Status: 06/21/2007-From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E.Q.
Existing law requires the Secretary for Environmental Protection to implement a unified hazardous waste and hazardous materials management regulatory program. A city or local agency that meets specified requirements is authorized to apply to the secretary to implement the unified program, and every county is required to apply to the secretary to be certified to implement the unified program. This bill would instead require the unified program agencies (UPAs) to implement that act, and would make conforming changes. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Support
Status: 06/21/2007-Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.
Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a local agency that has a sinking fund or money in its treasury that is not required for immediate needs to invest in specified investments, including, among other things, bonds issued by the state and the United States. This bill would authorize these local agencies to also invest in registered treasury notes and bonds issued by any of the 50 United States, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Status: 06/21/2007-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time. Amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
The Ralph M. Brown Act requires that any meeting of a legislative body of a local agency be open and public and all persons be permitted to attend. The act requires the body to post an agenda at least 72 hours before a regular meeting and provides that agendas and any other writings, when distributed to all, or a majority of all, of the members of a legislative body of a local agency by any person in connection with a matter subject to discussion or consideration at a meeting of the body are public records subject to the public disclosure requirements of the California Public Records Act. This bill would provide that if a writing that is a public record under these provisions, and that relates to an agenda item for an open session of a regular meeting of the legislative body of a local agency, is distributed less than 72 hours prior to that meeting, the writing shall be made available for public inspection at a public office or location that the agency shall designate for this purpose. It would require each local agency to list the address of this office or location on the agendas for all meetings of the legislative body of that agency. It also would authorize a local agency to post a writing that is a public record under these provisions on the agency's Internet Web site. It would make these provisions effective on July 1, 2008.
Position: Watch
Status: 06/21/2007-Read second time. Amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
(1) The Public Employees' Retirement Law provides that the management and control of the Public Employees' Retirement System is vested in the Board of Administration of that retirement system. That law requires the board to perform specified tasks, including, but not limited to, keeping in convenient form data necessary for the actuarial valuation of the retirement system, adopting mortality, service, and other actuarial tables, and adopting rules for conducting structured preretirement information seminars. The federal Pension Protection Act of 2006 provides that the gross income of a retired public safety officer, as defined, does not include a direct distribution from an eligible retirement plan to a provider of an accident or health insurance plan or a qualified long-term care insurance contract if that distribution is payable for and does not exceed the amount paid by the retired public safety officer for qualified health insurance premiums, as specified. This bill would require, if a member separates from service as a public safety officer, as defined, and he or she retires from that public safety officer position, either for disability or based upon years of service after attaining the normal retirement age, the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System to certify to the Internal Revenue Service or a health insurance plan provider that the member is a retired public safety officer, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch