Status: Read second time, amended, and to third reading.
Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution generally require that assessments, fees, and charges be submitted to property owners for approval or rejection after the provision of written notice and the holding of a public hearing. Existing law, the Proposition 218 Omnibus Implementation Act, prescribes specific procedures and parameters for local jurisdictions to comply with Article XIII C and Article XIII D of the California Constitution. This bill would authorize the agency providing the property-related service to a parcel to provide the required notice of a proposed increase of an existing fee or charge in the agency's regular billing statement or any other mailing by the agency to the address at which the agency customarily mails the billing statement for the fee or charge. The bill would also authorize the agency providing the property-related service to a parcel to provide the required notice of a proposed new fee or charge in the manner authorized for notice of a proposed increased fee or charge where the agency is providing an existing property-related service to the address. The bill would require the agency, if the agency desires to preserve any authority it may have, to record or enforce a lien on the parcel to which service is provided, to also mail notice to the record owner's address shown on the last equalized assessment roll, if that address is different than the billing or service address. The bill would also authorize any agency that bills, collects, and remits a fee or charge on behalf of another agency to provide notice on behalf of the other agency, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Status: From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L.GOV.
Existing law authorizes the head of a department of a county, a city or city and county, and a special district to destroy, after one year, recordings of routine video monitoring, unless the recordings are evidence in any claim filed or pending litigation, in which case the recordings shall be retained until the matter is resolved. Existing law provides that, for this purpose, routine video monitoring means videotaping by a video or electronic imaging system designed to record regular and ongoing operations of the entity of local government, including mobile in-car video systems, jail observation and monitoring systems, and building security taping systems. Existing law also requires a transit agency operated by a county, a city or city and county, or a special district, when installing new security systems, to purchase and install equipment capable of storing recorded data for at least one year, unless the transit agency, after diligent efforts, determines that the technology to store recorded data in an economically and technologically feasible manner for one year is not available and the agency has instead purchased and installed the best available technology. With respect to videotapes or recordings made by a security system operated as part of a public transit system, existing law provides an additional exemption from the one-year retention requirement if a transit agency utilizes a security system that was purchased or installed prior to January 1, 2004, and, in this case, instead authorizes retention for as long as the installed technology allows. This bill would reduce the retention requirement for recordings of routine video monitoring from one year to 210 days for each entity of local government , except that the retention period for recordings made by security systems operated as part of a public transit system, or by a security system purchased or installed prior to January 1, 2007, would be 210 days or as long as the installed technology allows, whichever is shorter, as specified . It would require each entity of local government, when installing new video monitoring security systems, to purchase and install the best available technology with respect to storage capacity that is both economically and technologically feasible at that time.
Position: Watch
Status: From committee with author's amendments. Read second time. Amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
Existing law, the Emergency Medical Services System and Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act (EMS act), establishes the Emergency Medical Services Authority within the California Health and Human Services Agency to, among other things, provide statewide coordination of county EMS programs, and to administer the Trauma Care Fund. This bill would delete from the criteria for local distribution of those funds consideration of whether the acquisition is demonstrated to be essential for trauma services within a specified hospital and whether coordination or payment of prescribed care and transportation services may be provided as necessary without undue delay the bill would designate 10% of those funds for inter-county trauma care transfer agreements . This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch