INTRODUCTION REPORT
Introductions From 02/09/07

AB 275

(Soto) Public employees: retirement: industrial disability. (I-02/09/2007   html   pdf)

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The Public Employees' Retirement Law provides a formula for calculating the retirement allowance for a local safety member for industrial disability. Existing law establishes this disability retirement allowance as 50% of the member's final compensation plus an annuity, purchased with the member's accumulated additional contributions, if any, or if the member is qualified for service retirement, the member's service retirement allowance, if the allowance, after deducting the annuity, is greater. Existing law limits the industrial disability allowance of local safety members whose membership commenced after January 1, 1980, as specified. This bill would provide a different method for calculating the disability retirement allowance of specified local safety members. The bill would provide that those local safety members shall receive a disability retirement allowance that is the greater of (a) 50% of the member's final compensation, plus an annuity purchased with accumulated contributions, if any, (b) a service retirement allowance, if the member is qualified for service retirement, or (c) 3% or 2.4%, for specified members, of the member's final compensation, multiplied by the difference of one minus 0.01 for each quarter year that the member's service age is less than 50 years, multiplied by the number of years of local safety service, as specified, if the member is not qualified for service retirement.

AB 281

(Silva) State mandates: Commission on State Mandates. (I-02/09/2007   html   pdf)

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The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish the Commission on State Mandates and specify procedures for making that reimbursement, including a provision that, with the agreement of all parties to a test claim, the commission may waive the application of any procedural requirement. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these statutory provisions.

AB 283

(Jeffries) Fire companies: certificate of organization. (I-02/09/2007   html   pdf)

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Existing law permits a fire company in an unincorporated town to be organized by recording with the county recorder a certificate signed by the presiding officer and by the secretary of the fire company. That law requires the certificate to include specified information, including, but not limited to, the date of organization, the name of the fire company, the names of the officers of the fire company, and the roll of active and honorary members of the fire company. That law requires the fire company to renew and record the certificate with the county recorder every 6 months. This bill would instead permit a fire company in an unincorporated town to be organized by filing a certificate with the Office of Emergency Services and require the fire company to renew the certificate annually with the Office of Emergency Services, as specified. The bill would require the Office of Emergency Services to develop a form for the certificate and make that form accessible on the official Web site of the Office of Emergency Services.

AB 304

(Huff) Community care facilities: disaster and mass casualty plans. (I-02/09/2007   html   pdf)

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Existing law, the California Community Care Facilities Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of community care facilities, as defined, and provides for criminal sanctions for a violation of those provisions. Existing law requires any person desiring issuance of a license for a community care facility or a special permit for specialized services to file with the State Department of Social Services, an application on a prescribed form, containing specified information. This bill would, on and after January 1, 2008, require any person applying for a license for a community care facility or a special permit for specialized services pursuant to those provisions to provide a copy of the plan to any appropriate local entity or authority responsible for providing emergency services in the area or community in which the facility is located. The bill would require a community care facility that was licensed or received a special permit for specialized services on or before January 1, 2008, to, no later than January 1, 2009, provide a copy of the plan to any appropriate local entity or authority responsible for providing emergency services in the area or community in which the facility is located. By imposing a new requirement on community care facilities, a violation of which would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.