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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: THURSDAY P.Ms.
Sacramento, California 95814
SEPTEMBER 5, 1974
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-3-74
#500
Governor Ronald Reagan has called on the Tahoe Regional Planning
Agency to give serious consideration to its ad hoc committee's
recommendations, which he feels would make the agency "fully effective. "
In a letter to Thomas Stewart, the agency's chairman, the
governor said:
"The Ad Hoc Committee appointed by the chairman of the Tahoe
Regional Planning Agency last fall has done a thorough and thoughtful
job of reviewing the bi-state agency's work to date and has made
some provocative recommendations.
"I believe the TRPA should give serious consideration to
these proposals, for some of them could be the key to making the
agency fully effective in its duty to provide a balance between
the works of man and the works of God in this unique mountain
setting. "
#####
McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-3-74
#501
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that he has signed the following bills:
AB 1286 - Keene
Chapter 572
Increases the maximum value of forest products from
state forests that the State Forester, with the
approval of the Director of General Services, may
sell $2,000. without advertising for bids from $1,000 to
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 2022 - Thurman
Provides that for all cities, counties, and districts,
Chapter 573
applicants for employment and incumbent employees
may be solicited to voluntarily declare their ethnic
identification pursuant to federal law, provided such
information shall be used for research and statistical
purposes only.
The bill also requires the State Fair Employment
Practice Commission to approve safeguards to prevent
misuse of such information.
The changes made by the bill become effective immedi-
ately.
AB 2708 - Cory
Authorizes a motor vehicle to be equipped with a
Chapter 574
described amber light, rather than a red or amber
warning light, designed to indicate by pulsation
of light the rate of the vehicle's deceleration.
The bill also deletes the requirement that such light
be mounted at the same height as existing stop lamps.
The bill takes effect immediately.
AB 2722 - Cullen
Permits the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue a
Chapter 575
registration decal, in lieu of a license plate, to
every trailer coach over eight feet wide or over 40
feet long.
The Department is authorized to issue such decals
commencing on July 1. 1976.
AB 3098 - Keysor
Prohibits any construction of the Education Code
Chapter 576
which would prohibit the governing board of any school
district offering aviation education from insuring
against specified related liabilities.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 3161 - R. Johnson
Requires each automobile conditional sale contract
Chapter 577
to be signed or initialed by the buyer, at place
following a warning that public liability or property
damage insurance is not being offered in the contract
unless the buyer pays a charge for such coverage.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
/
AB 3252 - Wood
Excludes a trailer coach being towed with a fifth
Chapter 578
wheel, from the prohibition against containing any
passenger while being towed, if the trailer coach
is pped with safety glazing materials in the
windows and doors, an audible or visual signaling
device which a passenger can use to gain the atten-
tion of the driver, and one unobstructed exit capable
of being opened from both the interior and exterior
of the trailer coach.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 3323 - MacDonald
Allows the Ventura County Flood Control District to
Chapter 579
utilize funds derived from the sale of bonds for the
financial support required as a condition to federal
assistance in channel improvements.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 3393 - MacGillivray
Authorizes the Chief of the California State Police
Chapter 580
to advance initial uniform and equipment costs to
entering security officers of the stat e police.
The bill takes effect immediately.
AB 3430 - MacGillivray
Includes within the definition of an authorized
Chapter 581
emergency vehicle, any publicly owned vehicle
operated by the California State Police Division,
The changes made by the bill become effective on
Janua ry 1, 1975.
AB 3490 - Maddy
Increases the penalties for vandalism (formerly
Chapter 582
malicious mischief).
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 3503 - Z'berg
Permits cities or counties to prohibit or regulate
Chapter 583
the practice of astrology for compensation.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
Janua ry 1. 1975.
AB 3540 - MacGillivray
Includes in the definition of "lighting equipment
Chapter 584
a "deceleration signal device" and a "blue warning
lamp."
The changes made by the bill Decome effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 3592 - Minmo
Chapter 585
Deletes the termination date for the provisions that
authorize payment of the cost of replacing personal
tools or other equipment required in a state
employee's work when the tools are stolen from the
job site without fault of the employee.
The changes máde by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 3622 - Knox
Postpones from June 30, 1974, to April 1, 1975, the
Chapter 586
date by which the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and
Transportation District must submit to the Legislatur
its plan for transit service, other than for an
interim system of buses and ferries.
The bill takes effect immediately.
#501
AB 3676 - Deddeh
Requires every application by a corporation for a
Chapter 587
production agency license and a surplus line broker's
license to contain specified information. The
bill requires all corporations so licensed to file
with the Insurance Commissioner a report of changes
in such information.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 3677 - Deddeh
Specifies that pr ferred stock of insurers deposited
Chapter 588
with the Insurance Commissioner in trust for policy-
holders and creditors of insurers shall be estimated
only at its market value.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 3688 - Maddy
Establishes a procedure for giving notice of cessatio
Chapter 589
of law practice to specified persons and assumption
of jurisdiction by the courts, when an attorney dies,
resigns, becomes an inactive member, is disbarred,
or is suspended from the practice of law and leaves
an unfinished client matter for which no other active
member of the State Bar, with the consent of such
client, has agreed to assume responsibility.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1875.
AB 3690 - Bannai
Amends the Electronic and Appliance Repair Dealer
Chapter 590
Registration Law by making conviction of a felony
or crime involving moral turpitude a ground for
denial, suspension, or revocation of registration
if the offense has a substantial relationship to
the functions and responsibilities of a registrant.
Changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 3767 - R. Johnson
Increases weights limits of vehicles (with two drive
Chapter 591
wheels) which may use snow tires in lieu of chains
from 5,000 to 6,000 pounds. The bill also increases
weight limits of vehicles (with four wheel drive)
which may use snow tires in lieu of chains from
5,000 to 6,500 pounds.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 3770 TX McAlister
Substitutes a request procedure for a procedure of
Chapter 592
noticed motion and court order for the inspection
and copying of documents and other tangible things,
and the entry upon land and other property for the
purpose of inspection, measurement, survey, photo-
graphic record, or sampling.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 3904 - Craven
Permits the arresting officer to detain at the county
Chapter 593
jail for a maximum of two hours, rather than one hour
for purposes of verifying his identity, any person
taken into custody pursuant to an arrest for specific
offenses, who fails to present his driver's license
or other satisfactory identification.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
#501
AB 3983 - Lewis
Provides, with regard to specified unremitted
Chapter 594
fiduciary funds of designated insurance licensees,
that the licensees may maintain such funds on
Califor in business at all times in a trustee bank
account or depository in California, rather than main-
tain the fiduciary funds, generally, in a trustee
bank account or depository anywhere.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
and 4090 - Keene
Allows local gover ments to appoint standby officers
Chapter 595
in the event of a state of emergency or in a local
emergency.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 4428 - Z'berg
Appropriates such funds as are necessary to increase
Chapter 597
the salary of each state employee for the month of
September, 1974, in an amount equal to the difference
between the salary which the employee received for
services performed during the period from July 1,
1973, to April 30, 1974, and that which he would
have received but for the action of the Federal Cost
of Living Council.
The bill takes effect immediately.
AB 4486 - Mobley
Amends the Bee Management Law concerning notification
Chapter 596
requirements for the relocation of bee colonies. It
requires a relocation notice to the county agricul-
tural commission if such beekeeper desires notice of
pesticide applications. The bill further provides
if the beekeeper fails to submit such report he will
be denied recovery of damages for injury by reason
of any pesticide control operation.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 4513 - Lanterman
Appropriates $18,000,000 from the General Fund in
Chapter 567
augmentaton of Item 293 and 297 of the Budget Act
of 1974 for local mental health services and regional
center operations.
The bill becomes effective immediately.
SB 1558 - Way
Authorizes the State Center Community College District
Chapter 535
to have levied and collected for the 1974975 fiscal
year a tax not to exceed three cents per $100
assessed valuation for the purposes of retiring a
debt arising from the district's acquisition of
property and facilities of other school districts.
The bill takes effect immediately.
SB 1678 - Robbins
Opinion and reputation evidence and evidence of
Chapter 569
specific acts relating to complaining witness'
previous sexual conduct inadmissible by the defendant
I
in rape cases to prove consent. Provides a procedure
by which a court may determine relevancy of evidence
of prior sexual conduct proposed to be admitted to
attack the credibility of complaining witness before
such evidence is introduced. Effective 1-1-75.
#501
SB 1935 - Stiern
Chapter 570
Requires all local school districts to reduce their
revenue limits by the anticipated amount of open
space subvention commencing with the 1974-75 fiscal
year. The bill provides the 1974-75 base revenue
limits may be increased by the open space subvention
actually received in 1972-73.
The bill becomes e fective immediately.
SB 2138 - Stiern
Amends provisions of the Education Code relating to
Chapter 571
county funding of juvenile court schools.
The bill takes effect immediately.
SB 2316 - Alquist
Requires State hospitals and other licensed mental
Chapter 566
health facilities to prepare and transmit a
recommended aftercare plan to local mental health
services before discharging certain patients.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
SB 2434 - Stull
Specifies an alternative method of computing revenue
"hapter 568
limits in school districts in which tax override
was approved on June 4, 1973, and which meet other
specified criteria.
The bill takes effect immediately.
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Walthall
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-3-74
Through a misunderstanding on my part, the governor's
10:00 a.m.
schedule for this week lists a special ne S conference for 3:30 p.m.,
for 3:30 p.m.
Thursday, September 5. The news conference is still on but the
governor is not scheduled to appear. Dave Swoap, director of the
Department of Health Benefit Payments, will background newsmen on
the governor's recommendations to combat abuses in the Federal Food
Stamp Program.
Newsmen will be given copies of a blue book detailing
reform proposals and the text of the Governor's Host Breakfast Speech
which will zero in on the food stamp program. The news conference is
scheduled for the Council Room in the Governor's Office.
# # #
Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR KONALD REAGAN
REDDASD:
Sacramento, Califo ia 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-4-74
#502
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement:
"Last Saturday, the legislature made history. It finished its first
full-time, two-year session.
"This is a major departure from the days when the legislators met
for a few months every other year, then returned to their stores, farms,
businesses and professions and their constituents.
"When the people voted to approve the full-time idea, the major
selling points were that it would bring a new sense of professionalism
and efficiency to the legislature.
"And yet, we have just gone through the usual last-minute logjam.
In the final week, some one thousand bills went through the legislature
nearly twice as many as in the balance of the year.
The state budget was passed and sent to me two weeks after the
legal deadline and only 48 hours before my legal deadlines hardly
enough time to thoughtfully consider $10 billion worth of items.
--In the final days, the Senate leadership broke a tradition of
many years standing, turning down appointees I had nominated to boards
and commissions, not because they lacked qualifications, but because the
Senate leaders disagreed with the nominees' philosophy and mine.
Now, that same Senate leadership is granting each incumbent
Senator up for reelection an extra staff person at public expense
to help him through the election.
"And, to top it off, the legislature is now costing the people $52
million a year to run its affairs.
"The legislature could have done much to make this session both
historic and progressive. It could have passed landmark bills on
campaign and election reform; farm workers' rights; no-fault insurance;
land use; and public employee work relations but it did not. It did
find time, though, to debate and pass a bill making the saber-tooth
tiger the official state fossil!
"In my years as Governor, I have known many wise and effective
legislators from both parties, but I wonder if our move to a full-time
legislature hasn't inadvertently caused too many of our lawmakers to
isolate themselves in Sacramento and to become overly conscious of
their perquisites?
"There is no one-sentence solution, but it seems to me that the
legislature should start by working more days per week throughout the
session to avoid the logjam. As it is, legislators often draw seven
days of tax-free expense funds a week, but are in session only four.
The time has come to objectively reevaluate the mechanics of the full-
time system. A blue-ribbon citizens' task force next year could do this--
much as the Constitutional Revision Commission did in 1965 and 1966.
"If we do not take steps such as these, I'm afraid that public
confidence in the legislature will continue to wither, and public
cynicism toward generous retirement benefits, self-regulated salaries
and the various emoluments the legislators have given themselves will
take its place. The California taxpayers deserve better.
####
McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-4-74
#503
Marjorie H. Daly of Elk Grove today was appointed by Governor
Ronald Reagan to fill an unexpired term on the board of the 52nd
District Agricultural Association.
Mrs. Daly, whose term will expire next January 15, replaces Fred
D. Corfee, Jr., of Sacramento, who resigned. Directors receive their
necessary expenses.
The appointee is a licensed laboratory technician, but is not
currently employed as such. She has been active in 4-H work and
community life in Elk Grove.
Mrs. Daly is a Republican.
######
McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RC LD REAGAN
RELEA:
Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-4-74
#504
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed retired U. S. Marine
Brigadier General Thomas F. Riley to the vacant 5th District
supervisorial seat in Orange County.
Riley, 62, is now vice president of corporate management and
administration for Microvision, Inc. in Newport Beach.
He replaces Supervisor Ronald W. Caspers, who died in a boating
accident in June. The appointment is until June, 1976 when the seat is
subject to the general election.
Riley will be paid approximately $24,000 annually during a term
prescribed by law.
The new supervisor is a graduate of Virginia Military Institute
(VMI) in Lexington, Virginia, and was commissioned a second lieutenant
in the U. S. Marine Corps in 1935, where he served on continuous active
duty until retirement in July 1964. While a general officer, Riley was
assigned duties as assistant division commander and commanding general of
the 1st Marine Division, assistant division commander of the 3rd Mar ine
Division and inspector general of the corps.
Upon retirement, he joined Rosan, Inc. as vice president of sales
and public relations. He took his current position with Microvision last
June.
Riley has been active in the Newport-Balboa Rotary Club, Rotary
District 532, Big Brothers of Orange County, Commodores Club of the
Newport Harbor Chamber of Commerce, International Orphans, Inc. Advisory
Board, 552 Club, Boy Scouts of America and Harbor Area United Way. He
was honorary chairman of Orange County Marine Corps Reserves Toys for Tots
program last year.
The appointee is a Republican.
######
McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-5-74
#505
Governor Ronald Reagan today appealed to Southern California
transit union leaders to submit the latest management offer to a
secret ballot of the union rank and file membership
The governor called the move "the raditional democratic way"
to let union members decide the issues and perhaps bring about an
early settlement of the Southern California Rapid Transit District
strike that has idled buses for nearly four weeks.
"After learning details of the Transit District's latest offer,
I feel impelled to make this request of union leadership," Governor
Reagan said. "I have talked by telephone both with the RTD management
and with the leaders of the drivers' union."
The governor said he has offered the services of the State
Conciliation Service to conduct the elections.
"The Transit District's latest offer to the drivers amounts to
an increase of more than 10 percent. This compares most favorably
with recent wage increases granted other public employees in the
Southland. I think it is significant that this offer carries a price
tag that is approximately $1 million in excess of the recommendations
of the fact finding commission of impartial experts I appointed last
spring to investigate the contract differences between the RTD and the
unions.
"It is my hope that the union leaders will see their way clear to
call elections by their members as soon as possible as a means of
settling this terribly disruptive strike. I have been most disturbed
at the way hundreds of thousands of people in Southern California have
become innocent victims of this unwanted strike," the state's chief
executive said.
The Southern California Rapid Transit District is an agency of
the state. The RTD's 3,300 drivers, represented by the United
Transportation Union, and the district's 728 mechanics, represented
by the Amalgamated Transit Union, walked off their jobs last August 12,
bringing an immediate halt to bus service in four Southern California
counties.
Union demands far exceeded recommendations of Governor Reagan's
Fact-Finding Commission, and the parties have remained far apart in
their negotiations.
# # #
McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Friday P.M.s
Sacramento, California 95814
September 6, 1974
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-5-74
#506
Governor Ronald Reagan, in a sweeping series of new proposals to
reform the nation's welfare system, also called for a drastic overhaul
of the federal Food Stamp program and further refinements in the Aid to
Families with Dependent Children program.
The proposals are contained in a 70-page report made public today.
Costly abuses of the program were discovered by the Governor's
Food Stamp Task Force. The task force was initiated in 1973 along with
a task force to re-examine the state's Aid to Families With Dependent
Children (AFDC) program.
Both the Food Stamp and AFDC task forces gathered extensive data
on their respective programs through direct contact with welfare
officials at all governmental levels, and through the utilization of
analysts employed by the Department of Benefit Payments.
Governor Reagan said the food stamp program is "out of control" "
and is "a national scandal." He pointed out that lax eligibility rules
and glaring loopholes in the program make it far easier for persons to
get food stamps than to get into many other welfare programs.
"The food stamp program has multiplied nationally from 367,000
persons in 1964 to 13 million today, a 3,400 percent increase," the
governor said. "By next year one in every 14 persons will be using
food stamps and, according to a congressional committee report, within
three years one in every four Americans could be eligible."
He said that in the current fiscal year the federal government
will contribute at least $316 million in tax dollars to underwrite the
program in California alone. An additional $100 million will be spent to
administer the program in California. By the middle of next year, the
national program will cost more than $4 billion annually.
"The food stamp program was originally established to help shore
up the nation's agricultural economy by distributing food surpluses
through retail channels. Those surpluses have now disappeared and the
program has become a separate welfare system supervised by yet another
giant and expensive bureaucracy in Washington," he said.
"The U.S. Department of Agriculture is in charge of the food stamp
program and the federal Department of Health, Education and Welfare has
the authority over the rest of the national welfare system.
-1-
#506
"Having two separate welfare programs being run by two giant
federal bureaucracies is simply one bureaucracy too many. This is a
source of many of the problems which plague the overall welfare system
in our nation today."
Governor Reagan proposed that the food stamp program be transferred
to HEW. Until this is done, he said, county welfare workers who must
administer regular welfare programs as well as food stamps at the local
level, will continue to face the hour-by-hour nightmare of trying to sort
out the widely differing and complex regulations which govern the two
welfare systems. He said one out of every four Californians receiving
food stamps today isn't even in a regular welfare program, or does not
qualify for welfare. This is because food stamp eligibility requirements
are far more liberal, he noted.
The Food Stamp Task Force identified 88 specific problems and
solutions.
The report includes a variety of examples of how food stamp
recipients as well as persons in the AFDC program are able to abuse the
system.
Goverror Reagan noted that as a result of the comprehensive
welfare and Modi-Cal reform program he sent to the legislature three
years ago, many abuses in California have been eliminated and weaknesses
corrected. However, he said he never intended that those reforms would
constitute the final chapter in the administration's efforts to improve
them.
"Abuses contirue. Loopholes remain. Red tape persists," he said.
Nevertheless, the governor pointed out that the reforms he
sponsored in 1971 have reduced the state's AFDC welfare rolls by 350,000
and have saved the taxpayers of California some $2 billion. He noted
that before chose reforms were implemented, the state's welfare rolls
were spiralling upward at the rate of 40,000 a month and that welfare
in California "had become a $3 billion moral and administrative disaster
which was leading us down the road to bankruptcy." Since then, however,
he said the state has been able to increase basic welfare grants to the
truly needy by 41 percent. In addition, the reforms have enabled at
leant 42 counties to reduce their property tax rates, he said,
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#506
The new reform proposals submitted today recommend changes in
both federal and state laws an ¹ regulations. If fully adopted, they
could save the taxpayers as much as $270 million a year in the Food
Stamp, AFDC, and Medi-Cal programs, the governor said.
"This report," he said, "not only looks at the glaring weaknesses
in both the food stamp and AFDC programs, but even more important, it shows
the way to solve the problems at each governmental level requiring
corrective action."
The governor noted that current federal AFDC rules still permit
welfare recipients earning as much as $13,000 a year to qualify for
welfare. "Once a person gets on welfare he automatically qualifies for
free medical care, and, in many cases, even food stamps all at the
taxpayers' expense," he said.
The welfare system still contains many inequities not only for
the taxpayers who support the system with their hard-earned dollars
but also for the truly needy who have nowhere else to turn but to welfare
to meet the most basic, minimum requirements of living, he said.
But, he cited numerous other examples of other persons in the AFDC
program and on food stamps, who are legally abusing the system and getting
away with it.
Copies of the governor's message are being sent to all members of
the Congress, governors of all the states, state welfare directors,
California county supervisors and welfare department directors and others.
David B. Swoap, director of the Department of Benefit Payments,
will conduct a series of briefings on the task force's findings in
Sacramento and Washington, D.C.
# # #
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALL EAGAN
RELEASE:
mmediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-5-74
#507
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that he has signed the following bill
AB 1531 (Murphy)
Excepts black bass from the prohibition against the
Chapter 619
offering of any prize or other inducement over $200
as a reward for the taking of any game birds, mammals,
fish, reptiles or amphibia. It also authorizes the
Fish and Game Commission to adopt regulations govern-
ing black bass fishing contests, and requires persons
conducting such contests to obtain a permit and to
pay reasonable adm nistrative costs incurred by the
Department of Fish and Game in issuing the permit.
Bill becomes effective January 1, 1975.
AB 2486 - McAlister
Requires issuance of a warning by the board of a
Chapter 620
public entity upon giving notice of a denial of an
application for leave to file a late claim. The
warning must advise the applicant of the necessity
to file a court action within six months of denial
of the application for leave to file a late claim.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1. 1975.
AB 2553 - Vasconcellos
Specifies that neither consent nor refusal to submit
Chapter
621
to an abortion or surgical sterilization shall be
grounds for loss of any privilege or immunity or
condition precedent to the receipt of any public
benefits.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 2611 - MacDonald
Requires the State Board of Control to take necessary
Chapter 622
steps to ensure that specified claims approved by it
are submitted for legislative approval on a quarterly
basis each calendar year.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 2707 - Cory
Deletes the requirement that prescribed campuses of
Chapter 623
the California State University and Colleges operate
on a year-round basis by June 1, 1976. The bill
requires those campuses which are presently operating
on a year-round basis to maintain that status.
The bill also requires prescribed campuses tooperate
on a year-round basis within two years of a legis-
lative appropriation for that purpose.
The bill takes effect immediately.
AB 2724 - Kapiloff
Authorizes school districts to return application
Chapter 624
fees for certification as a master teacher and
specifies that amount of fee and interest from date
of application is proper charge on general fund of
the district.
The bill takes effect immediately.
AB 2740 Deddeh
Reduces the fee for the registration of any commercia
Chapter 625
motor vehicle with an unladen weight of less than
3,000 pounds from $15 to $5.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 2757 - Joint Committee Makes it unlawful for owners or operators of carnival
on Fairs Allocation and
type games or concessions to fraudulently obtain
Classification ( Davis,
money from another by means of any hidden mechanical
Chairman)
device or obstruction designed to hamper a patron's
Chapter 626
ability to win a prize.
The bill provides that any person who manufacturers
or sells any mechanical devise or obstruction used
to diminish the patron's odds is guilty of a mis-
demeanor. The bill further provides that any pe rson
who operates a "razzle dazzle" game is guilty of a
misdemeanor. Razzle dazzle is defined by the bill
as a series of games of skill in which players pay
for successive attempts to obtain points which may
be accumulated in successive games.
Ab 2807 - Carter
Provides that "veterinarians" rather than "employees"
Chapter 627
of the University of California, while performing
designated duties, are exempted from veterinary
licensing requirements. The bill exempts students
of the School of Veterinary Medicine participating in
specified activities, under direct supervision of a
licensed veterinarian appointed by the University of
California, Davis.
The bill also declares that provisions of law
governing the practice of veterinary medicine shall no
be construed to deny a person who has completed a
portion of his veterinary educational program, as
determined by Board of Examiners in Veterinary
Medicine, opportunity to take the examination given
by the board. The bill further raises the fee for
written examination required for licensure to
practice veterinary medicine from $30 to $60. The
changes made by this bill will become effective
January 1, 1975.
AB 2810 - B. Greene
Increases the membership of each Area Adult
Chapter 628
Continuing Education Coordinating Council to include
the chief administrative officer or his designee
of each regional occupational center or program
operating within the same geographical area.
The bill requires annual report of each such council
to be submitted to affected regional occupational
centers and programs as well as school districts.
AB 2832 - McAlister
Provides that a defendant convicted of a crime but
Chapter 629
found addicted to narcotics and subject to commitment
to the Director of Corrections for confinement in a
narcotic rehabilitation facility may waive the re-
quired examination by two physicians. Such waiver
is authorized if the defendant has been examined
under specified Penal Code provisions and found to be
addicted or in imminent danger of addiction, and if
the defendant is represented by counsel and competent
to understand the effect of the waiver. The bill
becomes effective on Januarv 1. 1975.
AB 2889 - Chappie
Deletes a provision prohibiting the Board of Director
Chapter 630
of the Placer County Water Agency from combining the
offices of treasurer and auditor.
The bill permits territory to be annexed to an
existing zone of the agency or territory within an
existing zone to be detached therefrom in accordance
with a prescribed procedure.
The bill also authorizes the board of directors to
create by resolution an advisory council of not more
than five members for any zone of the agency to assis
and advise the board on all matters pertaining to tha
zone.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 2893 - H. Johnson
Gives Division of Forestry peace officers workmen's
Chapter 631
compensation benefits if injured during off-duty
hours when performing service they would have
performed while on duty.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 2895 - Duffy
Changes the name of the California Board of Nursing
Chapter 632
Education and Nurse Registration to the Board of
Registered Nursing and increases the number of members
from seven to ndne.
The bill also abolishes the advisory council to the
Board and provides for the formation of special
advisory committees.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 3020 (Bagley)
Extends time for claiming refunds and credits for
Chapter 633
excess unemployment disability insurance contributions
made by an employee to three years. Bill takes
effect immediately.
AB 3021--B. Greene
Authorizes school personnel of public, private, and
Chapter
634
parochial high schools to furnish names and addresses
of graduating seniorato commissioned officers, or
their designees, in charge of recruitment for the
National Guard or any active or reserve component of
the armed forces of the United States.
The bill takes effect immediately.
AB 3028 - Wood
Brings state law dealing with lighting equipment into
Chapter 635
conformity with federal standards. The bill changes
the definition of darkness, visibility, requirements
of warning lamps upon authorized emergency vehicles,
and revises provisions of law relating to motor
vehicle damage control.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 3033 - Dunlap
Makes clarifying amendments to provisions of the
Chapter 636
Health and Safety Code relating to spark arresters
on vehicles.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 3120 - Burke
Provides, in addition to transfers of vehicle
Chapter 637
ownership between husband and wife, that transfers
of ownership when the transferor is the parent,
grandparent, or child, or when a vehicle is trans-
ferred from a sole proprietorship to the sole
proprietor, that it shall be exempt from the
requirement of a certificate of compliance for
emission control devices. The changes made by
this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3222 - Seeley
Provides that the varietal designation of Temple
Chapter 638
Orange Mandarin Fruit grown in this state shall be
"Royal Mandarin" for labeling purposes. The changes
made by this bill will become effective January 1,
1975.
AB 3225 - Gonsalves
Specifies that all members of the Wildlife Protection
Chapter 639
Branch designated by the Director of the Department
of Fish and Game as deputized law enforcement officer
are peace officers whose authority extends to any
place in the state as to a public offense committed
or which there is probable cause to believe has been
committed within the state. The bill becomes effec-
tive on January 1, 1975.
AB 3287 - Alatorre
Defines "club" for purpose_ of a club license under
Chapter 640
the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act to include any
letter carriers local meeting specified requirements.
3293
The bill takes effect immediately.
AB 3923-. Meade
Permits the consolidation of a governing board member
Chapter 641
election of a community college district or community
college district trustee area with an election conducted
by a chartered city on other than one of the days
designated by existing law as a regular election date for
the conduct of city elections in odd-numbered years where
the district or trustee area includes within its boundaries
the same or part of the same territory as the chartered
city.
The changes made by this bill become effective
January 1, 1975.
Greene, B.
AB 3364 - Stull
Permits a city or county to establish, by ordinance,
Chapter 642
a community development commission which would
assume the duties and activities of the commissions
of the local housing authority and redevelopment
agency.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
McLennan
AB 3383 - MacGillivray
Authorizes the Department of General Services to
Chapter 643
remove from a list of qualified bidders, for up to
90 calendar days, any bidder who has demonstrated
lack of reliability on previous state contracts.
It also requires that any bidders so removed be
reinstated upon demonstrating to the department's
satisfaction correction of problems causing the
unreliability.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 3386 - Hayden
Allows, under prescribed conditions, a person having
Chapter 644
an instruction permit in his possession to drive
a motor vehicle upon the highways for a period not
exceeding 12 months, rather than 6 months.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 3394 (Lanterman)
Clarifies the definition of schools near freeways
Chapter 645
which are eligible for state financing of school
noise abatement. Bill takes effect immediately.
AB 3427 - Chappie
Changes the definitions of "mobilehome" and
Chapter 646
"recreational vehicles" in the Mobilehome Parks
Act to conform with those same definitions in the
Mobilehomes Act.
The changes made by this bill become effective
January 1, 1975.
AB 3570 (Wilson)
Provides that any increase or decrease in the costs
Chapter 647
of law library fees shall not be effective until
January of the year next following adoption. Bill
becomes effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3583 (Burke)
Authorizes the Department of Transportation, with
Chapter 648
the consent of local authorities, to perform such
work on city streets and county roads as may be
necessary or desirable to control or direct traffic,
or to facilitate traffic flow, on state highways,
as well as to or from state highways. Bill becomes
effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3629 - Lancaster
Defines certification for the purposes of a specified
Chapter 649
provision of the Business and Professions Code
relating to structural pest control. The bill also
provides that before transfer of title, the transferor
shall deliver to the transferee a copy of a structural
pest control inspection report. The changes made by
this bill will become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3648 Meade
Transfers responsibility for regional park district
Chapter 650
funds to the district controller and alters the procedure
for drawing upon them.
The changes made by this bill become effective
January 1, 1975.
AB 3703. Kapiloff
Provides procedures for subpoenaing an employee of
Chapter 651
the State Board of Equalization to appear at local
equalization hearing for an assessment reduction and
for the payment of costs relating to such appearance up
to $150 per day.
The changes made by this bill become effective
January 1, 1975.
AB 3735 (Duffy)
Amends the Pharmacy Act by reducing from 1,900 hours
Chapter 652
to 1,500 hours the practical experience in a pharmacy
required for a pharmacist's license.
Bill becomes effective January 1, 1975.
Carter
AB 3828 - Wood
Requires that policies of insurance covering loss
Chapter 653
or damage to a specific item of personal property,
which is separately listed and described and on
which a separate item of insurance is placed, to use
the amount of insurance placed on the item as its
value. If a different method of loss valuation is
used by the insurer that method must be set forth
in a specified manner in the policy and the applica-
tion therefor. The bill becomes effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 3833 - Keene
Amends the Public Weighmasters Law to permit a tare
Chapter 654
weight of a vehicle used for the transportation of
forest products, to be used for 24 hours or the firs
delivery in such vehicle after the end of the 24
hours. It also defined forest products which were
covered in the aforementioned tare weight provision.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 3840 (Chappie)
Requires that bids for local hospital district bonds
Chapter 656
be received at the place designated for receipt of
bids, rather than being received by the board of
directors at its office. Bill becomes effective
January 1, 1975.
AB 3849 - Mobley
Permits the clerk of the board of supervisors in
Chapter 657
counties with a population of over 400,000 but under
450,000 to be appointed by the board in the same
manner as other county officers are appointed.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 3935. Carter
Deletes the provision prohibiting drainage districts
Chapter 655
governed under the Drainage District Act of 1903 from
changing the basis for tax levy from assessed value
of land and improvements to assessed value of land only
if the district has no existing bonded indebtedness at
the time and provides for such change under prescribed
conditions. The bill permits the board of directors of
such a district by a 4/5 vote, to propose such an
alteration of the district tax basis by calling a special
election, as an alternative to the initiation of such a
change by a petition signed by 10 percent of the voters
of the district.
The changes made by this bill become effective
January 1, 1975.
AB 4105 - Knox
Authorizes a commercial bank or trust company under
Chapter 658
specified conditions to deposit with a federal
reserve bank certain securities being held in a
fiduciary capacity in designated fiduciary or safe-
keeping accounts.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1975.
AB 4123 (Montoya)
Requires the termination of membership of a person
Chapter 659
on the governing board of a school district which is
being reorganized if such person takes office as a
member of the initial or interim governing board
of a newly formed school district.
The bill also requires the county board of education
to appoint, for not longer than 12 months, another
person who is eligible to the vacant position of the
reorganized school district governing board.
Bill takes effect immediately.
AB 4141 (Chappie)
Redefines "mobilehome" and Recreational Vehicle in
Chapter 660
the Mobilehome Parks Act to conform with the same
definitions contained in the Mobilehome Law. The
bill also deletes the definition of a "Camp Car"
presently contained in the former act, which has
been previously deleted from the latter. The bill
becomes effective January 1, 1975.
AB 4144 - MacDonald
Permits boards of supervisors to fix county business
Chapter 661
office hours by resolution as well as ordinance.
The bill also specifies that boards of supervisors
may regulate by ordinance or resolution the salaries
and other terms of employment of county employees
except as prohibited by the California Constitution.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB Hayden
Permits a city, county or district to show by means of
Chapter 662
a distinguishing style of type, in material submitted
with the sample ballot sent to voters, changes in law
a ballot measure would make if approved by the votess.
The changes made by this bill become effective
January 1, 1975.
Provides that on and after October 1, 1975 all
AB 4231 - Keene
Chapter 663
upholstered furniture sold or offered for sale in
California by a manufacturer or wholesaler of
furniture must be fire retardant and labeled rather
than being fire retardant and labeled not later
than April 1, 1975. The changes made by this bill
will become effective January 1, 1975.
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AB 4256 (Wood)
Extends the commercial crab season in the area between
Chapter 664
the northern boundary of Monterey County and the
southern boundary of Mendocino County, from April 30
to June 30. It provides for a reduced minimum size
for crabs from 61/2 to 64 inches in this area, which
makes a uniform size statewide. It also increases
the minimum size of the two required openings on crab
traps from 4 inches to 4½ inches north of Point
Conception, which affects traps constructed on or
after January 1, 1975. Bill takes effect immediately.
AB 4436 (Wood)
Deletes inoperative provisions of the Public Employees
Chapter 665
Retirement System.
The bill provides for purposes of termination of
coverage of a public agency under the federal social
security system that in no event shall the effective
date of such termination be earlier than the date
prescribed by the Secretary of Health, Education and
Welfare.
The bill further provides that the insurance benefit
shall be paid upon death of insured PERS members, to
the beneficiary entitled to receive the basic death
benefit. Bill takes effect immediately.
AB 4437 - Wood
Adds provision that one year of Public Employees'
Chapter 666
Retirement System service credit shall be granted for
1,720 hours of service rendered on hourly basis.
The bill also provides that special death benefits
are payable to qualified survivors rather than to a
wife or child of a deceased member. The bill becomes
effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 4474- Waxman
Revises the Evidence Code provision requiring specified
Chapter 667
persons to furnish medical records to an attorney upon
presentation of an authorization from the patient or
other designated person by making the provision applicable
prior to the appearance of a defendant in an action as well
as prior to the filing of any action.
The changes made by this bill become effective
January 1, 1975.
AB 4479 Waxman
Provides that an administrative order or decision may
Chapter 668
not be stayed in a proceeding for a writ of mandate to
review such order or decision unless the application
for the stay is accompanied by proof of service of a
copy of the application on respondent. The bill provides
that service shall be made in a manner provided by the
specified provisions of law.
The changes made by this bill become effective
January 1. 1975.
AB 4484 - Mobley
Provides for use of veteran facilities by persons or
Chapter
669
organizations other than veterans when such use will
not unduly interfere with the reasonable use of such
facilities by veterans' associations.
The bill authorizes veterans memorial districts to
enter into joint power agreements for recreational
services within the boundaries of the district.
The bill further provides that any tax levy increase
by a district for purposes of providing recreational
services to nonveterans shall first be approved by
district voters.
The bill takes effect immediately.
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SB 939 - Biddle
Authorizes the person in charge of a publicly operate
Chapter 598
criminalistic laboratory, at any time after receipt
of a suspected controlled substance for analysis,
to destroy without a court order any amount of the
suspected controlled substance which exceeds 10 pound
in gross weight, after prescribed requirements are
satisfied.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
SB 1597 (Carpenter)
Permits the limited permissive tax override for
Chapter 599
regional occupational centers and programs to be
used for leasing purposes, site acquisition, and
purchase of equipment as well as for capital outlay
purposes. Bill becomes effective January 1, 1975.
SB 1637 - Gregorio
Chapter 600
Provides that the superior court of San Mateo County
may authorize its commissioner to perform certain
additional duties, including the duties of a probate
commissioner. The bill provides for the court's
setting of the commissioner's salary as specified.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
SB 1709 - Beilenson
Requires the Coordinator of the Office of Family
Chapter 601
Planning to be an individual, rather than a physician
with training and experience in family planning.
The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 1715 - Marler
Increases from $5,000 to $10,000 the value of an
Chapter 602
estate consisting entirely of personal property which
may be distributed through summary probate procedures
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
SB 1820 - Cusanovich
Revises legislative declarations regarding the intent
Chapter 603
of provisions on resource conservation to include
erosion stabilization and land use.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
SB 1865 (Nejedly)
Deletes from the definition and description of the
Chapter 604
new Antioch Bridge reference to an above-flood-level
approach across Sherman Island. Bill becomes
effective January 1, 1975.
SB 1924 - Carpenter
Authorizes the Fish and Game Commission to establish
Chapter 605
rules and regulations for the commercial take, sale,
transport, export, or import of reptiles or amphibian
native to California.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
SB 1960 - Carpenter
Requires the Real Estate Commissioner to waive in
Chapter 606
writing the requirement for a public report for
expressly zoned commercial subdivisions which are lim-
ited in use to commercial purposes. The changes in
the bill become effective January 1, 1975.
SB 1974 - Ayala
Provides that certain limitations on granting of
Chapter 607
variances shall not apply to the issuance of condi-
tional use permits. The changes made by the bill
become effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 2071--Bradley
Repeals the Financial Code exemption from regulation
Chapter 608
on use of the word "bank", and similar words, available
only to certain foreign corporations.
The changes made by this bill become effective
January I, 1975.
SB 2082 - Stevens
Requires the termination of an organization licensed
Chapter 609
as an insurance agent, life agent, or insurance
broker whenever the last natural person named thereon
is no longer qualified to act.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
SB 2101 (Deukmejian)
Modifies methods of giving notice pursuant to various
Chapter 610
provisions of state tax laws administered by the
State Board of Equalization. Bill becomes effective
January 1, 1975.
SB 2159--Carpenter
Redefines "real estate broker" for purposes of the
Real Estate Law to include, under specified conditions,
Chapter 611
persons who engage as principals in the sale or resale of
eight or more real property sales contracts, rather than
three or more such contracts, during ayear.
The changes made by this bill become effective
January 1, 1975.
SB 2304 (Zenovich)
Revises the number, salary ranges and fringe benefits
Chapter 612
for specified employees of the Fresno Municipal Court
District. Bill becomes effective January 1, 1975.
SB 2346 (Dills)
Excludes owners of steel mills and scrap metal process
Chapter 613
ing facilities from the definition of an "automobile
dismantler" if they fulfill certain requirements.
Bill becomes effective January 1, 1975.
SB 2351 - Petris
Provides that a public agency may not contract for
Chapter 614
participation with the Public Employees' Retirement
System within five years of the termination of a pre-
vious contract for participation.
The bill permits increased benefits for members whose
benefits were reduced when their employing public
agency terminated its contract but subsequently enters
into a contract for participation with the Public
Employees' Retirement System, to the level provided
for contractually for members, and allows redeposit
of withdrawn contributions for service. The bill
becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 2361--Berryhill
Chapter 615
Prohibits a weighmaster from certifying the weight of
a vehicle with a load limit of 76,800 pounds whose
load exceeds by more than 2, 300 pounds the prescribed
load limit when weighed at the site where loaded.
The changes made by this bill become effective
January 1, 1975.
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SB 2457- - Short
Amends the Private Investigator and Adjuster Act to
Chapter 616
permit an applicant or licensee to post evidence of
a cash deposit in a bank in lieu of the surety bond or
saving and loan certificate presently required.
The changes made by this bill become effective
January 1, 1975.
SB 2459- - Gregorio
Authorizes the San Mateo County Flood Control District
Chapter 617
to alter the boundaries of a subzone after the formation
of the subzone, in accordance with a prescribed
procedure.
The bill takes effect immediately.
SB 2463 - Stull
Specifies that joint apprenticeship committees may
Chapter 618
provide in their selection procedures for an addi-
tional 10 points credit to be accorded applicants
who are veterans. The bill takes effect immediately.
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-5-74
#508
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed SB 2471 (Holmdahl) which
requires installation of oxides of nitrogen exhaust emission control
devices on all 1966 through 1970 model motor vehicles having a
manufacturer's gross vehicle weight rating of under 6,001 pounds,
registered in any county included, in whole or in part, within
the South Coast Air Basin.
In signing the bill, the governor said:
"I believe this requirement makes good sense in the South
Coast Air Basin where air pollution is so serious, however, since
the program is unproven, I believe that requiring the installation
of the devices outside the basin would not be fair to the rest of
the state."
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-6-74
#509
Governor Ronald Reagan today vetoed a bill (AB 3508 - Foran)
that would have halted a pilot program requiring some employable
welfare recipients for whom there are no private sector jobs to do
public service work in return for welfare grants.
In his veto message to the Assembly, the governor said the
Community Work Experience Program (CWEP) is now in its final year
of a three-year test.
"The bill would have stopped a key portion of the employables
program in the last six months of the test---at the very time when
complete data would become available to measure its value, " the
governor said. "The result would be a complete waste of the time
and money spent on this significant program.
"I have no hesitation in vetoing this bill. It reached my desk
with a vote that was split largely along party lines, indicating the
partisan nature of this attempt to undercut a vital part of our
welfare reform program.
"I am further confounded by the spectacle of Democrat legislators
voting en bloc to kill a program which has helped, and is helping,
thousands of welfare recipients work their way off the rolls.
"The allegation has been made that, because only a few recipients
end up in public service jobs, the program is a failure. The exact
opposite is true. The public service jobs are a last resort. In
those counties having a CWEP program, thousands of welfare recipients
are being placed in jobs before they ever have to go into public
service. If this program was not working, the public service job
rolls would swell and, presumably, CWEP would be declared by its
critics to be a resounding success.
"When this effort began in 1971, welfare costs and welfare rolls
were rising at an alarming rate. We were increasing at the rate of
40,000 recipients a month. If we had just leveled off, it would
have been a tremendous savings. But we did much better than that.
In the past three years, we have seen a complete turnaround. Welfare
rolls have steadily decreased and overall savings of more than $1
billion have been achieved in federal, state or county costs.
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"In the same period we have seen a drop of 357,000 recipients
of Aid to Families with Dependent Children, which is the category
directly affected by this program. At the same time we are paying
the highest grants in the nation to the truly needy.
"Three years ago we were managing to find jobs for about 15,000
recipients a year. Last year we placed 75,000 in regular jobs through
the Employment Development Department.
"This Community Work Experience Program is only a small part of
welfare reform, but I believe it plays a vital role. It tests the
concept that an employable person will try harder to find a job
rather than seek welfare if the welfare payment is tied to work
experience assignments.
"It is also demonstrating that welfare recipients find jobs
faster if they get some work experience.
"Furthermore, local government officials have praised the value
of this program. It also is clear that useful public work that
would not otherwise be done has been accomplished by participants
in local work experience programs.
"On the face of it, this is a reasonable proposition which has
every right to be tested and already has produced results that
indicate that the test should continue. To cut it off now, at the
eleventh hour, when final evaluation is about to start, makes no
sense," the governor concluded.
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-6-74
#510
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Orville John Hoag, Jr., of Los Angeles as a member of the
California Board of Nursing Education and Nurse Registration.
A 36-year-old Republican, Hoag fills the unexpired term,
ending June 15, 1977, of Lois L. Hines of Corona del Mar.
Mrs. Hines has resigned.
Hoag will represent the public's interest on the board.
He is a certified public accountant and a partner in the
Los Angeles CPA firm of Hoag and Castillo.
He is a 1960 graduate of the University of California at
Los Angeles and was the recipient of the school's Associated
Men Students Memorial Academic Scholarship.
A member of the California Society of Certified Public
Accountants, Hoag is a member of the group's Committee on Relations
with Faculty and Students. He is a past president, first vice
president and second vice president of the West Los Angeles
Chamber of Commerce, and is the secretary of the Kidney
Foundation of Southern California.
Hoag and his wife Carol have four children. Board members
receive $25 a day per diem when on official business.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEAS
Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-6-74
#511
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that he has signed the following bills:
AB 1586 - Gonsalves
Authorises the Department of Transportation, on an
Chapter 682
experimental basis, to authorize the placement of
vending machines in safety roadside rests, unless
prohibited by federal laws, rules, or regulations.
The bill requires any profits derived from such
vending machines to be transferred to the General
Fund.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
&B 2049--Wood
Provides for a credit or refund of any possessory interest
Chapter 683
tax imposed on a tenant of property owned by the State
Department of Transportation. Provision is made for
the department to deduct this amount from payments to
counties. The changes made by this bill become effective
January 1, 1975.
AB 2350 - Keene
Specifically designates named opiates as Schedule II
Chapter 685
controlled substances. The bill becomes effective
on January 1, 1975.
AB 2535 - Holoman
Makes a payment bond filed and approved for an origin
Chapter 684
public works contract sufficient to enter upon per-
formance of public work under a supplemental contract
if the requirement of a new bond is waived by the
public entity. The bill becomes effective on January
1975.
B 2568 - Fong
Exempts from licensing as an economic poison or
Chapter 686
pesticide, certain "plant growth regulators".
Exempted are vitamin/hormone horticultural products
intended for plant improvement and not for pest
destruction and which are nontoxic or nonpoisonous.
The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 2706--Cory
Requires that persons engaged in a business involving the
Chapter 687
purchase, sale or exchange of boat trailers be licensed
as "dealers" by the Department of Motor Vehicles. The
changes made by this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 2751 - Duffy
Provides a one-time grant of $5,000 to school distric
Chapter 690
with an average daily attendance less than 500 which
convert to a continuous school program prior to
July 1, 1979.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 2760 - Cline
Permits the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control
Chapter 688
to issue special temporary retail package off-sale
beer and wine license to designated women's educa-
tional and charitable organizations. The bill
requires a fee of $100 for such license. The changes
made by this bill will become effective January 1,
1975.
AB 2847 - Lanterman
Validates organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings
Chapter 689
and bonds of counties, cities, and specified district
agencies and entities. Second Validating Act of 1974.
The bill becomes effective immediately.
AB 2913 - Dunlap
Permits an absent voter
llot to be utilized by a
Chapter 691
person who is unable to go to his polling place
because of a physical handicap, or who, because of a
physical handicap, is unable to vote at his polling
place due to architectural harriers which deny him
physical access to the polling place, voting booth
or voting apparatus or machinery. The bill becomes
effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 2949 - Badham
Authorizes cancellation by the separtment of Motor
Chapter 692
Vehicles of environmental license plates whose letter-
ing would be mislending, in addition to existing
provisions which authorise cancellation of environ-
mental license plates carring offensive connotations.
The bill also requires payment of renewal fees for
Environmental license plates regardless of the fact
that the vehicle to which they are affixed is not
registered and not being operated. The bill becomes
effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 2970 (Seeley)
Creates the 54th District Agricultural Association to
Chapter 693
comprise all of Riverside County east of the Coachella
Branch of the All-American Canal and east of the line
due north from the northernmost point of that canal.
The bill provides that the fair site shall be
situated near the City of Blythe. Bill becomes
effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3038 - MacGillivray
Deletes the expiration date on the taking of abalone
Chapter 694
for commercial purposes within one mile of San
Nicolas, San Clemente, and San Miguel Islands, but
authorizes the Director of Fish and Game to close
such area or any part of such area to such taking upor
a finding that it will endanger the resource until
such time as he determines it will no longer endanger
the resource.
The bill further makes it unlawful for the holder of
a commercial abalone fishing permit to possess more
than 20 dozen black abalone on any boat at any time
or to take abalone from one-half hour after sunset
to one-balf hour before sunrise. The bill becomes
effective on January 1. 1975.
AB 3056 - Dixon
Prohibits a grand jury from making any recommendation
Chapter 695
to any court as to the dollar amount of bail.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1. 1975.
AB 3108 (R. Johnson)
Appropriates $1,000,000 from the General Fund to the
Chapter 696
Department of Fish and Game for support during the
1974-75 fiscal year of nongame species management
and protection programs. Bill becomes effective
January 1, 1975.
AB 3185 - Cline
Provides a specified schedule for processing the
Chapter
697
environmental impact report for the Route 118 project,
in Los Angeles County.
The bill becomes effective immediately.
AB 3206 - Chappie
Adjusts upward for the 1974-75 fiscal year the ceiling
Chap ter 698
amount which may be expended for administration and
maintenance for the State highway program and for
landscaping and functional planting.
The bill takes effect immediately.
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3272
AB
3372
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Holeman
Increases from 60 days to 6 months the period of time
Chapter 699
by shich à holder of an off-sale alcoholic beverage
license is authorized to carry on business under his
existing license within 500 feet of his licensed
premises and upon such licensed premises when repaire
or rebuilt when such licensed premises is destroyed
by fire, act of God or other force beyond his control
Allows the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control
to approve at lease where a California winegrowers
agent is the lessor and a retailer is the lessee.
The bill becauses effective January 1, 1975.
3 3317 - Craven
Provides that certain responsibilities of local
Chapter
700
governing bodies relative to subdivisions may be
assigned to an advisory agency or appeal board if
interested persons are allowed to appeal the decision
of the advisory agency to the governing body.
The bill also provides that if local legislative
bodies so provide by ordinance or resolution,
dispositions for street purposes, acquisitions,
dispositions, abandonments for street widening and
alignment projects, of a minor nature may be exempted
from general plan requirements. The changes made by
this bill will become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3414- Berman
Deletes the Probate Code provision that 2. monresident alien
Chapter 701
entitled to property by succession must appear and demand
the property in California within five years or his right
to such property is barred. The changes made by this
bill become effective January 1, 1975,
AB 3504- - Donald
Increases the salary levels of the court commissioner of
Chapter 702
the Ventura County Superior Court. The bill provides
that the court commissioner may act as & juvenile court
referee if BO appointed. The changes made by this bill
become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3549 - Thurman
Revises authority of the board of supervisors regard-
Chapter
703
ing sevage and disposal system construction and main-
tenance and eliminates various limitations on such
activities by board. Authorizes board to collect
compensation for use of sewerage facilities and to
restrict use to inhabitants of county. The bill
becomes effective on January 1, 1075.
AB Mobley
Updates the authorization of the Kings River and Tulare Lake
Chapter
704
Basin flood control project under the State Water Resources
Law of 1945, The bill requires the Kings River Conservation
District to give the required assurances of local cooperation
and to execute the plan in conjunction with the Department
of the Army. The changes made by this bill become effective
January 1, 1975.
AB 3576 - Nimmo
705
Increases the number and salaries of municipal court
Chapter
personnel in Santa Cruz County. The bill becomes
effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 3628 - Lanterman
Provides for investment of money in the Condemnation
Chapter
706
Deposits Fund through the Surplus Money Investment
Fund rather than the investment of money under a
separate investment program. The changes made by
this bill will become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3653 cup McAlister
Provides for property tax refunds when taxes are
Chapter
707
paid erroneously to two public agencies on property
detached from a special district and annexed to a
city. The bill takes effect immediately.
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AB 2838 - Beverly
Chapter 720
Authorizes, ith respect to improvement bonds issued
pursuant to the Improvement Act of 1911 and the
Improvement Bond Act of 1915, a maximum annual rate
of interest of 8 percent, rather than 7 percent.
The bill revises the Landscaping and Lighting Act
of 1972 to require mailed notices of designated hear-
ings held pursuant to the act only when thetotal
estimated assessment levy for a particular parcel
exceeds $100, the property owner is a nonresident of
the assessment district, the property owner is a
regulated public utility, or the property owner has
requested such notice. The bill becomes effective
immediately.
AB 4038--Bagley
Amends various provisions of the Marin County Flood
Chapter 713
Control and Water Conservation District Act dealing with
internal organisation, recreational facilities and enhancement
and funds, revenues and bonds. The changes made by
this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 4085--Hayden
Eliminates the authority of the Department of Motor
Chapter 714
Vehicles to suspend the vehicle registration or nonresident
vehicle ownership permit of any judgment debtor against
whom there is an unsatisfied judgment or who has failed
to pay any installment of a judgment.
The changes made by this bill become effective
January 1, 1975.
AB 4137 - Briggs
Revises the requirement that debt due a bank on which
Chapter
715
interest is past due and unpaid for a period of one
year be charged off unless well secured and in process
of collection to well secured or in process of
collection. This bill will become effective January 1,
1975.
AB 4278--R. Johnson
Requires the Department of Fish and Game to issue a
Chapter
716
free fishing permit, in lieu of a fishing license and
appropriate stamps, authorizing the taking of any fish
and amphibia within or adjacent to the camp for purposes
other than profit, to any mentally retarded person
resident in a summer or recreational camp for the
period during which he is a resident in such camp.
The changes made by this bill become effective
January 1, 1975.
AB 4318 (Kapiloff)
Provides that the registrar of contractors must
Chapter
717
suspend or revoke a contractor's license if he
finds that the contractor has willfully violated
any state or local law relating to the issuance
of building permits. Bill becomes effective
January 1, 1975.
AB 4451--Thurman
Amends the law relating to the licensing of clinical social
Chapter
718
-workers. Under present law an applicant must have had one
year's experience under "professional supervision". This
bill permits the experience to be gained either under
"professional supervision or with professional consultation
or both". The changes made by this bill become effective
January 1, 1975.
AB 4519 - Knox
Increases the maximum interest rate for bonds which
Chapter 721
the legislative body of a city, county, public
district, entity or authority, from 7 to 8 %.
It changes the maximum rate at which the indebtedness
of a fire protection district may bear interest from
6 to 8%. The bill changes the maximum interest rate
from 7 to 8% on bonds authorized by a redevelopment
agency for its corporate purposes. It also increases
from 7 to 8% per year, the maximum rate at which
warrants and negotiable promissory notes issued by a
municipal water district may bear interest. The bill
further raises the aggregate amount of outstanding
promissory notes of a municipal water district.
The bill becomes effective immediately.
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AB 3709 - Powers
Revises provisions for the distribution of certain
Chapter
708
amounts received for the redemption of tax-sold
property and certain tax-deeded property. This bill
will become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3725 - Wood
Coordinates cross-references in the Sales and Use
Chapter
709
Tax Law with revisions in the Health and Safety
Code and the Welfare and Institutions Code in order
to continue the sales and use tax exemption for
meals served to patients of certain hospitals and
institutions and mentally retarded persons placed
in county approved homes. This bill will take effect
immediately.
AB 3856--Knox
Repeals one of two like-numbered articles relating to
Chapter 710
-city selection committees. The bill takes effect immediately.
AB 3908--Lockyer
Requires that life care contracts include a statement
Chapter 711
informing that the agreement may be terminated by
either party upon 90 days notice under the terms of
the contract, consistent with state law.
The bill also requires the annual audit of records of
persons or organizations providing life care to be made
for each home and be transmitted to each transferor
requesting such audit.
The changes made by this bill become effective
January 1, 1975.
AB 3929 - Fenton
Requires the court to consider the assets and net
Chapter 712
worth of the person in determining the amount of the
civil penalty which may be imposed for a violation
of the law relating to false advertising. Provides
that the civil penalty be recovered in a civil action
brought in any county in which the violation occurs
without regard to the county from which the original
injunction was issued.
Under existing law, a court in assessing the appropriate
penalty for violation of the provisions relating to
false advertising must consider the extent of the
harm, the nature of the conduct and the period over
which it has occurred. Though not required by statute,
the net worth of the defendant is generally recognized
by the courts as another circumstance in their
determination of the civil penalty. AB 3929 will
codify general practices by specifically requiring
the assets, liabilities and net worth of the person
to be considered. Since the penalty provision is
similar to punitive damages and is applied for its
deterrence effect on future violations, net worth
is a relevant circumstance to such a determination.
SB 355 - Biddle
Authorizes and requests that the Californis Post-
Chapter 671
secondary Education Commission to undertake a study
of the private postsecondary educational institutions.
The study is to develop a listing of these institu-
tions; information regarding the number of students,
programs, fees, and success of the institutions'
graduates; and an analysis of
effectiveness of
Division 21 of the Education Code in insuring the
integrity of the product offered by the private
institutions. The bill become effective January 1,197!
SB 1518 - Nejedly
Revises the law pertaining to resource conservation
Chapter 672
district formation elections and general elections
to permit only registered voters residing in the
district to vote, rather than only owners of land
in the district.
The bill also provides that general district election
shall be held in even-numbered, rather than odd-
numbered years.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
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SB 1664 - Behr
Makes provisions for education of prisoners applicable
Chapter 673
to Lassen County as well as Santa Clara, Monterey,
and Marin Counties.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
SB 1802 - Stevens
Makes the necessary statutory changes to reflect
Chapter 674
the newly created, constitutionally mandated munici-
pal court in the Malibu Judicial District of Los
Angeles County.
The bill takes effect immediately.
SB 1856--Stull
Allows the governing board of a school district to permit a
Chapter 675
graduating senior in high school to attend school for less
than the 240-minute minimum day during the last quarter
or semester before graduation. The school district would
still be able to claim full ADA for attendance less than the
minimum day for such students. The changes made by this
bill become effective January 1, 1975.
SB 1871- Petris
Prohibits the sale at retail of wire-core dandles containing
Chapter 676
a lead substance after December 31, 1976.
The Federal Hazardous Substance Act has preemption provisions
the California law requires uniformity with the federal act and
adopts by reference the Federal Hazardous Substance regulation
The Federal Commission has not found a reason to ban wick-cor
candles at this time, but their investigation is continuing.
Because of adverse publicity, the candle manufacturers will
probably discontinue this item prior to the deadline proposed
in this bill. The changes made by this bill become effective
January 1, 1975.
SB 1977 - Song
Provides that city ordinance violations may be reduce
Chapter 677
from misdemeanor to infraction by city ordinances.
The bill specifies the maximum penalties for a viola-
tion constituting an infraction. The bill becomes
effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 2286 - Holmdahl
Establishes the Livermore-Pleasanton Judicial District
Chapter 678
in Alameda County. The bill takes effect on January 1
1975.
SB 2289 - Song
Makes clarifying amendments to one of the Government
Chapter 679
Code provisions relating to the assignment of judges
by the Judicial Council. The bill takes effect
immediately.
AB 776- Wood
Revises the registration procedures for camp trailers and
Chapter 680
housecars. The changes made by this bill become
effective January 1, 1975.
AB 959 - Waxman
Requires every simulated ballot or simulated sample
Chapter 681
ballot, except as specified, to contain a statement
that the ballot is not an official ballot or an
official sample ballot, and to bear name and address
of person responsible for preparation thereof.
The bill also prohibits the use of an official seal
or insignia of a public entity on simulated ballot
or simulated sample ballot or its envelope. The bill
becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
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SB 1418 - Gregorio
Requires that community college average daily attendance
Chapter 722
computation be included for specified in-service training
in criminal justice, fire, and related occupations. The bill
validates past apportionments for such in-service training
programs except for miscalculations or erroneous reporting.
Specifies which in-service course participants may generate
ADA and which may not. The bill takes effect immediately.
SB 1478 - Song
Provides that no limited-production vehicle, as
Chapter 719
defined, shall be required to meet emission standards
of the State Air Resources Boa rd that are more strin-
gent than standards adopted by the board for 1974
model year motor vehicles.
The bill requires such vehicles to meet the standards
adopted by the board for 1974 model year motor vehicle
or the standards adopted by the Environmental Protec-
tion Agency for 1975 model year motor vehicles, which
ever are more stringent. The bill becomes effective
immediately.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-6-74
#512
GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
September 10, 1974
through
September 14, 1974
Tuesday, September 10
a.m.
Depart Los Angeles for Chicago
5:30 p.m.
Press availability, Chicago Hyatt Regency
6:00 p.m.
Reception for Clifford Carlson, Candidate for
Congress, Chicago Hyatt Regency. Remarks.
Wednesday, September 11
9:30 a.m.
Editors Breakfast, Wright Room, Hyatt Hotel
11:45 a.m.
Press availability, First National Bank
Building, 6000 Cermak
12:00 Noon
Rally for Henry Hyde, Candidate for Congress,
First National Bank Building, Cicero, Ill.
Remarks.
1:15 p.m.
Luncheon for Henry Hyde, Riverside Country
Club, 26th and Desplains. Remarks.
p.m.
Arrive St. Louis
5:05 p.m.
Press availability, Salon F, Airport Marriott
Hotel
7:00 p.m.
Dinner, reception for Tom Curtis, Candidate
for U.S. Senate and John Ashcraft, Candidate
for State Auditor, Main Ball Room, Airport
Marriott Hotel. Speech.
Thursday, September 12
10:30 a.m.
News conference, Indianapolis Airport, Room 117
Conclude and depart for Richmond, Ind.
12:00 Noon
Outdoor rally for Congressman David Dennis,
Second National Bank Building, 8th and Main,
Richmond, Ind. Brief remarks.
12:40 p.m.
Luncheon for Congressman Dennis, Forrest Hills
Country Club, 2035 S. 23rd Street. Brief remarks.
4:15 p.m.
News conference, Executive Inn, Watterson Express-
way at Fairgrounds, Louisville, Ky.
8:00 p.m.
Dinner for U.S. Sen. Candidate Marlo Cook, Louis-
ville Convention Center, 522 W. Walnut. Speech.
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Friday, September 13
11:00 a.m.
News conference, Executive Inn, Walnut & 7th
Streets, Evansville, Ind.
11:30 a.m.
Reception, luncheon for Congressman Roger Zion,
Florida Room, Executive Inn. Speech
4:50 p.m.
Rally, Sioux Falls, S.D. Airport
5:10 p.m.
News conference in Old Terminal, Sioux Falls
Airport
7:40 p.m.
Dinner for U.S. Senate Candidate Leo Thorsness,
Ramada Inn, 2400 N. Louise. Speech.
Saturday, September 14
Return to Los Angeles
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-8-74
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement
regarding President Ford's pardon of former President Nixon:
"I understand his reasons and support his action. I think
it is important for the people to recognize that the former
president has suffered as much as any man should."
Regarding similar action for the former president's aides,
the Governor said:
"I think there is a distinction between the former president
and his aides. The President did not take part in the break-in but
was attempting to protect those who apparently did. I think it is
proper for them to go through our system of justice to determine
their culpability and if any punishment is required."
....
(Above statements released in answer to telephone inquiries from press)
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-12-74
#513
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced his intention to
appoint Berkeley-Albany Municipal Court Judge Lewis F. Sherman
to the Alameda County Superior Court bench.
He said Judge Sherman would be appointed next Monday to
replace Superior Judge Redman E. Staats, who retires Saturday,
the day the governor returns from a series of Midwestern speaking
engagements.
Sherman, a municipal court judge since February 1971, will
be paid $40,322 annually.
The 57-year-old Republican served in the state Senate between
1967 and 1970. He practiced law in Berkeley for 20 years before
being elected to the Senate and holds degrees from the University
of California at Berkeley and Hastings College of Law, San Francisco.
As a senator, Sherman was chairman of the Committee on
Governmental Organization and served on a number of other committees,
including judiciary. He was named by the Capitol Press Corps as
one of the state's outstanding freshman senators after the 1967
legislative session.
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-13-74
#514
GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
September 16, 1974
through
September 22, 1974
Monday, September 16 No public appointments
Tuesday, September 17
10:00 a.m.
Groundbreaking for new California Highway
Patrol Academy, Reed Avenue West and Interstate
880, Bryte. Remarks.
Wednesday, September 18
12:00 Noon
Urban League Luncheon, Woodlake Inn. Remarks.
2:00 p.m.
YPTV, News Conference Room #1190
7:30 p.m.
Barbecue for Brian Van Camp, residence of Mr.
and Mrs. Julian Virtue, 2 Bowie Road, Rolling
Hills. Remarks.
Thursday, September 19
residence
6:45 p.m.
Cal-Plan Reception, resident of Mr. and Mrs.
Joe Coelho, 12890 Walker Avenue, Ontario.
Remarks.
Friday, September 20
6:30 p.m.
Cal-Plan Fundraiser Barbecue, residence of
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Eliopuploc, 2657 West Avenue K,
Lancaster
Saturday, September 21 No public appointments
Sunday, September 22 No public appointments
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-16-74
#515
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Jane S. Wiegand, a
deputy San Diego city attorney, and reappointed Mark A. Parreira
of Los Banos to the Scenic Highway Advisory Committee.
Terms of both will expire July 1, 1978. Members receive
their necessary expenses.
Mrs. Wiegand replaces Samuel W. Bridgers of Encino, whose
term expired.
She joined the office of City Attorney John Witt in 1971 and
has performed criminal trial work, environmental law assignments
and has been involved in counseling to various city departments
and advising the mayor and city council. She obtained a bachelor's
degree in anthropology from the University of California at
Berkeley, taught that subject in Spanish at two South American
universities, then went to University of San Diego School of Law,
graduating cum laude. Among other activities, she is the author
of a 19-page law review article called, "Seizure of United States
Fishing Vessels - The Status of the Wet War." "
Parreira, 22, joined the committee in May 1971, as a 19-year-old
student at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. He received a technical
degree in fruit science in June 1973.
The graduate of Los Banos High School is a former state
secretary and executive committee member of Future Farmers of
America, was on the 4-H Steering Committee for Cal Expo in 1968-69
and was involved in Model United Nations the same year.
Mrs. Wiegand is a Republican, Parreira is not registered.
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-16-74
#516
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed four members to the
Stockton State Hospital Advisory Board for the Mentally Retarded,
which replaces the advisory board for the mentally disordered.
Included are Douglas R. Batz, 44, counselor at Bret Harte
High School, Altaville; Martin J. Herzog, 43, director of the Lassen
County Welfare Department, Susanville; Patricia I. Zunino of
Stockton, a registered nurse and volunteer for the state Department
of Health's community services section; and Donald G. Schrader, 39,
a fast food franchise operator in Stockton.
First appointments to the board are for staggered terms ending
on December 16 of successive years. Batz received a one-year term,
Herzog and Mrs. Zunino two-year terms and Schrader a three-year term.
The governor will appoint a fifth board member at a later date.
Batz is the parent of a 15-year-old child residing at the
hospital. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees from San Jose
State University and is a Democrat.
Besides directing Lassen's welfare department, Herzog is an
administrative assistant for the county's mental health services.
He is a former welfare director in Del Norte County and was a social
worker in Santa Clara County and Cook County, Illinois. He is a
Republican.
Mrs. Zunino, a Republican, was an honors graduate in registered
nursing at San Joaquin Delta College in 1973 and received her
professional license the same year. She works 20 hours weekly at
Edison High School in Stockton as counselor to the disadvantaged
absentee. While attending Delta College she was employed as an aide
at St. Joseph's Hospital in Stockton.
Schrader, a Republican, is a director of the San Joaquin Association
for the Retarded, the Hanot Foundation, a group striving to build a
residential home for the retarded, area supervisor for the Special
Olympics for the Retarded since 1970 and a committee member the past
two years of the Bike-a-Thon for the Retarded.
Advisory Board members receive their necessary expenses.
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californa 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-16-74
#517
Howard L. Way, 60-year-old vice president of a Los Angeles
insurance agency, today was appointed by Governor Ronald Reagan to
the governing committee for the Fair Access to Insurance Requirements
(F.A.I.R.) Plan.
He replaces Hayward Andrews of Pacific Palisades, who resigned,
and will serve with no compensation at the pleasure of the governor.
A native of San Bernardino who went to schools there and
Valley College before attending the University of California at
Berkeley, Way has been an executive of Lindsey-Erickson and Company
since 1965. Before that he was with Industrial Indemnity Company
for three years and with Home Insurance Company for nearly 21 years
in Los Angeles and San Diego.
He has been program chairman of the Hollywood Association of
Insurance Agents since 1966 and served three years as a director
of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers Association of
Los Angeles.
Way is a Republican.
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-16-74
#518
Three members of the state Board of Examiners of Nursing Home
Administrators were reappointed today by Governor Ronald Reagan to
new terms expiring July 15, 1977.
They are:
Rev. John R. Steinhaus, 49, executive director of California
Lutheran Homes, Inc. in Monterey Park. As such he is charged with
administration of facilities, homes and services for elderly and
retired of the church's Pacific Southwest Synod, which includes
the states of California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah and Hawaii. He
is a former pastor of Lutheran churches in Berkeley and Hollywood.
He was graduated from UC Berkeley and received his bachelor of
divinity degree from Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berkeley.
(CQ)
Dirk A. ten Grotenhuis, 35, self-employed investment counselor
and general insurance agent in Los Angeles for the past seven years.
He was associated with Bank of America for nearly five years and was
a general partner in the John H. Rees Insurance Agency for almost
three years before opening his own business. He holds a bachelor's
degree from Stanford University and has done graduate study at the
University of Southern California.
Robert J. Zinngrabe, 46, part owner of Huntington Beach Convalescent
Hospital since 1961. He was president for two terms of the Orange
County Nursing Home Association in the mid-1960s, was state membership
chairman for the California Association of Nursing Homes in 1966 and
was the state association's legislative chairman for three years in
the late '60s.
All three appointees have served on the board since May 1971.
They receive per diem and expenses. Rev. Steinhaus is a Democrat,
the others are Republicans.
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-16-74
#519
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed William H. Park of
Bakersfield and reappointed William M. C. Miller of Century City
to the state Board of Registration for Geologists and Geophysicists
in the Department of Consumer Affairs.
Park, 48-year-old president of Environmental Protection
Corporation, is a consulting geologist. He has been a practicing
geologist in Kern County since 1953, taught the subject at Taft
College in 1958 and is a former Bakersfield city councilman and
administrative assistant to Congressman Bob Mathias. EPC is
involved with the safe disposal of oil field wastes. He also is
president of Bryant, Park and Associates, geological and engineering
consultants.
Park replaces Gardner M. Pittman of Bakersfield, who expressed
a desire not to be reappointed.
Miller, 34, has served on the board since March 1971. He is
deputy director of corporate communications for the Northrop
Corporation after having been Lockheed Aircraft Corporation's
advertising director and editor of the corporation's magazine in
Burbank. He is a 1961 graduate of Dartmouth College who started
his career as a UPI reporter in Los Angeles and later was editor of
the Palisadian Post in Pacific Palisades.
Both men are Republicans. They will receive per diem and
expenses during terms which expire Junel, 1978.
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONAL. REAGAN
RELEASE: immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-19-74
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that he has signed the following bills:
AB 313 - Ingalls
Removes the requirement that senior citizen property
Chapter 822
tax assistance checks be made payable jointly to the
claimant and the county tax collector, if prior
payment of property tax has been waived. It also
modifies perjury declaration allowing payment of
assistance for delinquent taxes. The bill becomes
effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 430 (Foran)
Provides that specified licensees of the Department of
Chapter 823
Alcoholic Beverage Control may store, bottle, cut,
blend, mix, flavor, color, label and package distilled
spirits owned by another licensee, and may deliver
such distilled spirits from such premises or from a
warehouse located in the same county for the account
of the owner of such distilled spirits to any licensee
that such owner would be authorized to deliver to
under his own license, except to a retail licensee.
AB 896 (Fong)
Amends the Vocational Nursing Practice Act to provide
Chapter 824
that a licensed vocational nurse who in good faith
renders emergency care at the scene of an emergency
occurring outside the place and scope of his or her
employment is not liable for civil damages resulting
from such acts in the absence of gross negligence.
AB 1248 - Karabian
Authorizes the governing board of a school district,
Chapter
825
county board of education, county superintendent
of schools, personnel commission of a school district,
city, county, or special district, at its option, to
voluntarily elect disability insurance coverage for
its employees without also electing unemployment
insurance coverage. The bill becomes effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 1334 (Deddeh)
Expands the Departmental Transportation Advisory Com-
Chapter 826
mittee to the Department of Transportation from 14 to
16 members.
The bill requires the committee to also include
representatives from air, highway, motoring, and
public transportation organizations, and deletes
the requirement that the committee also include state
officials.
The bill further requires any vacancy on the committee
to be filled by a joint appointment by the Speaker of
the Assembly and the Senate Rules Committee, and
requires such appointee to serve until the appointment
of a new committee.
AB 1433 - Keene
Deletes provisions declaring state tax liens for
Chapter 827
amounts owed under the sales and use tax and the
unemployment and disability compensation laws to have
the force, effect and priority of judgment liens.
The bill also provides for quarterly billing of
Department of the Employment Development by county
recorders for specified fees. The bill becomes
effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 1716 - Bee
Exempts extraction or extracting of ground water used
Chapter 828
in the production and processing of sand and gravel
or other industrial processes to the extent that
such water is returned, as specified, to the ground
water basin from replenishment assessments on ground
water production fixed by the Alameda County Water
District.
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AB 1776 (Cullen)
AB 1776 makes various amendments to the Food and
Chapter 829
Agricultural Code provisions relating to the
operation of the Cal-Expo program.
AB 1829 (Badham)
Authorizes the Rag Gulch Water District and the Kern-
Chapter 830
Tulare Water District to adopt a plan for water
allocation, to establish limited areas of the district
as the areas in which surface delivery of water
service will be made available. Provides procedure
for adoption of such plan.
Authorizes the Rag Gulch Water District and the Kern-
Tulare Water District to levy and collect ground
water charges in the manner prescribed for the Kern
County Water Agency, and to establish zones for the
purpose of fixing varying rates of assessment in
accordance with the extent of benefits to each zone,
as specified, and provides procedure for establish-
ment of such zones.
Specifies that if no tax was levied by a county water
district or municipal water district in either the
1971472 or 1972-73 fiscal year and the district
incurred expenses in such years, which expenses were
paid from revenues other than taxes, then, the
maximum levy for general district purposes shall be
fifty cents per one hundred dollars of assessed
valuation per year.
AB 1856--Deddeh
Authorizes not more than 1/4 of the motor vehicle fuel
Chapter 831
license tax funds allocated to counties and cities from the
Highway Users Tax Account in the Transportation Tax Fund
for the construction of streets to be used to make principal
and interest payments on bonds issued for such construction,
if the issuance of such bonds is authorized by a proposition
approved by the voters. The changes made by this bill
become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 1881 (Cullen)
Provides that the counterfeiting or forging of pari-
Chapter
832
mutuel ticket would be a crime of forgery and that
knowing possession of forged or counterfeit pari-
mutuel ticket would be a crime.
AB 3801 - Brown
Requires that the State Personnel Board, commencing
Chapter
723
with the 1975-76 fiscal year, base salary recommenda-
tions for highway patrolmen on the estimated average
salaries for each corresponding rank in specified
local law enforcement agencies. The changes made by
this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3866 - Lanterman
Requires that persons providing conservatorship inves
Chapter
833
tigations under the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act
prepare a written report which the court may use in
rendering a judgment on whether to place a mentally
disordered person under conservatorship. It also
requires peace officers to assist a conservator in
transporting a conservatee to a treatment facility
or to take into custody a conservatee who has left
a facility without approval and return him to the
facility. The bill becomes effective on January 1,
1975.
..B 3867 - Lanterman
Prohibits the sale or registration of any new motor
Chapter 834
vehicle if its manufacturer has violated emission
standards or test procedures and has failed to take
corrective action specified by the Air Resources Boar
The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 3874 - Alatorre
Revises numerous references in the Education Code to
reflect the correct name of the California Post-
Chapter 835
secondary Education Commission. The bill becomes
effective on January 1, 1975.
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AB 3875 (Alatorre)
Requires the Department of Justice to prescribe a
Chapter 836
form which may be used by defined medical personnel
to report non-accidental physical injuries of
children under 12.
AB 3882 - Alatorre
Authorizes licensed vocational nurses under specified
Chapter 837
conditions to administer tuberculin skin tests,
coccidioidin skin tests, histoplasmin skin tests, and
immunizing agents. The bill becomes effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 3884 (Alatorre)
Amends the clinical laboratory licensing law
Chapter 838
administered by the Department of Health to
authorize licensed vocational nurses, when authorized
by a physician and surgeon, to puncture the arteries,
skin, and veins for the purpose of withdrawing blood
for test purposes.
AB 3892 - Murphy
Requires that whenever an action is commenced to
Chapter 839
declare a building uninhabitable, the plaintiff
public agency shall at the time of filing the complaint
file a notice of pendency of the action in the county
recorder's office of the county where the building is
located. The changes made by this bill become
effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3939 - Bannai
Chapter 840
Requires the chief fiscal officer of each campus of the
California State University and Colleges to deposit in
trust specified fees and charges for services and
materials that are optional to the user. The changes
made by this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3956 - Badham
Specifies that a public officer, whether elected or
Chapter 841
appointed, may be elected or appointed to serve as
a member of a board of directors of the Orange County
Water District.
The bill also increases the compensation of directors
of the district from $35 to a sum not exceeding $50
for each meeting of the board and for each day
employed on the business of the district. It limits
compensation to not more than six days in any calendar
month. The changes made by this bill become effective
January 1, 1975.
AB 3958 Arnett
Authorizes the Trustees of the California State University
Chapter 842
and Colleges to waive entirely or reduce any or all fees
for its employees who enroll in specified work-related
courses. The changes made by this bill become
-ffective January 1, 1975.
AB 3972 - Chappie
Permits the air pollution control officer of any air
Chapter
843
pollution control district in a county with a popula-
tion of 6,000,000 or less to authorize, by permit,
open outdoor fires to dispose of agricultural waste
and specified wood waste in a mechanized burner.
The bill also authorizes the governing body of any air
pollution control district to prohibit, by regulation,
the operation of mechanized burners. The changes
made by this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3975 - Fenton
Tolls period relating to an express or implied warr-
Chapter 844
anty covering consumer goods selling for $50 or more
under the Song-Beverly Consumer Warranty Act for the
period from the date upon which buyer either has
delivered to the manufacturer or seller nonconforming
goods for the purpose of having warranty repairs or
service performed on the goods or, notifies manufac-
turer or seller of nonconformity of goods until date
on which repaired or serviced goods are delivered
to buyer or buyer is notified of completion of repair
or services. The bill becomes effective on January
1, 1975.
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AB 3977 - Burton
Makes technical corrections in the Burton-Stull
Chapter 845
Vietnam Veterans Employment Act. The bill provides tha
reimbursement to the employer should be made after
a veteran commences training, rather than work or
training.
The bill further provides that 17% rather than 25% of
the prior $1 million appropriation for Vietnam veterar
training program may be used by the Employment
Development Department for administrative costs.
The bill becomes effective immediately.
B 3986 - Lewis
.hapter 846
Provides in specified public agency contracts that
public agency shall be responsible for timely removal
relomation, or protection of existing main or trunk-
line utility facilities where they are not identified
in bid specifications. Requires that contract
documents include provisions to compensate contractor
for specified costs caused because of such utilities
not indicated in plans and specifications with
reasonable accuracy. Provides public utility, wher e
they are the owner, has sole discretion to perform
or permit contractor to perform repairs or relocation
work. Requires contractor to notify utility, as
well as public agency, when, while performing the
contract, the contractor discovers utility facilities
not identified by the public agency in the contract
plans or specifications. Specifies all changes made
by act are declaratory of existing law. The bill
becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 3987 - Dunlap
Relates to the maximum property tax rate that may be
Chapter 847
imposed for county free library purposes within special
taxing zones. The changes made by this bill become
effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3988 (Ralph)
Specifies that no part of a community college district
hapter 848
may be changed than only by transfer to another
community college district, unless such change is
approved by the governing boards of the mommunity
college districts affected or unless approved by the
electorate in accordance with procedures established
by law.
AB 3992 - McAlister
Increases the salary of the San Jose-Milpitas Judicia
Chapter 849
District Court Commissioner.
The bill also specifies that any traffic trial
commissioner serving a municipal court district in
the County of Santa Clara shall receive a salary equal
to that of the Court Commissioner of the San Jose-
Milpitas Judicial District. The bill becomes effecti
on January 1, 1975.
AB 4039 - Bagley
Changes the salaries of municipal court personnel
Chapter 850
in Marin County. The bill becomes effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 4042 - Waxman
Makes it unlawful for any person to hold or display
Chapter 851
any potentially hazardous refrigerated food at any
temperature above 45 degrees Fahrenheit, rather than
above 50 degrees Fahrenheit. The bill becomes
effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 4043 - Waxman
Increases the membership of the Advisory Committee
Chapter 852
on Emergency Medidal Services in the Department of
Health. The bill becomes effective on January 1, 19'
AB 4051 - Ralph
Authorizes board of supervisors to establish
Chapter 853
delinquency prevention agency or department, or to
assign delinquency prevention duties to an existing
agency or department. The changes made by this bill
will become effective January 1, 1975.
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AB 4084 - Hayden
Permits an employer, after determining a deceased
Chapter
854
employee has no survivor entitled to workmen's compen-
sation death benefits, to pay the Department of
Industrial Relations the amount that would have been
due a survivor. The bill also provides that such
payment to the State be returned to the employer should
a survivor be subsequently identified. The changes
made by this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 4086 - Hayden
Provides express authority for sale or all or part of
Chapter
855
the business of a failed state bank or trust company
by the Superintendent of Banks. The changes made by
this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
As 4092 - Berman
Provides that in a court proceeding to entorce
Chapter 856
discovery rights under the Stull Act provisions for
dismissal of tenured teachers, either party may
request the judge to postpone the date of the hearing
where the judge concludes that the refusal to comply
with a request for discovery was unreasonable. The
changes made by this bill become effective January 1,
1975.
AB 4107 (Knox)
Revises and restates restrictions which assessors
Chapter 857
shall consider in assessing certain land. Bill
becomes effective January 1, 1975.
AB 4127 - Keysor
Provides that original election campaign statements
Chapter 858
filed with the Secretary of State shall be preserved
indefinitely, and the copies filed with other election
officers shall be preserved for a period of four
years from December 31 of theyear in which they are
filed and may thereafter be destroyed. The bill
specifies a procedure for the preservation of photo-
graphic reproductions of campaign statements for such
period in lieu of preservation of the copies filed.
The bill also specifies that the clerk may use copies
of affidavits of registration for checking petition
signatures. The bill becomes effective immediately.
AB 4140 - Chappie
Makes technical amendments to provisions of the
Chapter
859
Health and Safety Code relating to seismic safety
designs of buildings. The changes made by this
bill become effective January 1. 1975.
AB 4142 - Badham
Authorizes a California water district to issue bonds
Chapter
860
for the purpose of acquiring water rights or entitle-
ments under a joint contract with other public agencies
or private corporations or persons. Such rights or
entitlements are to be divided among the parties in
consideration of the payments to be made by each. The
issuance of such bonds is to be specified as a public
purpose for the benefit of the district, and may be
undertaken whenever the district board finds such
joint action to be reasonably necessary or convenient
for the district. The changes made by this bill become
effective January 1. 1975.
AB 4152 (MacGillivray)
Makes changes in the salaries, job titles, and number
Chapter
861
of municipal court personnel in Santa Barbara County.
AB 4160 - Knox
Makes name changes to reflect changes in the Depart-
Chapter
862
ment of Food and Agriculture. Directs the Director
of Food and Agriculture to adopt regulations for the
specifications of diesel fuel, kerosene and fuel
oil. Makes various changes related to the labeling
of petroleum products. The changes become effective
on January 1, 1975.
AB 4175 - Chappie
Requires that all new ski lifts be inspected by a
Chapter
863
Division of Industrial Safety engineer and authorizes
the Division to charge up to $10 for processing a
permit resulting from inspections performed by
certified insurance inspectors. The changes made
by this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
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AB 4194 (Arnett)
Specifies rights of probationary certificated
Chapter 864
employees of school districts whose services are
terminated because of a decrease in enrollment or
the reduction or elimination of a particular kind
of service.
AB 4199 - Knox
Chapter 865
Redefines terms and makes various technical changes
relating to commodity brokers and commodity exchanges.
The bill becomes effective on January 1. 1975.
AB 4206 (Knox)
Provides for a specified number of registered voters
Chapter 866
to be proponents of a petition seeking the incorpora-
tion of a city.
The bill requires calculations of registered voters
signing a petition seeking the incorporation of a
city to be based upon the numbers of qualified
electors at the last general state election.
AB 4208 (Knox)
Provides that a local agency formation commission
Chapter 867
shall have the power to waive the application of
provisions relating to the exclusion of territory
from a county service area if it finds that the
application of such provisions would deprive an
area of a service needed to insure the health,
safety or welfare of the area's residents and if it
finds that the waiver would not affect the ability
of a city to provide any service.
AB 4209 - Knox
Provides that when a local agency fails to file the
Chapter 868
required boundary change documents by January 1 in
order to levy property taxes for the next fiscal year,
the agency may borrow an amount equal to the tax
revenue that would have been collected on the annexed
property if the taxes had been levied. In the suc-
ceeding years, the local agency may levy a tax in orde:
to repay the borrowed funds, including the interest
Charges. The bill becomes effective January 1, 1975,
.B 4219--Davis
Changes compensation for juror's travel COSTO rom $0. 20
Chapter 869
per mile one way to the rate being paid to public officers
of the county for travel compensation in a county of the 39th
class (Siskiyou County). Becomes effective January 1, 1975.
AB 4244 - Chappie
Provides the the annexation of certain territory to
Chapter 870
a specified sanitary district and city shall be effec-
tive for assessment and taxation purposes for the 1974.
75 fiscal year if the required documents are filed
with the assessor and the State Board of Equalization
on or before specified dates. The bill becomes
effective immediately.
AB 4249 (Bagley)
Chapter 871
AB 4249 makes clarifying comments to legislation
enacted in 1973, relating to public social services.
AB Deddeh
Eliminates the time limits within which the Industrial
Chapter 872
Welfare Commission may adopt mandatory orders to
specify the minimum wage, maximum hours, and the standard
conditions of labor for certain occupations, trades and
industries. The bill takes effect immediately.
AB 4274--Lewis
Makes several changes to the Teachers' Retirement Law.
Chapter 873
It removes obsolete language regarding the refunding of
employer contributions paid on account of military service;
it makes changes regarding applications for a disability
allowance; it clarifies sections regarding optional retirement
allowances; and removes the estimated roll and replaces it
with an estimated allowance. The changes made by this
bill become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 4292 - Knox
Authorizes an optometrist to employ a physician and
Chapter 874
surgeon who is practicing in the specialty of
ophthalmology. The bill also authorizes an optometris
to be employed by an ophthalmologist to practice
optometry. The changes made by this bill will become
effective January 1, 1975.
AB 4297 - Wilson
Weletes exception of speciied real estate advertising
Chapter 875
from provision specifying civil penalty to be assessed
and recovered in action brought to enforce provisions
relating to false and deceptive advertising. Provides
that these civil penalties and certain criminal pen-
alties presently contained in the law are mutually
exclusive. The bill becomes effective on January 1,
1975.
AB 4323 - McAlister
Provides that, in lieu of specifying prevailing wase
Chapter 876
rates to be paid on public work projects in bid
specifications, reference may be made to copies of
such rates on file at the principal office of the
body awarding the public contract.
The bill requires publication of prevailing wage
rates by the awarding body, when such wage rates are
incorporated by reference, in lieu of actual inclusion,
in bid specifications, as well as in the call for hirls
and in the contract itself.
AB 4326 (Knox)
Provides that territory withdrawing from a county
Chapter 877
service area, for which the county has for the
benefit of the service area incurred specified
indebtedness or other contractual obligations, shall
nevertheless be liable for assessment and payment
of a tax for its pro rata share of such indebtedness
or contractual obligation.
AB 4339 (Beverly)
Revises the formula that the Controller uses to
Chapter 878
ascertain the population for incorporations of and
annexation to cities for the purpose of distribution
of gasoline tax revenue and motor vehicle license
fee revenue.
AB 4342 Chacon
Provides that in the relocation of a displaced person by a
Chapter 879
public entity the cost of such a transfer is exempt from
regulation by the Public Utilities Commission and the public
entity may solicit bids for the move. The changes made
by the bill become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 4403 (Badham)
Eliminates the present requirement of the Employment
Chapter 880
Agency Act that all employment agencies use the
terms "agency" or "agencies" as part of their
licensed firm names. Permits instead the use of the
designations "agency" or "personnel service". Permits
agencies to obtain a name change without charge if
they file a request prior to 3-31-75.
AB 4421 - Dixon
Provides that, in counties having a population exceed-
Chapter 881
ing 4,000,000, a criminal defendant who is to be
arraigned in a municipal court and who is held in
custody may also be arraigned in the municipal court
in the county nearest to where defendart is being held,
rather than only before the court in which the accusa-
tory pleading is filed.
The bill also permits such defendant to make three
free telephone calls prior to being taken for arraign-
ment, in additionato other calls provided by law.
The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 4427 - Seeley
Adds the State Forester and his duly authorized
Chapter
882
representatives to those public officers who may
authorize the use of open outdoor fires to dispose
of Russian thistle. The bill takes effect immediately
AB 4430--Thomas
Extends to August 16, 1975, the provision of the boxing and
Chapter 883
wrestling law which exempts from the tax on televised
boxing contests the amounts received from the sale of rights
to out-of-state viewing of live telecasts, closed-circutt
telecasts, and delayed tape telecasts of championship fights.
The bill takes effect immediately.
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AB 4432 - Murphy
This bill would authorize the County of Santa Cruz
Chapter
884
to convey a portion of its granted tide and submerged
lands to the City of Capitola. This transfer would
have to occur prior to January 1, 1985, and would be
subject to specific trusts and conditions. It also
provides that the County Board of Supervisors take
such action and that the State Lands Commission re-
ceive notices and acknowledges the transfer. The
bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 4453 - Sieroty
Provides that Director of the Youth Authority, with
Chapter 885
the approval of the Director of Finance, may enter
into contracts with a county to furnish temporary
emergency detention facilities, rather than predis-
position detention facilities, along with necessary
incidental services for certain minors held in custody
in specified circumstances. The bill becomes effective
immediately.
AB 4457 - Russell
Permits the Antelope Community College District
Chapter
886
which had voted an override tax for construction
purposes prior to July, 1973, to continue that tax
in order that contractual commitments and construction
already approved by the voters of that district may
proceed. The bill takes effect immediately.
AB 4463 (Antonovich)
Creates the non-peace-officer position of custodial
Chapter 887
officer among certain persons responsible for main-
taining custody of prisoners and for the operation
of certain detention facilities in cities with over
2,000,000 population
Specifies powers and authority of a custodial officer.
AB 4469 - Waxman
Reduces fromgross incompetence to ordinary
Chapter 888
incompetence the degree of incompetence necessary
for suspension or revocation of a medical license.
The bill adds fraudulent alteration of medical
records as a ground for license suspension or revoca-
tion and makes such alteration a misdemeanor and a
ground for imposition of a civil penalty of $500.
The bill strengthens various provisions relating to
the authority of the Board of Medical Examiners to
take disciplinary action based upon the action of
other states, conviction of crimes, misuse of drugs,
and mental illness. The bill becomes effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 4472 - Waxman
Authorizes a health facility to require every member
Chapter 889
of the medical staff to have professional liability
insurance as a condition to being on the medical
staff of the health facility. The changes made by
this bill will become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 4483 - Bee
Provides that the City of Pleasanton need not
Chapter 890
demolish the temporary housing project called
Komandorski Village until January 1, 1977. The
bill takes effect immediately.
AB 4508 - Craven
Permit voluntary area health planning agencies to
Chapter 891
grant a second extension of up to 12 months for
approval of applications to construct a health
facility under the State Comprehensive Health Plan-
ning Law. The bill becomes effective immediately.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-19-74
#521
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that he has signed the following bills:
SB 147 - Marks
Prohibits widening Doyle Drive beyond specified limits
Chapter 724
without the approval of the San Francisco Board of
Supervisors. The bill becomes effective on January 1,
1975.
SB Harmer
Permits acceptance of premarital syphilis tests from states
Chapter 725
not having laws on the subject comparable to California laws,
for persons who have been examined by a licensed physician
and who have had laboratory tests for syphilis, within the
previous 30 days, performed by the official state public
health laboratory in the originating state. The changes
made by this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
SB 445 (Nejedly)
Authorizes the service of notice and a copy of the
Chapter 726
petition in a juvenile court proceeding to be served
by first-class mail, as well as by personal service
or certified mail with a request for a return receipt.
SB 1081 - Rodda
Provides that the county counsel's analysis of a
Chapter 727
proposed charter, relating to the consolidation of the
County of Sacramento with cities within the county,
shall not exceed 1500 words. Deletes the provisions,
with respect to consolidation of the County of
Sacramento that exempted specified districts from
dissolutionment upon reorganization, and provides that
except as otherwise provided in the charter, every
special district within the county or exercising all
or any part of its jurisdiction or powers within the
county is deemed dissolved. It provides that the
functions of all such dissolved districts shall be
assumed by the city-county government. The bill
becomes effective immediately.
SB 1205 (Stiern)
Provides for the issuance of authorized emergency
Chapter
728
vehicle permits to vehicles used for law enforcement
work within Kern County parks.
SB 1247 - Carpenter
Permits the Attorney General to bring actions to
Chapter 729
enforce the rights of limited partners where, after
notice and non-compliance, it appears that enforce-
ment by private civil action would be so burdensome
or expensive as to be impractical. The changes made
by this bill will become effective January 1, 1975.
SB 1296 - Gregorio
Changes the compensation of superior court reporters
Chapter
730
in San Mateo County. The bill becomes effective
immediately.
SB 1298 - Gregorio
Increases salary ranges of the clerks and deputy
Chapter 731
clerks of the San Mateo County municipal courts.
The bill also provides that any traffic referee
appointed to a municipal court in San Mateo County
pursuant to specified authority shall receive a salary
to be determined by the court, instead of 50% of the
salary of a municipal court judge. The bill becomes
effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 1392 - Song
Deletes present requirement of filing with respect
Chapter 732
to written interrogatories and written requests for
admission of genuineness of relevant document and
reply thereto. The bill extends time to answer
interrogatories or move for further response from
20 to 30 days. The bill becomes effective on January
1, 1975.
SB 1400 - Biddle
Sets new filing fees and rates of compensation for
Chapter 733
court reporters in Riverside County. The bill
becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
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SB 1470 - Biddle
Requires that payment made by school districts on
Chapter 734
account of education of pupils of the district who
are in attendance at California School for the Blind,
California School for the Deaf, and the Diagnostic
School for Neurologically Handicapped be made by
reduction of second principal apportionment for fol-
lowing fiscal year rather than by direct payment to
Department of Education. The bill becomes effective
on January 1, 1975.
SB 1493--Grunsky
Deletes the authority of port districts to prescribe fines,
Chapter 735
forfeitures, and penalties for violation of district ordinances,
but authorizes Board of Port Commissioners to adopt
ordinances for the regulation of the District. The bill
provides that violation of such an ordinance is an infraction
subject to a fine not to exceed fifty dollars, and also
provides for the issuance of citations. The changes made
by this bill take effect January 1, 1975.
SB 1508 - Nejedly
Exempts purchases or contracts for the purchase
Chapter
736
of gasoline, diesel fuel, and other petroleum products
used in or for motor vehicles by the state and local
agencies from competitive bidding requirements. The
changes made by this bill become effective January 1,
1975.
SB 1572 (Marler)
Authorizes the board of supervisors to appoint one-
Chapter 737
half of the initial membership of a newly created
delinquency prevention commission for a term of two
years and to appoint one-half of the members of an
existing commission to a term of two years at any
time upon the expiration of all members' terms.
The bill also authorizes the appointment of persons
under 18 years of age to such commissions.
SB 1584 (Whetmore)
Makes the person executing a written contract for
Chapter 738
the purchase of musicians' services the employer,
for purposes of the unemployment compensation
insurance law, unemployment disability compensation
insurance law, Miller-Collier Act, and federal-state
extended benefits, if certain conditions are met.
Bill becomes effective January 1, 1975.
SB 1587 - Cusanovich
Makes clarifying and technical changes in the
Chapter
739
provisions of the Improvement Act of 1911 and the
Municipal Improvement Act of 1913 regarding credit
for private dedications and improvements against
improvement district assessments.
The bill also specifies procedure in the formation
of a crossing guard maintenance district from, or
the annexation thereto of, territory located within
more than one local agency. It authorizes crossing
grards to be located outside of the district if
necessary for the safety of the district residents.
The changes made by this bill will become effective
January 1, 1975.
SB 1612 - Cusanovich
Revises criteria by which credit union board of
Chapter
740
directors may make gifts or donations. The bill
allows a credit union to use endorsement by member
or other person as adequate security for note on a
loan in excess of $5,000.
The bill further specifies that credit union bylaws
may entitle shares to a proportionate part of
dividends calculated from the date the shares are
fully paid to date of withdrawal. The changes made
by this bill will become effective January 1, 1975.
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SB 1615 (Nejedly)
Exempts, with respect to the 75% capital expenditure
Chapter 741
requirement and the 50% budgetary limitation for Mills
Alquist-Deddeh Act funds, such funds allocated for the
extension of a public transportation service as a
result of territorial annexation or pursuant to
contract with another operator, city, or county and
which extension of service began after June 30, 1972.
Extends the existing exemption (regarding the first
five years of operation commenced after June 30, 1972)
from such requirement and limitation, as well as the
above exemption, to all operators rather than only to
transit districts and municipal operators.
SB 1641 - Marks
Adds one person who is a member of an organized labor
Chapter 742
union which represents waste water treatment plant
operators to the advisory committee appointed by the
State Water Resources Control Board to assist it in
carrying out its responsibilities regarding municipal
waste water treatment plant classification and opera-
tor certification. The bill becomes effective on
January 1, 1975.
SB 1675 - Deukmejian
Provides for proration of license fee of licenses
Chapter 743
issued by any agency in the Department of Consumer
Affairs. It prohibits any agency in the Department
of Consumer Affairs and the Real Estate Commissioner
from imposing additional requirements for failure
of the applicant to successfully complete a prior
examination.
The bill allows any agency in the Department of
Consumer Affairs to promulgate regulations requiring
licensees to include their license numbers in
advertising, soliciting or other presentments to the
public. The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975
B 1701 - Berryhill
Makes technical changes in the Insurance Tax and
.napter 744
and Bank and Corporation Tax Laws. The bill becomes
effective immediately.
SB 1719 - Kennick
Authorizes performance of dental work on juveniles
Chapter
745
in custody upon the recommendation of attending or
licensed dentist, rather than on the written
recommendation of a physician. The changes made by
this bill will become effective January 1, 1975.
SB 1725 (Robbins)
Chapter 746
Authorizes the city attorney of a city having a
population in excess of 750,000 to prosecute actions
in unfair competition cases.
The bill authorizes city prosecutor, with the consent
of the district attorney, in any city or city and
county having a full-time city prosecutor to prosecute
actions in unfair competition cases.
The bill further provides that in such cases one-half
of the penalty collected shall be paid to the
treasurer of the city in which the judgment was
entered and one-half to the treasurer of the county
in which the judgment was entered.
DB 1727 - Mills
Chapter 747
Authorizes public transportation system operators
to budget and expend Mills-Alquist-Deddeh Act funds
for operating purposes to enable them to receive
the maximum amount of matching federal funds for
operating expenditures if they become available.
The bill's provisions are to remain in effect only
until June 30, 1977.
The bill becomes effective immediately.
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SB 1783 - Dymally
Specifies that when governing boards of school districts
Chapter
748
are adopting instructional materials for use in the
schools, such materials are to accurately portray the
role and contributions of European Americans, among
other prescribed ethnic and cultural groups, to the
total development of California and the United States.
The bill authorizes the State Board of Education to
combine available tests or develop a new test if no
published test is deemed suitable to be given to
pupils in grades 2 and 3 to determine reading ability.
The bill also requires answer sheets of such mandatory
reading test to be transmitted to Department of
Education for scoring rather than just submitting test
results. The bill further requires performance test
answer sheets of basic skill courses required of pupils
in grades 6 and 12 to be submitted to the State Board
of Education for scoring rather than just submitting
test results. The changes made by this bill become
effective January 1, 1975.
SB 1807 - Way
Provides that if the board of supervisors of Madera
Chapter 749
County consolidates the Madera Judicial District and
the Sierra Judicial District into the same district,
any justice court established in the consolidated
district shall have 2 judges. The changes made by
this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
SB 1829 - Deukmejian
Extends the termination date of the California Crime
Chapter 750
Technological Research Foundation from adjournment of
the 1975 Regular Session of the Legislature to
December 31, 1976. The changes made by this bill
become effective January 1, 1975.
SB 1842 (Short)
Permits school district or county superintendent of
Chapter 751
schools to make payments to parents or guardians of
pupils enrolled in development centers for handicapped
pupils for providing transportation between home and
the center,
Specifies that average daily attendance used for
computation of transportation allowances be based on
230, rather than 250, days per year.
Provides for granting of allowances to development
centers for handicapped pupils when centers are
required to close temporarily because of flood, fire
or epidemics.
SB 1846 (Song)
Provides that surviving spouse is liable for the
Chapter 752
debts of the deceased spouse to the extent of the
value of the community property passing from the
deceased spouse.
The bill provides confirmation procedure for the
passing of community property interest to a surviving
spouse without passing through administration of the
decedent's estate.
The bill further provides that bank accounts or
shares, share accounts and investment certificates
of a savings and loan association held by a married
person, rather than specifying a married woman, shall
be held for that person's exclusive right and benefit,
and any receipt or acquittance by such person is a
valid and sufficient release and discharge.
SB 1855 - Robbins
Authorizes cities and counties to jointly construct,
Chapter
753
maintain, improve, and repair bicycle routes or paths.
The changes made by this bill become effective
January 1, 1975.
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SB 1869 (Alquist)
Provides separate provisions for budget requirements
Chapter
754
for community college districts including required
filing of the adopted budget with the office of the
Chancellor of the California Community Colleges.
The bill specifies that the Board of Governors of
California Community Colleges, rather than the State
Board of Education, shall provide a uniform system
of accounting for community colleges and makes
corresponding changes in provisions regarding annual
reports of community college district revenues and
expenses.
- 1872 - Beilenson
This bill provides that no health facility which
Chapter 755
permits sterilization operations for contraceptive
purposes to be performed therein, nor the health
facility's medical staff, is to require the patient
to meet any special nonmedical qualifications which
are not imposed on other patients. These prohibited
nonmedical qualifications include age, marital status
and number of children. This shall not prohibit
physical or mental condition requirements, affect
the right of the attending physician to advise his
patient as to whether or not sterilization is appro-
priate, or affect existing law regarding individuals
below the age of 10.
Legislation enacted last year (SB 413) inadvertently
deleted provisions from the Health and Safety Code
prohibiting imposition of any nonmedical qualifica-
tions not imposed on individuals seeking other types
of operations. Bill becomes effective on January 1,
1975.
SB 1888 - Cusanovich
Exempts any architect, structural engineer, civil
Chapter 756
engineer, land surveyor, mechanical engineer, engineer-
ing geologist or electrical engineer, practicing
within the scope of his license, from the provisions
of the Registered Construction Inspectors Law. It
prohibits any such person from using the title or term
"registered inspector" unless registered under that
law.
The bill specifies the per diem to be received by the
State Board of Registered Construction Inspectors.
The bill also authorizes the board to establish
specialties of construction inspection. The changes
made by this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
SB 1890 (Robbins)
Provides that the school district governing board may
Chapter 757
pay compensation to members of an annuity reserve fund
board of a discontinued school district retirement
system for meetings of the board and provides that
such compensation shall be a charge against the fund.
SB 1896 Zenovich
Authorizes the Director of General Services, with approval
Chapter 758
of the Public Works Board, to dispose of specified parcels
of property. The bill specifies the conditions for the sale,
exchange or lease of this property at current market values
and sets forth conditions concerning the reservation of
mineral rights on the lands to be sold or exchanged.
Changes made by this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
BB 1919 - Moscone
Exempts personal property from taxation owned or
Chapter 759
used by nonprofit corporations operating student
book stores of colleges affiliated with the Universit
of California.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
SB 1920 (Moscone)
Prohibits parking of vehicles within three feet of a
Chapter 760
sidewalk access ramp constructed adjacent to a cross-
walk for use by the physically handicapped.
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SB 1948 - Nejedly
Amends provisions of the Municipal Utility District
Chapter
761
Act pertaining to payment of employee pensions and
retention of district records. The changes made by
this bill will become effective January 1, 1975.
SB 1955 - Ayala
Provides that, with respect to the recall or any
officer of a district subject to the Uniform District
Chapter 762
Election Law, a notice of intention to recall the
officer, rather than a recall petition, shall not be
published, posted, or filed, rather than only filed,
if either the officer has not held the office for
six months or a recall election has been determined
in his favor within six months. The changes made by
this bill will become effective January 1, 1975.
SB 1990 (Zenovich)
Specifies that, with regard to the definition of
Chapter 763
"authorized real estate security", for purposes of
mortgage guaranty insurance, the restriction that the
real estate loan secured is one which a bank, savings
and loan association, or an insurance company, which
is supervised and regulated by a state or federal
agency, is authorized to make also includes one which
such an institution would be authorized to make,
disregarding any requirement applicable to such an
institution that the amount of the loan not exceed
certain percentage of the value of the real estate.
The bill also increases the allowable maximum amount
of coverage for specified classes of mortgage guaranty
insurance from 20 to 25% of the entire indebtedness
to the insured.
SB 1999 Deukmejian
Abolishes the boards of district oil and gas commissioners
Chapter 765
and transfers their functions to the Director of the
Department of Conservation. Changes made by this bill
become effective January 1, 1975.
SB 2000 - Roberti
Revises the regulation of advertising referring to
Chapter
766
cost, price, charge, or fee for commodities supplied
or services rendered by certain health professionals
to allow any labor organization, employee group, or
association contracting for health care services with
a health care service plan under the Knox-Mills Health
PlantAct to inform members of the benefits available
and the charges therefor under the plan. The changes
made by this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
SB 2006 - Robbins
Changes the present required two-thirds vote of the
Chapter 767
governing body of a city to a simple majority vote fo:
approval of railroad use of city streets. The bill
also places counties under this requirement. The
bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 2019 - Collier
Deletes the provisions that provide that a county or
Chapter 768
a city which is allocated money from the Aeronautics
Account in the State Transportation Fund for the
construction of recreational airports and reliever
training airstrips is not eligible to receive a speci
fied $5,000 annual payment from the account until the
account is reimbursed in a designated fashion.
The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 2038 (Marler)
Amends the Vehicle Code to provide for the continued
Chapter 769
operation of a motor vehicle after notice by a
traffic officer that the motor vehicle is in
violation of emission control standards, if the
Department of the California Highway Patrol has
checked and determined that the vehicle has been
made to comply with such standards, rather than
only if a certificate of compliance has been issued
by a licensed motor vehicle pollution control device
installation and inspection station.
SB 2045 - Nejedly
Revises various prescribed fines and penalties for
Chapter 770
violations of Fish and Game Code. The bill makes
willful violation of a written promise to appear in
court or before a person authorized to receive a
deposit of bail a misdemeanor regardless of the dis-
position of the original charge. The bill becomes
effective on January 1. 1975.
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SB 2048 - Senovich
Provides that if a minor neither resides nor provides
Chapter 771
creative, artistic, or athletic services in this
state, he can be bound to a contract in the superior
court of the county in which either party to the
contract has its principal office. The bill becomes
effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 2052 (Senovich)
The bill requires the Fish and Game Commission, rather
Chapter 772
than the Department of Fish and Game, to promulgate
rules and regulations regarding oil sumps hazardous
to wildlife, and requires such rules and regulations
to include a reasonable definition of the term
"hazardous". Requires the Department of Fish and
Game when notifying the State oil and Gas Supervisor
of an oil sump which is hazardous to wildlife to speci-
fy the hazardous conditions, and when notifying the
supervisor of an oil sump which constitutes an
immediate and grave danger to wildlife to specify
the immediate and grave danger. Requires the written
notice of the supervisor to the person responsible
for a hazardous oil sump or an oil sump which
constitutes an immediate and grave danger to wildlife
to set forth the hazardous conditions or the immediate-
ly dangerous conditions as specified by the department.
To take effect immediately, urgency statute.
SB 2055 - Schrade
Simplifies procedure for authorizing exclusive bus
Chapter 773
and carpool lanes on state highways. The bill becomes
effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 2060 (Berryhill)
Amends the Food and Agricultural Code to require a
Chapter
774
report of nonperformance of a pesticide as well as
loss or damage resulting from its use. The report
is made to the county agricultural commissioner.
The amendment also shortens from 60 to 30 days the
time that the report of loss or nonperformance shall
be filed after such loss or nonperformance becomes
known to the person filing the report.
SB 2062 - Ayala
Permits a municipal water district located within a
Chapter 775
metropolitan water district to annex territory out-
side the metropolitan water district without per-
mission of and without such territory being annexed
to the metropolitan water district. The bill also
permits a municipal water district located wholly
or partially within a metropolitan water dis trict to
obtain water from any source to serve any territory
within such district except that water obtained from
the metropolitan water district may not be served
outside the boundaries of the metropolitan water
district. The bill becomes effective January 1, 1975.
SB 2085 - Stiern
Transfers the regulatory authority for animal
Chapter
776
biologics from the Department of Health to the
Department of Food and Agriculture. The changes
made by this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
SB 2104 (Dymally)
Revises provisions requiring county clerks to inspect
Chapter 777
voting machines and vote tabulating devices for
accuracy by requiring inspections at least once every
two years rather than once every two years and by
deleting the provision establishing the period within
which inspections are prohibited.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALL REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-19-74
#522
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that he has signed the following bills:
SB 2111 - Way
Amends the Milk Stabilization Law to clarify the
Chapter 778
impact of suspension of the minimum wholesale or
retail prices for fluid milk in any particular mar-
keting area by the Director of Food and Agriculture.
The bill provides that a suspension of minimum whole-
sale and/or minimum retail prices is not limited,
and shall not be considered to be the same as termina-
tion of such minimum prices, and in addition, it pro-
vides that suspension shall not affect the minimum
price to be paid by distributors to producers for
fluid milk as established pursuant to the stabiliza-
tion and marketing plan. The bill becomes effective
on January 1, 1975.
SB 2112 - Stiern
Authorizes Kern County to sell to the United States
Chapter 779
Postal Service a portion of certain lands acquired for
Kern Desert Regional Park pursuant to a grant under
the Cameron-Unruh Beach, Park, Recreational, and
Historical Facilities Bond Act of 1964, subject to the
approval of the Secretary of the Resources Agency.
The bill requires the proceeds of such sale to be used
by the county for the development of Kern Desert
Regional Park. The bill becomes effective immediately
SB 2131 - Whetmore
Clarifies existing law to provide that the provisions
Chapter 780
of the Mortgage Loan Broker Reform Act apply only to
real estate brokers who engage in negotiating and
arranging loans as mortgage loan brokers and as a
primary business. The bill becomes effective on
January 1, 1975.
SB 2134 - Collier
Enacts the Rural Highway Public Transportation Act to
Chapter 781
authorize the boards of supervisors, city councils,
and the Department of Transportation to do all things
necessary and proper to secure funds pursuant to the
Federal Aid Highway Act, of 1973 for rural highway
public mass transportation projects. The bill
becomes effective January 1, 1975.
SB 2169 (Marks)
Adds a provision to the State Contract Act requiring
Chapter 782
prospective bidders to disclose, under penalty of
perjury, whether they or one of their officers or
employees have ever been disqualified, removed or
otherwise prevented from bidding on or completing
a federal, state, or local government project because
of a violation of law or a safety regulation.
SB 2171 - Roberti
Requires a party in workmen's compensation cases when
Chapter 783
subpoenaing medical records to send a copy of the
subpoena to all parties of record in the proceeding.
The changes made by the bill are effective Jan. 1, 197
SB 2180--Stull
Requires the entire amount of any settlement against a
Chapter 784
person liable for injury to a Medi-Cal recipient to be
subject to repay Medi-Cal for the value of benefits
provided and that notice of the institution of a lawsuit
be given by the injured party. The bill authorizes the
director OF court to waive all or part of the director's
claim if it results in wage losses. The changes made by
this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
SB 2182 (Stull)
Provides that in San Diego County the superior court,
Chapter 785
with the approval of the board of supervisors, may
provide for such additional court personnel as it
deems necessary. The bill also provides that rates
of compensation of court personnel may be adjusted
by joint action and approval of the board and the
court.
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SB 2206 - Mills
Specifies that the local transportation agency
Chapter 786
analyzing claims for allocations of Mills-Alquist-
Deddeh Act funds for nonmotorized transportation
facilities shall apply the general design criteria
of the Department of Transportation for such facilities
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
SB 2207 Mills
Revises provisions regarding computation of maximum
Chapter 787
allocations to cities and counties for bicycle land
projects from the Bicycle Lane Account in the State
Transportation Fund to eliminate a population ratio
formula and authorize an allocation for an eligible
project of a maximum of 10 percent of the funds
available for such projects in a single fiscal year.
The bill takes effect immediately.
SB 2208 - Mills
Permits the Controller to require reports of financial
Chapter 788
transactions of certain local transportation planning
agencies and nonprofit corporations to be furnished to
him.
The bill revises appropriation procedures by county
auditors to public transportation planning agencies.
The bill also makes changes in application procedures
for public transportation agency funds. The bill
becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 2210 - Collier
Changes the number, compensation, and conditions of
Chapter 789
employment of municipal court personnel in Sonoma
County. The changes made by this bill become
effective January 1, 1975.
SB 2217 - Song
Changes substance and procedure of state and local
Chapter 790
criminal offender record information systems.
The bill becomes effective January 1, 1975.
SB 2219 (Song)
Requires in the event a county water district or
Chapter 791
municipal water district water system is acquired
by another public agency by any method other than
a vote of the electorate of the district, that all
funds derived from the operation of the system
shall be separately accounted for and used exclusive-
1y for the purposes of maintenance, operation, better-
ments, and bond debt service of the acquired system,
and that no funds derived from the system shall be
used for any other such purpose until all debt of
system has been paid in full or until a majority
vote of the electorate of the area served by the
system has authorized such other expenditures.
SB 2227 (Kennick)
Authorizes the Trustees of the California State
Chapter 792
University and Colleges to appoint as a member of an
advisory board to a campus of the California State
University and Colleges a person who is a member of
a county board of education or the governing board
of a school district. The bill further provides
that no more than three members of an advisory
board may also be members of county boards of
education or governing boards of school districts.
SB 2231 - Moscone
Excludes from the conflict of interest provisions
Chapter 793
under the Waxman-Duffy Prepaid Health Plan Act
members of certain listed boards, commissions or
councils provided a full disclosure of financial
interest is made to the Department of Health and at
a public hearing. The bill becomes effective
immediately.
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SB 2232 - Moscone
Provides that peace officers who have successfully
Chapter
794
completed instruction, as specified, may prepare in
triplicate, on a form approved by the Judicial Council,
a written notice of violation when such officer has
reasonable cause to believe any person involved in a
traffic accident violated specified provisions of the
Vehicle Code and such a violation was a factor in the
occurrence of the accident. Prescribes the contents
of such notice of violation. The changes made by this
will hocome effective January 1, 1975.
SB 2247 - Roberti
Repeals references to the former Permanent Fund in the
Thapter
795
Teachers' Retirement Fund. It requires the STRS to
establish and maintain an adequate system of records
and accounts following recognized accounting prin-
ciples and controls. at designates the Teachers'
Retirement Fund as a special trust fund. The bill
becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 2248 (Robbins)
Permits a school district retirement plan annuity
Chapter 796
reserve fund to be invested in common stock or shares
not to exceed the percent of reserved fund assets
invested as of June 30, 1973, or 25 percent of total
assets and preferred stocks or shares not exceeding
5 percent of total assets.
SB 2257 - Nejedly
Authorizes officers of a transit district security
Chapter 797
force to remove a vehicle from transit district
property under specified conditions. The bill becomes
effective January 1, 1975.
SB 2258 - Nejedly
Authorizes regularly employed and salaried security
Chapter 798
officer or other employee of a transit district
security force designated by the chief thereof to
make appraisal of abandoned vehicles. The bill
becomes effective on January 1. 1975.
JB 2261 - Moscone
Provides that official reporters of the municipal
Chapter 799
court in San Francisco shall be entitled to the same
vacation and sick leave provided official reporters
of the superior court in the city and county and shall
be entitled and subject to any retirement and health
service provisions of the city and county charter.
The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 2263 - Moscone
Raises fees received by grand juries in counties of
Chapter 800
the sixth class (San Francisco) from $6 to not less
than $10 and not more than $25, as determined by the
board of supervisors, for each day's attendance. The
bill provides that no grand juror shall receive any
more than $75 per week.
The bill also allows grand jurors of counties of the
sixth class to be reimbursed for travel expenses out-
side the county.
SB 2278 (Ayala)
Requires the State to compensate a city for costs
Chapter 801
when a ward confined in a Youth Authority institution
is tried for a public offense.
SB 2284- Petris
Increases the maximum amount of fees which the Board of
Chapter
802
Osteopathic Examiners may prescribe for applicants for
specified certificates from $50 to $200 and from $100 to
$200 for a specified period of time. The bill takes effect
immediately.
SB 2298 (Beilenson)
Deletes the requirement that an oath or affirmation
Chapter
803
for the purpose of issuing a certification document
to educators be subscribed before any person authori:
to administer oaths or any member of a governing
board of a school district or of any county board of
education, and requires instead that the oath may be
in writing and signed by the person applying for a
certification document. Bill becomes effective
January 1, 1975.
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SB 2302 - Carpenter
Provides for the payment of a processing fee to the
Chapter 804
State Water Resources Control Board by applicants
obtaining a grant for the construction of municipal
sewage treatment and water reclamation facilities.
The bill becomes effective immediately.
SB 2305 - Ayala
Permits the appointment of two additional court
Chapter 805
commissioners by the superior court in San Bernardino
County. The bill also permits that superior court
to authorize a court commissioner to perform duties
of juvenile court referees. The bill becomes effec-
tive on Janua ry 1, 1975.
3B 2317 (Song)
Revises certain provisions related to selection of
Chapter 806
jury panels for municipal and superior courts in
Los Angeles County.
SB 2335 (Mills)
Makes funds available for research and planning of
Chapter 807
mass transit guideways.
The bill also validates all elections held prior to
August 1, 1974, at which a proposition was submitted
to authorize the use of motor vehicle tax revenues
for guidway purposes.
SB 2340 (Marks)
Extends to sale of consumer services as well as to
Chapter 808
sale of consumer goods coverage of the provision
making it unlawful in conducting a mail order
business to accept money through the mails from
customer under specified conditions, and coverage
of the provision making it unlawful to conduct a mail
order business utilizing a post office address with-
out disclosing the legal name under which business is
done and the complete street address where business
is actually conducted.
SB 2349 (Nejedly)
Permits the East Bay Regional Park District to incur
Chapter 809
indebtedness for the acquisition and development of
lands and facilities lands in an amount increased by
the anticipated tax income of the district for a
two-year period from a specified additional tax.
SB 2369 (Beilenson)
Requires a county board of supervisor to hold public
Chapter 810
hearings prior to closing a county medical facility,
eliminating an area of service or reducing the level
of indigents. Also provides that counties submit
to the State Department of Health and the appropriate
areawide health planning agencies a proposal describir
an alternate means of providing for the health care
needs for indigents.
SB 2370 (Stull)
Allows the State Lands Commission to lease state lands
Chapter 811
exclusively for the extraction of natural gas with
bidding on the basis of a flat rate of royalty. Under
current law, the Commission has similar authority
for leases relating to oil or to oil gas, but not
exclusively for gas.
SB 2394 - Mills
Exempts five pounds of black powder and twenty
Chapter 812
pounds of smokeless powder from provisions of the
State Explosives Law. The changes made by this
bill will become effective January 1, 1975.
_B 2395 (Behr)
Authorizes the County of Marin to conduct such
Chapter 813
dredging operations on tidelands and submerged lands
granted to the county to remove accumulated spoils
as are necessary to maintain navigable channels.
Provides that the county shall not be obligated to
pay the state royalties for the spoils removed in the
course of such dredging if the commission determines
that the quality of the spoils and the amounts
involved have no significant economic value.
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SB 2411 - Biddle
Authorizes counties to contribute to any city or
Chapter 814
statutorily created transit district to improve
public transportation.
The bill also authorizes a county to operate a transit
service in unincorporated areas and, with the consent
of a city or district, within a city or transit
district area. The bill becomes effective on January
1, 1975.
SB 2423 - Marks
Requires uniform allowances for part-time employees
Chapter 815
employed the equivalent of one year. The bill becomes
effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 2424 (Beilenson)
Specifies time limit within which the State Department
Chapter 816
of Health is to complete investigations requested of
it with respect to intercountry adoptions.
SB 2437 (Mills)
Permits allocation of Mills-Alquist-Deddeh Funds to
Chapter 817
city transit operators who provide service outside
its boundaries.
SB 2442 (Beilenson)
Permits a registered nurse under supervision of a
Chapter 818
licensed physician to administer immunization in a
school immunization program.
SB 2443 (Mills)
Permits use of schoolbuses to transport public
Chapter 819
employees to and from work when other trans-
portation is not available.
SB 2448 (Berryhill)
Authorizes the Director of General Services, with the
Chapter 820
approval of the Department of the Youth Authority,
to lease specified real property in Amador County to
the Amador Association for the Retarded and Handicappe
SB 2461 (Roberti)
Allows local authorities to temporarily appoint
Chapter 821
individuals for traffic direction whenever official
traffic control devices are inoperable.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALL REAGAN
RELEASE. Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-19-74
#523
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that he has signed the following bills:
AB 1183 (MacGillivray)
Adds to the Private Investigator and Adjuster Act an
Chapter 892
authorization for cities, counties, and cities and
counties to regulate the uniforms and vehicles of
private patrol operators to distinguish them from
the uniforms and vehicles of regular local law
enforcement officers.
AB 1293 - Keene
Provides that it is unlawful for either parent to
Chapter 893
willfully fail to support a minor child. The bill
becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 1449 - Keene
Amends provisions of the Collection Agency Act relat-
Chapter 894
ing to the definition of a claim, the experience
required of an applicant for a certificate authoriz-
ing the management of collection agency, the fee
required for a change in the location of a licensed
business, the time available for commencing disciplin-
ary proceedings, and the opportunity for an applicant
to review the denial of his application. The bill
becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 1970 - Papan
Amends the Moscone Automobile Leasing Act to permit
Chapter 895
the collection of cash payments of advance rent or
security deposits as security for the payment of
contractual obligations under an automobile lease.
The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 2078 - Kapiloff
Makes technical change to reference to California
Chapter 896
Constitution in Section 231 of the Revenue and Taxa-
tion Code. Changes reference in Section 753.5 of the
Revenue and Taxation Code from "full cash value" to
"full value" to conform with revision of California
Constitution. Operative only if ACA 32 of the 1973-74
Regular Session of the Legislature is adopted by the
electorate. The bill becomes effective on January 1,
1975.
AB 2321 (Sieroty)
Authorizes a member of a regional coastal zone
Chapter 897
conservation commission who is also a supervisor
from a county or city and county with a population
greater than 650,000 to appoint, subject to con-
firmation by his appointing power, an alternate
member to represent him at any regional commission
meeting.
AB 2441 - Boatwright
Enacts the Native Species Conservation and Enhancement
Chapter 898
Act, and creates the Native Species Conservation and
Enhancement Account in the Fish and Game Preservation
Fund derived from donations for the support of non-
game species conservation and enhancement programs.
Provides for recognition of such donations. The bill
becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 2536 - Holoman
Permits a duly authorized officer of contract-awarding
Chapter 899
authority, as well as the authority itself, to consent
to certain subcontractor substitutions by the prime
contractor. The bill also permits such officer to
consent to a voluntary transfer or assignment of the
subcontract by the original subcontractor. The changes
made by this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 2541 - Fong
Clarifies and strengthens provisions in the Agri-
Chapter 900
cultural Code concerning the qualifications for ob-
taining a pest control operator's license.
The bill specifically requires a person to pass an
examination and authorizes the Director to establish
by regulation the classes of pest control for which
agricultural pest control operator's licenses
and agricultural pilot certificates may be issued.
The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
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AB 2543 - Fong
Amends the Food and Agricultural Code to require
Chapter 901
that pest control operators, as a condition for the
maintenance of their license, provide with the license
application the number and expiration date of the
workmen's compensation insurance policy of the applicant
unless the applicant is a qualified self-insurer. The
bill also authorizes each pest control adviser licensed
by the State to register by mail with the Agricultural
Commissioner in all counties in which he operates,
other than the county of his occupational choice. The
changes made by this bill become effective January 1,
1975.
AB 2581- Badham
Requires owners or operators of marine terminals, pursuant to
Chapter 902
standards adopted by the State Water Resources Control Board
for the protection of water quality, to provide sewage
retention device pumpout facilities within three years after
initial standards for marine sanitation devices are promulgated
by the appropriate federal agency pursuant to the Federal
Water Pollution Control Act. Provides that no vessel shall
be subject to any other state or local law or regulation wilh
respect to the design, manufacture, installation or use within
any vessel of any marine sanitation device. The bill takes
effect immediately.
AB 2698 - Murphy
Requires the county auditor to audit accounts and
Chapter 903
records of all special districts whose annual budget
does not exceed one thousand dollars, rather than
five hundred dollars, under specified conditions
every five years, rather than two years. The bill
takes effect immediately.
AB 2699 - Murphy
Allows a county superintendent of schools to enter
Chap ter 904
into an agreement with a school district in his county
to purchase and use mobile classrooms for education of
physically handicapped pupils and therapy of speech
handicapped pupils. This bill amends the State School
Building Aid Law to provide for purchase of such
mobile classrooms with school building aid funds.
The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AD 2705 - Cory
Deletes the requirement that a school district
Chapter 905
governing board, upon the request of the county
superintendent of schools, file with the county
superintendent the courses of study prescribed for the
schools under its jurisdiction.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 2796 - Briggs
Requires each marketing advisory board, established
Chapter 906
pursuant to the California Marketing Act of 1937, to
report, annually, to the members of the industry who
are subject to its marketing order on the activities
and programs of such a marketing order.
The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 2799 (Gonsalves)
Requires the State Board of Equalization to assess
Chapter
907
state assessed property that is subject to general
property taxation at 25 percent of its full cash
value. The bill authorizes special districts to use
mailed ballots in a property tax rate limit election
whenever it considers such ballots to be less costly
or in any manner more feasible than other election
procedures.
The bill also eliminates provisions for revision of th
Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law
which have a contingent operative effect dependent
upon lack of parity between state and local property
tax assessment ratios.
AB 2811 - Kapiloff
Establishes conditions and procedures for the seizure
Chapter
908
of property or the commencement of a court action by
a county in satisfaction of taxes on the unsecured
roll prior to the date such taxes become delinquent.
The bill becomes effective January 1, 1975.
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AB 2812 (Dunlap)
Authorizes specified local educational agencies to
Chapter 909
establish and operate a sheltered workshop or new
rehabilitation service.
AB 2833 - Gonsalves
Eliminates, in the definition of the crime of wrongfully
Chapter 910
diverting money received for purpose of obtaining or
paying for services, labor, materials or equipment,
the requirement that the diversion must result in
reduction of value of owner's equity in his property
or reduction in value of the security for the loan
which provided such construction funds. The bill
provides that a diversion less than $500 rather than
$10,000 is a misdemeanor and a diversion in excess of
$500 rather than $10,000 is punishable either as a
felony or a misdemeanor. The changes made by this
bill become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 2848 (Lanterman)
Validates organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings,
Chapter
911
and bonds of counties, cities, and specified districts,
agencies and entities. Third Validating Act of 1974.
AB 2861 - Keene
Provides for workmen's compensation coverage for
Chapter 912
voluntary workers for any public agency and certain
private, non-profit organizations if the governing
body so authorizes. The bill becomes effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 2879 (Duffy)
Redefines the practice of nursing and includes in
Chapter 913
such definition the planning and performance,
according to standardized procedures, as defined,
of various services related to direct and indirect
patient care and acts of basic health care, testing,
and prevention procedures.
AB 2898- Warren
Permits a nonprofit corporation to pay the reasonable
Chapter 914
value of services rendered it by a member of a religious
organization. The changes made by this bill become
effective January 1, 1975.
AB 2900 - Cline
Authorizes aircraft hi-lift catering or cabin clean-
Chapter 915
ing trucks to have a maximum outside width not
exceeding 100 inches.
The bill makes such authorization applicable within a
distance of 50 miles from the boundaries of any air-
port in California but inapplicable to any highway
when it would operate to prevent the state from
receiving federal funds. The bill becomes effective
on January 1, 1975.
AB 2925 - Lewis
Authorizes the State Forester to give away surplus
Chapter 916
plants from the Division of Forestry tree nurseries
for purposes of reforestation and erosion control on
public land. The bill becomes effective on January 1,
1975.
AB 2929 - Keene
Expresses legislative intent that a portion of certain
Chapter 917
lands proposed to be acquired for Prairie Creek
Redwood State Park pursuant to Assembly Bill No. 3401
and possessing old-growth redwood trees be reserved
as a tribute to the late Assemblyman Frank P. Belotti,
to be known as the "Frank P. Belotti Memorial Grove.
The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 2990 (Bannai)
Authorizes the Director of Motor Vehicles to refund
Chapter
918
cash deposits or release assignments of investment
certificates, share accounts, bank deposits, or
bearer bonds, posted or filed with the department,
after three years from the date a driving school
licensee has ceased to do business or after three
years from the date a licensee has ceased to be
licensed, if the director is satisfied there are not
outstanding claims against the funds so deposited
or assigned.
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AB 2993 - Burton
Provides that no individual automobile policy or
Chapter 919
homeowners policy may contain a provision which'
mandates that the premium for such policy shall be
fully earned until expiration of the policy.
The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 3000 - Fenton
Provides that the annual fee to conduct a boxing
Chapter 920
match, which is graduated in accordance with the size
of the city in which the match will take place,
applies only to a professional boxing match and that
the fee for amateur boxing matches shall be $25.
The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
3011 - Joint Committee Establishes educational functions of various segments
on Postsecondary Educationof public higher education.
Vasconcellos, Chairman
Chapter 921
The bill declares legislative intent that a continuous
planning process, rather than the fixed master plan
approach, be used in development of public postsecond-
ary education. The bill becomes effective on January
1, 1975.
AB 3012--McLennan
Provides that one commercially designed motor vehicle
Chapter 922
weighing less than 6001 pounds, owned by a disabled veteran,
shall be exempt from the payment of vehicle license fees.
The changes made by this bill become effective January 1,
1975.
AB 3017 - Duffy
Revises provisions of the Business and Professions
Chapter 923
Code relating to continuing education requirements
for registered nurses and vocational nurses. The
changes made by this bill become effective January 1,
1975.
AB 3095--Duffy
Continues the jurisdiction of justice courts for prosecutions
Chapter 924
for contributing to the del inquency of a minor. The
changes made by this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
3106 - Meade
Extends provisions of Franchise Investment Law to
C pter 925
specified agreements between a petroleum corporation
or distributor and a gasoline dealer, or between a
petroleum corporation and distributor. The bill
becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 3115 - Cory
Requires all controlled substances in Schedules I,
Chapter 926
II, III, IV, and V, in solid or capsule form to
bear an identifying device, insignia or mark of the
manufacturer. Such requirement does not apply to
controlled substances compounded by a pharmacist
pursuant to an individual prescription. The changes
made by this bill will become effective January 1,
1975.
AB 3121 (Lockyer)
Authorizes any city or county, rather than any city
Chapter 927
or county with a population of 1,000,000 or less, to
enact an ordinance or resolution, under specified
conditions, which will have the effect of making
specified sections of the Vehicle Code applicable
upon privately owned and maintained off-street
parking facilities, if the owners or operators of
such facilities erect signs meeting specified
requirements.
AB 3130 - Chacon
Authorizes the board of supervisors of any county to
Chapter 928
appropriate and expend money from the general fund
of the county to establish certain programs deemed
by the board of supervisors to be necessary to meet
the social needs of the population of the county.
Authorizes such a board to contract with other public
agencies, private agencies or individuals to operate
such programs. The bill becomes effective on January
1, 1975.
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AB 3140 - Antonovich
Authorizes a metropolitan water district to provide
Chapter 929
up to 100,000 acre-feet from the Colorado River and
up to 60,000 acre-feet of State Water Project Water
for use outside of the District's boundaries by
private corporations andpublic agencies for the pur-
pose of electrical power plant cooling when the
major portion of the power is for use within the
district or for pumping or treating water for use
within the district. Sets minimum charges for such
water. The bill provides that contracts for such
water must require that agricultural waste water and
brackish ground water myst first be used for power
plant cooling to the extent practicable and available.
The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 3155 - Quimby
Deletes a requirement that school district governing
Chapter 930
boards notify the parent or guardian of its pupil
regarding the rights of such parent or guardian
concerning the pupil's vision appraisal by school
personnel. The bill becomes effective Januaryl, 1975.
AB 3163 - Powers
Authorizes the State Board of Registration for
Chapter 931
Professional Engineers to register an applicant with-
out examination in any engineering discipline which
the board has established if the applicant meets
specified ifications and files no later than three
years following adoption of regulations by the board
establishing each such discipline. The bill becomes
effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 3186 - Dunlap
Requires school district which maintains school
Chapter 932
sessions at times other than during the regular
academic year tocassign thereto its regular classified
employees.
The bill prohibits a classified employee, whose
regular assignment does not include such period, from
being required to work during the period between
the end of one academic year and the beginning of the
next academic year.
The bill further provides that all classified employee:
who are assigned to serve, during other than the
regular academic year shall receive, on a pro rata
basis, not less than regular compensation and
benefits. The bill becomes effective on January 1,
1975.
AB 3205 - Lewis
Provides that the provision authorizing an experi-
Chapter 933
mental kindergarten program in one school district
in three schools will be effective until January 1,
1976, rather than the 61st day after the 1975 Regular
Session.
AB 3246 - MacGillivray
Authorizes, in any county with a population of
Chapter 934
250,000, or more persons, publicly owned vehicles
operated by peace officer personnel of a marshal's
department, when actually being used in the enforce-
ment of the orders of any court, to display flashing
amber warning lights to the rear when such vehicles
are necessarily parked upon a roadway and such park-
ing constitutes a hazard to other motorists.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 3249 - MacGillivray
Extends specified termination date on effectiveness
Chapter
935
of provisions establishing certain designated areas
as the California halibut trawl grounds and providing
for the regulation of the use of trawl nets in such
areas as specified until January 5, 1978.
The bill also makes it unlawful to use trawl nets with
a cod end less than 29 meshes long and a circumference
of not less than 47 meshes in waters less than 25
fathoms deep in a designated area.
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AB 3250 (Waxman)
Requires disability insurers, health care service
Chapter
936
plans, nonprofit hospital service plans and self-
insured employee welfare benefit plans to furnish
consumers a disclosure form, setting forth the
coverages, benefits, exceptions, reductions,
limitations, premium costs, coinsurance and
deductible provisions and terms of renewability of
disability insurance plans. The bill requires the
filing of disability insurance policy advertising
material with the Insurance Commissioner.
AB 3251 - Wood
Raises the license fee required for motor vehicle
C'
pter 937
fuel pumps from $2.50 to $3.50 per pump. The changes
made by this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3259 - Chappie
Authorizes the Department of Rehabilitation to pay
Chapter 938
for training of deaf students in public or private
colleges or universities. The bill becomes effective
January 1, 1975.
AB 3261 - Chappie
Establishes various requirements regarding the use
Chapter 939
or sale of certain traps to take fur-bearing mammals
or nongame mammals. Requires a trapping license to
take or sell raw furs of nongame mammals, as well as
fur-bearing mammals, for profit.
The bill also authorizes the Fish andGame Commission
to adopt regulations regarding the taking and sale
of fur-bearing mammals or nongame mammals taken
under a trapping license. The bill becomes effective
on January 1, 1975.
AB 3268 - Dunlap
Prescribes a method of calculating average daily
Chapter 940
attendance for short term classes, conducted by
community colleges. The bill becomes effective
immediately.
A
3271 - Holoman
Extends until January 1, 1976, the termination date of
Chapter 941
the provision which exempts from the school classified
service certain short term positions established for
the employment by school districts of community repre-
sentatives in advisory or consulting capacities.
Changes made by this bill become effective January 1,
1975.
AB 3280 (Beverly)
Authorizes an insurer to hold investments in the name
Chapter
942
of a nominee approved by the Insurance Commissioner.
The Insurance Commissioner is given powers to seek a
court injunction or any other equitable relief in a
conflict of interest situation between an insurer,
its directors, officers, employees or agents.
The bill also clarifies a conflict between the Holding
Company Act, regarding transactions between
affiliated companies, and the conflict of interest
sections. Makes clear that the requirements of the
Holding Company Act would be applicable, including
reporting of material transactions, conformance to
standards of conduct, and the other requirements
of the Holding Company Act.
AB 3289 - McLennan
Makes the validity of certain specified drivers'
Chapter 943
licenses contingent upon a medical certificate being
in the licensee's immediate possession, rather than in
his possession.
The bill also prohibits the Department of Motor
Vehicles from issuing or renewing a driver's license
to any person who has a disorder characterized by
lapses of consciousness, rather than who is an
epileptic. The bill becomes effective January 1, 1975
AB 3302 - Bannai
Imposes an administrative service fee on vehicle
Chapter 944
dealers who fail to submit registration information
and appropriate fees and penalties to the Department
of Motor Vehicles on a timely basis. The bill becomes
effective on January 1, 1975.
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AB 3310 - Keysor
Requires the county clerk to include an application
Chapter 945
for absent voter ballot with the sample ballot.
The bill becomes effective immediately.
AB 3324 - MacDonald
Amends the Water Code to allow new county water
Chapter 946
districts to borrow a maximum amount of money. The
bill also amends the Ventura County Flood Control Act
to allow emergency contracts to be let without
competitive bidding. The changes made by this bill
become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3336 (Chappie)
Modifies the registration periof for off-highway
apter 947
vehicles.
AB 3340 - L. Greene
Clarifies and redefines the circumstances under which
Chapter 948
the Commission for Teacher Preparation and Licensing
may issue teaching and administrative services
credentials. The bill becomes effective immediately.
AB 3345 - Dixon
Prohibits the administration of specified examinations
Chapter 949
to persons employed in positions of instructional
aides by school districts pursuant to specified feder-
al and state laws in positions not requiring certifi-
cation qualifications.
The bill requires that persons serving in "restricted"
positions after completion of 6 months of satisfactory
service, be given the opportunity to take qualifying
examinations.
The bill also extends the termination date of the
authority for governing boards of school districts
to employ "restricted" classified employees. The
bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 3353 - Powers
Enlarges the definition of family members who may be
Chapter 950
buried in cemeteries maintained by cemetery districts.
Revises provisions re burial of deceased nonresidents
of a district and gives the district trustees the
power to set fees for such burials.
Declares the district may sell burial rights in ceme-
tery lots, rather than selling or leasing burial lots.
Changes the vote necessary for the board of supervisor
to adopt a resolution for the conveyance of a
cemetery to a cemetery authority from 2/3 to 4/5 of
the members. The bill becomes effective on January 1,
1975.
AB 3356 - Wilson
Permits the Department of Rehabilitation to contri-
Chapter 951
bute to an annuity for blind vending stand operators
from fees collected from non-blind vending stand
operations, plus operator contributions. The bill
becomes effective on January 1. 1975.
AB 3361 - Cullen
Removes the exemption for purposes of regulation of
Chapter 952
common carriers by the Public Utilities Commission of
watercraft propelled by steam, gas, fluid naphtha,
electricity, or other motive power under the burden
of 5 tons net register operated by any person or cor-
poration for the transportation of persons or pro-
perty for compensation between points within the
state. The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-19-74
#524
Joseph D. Devine, 51-year-old part-owner of a San Francisco
bay piloting company, today was reappointed by Governor Ronald
Reagan to the Pilotage Rate Committee for San Francisco, San
Pablo and Suisun bays.
A member of the committee since October 1970, he will receive
no compensation during a new term expiring June 30, 1978.
Devine's firm pilots and docks ocean vessels in and out of
San Francisco Bay. He has done this since 1962. Before that he
was with the Red Stack Tug Boat Company for 17 years and served in
the U. S. Navy during world War II.
He is a graduate of the California Maritime Academy and is a
Democrat.
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-19-74
#525
Three persons who have served the past 15 months as members
of the Speech Pathology and Audiology Examining Committee of the
state Department of Consumer Affairs were reappointed today by
Governor Ronald Reagan to terms expiring June 1, 1978.
All doctors of philosophy (PhD), they are:
Katharine G. Butler, associate dean of the school of education
at San Jose State University. She has been affiliated in the past
with Western Michigan University as a psychology professor and with
Kalamazoo (Michigan) city schools as a speech clinician.
She is a past president of the California Speech and Hearing
Association and current member of the California Association of School
Psychologists and the American Psychological Association. She is a
Republican.
Richard M. Flower, 52, professor of speech and audiology at the
University of California at San Francisco and vice chairman of the
school's department of otolaryngology. He has held professorial and
instructional positions in speech and hearing in Chicago, Buffalo and
Cleveland in the past. Like Mrs. Butler, he is a past president of
the California Speech and Hearing Association. He is a consultant to
various ESEA projects in several California school districts. He is
a Republican.
A. Chris Hagen, 37, chief of the communication disorders service
in the Division of Neurological Sciences at Rancho Los Amigos Hospital
in Downey. He is also an assistant professor of neurology at the
University of Southern California School of Medicine and has been a
lecturer and instructor at the same university.
He is an assistant professor of speech pathology at California
State University, Los Angeles, and is not registered with a political
party.
Members are paid per diem and expenses.
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONA REAGAN
Release: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-20-74
#526
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that he has signed the following bills:
AB 517 (Bagley)
Provides for independent administration of estates by
Chapter 961
decedent's personal representative with limited
court supervision in specified conditions.
The applies to estates of all persons dying on
or after July 1, 1975; and, subject to exception, to
estates of persons dying before that date if the
executor's or administrator's letters have not been
issued before July 1, 1975.
AB 1670 - Crown
Requires Commission on Peace Officer Standards and
Chapter 962
Training to prepare and submit to Legislature,
Governor, and Department of Justice, by specified
dates, preliminary and final English and Spanish
drafts of a guidebook aimed at expressing mutual
obligations of police and citizens and improving
relations between police and citizens.
Specifies that such requirements shall apply only if
commission obtains sufficient federal or other funds
other than General Fund or Peace Officers' Training
Fund.
AB 279 -- Crown
Specifies that the permitted examination of prospec-
Chapter 960
tive jurors in a criminal action shall be conducted
orally and directly by counsel. The bill becomes
effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 1687 - Crown
Makes it a misdemeanor to furnish, buy, receive, or
Chapter 963
possess certain criminal records of the State Depart-
ment of Justice, or information contained therein,
in designated circumstances, with specified exceptions
The bill provides that the only persons authorized
to receive such records are individuals or public
agencies granted the authority by a court, statute
or decisional law.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 2700 - Gonzales
Requires disability insurers, nonprofit hospital
Chapter
964
service plans, health care service plans and self-
insured employee welfare benefit plans to offer
group coverage to physically handicapped persons
for medical expenses under the same terms and
conditions as are normally offered to persons without
a physical handicap. The bill exempts expenses
arising as a direct result of the person's handicap.
The changes made by this bill become effective
January 1, 1975.
AB 2932 - B. Greene
Specifies that certain provisions regarding employ-
Chapter 965
ment of apprentices upon public works shall not apply
to contracts of subcontractors not bidding for work
through a general or prime contractor, involving less
than $2,000 or fewer than 5 working days. The bill
becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
Existing law exempts State public works prime contract
involving less than $30,000 or 20 working days.
AB 2935 - Burton
Deletes the exclusion from coverage under the
Chapter 966
Workmen's Compensation Law of persons engaged in sell
ing or delivering newspapers and periodicals.
The bill becomes effective January 1, 1975.
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AB 2938 - Dunlap
Extends from the 61st day after the final adjournment
Chapter 967
of the 1975 Regular Session to January 1, 1977, the
operation of provisions making it generally unlawful
to take mountain lions and providing for various
related matters.
Extends the deadline for conclusion of special study
by the Department of Fish and Game of the mountain
lion population from the fifth calendar day of the
1975 Regular Session to January 1, 1976.
AB 3009 - Priolo
Appropriates $420,000 from the Motor Vehicle Account
Chapter 968
to the Department of Motor Vehicles for land
acquisition and working drawings for a Simi Valley-
Thousand Oaks field office. The bill takes effect
immediately.
AB 3139 - Seeley
Authorizes a school district or a regional occupation-
Chapter 969
al program of a county having boundaries contiguous
to the State of Arizona to enter into an agreement
with a public or private educational agency located
in that state to provide vocational or technical
training to the students of such district who are
enrolled in a regional occupational program.
AB 3262 - Chappie
Establishes the California Ecology Corps as part of
Chapter 970
the Department of Conservation, Division of Forestry's
Natural Resources protection force.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 3329 - Badham
This bill will repeal current law which requires a
Chapter 971
statewide bicycle registration program to begin in
July 1975, replacing it with provisions which require
the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue bicycle
license indicia to all cities and counties having
bicycle licensing ordinances. The Department of
Justice is required to maintain the Lost and Stolen
Bicycle File now in operation.
Appropriates $50,000 from the Motor Vehicle Account,
State Transportation Fund, to the Department of Motor
Vehicles for costs incurred by this act.
AB 3332 - Quimby
Permits a maximum width of any load on a vehicle, of
Chapter 972
100 inches, rather than 96 inches with specified
exceptions.
The bill provides that if the increase in width for
any load would prevent the state from receiv ing
federal highway funds, the increase in width shall
not be applicable as to inter-state highways, and
the law in effect as of December 31, 1974, shall
remain applicable to such load.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 3381--Thomas
Deletes December 31, 1974, termination date on privilege
Chapter 973
tax for support of the Marine Research Committee on handling
of designated fish. The changes made by this bill become
effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3464 - McAlister
Authorizes, rather than requires, a $10 fee to be
hapter 974
charged for performance of marriages by commissioners
of civil marriages. The bill becomes effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 3545--Z'berg
Authorises the County of Sacramento to establish two
Chapter 975
planning commissions, one concerned with long-range
planning and one concerned with short-range planning.
The bill provides that such provisions shall remain in
effect until January 1, 1979.
The changes made by this bill become effective
January 1, 1975.
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AB 3993 - McAlister
Prohibits any grade of a pupil to be adversely affected
Chapter 976
due to the fact that the pupil does not wear standard-
ised physical education apparel, where circumstances
beyond control of the pupil are involved. The bill
becomes effective January 1, 1975.
AB 4060--Deddeh
Peletes requirement that school districts furnishing housing
Chapter 977
for employees charge rent therefor, and permits, rather than
requires, districts to apply rental value of such housing
toward employee's compensation.
The bill authorizes school districts to provide on school
property at mobilehome site, including all necessary fixtures
and the payment of utilities and related costs, for the
purpose of housing a watchman or caretaker of school
property on a 24-hour basis. The bill takes effect immediately.
AB 4081 - Carter
Authorizes a reclamation district of less than 100
Chapter 978
acres and situated adjacent to the Stockton Ship
Channel to acquire, construct, operate, maintain,
repair, and improve lands, works, and facilities for
the collection, treatment, and disposal of sewage
and waste, subject to submission of a petition signed
by a majority of the voters within the district
approving the exercise of such powers. Authorizes
reclamation districts to issue revenue bonds to fin-
ance a plan for any wrks, Exempts proceedings for
issuance from requirement for election if the proceed-
ings are requested by a majority of the voters in the
district, and authorizes reclamation districts to
prescribe and revise charges regarding the district's
properties, works, and facilities. The bill becomes
effective immediately.
SB 1186 - Behr
Provides that "enterprise", for purposes of the
Chapter 953
Revenue Bond Law of 1941, includes, rather than
excludes, generation, production, or transmission
of electric energy.
The bill permits a joint powers agency created pur-
suant to designated provisions for the generating,
producing, or transmitting of electric energy to
issue revenue bonds under the Revenue Bond Law of
1941. The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 1693 - Beilenson
Authorizes cities and counties to limit campaign
Chapter 954
expenditures or contributions in municipal or
county elections, respectively. The changes made
by this bill will take effect immediately.
SB 1765 (Bradley)
Excludes, from the computation of assessed value of
Chapter
955
real property within a resource conservation district
subject to assessment, the value of standing trees
and timber on land assessed by the district.
SB 1863 - Song
Makes California a member of the Interstate Compact
Chapter 956
on the Placement of Children. Establishes uniform
procedures among member states for children placed
by public or private agencies which are licensed to
place children for adoption. The bill becomes
effective January 1, 1975.
SB 1883 - Song
Provides that proposals to remodel or replace any
Chapter 957
existing hospital or related health facility, remain-
ing on the same site or adjacent thereto, which do not
involve increases in bed capacity or changes in licen-
sure category may be subject to review but need not
be approved by voluntary area or local health plan-
ning agencies. Specifies that such proposals shall
be deemed approved for all purposes by the voluntary
area health planning agency. The bill becomes effec-
tive January 1, 1975.
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SB 2002 - Petris
Allows health care service plans, self-insured employ-
Chapter 958
ee welfare benefit plans, hospital service contracts,
or disability insurance policies to either include
or exclude professional mental health services under
the terms of benefit coverage. Such plans, contracts,
or policies which include professional mental health
services shall not prohibit their members or sub-
scribers from selecting any licensed psychologist to
perform those services. The bill becomes effective
on January 1, 1975.
SB 2114 - Rodda
Provides, subject to conditions, that certain state
Chapter 959
employees of Japanese descent whose continuity of
state employment was interrupted, shall, have such
period of absence counted for the purposes of layoff.
The bill bacomes effective on January 1, 1975.
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-20-74
#527
Governor Ronald Reagan today nominated Third District Court of Appeal
K.
Presiding Justice Frank R. Richardson of Sacramento to the Supreme Court
of California.
Justice Richardson, 60, will succeed Associate Justice Louis H. Burke,
69, who is retiring November 20, 1974.
Under the state Constitution, the appointment must be confirmed by
the Commission for Judicial Appointments. The commission is composed
of State Attorney General Evelle Younger, Donald R. Wright, chief justice
of the state Supreme Court; and Parker Wood, presiding justice of the
California Second Court of Appeal in Los Angeles.
In informing Governor Reagan of his intention to retire on November 20,
Justice Burke said: "I have selected this date as it is the anniversary
of my appointment (by former Governor Edmund G. Brown) to the court 10
years ago. It will also mark approximately 23 years of service in the
judiciary of this state."
Governor Reagan commended Justice Burke for his distinguished career
on the bench. "Your 10 years of service on the California Supreme Court
and your near quarter century service to the judiciary as a whole has
been outstanding," the governor said. "The state and all Californians
are grateful for your excellence and dedication to the cause of justice
in our great state. You have my every good wish for a long, healthy and
happy retirement."
The governor also expressed his pleasure over the appointment of
Richardson by stating:
"The judiciary of California is extremely fortunate to have such a
distinguished jurist as Frank Richardson to carry on the traditions of
the Supreme Court. His reputation for brilliance in the practice of
law and his impeccable record as a justice of the Appellate Court are
well known throughout California. This is evidenced by the fact that
his fellow administrative justices selected him as chairman of the
presiding justices of the Court of Appeal.
"His is an exceptional legal mind, and I am confident that his
contribution to the state's highest court will be outstanding," the
governor concluded.
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Governor Reagan appointed Richardson to the Court of Appeal in 1971.
He had served as judge pro tem of the Sacramento County Superior Court
the year before.
Richardson attended the University of Pennsylvania in 1931-32 and
graduated with honors from Stanford University in 1935. He received
his law degree from Stanford in 1938.
Born in St. Helena, he practiced for three years in Oroville before
moving to Sacramento where he was in the private practice of law for
25 years.
A member of the State Bar Association, Justice Richardson has served
on the organization's Committee of Bar Examiners, Committee on
Administration of Justice, the Executive Committee, and the Continuing
Education of the Bar Committee. He also is a past president of the
Sacramento County Bar Association and a member of the Bar Council.
He is a former professor of law at the University of the Pacific's
McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, and is a member of the executive
committee of the Stanford Law School.
Richardson will receive an annual salary of $51,615.
He is Governor Reagan's third appointment to the state's seven-member
Supreme Court. The others are Wright and Associate Justice William P.
Clark Jr. The other members of the court are Associate Justices Marshall
F. McComb, Stanley Mosk, Raymond L. Sullivan and Mathew O. Tobriner.
Supreme Court justices serve 12-year terms which must be ratified by
a "yes" or "no" vote by the voters.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-20-74
#528
GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
September 23, 1974
through
September 26, 1974
Monday, September 23
5:00 p.m.
Cal-Plan Barbecue, Merced Fairgrounds
7:45 p.m.
Cal-Plan Reception, Tognini Residence, 1942
Terrace Way, Bakersfield
Tuesday, September 24
10:00 a.m.
NEWS CONFERENCE
6:45 p.m.
Fundraiser for Assemblyman Ray Johnson, Hilton
Inn, Redding. Remarks.
Wednesday, September 25
11:30 a.m.
California State University and Colleges
Trustees meeting and luncheon, Cal-Federal
Building, Los Angeles
7:30 p.m.
Orange County Flournoy Fundraising Reception
and Dinner, Disneyland Hotel, Anaheim
Thursday, September 26 No public appointments
Friday, September 27
To be announced
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Walthall
9-23-74
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued this statement following
Senator Edward M. Kennedy's announcement that he would not seek
the Presidency in 1976,
"I can appreciate his reasons for making this decision.
Putting his family first is a very commendable thing to do."
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-23-74
#529
A farewell picnic lunch honoring 25 Foster Grandparents and
their foster grandchildren will be held Tuesday (September 24) at
noon by Mrs. Nancy Reagan at the Sacramento residence she and Governor
Ronald Reagan occupy. Entertainment will be provided by a clown, a
puppeteer and an accordionist.
Mrs. Reagan has made the Foster Grandparent Program her special
interest over the nearly eight years her husband has been the state's
chief executive. Her active participation in their programs began
in California, but spread to other states and even to Australia.
Through Mrs. Reagan's efforts, the state began matching federal
funds for Foster Grandparents. In California there are 11 community
programs and nine operated at state hospitals serving the developmentally
disabled. About 1,100 foster grandparents are participating.
Foster Grandparents are volunteers over the age of 60, in good
health and in lower income brackets. The average age is 74. They
receive a small hourly stipend, a hot meal and $1 each day for
transportation. After a training period, they care for children who
are mentally ill, blind, deaf or delinquent for a maximum of four hours
daily.
"I only wish all our Foster Grandparents and their children could
be with us at the picnic," said Mrs. Reagan, "I dearly love each of these
wonderful men and women, boys and girls. This program is the finest
example I know where both sides benefit. These special children get
the extra love and attention they need and want, while our older
citizens can enjoy a sense of giving and being needed.
"The hours I have spent with the participants in this program
have enriched my life many times over."
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-23-74
#530
Governor Ronald Reagan today called a special session of the
legislature for 12 noon September 25 to consider legislation repealing an
"early retirement bonus" for some of its members.
In a prepared statement, Governor Reagan said:
"The people have become so aroused over the generous 'early
retirement bonus' pensions which the legislature has voted for some of
its members, that the Democratic leadership has finally reversed itself
and realized the need to repeal this measure.
"Since they now agree with the Republican legislators who opposed
the bonus pensions all along, I have issued this special call so that the
matter can be disposed of promptly and without delay. The legislature
can do this in a matter of hours by repealing Section 9359.01 of the
Government Code.
"The legislature would do well to limit itself to this single,
urgent matter. The bonus pension affects several legislators whose
terms end November 30, so it must be attended to now. Other consideration
such as a review of the entire retirement system, are not urgent and can
be taken up when the 1975 legislature convenes in December.
"By focusing its attention on this one matter, the legislature will
be assuring the taxpayers that they will be paying for an absolute
minimum amount of time spent in special session.
"If the Democratic leadership really wants to correct this bonus
pension problem, it can do so quickly, without a needless expenditure
of the taxpayers' money.
"I have discussed this matter with the Republican leaders in the
legislature and they are in complete agreement."
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-24-74
#531
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement:
"Yesterday, I issued a special call for the legislature to
convene tomorrow so it could deal with a specific situation: early
retirement 'bonus' pensions for some of its members which has
caused a storm of protest from the people. The Democratic leadership
now agrees with the Republicans that the situation must be corrected.
"This can be done promptly, in a matter of hours, without
spending more than a bare minimum of the taxpayers' money.
"Senator Deukmejian and Assemblyman McLennan are ready to
introduce tomorrow identical bills in the two houses which will
repeal the 'bonus' pensions. If the Democratic leadership in the
legislature means what it says about correcting this problem it
can dispose of it without delay. And, it can be done without either
party playing politics with the matter."
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONAL REAGAN
RELF E: Immediate
Sacramento, California 90814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-24-74
#532
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that he has signed the following bills:
AB 318 - Ralph
Provides for expiration of an auto insurance policy
Chapter
982
without a notice of nonrenewal. This bill provides
for an expiration at the end of the term, and a notice
of expiration (or cancellation) with an offer to renew
upon payment of premium. Such notice would not force
an automatic renewal. The changes made by this bill
become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 586 (Waxman)
Revises the Waxman-Duffy Prepaid Health Plan Act.
Chapter 983
AB 836 - Vasconcellos
Appropriates $45,000 to the California Heritage
Chapter
984
Preservation Commission for contracting with the
Bancroft Library of the University of California for
the completion of the Earl Warren History Project.
The bill becomes effective immediately.
AB 1090 - Sieroty
Establishes reporting requirements upon blood bank
Chapter 985
physicians, and hospitals regarding transfusion
related hepatitis and requires investigative action
and reporting by county health officers.
The bill requires the State Department of Health to
compile a list of carrier donors, possible carrier
donors and carriers of viral hepatitis twice a month
and to inform donors when possible of their condition
and treatment alternatives. The bill becomes effec-
tive on January 1, 1975.
AB 1157 - Beverly
Includes firemen within specified sections of the
Chapter 986
Government Code relating to attendance of specified
peace officers as witnesses or deponents in civil
actions, payment of their salaries and expenses
while attending such proceedings, reimbursement to
the employing public entity for such payment, and
making it a misdemeanor for any person to offer, or
for a peace officer to accept, any payment forhis
testimony other than that provided for in those
sections.
Provides that the party who requests such attendance
of a fireman or specified peace officer shall
reimburse the employing public entity in an amount
equal to the actual cost incurred by the public
entity as a result of such person's attendance, in-
stead of $45 per each day of attendance. The bill
becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 1492 (Arnett)
Requires private educational institutions to designat
Chapter
987
an agent for service of process within state.
Requires that written contracts or agreements for
courses of study with private educational institution
and correspondence schools contain specified language
that appears in specified print and in specified
places of the contract or agreement.
Prohibits individual holding a permit issued by the
State Board of Education authorizing the sale or
solicitation of prescribed courses of study, from
representing that such courses will provide prescribe
objectives, or will result in employment or personal
earnings, or will result in membership in any union
or organization of any type.
Authorizes the award of treble damages to student of
private school under prescribed conditions.
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AB 1739 (B. Greene)
Applies to community colleges, state colleges, and
Chapter 988
universities, makes specific provisions for prohibiting
loitering about schools or school grounds on streets,
sidewalks, or any area adjacent to a school. The
bill redefines the term "loiter" and makes it a
misdemeanor to return to a campus once one has been
suspended from a school and received a written
notice of suspension.
AB 1934 - Dunlap
Makes a number of changes regarding the transfer of
Chapter 989
authority relating to the Community Colleges from the
State Board of Education, the Superintendent of Public
Instruction, and the Department of Education to the
Board of Governors of the Community Colleges and the
Chancellor. The bill becomes effective on January 1,
1975.
The bill also allows community colleges to apply
Saturday classes to the 175 minimum day schedule if a
college is closed for unforeseenecircumstances by
order of the President or the Governor of California.
The bill also eliminates the authority of districts
to maintain a four year community college.
AB 1961- Ralph
Authorizes the Department of Transportation to contract for
Chapter 990
the maintenance of the right-of-way connected with a
specific portion of Route 105 (Century Freeway) without
competitive bidding. Changes made by this bill become
Warren
effective January 1. 1975.
AB 2077 - Kapiloff
Chapter 991
Revises provisions imposing a surcharge on the con-
sumption of electricity and provides for administratio
and collection of such surcharge. The bill becomes
effective immediately.
AB 2157 - Kapiloff
Establishes two model supportive home care projects
Chapter
992
supervised by the Office of Aging. The changes made
by this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
2375 - Priolo
Makes excess lands adjacent to the boundary of a
Chapter 993
State highway, but not beyond the next dedicated
street, available for lease to a local agency for
park purposes. The changes made by this bill become
effective January 1, 1975.
AB 2376 (Kapiloff)
Liberalizes the scope of the present state income
Chapter 994
tax deductions for dependent care expenses incurred
to enable taxpayers to be gainfully employed.
AB 2396 - Chappie
Requires offices of physicians and surgeons and office
Chapter
995
buildings of 10,000 square feet or less wherein
specified activity occurs to meet access to public
accommodations by physically handicapped persons
requirements. The bill specifies that any new
requirements imposed by the bill shall only apply to
such offices or office buildings constructed on or
after its effective date. The changes made by this
bill become effective Januarv 1, 1975.
AB 2414 - Deddeh
Permits increases in compensation of School Board
Chapter 996
members of schools with 400,000 and ADA from $75
per meeting to $100 per meeting, and schools with
60,000 ADA from $50 per meeting to $75 per meeting.
Repeals limitation of $50 per Board meeting for
certain community colleges. The bill becomes effective
on January 1, 1975.
AB 2510 (Z'berg)
AB 2510 revises Division 9 of the California
Chapter 997
Commercial Code.
AB 2697 (Dixon)
Requires state to pay expenses incurred in necessaril
Chapter 998
producing witnesses or evidence in sister state with-
out which fugitive would not be surrendered by sister
state.
Requires state to pay cost of producing witnesses to
appear in sister state on behalf of fugitive, where
Governor authorizes such appearance in advance, and
permits Governor to authorize such witnesses where
interests of justice would be served.
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AB 2701 - Alatorre
makes it a misdemeanor for by person for compensation
Chapter 999
to knowingly make a false or misleading statement or
assertion of fact in the preparation of, an immigra-
tion matter, which is detrimentally relied upon by
another. The bill becomes effective on January 1,
1975.
AB 2791 (McAlister)
Authorizes a judge, referee, or traffic commissioner
Chapter 1283
to suspend or restrict the driving privilege of a
juvenile for up to thirty days for violating the
Vehicle Code, The bill also provides that a juvenile
traffic offender may be sentenced to work in a city
park or recreation facility for up to twenty-five
hours in a thirty-day period.
AB 2803 - Ingalls
Appropriates $600,000 to the State Controller for
Chapter
1001
allocation and disbursement to local agencies for
costs incurred by them pursuant to Chapter 1177 of
the Statutes of 1973.
Provides for procedure for presentation of claims
for reimbursement and for formula for computing the
amount of claims. The bill becomes effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 2825 (Chacon)
Provides that designated local entities may establish
Chapter 1002
a central relocation office, rather than central
relocation agency, to coordinate relocation activities
within its jurisdiction.
Exempts state agencies, certain public entities, and
certain public utilities from prior approval of
relocation plans and exempts certain other public
utilities from such prior approval of relocation
plans where there is overriding state interest, as
determined by Director of Housing and Community
Development.
Provides that if provisions of this act conflict with
provisions of the Federal Uniform Relocation
Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act
of 1970, then the provisions of the federal act shall
prevail.
AB 2854 - Dunlap
Amends the law dealing with open space easements.
Chapter 1003
It would reduce the minimum term for the easements
from 20 years to 10 years 0 provide that an abandon-
ment fee could not be waived, provide that the
abandonment fee could not be deducted from income
in computing income taxes, eliminate state subven-
tions for open space easements entered into after
January 1, 1975, and provide that scenic restrictions
entered into after January 1, 1975, will not qualify
for open space tax assessment.
AB 2877 - Briggs
Amends provisions of the Food and Agricultural Code
Chapter 1004
relating to assessment fees which finance State and
county costs for inspection of eggs for quality and
labeling. The bill becomes effective immediately.
AB 2906 - Papan
Raises per diem for Metropolitan aransportation
Chapter 1005
Commission commissioners from $25 to $50 and author-
izes the payment of traveling expenses. The bill
becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 2914 (B. Greene)
Makes housing authority patrol officers employed by
Chapter 1006
the City of Los Angeles peace officers while engaged
in the performance of their duties. The bill require
completion by such personnel of a course of training
approved by Commission on Peace Officers Standards
and Training by specified dates.
AB 2917 - Arnett
Revises the fee schedule 1
approval of private
Chapter
1007
schools by the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Would require that accredited institutions file
affidavits relating to financial capability, course
accreditation status, and refund policy and pay a
filing fee with the affidavits. Would require that
salesmen for resident schools be issued permits in
order to solicit courses. Provides the annual
approval and payment of fees of educational institu-
tions subject to Department of Education approval.
Exempts certain structures from Field Act conformity.
The bill becomes effective immediately.
AB 2937 (Thurman)
Specifies that county superintendent of schools, as
Chapter 1008
well as school district, under whose supervision
work-experience education, or occupational training
classes held in the community, are provided shall be
considered employer of persons receiving training
for purposes of workmen's compensation law. The
bill specifies school district of residence of
trainees shall be such employer where such work-
experience or occupational center or program operated
by two or more school districts.
AB 2961 - L. Greene
Makes several technical amendments to the Education
Chapter 1009
Code. The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 2973 - Wood
Exempts camp trailers and housecars purchased from
Chapter 1010
a dealer outside the state for use outside the state,
but delivered to the purchaser within the state, from
sales and use taxes provided certain information is
furnished by the purchaser to the manufacturer.
The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1974.
AB 3023 Bagley
Amends the Personal Income Tax definition of "resident"
Chapter 980
to include certain officers and employees of the U.S
Government. The bill also makes corrective amendments
relating to the use of withholding windfall for capital
outlay projects.
AB 3034 - Papan
Limits to certain situations the authorization for
Chapter
1011
lenders in this state to impose upon borrowers, or to
require them to pay, certain fees or charges for
insurance, or change of insurance, in cases where
lender requires buyer to obtain and carry insurance
to protect lender's interest. The changes mady by
this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3040 (Antonovich)
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, upon appli-
Chapter 1012
cation therefor in the manner and at the time pres-
cribed by the department, to issue special identifica-
tion plates for motor vehicles manufactured after
1922 and which are at least 25 years old and are
motor vehicles of historic interest. Requires that
such plates run in a separate numerical series,
commencing with "Historical Vehicle No. 1," and have
distinguishing colors.
Provides that no motor vehicle of historic interest
shall be required to have any motor vehicle pollution
control device except for such devices that were
required for such vehicles by the Pure Air Act of
1968 prior to the time that special identification
plates were issued for that vehicle pursuant to
specified provisions of the Vehicle Code, rather than
authorizing the State Air Resources Board to exempt
from specified provisions of the Pure Air Act of 1968
vehicles which qualify for special license plates
under such provisions of the Vehicle Code.
AB 3059 - Bond
mends the County Employees .etirement Law of 1937 to
Chapter
1013
provide that a retirement allowance may be forwarded
to a savings and loan institution or credit union as
well as a bank for deposit when so authorized by a
member of a county retirement system.
The bill requires county boards of retirement to give
primary cons ideration to dealing with California
investment counseling firms if it does not restrict
necessary flexibility in retention of such counsel.
The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 3096 (Vasconcellos)
Extends the drug abuse offender diversion program for
Chapter 1014
two years beyond the statutory repeal date of
January 1, 1975.
The Drug abuse offender diversion program is a major
component of the Administration's drug abuse treat-
ment and control act, SB 714, 1972.
AB 3107 - Ingalls
Provides that no retail gasoline dealer who operates
Chapter 1015
pursuant to a franchise may be precluded by the
franchisor from establishing his own hours of business
or operation during a gasoline shortage or gasoline
allocation. The bill becomes effective on January 1,
1975.
AB 3144 - Chacon
Expands the coverage of the Marks-Foran Residential
Chapter 1016
Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to include all cities,
counties, redevelopment agencies, and housing
authorities rather than just those cities and counties
with a population over 600,000. The bill becomes
effective immediately.
AB 3133 - Bee
Authorizes the Chancellor of the California Community
Chapter
1017
Colleges to designate one community college district
to provide a three-year pilot program of classes for
credit on Sunday with attendance being counted for
a.d.a. purposes and voluntary at election of pupil.
The changes made by this bill become effective
January 1, 1975
3 3145 - Brown
Requires the Department of Health to conduct a public
Chapter
1018
hearing when nonprofit hospitals seek to exercise
their right of eminent domain, prior to the Depart-
ment's certification that the action is necessary.
The bill also requires providing written notice of
the hearing to a voluntary area health planning
agency if one exists, and allows recommendations
to be received from the voluntary health planning
agency within 90 days from the receipt of notice of
the public hearing. The bill becomes effective
immediately.
AB 3150 (Gonzales)
Provides for issuance of services credential in a
Chapter 1019
specialization in clinical or rehabilitative services
AB 3166 - Keene
Authorizes the governing board of a community college
Chapter 1020
to contract with a nonprofit organization, a public
entity, or nonprofit cooperation, for the education
of community college students whose capacity to
function is impaired by a physical deficiency. The
bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 3174 - Chappie
Provides that specified competitive bidding provision
Chapter 1021
shall not apply to the lease of real property of the
DeWitt State Hospital facility transferred to Placer
County. The bill becomes effective immediately.
AB 3180 (Lewis)
Authorizes a judge, referee, or traffic hearing
Chapter
1022
officer to levy a penalty assessment for a traffic
violation involving a minor, in an amount not to
exceed $5 for every $20. The bill provides that the
penalty may be waived by the official if the amount
the minor is required to pay is less than $10.
AB 3182 (Berman)
Adds county order, and controller's warrant for the
Chapter 1023
payment of money at the treasury, to list of nego-
tiable instruments which it is a crime to possess
with intent to utter or pass with intent to defraud,
and changes the maximum state prison term from 10 to
5 years for possession of such negotiable instrument
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AB 3198 - MacDonald
Broadens the definition of a 72-hour treatment and
Chapter 1024
evaluation facility to include a mobile crisis unit,
first aid station, ambulatory detoxification unit,
or an alcohol recovery house. The bill becomes
effective immediately.
AB 3228 (Duffy)
Increases the maximum cotton bale assessment fee
Chapter 1026
from fifty cents (500) to seventy-five cents (75¢)
per bale. It also establishes that the Cotton Pest
Control Board shall recommend to the Director of
the Department of Food and Agriculture the amount of
such fees necessary to carry out the provisions of
this article and provides the time period for making
such recommendation. In addition it deletes the
matching fund requirements and provides for 100
percent industry funding of the Pink Bollworm Program.
The bill provides that this article shall remain in
effect only until July 1, 1977, and as of that date
is repealed. This bill further makes an appropriation
from the Department of Agriculture Fund a sum of three
hundred Thirty-one thousand nine hundred thirty-
eight dollars ($331,938) to augment the 1974-75
support budget.
AB 3235 - Dunlap
Provides that prevailing wages must be paid in the
Chapter 1027
construction of buildings which are to be privately
owned but leased to the extent of more than fifty
percent to the State or a political subdivision,
providing the lease was signed prior to the construc-
tion contract. The bill becomes effective on January 1
1975.
AB 3276 (Brown)
Provides for selection of chairman of California
Chapter 1028
Council on Criminal Justice by Governor, and revises
membership of council to, among other things, increase
its membership of appointees of the Governor from
13 to 14.
AB 3290 - Z'berg
Provides that members of the Public Employees' Retirement
Chapter 1029
System and retirement systems established pursuant to
the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 who terminated
state employment on or after June 30, 1971, but because of
county budget problems did not become permanent county
employees on or before January 4, 1972, shall be eligible
for reciprocal benefits between retirement systems established
under the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 and
the Public Employees' Retirement System. This bill is
not operative in any county until adopted by the board of
supervisors. The changes made in this bill become effective
January 1, 1975
AB 3291 - Davis
Provides that interest and increments derived from
Chapter
1030
investment of Fish and Game Preservation Fund money
in the Surplus Money Investment Fund and the Pooled
Money Investment Account shall be transferred to the
Fish and Game Preservation Fund rather than to the
General Fund and other specified funds. The changes
made by this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3304 - Hayden
Allows the Department of Health to set fees for
Chapter 1031
registered radiation machines at a level that
increases support towards the cost of its machine
control program. The bill becomes effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 3322 (MacDonald)
Authorizes judges to elect during specified period to
Chapter 1032
come under specified survivor provisions of Judges'
Retirement Law if certain payments are made to Judges
Retirement Fund.
AB 3328 - McCarthy
Provides that a violation of the Labor Code provision
Chapter
1033
regarding failure of an employer, with intent to
defraud, to make certain employment benefit payments
is punishable by imprisonment of not more than 5 years
a fine of not more than $1,000, or both, where the
amount not paid exceeds $500, and punishable as a
misdemeanor in all other cases. The changes made by
this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3335 - Fenton
Levises provisions relating o California Occupational
Chapter 1284
Safety and Health Act of 1973. The changes made by
this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3338 (Bannai)
Removes inaccurate cross-reference found in the
Chapter 1034
Vehicle Code relating to the right of the Department
of Motor Vehicles to refuse to issue an occupational
license and to clarify existing ambiguities relating
to the right of the department to suspend or revoke
an occupational license.
AB 3346 (Berman)
Provides that contracting agency with Public
Chapter 1035
Employees' Retirement System which has elected to be
subject to Meyers-Geddes State Employees Medical
and Hospital Care Act shall not maintain any other
prepaid hospital or medical program unless the plan
meets prescribed standards pursuant to the act.
AB 3365 - B. Greene
Revises state policy regarding educational opportunitie
Chapter 1036
to provide that certain educational goals and
opportunities shall, rather than should, be provided
to students; and provides that educational opportunitie
are a right to be enjoyed without regard to race,
creed, color, national origin, sex, or economic status.
The changes made by this bill become effective
January 1, 1975.
AB 3374 - Cline
Specifies that for purposes of statutes requiring
Chapter 1037
local agencies to dispose of surplus land by first
offering such land to specified entities for either
park or open-space purposes that local agencies in-
cludes school districts of any kind or class.
The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 3378 - McCarthy
Increases from $10,000 and $25,000 and from $20,000
Chapter 1038
to $50,000 the maximum amount of respective revolving
cash funds that the governing board of an elementary
school, high school, and community college district
and the governing board of a unified school district
are authorized to establish. The bill becomes
effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 3405 - Z'berg
Requires the Department of the California Highway
Chapter 1039
Patrol to study, test, and develop standards for the
utilization of seat belts in buses. $50,000 is
appropriated from the Motor Vehicle Account to the
Department for such purpose. The bill becomes
effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 3406 (Z'berg)
Requires one department of the Sacramento Municipal
Chapter 1040
Court District to remain open and in session at
least one night a week to conduct proceedings
involving traffic infractions.
AB 3413 - Berman
Prohibits a school district from counting any person
Chapter 1041
in a certificated management position in the determin-
ations under the Winton Act of the total number of
certificated employees or total number of members of
certificated employee organizations for purpose of
determining the composition of the certificated
employee council.
The bill prohibits any employee organization from
appointing or electing any person in an management
position as a representative on the certificated
employee council. The bill becomes effective
immediately.
AB 3418 - Berman
Revises difinitions in provision requiring a minimum
Chapter 1042
90-day prior notice before a school district governing
board may act upon charges of unprofessional conduct
or incompetency. The changes made by this bill become
effective January 1, 1975.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONAL REAGAN
RELE E: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-24-74
#533
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that he has signed the following bills:
AB 3425 - Alatorre
Lowers from 21 to 18 years the minimum age of persons
Chapter 1043
deficient in English for whom high school districts
are required to establish classes in English. Increas
es maximum degree of English proficiency for qualifi-
cation for such classes from completion of 6th grade,
to completion of 8th grade.
Deletes provisions requiring high school districts
to establish classes in citizenship and English for
persons over 18 years and under 21 years of age who
cannot speak, read or write English. The bill becomes
effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 3429 - McLennan
Reorganizes provisions relating to mid-wifery,
Chapter 1044
podiatry, and drugless practitioners. Repeals
statutes which enabled individuals without standard
qualifications to receive licenses in special
circumstances. The bill would allow the Board of
Medical Examiners to increase the cost of certificates
for physicians and surgeons. Authorizes the Psychology
Examining Committee to appoint an assistant executive
secretary. Creates a Podiatry examining committee
within the jurisdiction of the Board of Medical
Examiners.
AB 3432- MacDonald
Makes changes in the compensation, job titles, and
Chapter 1045
number of municipal court personnel in Ventura County
and changes travel ing expenses provisions for judges of
the Ventura County Municipal Court. The bill also increases
the salaries of the chief deputy clerk and the court clerks
II of the municipal court in Humboldt County. The changes
made by this bill take effect January 1, 1975.
AB 3440 (Wood)
Requires every person who prepares, stuffs, or mounts
Chapter 1046
the skin of any bird or mammal for another person to
keep an accurate and detailed record, as prescribed
by regulations of the Fish and Game Commission,
regarding all bird or mammal carcasses, skins, or part
thereof which are acquired, possessed, or stored for
taxidermy purposes. The bill requires such records
to be open for inspection at all times by wardens of
the Department of Fish and Game.
AB 3441 (Fong)
Makes changes in the amount of compensation and duties
Chapter 1047
of Alameda County Superior Court personnel.
AB 3442 (Fong)
Changes the number and compensation of municipal court
Chapter 1048
personnel in Alameda County.
AB 3445 - Chappie
Provides a special need allowance for every blind
Chapter 1049
recipient of aid with a seeing eye dog of $18 a
month for the purchase of dog food. The bill becomes
effective immediately.
AB 3449 (Lockyer)
Exempts unclaimed funds held by life insurance
hapter 1050
corporations classified as domestic fraternal
benefit societies from provisions of the Uniform
Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act as long as
such funds are used for scholarship purposes.
AB 3454 - Bagley
Separates the treatment of trailer coaches and
Chapter 1051
vehicles other than trailer coaches under the Vehicle
License Fee Law. The bill becomes effective on
Janua ry 1, 1975.
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AB 3455 (B. Greene)
Exempts from the classified service of school districts
Chapter 1052
part-time community college students employed part
time in a specified work-study or work experience
education program which is financed by state or federal
funds.
Prohibits employment by school districts of students
participating in college work-study program or work
experience program if such employment would result
in displacement of classified personnel or impair
existing contracts for services.
3466 - Arnett
Permits rather than require the Department of Trans-
apter 1053
portation to charge for tow services on toll bridges.
The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 3471 - MacDonald
Makes technical amendments to legislation enacted in
Chapter 1054
1973, requiring local sharing of costs of lands,
easements and rights of way for federal flood control
projects. The bill becomes effective on January 1,
1975.
AB 3478 - Montoya
Requires that fire protection equipment having
Chapter 1055
threaded fittings of three inches or less inside
diameter shall be equipped with specified standard
threads. The bill provides that fire protection
equipment of over three inches inside diameter, if
threaded, must be equipped with specified standard
threads. The bill further provides that systems of
fire equipment with non-threaded couplings or fittings
of over three inches inside diameter shall be approved
by the State Fire Marshal with advice from State Board
of Fire Services. The bill becomes effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 3489 (Waxman)
Provides that failure of the Director of the Department
Chapter 1056
of Benefit Payments to adopt the proposed decision,
decide the matter himself on the record, or order a
rehearing within 30 days shall be deemed an affirma-
tion of the proposed fair hearing decision.
A. 3497 (Keene)
Allows a surviving spouse to file a claim for property
Chapter
1057
tax assistance under the Senior Citizens Property
Tax Assistance Law if the decedent spouse was eligible
to file a claim for assistance but dies after
January 1 of the claim year without filing a timely
claim.
AB 3485 (McAlister)
Authorizes, subject to certain conditions, limited
Chapter 1058
tenure appointments to professional education classi-
fications used by the Department of Education to
extend for up to two years in duration.
AB 3500 (Deddeh)
Specifies, subject to exception, that any indebtedness
Chapter 1059
of $100,000 or less on any secured note or deed of
trust or mortgage or other lien on real property may
be prepaid in whole or in part. Provides that nothing
in act shall prevent borrower from obligating himself
to pay a prepayment charge by an agreement in writing.
Specifies that act applies only to loans secured by
mortgages or deeds of trust executed after January 1,
1975.
AB 3511 (Sieroty)
Provides that certain nonprofit charitable corporations
Chapter
1060
in the state may be appointed as the guardian or
conservator of an insane or incompetent person or
estate of such a person.
The bill requires a bond which is not a personal
surety bond in such cases for a specified amount.
The bill provides that a bequest or devise by such a
conservatee to such a nonprofit charitable corporation
acting as the conservator for such conservatee, under
certain circumstances, shall be void.
AB 3514 - Berman
Deletes age limitation reç ding state competitive
Chapter 1061
scholarship qualifications. The bill becomes
effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 3516 - Dixon
Makes a minor whose willful misconduct results in
Chapter 1062
injury or death to a student or school employee liable
to suspension or expulsion, and makes a parent or
guardian of such minor liable for damages caused by
the minor. In addition, it authorizes a local agency
to offer a reward to assist in the apprehension of a
person whose willful misconduct results in injury or
death to any student or school employee. The changes
made by this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
.B 3517 - Dunlap
Revises the definition of "public higher education"
Chapter
1063
to include the California Maritime Academy and makes
the Academy elágible for the Capital Outlay Fund for
Public Higher Education on the same basis as the
other institution of public higher education. The
bill becomes effective immediately.
AB 3518 - R. Johnson
Modifies a' provision of the Professional Engineers
Chapter
1064
Act permitting California Firms, partnerships, and
corporations to continue to use the names of retired
persons in their firm names under described conditions.
The changes made by this bill become effective
January 1, 1975.
AB 3519 (R. Johnson)
Amends provisions of the Land Surveyors Act relating
Chapter 1065
to records of survey.
AB 3531 (Davis)
Authorizes the Fish and Game Commission to prescribe
Chapter 1066
regulations for the commercial taking of crayfish.
AB 3536 (Keysor)
Permits products derived from green sea turtles,
Chapter 1067
notwithstanding Penal Code provisions prohibiting
importation for commercial purposes, to be imported
into the state under an annual permit issued by the
Department of Fish and Game and authorizes sale of
products so imported. Requires permits to be either
class I permits or class II permits, as specified.
Specifies terms and conditions of such permits, and
requires payment of $50 filing fee. Requires the
department to inspect the operations of a class I
permittee, as specified, and requires such permittee
to pay the costs of such inspections, as specified.
Requires the department to report to the Legislature
on the operation of the permit program by January 1,
1976.
AB 3552 - Cline
Relocates the northern boundary of the Southern
Chapter
1068
California Rapid Transit District to a line approxi-
mating the range of the Santa Susanna Mountains and
that portion of the San Gabriel Mountains lying north
of the City of San Fernando and to exclude thereby
from the district the communities of Forrest Park,
Honby, Newhall, Saugus, Solemint, Valencia, and Val
Verde Park. The bill becomes effective on January 1,
1975.
AB 3554 - Seeley
Defines "Low Temperature Geothermal Well" for the
Chapter
1069
purpose of producing geothermal resources which have
value as a result of the contained heat. The bill
authorizes the State Oil and Gas Supervisor to approve
slant drilling from remote locations when topography
or structures prevent locating a drilling rig
immediately above the geothermal resource. The change
made by this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3562 (Kapiloff)
Permits alternative proposals to be submitted to
Chapter 1070
electors regarding the community college district to
which territory not presently in a community college
district will be annexed, in connection with law
requiring all territory of the state to be included
in community college districts.
Authorizes certain county committees on the school
district organizations to amend plans and recommen-
dations regarding inclusion of territory in community
collect districts under prescribed conditions and
procedires.
AB 3563 - Kapiloff
Provides that the provisio authorizing local agencies
Chapter 1071
to hold property tax rate elections by mailed ballots
shall not be limited by Election Code provision
establishing regular election dates. The bill be-
comes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 3567 (Ingalls)
Establishes a system of reporting the sale of pre-
Chapter 1072
cursor (ingredient) chemicals which are used in the
manufacture of such dangerous drugs as LSD, barbitu-
rates, and amphetamines. It deletes from California
law an existing reporting system concerning the
transfer of drugs between wholesalers and retailers.
AB 3568--Z'berg
Permits refunding and refinancing of the indebtedness
Chapter 1073
of recreation and park districts by borrowing if the net
interest cost is thereby reduced. The bill deletes from
the provisions regarding all district indebtedness
incurred after October 1, 1963, the requirement that
repayment be made in approximately equal annual
installments.
The changes made by this bill become effective
January 1, 1975.
AB 3578 (Lewis)
Makes technical and nonsubstantive changes to the
Chapter) 1074
Teachers' Retirement Law.
AB 3587 - Foran
Revises the schedule of commissions a county may
Chapter 1075
retain from state inheritance tax revenues for service
by the county treasurer in administering state
inheritance tax law. The bill becomes effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 3590 - Wood
Changes the allowable lead content of paint or lacquer
Chapter
1076
used to coat toys from 1% to the amount permitted by
federal regulations which currently is five-tenths of
one percent by weight. The bill becomes effective on
January 1, 1975.
3596 - Keene
Reduces from 25 to 20 feet the minimum width
apter
1078
requirement for driveways in mobilehome parks
constructed on or after the effective date of
the act and having three or fewer mobilehome
lots. The bill takes effect immediately.
AB 3599 (Thomas)
Authorizes the Fish and Game Commission to permit by
Chapter 1078
regulation fish taken by persons fishing from a
licensed fishing party boat to be brought ashore in
such a condition that the species cannot be determine
AB 3602 - Hayden
Amends the Optometry Act to permit optometric groups
Chapter 1079
or corporations of three or more licensed optometrist
to practice under fictitious names pursuant to a
permit, from the Board of Optometry. The bill estab-
lishes a procedure for obtaining the permit, includin
a fee, and provides for suspension or revocation of
the permit on prescribed grounds. The bill becomes
effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 3605 (Chappie)
Requires the certification of motorcycle exhaust
Chapter
1080
systems and raises the maximum permissible noise
limit for motorcycles manufactured after 1974 to
83 dbA.
