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Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
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Collection: Reagan, Ronald: Gubernatorial Papers,
1966-74: Press Unit
Folder Title: Press Releases -
09/01/1970-09/17/1970
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento® Californi
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
9-1-70
#423
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Michael R. Salter
of Clearlake Highlands to fill an unexpired term on the board of the
49th District Agricultural Association (Lake County Fair).
Salter, manager of a title guaranty company, a past president
of the Clearlake Chamber of Commerce and a director of the Lake County
Chamber of Commerce, succeeds John A. Olson of Clearlake Highlands,
who has resigned. The unexpired term ends on January 15, 1971.
Salter, a Republican, lives on Memory Lane in Clearlake
Highlands.
Members of the board receive necessary expenses.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immadiate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
9-1-70
#424
Governor Ronald Reagan today named M. C. (Keith) Keithley
of La Mesa and Samuel M. Levin of Berkeley to three-year-terms on the
California Advisory Board to the Bureau of Employment Agencies in the
Department of Professional and Vocational Standards.
Keithley, who is active in civic affairs, is the owner and
manager of a San Diego employment agency and a past president of the
California Employment Agencies Association. He will succeed Terry G.
Feil of Sacramento, whose term has expired, as an industry representative
on the board. His home is at 10167 Grandview Drive, La Mesa.
Levin, who operates two employment agencies in Oakland,
also has been active in the California Employment Agencies Association
and the National Employment Association. He succeeds Harry A. Prophet of
Los Gatos, whose term has expired, as an industry representative on
the board. Levin lives at 7121 Norfolk Road, Berkeley.
Keithley is a Republican. Levin is a Democrat.
Members of the board are paid per diem and expenses.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
9-1-70
#425
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointment of
Dr. W. Ballentine Henley, Provost of the California College of Medicine
at the University of California (Irvine) to a four-year-term as a member
of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, subject to
Senate confirmation.
A noted educator and civic leader, Dr. Henley holds four
academic degrees and four honorary degrees and is active in numerous
civic and professional groups including the American and Los Angeles
County Bar Associations and the State Bar of California. He also is
a member of two hospital boards, the Los Angeles YMCA and the Los
Angeles Area Welfare Association Board of Advisors.
He lives at 1224 Geneva Street, Glendale. He is a Republican.
Members of the commission receive necessary travel expenses.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californi
Contact:
Paul Bec..
445-4571
9-1-70
#426
Governor Ronald Reagan today proclaimed September 3, 1970
as International Goodwill and Friendship Day in California. Text
of Proclamation follows:
"WHEREAS, California has been deeply honored to be selected as the
site for the historic state visit of our President,
Richard M. Nixon, and President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz of the
Republic of Mexico; and
"WHEREAS, International friendship depends on the warm relations of
good neighbors; and
"WHEREAS, The United States of America, under the leadership of our
President, Richard M. Nixon, seeks to mutually preserve and
extend our social, economic and cultural relationship with
our close fiiends of the Republic of Mexico; and
"WHEREAS, The event of this historic state visit is the second such
meeting in the history of the United States of America to be
held outside of our nation's capitol, Washington, D. C.,
"NOW THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA, do hereby
proclaim September 3, 1970, as INTERNATIONAL GOODWILL AND FRIENDSHIP
DAY in California, and extend our warmest welcome to our distinguished
and honored guests from both sides of the border, and express our
warmest wishes to President and Mrs. Richard M. Nixon and our good
friends President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz and Mrs. Guadalupe de Nasta of
the Republic of Mexico."
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
9-1-70
#427
Thomas A. Young, a college student and former student body
president at Shasta College in Redding, was appointed to a four-year
term on the Scenic Highway Advisory Committee today by Governor Ronald
Reagan.
Governor Reagan also announced the appointment of Stanislaus
County Supervisor James Franzen of Newman and the reappointment of
Samuel W. Bridgers, Los Angeles landscape architect and conservationist,
to four-year terms on the committee.
In announcing Young's appointment, the governor called him
typical of the many responsible students throughout the state who
"have by deed and dedication demonstrated that they have a valuable
contribution to make in shaping state policy."
