Status: From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 2.) . Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
Existing law designates certain locations as safe-surrender sites for the safe surrender of newborn children who are 72 hours of age or younger. This bill would expand the scope of those provisions to apply to children who are 7 days old or younger. The bill would permit a local fire agency, upon the approval of the appropriate local governing body of the agency, to designate a safe-surrender site. The bill would specify certain circumstances in which a safe-surrender site and its personnel have no liability for a surrendered child. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Support
Status: From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) . Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
Existing law prescribes various duties for the Department of General Services in connection with development and maintenance of the park around the State Capitol Building. This bill would authorize the California State Sheriffs Search and Rescue Coordinators, in consultation with the department and a specifically created committee, to construct and maintain a memorial in the Capitol Historic Region to honor California search-and-rescue volunteers who have died in the line of duty. It would require that the planning, construction, and maintenance of the memorial be funded with private donations through a nonprofit foundation to be established. It also would prohibit construction of the memorial until the master plan of the State Capitol Park is approved and adopted by the Joint Committee on Rules and the Department of Finance has determined that sufficient private funding is available to construct and maintain the memorial.
Position: Support
Status: Read third time, amended. To second reading.
The Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act provides continuing health benefit coverage to the surviving spouse, as defined, or eligible family member of a firefighter or peace officer who dies as a result of an injury or disease sustained in the line of duty. Contributions paid by those persons and the state are deposited into one of 2 continuously appropriated funds to provide that coverage. This bill would enact the California Fallen Federal Firefighter Survivor Assistance Act of 2007, which would extend that health benefit coverage to the surviving spouse, as defined, or eligible family member of a firefighter employed by the federal government who was a resident of, and whose regular duty assignment was to perform firefighting services in, this state, and who dies as a result of an injury or disease sustained in the line of duty. By extending that coverage to those survivors, the bill would increase the contributions to continuously appropriated funds, thereby making an appropriation.
Position: Support
Status: From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 7.) . Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
The State Housing Law regulates buildings used for human habitation and requires specified local agencies to enforce building standards. This bill would require a person or entity that acquires an ownership interest in a property for which an enforcement agency has recorded with the county recorder any of specified documents relating to substandard building violations, to provide that enforcement agency with specified information and documents, concurrently with the completion of sale, an exchange of property, or closure of escrow. The bill would impose a state-mandated local program by imposing additional duties upon enforcement agencies. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Status: Read third time, amended. To second reading.
Under the California Constitution, whenever the Legislature or a state agency mandates a new program or higher level of service on any local government, including school districts, the state is required to provide a subvention of funds to reimburse the local government, with specified exceptions. Existing law establishes a procedure for local governmental agencies to file claims for reimbursement of these costs with the Commission on State Mandates. These procedures require that a claim for reimbursement include, among other things, a written narrative that identifies the specific sections of statutes or executive orders alleged to contain a mandate. This bill would require that a test claim also identify the effective date and register number of regulations alleged to contain a mandate, as well as a legislatively determined mandate on the same statute or executive order. It would also require that the written narrative contain specified declarations with respect to legislatively determined mandates, if applicable. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch