is a crime punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period of 6 months, a fine of up to $1,000, or by both that imprisonment and fine. This bill would add employees of a public or private institution of higher education, as to child abuse or neglect occurring on that institution's premises, to the list of individuals who are mandated reporters. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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| AB 1435 |
(Dickinson D)
Child abuse reporting: athletic personnel. |
Introduced:
1/4/2012
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Status: 1/19/2012
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Referred to Com. on PUB. S. |
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Location: 1/19/2012
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PUB. S. |
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Summary: Existing law, the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act, requires a mandated reporter, as defined, to report whenever he or she, in his or her professional capacity or within the scope of his or her employment, has knowledge of or observed a child whom the mandated reporter knows or reasonably suspects has been the victim of child abuse or neglect. Failure to report an incident is a crime punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period of 6 months, a fine of up to $1,000, or by both that imprisonment and fine. This bill would add athletic coaches, administrators, and directors, as defined, employed by or volunteering with a public or private organization to the list of individuals who are mandated reporters, as specified. This bill would require an organization, as defined, to provide initial training to each athletic coach, administrator, or director on specified matters relating to child abuse and neglect, and also would require those individuals to complete continuing training every 2 years. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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| AB 1438 |
(Bradford D)
Child abuse reporting. |
Amended:
1/23/2012
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Status: 1/24/2012
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Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. |
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Location: 1/24/2012
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Summary: Existing law, the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act, requires a mandated reporter, as defined, to report whenever he or she, in his or her professional capacity or within the scope of his or her employment, has knowledge of or observed a child whom the mandated reporter knows or reasonably suspects has been the victim of child abuse or neglect. Failure to report an incident is a crime punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period of 6 months, a fine of up to $1,000, or by both that imprisonment and fine. Existing law specifies that any other person may, but is not required to, report a known or suspected instance of child abuse or neglect to any police department, sheriff's department, or to specified other entities. This bill would require any person to report to a peace officer a known or suspected instance of a child being the victim of sexual abuse, and would make a failure to report punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period of 6 months or a fine of up to $1,000, or by both that imprisonment and fine. By creating a new crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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| AB 1440 |
(Perea D)
Child abuse and neglect: reports. |
Introduced:
1/4/2012
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Status: 1/19/2012
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Location: 1/19/2012
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Summary: Existing law requires the custodian of records within a county child welfare agency, within 5 business days of learning that a child fatality has occurred in the county and that there is a reasonable suspicion that the fatality was caused by abuse or neglect, to release upon request specified records, subject to the redaction of certain identifying personal information, of child abuse or neglect that results in the death of a child. Existing law requires each county welfare agency or department to notify the State Department of Social Services, as provided, of all child fatalities that occurred within its jurisdiction that were the result of child abuse or neglect. This bill would require each county child welfare agency, within 60 calendar days of determining that abuse or neglect led to a child' s death in the county, as described, to review the child's death and prepare a written report containing specified information. The bill would require the county child welfare agency to submit this report to the State Department of Social Services within 10 days of its completion. By increasing the duties of local agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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| AB 1445 |
(Mitchell D)
Jails: inmate welfare fund. |
Introduced:
1/4/2012
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Status: 1/19/2012
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Referred to Com. on PUB. S. |
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Location: 1/19/2012
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Summary: Existing law provides that the sheriff of each county may maintain an inmate welfare fund to be kept in the treasury of the county into which profit from a store operated in connection with the county jail, 10% of all gross sales of inmate hobbycraft, and any rebates or commissions received from a telephone company, as specified, is required to be deposited. Existing law authorizes the sheriff to expend money from the fund to assist indigent inmates, prior to release, with clothes and transportation expenses, as specified. This bill would authorize the pilot program to operate indefinitely. The bill would authorize those sheriffs and the Chief of Correction of Santa Clara County to spend money from the inmate welfare fund for the purpose of assisting indigent inmates with the reentry process within 30 days after the inmate's release from the county jail or other adult detention facility, as specified. This bill contains other existing laws.
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| AB 1462 |
(Mendoza D)
Vehicular manslaughter. |
Introduced:
1/10/2012
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Status: 1/19/2012
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Referred to Com. on PUB. S. |
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Location: 1/19/2012
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Summary: Existing law defines gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and prescribes penalties of imprisonment in the state prison for 4, 6, or 10 years and 16 months, 2 years, or 4 years, respectively, as specified. This bill would instead make the penalty for gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated imprisonment in the state prison for 6, 10, or 15 years and a fine of not less than $2,000 and the penalty for vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated imprisonment in the state prison for 3, 6, or 9 years and a fine of not less than $1,000 but not more than $10,000, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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| AB 1508 |
(Carter D)
Vehicles: inspection of loads. |
Introduced:
1/12/2012
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Status: 1/19/2012
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Referred to Com. on PUB. S. |
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Location: 1/19/2012
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Summary: Existing law authorizes the Department of the California Highway Patrol to stop a vehicle transporting timber products, livestock, poultry, farm produce, crude oil, petroleum products, or inedible kitchen grease and inspect certain documents to determine whether the driver is in legal possession of the load, and, upon reasonable belief that the driver of the vehicle is not in legal possession, to take custody of the vehicle and load, as prescribed, and imposes duties on the sheriff with respect to the care and safekeeping of those products. This bill would additionally authorize a member of a city police department or a member of a county sheriff's office, whose primary responsibility is to conduct theft investigations, to stop any vehicle, and would make those provisions applicable with regard to a vehicle that is transporting metal products or metal alloy products. By imposing additional duties on a sheriff regarding the care and safekeeping of metal products and metal alloy products, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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| AB 1525 |
(Allen D)
Elder or dependent adult financial abuse: mandated reporters. |
Introduced:
1/19/2012
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Status: 1/26/2012
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Location: 1/26/2012
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Summary: Existing law requires a mandated reporter of suspected financial abuse of an elder or dependent adult to report the known or suspected instance of financial abuse to specified entities. Existing law defines a mandated reporter for these purposes as an employee or officer of a financial institution, as defined. Existing law imposes civil penalties for the failure to report financial abuse, and requires these civil penalties to be recovered in a civil action brought against the financial institution by the Attorney General, district attorney, or county counsel. This bill would include a person or entity engaged in money transmission, as defined, in the definition of a mandated reporter of suspected financial abuse of an elder or dependent adult. This bill contains other related provisions.
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| AB 1527 |
(Portantino D)
Firearms. |
Introduced:
1/23/2012
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Status: 2/2/2012
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Referred to Com. on PUB. S. |
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Location: 2/2/2012
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Summary: Existing law prohibits, with exceptions, a person from possessing a firearm in a place that the person knows or reasonably should know is a school zone, as defined. This bill would additionally exempt a security guard authorized to openly carry an unloaded firearm that is not a handgun and an honorably retired peace officer authorized to openly carry an unloaded firearm that is not a handgun from that prohibition. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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| AB 1528 |
(Donnelly R)
Disorderly conduct: invasion of privacy: felony. |
Introduced:
1/23/2012
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Status: 2/2/2012
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Referred to Com. on PUB. S. |
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Location: 2/2/2012
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PUB. S. |
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Summary: Existing law establishes the offense of disorderly conduct to include specified invasions of privacy, and makes the offense a misdemeanor, punishable as provided. This bill would instead make those specified invasion of privacy offenses a felony punishable by imprisonment in a state prison for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years. By increasing the penalty for an existing crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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| AB 1539 |
(Hayashi D)
Vehicles: specialized license plates: antibullying license plate program. |
Introduced:
1/24/2012
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Status: 2/2/2012
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Location: 2/2/2012
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Summary: Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue specialized license plates in accordance with requirements that include, among other things, a distinct license plate design or message that publicizes or promotes the official policy, mission, or work of a state agency and that additional fees charged be used, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for programs that further that agency's policy, mission, or work. This bill would require the department, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to design and make available for issuance specialized license plates that contain a message that promotes the policy of the state that prohibits discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying based on actual or perceived characteristics and disability, gender, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics. The bill would require that the specialized license plate be known as the "Antibullying License Plate Program." This bill contains other related provisions.
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| AB 1557 |
(Skinner D)
Real property: maintenance of foreclosed property: violations. |
Introduced:
1/26/2012
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Status: 2/9/2012
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Summary: Existing law, until January 1, 2013, requires a legal owner to maintain vacant residential property purchased at a foreclosure sale, or acquired by that owner through foreclosure under a mortgage or deed of trust. Existing law, until January 1, 2013, authorizes a governmental entity to impose civil fines and penalties for failure to maintain that property of up to $1,000 per day for a violation. Existing law, until January 1, 2013, requires a governmental entity that seeks to impose those fines and penalties to give notice of the claimed violation and an opportunity to correct the violation at least 14 days prior to imposing the fines and penalties, and to allow a hearing for contesting those fines and penalties. This bill would extend the operation of these provisions until January 1, 2018.
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| AB 1559 |
(Portantino D)
Firearms. |
Amended:
2/15/2012
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Status: 2/16/2012
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Summary: Existing law generally prohibits a person from carrying a handgun concealed upon his or her person or concealed within any vehicle under his or her control. Existing law exempts from this prohibition persons who are licensed and engaged in the business of manufacturing, importing, wholesaling, repairing, or dealing in firearms and their authorized agents. This bill would exempt a person who is engaged in the business of manufacturing ammunition and who is licensed to engage in that business, or the authorized representative or authorized agent of that person, while that handgun is being used in the lawful course and scope of the licensee's activities as a licensed person. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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| AB 1562 |
(Jeffries R)
Fire prevention and suppression: county inmate fire crews. |
Introduced:
1/30/2012
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Summary: Existing law declares the existence of the California Conservation Camp program which establishes camps for the purpose of receiving prisoners and wards committed to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities, to perform fire prevention, fire control, and other work. Existing law authorizes the various agencies concerned with conservation projects to enter into contracts as may be necessary for these purposes. This bill would authorize the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to enter into contracts with counties to establish county inmate fire crews that would utilize county jail inmates for the purposes of fire prevention and suppression. The bill would require that county jail inmates remain under the constructive custody and control of their respective county correctional facilities, or an agreed upon multicounty correctional facility, while participating in the inmate fire crew. This bill contains other related provisions.
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| AB 1564 |
(Lara D)
Child abuse reporting: mandated reporters: tax-exempt organizations. |
Introduced:
1/30/2012
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Status: 2/9/2012
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Summary: Existing law, the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act, requires a mandated reporter, as defined, to report whenever he or she, in his or her professional capacity or within the scope of his or her employment, has knowledge of or observed a child whom the mandated reporter knows or reasonably suspects has been the victim of child abuse or neglect. Failure to report an incident is a crime punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period of 6 months, a fine of up to $1,000, or by both that imprisonment and fine. Existing law excludes volunteers of public or private organizations whose duties require direct contact with and supervision of children from the list of mandated reporters. Existing law also strongly encourages employers to provide training in child abuse and neglect identification and reporting to their employees who are mandated reporters, and encourages public and private organizations to provide their volunteers whose duties require direct contact with and supervision of children with training in child abuse and neglect identification and reporting. This bill would include volunteers of public or private organizations, including nonprofit organizations, whose duties require direct contact with and supervision of children in the list of individuals who are mandated reporters. The bill would also require employers to provide training in child abuse and neglect identification and reporting to their employees and volunteers who are mandated reporters. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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| AB 1571 |
(Donnelly R)
Crimes: human smuggling. |
Introduced:
2/1/2012
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Summary: Under existing law, a person who deprives or violates the personal liberty of another with intent to effect or maintain specified felonies, or to obtain forced labor or services, is guilty of human trafficking, which is a felony. This bill would make it a felony, punishable by imprisonment in a state prison for 16 months or 2 or 3 years, for a person to intentionally engage in the smuggling of a human being for profit or commercial purpose. The bill would make it a felony punishable by imprisonment in a state prison for 5, 7, or 10 years if the person being smuggled is under 18 years of age and is not accompanied by a family member over 18 years of age, or the offense involves the use of a weapon designed for lethal use, as defined. If the offense involves the use or threatened use of deadly physical force, the punishment would be 3, 5, or 7 years in a state prison and the defendant would not be eligible for suspension of sentence, probation, or other release from custody, except as specified, until his or her sentence is served. The bill would impose a 10-year sentence enhancement for committing a specified offense, including a lewd or lascivious act, during the smuggling of a human being. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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| AB 1573 |
(Brownley D)
School attendance: residency requirements: foster children. |
Introduced:
2/1/2012
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Summary: Existing law requires persons between the ages of 6 and 18 to attend a public school within the school district in which the pupil' s parent or legal guardian resides, unless otherwise exempted. This bill would deem a pupil who is a foster child who remains in his or her school of origin to have met the residency requirements for school attendance in that school district. To the extent that this bill would impose additional duties on a school district of origin, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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| AB 1577 |
(Atkins D)
Parolee: driver's licenses. |
Introduced:
2/2/2012
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Status: 2/17/2012
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Summary: Existing law authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to require a person applying for a driver's license or an identification card to provide any identification that it determines is necessary to ensure the identity of the applicant. This bill would authorize the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation or county jails to provide an offender with a parolee identification card and would require the Department of Motor Vehicles to honor that card as a valid source of identification for the purposes of applying for a driver's license or an identification card. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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| AB 1583 |
(Hernández, Roger D)
Junk dealers: indicia of ownership: merchandise pallets. |
Introduced:
2/2/2012
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Status: 2/17/2012
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Summary: Existing law authorizes junk dealers and recyclers, as defined, to sell and purchase junk, which includes secondhand and used furniture, pallets, or other personal property, as specified. Existing law requires junk dealers and recyclers to maintain written records of specified information, and makes a violation of the recordkeeping requirements a misdemeanor. This bill would prohibit junk dealers and recyclers from purchasing or receiving merchandise pallets, as defined, marked with an indicia of ownership, as defined, from anyone except the indicated owner, unless specified information is provided to the junk dealer or recycler, and would require the junk dealer or recycler to maintain a written record of that information. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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| AB 1585 |
(John A. Pérez D)
Redevelopment. |
Introduced:
2/2/2012
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Status: 2/9/2012
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Summary: Existing law dissolves redevelopment agencies and community development agencies, as of February 1, 2012, and designates successor agencies, as defined. Existing law requires successor agencies to wind down the affairs of the dissolved redevelopment agencies and to, among other things, repay enforceable obligations, as defined, and to remit unencumbered balances of redevelopment agency funds, including housing funds, to the county auditor-controller for distribution to taxing entities. This bill would modify the scope of the term "enforceable obligation" and modify provisions relating to the transfer of housing funds and responsibilities associated with dissolved redevelopment agencies. The bill would provide that any amounts on deposit in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund of a dissolved redevelopment agency be transferred to specified entities. The bill would make conforming changes. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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| AB 1593 |
(Ma D)
Domestic violence. |
Introduced:
2/6/2012
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Summary: Existing law requires the California Emergency Management Agency, in consultation with specified state agencies and other organizations, to establish medical forensic forms, instructions, and examination protocol for victims of domestic violence and elder and dependent adult abuse and neglect, as specified. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
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| AB 1604 |
(Campos D)
Invasion of privacy: computer crimes. |
Introduced:
2/7/2012
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Status: 2/8/2012
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Summary: Existing law makes it a misdemeanor to, by means of any machine, instrument, or contrivance, or in any other manner, intentionally tap, or make an unauthorized connection, whether physically, electrically, acoustically, inductively, or otherwise, with a telegraph or telephone wire, line, cable, or instrument, including the wire, line, cable, or instrument of an internal telephonic communication system, or to willfully and without the consent of all parties to the communication, or in any unauthorized manner, read or attempt to read, or to learn the contents or meaning of a message, report, or communication while the same is in transit or passing over a wire, line, or cable, or is being sent from, or received at any place within this state. Existing law also makes it a misdemeanor to intentionally and without the consent of all parties to a confidential communication, by means of any electronic amplifying or recording device, eavesdrop upon or record the confidential communication, whether the communication is carried on among the parties in the presence of one another or by means of a telegraph, telephone, or other device, except a radio. This bill would authorize a person to intercept the wire or electronic transmissions of a computer trespasser, as defined, if specified conditions are met, including authorization by the owner or operator of the computer system and being engaged in an investigation.
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| AB 1616 |
(Gatto D)
Food safety: cottage food operations. |
Introduced:
2/8/2012
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Summary: Existing law, the Sherman Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law (Sherman Law), requires the State Department of Public Health to regulate the manufacture, sale, labeling, and advertising activities related to food, drugs, devices, and cosmetics in conformity with the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. The Sherman Law makes it unlawful to manufacture, sell, deliver, hold, or offer for sale any food that is misbranded. Food is misbranded if its labeling does not conform to specified federal labeling requirements regarding nutrition, nutrient content or health claims, and food allergens. Violation of this law is a misdemeanor. This bill would exempt a cottage food operation, as defined, from specified food processing establishment, Sherman Law, and California Retail Food Code requirements. This bill would require a cottage food operation to meet specified requirements relating to sanitation, packaging, and labeling. This bill would authorize the State Public Health Officer to adopt implementing regulations, as specified, and procedures for a registration system. This bill would also authorize the State Public Health Officer to access the registered area of a private home where a cottage food operation is located, as specified. This bill would prescribe civil penalties for a violation of its provisions, and would provide for local permitting of cottage food operations. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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| AB 1628 |
(Beall D)
Child abuse reporting. |
Introduced:
2/9/2012
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Status: 2/10/2012
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Summary: Existing law, the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act, requires a mandated reporter, as defined, to report whenever he or she, in his or her professional capacity or within the scope of his or her employment, has knowledge of or observed a child whom the mandated reporter knows or reasonably suspects has been the victim of child abuse or neglect. Failure to report an incident is a crime punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period of 6 months, a fine of up to $1,000, or by both that imprisonment and fine. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
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| AB 1633 |
(Wagner R)
Public employees' retirement. |
Introduced:
2/9/2012
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Summary: Existing state and local public retirement systems provide defined benefits based on age at retirement, service credit, and final compensation. Existing law defines final compensation for various employment classifications in connection with the benefits provided by these systems. This bill would prohibit the retirement benefit paid to a member of any public retirement system whose service is not included in the federal social security system from exceeding $100,000. The bill would prohibit the retirement benefit paid to a member of any public retirement system whose service is included in the federal social security system from exceeding $80,000. Those amounts would be adjusted annually by each public retirement system using the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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| AB 1639 |
(Hill D)
Retirement: public employees. |
Introduced:
2/13/2012
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Status: 2/14/2012
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System and the State Teachers' Retirement System for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their members. Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II, which provides pension benefits to elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System, which provides pension benefits to elective officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. This bill would specify that, in addition to any other benefit limitations prescribed by law, for the purposes of determining a retirement benefit paid to a person who first becomes a member of a public retirement system on or after January 1, 2013, to the extent that the benefits payable under the system are subject to the compensation limits prescribed by a specified provision of the Internal Revenue Code, the maximum salary, compensation, or payrate taken into account under the plan for any year shall not exceed the amount permitted to be taken into account under that provision of federal law. The bill would also prohibit a public employer from making contributions to any qualified public retirement plan based on any portion of compensation that exceeds the amount specified in that federal provision.
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| AB 1643 |
(Dickinson D)
Public officers: County of Sacramento. |
Introduced:
2/13/2012
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Summary: Under existing law, a sheriff's or police security officer is a public officer whose duties are limited to the physical security of properties owned, operated, controlled, or administered by the county or city, or any municipality or special district contracting for police services from the county or city, and other necessary duties, as specified. This bill would authorize the duties of a security officer employed by the Chief of Police of the City of Sacramento or the Sheriff of the County of Sacramento to also include the security and protection of properties of public agencies, privately owned companies, or nonprofit entities that contract for security services with the City or County of Sacramento, whose primary business supports national defense, whose facility is qualified as a national critical structure, or that stores or manufactures material that, if stolen, vandalized, or otherwise compromised, may compromise national security or pose a danger to residents within the County of Sacramento. The bill would provide for reimbursement to the City or County of Sacramento for providing those services.
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| AB 1649 |
(Smyth R)
Public employees' retirement: reciprocity. |
Introduced:
2/13/2012
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Summary: Existing law requires the average monthly salary during any period of service as a member of a county retirement system to be considered compensation earnable by a member of the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) for purposes of computing final compensation for the member under specified circumstances in which the member retires concurrently under both systems. Under existing law, if a member on deferred retirement from PERS is eligible to retire for service from a reciprocal retirement system and retires prior to the time the member becomes entitled to retire under PERS, his or her retirement shall be deemed a concurrent retirement for purposes of computing final compensation. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that provision.
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| AB 1653 |
(Cook R)
Public employees: pensions: forfeiture. |
Introduced:
2/13/2012
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Summary: Existing law provides that any elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected to public office, on or after January 1, 2006, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly out of his or her official duties, forfeits all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as specified. This bill would require any person employed at-will for the purposes of providing services to an elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected to public office, on or after January 1, 2013, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly out of his or her official duties, to forfeit all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as specified.
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| AB 1654 |
(Cook R)
Public employment: disqualification from employment. |
Introduced:
2/13/2012
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Summary: The California Constitution provides that a person shall be disqualified from holding office if he or she has been convicted of bribery, and directs the Legislature to enact laws to exclude persons convicted of malfeasance in office or other high crimes from office. Under existing statutory law, a person is disqualified from holding any office upon the conviction of specified crimes designated in the Constitution or statute. Existing law enumerates events causing a vacancy in office, including the conviction of a felony or any offense involving a violation of official duties. This bill would disqualify for 5 years a person who employed at will for the purposes of providing services to an elected public officer from any public employment, including, but not limited to, employment with a city, county, district, or any other public agency of this state, if he or she is convicted of a felony involving accepting or giving, or offering to give, any bribe, the embezzlement of public money, extortion or theft of public money, perjury, or conspiracy to commit any of those crimes arising directly out of his or her duties as a public employee.
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| AB 1664 |
(Buchanan D)
Vehicles: driving under the influence. |
Introduced:
2/14/2012
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Summary: Existing law prohibits any person who is under the influence of any alcoholic beverage or drug, or under the combined influence of any alcoholic beverage and drug, from driving a vehicle or for any person who has 0.08% or more, by weight, of alcohol in his or her blood from driving a vehicle. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
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| AB 1682 |
(Portantino D)
Rape: statute of limitations. |
Introduced:
2/14/2012
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Summary: Existing law defines rape and rape of a spouse and makes each of those crimes a felony punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for 3, 6, or 8 years. Existing law requires the prosecution for an offense punishable by imprisonment for 8 years or more to commence within 6 years after the commission of the offense. Under existing law, prosecution for a rape that is alleged to have been committed when the victim was under 18 years of age may be commenced at any time prior to the victim's 28th birthday. This bill would, instead, allow the commencement of a prosecution for rape or rape of a spouse at any time after the commission of the offense.
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| AB 1695 |
(Cook R)
Sex offenders: identification. |
Introduced:
2/15/2012
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Summary: Existing law, the Sex Offender Registration Act, requires persons who have been convicted of specified sex offenses to register with local law enforcement. Existing law requires that the registration include the person's address, fingerprints, current photograph, and license plate number. Existing law requires the registrant to update his or her registration annually, upon moving, or upon changing his or her name. Under existing law, failure to register is a crime. Existing law, as amended by Proposition 83 of the November 7, 2006, statewide general election, prohibits any person who is required to register pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration Act from residing within 2,000 feet of any public or private school, or park where children regularly gather. This bill would make it a misdemeanor for any person convicted of a crime committed against a minor under the age of 14 who, because of that conviction, is required to register as a sex offender pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration Act to be outside his or her domicile without a state-issued identification card, as defined. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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| AB 1697 |
(Perea D)
Child abuse and neglect. |
Introduced:
2/15/2012
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Summary: Existing law requires the custodian of records within a county child welfare agency, within 5 business days of learning that a child fatality has occurred in the county and that there is a reasonable suspicion that the fatality was caused by abuse or neglect, to release upon request specified records, subject to the redaction of certain identifying personal information, of child abuse or neglect that results in the death of a child. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these provisions.
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| AB 1707 |
(Ammiano D)
Child Abuse Central Index. |
Introduced:
2/15/2012
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Summary: Existing law designates certain individuals, such as teachers, peace officers, physicians, and clergy members, among others, as mandated reporters and requires them to report suspected child abuse or neglect to certain specified agencies whenever the mandated reporter, in his or her professional capacity or within the scope of his or her employment, has knowledge of or observes a child whom the mandated reporter knows or reasonably suspects has been the victim of child abuse or neglect. Existing law requires agencies receiving reports from mandated reporters to forward a report to the Department of Justice in writing of every case it investigates of known or suspected child abuse or severe neglect that is determined to be substantiated. Existing law requires an agency receiving reports from mandated reporters to notify, in writing, the known or suspected child abuser that he or she has been reported to the Child Abuse Central Index (CACI) whenever that agency forwards a report in writing to the Department of Justice. This bill would, if the known or suspected child abuser is a minor, require the agency to additionally notify the minor's current caregiver, the minor's parent or parents or legal guardian, as applicable, the minor's attorney, if any, and the minor's guardian ad litem, if any. Because this bill would require a local agency to provide additional notification, it would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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| AB 1709 |
(Mitchell D)
Juveniles: jury trial. |
Introduced:
2/15/2012
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Summary: Existing law provides that any person under 18 years of age who commits a crime is within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, except as specified. The juvenile court must adjudicate a petition to declare a detained minor a ward of the court within 15 days after the petition is filed. Existing law, contained in 2 initiative statutes, commonly known as the Three Strikes law, requires increased penalties for certain recidivist offenders in addition to any other enhancement or penalty provisions that may apply. Existing law requires that if a defendant has 2 or more prior violent or serious felony convictions, the term for the current felony conviction shall be an indeterminate term of imprisonment in the state prison for life with a minimum term to be served, as specified. Under certain circumstances, a juvenile adjudication constitutes a violent or serious felony conviction under those provisions. This bill would provide that a youth who is 16 years of age or older at the time of the commission of an offense that could be used as a future felony conviction under the Three Strikes law is entitled to a jury trial in the juvenile court. Under this bill, the jury trial would proceed in the same manner as a jury trial in criminal court. This bill would provide that the right to a jury trial does not affect the right of a detained minor to adjudication of the petition to declare him or her a ward of the court within 15 days of the filing of the petition. This bill would also make conforming changes.
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| AB 1713 |
(Campos D)
Child abuse reporting. |
Introduced:
2/16/2012
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Summary: Existing law, the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act, requires a mandated reporter, as defined, to report whenever he or she, in his or her professional capacity or within the scope of his or her employment, has knowledge of or observed a child whom the mandated reporter knows or reasonably suspects has been the victim of child abuse or neglect. Failure to report an incident is a crime punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period of 6 months, a fine of up to $1,000, or by both that imprisonment and fine. Existing law identifies commercial film and photographic print processors as mandated reporters, and requires any commercial film and photographic print processor who has knowledge of or observed in his or her professional capacity or employment any film, photograph, videotape, negative, or slide depicting a child under 16 years of age engaging in an act of sexual conduct to report the instance of suspected child abuse. This bill would expand the application of those provisions to commercial film and photographic print or image processors, as defined, and would also expand the list of media to which those provisions apply to include, among other things, any representation of information, data, or an image, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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| AB 1714 |
(Halderman R)
In-home supportive services: providers. |
Introduced:
2/16/2012
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Summary: Existing law provides for the county-administered 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 prohibits a person from providing supportive services if he or she has been convicted of specified crimes in the previous 10 years. Under existing law, the State Department of Social Services and the State Department of Health Care Services are required to develop a provider enrollment form that each person seeking to provide supportive services is required to complete, sign under penalty of perjury and submit to the county, containing designated statements relating to the provider's criminal history. Existing law authorizes a recipient of services who wishes to employ a provider applicant who has been convicted of a specified offense to submit to the county a prescribed individual waiver, signed by the recipient, or by the recipient's authorized representative, and returned to the county welfare department. This bill would add the offenses of forgery, embezzlement, extortion, and identity theft to the list of criminal convictions that would preclude an individual from providing supportive services. The bill would require the State Department of Social Services to revise the provider enrollment form to account for these additional criminal exclusions. By changing the definition of the crime of perjury, and by increasing the duties of counties in administering the In-Home Supportive Services program, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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| AB 1729 |
(Ammiano D)
Pupil rights: suspension or expulsion. |
Introduced:
2/16/2012
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Summary: Existing law provides that a pupil shall not be suspended from school or recommended for expulsion unless the superintendent or the principal of the school in which the pupil is enrolled determines that the pupil has committed a specified act. Existing law also authorizes a superintendent of the school district or principal to use his or her discretion to provide alternatives to suspension or expulsion, including, but not limited to, counseling and an anger management program, for a pupil subject to discipline under this provision. This bill would instead authorize a superintendent of the school district or principal to use alternatives to suspension or expulsion that are age appropriate and designed to address and correct the root causes of the pupil's specific misbehavior, as specified. The bill would require, if an individual with exceptional needs is subject to discipline under this provision, an individualized education program team to hold a meeting within 3 days to discuss behavior of the individual with exceptional needs and determine if a functional behavioral assessment and behavioral intervention plan are needed to address the behavior. The bill would also provide that an individual with exceptional needs is not subject to suspension, except as specified, expulsion, or other behavioral interventions, but instead will receive an appropriate assessment identifying behavioral needs, proposed behavioral goals to address the identified needs, and appropriate related services. By requiring an individualized education program team meeting, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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| AB 1732 |
(Campos D)
Pupils: suspension or expulsion: impersonation. |
Introduced:
2/16/2012
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Summary: Existing law prohibits the suspension, or recommendation for expulsion, of a pupil from school unless the school district superintendent or the school principal determines that the pupil has committed any of various specified acts, including, but not limited to, bullying, as defined. This bill would include knowingly and without consent credibly impersonating, another person, as specified, as an act for which a pupil may be suspended or expelled from school. The bill would require a pupil who engages in this impersonation conduct to attend a diversion class with his or her parents or legal guardian. The bill also would prohibit a pupil who successfully completes the diversion class from being suspended or recommended for expulsion.
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| AB 1740 |
(V. Manuel Pérez D)
Employment discrimination: victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking. |
Introduced:
2/17/2012
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Status: 2/21/2012
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Summary: Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), protects and safeguards the right and opportunity of all persons to seek, obtain, and hold employment without discrimination or abridgment on account of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, age, or sexual orientation. This bill would include status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking as an additional basis upon which the right to seek, obtain, and hold employment cannot be denied under FEHA. By expanding the bases upon which discrimination is prohibited under FEHA, this bill would also expand the bases upon which discrimination is prohibited under other antidiscrimination provisions that prohibit discrimination on the same bases as provided for in FEHA. Other antidiscrimination provisions include provisions that make willful discrimination in a recruitment or apprenticeship program on those bases a misdemeanor. By adding unemployment status to the list of characteristics listed in FEHA, this bill would expand the bases upon which this crime applies, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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| AB 1759 |
(Fletcher R)
Controlled substances: seizure and forfeiture of property. |
Introduced:
2/17/2012
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Summary: Existing law provides for the seizure and forfeiture of property in connection with specified violations of law relating to controlled substances, including possession of a controlled substance for sale. Existing law requires the proceeds of property that is seized, forfeited, and sold by the Department of General Services or a local governmental entity to be distributed first to the innocent purchaser, conditional sales vendor, or mortgagee of the property, if the court orders distribution to that person, with the balance payable to the department or local governmental entity for expenditures relating to the sale of the property. Any remaining funds are then allocated, by percentage, to state and local law enforcement agencies that participated in the seizure, the prosecutorial agency that processed the forfeiture action, the General Fund in the State Treasury, and to eligible nonprofit organizations. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
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| SB 9 |
(Yee D)
Sentencing. |
Amended:
2/2/2012
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Status: 2/2/2012
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Summary: Existing law provides that the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation or the Board of Parole Hearings, or both, may, for specified reasons, recommend to the court that a prisoner's sentence be recalled, and that a court may recall a prisoner's sentence. This bill would authorize a prisoner who was under 18 years of age at the time of committing an offense for which the prisoner was sentenced to life without parole to submit a petition for recall and resentencing to the sentencing court, and to the prosecuting agency, as specified. The bill would prohibit a prisoner who tortured his or her victim or whose victim was a public safety official, as defined, from filing a petition for recall and resentencing. The bill would require the petition to include a statement from the defendant that includes, among other things, his or her remorse and work towards rehabilitation. The bill would establish certain criteria, at least one of which shall be asserted in the petition, to be considered when a court decides whether to conduct a hearing on the petition for recall and resentencing and additional criteria to be considered by the court when deciding whether to grant the petition. The bill would require the court to hold a hearing if the court finds that the statements in the defendant's petition are true, as specified. The bill would apply retroactively, as specified.
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| SB 27 |
(Simitian D)
Public employees' retirement. |
Amended:
8/15/2011
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Status: 8/26/2011
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Summary: The State Teachers' Retirement Law (STRL) establishes the Defined Benefit Program of the State Teachers' Retirement System, which provides a defined benefit to members of the system based on final compensation, credited service, and age at retirement, subject to certain variations. STRL also establishes the Defined Benefit Supplement Program, which provides supplemental retirement, disability, and other benefits, payable either in a lump-sum payment, an annuity, or both to members of the State Teachers' Retirement Plan. STRL defines creditable compensation for these purposes as remuneration that is payable in cash to all persons in the same class of employees, as specified, for performing creditable service. This bill would revise the definition of creditable compensation for these purposes and would identify certain payments, reimbursements, and compensation that are creditable compensation to be applied to the Defined Benefit Supplement Program. The bill would prohibit one employee from being considered a class. The bill would revise the definition of compensation with respect to the Defined Benefit Supplement Program to include remuneration earnable within a 5-year period, which includes the last year in which the member's final compensation is determined, when it is in excess of 125% of that member's compensation earnable in the year prior to that 5-year period, as specified. The bill would prohibit a member who retires on or after January 1, 2013, who elects to receive his or her retirement benefit under the Defined Benefit Supplement Program as a lump-sum payment from receiving that sum until 180 days have elapsed following the effective date of the member's retirement. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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| SB 57 |
(Runner R)
Sex offenders: social networking and online address notification requirement. |
Amended:
4/12/2011
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Status: 8/26/2011
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Summary: Existing law requires persons who have been convicted of specified crimes, and other persons as required by a court, to register as sex offenders . Existing law sets forth the procedure for registering and provides that a violation of the sex offender registration law is a crime, punishable as specified. The bill would , commencing January 1, 2013, require a person who is required to register as a sex offender to provide to the law enforcement agency with which he or she last registered all of his or her online names, addresses, e-mail addresses, and instant messaging user names for all of his or her accounts on social networking Internet Web sites, as defined, at the time of original registration or any subsequent registration and within 30 days of establishing a new online name, address , or account, as specified, and would make it a misdemeanor to fail to do so. This bill would permit information received pursuant to these provisions to be shared with other local law enforcement agencies, upon request. By creating a new crime , this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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| SB 124 |
(De León D)
Ammunition. |
Amended:
4/25/2011
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Summary: Existing law, as amended by Proposition 115, adopted by the voters at the November 7, 1990, statewide general election provides that all murder which is perpetrated, among other means, by knowing use of ammunition designed primarily to penetrate metal or armor, is murder in the first degree. Proposition 115 may be amended by a bill passed by majority vote of the Legislature if that bill becomes operative upon approval of the voters. This bill would delete the word "primarily" and recast that provision to provide that all murder which is perpetuated by knowing use of ammunition designed to penetrate metal or armor is murder in the first degree. The bill would also provide that this provision is operative upon approval by the voters and directs the Secretary of State to place this provision on the ballot of the next statewide election. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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| SB 490 |
(Hancock D)
Death penalty. |
Amended:
8/15/2011
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Summary: Existing law, as added and amended by various initiatives, including Proposition 7, approved by the voters at the November 7, 1978, statewide general election, provides for imposition of the death penalty for murder in the first degree if certain special circumstances are proved. Proposition 7 may only be amended by the Legislature by a statute that becomes effective only when approved by the electors. This bill would abolish the death penalty, and provide instead for imprisonment in the state prison for life without the possibility of parole. The bill would provide that , where a defendant or inmate was sentenced to death prior to the date of voter approval of the bill, upon voter approval of the bill, the defendant's or inmate's sentence would automatically be converted to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. The bill would require persons sentenced pursuant to the provisions of the bill to work in a maximum security prison for the term of their imprisonment, as specified. The bill would state findings and declarations of the Legislature regarding the death penalty. The bill would provide that it would only become effective if certain of its provisions are submitted to and approved by the electors at the November 6, 2012, statewide general election.
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| SB 798 |
(De León D)
Imitation firearms: regulation. |
Amended:
8/18/2011
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Summary: Existing law provides that the Legislature occupies the whole field of regulation of the manufacture, sale, or possession of imitation firearms, as defined, and that those provisions shall preempt and be exclusive of all regulations relating to the manufacture, sale, or possession of imitation firearms, including regulations governing the manufacture, sale, or possession of BB devices and air rifles, as specified. Existing law defines "imitation firearm" to include a "BB device" and defines a "BB device," for specified purposes, to include any spot marker gun. This bill would narrow those preemption provisions to instead provide that it is the intent of the Legislature to occupy the entire field of regulation of spot marker guns which expel a projectile larger than 16mm, and that no city, county, city and county, or other local government entity may enact any ordinance or resolution prohibiting or regulating the manufacture, sale, possession, or use of any spot marker gun which expels a projectile larger than 16mm .
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| SB 968 |
(Wright D)
Inmates: electronic monitoring. |
Introduced:
1/13/2012
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Summary: Existing law authorizes the board of supervisors of any county to authorize the correctional administrator, as defined, to offer a program under which only inmates being held in lieu of bail in a county jail or other county correctional facility may participate in an electronic monitoring program if the inmate is not the subject of a hold or an outstanding warrant and any one of certain conditions are met. This bill would also authorize this program to apply to inmates eligible for bail and add as one of the conditions of eligibility for the program that the magistrate has approved the electronic monitoring release, as provided. The bill would authorize a defendant arrested without a warrant for a bailable offense and who meets certain criteria to apply, after 10 court days from the date of arraignment, for release on a reduced bail if the defendant agrees to be placed in the electronic monitoring program, and the magistrate and the correctional administrator determine that the defendant is eligible to participate in the program. This bill contains other related provisions.
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| SB 983 |
(Strickland R)
County prisoners: interstate compacts. |
Introduced:
1/30/2012
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Summary: Existing law authorizes the sheriff of a county adjacent to another state, at the request of the county board of supervisors, to negotiate and contract with the appropriate officials of the adjacent state for the confinement of county jail prisoners in corresponding facilities located in the adjacent state, subject to specified conditions, including that the State of California has executed a compact with the other state. Existing law prohibits a prisoner from being transferred to an institution outside of this state unless he or she has executed a written consent to the transfer. This bill would instead authorize the board of supervisors of any county, rather than the sheriff, to negotiate and enter into a contract with the officials of any other state for the confinement of county jail prisoners in corresponding facilities located in the other state, as specified. The bill would also remove the requirement of the inmate's written consent to transfer.
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| SB 988 |
(Liu D)
Wards: attorney qualifications. |
Introduced:
2/1/2012
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Summary: Existing law provides that any person under 18 years of age who commits a crime is within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, except as specified. Existing law further provides that a minor has the right to counsel in proceedings to declare the minor a ward of the court. If the minor and his or her parents are indigent, the minor is entitled to appointed counsel. This bill would specify that all minors who are represented by counsel in wardship proceedings are entitled to competent counsel, as defined. Further, this bill would set forth mandatory training and education standards for attorneys representing minors in wardship proceedings. Under this bill, an attorney would be solely responsible for fulfilling these requirements. An attorney would also be responsible for meeting regularly with his or her client, as well as contacting professionals associated with the client's case, working with other counsel and the court to resolve the case without a contested hearing, and adhering to mandated timelines. By increasing the duties of these attorneys, including public defenders, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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| SB 989 |
(Vargas D)
Bail: extradition. |
Introduced:
2/1/2012
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Summary: Existing law specifies the procedures for the forfeiture and exoneration of bail, including requiring a court to direct the order of forfeiture to be vacated and the bond exonerated if the defendant appears in court within 180 days of the date of forfeiture or within 180 days of the date of mailing of specified notice, if required. This bill would require the court to exonerate the bond if the prosecuting agency or the United States Attorney fails to make an extradition decision within a reasonable period of time after receiving the affadavit and would require the court to toll the 180-day period while the extradition decision is pending and, upon motion of the surety or bail agent, while extradition is in process. The bill would also require the court to exonerate the bond where it is shown to the satisfaction of the court that the defendant has been deported to a foreign country. This bill contains other existing laws.
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| SB 990 |
(Vargas D)
Vehicle history report. |
Introduced:
2/1/2012
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Summary: Existing law, as of July 1, 2012, prohibits a dealer from displaying or offering for sale at retail a used vehicle unless the dealer first obtains a vehicle history report from the National Motor Vehicle Title Information System (NMVTIS). If the NMVTIS report indicates that the vehicle is or has been a junk or salvage automobile, or the vehicle has been reported as such by a junk or a salvage yard, or an insurance carrier, or the certificate of title contains a brand, a dealer is required to post a specified disclosure and provide the retail purchaser with a copy of the report upon request prior to sale. A violation of the Vehicle Code is a crime. This bill would revise that prohibition to authorize a dealer to also obtain the vehicle history report from a commercial data provider, as defined, and would make conforming changes. The bill would impose a state-mandated local program by changing the definition of a crime. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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| SB 1002 |
(Yee D)
Public records: electronic format. |
Introduced:
2/6/2012
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Summary: The California Public Records Act requires state and local agencies to make their records available for public inspection and, upon request of any person, to provide a copy of any public record unless the record is exempt from disclosure. The act requires any agency that has information that constitutes an identifiable public record not otherwise exempt from disclosure that is in an electronic format to make that information available in an electronic format when requested by any person. The act requires the agency to make the information available in any electronic format in which it holds the information. This bill would authorize an agency, when requested by a person, to provide an electronic record in a format in which the text in the electronic record is searchable by commonly used software. The bill would require the requester to bear the cost of converting the electronic record into a searchable format. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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| SB 1003 |
(Yee D)
Local government: open meetings. |
Introduced:
2/6/2012
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Summary: Existing law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, requires each legislative body of a local agency to provide the time and place for holding regular meetings and requires that all meetings of a legislative body be open and public and all persons be permitted to attend unless a closed session is authorized. Existing law authorizes the district attorney or any interested person to file an action by mandamus, injunction, or declaratory relief to, among other things, determine the applicability of the act to actions or threatened future action of the legislative body. This bill would additionally authorize the district attorney or any interested person to file an action to determine the applicability of the act to past actions of the legislative body. This bill contains other related provisions.
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| SB 1046 |
(Cannella R)
Inmate assessments. |
Introduced:
2/6/2012
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Summary: Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to conduct assessments of all inmates that include, but are not limited to, data regarding the inmate's history of substance abuse, medical and mental health, education, family background, criminal activity, and social functioning. Existing law requires that these assessments be used to place inmates in programs that will aid in their reentry to society and that will most likely reduce their chances of reoffending. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that provision.
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| SB 1047 |
(Alquist D)
Emergency services: missing person: Endangered Missing Advisory. |
Introduced:
2/7/2012
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Summary: Existing law authorizes use of the Emergency Alert System to inform the public of local, state, and national emergencies. Existing law requires a law enforcement agency to activate the Emergency Alert System within the appropriate area if that agency determines that a child 17 years of age or younger, or an individual with a proven mental or physical disability, has been abducted and is in imminent danger of serious bodily injury or death, and there is information available that, if disseminated to the general public, could assist in the safe recovery of that person. This bill would require that if a person is reported missing to a law enforcement agency, and that agency determines that certain requirements are met, including, among others, that the circumstances surrounding the person's disappearance would not qualify for activation of the Emergency Alert System as described above, the law enforcement agency shall request the California Highway Patrol to activate an Endangered Missing Advisory. The bill would require the Endangered Missing Advisory to be called a Silver Alert if the missing individual is 65 years of age or older. The bill would require the California Highway Patrol to, upon activation of an Endangered Missing Advisory, take certain actions to assist the agency investigating the disappearance. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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| SB 1048 |
(Liu D)
Juveniles. |
Introduced:
2/7/2012
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Summary: Existing law authorizes the juvenile court to join in a juvenile court proceeding any governmental agency or private service provider that the court determines has failed to meet a legal obligation to provide services to a child who is the subject of a dependency proceeding, and to join any governmental agency the court determines has failed to meet a legal obligation to provide services to a minor who is the subject of a delinquency proceeding. This bill would authorize the court to join in a juvenile court proceeding any private service provider that the court determines has failed to meet a legal obligation to provide services to a minor who is the subject of a delinquency proceeding.
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| SB 1060 |
(Hancock D)
CalWORKs benefits: lifetime ban. |
Introduced:
2/13/2012
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Summary: Existing federal law provides for the allocation of federal funds through the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant program to eligible states. Existing law provides for the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, under which each county provides cash assistance and other benefits to qualified low-income families through a combination of state, county, and federal funds received through the federal TANF program. This bill would delete the existing provisions, and would instead provide that a person convicted of a drug-related felony shall be eligible to receive CalWORKs benefits if he or she meets certain conditions of eligibility. The bill also would make a conforming change. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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| SB 1067 |
(La Malfa R)
Peace officers: interstate cooperation. |
Introduced:
2/13/2012
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Summary: Existing law authorizes any regularly employed law enforcement officer of the Oregon State Police, the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles and Public Safety, or the Arizona Department of Public Safety to be a peace officer in this state if all of certain conditions are met, including, but not limited to, the out-of-state officer is providing law enforcement services in response to a request for services initiated by a member of the California Highway Patrol, providing law enforcement services for the purpose of assisting a member of the California Highway Patrol, as provided, and a reciprocal operational agreement is in effect between the Department of the California Highway Patrol and the law enforcement officer's out-of-state agency. This bill would expand the scope of these provisions to include any regularly employed law enforcement officer within the State of Oregon, the State of Nevada, or the State of Arizona and a California peace officer, as defined, and, with regard to the reciprocal operational agreements, expand the scope of these provisions to include the head of an authorized California law enforcement agency, or a designated representative, and authorized representatives of law enforcement agencies within the State of Oregon, the State of Nevada, or the State of Arizona. The bill would also make conforming changes.