AB 3609 - Badham
Provides that unlicensed laboratory personnel who
Chapter
1081
are employed as technicians in respiratory services
or cardiopulmonary laboratories in licensed clinics
or hospitals, may be authorized by the State Board
of Health to perform venipuncture for test purposes
or for the withdrawal of blood. The bill becomes
effective immediately.
AB 3613. Beverly
Changes the position and salaries of various officers and
Chapter 1082
attaches of municipal courts established in Los Angeles
County. The bill also revises the number of personnel and
the salaries of such personnel of the municipal courts in
Riverside County. The changes made by this bill take
effect January 1, 1975.
AB 3615 (Murphy)
ncreases from $2,000 to $ 500, the value of
Chapter 1083
independent contractors' services which purchasing
agents of counties having a population of 168,500
or less are authorized to engage.
AB 3618 (Alatorre)
Deletes the provision which limits the authority of
Chapter 1084
a licensed vocational nurse to withdraw blood where
the withdrawal is solely for test purposes.
Permits a licensed vocational nurse to start and
superimpose intravenous therapy, under specified
conditions.
AB 3626 (Knox)
Limits the change of property tax rate as a result
apter
1085
of local governmental reorganization, and it restricts
the definition of "functional consolidation!
AB 3633 (Waxman)
Immunizes from liability any person in the possession
Chapter 1086
of information for communication of such information
to any hospital, hospital medical staff, professional
society, medical or dental school, or professional
licensing board, when such communication is intended
to aid in the evaluation of the qualifications, fit-
ness or character of a practitioner of the healing
arts and does not represent as true any matter not
reasonably believed to be true.
AB 3634 - Waxman
Prohibits any agency from placing a child for adop-
Chapter 1087
tion unless a written medical report on child and
natural parents has been submitted to the prospective
parents. The bill becomes effective on January 1,
1975.
AB 3636- - Lanterman
Provides that the fee for filing applications for construction
Chapter 1088
of hospital buildings shall not exceed 0.7 percent of the
estimated construction cost, rather than requiring that the
fee shall be based upon a uniform percentage of the estimated
construction cost and shall not exceed 0.7 percent of the
estimated construction cost. The changes made by this bill
become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3645 - Thurman
Prohibits the sale of a new motorcycle by a dealer
Chapter 1089
unless a statement is attached containing specified
price information. The bill becomes effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 3654 - Maddy
This bill provides that an honorably retired peace
Chapter 1090
officer shall be issued, by the agency from which he
retired, an identification certificate authorizing
him to carry concealed or loaded firearms without a
license. This privilege may be revoked for good
cause by the issuing agency. The bill becomes effec-
tive on January 1. 1975.
AB 3657 - Committee on
Prohibits charging to victim, directly or indirectly
Criminal Justice,
costs incurred by hospital or other emergency medical
Berman, Chairman
facility for examination of victim of sexual assault,
Chapter 1091
if examination is for purposes of gathering evidence
for possible prosecution. Charges such costs to
local governmental agencies in specified manner.
The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 3658 - Sieroty
Prohibits the use of the term "unchaste character"
Chapter 1092
in the jury instruction given in rape trials. The
changes made by this bill become effective January 1,
1975.
AB 3660 - Sieroty
Prohibits an instruction to the jury that, in any
Committee on Criminal
criminal prosecution for rape or unlawful sexual
Justice
intercourse it may be inferred that at female who has
Chapter
1093
previously consented to sexual intercourse with per-
sons other than the defendant would be therefore more
likely to consent to sexual intercourse again.
The bill also prohibits instructions to the jury that
the sexual conduct in and of itself of the complainir
witness may be considered in judging the credibility
of such witness. The bill becomes effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 3672 - Deddeh
Provides that when a gover ental entity, under
Chapter 1094
specified circumstances, elects to become an employer
subject to unemployment and disability compensation
provisions, it may so elect with respect to all of
its employees, or those employee classifications
exempt from civil service or merit system who
perform work equivalent to those employees of the
building trades crafts covered by collective bargain-
ing agreements. The bill becomes effective on Januar
1. 1975.
AB 3680 (MacGillivray)
Limits instances in which the Division of Apprentice-
Chapter 1095
ship Standards is required to notify local joint
apprenticeship committees of the award of specified
public works contracts to those in which the division
has been specifically requested by a local committee
to provide such notice, and only as to such awards
as are applicable to the committee making the request.
AB 3682 - Knox
Increases various court filing fees. The bill adds
Chapter 1285
filing of the first account of testamentary trustee
to the list of papers for which a filing fee must be
paid. The changes made by this bill become effective
January 1, 1975.
AB 3687 - Knox
Deletes provisions repealing, after December 31, 1975,
Chapter 1096
sections which provide for dissolution of certain
partnerships in specified circumstances. The bill
repeals the section operative January 1, 1976, which
provides for dissolution of partnerships. The bill
becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 3691- Bannai
Increases the maximum liability of the Real Estate
Chapter 1097
Education, Research and Recovery Fund from the present
$20, 000 for any one licensee to $40,000, after January 1,
1975. The changes made by this bill become effective
January 1. 1975.
AB 3692 - Bannai
Appropriates $1.9 million from the Real Estate Fund
Chapter 1098
to the Department of Real Estate for the advancement
of real estate education in the community colleges.
The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 3700 (Fenton)
Revises the salary levels of various court employees
Chapter 1099
in the Los Angeles Municipal Court.
AB 3701 - Kapiloff
Establishes an advanced appraiser's certificate for
Chapter 1100
appraisers who have held an appraiser's certificate
for at least three years. The changes made by this
bill become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3704 - Kapiloff
Revises procedures regarding local administration of
Chapter 1101
tax-deeded property. The changes made by this bill
will become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3711 - Powers
Revises distribution of proceeds from sale of tax-
Chapter
1102
deeded property. The changes made by this bill become
effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3712 - Knox
Makes several technical amendments to the Corporate
Chapter 1103
Securities Act of 1968. The bill becomes effective
on January 1, 1975.
AB 3713 (Craven)
Permits the Department of Transportation to issue
Chapter 1104
permits valid for not more than 30 days for temporary
helicopter landing sites.
AB 3714- Craven
Increases the allowable limit for candidates' statements
Chapter 1105
in local elections from 200 to 400 words and authorizes
the governing board of a local agency to provide for a
single mass mailing of campaign materials submitted by
local candidates. Provision is contained within the bill
to allow the local agency to assess against the candidate
the cost of the candidate's statement as well as participation
in a mass mailing. The changes made by the bill take
effect January 1, 1975.
AB 3721 - Cory
sends the Fruit and Vegeta e Standardization Law
Chapter 1106
with respect to kiwi fruit and carrots. The bill
becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 3724--Gonsalvee
Makes various technical changes in the Homeowners'
Chapter 1107
Property Tax Relief Program and the Senior Citizens'
Property Tax Assistance Program. The bill takes
effect immediately.
AB 3726 - Wood
Provides that certain purchasers of factory-built
Chapter 1108
housing shall be liable for payment of sales and use
taxes to the extent they were reduced, if such pur-
chaser does not use such housing in a manner or for
a purpose entitling the retailer to exclude 60 percent
of the gross receipts from such sale from sales and
use tax computations. The bill becomes effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 3742 - Arnett
Requires state agencies and authorizes other local
Chapter 1109
governments to purchase commodities and services with-
out bid under specified conditions from public or
private nonprofit corporations operating workshops
serving the handicapped. The bill becomes effective
on January 1, 1975.
AB 3754 - Ralph
Requires that a solicitation to enter into a leasing
Chapter 1110
contract under the Moscone Automobile Leasing Act of
1969 which includes a statement of periodic payment
shall also contain specified information. The bill
provides that failure to comply with requirements for
solicitations shall not affect the validity of
leasing contract. Provides that there shall be no
liability on the part of any owner or personnel as
such of any medium for any violation of such section.
The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 3755 - McLennan
Requires the Franchise Tax Board to credit or refund
Chapter 1111
overpayment of taxes imposed under Personal Income Tax
Law or Bank and Corporation Tax Law in certain cases
where a claim for refund was erroneously disallowed.
The bill also authorizes the Franchise Tax Board to
permit the filing of a group return for incorporated
branches of certain tax-exempt organizations.
The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 3768 - Miller
Clarifies the law pertaining to the appointment of
Chapter 1112
housing authority commissioners. The bill authorizes
housing authorities to accept financial or other
assistance for housing authority purposes. The bill
also reduces specificity of eviction notices but
requires them to be written. Requires repairs to
units to meet building codes in effect at time of
construction. Requires posting of notices of meetings
of housing authorities. Temporary housing and farm
labor camps must comply with requirements. The changes
made by this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 4357 (Moretti)
Requires dealer of mobilehomes required to be moved
Chapter 1286
under permit to display a notice of reasonable size
stating the existence of a one-year warranty on
mobilehomes sold and a sample copy of such warranty.
Requires the establishment of an escrow account for
each sale of a mobilehome required to be moved under
permit. Prohibits the disbursement of any moneys in
such escrow account until the buyer has received
delivery of the mobilehome on the site, and the
mobilehome has passed inspection pursuant to specified
provisions of law.
The bill makes it unlawful and a ground for suspension
or revocation of license of mobilehome dealer to
violate specified provisions of law relating to
mobilehome warranties or of specified provisions of
this act. It requires the Department of Housing and
Community Development to adopt rules and regulations
for the establishment and maintenance of such escrow
accounts.
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RON
)
REAGAN
RELEA
Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-24-74
#534
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that he has signed the following bills:
AB 3777 - Thurman
Changes the compensation, number, and positions of
Chapter 1113
municipal court personnel in San Joaquin and Solano
Counties. The changes made by this bill become
effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3781 - Alatorre
Provides that the State Personnel Board, upon adoption
Chapter
1114
of safeguards and after public hearing, may solicit
voluntary declarations of ethnic identification by
applicants for state employment. The changes made by
this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3787 (Papan)
Provides that a member of the Public Employees'
Chapter 1115
Retirement System may select new spouses as beneficiar
under an optional settlement upon remarriage after
the death of the first spouse.
AB 3788 - Papan
Revises Collection Agency Act to exclude from its
Chapter 1116
coverage all duly licensed personal property brokers
unless they are conducting collection agencies. The
changes made by this bill become effective January 1,
1975.
AB 3794 - Gonsalves
Allows extensions of 18 inches on each end of vehicle:
Chapter
1117
or combination of vehicles used exclusively to trans-
port vehicles. The bill also permits safety devices
to extend 10 inches beyond the legal length limits
of vehicles and combinations of vehicles. The bill
becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 3796 (Dunlap)
Requires the Bureau of Home Furnishings to develop
Chapter 1118
standards of fire retardance for sleeping bags and
report them to the Legislature by April 1, 1975, and
prohibits the sale of specified tents one year after
the adoption of regulations by the State Fire
Marshal unless the tent is made from approved flame-
retardant materials.
AB 3797 - Beverly
Provides that persons designated as security officers
Chapter 1119
by a municipal utility district are peace officers
while engaged in the performance of their duties.
The bill becomes effective immediately.
AB 3799 (Bee)
Provides for receipt of up to two years' credit in
Chapter 1120
the State Teachers' Retirement System for service in
certificated teaching positions at job corps centers
in this state unless a retirement allowance is
received for such service from another retirement
system.
Requires members receiving credit to pay employer and
employee contributions plus interest.
AB 3804 (Ralph)
Excludes from the operation of specified wage and
Chapter 1121
hour provisions persons licensed or certified by
the state and engaged in the practice of optometry.
AB 3805 - Ralph
Directs the State Board of Optometry to elect from
Chapter 1122
its membership a vice president, as well as a
president and secretary. The changes made by this
bill become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3807 (B. Greene)
Changes from July 15th to August 15th, last date by
Chapter 1123
which county superintendents of schools are required
to certify to county auditors and county boards of
supervisors the amounts of money required to be
raised by certain property taxes for the education
of certain mentally retarded pupils and severely
mentally retarded pupils, and for the identification
and education of certain physically handicapped
pupils.
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AB 3808 - B. Greene
Increases from $250 to $500 the cumulative amount
Chapter
1124
of meeting attendance fees that may be paid in a
single calendar month to each member of the board
of directors of the Southern California Rapid Transit
District. The bill becomes effective on January 1,
1975.
AB 3809 (B. Greene)
Authorizes the Director of General Services with the
Chapter 1125
approval of the Director of Rehabilitation to extend
the period for payment of fiscal obligations under
agreements with non-profit corporation operating
certain facilities for the blind up to 10 years upon
the request and consent of such nonprofit corporation
to avoid undue hardship.
has 3812 - MacGillivray
Changes the compensation and employment conditions of
Chapter 1126
superior court reporters in Ventura County.
The bill provides that the Judicial Council shall
collect and report specified information regarding
official reporters and offical reporters pro tempore
of the courts in Ventura County.
The bill also establishes specified filing and report-
ing fees applicable to the Superior Court in Ventura
County. The bill becomes effective immediately.
AB 3814 - MacGillivray
Provides waiting periods for passage of county
Chapter 1127
ordinances shall nbb apply to ordinances which by
statute dan only be passed after notice and a public
hearing. The bill becomes effective on Januaryl, 1975.
AB 3815. Lancaster
Requires the Department of Water Resources to study and
Chapter 1128
investigate the need and availability of water for thermal
electric power plant cooling purposes and to study and
investigate the availability and quality of waste water and the
uses of reclaimed waste water for beneficial purposes. The
changes made by the bill become effective January 1, 1975.
B 3823 - McLennan
Deletes crows, black-billed magpies, California or
chapter
1129
scrub jays, Steller's or crested jays, and yellow-
billed magpies from the list of nongame birds which,
unless otherwise provided by regulations of the Fish
and Game Commission, may be taken or possessed by
any other person at any other time. The bill becomes
effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 3824 - McLennan
Excepts specified commercial landing receipts filed
Chapter 1130
with the Department of Fish and Game, except for the
actual name of the seller and buyer of the fish, from
the requirement of confidentiality and permits them
to be used and disseminated as determined by the
Director of Fish and Game to be necessary for develop
ment of interstate management plans for Dungeness
crab. The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 3825 - Carter
Extends to the assessor, tax collector and treasurer
Chapter 1131
of certain water districts the exemption from the
requirement that they be a resident or an elector of
the district in which the duties of the office are to
be exercised. The bill becomes effective on January
1, 1975.
AB 3832 - Berman
Modifies the exemptions from the licensing require-
Chapter
1132
ments of the Dental Practice Act. The bill expands
the exemption to include student work in dental
extension programs offered by the educational
institution in which the dental school is located
and conducted under such school's supervision. The
changes made by this bill will become effective
January 1, 1975.
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AB 3834 - Beverly
Permits specified types of blanket insurance policies
Chapter 1133
and blanket hospital service contracts to include
either a coordination of benefits polity or contract
provision or a nonduplication of benefits policy or
contract provision is such provision contains desig-
nated statements.
The bill provides that specified disclosure material
shall be submitted to the Insurance Commissioner
along with the blanket insurance policy or blanket
hospital service contract. The bill becomes effective
on January 1, 1975.
AB 3837 Chappie
Requires that the State Highway Account be directly
Chapter 1134
reimbursed for the cost of a required report estimating
the amount of money credited to the Motor Vehicle
Fuel Account for off-highway vehicle use. The changes
made by this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3851 (Keysor)
Amends provisions for registration of voters in
Chapter 1135
counties other than the county of residence to allow
county clerk to take affidavit of registration of
any elector who resides or claims residence in
another county in this state if the elector's
registration is taken in connection with a naturaliza-
tion hearing at which the elector became a citizen.
AB 3855 - Foran
Repeals a 1967 provision earmarking $90,000,000
Chapter 1136
annually for capital outlay. The bill becomes effec-
tive January 1, 1975.
AB 3857 - Knox
Permits city selection committees to specify in their
Chapter 1137
rules and regulations when to choose succeeding
chairmen and vice chairmen. The changes made by this
bill will become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3860 - Knox
Provides for a finance director rather than auditor,
ipter 1138
of the Bay Area Sewage Services Agency. The bill
requires the agency board to appoint a qualified firm
of certified public accountants to conduct an annual
outside audit of the agency's fiscal records and
accounts.
The bill also deletes provisions limiting authority
of the agency board to borrow money and issue notes
in anticipation of the receipt of revenues to the
period ending with the third full fiscal year following
the organization meeting of the first agency board.
The changes made by this bill become effective January
1, 1975.
AB 3861 - Knox
Specifies the time and manner in which sewer charges
Chapter 1139
fixed pursuant to specified authority and the interes
thereon shall constitute a lien against property to
which the sewerage facilities are connected. The
bill becomes effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3868 (Lanterman)
Deletes prohibition against the State Air Resources
Chapter 1140
Board approving any engine and transmission combina-
tion requiring a gasoline having a research octane
number greater than 91 when used in conjunction with
a power train normally associated with that engine an
transmission combination.
AN 3881 (Alatorre)
Requires that in determining whether an individual
Chapter 1141
is blind for the purposes of the state supplementary
program for aged, blind and disabled persons there be
an examination by a physician skilled in diseases of
the eye or by an optometrist.
AB 3886 (Kapiloff)
Requires the governing board of a school district to
Chapter 1142
allow the parent or guardian of pupil to include in
the pupil's written records or cumulative record a
written statement or response concerning disciplinary
action as prescribed.
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AB 3896 - Gonsalves
Prohibits the expenditure by the Southern California
Chapter
1143
Rapid Transit District of funds, derived from a
specified retail transactions and use tax for purposes
other than research, planning, and necessary preliminar
engineering of public mass transit guideways, unless
the submitted report is adopted by each local juris-
diction or the points of issue are resolved by an
arbitration board. The changes made by this bill
become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3920 - Knox
Imposes various additional requirements and prohibi-
Chapter 1144
tions on health care service plans subject to the
Knox-Mills Health Plan Act relating to advertising,
financing, performance, the filing of reports with
Attorney General, the appointment of a conservator
in certain circumstances, and the powers of the
Attorney General in enforcement of requirements.
The bill becomes effective immediately.
AB Gonzales
Permits any motor vehicle engaged in, or aiding in, the
Chapter 1145
herding of sheep along or across a public roadway to display
flashing amber warning lights to the front and rear of the
vehicle while it is stopped has the roadway near the sheep or
is proceeding with the sheep along the roadway. The changes
made by this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3964 (Montoya)
Provides that a county board of supervisors may, by a
Chapter
1146
four-fifths vote, enter into leases, or concession or
managerial contracts involving leasing or subleasing
all or any part of county-owned, leased or managed
property devoted to or held for use for employee
cafeteria purposes without compliance with competitive
bidding and other specified requirements.
AB 3965 (Montoya)
Permits board of supervisors to provide compensation
Chapter
1147
for fifth, sixth, and seventh members of the board of
investment rather than the fourth, fifth, and sixth
members of such board.
A. 3976 (Vasconcellos)
Allows the governing board of any school district to
Chapter
1140
admit to kindergarten a child having attained the
age of five years at any time during the school year.
School boards which choose to make use of this pro-
vision must provide parent or guardian with information
as to the advantages and disadvantages of early
admittance.
AB 3980 - Meade
Raises the maximum amount to be paid by counties to
Chapter
1149
the Department of Education for specified services
rendered to deaf and blind pupils by the Department.
This reimbursement applies only to those pupils whose
parents or guardians are unable to pay for services
themselves. The maximum amount is raised from a
present $300 to $385, with a cost of living factor for
further increases. The changes made by this bill
become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3984 - Lewis
Bill repeals existing authorizations for certain
Chapter 1150
experimental special education programs and combines
them in a general authorization which already exists
in the Education Code.
Requires
that rules and regulations concerning such experi-
mental programs shall be adopted by the State Board
of Education rather than the Superintendent of Public
Instruction. Deletas termination date which applied
to general abthorization for experimental programs.
The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 4019 (Antonovich)
Chapter 1151
Provides that the board of supervisors of Los Angeles
County may provide for as pilot project consisting of
a juvenile court school to provide for the special
education needs of wards and dependents of such court.
Provides such project will end January 1, 1977.
AB 4067 - Keysor
Chapter 1152
Requires full disclosure of facts with respect to any
contest or game which holds out to the participant
the opportunity to compete for gifts or prizes and is
conditioned upon the payment of consideration. The
changes made by this bill become effective January 1,
1975.
AB 4083- Bannai
mends the Teachers' Retirem Law to give effect
Chapter 1153
to certain rules of the Teachers' Retirement Board.
The changes made by this bill become effective January 1.
1975.
AB 4114 (Vasconcellos)
Requires all initial proposals of representatives of
Chapter
1154
certificated employees (excepting those of an
emergency nature) relating to the scope of "meet
and confer" to be presented at public meetings with
reasonable time allowed for public participation.
AB 4138 (Briggs)
Revises the designation of various types of cottage
Chapter 1155
cheese to conform with recently adopted federal
standards.
3 4139 - Chappie
Continues the Historical Landmarks Advisory Committee
Chapter 1156
in existence as the State Historical Resources Com-
mission and prescribes its organization, composition,
and powers and duties.
Revises provisions empowering the Department of Parks
and Recreation to register buildings, structures, site
and places as state historical landmarks or points of
historical interest. The bill becomes effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 4143 - Badham
Revises provisions of the Uniform District Election
Chapter 1157
Law relating to landowner voting districts by
Transferring functions concerning election duties in
such districts from the district secretary to the
county clerk, by revising provisions relating to the
procedure for the preparation of a list of qualified
voters in districts, and by precluding the consolida-
tion of a landowner voting district election with any
resident voter election. The changes made by this
bill become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 4153 (MacGillivray)
Includes a local emergency in provisions which
Chapter
1158
specifically exempt certain persons from civil
liability resulting from any act or omission com-
mitted in the line of duty, except for willful acts,
while performing disaster services ordered or
requested by lawful authority. Provides that such
workers injured in the course of their activities,
during a local emergency shall be compensated.
AB 4169 (Brown)
Makes the Health and Welfare Agency responsible for
Chapter 1159
the administration or supervision of programs which
are subject to federal laws which impose a "single
state agency" requirement, and, makes technical
changes pertaining to the responsibilities of the
Department of Bemefit Payments.
AB 4210 (Chappie)
Provides that specified securities and other evidences
Chapter
1162
of indebtedness of an issuer in an aggregate principal
amount less than $500,000, that are issued to finance
a public project either by means of public leaseback
or lease between a public body as lessee and an issuer
as lessor executed after the public project is acquire
constructed or completed and the interest thereon or
income therefrom are exempt from all taxation in the
state except gift, inheritance and estate taxes.
AB 4215 - Gonzales
Chapter 1163
Prohibits any person from prescribing or knowingly
administering an experimental drug to another person,
unless consent is obtained from the person to whom
the drugs will be administered.
The bill requires a copy of the consent to be sent
to the Department of Health to be maintained in their
files available for inspection.
The bill prohibits the administration of experimental
drugs to patients unable to give consent, unless for
the purpose of diagnosing, treating or mitigating a
disease or injury to a patient. It also prevents
persons having ownership interest in the facility
from prescribing experimental darugs for patients
in the facility. The bill becomes effective on
January 1, 1975.
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AB 4227 - Maddy
Provides that compromise and release agreements of
Chapter 1164
workmen's compensation claims against multiple employ-
ers concerning occupational disease or cumulative
injury shall be, upon specified approval by the
Workmen's Compensation Appeals Board or a referee, a
total release as to such individual employer or the
employer's insurance carrier for the portion of the
claim released, but shall not be a bar to recovery
of claims against other employers for periods of
exposure not so released. Provides that specified
portion of liability attributable to the portion of the
exposure released shall be assessed and deducted from
the liability of the remaining defendants.
The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 4267 (Burke)
Prescribes the method of computing the maximum tax
Chapter 981
rate of a county superintendent of schools which
become fiscally independent on or after July 1, 1974.
Bill takes effect immediately.
AB 4284 (Keysor)
Provides that the holding of a special election is
Chapter 1165
discretionary with the Governor if a legislative
vacancy occurs 160 days or less before the end of
the term.
AB 4286 - Keysor
The bill deletes the provision requiring advertisement
Chapter 1166
in a newspaper of general circulation, of proposed
charter, charter amendment or amendments, and ordin-
ance calling special election, of a county. The bill
substitutes the requirement that the county clerk
mail the printed taxt of proposed charter, charter
amendment with a sample ballot to each qualified
voter. The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB Sieroty
Prohibits the sale of petroleum products conditioned on the
Chapter 1167
additional purchase of other merchandise or services.
The changes made by this bill become effective January 1,
1975.
AB 4315 - Duffy
Permits formation of speech pathology and audiology
apter 1168
corporations subject to provisions of Moscone-Knox
Professional Corporation Act. Specifies procedure
for registration of such corporations with the Board
of Medical Examiners.
Regulates activities of corporations with regard to
reports, name, shareholders, income, and professional
conduct. Permits Board of Medical Examiners to adopt
and enforce rules and regulations necessary to carry
out purposes and objectives of act. The bill becomes
effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 4328 - Badham
Provides that the clerk of the superior court shall
Chapter 1169
not be required to enter judgments in a judgment book
in counties where the clerk places individual judg-
ments in the court's file of actions. The bill
becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 4355 (Chacon)
Requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to make
Chapter 1170
a specified report to the Legislature regarding
insurance and insurance coverage that is required or
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purchased by the department to insure against risk
AB 4396 - Ingalls
of loss.
AB 4399 - L. Greene
Would extend the restricted permissive tax rate
Chapter 1172
allowed to raise State Field Act construction funds
until July 1, 1977. Requires that any excess revenue:
raised to meet matching requirements for State School
Building Aid Loans be applied as a repayment of the
loan. Includes certain substandard structures among
those for which the district must apply for state aid
for repair, reconstruction, or replacement.
The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 4439 - L. Greene
Declares the Legislature's finding of the need for
Chapter 1173
a centralized dispatch system linking all hospitals
providing obstetrical services with intensive care
nurseries to protect the health of critically ill
newborn children and to utilize intensive care nur-
series more effectively. The bill becomes effective
on January 1, 1975.
AB 4396 - Ingalls
Renames the California Hospital Disclosure Act as the
Chapter 1171
California Health Facilities Disclosure Act. Makes
such act applicable to health facilities licensed
under state law, rather than to prescribed hospitals,
facilities, and public institutions. Renames the
California Hospital Commission as the California
Health Facilities Commission and increases the mem-
bership of the commission to 13 with prescribed
qualifications and terms. Remames the California
Hospital Commission Fund the California Health
Facilities Commission Fund. Increases annual fees
required of skilled nursing facilities and intermedi-
ate care facilities under such act to 0.05 of 1 per-
cent of such a facility's gross operating cost in
providing health care services during a prescribed
period. Makes related changes. Enacts special pro-
visions re accounting and reporting by skilled nurs-
ing facilities and intermediate care facilities under
the act. Appropriates $100,000 to the commission for
carrying out the provisions of such act during 1975-
76 fiscal year. The bill becomes effective on Janu-
ary 1, 1975.
AB 4443--Keene
Provides that absence from school in order to serve jury
Chapter 1174
duty shall not be counted as an absence for the purpose
of ADA computation. The bill takes effect immediately.
AB 4465 - Waxman
Empowers each local hospital district to establish,
Chapter 1175
maintain, and operate one or more health facilities,
rather than hospitals, situated within the territorial
limits of the district.
The bill specifically authorizes the board of directors
of a hospital district to provide, in the rules of the
hospital, for proof of the ability of applicants for
hospital staff membership to respond in damages.
The bill also requires hospital districts to include
podiatrists in the hospital staff structure. The
changes made by this bill become effective January 1,
1975.
AB 4482 - Murphy
Requires an allocation of $5,000 by the Department of
Chapter 1176
Transportation from the Aeronautics Account in the
State Transportation Fund to the City of Hollister.
The bill became effective immediately.
AB 4496 Cullen
Provides permissive authority or contract cities in the
Chapter 1177
Public Employees' Retirement System to make supplemental
retirement contributions on behalf of designated groups of
management or miscellaneous employees. The bill takes
effect immediately.
AB 4501- Cullen
Provides that funds appropriated in the Budget Act of 1974
Chapter 1178
to the Department of Motor Vehicles for data-processing
support may be transferred to the Stephen P. Teale Consolidated
Data Center under specified conditions for use during the
1974-75 fiscal year in connection with furnishing data-processing
services to the department. The bill takes effect immediately.
AB 4509 - Keene
Makes open meeting law applicable to state agencies
Chapter 1179
applicable also to official student body organizations
at any campus of the California State University and
Colleges and California Community Colleges. The bill
takes effect immediately.
AB 4516 (Keene)
Authorizes an allocation under the Natural Disaster
Chapter 1180
Assistance Law as supplemented by Chapter 624,
Statutes of 1973, to Humboldt County for restoration
of roads, highways, and bridges damaged or destroyed
by January 15 to 19, 1974, severe storms.
AB 4520 Lockyer
Appropriates $5,000 to the Department of Fish and Game
Chapter 1181
from the California Environmental Protection Program
Fund for operation of a wildfowl decontamination project
pursuant to a contract with a volunteer wildfowl decontamination
organization. The changes made by this bill became
effective January 1, 1975.
Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD .EAGAN
RELEASE
Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-24-74
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that he has signed the following bills:
AB 4522 (Miller)
Revises circumstances under which Superintendent of
Chapter 1182
Public Instruction may allow emergency average daily
attendance to school districts. Includes specified
safety hazards and transportation strikes among such
circumstances.
Specifies that portions of act shall be deemed to
have been operative for entire 1973-74 and 1974-75
fiscal years.
SB 96 - Carpenter
Senate Bill 96 adds all public schools to provisions
Chapter 1183
of the Penal Code relating to school disturbances.
SB 116--Alquist
Repeals and reenacts separate provisions for the Democratic
Chapter 1184
presidential primary to be called the "Alquist Open
Presidential Primary Act". The bill directs the Secretary
of State to place recognized Democratic candidates for
nomination for President on the presidential preference portion
of presidential primary ballot, unless the candidate withdraws.
The bill also provides for the manner of electing by congressional
district portion of delegation to national convention and
the manner of selecting the remaining portion of delegation.
The bill further revises format of Democratic presidential
primary ballot to reflect a presidential preference portion
and a delegate election portion, the former portion of which
is reflective of an advisory vote only. The changes made
by this bill become effective January 1, 1976.
SB 166 - Holmdahl
Provides that an unemployment insurance claimant who
Chapter 1185
is in all other respects eligible for unemployment
benefits, and who becomes unable to work for one or
more days due to physical or mental illness or injury,
shall be paid benefits at the rate of 1/7 of his
weekly benefit amount for each day of that week for
which he was able to work and available for work.
The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 417 (Biddle)
Permits the Board of Supervisors of San Bernardino
Chapter 1186
County to authorize extra superior court sessions
on the grounds of any institution of the Department
of Corrections located in the county, upon approval
by the majority of judges of the superior court and
the director of the department.
SB 09--Dymally
Revises various provisions of Waxman-Dymally
Chapter 979
Campaign Disclosure Act. The bill takes effect
immediately.
SB 566 -Marler
Requires individuals entering schoolgrounds to seek the
Chapter 1187
permission of the principal or a designated representative.
Parents, representatives of school employee organizations
and individuals who are required to be on schoolgrounds
by reason of their employment are exempted. The bill
provides that any person who fails to leavea public school
building or public schoolgrounds promptly when so requested,
or who, after 80 leaving, returns thereto within 48 hours,
with a specified exception, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
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The changes made by this bill become effective January 1,
SB 772 - Wedworth
1975.
SB 1033 - Dymally
Removes the prohibition against election of Democratic
Chapter 1189
county central committees from county central
committee districts in counties having 20 or more
Assembly districts. The bill becomes effective on
January 1, 1975.
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SB 772 (Wedworth)
Authorizes any general acute care hospital operated
Chapter 1188
by or contracting with a county to conduct a pilot
program to provide services utilizing mobile
intensive care paramedics.
Requires the training of Paramedics to take place in
a community college, college, university or hospital
that is certified for this type of training.
Requires the Department of Health to submit to the
Legislature a comprehensive report on emergency
medical services in California by July 1, 1975.
Revises definition of term, mobile intensive care
paramedic to require among other things that personnel
pass performance and written examinations and
specifies the mandatory numbers of hours for training
i.e., 200 hours of diodactic training, under proper
supervision.
Makes it a misdemeanor for ambulance personnel to
impersonate or refer to themselves as paramedics
unless they are so certified.
SB 1143 (Carpenter)
Establishes state policy for the conservation of
Chapter 1190
wildlife resources and includes six stated objectives:
1) It encourages conservation and utilization of
wildlife; 2) maintains wildlife populations; 3)
recognizes various nonconsumptive uses of wildlife;
4) recognizes sport of hunting as a legitimate use;
5) provides for economic uses of wildlife; and, 6)
recognizes the adverse effects of wildlife under
certain circumstances.
SB 1257 - - Behr
Prohibits the State or any political subdivision from taking
Chapter 1191
possession of validly granted or patented tidelands without
the payment of fair and just compensation for lawful
improvements that have been made. The bill also makes a
grant of certain tide and submerged lands in Humboldt Bay
to the Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation, and Conservation
District. The changes made by this bill become effective
January 1, 1975.
SB 1297 (Gregorio)
Provides that the Judicial Council shall collect and
Chapter
1192
report specified information regarding official
reporters and official reporters pro tempore of the
courts in San Mateo County.
The bill changes annual salaries for official court
reporters in San Mateo County.
SB 1380 (Petris)
Amends the Unruh Civil Rights Act to prohibit any
Chapter 1193
discrimination based upon sex. The bill specifies
that all persons within the state are entitled to
equal facilities, privileges, and services in all
business establishments regardless of their sex.
SB 1452 - Nejedly
Provides that the Department of Motor Vehicles can
Chapter 1194
refuse to issue a license to individuals convicted
of any offense, involving the transportation for sale
or compensation of specified dangerous drugs, when
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such transportation involved the use of a motor
SB 1479 - Alquist
vehicle. The bill becomes effective on January 1,1975
1498 - Nejedly
Establishes the California Wilderness Preservation
Chapter 1196
System consisting of state-owned areas designated by
the Legislature and units of the State Park System
classified as wilderness by the State Park and
Recreation Commission.
The Secretary for Resources would be required to adopt
guidelines for the management of wilderness areas, and
each state agency with jurisdiction over a state
wilderness area would be required to adopt regulations
consistent with the Resources Agency guidelines and to
preserve the wilderness character of the area.
The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
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SB 1479 - Alquist
Provides for reporting to, and analyzing of fuel
Chapter 1195
energy data by, the State Energy Resources Conservation
and Development Commission. The bill requires that
the granting of a certificate of public convenience
and necessity by the Public Utilities Commission for
any thermal powerplant or electrical transmission line
be preceded by the granting of a power facility and
site certificate by the State Energy Resources Conser-
vation and Development Commission pursuant to the
provisions of the Warren-Alquist State Energy Resources
Conservation and Development Act. Specifies that the
power facility and site certificate shall be conclu-
sive as to matters determined thereby and shall be in
lieu of specified factors otherwise required to be
considered by the Public Utilities Commission. The
Changes made by this bill become effective January 1,
1975.
SB 1505 - Dills
Revises provisions for selection of appointees to the
Chapter 1203
Democratic State Central Committee and its executive
committee.
The bill also revises the signature requirement for
petition to amend or repeal charter of a city and
county from 15 percent of the registered voters of
the city and county to 10 percent of the votes cast
in the city and county for all candidates for
Governor in the last election therefor. The bill
becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 1510 - Petris
Deletes the Penal Code provision prohibiting aliens
Chapter 1197
from owning, possessing, or having custody or control
of a pistol, revolver, or firearm capable of being
concealed upon person. The bill becomes effective
on January 1, 1975.
SB1529 - Nejedly
Provides that an employment contract between a state
Chapter 1198
or local agency and any public official or employee
is a public record and not subject to the exceptions
to the disclosure requirement. The bill becomes
effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 1546 - Biddle
Requires the court in a criminal proceeding in which
Chapter 1199
the defendant is to be furnished counsel to give
notice to the defendant prior to the appointment of
counsel that the court shall, after hearing, make a
determination upon the conclusion of the criminal
proceedings of the defendant's present ability to pay
all or a portion of the costs of such counsel, and if
it so determines, that the defendant's liability for
such costs shall be in the form of a judgment and may
be subject to execution. The bill takes effect
immediately.
SB 1553 (Whetmore)
Permits the county board of supervisors, upon con-
Chapter 1200
currence of the county officer providing such
services, to transfer all or any portion of the
function of providing vector control services to any
mosquito abatement district or vector control district
while continuing to receive state aid for the county
health department, other provisions of law notwith-
standing, if specified standards are maintained.
SB 1580 - Zenovich
Changes the compensation and employment conditions of
Chapter
1201
superior court reporters in Santa Cruz County, The bill
permits the judges of the Fresno Municipal Court to appoint
seven full-time court reporters. The bill takes effect
SB 1581 (Zenovich)
immediately. Requires general prevailing wage rate in a particular
Chapter 1202
geographic area be paid to public works maintenance
workers as well as to other public works employees.
Specifies that act applies only to work performed
under contract, and not to force account labor.
SB 1591 - Alquist
Authorizes various methods to finance the Santa Clara
Chapter
1204
Transit District. The bill authorizes voter approved
bonding, voter approved sales tax, and the imposition
of property tax to redeem voter approved bonds. The
bill also authorizes issuance of general obligation or
revenue bonds, setting up of special districts, and
borrowing of money. The bill takes effect immediately
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SB 1600 - Petris
Prohibits the use of corporal punishment on pupils
Chapter 1205
who are physically or emotionally handicapped, unless
parental permission is secured in writing. The
changes made by this bill will become effective
January 1, 1975.
SB 1601 - Song
Revises the community property law. The bill becomes
Chapter 1206
effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 1650 - Carpenter
Increases hunting and fishing license fees and commercial fish
Chapter 1207
taxes effective January 1, 1975, for fishing licenses, July 1,
1975, for hunting licenses, and April 1, 1975, for commercial
fishing and fishing party boat licenses. The bill revises
upward income requirements regarding free fishing licenses
for certain persons 62 years old or older. It also revises
privilege tax rates to be paid by persons operating under
packing and processing licenses. The changes made by this
bill become effective January 1, 1975.
SB 1656 - Collier
Appropriates $1,638,907 to the California Coastal
Chapter 1208
Zone Conservation Commission for purposes of
carrying out the responsibilities and duties set fort]
in the California Coastal Zone Conservation Act of
1972, with $1,003,480 to be available for expenditure
during the 1975-76 fiscal year and $635,427 available
for expenditure during the 1976-77 fiscal year.
The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 1670 (Biddle)
Establishes new court fees and increases other court
Chapter 1209
fees for various services performed by the county
clerk.
SB 1673 - Nejedly
Permits the Public Utilities Commission to establish
Chapter 1210
a schedule of rapid amortization of the cost of public
utility facilities utilizing geothermal resources,
based upon their estimated usable life, the estimated
useful life of the geothermal resource, or any other
basis approved by the commission, whichever is the
shorter, to permit the full recovery of the cost of
such facilities. Declares the cost of such facilities
to be a recognized cost of operation in rate proceed-
ings.
Declares that the provisions shall remain in effect
until January 1, 1985, and are repealed as of that
date unless a later act deletes or extends such date.
The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 1690 - Alquist
Requires the State Fire Marshal, with the advice of
Chapter 1211
the State Board of Fire Services, to prepare and
adopt flammability standards and regulations relating
to the use of fabrics and fabric-like materials in
acute general hospitals and acute psychiatric hospita
other than hospital operating rooms, or in skilled
nursing facilities and intermediate care facilities.
The bill specifies that such regulations shall become
operative January 1, 1976. Makes any violation of
such regulations a misdemeanor.
SB 1733 (Wedworth)
Requires a coroner or a deputy, rather than just a
Chapter 1212
coroner, to personally sign death certificates under
specified provisions.
SB 1737 - Grunsky
Extends the definition of "county peace officer" to include
Chapter 1213
sheriff's employees employed to attend sessions of the
superior or municipal courts to maintain order and the
security of prisoners during court appearances. The
bill becomes effective immediately.
SB 1740 - Carpenter
Requires every uniformed employee of a licensed
Chapter 1214
private patrol to complete a course of training at a
specified time in the exercise of the powers to
arrest and a course of training in the carrying and
use of firearms. The changes made by this bill
become effective January 1, 1975.
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SB 1742 - Rodda
Requires that county school attendance review boards
Chapter 1215
be established to provide alternatives to the juvenile
court system for students with school attendance or
behavior problems. Specifies the composition of such
boards. Requires that county school attendance review
boards establish local school attendance review boards.
Requires that students who are habitual truants or who
have behavior problems be referred to a school atten-
dance review board. Directs the county superintendent
of schools to request a petition in juvenile court on
behalf of a pupil with attendance and/or behavior
problems, if required by a school attendance review
board. The changes made by this bill become effective
January 1, 1975.
SB 1747 - Alquist
Allows local governments by ordinance to impose fees
Chapter 1216
for bridges or thoroughfares as a condition for
approval of subdivision maps or building permits, and
also provides for funding of such projects. The
bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 1750 - Biddle
Authorizes the State Air Resources Board to adopt,
Chapter 1217
by regulation, emission standards for motorcycles.
Exempts new motorcycles from requirement that the
manufacturer affix to a window of new motor vehicles
a decal disclosing prescribed exhaust emission inform-
ation.
Makes such standards applicable only to new 1976 and
later model year motorcycles registered or identified
by the Department of Motor Vehicles which are sold
in the state on or after July 1, 1975, or such later
date as established by regulation adopted by the
board. The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 1751 (Biddle)
Authorizes the Air Resources Board staff to enter
Chapter 1218
premises of new or used auto dealer to inspect
specified vehicles and records pertaining to
vehicular emissions.
SB 1779 - Biddle
Extends effective date from December 31, 1974, to
Chapter 1219
July 1, 1976, of provision requiring public school
buildings located on geological faults to be replaced
in specified manner at another location as though
such buildings have not been constructed in conform-
ance with"Field Act", and authorizes governing boards
to increase the maximum rate of tax, until July 1,
1976, in order to replace such buildings under
specified conditions. The bill becomes effective
immediately.
SB 1781 (Stiern)
Extends to local agencies, coverage of the present
Chapter 1220
statute which now provides that state water con-
tractors need obtain only a majority vote to satisfy
election requirements for issuance of general
obligation bonds to build facilities for utilization
of state water,
SB 1788 - Way
Changes references from the Department of General
Chapter 1221
Services to the Department of Finance with respect
to various fiscal matters. The bill requires the
Department of Finance to audit the expenditures of
the marketing program committee made pursuant to the
Agricultural Producers Marketing Law at least once
every two years.
The bill further provides that funds appropriated
from the State Construction Program Fund for
augmentation allocations for community college project
shall be available for projects originally appropriate
in the 1972 budget if the contract award is made prior
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to June 30, 1974. The changes made by this bill will
SB 1798 - Nejedly
become effective January 1, 1975.
SB 1811- Carpenter
Establishes a program for the registration of animal health
Chapter 1223
technicians by the Board of Veterinary Medicine. The
changes made by this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
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SB 1798 (Nejedly)
Provides for credit to funas of community service
Chapter 1222
districts in amount of 86% of certain revenues
received from fines and forfeitures resulting from
the arrests by district police.
The bill provides for transfer to Bay Area Rapid
Transit District of amounts equal to 85% of total
fines or forfeitures collected from persons violating
parking or other traffic regulations applicable to
parking or otherwise regulating traffic on district
property. The bill allows the district and counties
to adjust revenue splitting percentages upon mutual
agreement.
B 1815 (Petris)
Makes it unlawful for any person to harass, evict, or
Chapter 1224
otherwise discriminate against any person under the
State's Fair Housing Act because that person opposed
practices unlawful under this Act, informed law en-
forcement agencies of practices believed unlawful,
or has testified or assisted in any proceeding under
the Act.
The bill also revises the power of the Fair Employment
Practices Commission to subpoena witnesses in connec-
tion with its functions under the Rumford Act.
SB 1822 (Berryhill)
Requires one of those members of the State Water
Chapter
1225
Resources Control Board required to have specialized
qualifications to, in addition, be qualified in the
field of water supply and water quality relating to
irrigated agriculture.
SB 1823 - Robbins
Establishes in the Division of Economic Development
Chapter 1226
a motion picture development unit for the purpose of
promoting production of motion pictures in this state,
assisting film companies in securing locations, and
facilitating cooperation from local governmental
agencies. The bill creates the Motion Picture Develop-
ment Council to serve as an advisory body to the
Department of Commerce, make recommendations for
implementation of its motion picture development progra
and perform other specified functions. The changes
made by this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
SB 1828 - Nejedly
Authorizes the Director of the Department of Fish
Chapter 1227
and Game to restrict or terminate fishing in state
waters under a commercial license on any species
designated by him to be in danger of irreparable
injury. The bill requires that the closure or
restriction have at least one public hearing and be
based on thorough & adequate scientific evidence.
The bill further requires the Director to bring
adopted regulations to the attention of the Legisla-
ture within 15 days. It limits the effectiveness
of such regulations to specific time intervals unless
no action is taken by the Legislature. The bill
becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 1836 - Zenovich
Establishes specified requirements for swimming pool
Chapter 1228
construction, contracts, including provisions covering
payment schedules, downpayments, and final payments
and makes it a misdemeanor for any person building a
swimming pool to violate such provisions. The bill
becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 1845--Stull
Provides a method tor a parent or guardian to examine
Chapter 1229
written records on a child or ward maintained by school
officials. The bill further provides a method by which the parent
can question or challenge information contained in the
official records. The bill further permits the parent to submit
written objections to information, and to have any objections
made a part of the pupil's official records. The bill provides
for the establishment of a hearing panel to arbitrate any
grievance and to assist in making determinations. The
changes made by this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
SB 1864 - Deukmejian
Revises the computation of allowance for the Education
Chapter 1232
ally Disadvantaged Youth Program (SB 90/72) to permit
expansion of the program to two additional districts.
Appropriates $2,600,000 to fund the newly eligible
districts. The bill becomes effective on January 1,192
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SB 1870 - Marks
Requires every state agency and department to cate-
Chapter 1233
gorize Filipinos as Filipinos for any statistical
tabulation of minority groups.
The changes made by the bill become effective on
January 1, 1975.
SB 1876 Holmdahl
Provides that a master bond used in a county may be
Chapter 1234
an alternative or supplementary, rather than only
supplementary, to the individual bonds posted by
certain county officers. The bill becomes effective
January 1, 1975.
B 1882 - Marks
Provides that nothing in the statutary law should be
ha er 1235
construed to abrogate the right of any person to
change their name. The changes made by this bill
become effective January 1, 1975.
SB 1885 Stiern
Provides that in making computations determining the
Chapter 1236
full cash value of property subject to the private
car tax, the State Board of Equalization shall
exclude data which occurs while cars are not qualified
forrevenue service and are in a repair facility in
California requiring and undergoing or awaiting cer-
tain remodeling, overhaul, renovation, conversion
OF repair. The bill is operative for calendar years
1975 through 1979, inclusive. The bill becomes
effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 1899 - Nejedly
Requires the Department of Corrections to reimburse
Chapter 1237
the counties for the cost of detaining State parolees.
Such reimbursement is to be offset by charges against
the county for services provided by the department.
The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 1910-- Nejedly
Requires, when person is arrested for misdemeanor without
Chapter 1230
being released on a notice to appear, arresting officer to
indicate a reason for nonrelease on a form established by
the employing law enforcement agency and to file such form
with the arresting agency as soon as practicable. Requires
that the form be made available to any party subsequently
having custody of the arrested person and to any person
authorized by law to release him from custody. The changes
made by this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
SB 1942 (Gregorio)
Requires that at the time of employment by a school
Chapter 1239
district, each certificated employee be furnished a
written statement indicating the employee's classi-
fication, salary level, and brief statement of
specified employee rights.
This bill provides that a failure to provide the
employee with the required information results in
the employee being deemed a probationary employee
of the district.
SB 1946- Way
Authorizes the new Merced County Streams Project for
Chapter 1231
state financial participation under the State Water
Resources Law of 1945. Changes made by this bill
2474
become effective January 1, 1975.
SB 1974 (Biddle)
Removes the requirement that sectarian medical schools
Chapter 1282
and colleges participating in state medical contract
program have an approved affirmative action program
for the equitable recruitment of instructors when
instructors are recruited on basis of religious
affiliation.
1980 (Beilenson)
Implements several provisions of federal law per-
Chapter 1240
taining to Medi-Cal eligibility and benefits and to
clarify the relationship between Medi-Cal eligibility
and the State Supplementary Payment program and to
change the upper age limit for a medically needy
child to age 21.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONAI
REAGAN
RELEA
Immediate
Sacramento, California 5814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-24-74
#536
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that he has signed the following bills:
SB 1984 - Alquist
Provides assistance to the Governor-elect in connec-
Chapter 1241
tion with the preparation of the budget and assump-
tion of "other! duties of the Governor.
The bill further provides that the outgoing Governor
may appoint persons to donduct his official business
for sixty days after leaving office.
The bill further appropriates $50,000 to the Departmen
of Finance for expenses of the Governor-elect and
former Governor. The bill becomes effective immedia-
tely.
SB 1985 - Alquist
Provides that the Governor must submit executive
Chapter 1242
reorganization plans to the Commission on California
State Government Organization and Economy at least
30 days prior to submission of such plans to the
Legislature and to the Legislative Counsel for
drafting assistance and a digest prior to that.
The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 2027 - Rodda
Provides, with respect to the formula for computing
Chapter 1243
salaries of county superintendents of schools, that
the statewide average of teachers' salaries is deemed
to be $12,072, rather than $11,090. The changes made
by this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
SB 2043 - Nejedly
Allows a person appointed to fill a vacancy on a
Chapter 1244
city council to use the designation "appointed
incumbent" if he has served for at least one year
prior to the next election for that office. The
bill becomes effective January 1, 1975.
B 2049 - Zenovich
Requires the Department of Fish and Game to issue
Chapter 1245
a free fishing permit, in lieu of a fishing license
and appropriate stamps, authorizing the taking of any
fish and amphibia anywhere in the state for purposes
other than profit, to any developmentally disabled
person under the age of 21 receiving services from a
regional center for the developmentally disabled for
the period during which he is a recipient of such
services. The bill becomes effective immediately.
SB 2051 - Zenovich
Revises the definition of a high-rise structure and
Chapter 1246
authorizes, rather than requires, the fire marshal
to adopt regulations pertaining to fire safety in
those types of buildings. The changes made by this
bill become effective January 1, 1975.
SB 2064 - Carpenter
Specifically excludes from the definition of "common
Chapter 1247
carrier", for purposes of regulation by the Public
Utilities Commission, the owner or operator of a
recreational conveyance such as a ski lift, ski tow,
J-bar, T-bar, chair lift, aerial tramway, or other
such device or equipment used primarily while parti-
cipating in winter sports activities. The bill become
effective January 1, 1975.
SB 2072 - Bradley
Authorizes banks to invest in the bonds, notes or
Chapter 1248
other obligations issued by the Student Loan Marketin
Association, and by the Federal Financing Bank. The
bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 2102 - Nejedly
Makes special provision for late filing of financial
Chapter 1249
disclosure statement by a person appointed to a plan-
ning commission where the appointment was necessary
in order to constitute a quorum on the planning
commission. The bill becomes effective on January
1, 1975.
SB 2120 - Mills
Makes technical and clarifying amendments to 1973
Chapter 1250
legislation which revised California's grade separa-
tion program. The bill becomes effective on Januay 1
1975.
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SB 2129 (Beilenson)
Establishes an alternative procedure whereby a
Chapter 1251
homeowner may assert a homestead protection on his
dwelling without filing the necessary legal forms.
This bill affords the debtor the opportunity to
claim an exemption from levy of execution on his
residence when it is threatened by an execution
sale,
SB 2163 - Song
Requires a credit card issuer who has decided to issue
Chapter 1252
a credit card to a married woman to issue the card
bearing either the maiden name or married name of the
woman, as she may direct.
The bill provides that such a card issuer may require
a married woman requesting such card to be issued
under her maiden name, to open an account in that
name. The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 2177 ( Moscone)
Specifically makes meetings of the Public Utilities
Chapter 1254
Commission subject to the statutory provisions
requiring meetings to be open and public. It
continues the existing exception for executive
sessions to deliberate on the institution of pro-
ceedings or litigation. Deletes the present provision
permitting executive sessions to deliberate on
decisions to be reached in proceedings, tariff filings
permits, general orders or crossing protection fund
allocations submitted for decision.
It requires meetings of the Public Utilities Com-
mission at which the rates of entities under the
commission's jurisdiction are changed to be open
and public.
SB 2205 - Mills
Provides that allocations of funds for pedestrian and
Chapter
1255
bicycle facilities under the Mills-Alquist-Deddeh Act
be allocated according to a priority list. The changes
made by this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
SB 2234 (Moscone)
Revises the law governing the licensing and regis-
Chapter 1256
tration of bar pilots for San Francisco, San Pablo,
and Suisun Bays.
SB 2237 (Marler)
Provides that school recesses during the Christmas
Chapter 1257
and Easter periods shall not be considered holidays
for classified employees who are normally required
to work during those periods.
Provides that on any schoolday during which pupils
would otherwise be in attendance but are not, and
for which certificated personnel receive regular
pay, classified employees shall also receive regular
pay, whether or not required to work that day.
SB 2254 (Dymally)
Provides for reimbursement to private adoption
Chapter 1258
agencies for costs of administering the Aid for
Adoption of Children Program for hard to place
children in an amount not to exceed $1,500 per
placement less the amount of any fees received
from adoptive parents.
SB 2233 - Moscone
Allows the coroner to determine the extent of inquiry
Chapter
12569
into deaths occurring under natural circumstances.
The bill allows, under certain circumstances, a
coroner to authorize physician of record to sign the
death certificate. The bill becomes effective on
January 1, 1975.
SB 2269 (Whetmore)
Authorizes use of state graduate fellowships at
Chapter
1260
accredited California law schools.
SB 2280 - Way
Authorizes counties providing structural fire pro-
Chapter 1261
tection in portions of the county in the 1971-72 and
1972-73 fiscal years and paying therefor from general
funds to impose an additional tax on property bene-
fiting from such protection in a specified amount.
The bill also authorizes local agencies to levy an
additional property tax to provide for payments unde:
certain contracts entered after, as well as before,
January 1, 1973, if such later contracts are designed
to prevent an increase in the burden on taxpayers.
The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
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SB 2293 (Song)
Revises vehicle lien sale procedures.
Chapter 1262
SB 2294--Song
Deletes crimes of disturbing the peace d a neighborhood
Chapter 1263
or person, or of a community college, state college or state
university, and prohibits specified fighting or challenging to
fight, maliciously and willfully disturbing another person by
loud and unreasonable noise, or use of offensive words in
public inherently likely to produce a violent reaction. The
bill provides specified punishments for such acts, including
prohibition against release on probation, parole or any other
basis for specified period for subsequent offenses for acts
committed in buildings or on grounds of community college,
state college, or state university. The changes made by
this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
SB 2295 - Song
Permits any person having received a written notice
Chapter 1264
to appear for an infraction to plead not guilty in
writing in lieu of appearing in person in any court,
rather than only in courts in counties other than
his county of residence.
The bill requires, on and after January 1, 1976, in
addition to any other requirements, that every
written notice to appear for an infraction have print-
ed on the back of the notice, a statement informing
a person who received such notice of the provisions
regarding pleading not guilty in writing in lieu of
appearing in person in court. The bill becomes
effective on January 1. 1975.
SB 2296 (Song)
Provides that a special assessment and a penalty
Chapter 1265
assessment shall be levied for, among other things,
all offenses involving a violation of any local
ordinance adopted pursuant to the Vehicle Code, rather
than all offenses involving a violation of a city or
county ordinance relating to vehicles or their
operators or owners.
The bill exempts from such provisions offenses by
bicyclists, in addition to offenses by pedestrians.
SB 2299 (Nejedly)
Allows the court in a juvenile hearing to require a
Chapter) 1287
minor who is cited for a traffic violation to furnish
the court satisfactory evidence that the vehicle's
equipment has been made to conform to the require-
ments of the Vehicle Code.
SB 2306 (Behr)
Increases the salary of official reporters of the
Chapter 1266
superior court in Marin County.
SB 2309 - Behr
Authorizes cities and counties to include a historical
Chapter 1267
preservation element in their General Plan. The
bill also requires the Office of Planning and Research
to develop guidelines by February 1, 1976.
SB 2348 Petris
Adds a definition of "substandard building" to the State
Chapter
1268
Housing Law, including adoption by reference of criteria
contained in national model codes. The bill provides that
alteration and repair of existing residential buildings may
make use of original materials and methods as long as
the building does not become or remain substandard. Makes
automatic the adoption of the latest editions of model
building codes. The changes made by this bill become
effective January 1, 1975.
SB 2362- Beilenson
Requires the exhaust of every internal combustion engine
Chapter 1269
used in any motorboat to be effectively muffled, and specifies
the degree of muffling as a maximum noise level of 86 dbA
measured at a distance of 50 feet, such noise levels to be
decreased in increments to 82 dbA on or after January 1,
1978. Exceptions are made for racing conditions when
authorized by local permit. The changes made by this
bill take effect January 1, 1975.
SB 2382 (Whetmore)
Increases the maximum amount of applicants, renewals
Chapter
1270
and delinquency fees charged by the Board of Dental
Examiners under the Dental Practice Act.
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SB 2397 (Behr)
Requires a vacancy in an elective office on the
Chapter 1271
governing board of a special district to be filled
at an election if a district-wide election will be
held not more than 120 days, nor less than 90 days,
subsequent to the effective date of the vacancy.
Requires vacancy on the board of directors of an
irrigation district to be filled by appointment by
the board of supervisors. If the board of supervisors
do not fill the vacancy within 60 days after the
vacancy occurs, the board of directors of the district
may call a special election to fill the vacancy.
3 2402 - Nejedly
Revises provisions regulating specified aspects of
Chapter 1272
travel promoters financial operations and advertising.
The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 2417 - Deukmejian
Provides that any lubricating oil, regardless of its
Chapter
1273
origin, or any product that is a blend of recycled
oil and new oil, shall meet certain specifications.
The bill makes it unlawful for any person to sell,
offer, deliver or offer to deliver lubricating or
motor oil without conspicuously marked SAE classifica-
tion on container. The bill also deletes the provision
which require that previously used lubricating or
motor oil be labeled as "made from used oil" or
"re-refined used oil"; be kept separate from unused
lubricating or motor oil on any basket, stand, or
rack; and be the subject of separate records of
purchase, sale and storage by certain persons. The
changes made by this bill become effective January 1,
1975.
SB 2418 (Marks)
Provides that the Resources Agency shall be the state
Chapter 1274
coordinating agency for all applications for permission
to conduct maintenance dredging in the area described
as included in the area of jurisdiction of the San
Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission
of any amount or new dredging of 100,000 cubic yards
or less within a 12-month period made to any state
agency required or permitted by law to review such
applications.
SB 2421 (Mills)
Specifies that a public transit operator, on and
Chapter 1275
after July 1, 1976, shall be eligible for allocations
for public transportation purposes, under the Mills-
Alquist-Deddeh Act, only if the current cost of its
retirement system is fully funded with respect to
the officers and employees of its public transportatio
system, or if the operator is implementing a plan
approved by the transportation planning agency which
will so fully fund the retirement system with 40 years
SB 2429 - Collier
Renames the Californ ia Council of Product Design and
Chapter 1276
Marketing to be the California Council of Design and
Marketing.
The bill provides that the council shall have the
power to establish conditions and determine criteria
for use of a California label. The bill also exempts
the council from liability din establishing conditions
for design excellence awards and in determining
criteria for use of a California label. The bill
becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 2444 (Dills)
Authorizes recognized employee organizations to
Chapter 1277
obtain the names and addresses of school district
employees provided a fee not less than cost of
preparation is paid.
Authorizes a district to require such information to
be confidential.
Requires a district to establish a procedure for
restriction of addresses of employees who wish to
have their addresses confidential.
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SB 2460 - Bradley
Authorizes hospital districts to enter into contracts
Chapter 1278
of employment with hospital administrators, not to
exceed four years in duration, but which may be
periodically renewed upon expiration for not more
than four years. The bill becomes effective
immediately.
SB 2462 - Song
Authorises the governing board of a school district
Chapter 1279
annuity retirement fund to request the district
governing board to hold an election among fund
participants to permit distribution of existing funds
in the annuity fund, and delegates to the board
authority to prescribe election procedures. The
bill becomes effective immediately.
SB 2467 (Collier)
Provides that meetings of all legislative conference
Chapter 1280
committees other than on the budget shall be open to
press representatives accredited by the Joint Rules
Committee.
SB 2472 (Cusanovich)
Provides that certain rights and benefits accorded by
Chapter 1281
statute enacted in 1972 to school classified employees
who take voluntary demotion or reduction in assigned
time in lieu of layoff, shall apply to those employees
who took such voluntary demotion or reduction in
assigned time in lieu of layoff after June 1, 1969,
and prior to effective date of the 1972 enactment
and who continue to be in such status on the effective
date of this act.
SB 2476 -- Ayala
Revises provisions regarding approval by members of the
Chapter 1283
retirement system before a county providing retirement
benefits under the County Employees Retirement Act of
1937 and federal social security may as an alternative
to survivorship benefits under social security, provide
alternative survivorship benefits. The bill takes effect
immediately.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-25-74
#537
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced he has signed legislation
creating 49 municipal and superior court judges in California in spite
of the "petty politics played by the democratic leadership of the
legislature."
The governor pointed out that "even though the need for the
additional judges has been justified for more than a year, the democratic
leadership decided to hold up such bills and even amended 17 of the 19
measures that were finally passed to delay the effective date until
January 7. 1975 or later, which is one day after I leave office.
"This was done solely for the purpose of preventing me from making
the appointments of the judges that are so critically needed," the
governor said. "This shoddy way of doing the people's business puts
politics squarely back into the appointment of judges---something this
administration has refused to do.
"As a result of our screening process for the selection of judges,
which stresses ability and background, and does not consider a man's
political beliefs, this administration's appointments have been hailed
by the legal profession as outstanding. I am outraged that the
democratic leaders of the legislature have decided on a backward course
in appointing judges. They are hurting only the people of California.
"There have been rumors around the halls of the Capitol that the
democratic leaders' blatant action is related to the campaign for
governor. If so, this is a serious matter that should be investigated by
the State Bar and the Attorney General.
"The only protection for the people, in view of the democratic
leadership's cynical political action, is the absolute commitment by
the candidates for governor to follow this administration's policy and
procedures for the quality selection of judges. The Republican candidate
has already made such a pledge."
Judgeship bills signed by the governor are:
SB 612 - Bradley
Increases the number of superior court judges in
Santa Clara County from 24 to 26.
SB 1731 - Dills
Increases the number of judges in Compton Municipal
Court District from a total of five to six and the
Culver Municipal Court District from one to two.
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SB 1959 - Carpenter
Increases the number of judges in the Superior
Court of Orange County from 31 to 33.
SB 2033 - Ayala
Increases the number of municipal court judges in
the El Cajon Judicial District in San Diego
from 4 to 5. Creates the Chino Division of the
San Bernardino County Municipal Court District
and provides the division with one judge. Also
increases the number of judges in the Valley
Division of San Bernardino County Municipal
Court District from 1 to 2; and West Valley
Division from 3 to 4.
SB 2099 - Ayala
Increases the number of superior court judges
from 14 to 15 in San Bernardino County.
SB 2050 - Zenovich
Increases the number of municipal court judges in
Fresno Judicial District from 6 to 7.
SB 2057 - Berryhill
Increases the number of judges in the Stanislaus
County Superior Court from 5 to 6.
SB 2115 - Stull
Increases the number of municipal court judges in
the North County Judicial District of San Diego
from 5 to 6.
AB 2888 - Chappie
Increases the number of superior court judges in
Placer County from 2 to 3.
AB 2910 - Johnson, R.
Increases the number of judges in the Butte County
Superior Court from 2 to 3.
AB 3217 - Deddeh
Reestablishes the municipal court designated the
South Bay Judicial District and requires the dis-
trict to embrace the cities of Chula Vista,
Coronado, National City, and Imperial Beach and
contiguous area determined by the board of super-
visors. Increases the number of judges to two in
the reestablished district.
AB 3221 - Seeley
Increases the number of municipal court judges in
the Desert Judicial District in Riverside County
from 2 to 3.
AB 3325 - Kapiloff
Increases the number of superior court judges in
San Diego County from 29 to 33.
AB 3483 - Knox
Increases the number of municipal court judges in
the Walnut Creek-Danville Judicial District in
Contra Costa County from 2 to 3.
AB 3989 - Briggs
Increases the number of municipal court judges
from 3 to 4 in the Modesto Municipal Court District,
and upon consolidation with the Ceres Judicial
Increases number of
District, there shall be 5. Increases from 8 to 9
judges in Stockton
number of municipal court judges in North Orange
Municipal Court from
County Municipal Court, from 8 to 9 in the West
4 to 5.
Orange County Municipal Court, and from 4 to 5 in
the Orange County Harbor Municipal Court.
AB 4222 - Warren
Provides for 171 judges in the Los Angeles Superior
Court. Also increases number of judges in Sacramento
Superior Court from 15 to 18.
AB 4234 - Wood
Increases number of municipal court judges in City
of Salinas from 2 to 3.
AB 4300 - Wilson
Increases number of municipal court judges in El
Cajon Judicial District of San Diego from 4 to 5.
AB 4408 - Quimby
Increases number of judges in San Bernardino County
Municipal Court District to 2.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that he has signed the following bills:
AB 1897 - Holoman
Includes firemen within specifi ed sections of the
Chapter 1290
Government Code relating to attendance of specified
peace officers as witnesses or deponents in civil
actions, payment of their salaries and expenses while
attending such proceedings, reimbursement to the
employing public entity for such payment.
The illprovides that the party who requests such
attendance of a fireman or specified peace officer
shall reimburse the employing public entity in an
amount equal to the actual cost incurred by the
public entity as a result of such person's attendance,
instead of $45 per each day of attendance. The bill
becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 2888 Chappie
Increases the number of superior court judges in
Chapter 1304
Placer County from two to three. The bill becomes
effective on January 7. 1975.
AB 2910 (R. Johnson)
Increases the number of judges in the Butte County
Chapter 1305
Superior Court from two to three. Effective 1-7-75.
AB 3125 (McAlister)
Authorizes minor who has reached age of 17 to serve
Chapter 1291
as blood donor and blood bank to accept such donation
with written consent of a parent. This bill also
authorizes a minor under age of 17 to serve as blood
donor and blood bank to accept such donation if he
has written consent of parents and authorization of
physician thereto.
AB 3217 (Deddeh)
Reestablishes the municipal court designated the
Chapter 1306
South Bay Judicial District and requires the district
to embrace the Cities of Chula Vista, Coronado,
National City, and Imperial Beach and contiguous
area determined by the board of supervisors.
The bill provides for two judges in the reestablished
district. Effective 1-7-75
AB 3221 (Seeley)
Increases the number of municipal court judges in
Chapter 1307
the Desert Judicial District in Riverside County
from two to three. Effective 1-7-75.
AB 3325 - Kapiloff
Increases the number of superior court judges in San
Chapter 1308
Diego County from 29 to 33. The changes made by this
bill become effective January 7. 1975.
AB 3483 - Knox
Increases the number of municipal court judges in the
Chapter 1309
Walnut Creek-Danville Judicial District in Contra
Costa County from two to three. The changes made by
this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3579--Lewis
Makes technical and clarifying changes to the Teachers'
Chapter 1293
Retirement Law. The changes made by this bill become
effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3684--Knox
Provides that the compensation payment for temporary
Chapter 1294
total disability that has existed in excess of two years,
shall be at the rate in effect on the date payment is made,
rather than at the rate in effect on the date of injury.
The bill applies only to injuries sustained after bill
becomes effective.
The changes made by this bill become effective
January 1, 1975.
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AB 3753 - Quimby
Deletes provisions specifying that retirement contri-
Chapter 1295
butions are not to be paid from "development center
for handicapped pupils' fund" and "child development
fund" maintained in the county treasury for school
districts.
Specifies that revenue limits of school districts shall
be decreased to offset amounts required to be paid
from such funds forretirement contributions. The bill
becomes effective January 7. 1975.
AB 3989 - Briggs
Increases the number of municipal court judges from
C
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three to four in the Modesto Municipal Court District,
and upon consolidation with the Ceres Judicial District
there shall be five.
The number of municipal court judges are increases from
eight to nine in the North Orange County Municipal Cour
from eight to nine in the West Orange County Municipal
Court, and from four to five in the Orange County Harbo
Municipal Court.
The number of judges in the Stockton Municipal Court
will be increased from four to five. The changes made
by this bill become effective January 7. 1975.
AB 4222 - Warren
Provides for 171 judges in the Los Angeles Superior
Chapter 1311
Court. The bill decreases from 68 to 58 the number
of court commissioners in the Los Angeles Superior
Court.
The bill also increases the number of judges in the
Sacramento Superior Court from 15 to 18. The changes
made by this bill become effective January 7. 1975.
AB 4234 - Wood
Increases the number of municipal court judges in the
Chapter 1312
City of Salinas from two to three. The bill becomes
effective January 7. 1975.
B 4300 - Wilson
Increases the number of municipal court judges in the
hapter 1313
El Cajon Judicial District of San Diego from four
to five. The bill becomes effective on January 7.
1975.
AB 4408 (Quimby)
Adds two judges to the San Bernardino County Municipal
Chapter 1314
Court District.
The bill becomes operative on January 7, 1975.
SB 612 Bradley
Increases the number of superior court judges in Santa
Chapter
1296
Clara County from 24 to 26. The changes made by this
bill become effective January 1, 1975.
SB 1540 - Beilenson
Specifically authorizes minors who have attained
Chapter 1292
age of 15 to consent to donation of blood with
parental consent. The bill becomes effective
immediately.
SB 1731 - Dills
Increase the number of judges in Compton Municipal
Chapter 1297
Court District from a total of five to six and the
Culver Municipal Court District from one to two.
The bill becomes effective on January 7. 1975.
SB 1959 (Carpenter)
Increases the number of judges in the Superior Court
Chapter 1298
of Orange County from 31 to 33. Effective 1-7-75
SB 1962 - Rodda
Provides that the Trustees of the California State
Chapter
1288
University and Colleges may, authorize expenditures,
commencing with spring semester or winter quarter of
the 1974-75 academic year, necessitating a student
material and services fee in excess of $136 but not
more than $144. The bill becomes effective immediate
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SB 2033 (Ayala)
Increases the number of municipal court judges in
Chapter 1299
the El Cajon Judicial District in San Diego County
from 4 to 5.
The bill creates the Chino Division of the San
Bernardino County Municipal Court District and pro-
vides the division with one judge.
The bill also increases the number of judges in the
Valley Division of San Bernardino County Municipal
Court District from 1 to 2, and West Valley Division
from 3 to 4. Effective 1-7-75.
B 2050 (Zenovich)
Increases number of municipal court judges in Fresno
Chapter 1300
Judicial District from six to seven. Effective 7-75
SB 2057 (Berryhill)
SB 2057 increases the number of judges in the
Chapter 1301
Stanislaus County Superior Court from five to six.
The bill also changes the compensation and positions
of personnel in the municipal courts of Monterey
County. Effective 1-7-75.
SB 2099 (Ayala)
Increases the number of superior court judges from
Chapter 1302
14 to 15 in San Bernardino County. Effective 1-7-75.
SB 2115 (Stull)
Increases the number of municipal court judges in
Chapter 1303
the North County Judicial District of San Diego
County from five to six.
The bill also changes the compensation, privileges,
and benefits of various personnel of municipal courts
in San Diego County. Effective -7-75.
SB 2364 Robbins
Makes various technical changes and revises obsolete cross-
Chapter 1289
references in statutes enumerating certain narcotic offenses
conviction of which will a ffect the rights of persons to
enter upon or continue in employment in the public schools,
and the rights of persons to issuance of and in continuing
to hold credentials and certifications for public school
service. The changes made by this bill become effective
January 1, 1975.
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RELEASE
Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-26-74
#539
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that he has signed the following bills:
AB Ralph
Repeals requirements for registration of labor camps and
Chapter 1344
substitutes mandatory permit system for operation of such
camps. The bill provides for the suspension of a permit
if any provision of act or any regulation adopted pursuant
thereto is violated by permitholder. The changes made
by this bill become effective January 1. 1975.
AB 638 (McCarthy)
Makes it a ground for revocation of a license or
Chapter 1345
permit for any skilled nursing facility, nonmedical
or intermediate care facility or administrator of
such facility to obtain as an additional cost of
care or fail to deliver to an aid recipient his
allowance for personal and incidental needs.
Appropriates $91,000 to the Office of Aging to pro-
vide the nonfederal share of local matching funds
for nutrition programs serving ethnic and elderly
poor persons.
AB 1163 - Murphy
Authorizes the governing board maintaining a community
Chapter 1346
college to impose a required fee for prescribed
transportation services upon all students and employ-
ees or only upon all students at a community college
campus for a two-year period, upon favorable vote at
prescribed election. The bill becomes effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 1165 - Vasconcellos
Authorizes local governing boards of school districts
Chapter
1347
and community colleges to maintain classes on
Saturdays andSundays. The changes in the bill become
effective January 1, 1975.
AB 1345 - Knox
Provides that construction contracts of public
apter 1348
agencies shall not require the contractor to be
responsible for damage proximately caused by an
act of God in excess of 5 percent of the contract
amount provided that work is build in accordance
with specified standards. The bill provides that
"acts of God" for such purposes includes only
earthquakes of specified magnitude and tidal waves.
The changes made by this bill become effective
January 1, 1975.
AB 1650 (Fong)
This bill requires public agencies serving the public
Chapter 1349
or open to the public and maintaining restroom
facilities to provide such restroom facilities at no
cost to the public.
AB 1723 (Deddeh)
Permits legislative body of cities and special
Chapter 1354
districts with a treasury balance of eight million
dollars at the end of the prior fiscal year or
counties with a treasury balance of thirty million
dollars or more at the end of the prior fiscal year
which have money in sinking funds of, or surplus
money in, its treasury not required for immediate
necessities of the local agencies to invest such
moneys in bills of exchange, or time drafts. Specifie
type of bills of exchange, or time drafts in which
such moneys may be invested. Places specified
limitations with respect to investment in bankers
acceptances and excludes municipal utilities districts
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from certain limitations as to the type of invest-
AB 1774 - Dixon
ment permitted.
