Summary:  Under existing law, the Political Reform Act of 1974, a public officer is prohibited from expending or accepting any public moneys for the purpose of seeking elective office. This bill would enact the California Clean Money and Fair Elections Act of 2007, which would authorize eligible candidates for Governor and for one unspecified seat in the Senate and another in the Assembly to obtain public funds according to specified procedures and requirements, provided that certain thresholds are attained. The bill would impose primary responsibility for the administration of the provisions of the bill on the Fair Political Practices Commission. This bill would create the Clean Money Fund and, from January 1, 2009 until March 31, 2010, would transfer an amount equal to $0.01 per day times the number of California residents 18 years of age or older from the General Fund to the Clean Money Fund. It would continuously appropriate those moneys in the Clean Money Fund to the Fair Political Practices Commission for the purpose of the public financing provisions of the act. The bill would make funding for the administrative and enforcement costs of the act subject to appropriation by the Legislature. It would repeal its operative provisions on January 1, 2011. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Summary:  Existing provisions of the California Constitution prohibit a Senator from serving more than 2 terms of 4 years each and a Member of the Assembly from serving more than 3 terms of 2 years each. This measure would instead allow a person, during his or her lifetime, to serve not more than 12 years in the Senate, the Assembly, or both, in any combination of terms, except that a Senator or Member of the Assembly in office on the effective date of this measure, whether or not he or she has previously served in the other house, would be eligible to serve a total of 12 consecutive years in the house in which he or she is currently serving. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Summary: Existing law, the California Child Day Care Facilities Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of specified types of child day care facilities responsible for the regular care of children. Existing law requires each child day care facility to post a written notice accessible to parents and guardians and requires the notice to include prescribed information. A willful violation of these provisions is a crime. This bill would require the State Department of Social Services, by January 1, 2010 , to develop and implement a licensed child day care facility rating system for quality of care and child safety , after implementing an unannounced visitation system . This bill would require that the department post the ratings information on the department's Internet Web site, and update the posted ratings as often as possible to maintain current and accurate information. It would require each facility to post its rating in a conspicuous place at the facility. By changing the definition of an existing crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Summary:  Under existing law, 6 unified school districts and consortia operating children's services program sites that provide instruction, counseling, tutoring, and related services for foster children receive an allowance from the State School Fund. Existing law also authorizes other school districts to provide educational services for foster children who reside in a regularly established licensed or approved foster home, located within the boundaries of a program site, pursuant to a commitment by a juvenile court. Existing law provides funding for those other school districts for the provision of those services in any fiscal year, upon appropriation from the General Fund, or if sufficient funds are available, from the Foster Children and Parent Training Fund. This bill, which would be known as the Foster Youth Higher Education Preparation and Support Act of 2007, would make statements of legislative intent relating to the establishment and provision of services and financial support necessary to help foster youth achieve their educational goals. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Summary:  The Warren-Alquist State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Act (act) establishes the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) and requires the commission to prepare a biennial integrated energy policy report containing specified information related to major energy trends and issues facing the state, as well as a biennial energy policy review. The act requires the commission to certify sufficient sites and related facilities that are required to provide a supply of electricity sufficient to accommodate projected demand for power statewide. This bill would enact the Liquefied Natural Gas Market Assessment Act and would require the Energy Commission, in consultation with affected state agencies, including, but not limited to, the Public Utilities Commission, the State Air Resources Board, the State Lands Commission, the Department of Water Resources, and the California Coastal Commission, to adopt and submit to the Legislature and the Governor, on or before July 1, 2008, the Liquefied Natural Gas Market Assessment Report of 2008 that would be incorporated into the integrated energy policy of 2007 and would contain specified information. The Energy Commission would be required to prepare a draft report, on or before April 1, 2008, to solicit public comments in the preparation of the report, and to hold 2 public hearings, one in Los Angeles and the other in the San Francisco Bay area , to consider the results of the liquefied natural gas needs assessment study and to provide an opportunity for public comment. The Energy Commission would be required to include a Liquefied Natural Gas Market Assessment Report in every integrated energy policy report adopted after January 1, 2009. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Summary:  Under existing law, 6 unified school districts and consortia operating children's services program sites that provide instruction, counseling, tutoring, and related services for foster children receive an allowance from the State School Fund. Existing law also authorizes other school districts to provide educational services for foster children who reside in a regularly established licensed or approved foster home, located within the boundaries of a program site, pursuant to a commitment by a juvenile court. Existing law provides funding for those other school districts for the provision of those services in any fiscal year, upon appropriation from the General Fund, or if sufficient funds are available, from the Foster Children and Parent Training Fund. This bill, which would be known as the Foster Youth Higher Education Preparation and Support Act of 2007, would make statements of legislative intent relating to the establishment and provision of services and financial support necessary to help foster youth achieve their educational goals. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Summary: Existing law requires a school district maintaining any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to offer to all otherwise qualified pupils in those grades a course of study fulfilling the requirements and prerequisites for admission to the California public institutions of postsecondary education and to provide a timely opportunity to each of those pupils to enroll within a 4-year period in each course necessary to fulfill those requirements and prerequisites. This bill would establish, until January 1, 2020, the Early Commitment to College program. Participation by pupils and school districts in the program would be voluntary. A pupil scheduled to graduate from high school after 2017 would not be allowed to participate. The Superintendent of Public Instruction would be required, among other program duties, to designate the 30% of school districts that operate middle and high schools with the highest proportion of low-income pupils, as defined, as College Opportunity Zones. A school that is designated as a College Opportunity Zone by the Superintendent would be required to give all pupils enrolled in grades 6 to 9, inclusive, and their parents or guardians the opportunity to sign a "Save Me a Spot in College" pledge developed by the Superintendent. Schools not designated as a College Opportunity Zone would be required to give pupils who are eligible for free and reduced-price meals and are enrolled in grades 6 to 9, inclusive, and their parents or guardians the opportunity to sign a pledge. Participating school districts would be required to provide college information and college preparation events inclusive of pupils who sign the pledge. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Summary: Existing law includes in the adopted course of study for grades 1 to 6, inclusive, and in the adopted course of study for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, instruction in social sciences, drawing upon the disciplines of anthropology, economics, geography, history, political science, psychology, and sociology. This bill would establish the model civic education staff development program, to be administered by the State Department of Education. School districts and county offices of education would be authorized to apply to the department for a grant of funds to offer a staff development program to certificated employees, including those holding an intern credential, and would be required to include in the application a plan to implement districtwide in all grades, including kindergarten, maintained by the school district or county office of education, the 6 promising approaches to civic education in the Civic Mission of Schools Report developed by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement. The bill would require the department to create and maintain a list of organizations with the proven capacity to deliver staff development programs, as specified. The bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish a statewide advisory committee that includes specified members. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Summary: Existing law requires school districts to report certain information to the State Department of Education relating to, among other things, pupils, pupil attendance, and staff. Existing law requires the department to collect certain information from school districts, and pursuant to this law, the department gathers data from school districts on school staff and pupil enrollment in the annual California Basic Educational Data System report. This bill would require school districts to track and report to the department, for pupils in grades 6 to 9, inclusive, those pupils who have failed yearlong or 2-semester courses, have scored below basic or far below basic on the California Standards Test, or who have more than 10 unexcused school absences per semester. This requirement would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would authorize a school district to claim supplemental instruction funds, as defined, to provide specified intervention for those pupils. The bill would state that the purpose of this information is to identify pupils at high risk of dropping out of school. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Summary: Existing law requires a school district maintaining any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to offer to all otherwise qualified pupils in those grades a course of study fulfilling the requirements and prerequisites for admission to the California public institutions of postsecondary education and to provide a timely opportunity to each of those pupils to enroll within a 4-year period in each course necessary to fulfill those requirements and prerequisites. This bill would establish, until January 1, 2020, the Early Commitment to College program. Participation by pupils and school districts in the program would be voluntary. A pupil scheduled to graduate from high school after 2017 would not be allowed to participate. The Superintendent of Public Instruction would be required, among other program duties, to designate the 30% of school districts that operate middle and high schools with the highest proportion of low-income pupils, as defined, as College Opportunity Zones. A school that is designated as a College Opportunity Zone by the Superintendent would be required to give all pupils enrolled in grades 6 to 9, inclusive, and their parents or guardians the opportunity to sign a "Save Me a Spot in College" pledge developed by the Superintendent. Schools not designated as a College Opportunity Zone would be required to give pupils who are eligible for free and reduced-price meals and are enrolled in grades 6 to 9, inclusive, and their parents or guardians the opportunity to sign a pledge. Participating school districts would be required to provide college information and college preparation events inclusive of pupils who sign the pledge. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Summary: Dropped because amended 9-12-07 to cover a different subject.