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| SB 1071 |
(Harman R)
Vehicles: automated traffic enforcement systems. |
Introduced:
2/13/2012
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Status: 2/14/2012
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Summary: Existing law authorizes the limitline, intersection, or other places where a driver is required to stop to be equipped with an automated enforcement system, as defined, if the system meets certain requirements. Existing law authorizes a governmental agency to contract out the operation of the system under certain circumstances, except for specified activities. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
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| SB 1077 |
(Price D)
Alarm companies: limited liability companies. |
Introduced:
2/14/2012
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Status: 2/15/2012
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Location: 2/14/2012
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Summary: Existing law, the Beverly-Killea Limited Liability Company Act, authorizes a limited liability company to engage in any lawful business activity, except as specified, but prohibits construing the act to permit a limited liability company to render professional services, as defined. Existing law also authorizes a limited liability company to render services that may be lawfully rendered only pursuant to a license, certificate, or registration authorized by the Business and Professions Code if the provisions of that code authorize a limited liability company to hold that license, certificate, or registration. This bill would authorize the bureau to issue an alarm company operator license to a limited liability company and would make related conforming changes. Because a violation of the Alarm Company Act by a limited liability company would be a crime, the bill would expand the scope of a crime and would thereby impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would specify that an alarm company operator license is not assignable, but would authorize an operator who receives consent from the bureau, as specified, to assign the license to another business entity if the owners of the assignor own all of the assignee immediately after the assignment. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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| SB 1082 |
(Corbett D)
Protection of victims: address confidentiality. |
Introduced:
2/14/2012
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Status: 2/15/2012
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Summary: Existing law authorizes an adult person, a parent or guardian acting on behalf of a minor, or a guardian acting on behalf of an incapacitated person who is a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking to complete an application in person at a community-based victims' assistance program to be approved by the Secretary of State for the purpose of enabling state and local agencies to respond to requests for public records without disclosing a program participant's address contained in any public record and otherwise provide for confidentiality of identity for that person, subject to specified conditions. Existing law requires applicants to be certified for 4 years following the date of filing unless the certification is withdrawn or invalidated before that date. Existing law requires the Secretary of State to establish a renewal procedure. Existing law authorizes the Secretary of State to cancel a program participant's certification and authorizes a program participant to withdraw from program participation, as specified. This bill would require the adult person, minor, or incapacitated person who is a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking to be domiciled in California, as specified. This bill would authorize a minor program participant, who reaches 18 years of age during his or her enrollment, to renew as an adult, as specified. This bill would modify the Secretary of State's authority to terminate a program participant's certification, as specified. This bill would authorize the office of the Secretary of State to refuse to handle or forward packages for program participants, as specified.
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| SB 1089 |
(Liu D)
Community care facilities: delinquent and at-risk youth. |
Introduced:
2/15/2012
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Status: 2/16/2012
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Summary: The California Community Care Facilities Act provides for the licensing and regulation of community care facilities, as defined, and makes a violation of the act a misdemeanor. This bill would include in the definition of a community care facility a facility that serves delinquent or at-risk youth, other than those youths placed in a county-operated facility or a facility operated by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities. The bill would include in the definition of a residential facility a boot camp, ranch camp, or forestry camp, other than those camps operated by a county or the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities. By expanding the definition of a community care facility, this bill would expand the definition of an existing crime, thus creating a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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| SB 1091 |
(Pavley D)
Witness testimony: support persons. |
Introduced:
2/15/2012
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Status: 2/16/2012
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Summary: Existing law authorizes a prosecuting witness in cases involving specified crimes, including, among others, murder, kidnapping, robbery, assault, and rape, to have up to 2 persons of his or her own choosing for support at a preliminary hearing and at trial, or at a juvenile court proceeding, during the testimony of the prosecuting witness. This bill would expand the list of cases in which a prosecuting witness may have support persons to include, among others, cases involving human trafficking, prostitution, child exploitation, and obscenity, as specified.
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| SB 1110 |
(Rubio D)
Public records. |
Introduced:
2/17/2012
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Status: 2/21/2012
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Location: 2/17/2012
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Summary: Existing law, the California Public Records Act, requires state and local agencies to make public records available upon receipt of a request that reasonably describes an identifiable record not otherwise exempt from disclosure, and upon payment of fees covering direct costs of duplication. This bill would authorize a state or local agency to charge a fee to cover the direct costs of duplication of a public record that may include personnel costs associated with that duplication. The bill would also authorize a state or local agency to collect a deposit from an entity or individual requesting records prior to engaging in the collection of the records.
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| SB 1124 |
(Cannella R)
Prisons: cost of incarceration: reimbursement. |
Introduced:
2/17/2012
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Status: 2/21/2012
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Summary: Existing law authorizes the court in a criminal case to make a determination of a defendant's ability to pay all or a portion of the reasonable costs of imprisonment if the defendant is convicted of an offense and ordered to serve a period of imprisonment in the state prison. Existing law authorizes the court, in its discretion before any hearing, to order the defendant to file a statement setting forth his or her assets, liability, and income under penalty of perjury. If the court determines that the defendant has the ability to pay all or a portion of the costs, existing law requires the court to set the amount to be reimbursed and order the defendant to pay that sum to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in the manner in which the court believes reasonable and compatible with the defendant' s financial ability. This bill would require the court to make a determination of the ability of the defendant to pay all or a portion of the reasonable costs of imprisonment, and would require the court to order the defendant to file a statement setting forth his or her assets, liability, and income before a hearing on the matter.
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| SB 1146 |
(Pavley D)
Wells: reports: public availability. |
Introduced:
2/21/2012
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Status: 2/21/2012
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Summary: Existing law requires a person who digs, bores, or drills a water well, cathodic protection well, or a monitoring well, or abandons or destroys a well, or deepens or reperforates a well, to file a report of completion with the Department of Water Resources. Existing law prohibits those reports from being made available to the public, except under certain circumstances. This bill would instead require the department to make the reports available to the public. The bill would require the department to provide specified disclaimers when providing the reports to the public. The bill would also allow the department to charge a reasonable fee to recover the cost of reproducing the report and for compliance with the Information Practices Act of 1977.
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