AB 2194 (Maddy)
Permits real estate brokers to deal in mobilehomes
Chapter 1351
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AB 1774 - Dixon
Provides that any person licensed under the Business
Chapter
1350
and Professions Code shall be subject to disciplinary
action by his licensing agency if, because of an
applicant's race, color, sex, religion, ancestry, or
national origin, he refuses to perform his licensed
activity, aids or incites such refusal by another
licensee, or makes any distinction, discrimination,
or restriction in the performance of has licensed
activity. Specifies that the bill shall not be
interpreted to apply to discrimination by employers
with regard to empoyees or prospective employees and
shall not authorize action against any club licensed
by A.B.C. because of discriminatory membership policies.
The changes made by this bill become effective January
1, 1975.
AB 2202 (Wilson)
Chapter 1352
Provides that a person held in custody in county or
city correctional facility has the right to possess
and use an orthopedic or prosthetic appliance,
except under specified circumstances, if it has been
prescribed or recommended and fitted by a physician.
Provides procedures for court review of decision by
person in charge of facility to remove appliance.
Provides that a person incarcerated in any facility
of the Department of Corrections may retain any
orthopedic or prosthetic appliance unless both a
department physician and the inmate's personal
physician agree that it is no longer needed.
AB 2317 - Ingalls
Requires the Air Resources Board to test and certify
Chapter 1353
stationary air pollutant monitoring devices. The bill
requires the manufacturers of such devices to pay for
the cost of certification. The bill also provides
that if a local air pollution control district requires
the installation of stationary devices only certified
devices may be used. Provides a system of reporting
violations of emission standards by users of the
devices. The changes made by this bill become
effective January 1, 1975.
AB 2710 - Bannai
Expands provisions of the Electronic and Appliance
Chapter
1355
Repair Dealer Registration Law to include service
dealers who engage in the business of installing,
repairing, servicing, or maintaining television or
radio receiver antennas or rotators which are located
on or adjacent to a residence. The bill also excludes
the sale of equipment from the provision which prohibits
a service dealer from making the compensation of an
employee or other specified persons dependent upon the
value of parts replaced in any equipment. The changes
made by this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 2777 (Chacon)
Authorizes a private school and a bona fide employer
Chapter 1356
to jointly advertise in "help wanted" columns of
magazines, newspapers, or other publications if
specified conditions are met.
AB 2874 -- Dunlap
Exempts all persons employed by the Department
Chapter 1357
of Corrections in a permanent, temporary, part-
time, or intermittent capacity after July 1, 1973,
but before January 1, 1974, from the 35-year maximum
age limitation for participation in open examinations.
The bill takes effect immediately.
B 2880 - Bee
Provides for an alternativeprocedure for the disposi-
wapter 1358
tion of surplus school property.
AB 2940 -- Boatwright
Changes the amounts payable under an optional provision
Chapter 1359
of the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 for
survivor's allowances upon death of members before
retirement. The changes made by this bill become effective
January 1, 1975.
AB 2969 - Dixon
Authorizes the governing board of any school district
Chapter 1360
to deduct, without charge, from salary or wage payment
due any classified employee requested amount for dues
in, or other services provided by, prescribed organi-
zations of which he is a member and consisting in
whole or in part of district employees. The changes
made by this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
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AB 3016 (Thomas)
Authorizes the governing board of the Los Angeles
Chapter
1361
Unified School District, the City of Los Angeles, and
the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to form a
joint powers agency for financing, construction, and
operation of an all-purpose recreational stadium and
center in the harbor area of Los Angeles County,
specifically authorizing the joint powers agency to
issue revenue bonds to finance such construction.
Specifies composition of joint powers governing body.
Authorizes board of supervisors to create county serv-
ice area, subject to consent of city council and
governing board, in area prescribed by joint powers
agency.
Authorizes the levy and collection of taxes in the
county service area for operation and maintenance of
the stadium and center; such tax being subject to
voter approval. Prohibits the joint powers agency
from undertaking any financing or construction of the
stadium and center unless and until such tax is
approved by the voters.
AB 3173 - Chappie
Extends the deadline for preparation and adoption of
Chapter 1363
seismic safety, noise, safety, and scenic highway
element) of general plan by counties with a population
of 100,000 or less to December 31, 1976.
The bill becomes effective immediately.
AB 3197 - MacDonald
Permits, with the concurrence of the Director of the
Chapter 1364
State Department of Health, the total transfer of en-
vironmental health and sanitation services to a com-
rehensive environmental agency of the county or
district other than the Public Health Agency by action
of the board of supervisors or district health board.
The bill requires that minimal State Department of
Health standards are observed and programs are main-
tained at levels of quality and efficiency equal to
or higher than in former organization structure.
The bill becomes effective January 1. 1975.
AB 3265 (Arnett)
Deletes requirements for issuance of certificate of
Chapter 1365
rehabilitation and pardon that, among other things,
the applicant file notice of intention to apply for
such certificate and agree to peace officer
supervisor.
Makes period of rehabilitation for purposes of
issuance of such certificate run from time of dis-
charge from custody due to the defendant's completion
of the term to which he was sentenced or release on
parole, whichever is sooner, rather than from time
of filing of notice of intention.
AB 3282 -- MacDonald
Amends the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937
Chapter 1366
to provide optional alternative methods of accounting
where debt securities which are a part of the System's
portfolio are sold. The changes made by this bill become
effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3339 (Brown)
Permits school district governing boards and Trustees
Chapter 1367
of CSUC to establish rules and regulations which
allow certificated and academic employees to reduce
their workload from full-time to part-time duties.
Permits members of the State Teachers' Retirement
System who are at least 55 years of age and are
part-time employees to have retirement benefits
based on full-time employment if the employee and
the employer both elect to make contributions required
for full-time employment; permits some retirement
benefits for CSUC academic employees who are members
of the Public Employees' Retirement System.
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AB 3436 - Z'berg
Provides that it is state policy that the workday
Chapter 1368
of state employees shall be 8 hours. Makes related
changes. Provides that the State Personnel Board
may provide for payment of overtime in designated
classes. Specifically makes policy re workday and
workweek applicable to employees of California State
University and Colleges and authorizes trustees to
provide for payment of overtime in designated classes.
The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 3439 (Z'berg)
Provides that where order granting or denying motion
Chapter 1369
for change of venue where the motion is made on the
grounds the action was not commenced in the proper
court, the court may, as specified, order reasonable
expenses and attorney's fees to prevailing party, to
be paid whether or not the party awarded such expenses
and fees is otherwise entitled to recover his costs of
action. Provides that as between the party and his
attorney, such expenses and fees are the personal
liability of the attorney not chargeable to the party.
Where motion is granted prohibits further prosecution
until such expenses and attorney's fees, as well as
costs and fees of transfer of action, are paid by
plaintiff. If not paid within 30 days of service of
notice of order changing place of trial, provides for
discretionary dismissal without prejudice on specified
condition, upon noticed motion by any party.
Repeals provision authorizing any party to pay costs
and fees of transfer where action is commenced in
court not having jurisdiction and then be entitled to
credit therefor or recovery thereof.
Repeals provision requiring mandatory dismissal after
one year where action not originally commenced in
proper court, and which has been ordered transferred
to proper court and fees and costs have not been paid.
Prohibits voluntary dismissal of action upon request o
plaintiff where there is pending a motion for change
of venue on the grounds the action was not commenced
in the proper court.
AB 3491 - Fong
Permits local agencies to make payroll deductions for
Chapter 1370
legal expense insurance. The bill becomes effective
on January 1, 1975.
AB 3582 - Chacon
Permits, in a city of 500,000 persons or more, as wel
Chapter 1371
as in a county of 4,000,000 persons or more, a.
community redevelopment agency to finance, acquire,
and construct a transportation collection and dis-
tribution system & perípheral parking facilities to
serve the redevelopment project and surrounding areas
by issuance of bonds or otherwise.
Requires that the agency, in order to exercise the
powers granted by this provision, enter into an
agreement with the rapid transit district. The bill
becomes effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3664 (Dunlap)
Requires Public Employees' Retirement System to pay
Chapter 1362
members' specified expenses of transportation, meals,
and lodging incident to reporting for a medical
examination requested by the board of administration
on initial application for disability retirement if
the member is required to travel more than 50 miles.
8 3673 - Deddeh
Defines "prevailing wage," for the purposes of
Chapter 1372
janitorial or custodial labor contracts of public
utilities, as the wage determined by the Bureau of
Labor Statistics in the United States Department of
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Labor. The changes made by this bill become effective
AB 3694 - Foran
January 1, 1975.
AB 3738--Cline
Provides that the State Department of Health shall permit
Chapter 1374
a nurse anesthetist to bill independently for services
rendered by such anesthetist. Requires the department, if
an anesthetist chooses to bill independently, to make payment
for such services directly to the anesthetist. The changes
made by this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
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AB 3694 (Foran)
snacts San Francisco Bay AI Transportation Terminal
Chapter 1373
Authority Act.
Prescribes organization, government, powers, duties
and functions of the authority, and inthis connection,
authorizes the authority to acquire, construct, and
operate certain facilities to issue revenue bonds,
and to collect fees, rents and other charges.
Appropriates $75,000 to Department of Transportation
for support of authority.
AB 3748 (Arnett)
Revises the maximum number of program improvements
Chapter 1375
schools which may be established in the state.
Permits school districts under specified circumstances
to release the names and addresses of high school
seniors to colleges, universities and private schools.
Permits a single ballot measure to authorize con-
struction on more than one site or for more than
one building.
Permits county boards of supervisors to levy a tax
for child development centers in those districts
which have contracted with the county superintendent
to maintain a program.
Removes the limitation that contracts for pupil
transportation be renewed at an annual rate not to
exceed five percent.
Revises the procedures whereby elementary school
districts in counties exceeding 7,000 square miles
may be permitted to withdraw from the junior high
school system of junior high schools maintained by
a high school district.
Provides that a school district educating children in
a hospital operated by a city or county for the actual
costs of educating children (less state aid).
AB 3848 - Badham
Authorizes a California water district to issue
Chapter 1376
general obligation bonds where the proceeds are to be
used to construct facilities in compliance with an
order adopted by the State Department of Health pur-
suant to specified provisions, and the bonds to be
sold have been approved by the State Treasurer in
accordance with the provisions of the Districts
Securities Law, without regard to specified election
procedures, and specifies that such bonds shall be
secured by unlimited ad valorem assessments on land
in the district without regard to any property tax
rate limitations. Provides for termination of pro-
ceedings upon written protests by 50% or more of the
voters of the district or owners of 50% or more of
the assessed valuation of the district. Authorizes
a California water district to issue general obliga-
tion bonds of a district or for an improvement distri
thereof the principal amount of which does not exceed
the then unissued balance of the principal amount
of bonds authorized pursuant to specified provision
without a vote of the electors, or without a further
hearing, in accordance with specified conditions.
The bill becomes effective immediately.
.B 3850 - Mobley
Requires, rather than permits, a school district which
Chapter 1377
because of reorganization or boundary changes, is to
maintain a school formerly maintained by another school
district, to employ the probationary certificated
employees employed at such school by the other distric
unless such employees are terminated in accordance wit
prescribed procedures. The changes made by this bill
become effective January 1, 1975.
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AB 3937 Boatwright
Provides that payment by a contracting agency of the
Chapter
1378
Public Employees' Retirement System of employer
contributions and any other amounts for employer paid
benefits shall not be construed as receipt of salary by
an elective officer for purposes of statutory salary
limitations. The bill provides that any amounts paid by
a city for retirement, health and welfare, and federal
social security benefits shall not be included for deter-
mining salary under provision limiting city council
salaries. The changes made by this bill become effective
January 1, 1975.
AB 3963 -- Montoya
Amends the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937
Chapter 1379
to permit board of supervisors in counties which have
adopted specified retirement programs to adopt a decrease
in the member contribution rate. The changes made by
this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 4054 (McAlister)
Provides that absence from state service because of
Chapter
1380
illness arising out of and in the course of employ-
ment and which is certified by the Workmen's Compen-
sation Appeals Board and for which the employee was
not compensated is "public service" for purposes of
receipt of service credit in the Public Employees'
Retirement System.
AB 4093 - Russell
Declares that provisions of the Multistate Tax Compact
Chapter
1381
pertaining to allocation and apportionment of income
be construed as reenactment of specified existing law
without any inference of change.
The bill requires the state's member on the Multi-
state Tax Commission to consult with, and follow
policy guidelines of, the Multistate Tax Advisory
Committee on matters of tax policy.
The bill creates a Multistate Tax Advisory Committee
consisting of Attorney General, Controller, a member
of Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee and a
member of Ways and Means Committee appointed by the
Assembly Speaker, a member of Senate Revenue and
Taxation Committee and a member of Finance Committee
appointed by the Senate Rules Committee, and the Dir-
ector of Finance. The bill becomes effective on
January 1, 1975.
AB 4118 Dixon
Amends the State Teachers' Retirement Law to make the
Chapter 1382
provision permitting members to receive up to four
years of service credit for time served on or after
July 1, 1972, as an elected offical of an educational
association. The changes made by this bill become
effective January 1, 1975.
AB 4149 - Knox
Authorizes local agencies to modify or change
Chapter 1383
requirements contained in regulations adopted pur-
suant to prescribed provisions of the State Housing
Law if they make a finding re use of temporary hous-
ing in conjunction with mining claims on federally
owned property and that the modification or change
would be in the public interest and consistent with
the intent of the so-called Federal Mining Act of
1872. The bill becomes effective January 1, 1975.
A 4157 (Montoya)
Revises the definition of "displaced person" as used
Chapter 1384
in provisions relating to the payment of relocation
assistance for displacement caused by governmental
action, to specifically include within such definition
persons displacedas a result of an owner participation
agreement or on acquisition carried out by a private
person for or in connection with a public use where
a public entity is otherwise empowered to acquire the
property to carry out the public use.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced he has signed legislation
to protect and better inform Spanish-speaking Californians.
Both measures (SB 2066-Carpenter and AB 2797-Alatorre) require
that certain notices and legal documents be printed in Spanish as
well as English.
"I am particularly pleased to sign these bills into law, " the
governor said, "because they provide needed protection for a large
segment of Californians.
"It is a disheartening fact of life that some of the state's
Spanish-speaking citizens have not received the full benefits due
them because of their inability to fully understand English. These
two bills will go a long way in correcting that problem."
Senate Bill 2066 requires assessors in counties having 10 percent
or more Spanish-surname or Spanish-speaking persons, according to
the latest federal decennial census, to send notices relating to
the homeowners' property tax exemption and senior citizens property
tax assistance to homeowners in both English and Spanish. The bill
also authorizes assessors in other counties to send the notices in
Spanish if they wish to do SO.
AB 2797
The other measure
requires consumer contracts to be made
available in both Spanish and English when they are drawn by persons
engaged in a trade or business conducted primarily in Spanish.
Violation of the law makes the contract voidable at the option of
the consumer.
The bills also provide for the Department of Consumer Affairs
to approve Spanish-translated contractual forms.
Both bills become effective January 1, 1975.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-26-74
#541
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation (SB 2264-Moscone)
to upgrade and expand education opportunities for California's
Indian population.
The measure, which became law with the governor's signature,
calls for the establishment of 10 California Indian Education Centers,
seven of which will be in rural settings. The primary function of
the centers will be to provide tutorial and other supportive services
for Indian students in all grades.
"These centers will be patterned after the successful Owens
Valley Indian Education Center in Bishop, California," the governor
said, "and I am hopeful that they will be equally successful.
"The Bishop facility has reduced the dropout rate among Indian
students from 40 to 10 percent; has increased the average elementary
student's achievement in reading and math by one full year, and has
increased itsstudents' high school achievement by one half year.
"This is an outstanding record and the concept deserves a trial
on a statewide basis."
The Centers established by the bill will be designed to:
-Improve academic achievement of Indian students with particular
emphasis on reading and mathematics.
--Increase employment of Indian adults.
--Provide coordinated programs with public schools.
--Provide adult classes and activities.
--Provide college-related training programs for prospective
Indian teachers.
The bill appropriates $400,000 for 1974-75.
California's State Board of Education will be required to adopt
guidelines for the selection and administration of the centers. They
will be open to any tribal group or incorporated Indian association
in the state.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD EAGAN
RELEASE:
mediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-26-74
#542
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have been signed:
AB 4178 - Keene
Specifies that the fact that a mature cock's comb
Chapter 1385
has been clipped to a length of three-quarters of
one inch or less, instead of being clipped to an
unspecified length, shall be prima facie evidence of
intention to use or engage such cock in an exhibition
of fighting in violation of misdemeanor provisions.
The changes made by this bill become effective January
1, 1975.
AB 4180 (Keysor)
Establishes regular election date in May of each
Chapter 1386
odd-numbered year. Deletes certain local elections
from requirement regarding the establishment of
election dates.
AB 4181 - Bannai
Provides that any state member of the Public
Chapter 1387
Employees' Retirement System other than a school
member may elect to be included in the 1959 survivor
benefit program whether or not such person made a
previous election not to be included. The bill
becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 4185 - Papan
Raises from 3 to 5 percent per year the maximum
Chapter 1388
allowable cost-of-living increase authorized for
allowances of county employee retirement systems.
The bill becomes effective immediately.
AB 4214- Garcia
Changes from 150 to 131 the number of days which must
Chapter
1389
intervene between adoption of a proposal by the Legislature
and its submission to the people at a statewide election.
The bill changes the time limits relating to the submission
of ballot measure arguments to the Secretary of State.
The changes made by this bill become effective January 1,
1975.
AB 4223 - Wilson
Provides, if contracting agencies 80 elect, that cost-of-
Chapter
1390
living adjustments for local members of the Public Employees'
Reitrement System shall be limited to increase in monthly
allowance of 5% per year, rather than 2%. Makes related
change where contract terminated. The bill permits receipt
of sick leave credit in retirement system established under
the County Employees Reitrement Law of 1937 in any county
of the third class if board of supervisors so provide. The
changes made by this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
AB 4270 (Knox)
Establishes procedure for consolidation of two or more
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counties. Provides that consolidation may be initiate
by petition by electors or resolution of the board of
supervisors of an affected county. Provides for
appointment by Governor of County Consolidation Review
Commission to review and make various determinations
respecting consolidation. Provides for election with
respect to consolidation.
AB 4271 (Knox)
Repeals present procedure for creation of new counties
Chapter 1392
and substitutes procedure, initiated by petition of
registered electors, whereby hearings be conducted
and specified determinations made by a County Forma-
tion Review Commission before elections on the
question of creation of a new county.
4272 (Knox)
Provides procedure for alteration of boundary lines
Chapter 1393
between counties. Provides that such alteration may
be initiated by petition by electors or resolution
of the legislative body of an affected county or city
within an affected county. Provides for appointment
by Governor of County Boundary Review Commission to
review and make various determinations respecting
boundary changes. Provides for election in the
territory proposed to be transferred with respect to
boundary changes involving inhabited territory and
permits owners of real property to request that their
property be excluded from the territory proposed to
be transferred.
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AB 4298 Wilson
Permits boards of supervisors to increase maximum annual
Chapter 1394
allowance for service-connected disability from 50% to
60, 70, 80, or 90% of a totally disabled member's final
compensation. The changes made by this bill become
effective January 1, 1975.
AB 4370 (Alatorre)
Requires that the State Personnel Board provide to the
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State Fair Employment Practice Commission a copy of
each affirmative action plan adopted by each state
agency, and an annual statistical survey setting forth
specified information concerning the employment of
each state agency.
Requires that every local agency provide to the State
Fair Employment Practice Commission a copy of any
affirmative action plan which adopts, and a copy of
any annual statistical survey of the employment of
the agency which it is required to submit to the U.S.
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Declares such reports and information to be public
records.
AB 4424 (Knox)
Permits grand juries to hire experts and expend a
Chapter 1396
sum not to exceed $30,000 per year on the experts
for the purpose of investigating fiscal matters,
and requires the grand jury to file its report
within a stated time.
AB 4487 - Keene
Specifies procedure by which police department of a
Chapter 1397
city or district with 10 or fewer sworn law enforcement
officers may apply to Commission on Peace Officer
Standards and Training and receive a permit authorizing
a newly employed policeman after January 1, 1975, to
have peace officer powers for up to 6 months without
first completing training otherwise required by law.
Specifies provision shall cease to have effect after
January 1, 1976. The changes made by this bill become
effective January 1, 1975.
B 47 Dills
Permits contracting agencies of the Public Employees'
Chapter 1315
Retirement System to independently elect permis sive
benefits for various categories of membership. The changes
made by this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
SB 514 (Biddle)
Requires every clerk of a court, or judge if there is
Chapter 1316
no clerk, to report to the Department of Motor Vehicles
as specified, conviction of persons who have violated
a specified provision of the Vehicle Code relating
to the modification of exhaust systems and mufflers so
as to emit noise above a specified level, and opera-
tion of motor vehicles with such modified exhaust
systems.
SB 1206 Stiern
Provides that the board of retirement of a system established
Chapter 1317
pursuant to the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937
may permit the county auditor to forego specified certification
requirement concerning compensation paid members. The
changes made by this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
SB 1467 Song
Eliminates the maximum age limit for starting Correctional
Chapter 1318
Counselors and Parole Agents. The changes made by this
bill become effective January 1, 1975.
SB 1476 - Nejedly
Directs the Public Utilities Commission to establish
pter 1319
priorities of electricity and gas usage and among
customers of electrical and gas corporations in the
order of greatest public benefit and need, as speci-
fied, and to order service temporarily reduced during
any shortage, as specified, in accordance with such
priorities. Requires the commission to establish no
such priority which would cause any reduction in
transmission of gas to this state pursuant to federal
rule, order, or regulation. Authorizes the commission
to require electrical or gas corporations to provide
mutual assistance during fuel shortage conditions.
Declares that no such corporation which reduces or
discontinues service pursuant to an order of the
commission shall be liable for any damages caused
thereby. The bill becomes effective immediately.
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SB 1557
or
Way
Provides that local miscellaneous and local safety
Chapter
1320
members who are employees of contracting agencies of
the Public Employees' Retirement System shall receive
credit for unused days of sick leave at retirement if
their employer so elects by amending present contracts
or inclusion in new contracts. Provides that retire-
ment allowances of such employees whose retirement or
death before retirement occurred after January 1, 1974,
shall be adjusted to include such credit. Permits
contracting agencies, as well as state agencies, to
employ retired members to perform essential medical or
dental services. The bill takes effect immediately.
1767 - Way
Revises provisions generally regulating denial, sus-
napter 1321
pension, and revocation of licenses by licensing
boards under regulation of theBusiness and Professions
Code, among other things to delete the lack of good
moral character, or similar ground relating to appli-
cant's character, as a ground of denial of license.
The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 1775 - Grunsky
Amends the Public Employees' Retirement Law to include
Chapter 1322
within the definition of dependent children, for
purposes of the special death benefit, for safety
members, full-time students under age 22.
The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 1858 -- Song
Provides that designated newsmen cannot be adjudged in
Chapter 1323
contempt for refusing to disclose any unpublished information
obtained or prepared in gathering, receiving or processing
of information for communication to the public. The changes
made by this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
SB 1918 -- Nejedly
Permits counties to provide the same services as a mosquito
Chapter 1324
abatement district or vector control district within both
the unincorporated and incorporated territory of the county,
but requires that before exercising such authority within
an incorporated territory the consent of the city C ouncil
first be obtained, that a public hearing be held by the board
of supervisors on such proposals, and that notice of such
hearing be given in a specified manner. The changes made
by this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
SB 1963 (Mills)
Requires an operator, other than a city and county
Chapter
1325
with a population of 700,000 or more, to expend at
least 15%, rather than at least 75%, of the funds it
receives for public transportation purposes under
the Mills-Alquist-Deddeh Act for capital expenditures.
The bill retains the 75% requirement as to an operator
which, on January 1, 1975, is a city and county with
a population of 700,000 or more.
The bill further exempts from the above requirement,
during any fiscal year, any operator receiving local
financial assistance, exclusive of fares, in that
fiscal year in an amount equal to or greater than the
amount specified in the above requirement.
SB 1997 - Deukmejia
Transfers the California Job Creation Program Board
Chapter
1326
from the Department of Employment Development to
the Business and Transportation Agency and substitutes
the Secretary of Business and Transportation for the
Secretary of the Health and Welfare Agency on the
membership of that board. The bill takes effect
immediately.
2053 - Kennick
Requires Board of Administration of the Public Employe
Chapter 1327
Retirement System to pay state members, other than
school members, who deferred retirement, specified
benefits that would have accrued because of change in
retirement allowance computation as of July 1, 1971,
and provides that such persons' retirement shall be
made effective on July 14 1971, or 63rd birthday.
The changes made by this bill become effective January
1975.
SB 2088 - Song
Increases the maximum annual membership fees which
Chapter 1328
may be fixed by the Board of Governors of the State
Bar. The bill becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
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SB 2103 (Dymally)
Revises law with respect to enforcement of orders
Chapter 1329
under the Family Law Act, including providing that
earnings, income, or accumulations of either spouse,
while living separate and apart from other spouse
which would have been community property if the
spouse had not been living separate and apart from
the other spouse shall be first resorted to in
enforcement of any order for support.
SB 2140 - Biddle
Delays the implementation of year-round motor vehicle
Chapter 1330
registration one year. The bill becomes effective
immediately.
2144 (Zenovich)
Deletes from the requirement of 15 years of service
Chapter
1331
as a teacher, for appointment of an individual with-
out a supervisory or administrative credential to an
administrative or supervisory position, the requirement
that all such service be in the public schools of
California, but retains the requirement of 10 years
of teaching service with the appointing district.
SB 2155 - Petris
Excepts Larkspur and Greenbrae Boardwalks from juris-
Chapter 1332
diction of the San Francisco Bay Area Development
Commission.
Authorizes the City of Emeryville to operate a ferry
system between that city and the City and County of
San Francisco if (a) approval is obtained from the
Metropobitan Transportation Commission and (b)
either the required consent of the holders of out-
standing revenue bonds secured by the revenues in
the Revenue Fund of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay
Bridge is obtained or it is established that such
operation is not prohibited by the provisions of any
outstanding bond indenture. The bill becomes
effective on January 1975.
SB 2243 - Roberti
Deletes exemption for individuals, agencies, associa-
Chapter 1333
tions and corporations not organized for profit or
gain and for organizations and associations exempt
from federal income taxation pursuant to prescribed
provisions of federal, from provisions (1) prohibiting
specified referrals and recommendations for medical
care or treatment for profit and (2) prohibiting any
physician, hospital, health-related facility, or
dispensary from entering into a contract or agreement
to accept for medical care or treatment any person
referred or recommended by a medical referral service
in another state if such business would be prohibited
under specified provisions relating to medical refer-
ral services in this. state. The bill becomes effec-
tive on January 1, 1975.
SB 2283 - Petris
Declares it is the policy of the state that holders
Chapter 1334
of M.D. and D.O. degrees shall be accorded equal
professional status and privileges as licensed
physicians and surgeons. With a specified exception
for medical schools, prohibits prescribed health
facilities, the state, and local governmental entities
from discriminating, with respect to employment, staff
privileges, or the provision of professional services,
against a licensed physician and surgeon on the basis
of whether the physician and surgeon holds a D.O. or
M.D. degree. The bill authorizes the district attorney
in a county in which a violation of such provisions
occurs to bring an action to enjoin the violation,
upon receipt of a complaint by an aggrieved physician
and surgeon. The changes made by this bill become
effective January 1, 1975.
SB 2303 - Carpenter
Ratifies California's membership to the Interstate
Chapter 1335
Oil Compact Commission. The bill appropriates
$27,000 from the Petroleum and Gas Fund for main-
taining the State's membership until August 31, 1975.
SB 2343 - Short
Provides that a section of the California Inter-
Chapter 1336
scholastic Federation is a public agency for purposes
of the Public Employees' Retirement System. The change
made by this bill become effective January 1, 1975.
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SB 2377 Stull
Provides that if a member of the Public Employees'
Chapter 1337
Retirement System who is an academic employee of the
California State University and Colleges dies while on
leave with pay, or within 12 months following such a
leave, during which he received less than full compensation,
his death benefit shall be based upon full compensation
earnable by him when not on leave with pay. Extends such
provision to members dying on or after January 1, 1973.
The changes made by this bill become effective January 1,
1975.
"B 2392 (Whetmore)
Specifies that court shall revoke decree or judgment
hapter 1338
for spousal support upon proof that party ordered to
be paid support is living with person of opposite
sex under designated circumstances. Provides for
mandatory restitution of such moneys received from
onset of living together.
SB 2396 Behr
Requires state and local agencies disposing of surplus
Chapter 1339
real property to notify any housing authority in the
county where the property is located, in writing, of tts
intent to dispose of the property, and to offer to sell
the property to such authority or authorities at fa r
market value. The changes made by this bill become
effective January 1, 1975.
SB 2410- Nejedly
Provides that the vacation or abandonment of any street
Chapter 1340
or highway shall extinguish all public easements therein,
except as to a local agency as specified.
SB 2422 (Alquist)
Revises the Public Resources Code to require cities
Chapter 1341
and counties to charge a reasonable fee to an
applicant for a site approval for a proposed new real
estate development or structure for human occupancy
located within a special studies zone delineated
pursuant to the Alquist-Priolo Geologic Hazard Zones
Act rather than requiring such fee for a building
permit according to a fee schedule established by
by State Mining and Geology Board.
SB 2452 - Zenovich
Removes single story buildings or structures, housing
Chapter 1342
6 or less normal ambulatory aged persons, if said
structures are included in an institutional occupancy
from the requirement of installing an automatic
sprinkler system in these buildings. In lieu of the
sprinkler system, this bill requires a specified type
of State Fire Marshal fire detection and alarm system
The bill becomes effective immediately.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-26-74
#543
State Public Utilities Commissioner John P. Vukasin, Jr., today
was appointed by Governor Ronald Reagan to the Superior Court bench
in Alameda County.
The 46-year-old native of Oakland will be paid $40,322 annually.
He replaces retired Superior Judge William J. McGuiness.
Vukasin has been a PUC member since 1969 and was its president
for two years.
In making the announcement, Governor Reagan noted that Vukasin
left a thriving private law practice of 11 years to serve in state
government and thanked the appointee for his dedication and hard
work for the people of California.
"John exhibited legal ability, fairness, courage and integrity
and handled the challenging PUC position with distinction in a very
difficult time, the governor said.
Governor Reagan's evaluation was concurred in by the State Bar's
board of governors and Alameda County's judicial appointment evaluating
committee, both of which found Vukasin fully qualified.
"I appreciate his service and wish him well in serving the
people of Alameda County, the governor said.
Vukasin, a 1950 graduate of the University of California who
earned his law degree from UC's Boalt Hall School of Law six years
later, began his legal career as a trial attorney for the state
Division of Highways in 1956. He spent two years in the U.S. Army as
an instructor in political science, psychological warfare and military
intelligence.
The appointee was a visiting professor at California State College,
Hayward, teaching business law for one year. Among his many
memberships are the state Bar, American and Alameda County bar
associations and the American Arbitration Association.
Vukasin is a Republican.
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-26-74
#544
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation (SB 1471)
requiring the state Department of Motor Vehicles to suspend the
driving privileges of uninsured vehicle owners or drivers who
cannot prove their ability to pay for damages of more than $250
resulting from an accident.
The bill, authored by Senator Clark Bradley (R-San Jose) would
require an uninsured motorist to file proof of ability to pay damages
for a period of three years.
"Figures compiled by the DMV show that the percentage of
insured motorists has declined by 14 percent over the past six years
to the point that, today, only 78 percent of the state's motorists
are insured,' the governor said. "And the situation is getting worse,
since the number of uninsured motorists over the past year and a half
have risen about one percent each month. I find this deplorable."
In conjunction with the filing of an accident report when
property damage exceeds $250 or personal injury is involved, a
motorist under SB 1471 must prove he had insurance coverage or similar
protection. If no such proof is forthcoming, the motorist then has
60 days in which to obtain coverage and provide proof to the DMV.
The new law calls for a minimum of insurance coverage: $15,000
for one person, $30,000 for one accident with respect to personal
injuries and $5,000 for a single accident resulting in property damage.
"I am especially pleased to sign this bill because it relieves
the DMV from holding costly hearings to determine who was at fault
before suspending a license as the result of an accident, " Governor
Reagan said. "This will result in an annual savings to the taxpayers
of $2.6 million just for the cost of the approximately 20,000 hearings
that have been necessary each year.'
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-26-74
#545
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced he has signed--with a great
deal of reluctance--legislation (SB 1966-Mills) extending the one-half
cent sales and use tax in San Francisco, Alameda and Contra Costa counties
to support the financially troubled Bay Area Rapid Transit District.
The special and so-called temporary tax, first imposed April 4, 1970,
will be extended to December 31, 1977. The tax is estimated to generate
$34 to $40 million a year.
"Although I have signed this bill I am very concerned that it did
not include a provision for a direct vote of the people of the counties
involved to determine if they want to be saddled with this additional tax
for years into the future," the governor said.
"A recent management audit of BART by an independent firm, Cresap,
McCormick and Paget, concluded that 'BART is far from a stable, well-
prepared subject for this management audit
existing budgeting systems
and procedures are cumbersome or lacking.'
"There exists the real possibility that BART's deficits will continue
indefinitely, yet it was sold originally to the people of San Francisco,
Alameda and Contra Costa counties as a system that would be self-sufficient.
"I believe that the people should reserve the right to determine
themselves whether they want additional taxes. This bill would have been
far better had it included a provision for a vote of the people. This
deficiency should be corrected by subsequent legislation in the next
session of the legislature.
"Had I not signed this bill, the immediate losers would have been
the 100,000 Bay Area residents who depend on the BART trains each day
for their transportation.
"My signature should not be considered as an endorsement of either
the BART management, or the legislature's method of handling this problem,"
the governor concluded.
In addition to extending the one-half cent tax, the bill directs the
legislative analyst to monitor management of the BART system during the
life of the tax and to develop long-range financing alternatives for BART
and other public transit operators in the area.
BART officials had warned that unless the temporary tax was extended
they would have to close down the system October 1 of this year because
of an operating deficit.
The boards of supervisors, local governments in the three BART counties
and numerous individuals urged the governor to sign the bill.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-26-74
#546
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed SB 1521 (Alquist) which
will prohibit the sale or installation of new residential-type gas
appliances equipped with a pilot light after January 1, 1977, or two
years after an alternative to the pilot light has been certified,
whichever is later.
The bill also directs the state Energy Resources Conservation
and Development Commission to develop no later than January 1, 1976
specifications for one alternative, intermittent ignition device.
After testing alternatives, the commission may determine there is
no feasible alternative or that pilot lights are necessary for health
and safety.
Intermittent ignition devices already are available on gas
dryers. They perform the same essential safety function as a pilot
light, but do not consume gas when the appliance is turned off.
"With a 30 percent shortage in natural gas for residential use
projected for within the next eight years, it behooves all of us to
look for ways to conserve our natural resources, the governor said.
"Since we are told that between 10 and 15 percent of the residential
gas consumed is attributable to pilot lights, the signing of this
measure will help reduce the consumers' utility bills. As the
increased cost of appliances equipped with the ignition devices
should not be substantial, I believe this to be a way all of us can
reduce the need for, and thus conserve, natural gas for other purposes. "
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
9-26-74
#547
Governor Ronald Reagan today again appealed to leaders of the
striking Southern California Transit Unions to submit alternative
solutions to a secret membership vote as a means of ending the current
strike.
Governor Reagan said his review of the 46-day-old strike convinced
him that there were two positive options open to striking employees:
--to return to work and accept RTD's offers;
--to return to work and submit any remaining differences to binding
arbitration.
The governor said the third option would be for union leadership to
consider asking their members to "vote to continue the 46-day strike
indefinitely. A strike whose most disastrous effects are on the low
income, the handicapped, the elderly and school children.
"Today also marks the eighth day the personal representative of the
mayor of Los Angeles has been working with all parties in an attempt to
reach an agreement that would permit the resumption of public transpor-
tation services," Governor Reagan said.
"In spite of his efforts," he said, "the chasm between union demands
and RTD's ability to meet them remains."
The governor said he had learned that the Los Angeles Board of
Supervisors had called for a reorganization of the Southern California
Rapid Transit District earlier this week.
"Such actions are not the way to handle disastrous strikes disrupting
vital public services," the governor said.
He said the Southern California Rapid District had "conducted itself
in a reasonable and prudent fashion and should not be punished for attempt-
ing to represent the public interest in the face of demands by the unions."
"The real reason for this strike," he said, "is that union leaders
have refused to submit district offers to their membership for a vote." "
He said a vote by the union rank and file on proposals already put
forth by the transit district was "the traditional democratic way to
let union members decide the courses of action they believe would bring
a settlement to the strike."
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He said the district's offer of an increase of more than 10 percent
compares favorably with increases granted other southland employees.
"The union memberships should long ago have had the opportunity to
decide the issues for themselves," the governor declared.
For this reason, he said, he again offered the services of the
State Conciliation Service to assist in conducting secret balloting on
the offers in the event other bargaining avenues should fail.
On September 5, during the fourth week of the walkout, Governor
Reagan issued an appeal calling on striking union leaders to submit the
district's offers to their membership. This offer was rejected.
The Southern California Rapid Transit District is an agency of the
state. The RTD's 3,300 drivers, represented by the United Transportation
Union, and the district's 728 mechanics, represented by the Amalgamated
Transit Union, walked off their jobs last August 12, bringing an immediate
halt to RTD's bus service in four southern California counties.
The transit district has made offers for an economic settlement far
in excess of recommendations by Governor Reagan's Fact Finding Commission.
The parties remain far apart.
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Walthall