Summary: Existing law designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency with the primary responsibility for the control of vehicular air pollution and as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases that cause global warming in order to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. The state board is required to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions levels in 1990 to be achieved by 2020, and is required to adopt rules and regulations in an open-public process to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions. This bill would require the state board to create and implement a clean vehicle incentive program meeting specified requirements, that would provide rebates to, and require surcharges from, purchasers of new motor vehicles based on the vehicles' greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate against emissions of greenhouse gases from motor vehicles. This bill contains other related provisions.

Summary: The Warren-Alquist State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Act, requires by November 1, 2008, the Energy Commission to assess the potential state and local costs and impacts associated with accumulating waste at California's nuclear powerplants. This bill would prohibit the Public Utilities Commission from allowing an investor-owned utility to recover specified costs , except certain described costs, incurred in seeking renewal of certification to operate a nuclear fission thermal powerplant, unless the Energy Commission has completed its assessment prior to the investor-owned utility filing an application for license renewal with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Summary:  Existing law requires certain transportation planning activities by the Department of Transportation and by designated regional transportation planning agencies, including development of a regional transportation plan. Existing law authorizes the California Transportation Commission, in cooperation with the regional agencies, to prescribe study areas for analysis and evaluation. This bill would require the commission, by July 1, 2008, to adopt guidelines for travel demand models used in the development of regional transportation plans by certain transportation planning entities. The bill would require the Department of Transportation to assist the commission, on request, in this regard, and would impose other related requirements. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Summary:  The Warren-Alquist State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Act (act) establishes the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) and requires the commission to prepare a biennial integrated energy policy report containing specified information related to major energy trends and issues facing the state, as well as a biennial energy policy review. The act requires the commission to certify sufficient sites and related facilities that are required to provide a supply of electricity sufficient to accommodate projected demand for power statewide. This bill would enact the Liquefied Natural Gas Market Assessment Act and would require the Energy Commission, in consultation with affected state agencies, including, but not limited to, the Public Utilities Commission, the State Air Resources Board, the State Lands Commission, the Department of Water Resources, and the California Coastal Commission, to adopt and submit to the Legislature and the Governor, on or before July 1, 2008, the Liquefied Natural Gas Market Assessment Report of 2008 that would be incorporated into the integrated energy policy of 2007 and would contain specified information. The Energy Commission would be required to prepare a draft report, on or before April 1, 2008, to solicit public comments in the preparation of the report, and to hold 2 public hearings, one in Los Angeles and the other in the San Francisco Bay area , to consider the results of the liquefied natural gas needs assessment study and to provide an opportunity for public comment. The Energy Commission would be required to include a Liquefied Natural Gas Market Assessment Report in every integrated energy policy report adopted after January 1, 2009. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Summary:  The Community Redevelopment Law authorizes the establishment of redevelopment agencies in communities for the purposes of addressing the effects of blight, as defined. A redevelopment agency is authorized to employ various methods for the acquisition of real property for redevelopment, including acquisition by eminent domain. This bill would require a redevelopment agency, on and after January 1, 2008, to comply with certain notification requirements prior to adopting a resolution of necessity for the purposes of acquiring property by eminent domain, and within a specified time prior to taking certain actions relating to redevelopment. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Summary: Dropped because amended 8-20-07 to cover a different subject.

Summary: The California Constitution authorizes private property to be taken or damaged for public use only when just compensation has been paid to, or into court for, the owner of the property. This measure would require the public use for which the private property is taken to be stated in writing, prior to the commencement of eminent domain proceedings. This bill contains other existing laws.

Summary:  Existing law establishes various public programs to provide health care coverage to eligible children, including the Medi-Cal program administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and county welfare agencies, and the Healthy Families Program administered by the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board. Children through 18 years of age are eligible for health care coverage under these programs if they meet certain household income and other criteria, including specified citizenship and immigration status requirements. Under existing law, the applicant's signed statement as to the value or amount of income is accepted for eligibility purposes under the Healthy Families Program if documentation cannot otherwise be provided. Existing law requires the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board and the Department of Insurance, in collaboration with entities administering the California Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), to develop an automated enrollment gateway system allowing a presumptive eligibility determination for the Medi-Cal program and the Healthy Families Program to be made for children applying for the WIC program. This bill would expand eligibility for the Medi-Cal program and would expand eligibility for the Healthy Families Program by allowing children with family incomes at or below 300% of the federal poverty level to qualify for the program and would delete the specified citizenship and immigration status requirements. The bill would require the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board, by January 2008, in consultation with stakeholders, to implement a process for an applicant's self-certification of income and income deductions for purposes of establishing eligibility for the Healthy Families Program. The bill would create the Healthy Families Buy-In Program that would be administered by the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board and would make the coverage provided under the Healthy Families Program available to children whose household income exceeds 300% of the federal poverty level and who meet other specified criteria. The bill would specify that coverage under the buy-in program would include services provided under the California Children's Services Program (CCSP) for children eligible for CCSP and would deem the child's family financially eligible for benefits under CCSP. Because the bill would thereby expand eligibility for the CCSP, which is administered by a county's public health or social welfare department, it would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would specify the family contribution required for children enrolled in the buy-in program and would require an additional payment, as determined by the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board, from the family of a child determined eligible for CCSP. The bill would also make various related modifications to the Medi-Cal program and the Healthy Families Program, and would require the State Department of Health Care Services and the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board to maximize federal matching funds for the Medi-Cal program and the Healthy Families Program. Because the expansion of and modifications to the Medi-Cal program would impose certain duties on counties relative to administration of that program, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board and the State Department of Health Care Services to take specified actions to improve and coordinate the application and enrollment processes for the Medi-Cal program and the Healthy Families Program and to develop a process to transition the enrollment of children from local children's health initiatives into those programs. The bill would specify that an entity's use of the automated enrollment gateway system for presumptive eligibility determinations for WIC applicants would be required only to the extent that adequate financial assistance is available for that purpose. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Summary:  Existing law creates the California Health and Human Services Agency. This bill would require the agency, in consultation with the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS), to assume lead agency responsibility for professional review and development of best practice standards for high-cost chronic diseases that state health care programs would be required to implement upon their adoption. The bill would additionally require the agency, in consultation with PERS and health care provider groups, to develop health care provider performance measurement benchmarks, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Summary:  Existing law establishes various public programs to provide health care coverage to eligible children, including the Medi-Cal program administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and county welfare agencies, and the Healthy Families Program administered by the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board. Children through 18 years of age are eligible for health care coverage under these programs if they meet certain household income and other criteria including specified citizenship and immigration status requirements. Under existing law, the applicant's signed statement as to the value or amount of income is accepted for eligibility purposes under the Healthy Families Program if documentation cannot otherwise be provided. Existing law requires the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board and the Department of Insurance, in collaboration with entities administering the California Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), to develop an automated enrollment gateway system allowing a presumptive eligibility determination for the Medi-Cal program and the Healthy Families Program to be made for children applying for the WIC program. This bill would expand eligibility for the Medi-Cal program and would expand eligibility for the Healthy Families Program by allowing children with family incomes at or below 300% of the federal poverty level to qualify for the program and would delete the specified citizenship and immigration status requirements. The bill would require the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board, by January 2008, in consultation with stakeholders, to implement a process for an applicant's self-certification of income and income deductions for purposes of establishing eligibility for the Healthy Families Program. The bill would create the Healthy Families Buy-In Program that would be administered by the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board and would make the coverage provided under the Healthy Families Program available to children whose household income exceeds 300% of the federal poverty level and who meet other specified criteria. The bill would specify that coverage under the buy-in program would include services provided under the California Children's Services Program (CCSP) for children eligible for CCSP and would deem the child's family financially eligible for benefits under CCSP. Because the bill would thereby expand eligibility for the CCSP, which is administered by a county's public health or social welfare department, it would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would specify the family contribution required for children enrolled in the buy-in program and would require an additional payment, as determined by the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board, from the family of a child determined eligible for CCSP. The bill would also make various related modifications to the Medi-Cal program and the Healthy Families Program and would require the State Department of Health Care Services and the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board to maximize federal matching funds for the Medi-Cal program and the Healthy Families Program. Because the expansion of, and modifications to, the Medi-Cal program would impose certain duties on counties relative to administration of that program, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board and the State Department of Health Care Services to take specified actions to improve and coordinate the application and enrollment processes for the Medi-Cal program and the Healthy Families Program and to develop a process to transition the enrollment of children from local children's health initiatives into those programs. The bill would specify that an entity's use of the automated enrollment gateway system for presumptive eligibility determinations for WIC applicants would be required only to the extent that adequate financial assistance is available for that purpose. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Summary: Existing law does not provide a system of universal health care coverage for California residents. Existing law provides for the creation of various programs to provide health care services to persons who have limited incomes and meet various eligibility requirements. These programs include the Healthy Families Program administered by the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board, and the Medi-Cal program administered by the State Department of Health Care Services. Existing law provides for the regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and health insurers by the Department of Insurance. This bill would establish the California Healthcare System to be administered by the newly created California Healthcare Agency under the control of a Healthcare Commissioner appointed by the Governor and subject to confirmation by the Senate. The bill would make all California residents eligible for specified health care benefits under the California Healthcare System, which would, on a single-payer basis, negotiate for or set fees for health care services provided through the system and pay claims for those services. The bill would provide that a resident of the state with a household income, as specified, at or below 200% of the federal poverty level would be eligible for the type of benefits provided under the Medi-Cal program. The bill would require the commissioner to seek all necessary waivers, exemptions, agreements, or legislation to allow various existing federal, state, and local health care payments to be paid to the California Healthcare System, which would then assume responsibility for all benefits and services previously paid for with those funds. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Summary: The Personal Income Tax Law, which is administered by the Franchise Tax Board, imposes taxes upon the taxable income of individual taxpayers, at specified rates, based on the amount of the taxpayer's taxable income and alternative minimum taxable income. This bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2008, would impose an additional tax at the rate of 1% on the taxpayer's taxable income that exceeds $200,000 but is not over $1,000,000, a tax on self-employment income, as defined, of an individual taxpayer and a tax on nonwage income, as defined, of a taxpayer. This bill would require all revenues received by the Franchise Tax Board from those taxes be deposited in the Health Insurance Fund, as provided. This bill contains other related provisions.

Summary: Existing law establishes the fees to be charged by the county recorder for recording and indexing every instrument, paper, or notice required or permitted by law to be recorded. Existing law, including provisions of the California Constitution, subject local governmental agencies to various requirements when imposing, increasing, or extending general or special taxes, fees, and other local exactions. This bill would authorize the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors or the San Mateo Board of Supervisors to additionally charge a flat fee of not more than $25, as specified for each document that is recorded, if the document is in excess of one page, for every real estate instrument, as defined, paper, or notice required or permitted by law to be recorded in Contra Costa County or San Mateo County. The bill would require the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors or the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, if it charges this fee, to establish a fund for deposit of the moneys raised by the increase, which shall be used to assist in the development of affordable housing for extremely low income households, very low income households, lower income households, and moderate-income households. This bill contains other related provisions.

Summary: The Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of 2006 authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of $2,850,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law. Proceeds from the sale of these bonds are required to be used to finance various existing housing programs, capital outlay related to infill development, brownfield cleanup that promotes infill development, and housing-related parks. The act establishes the Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund of 2006 in the State Treasury, requires the sum of $850,000,000 to be deposited in the Regional Planning, Housing, and Infill Incentive Account, which the act establishes in the fund, and makes the money in the account available, upon appropriation, for infill incentive grants for capital outlay related to infill housing development and other related infill development, and for brownfield cleanup that promotes infill housing development and other related infill development consistent with regional and local plans, subject to the conditions and criteria that the Legislature may provide in statute. This bill would establish the Infill Incentive Grant Program of 2007, to require the Department of Housing and Community Development, upon appropriation by the Legislature of the funds in the Regional Planning, Housing, and Infill Incentive Account for certain purposes, to establish and administer a competitive grant program to allocate those funds to selected qualifying infill projects, as defined, for capital outlay related to infill housing development and related infill infrastructure needs. This bill contains other related provisions.

Summary:  Under existing law, 6 unified school districts and consortia operating children's services program sites that provide instruction, counseling, tutoring, and related services for foster children receive an allowance from the State School Fund. Existing law also authorizes other school districts to provide educational services for foster children who reside in a regularly established licensed or approved foster home, located within the boundaries of a program site, pursuant to a commitment by a juvenile court. Existing law provides funding for those other school districts for the provision of those services in any fiscal year, upon appropriation from the General Fund, or if sufficient funds are available, from the Foster Children and Parent Training Fund. This bill, which would be known as the Foster Youth Higher Education Preparation and Support Act of 2007, would make statements of legislative intent relating to the establishment and provision of services and financial support necessary to help foster youth achieve their educational goals. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Summary: Existing law, amended by initiative statute, provides that the penalty for a defendant found guilty of murder in the first degree, if special circumstances have been found to be true, as specified, who was 16 years of age or older and under 18 years of age at the time of the commission of the crime, shall be confinement in the state prison for life without the possibility of parole or, at the discretion of the court, 25 years to life. Existing law provides that these provisions may be amended by a 2/3 vote of each house of the Legislature. This bill would instead provide that the penalty for a defendant found guilty of murder in the first degree, if special circumstances have been found to be true, as specified, who was under 18 years of age at the time of the commission of the crime, shall be confinement in the state prison for 25 years to life.

Summary:  The Community Redevelopment Law authorizes the establishment of redevelopment agencies in communities for the purposes of addressing the effects of blight, as defined. A redevelopment agency is authorized to employ various methods for the acquisition of real property for redevelopment, including acquisition by eminent domain. This bill would require a redevelopment agency, on and after January 1, 2008, to comply with certain notification requirements prior to adopting a resolution of necessity for the purposes of acquiring property by eminent domain, and within a specified time prior to taking certain actions relating to redevelopment. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Summary:  Under existing law, the Department of Parks and Recreation has control of the state park system. Existing law authorizes the department to impose conditions and restrictions on the development of a specified roadway on Mulholland Scenic Corridor and Topanga State Park or other state-owned parkland, and upon contiguous portions of Mulholland Drive, if the Director of Parks and Recreation finds that geologic or other circumstances exist that cause or may cause substantial damage to state-owned park resources. Existing law establishes, in the department, the state park and recreation commission, which is required to establish policies relating to the state park system. This bill would prohibit a state or local agency, as defined, from funding the construction of, seeking funding to construct, or authorizing or approving the construction of, a road, as defined, or portion thereof, or making an improvement or extension to an existing road, that will physically encroach upon, traverse, bisect, or impair the recreational value of a state park property, as defined, unless the commission determines that specified conditions are met. The bill would authorize an interested party to appeal a determination by the commission to the Secretary of the Resources Agency, as specified. The bill would authorize the commission to recover the costs incurred by the commission as a result of making those determinations by imposing a fee for those costs on the proponent of the road project . The bill would authorize a person or class of persons to file a civil action to enjoin a person or entity, including a state or local agency, that is alleged to violate the prohibition. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Summary: The California Constitution authorizes private property to be taken or damaged for public use only when just compensation has been paid to, or into court for, the owner of the property. This measure would require the public use for which the private property is taken to be stated in writing, prior to the commencement of eminent domain proceedings. This bill contains other existing laws.

Summary:  Existing law requires certain transportation planning activities by the Department of Transportation and by designated regional transportation planning agencies, including development of a regional transportation plan. Existing law authorizes the California Transportation Commission, in cooperation with the regional agencies, to prescribe study areas for analysis and evaluation. This bill would require the commission, by July 1, 2008, to adopt guidelines for travel demand models used in the development of regional transportation plans by certain transportation planning entities. The bill would require the Department of Transportation to assist the commission, on request, in this regard, and would impose other related requirements. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Summary: Existing federal law provides for 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 for the allocation of federal funds received through the TANF block grant program, under which each county provides cash assistance and other benefits to qualified low-income families. Under existing law, for purposes of determining a family's maximum aid payment under the CalWORKs program, the number of needy persons in the same family is not increased for any child born into a family that has received aid under the CalWORKs program continuously for the 10 months prior to the birth of the child, with specified exceptions. This bill , commencing January 1, 2008, would phase out, as prescribed the exclusion of a child born into a family receiving aid for the 10 months prior to the child's birth, for purposes of determining the family's maximum aid payment , and would repeal this exclusion effective January 1, 2011 . This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Summary: Dropped because amended 01/07/08 by author to cover a different subject

Summary: Existing law generally regulates the confidentiality of various personnel records relating to peace and custodial officers. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to abrogate the California Supreme Court decision in Copley Press, Inc. v. Superior Court and to restore public access to meetings and hearings regarding peace officer discipline that were open prior to the Copley Press decision. This bill contains other related provisions.

Summary: Existing law establishes the California Library Construction and Renovation Bond Act of 1988 and the California Reading and Literacy Improvement and Public Library Construction and Renovation Bond Act of 2000. Existing law authorizes the issuance of bonds, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, in the amount of $75,000,000 in the 1988 act and in the amount of $350,000,000 in the 2000 act, for the purpose of financing library construction and renovation. This bill would enact the California Reading and Literacy Improvement and Public Library Construction and Renovation Bond Act of 2008, for submission to the voters at the 2008 statewide general election. The bill, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, of bonds in the amount not to exceed a total of $4,000,000,000 for the purpose of financing library construction and renovation pursuant to a program administered by the State Librarian.

Summary: The California Constitution requires the Legislature, in the year following the year in which the federal census is taken at the beginning of each decade, to adjust the boundary lines of the Senate, Assembly, congressional, and State Board of Equalization districts in accordance with specified standards. This measure would assign the responsibility for adjusting boundary lines of Senate, Assembly, congressional, and State Board of Equalization districts to a commission that , subject to specified conditions, consists of 11 members, including the 9 public members of the Milton Marks "Little Hoover" Commission on California State Government Organization and Economy and 2 additional persons appointed by those 9 members . It would require the Legislature to establish, by statute, procedures to ensure compliance with specified requirements for membership on the commission. This bill contains other related provisions.

Summary: The California Constitution requires the Legislature, in the year following the year in which the national census is taken at the beginning of each decade, to adjust the boundary lines of the senatorial, Assembly, congressional, and Board of Equalization districts in conformance with specified standards. This measure would repeal these provisions and instead provide for the establishment of the Independent Citizens' Commission on Redistricting, to be comprised of 11 voters, registered as specified, who would be required, on or before January 31 of each year ending in the number one, to adjust the boundary lines of the Senate, Assembly, congressional, and State Board of Equalization districts pursuant to a mapping process in accordance with certain standards, prioritized in a certain order and applied in a manner consistent with specified federal law. This bill contains other related provisions.

Summary:  Existing provisions of the California Constitution prohibit a Senator from serving more than 2 terms of 4 years each and a Member of the Assembly from serving more than 3 terms of 2 years each. This measure would instead allow a person, during his or her lifetime, to serve not more than 12 years in the Senate, the Assembly, or both, in any combination of terms, except that a Senator or Member of the Assembly in office on the effective date of this measure, whether or not he or she has previously served in the other house, would be eligible to serve a total of 12 consecutive years in the house in which he or she is currently serving. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Summary: The California Constitution requires the Legislature, in the year following the year in which the federal census is taken at the beginning of each decade, to adjust the boundary lines of the state Senate, Assembly, congressional, and State Board of Equalization districts in accordance with specified standards. This measure would delete these requirements, and would instead create a procedure for the appointment of an independent redistricting commission, composed of 11 members, that would be charged with establishing Senate, Assembly, congressional, and State Board of Equalization districts in accordance with designated goals prioritized in a specified order. This bill contains other related provisions.

Summary: Under existing law, specified family planning services, administered by the Office of Family Planning within the State Department of Health Services, are provided to Medi-Cal recipients and certain other persons. This bill would establish the Stronger Families for California Program , a continuing information and public education program, within the department, with the primary goal of decreasing teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases through a continuing information and public education program that equips parenting adults, as defined, with the communication skills necessary to talk with their children abo ut sex, sexual health, and making well-informed decisions to protect their health and safety, as specified. This bill contains other existing laws.

Summary: The Corporation Tax Law imposes taxes measured by income and, in the case of a business with income derived from, or attributable to, sources both within and without this state, apportions the income between this state and other states and foreign countries in accordance with a specified 4-factor formula, except as otherwise provided. This bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2008 and before January 1, 2022, would allow a taxpayer that is a member of the apportioning trade or business to elect, by contracting with the Franchise Tax Board, as provided, to apportion its business income to this state by utilizing one of the revised apportionment formulas, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions.

Summary:  The Sales and Use Tax Law imposes a tax on the gross receipts from the sale in this state of, or the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of, tangible personal property. That law provides various exemptions from that tax, including an exemption for the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, fuel and petroleum products sold to an air common carrier for immediate consumption or shipment in the conduct of its business on an international flight. This bill, for calendar years beginning on and after July 1, 2008, would exempt from those state taxes the gross receipts derived from the sale in this state of, and the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of, low-sulfur fuel products for use in a vessel's auxiliary or main engine sold to a water common carrier for use in California's territorial or internal waters, as provided. This exemption would continue until June 30, 2013, with respect to the exemption for products used in a vessel's auxiliary engine. With respect to exemption for products used in a vessel's main engine, the exemption would continue until June 30, 2013, or for 6 months following the publication of a specified finding, whichever occurs first. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Summary: The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law authorize various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws. This bill would authorize a credit against those taxes for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2008, in an amount equal to the direct tax revenues, as defined, attributable to the production of a qualified motion picture in California, or, where the qualified motion picture has relocated to California or is an independent film, 125% of the direct tax revenues. This bill would authorize the sale of credits, attributable to an independent film, to an unrelated party. This bill contains other related provisions.

Summary: The Personal Income Tax Law, which is administered by the Franchise Tax Board, imposes taxes upon the taxable income of individual taxpayers, at specified rates, based on the amount of the taxpayer's taxable income and alternative minimum taxable income. This bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2008, would impose an additional tax at the rate of 1% on the taxpayer's taxable income that exceeds $200,000 but is not over $1,000,000, a tax on self-employment income, as defined, of an individual taxpayer and a tax on nonwage income, as defined, of a taxpayer. This bill would require all revenues received by the Franchise Tax Board from those taxes be deposited in the Health Insurance Fund, as provided. This bill contains other related provisions.

Summary:  Existing provisions of the California Constitution prohibit a Senator from serving more than 2 terms of 4 years each and a Member of the Assembly from serving more than 3 terms of 2 years each. This measure would instead allow a person, during his or her lifetime, to serve not more than 12 years in the Senate, the Assembly, or both, in any combination of terms, except that a Senator or Member of the Assembly in office on the effective date of this measure, whether or not he or she has previously served in the other house, would be eligible to serve a total of 12 consecutive years in the house in which he or she is currently serving. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Summary:  Existing law requires the legislative body of each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city with specified elements, including a circulation element consisting of the general location and extent of existing and proposed major thoroughfares, transportation routes, terminals, any military airports and ports, and other local public utilities and facilities, all correlated with the land use element of the plan. This bill would require, commencing January 1, 2010, that the legislative body of a city or county, upon any revision of the circulation element of the general plan, modify the circulation element to accommodate the safe and convenient travel of users of streets, roads, and highways, defined to include motorists, pedestrians, bicyclists, children, persons with disabilities, seniors, movers of commercial goods, and users of public transportation , in a manner that is suitable to the rural, suburban, or urban context of the general plan . By requiring new duties of local officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Summary:  Existing law requires certain transportation planning activities by the Department of Transportation and by designated regional transportation planning agencies, including development of a regional transportation plan. Existing law authorizes the California Transportation Commission, in cooperation with the regional agencies, to prescribe study areas for analysis and evaluation. This bill would require the commission, by July 1, 2008, to adopt guidelines for travel demand models used in the development of regional transportation plans by certain transportation planning entities. The bill would require the Department of Transportation to assist the commission, on request, in this regard, and would impose other related requirements. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Summary:  Existing law requires any person desiring to vote at a polling place to announce his or her name and address to a precinct board member and to write this information on the roster of voters. This bill would require any eligible citizen, in addition, to present proof of his or her identity to a member of the precinct board before receiving a ballot, and would specify 6 forms of currently valid identification that may be used for this purpose. It would permit a voter who is unable to present proof of identity to cast a provisional ballot , as specified . The bill would also make a violation or attempted violation of these provisions a felony. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Summary: Existing law provides that every person who knowingly challenges a person's right to vote without probable cause or on fraudulent or spurious grounds, or who engages in mass, indiscriminate, and groundless challenging of voters solely for the purpose of preventing voters from voting or to delay the process of voting, or who fraudulently advises any person that he or she is not eligible to vote or is not registered to vote when in fact that person is eligible or is registered, or who otherwise orally challenges or questions a voter's qualifications to vote within a polling place is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than 12 months or in state prison. This bill would instead make the violation of all of these offenses a felony and punishable by imprisonment for not less than 16 months, 2 years, or 3 years in the state prison by changing the penalties and for crime. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Summary: Existing law authorizes elections officials to designate polling places in each precinct and to use satellite locations for any voter using an absentee ballot, prior to the close of the polls on election day, to vote the ballot at the satellite location in addition to the office of the elections official. This bill would, until January 1, 2014, require the Secretary of State to report annually whether any voting systems have been approved that would permit elections to be conducted using vote centers in lieu of polling places in each precinct. The bill would require the Secretary of State, if he or she determines that voting systems have been approved, to authorize not more than 2 counties to conduct elections other than federal or state elections using vote centers in lieu of polling places in each precinct. This bill contains other related provisions.

Summary:  Existing law requires a person desiring to vote to announce his or her name and address to a precinct board member and to write them on the roster of voters. This bill would additionally require a voter to present proof of his or her identity to a member of the precinct board before receiving a ballot. It would specify the documents that may be used for this purpose and would authorize any other form of identification that the Secretary of State deems appropriate. It would permit a voter who is unable to present proof of identity to cast a provisional ballot. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Summary:  Existing law makes it a felony punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for 16 months or 2 or 3 years for every person who, among other things, makes use of or threatens to make use of any force, violence, or tactic of coercion or intimidation, to induce or compel any other person to vote or refrain from voting at any election or to vote or refrain from voting for any particular person or measure at any election. This bill would also make it a felony punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for 16 months or 2 or 3 years for every person who acts under color of law and who knowingly or with reckless disregard for the truth provides, distributes, produces, disseminates, sponsors, authorizes, or finances the provision, distribution, or dissemination of any false or misleading information regarding either the time, place, or manner of any election; or the qualifications for, or restrictions on, voter eligibility for any election, as specified. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Summary: Under existing law, various state and local agencies engage in water resource planning. This bill would enact the Climate Change and Water Resource Protection Act of 2007. The bill would require the Department of Water Resources, as part of its statewide water resource management responsibilities, to include an analysis of the potential effects of climate change, to the extent applicable, in reports or plans that the department is required to prepare. The bill would prohibit the department from approving a request for a specified grant, submitted after January 1, 2010, unless certain requirements are met. The department would be required, by July 1, 2008, to identify available peer-reviewed information, or the best available scientific information, regarding climate change and water resources for the state and each of the state's hydrologic regions for specified uses. The bill , on and after January 1, 2009, would require an urban water supplier and an agricultural water supplier that is required to prepare a water management plan to take certain action relating to specified climate change information. This bill contains other related provisions.

Summary:  Under existing law, various bond acts have been approved by the voters to provide funds for water projects, facilities, and programs. The Disaster Preparedness and Flood Prevention Bond Act of 2006, a bond act approved by the voters at the November 7, 2006, statewide general election, authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of $4,090,000,000 for the purposes of financing disaster preparedness and flood prevention projects. The Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006, an initiative bond act approved by the voters at the November 7, 2006, statewide general election, authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of $5,388,000,000 for the purposes of financing a safe drinking water, water quality and supply, flood control, and resource protection program. The Water Security, Clean Drinking Water, Coastal and Beach Protection Act of 2002, approved by the voters at the November 5, 2002, statewide general election, authorizes, for the purposes of financing a safe drinking water, water quality, and water reliability program, the issuance of bonds in the amount of $3,440,000,000. This bill, with regard to those bond funds, would appropriate $610,890,000 as follows: of the funds made available pursuant to the Disaster Preparedness and Flood Prevention Bond Act of 2006, $50,000,000 to the Department of Water Resources for essential emergency preparedness supplies and projects, and $150,000,000 to the department for stormwater flood management project grants; of the funds made available pursuant to the Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006, $50,000,000 to the State Department of Public Health for grants and loans for small community drinking water systems infrastructure improvements and related actions, $50,400,000 to the State Department of Public Health for grants for projects to prevent or reduce the contamination of groundwater that serves as a source of drinking water, $40,000,000 to the department for administrative costs, planning grants, and local groundwater assistance grants, $50,000,000 to the department for projects to relocate existing Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta water intake facilities, $60,000,000 to the department for expenditures to increase the department's ability to respond to levee breaches and to reduce the potential for levee failure, $100,000,000 to the department for the acquisition, preservation, protection, and restoration of Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta islands, $12,000,000 to the department to complete planning and feasibility stud