Young, 26, who lives at New Trails Ranch at French Gulch, will
enter California State Polytechnic College this fall. A June graduate
of Shasta College, he served as student body president during the
Spring term and student body vice president in the Fall of 1969.
Active in service and community projects, he worked during
the summer as an advisor at a camp for emotionally handicapped
youngsters.
Franzen, 54, a member of the Stanislaus County Board of
Supervisors for the past 14 years, has been active in numerous
conservation and highway beautification groups. He lives at 901
Orestimba Road in Newman. He succeeds Robert W. Boles of Hathaway Pines,
who has resigned.
Bridgers, 50, a past president of the California Council
of Landscape Architects and a Fellow of the American Society of
Landscape Architects, is active in the Los Angeles Beautiful Horticultural
Committee and the Los Angeles County Museum Association. He lives at
4539 Gloria Avenue, Encino.
All three appointees are Republicans. They will receive
necessary expenses as committee members.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
MEMO TO THF PRESS
Sacramento, Califor a
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
9-3-70
There will be a bill signing ceremony (AB 73 - Veysey) in
the Governor's Office at 11:15 a.m. tomorrow, September 4.
Press coverage is invited.
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Immediately following the bill signing, Assemblyman George
Milias (R-Gilroy) who is accepting the statewide chairmanship of the
campaign to pass Proposition 20 on the November ballot-will join
Governor Reagan for a picture. Photo coverage invited.
Assemblyman Milias is expected to have a press release on his
acceptance of the campaign chairmanship.
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OFFICE OF THE GOV. JOR
RELEASE:
mmediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
9-4-70
#428
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills
have been signed:
AB 252 - Breene, B. Permits certain community services districts to
(Chapter 790)
levy taxes for the 1970-71 fiscal year for certain
improvement district purposes if a statement of
formation of such improvement district and map
or plat required by law are filed on or before
August 1, 1970.
AB 1340 - Burke
Appropriates $1,367,503 from Motor Vehicle Fund to
(Chapter 791)
the Department of Motor Vehicles for support of
driver improvement and control program for
negligent drivers.
SB 35 - Nejedly
Revises provisions which authorize a local
(Chapter 792)
authority to designate specified places for
combined use of golf carts and regular vehicular
traffic to allow such use in a real estate
development offering golf facilities. The bill
specifies that local authorities may establish speed
limits and other operating standards but may not
establish equipment, registration, or licensing
requirements.
SB 61 - Grunsky
Adds a portion of State Highway Route 46 from
(Chapter 793)
Route 1 near Cambria to Route 101 near Paso Robles
to the state scenic highway system.
SB 80 - Carrell
Provides that a person arrested without a warrant
(Chapter 794)
and released without charge before November 10, 1969
may request and shall, if records are available,
receive a certificate of detention.
SB
81
-
Lagomarsino Provides that mussels may be taken for commercial
(Chapter 795)
purposes only in accordance with such regulations
as the Fish and Game Commission may prescribe,
rather than be taken at any time.
SB 84 - Nejedly
Increases the felony punishment with respect to
(Chapter 796)
assault with a deadly weapon from not exceeding
10 years to six months to life, and where a peace
officer or fireman is the victim, with respect to
a defendant not previously convicted of a felony,
from not exceeding 15 years to six months to life.
SB 122 - Nejedly
Permits a county to appoint or contract for the
(Chapter 797)
services of an assessment hearing officer to
conduct hearings on assessment protests and
recommend action to either county boards of
equalization or assessment appeals boards.
SB 153 - Lagomarsino
Changes the responsibilities of the Department of
(Chapter 798)
Fish and Game with respect to the investigation an
gathering of data and information concerning marine
resources.
SB 161 - Lagomarsino
Includes prevention of damage to life, health,
(Chapter 799)
property, and natural resources among various
specifically mentioned objectives the State Oil
and Gas Supervisor is required to attain when he
supervises oil and gas operations in the state.
SB 178 - Alquist
Authorizes the California State College Trustees
(Chapter 800)
to acquire property and to construct student health
centers. The Trustees are to prescribe such fees
as may be necessary in whole or in part for such
projects.
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SB 256 - Burgener
Transfers the powers and duties of the Chief Clerk
(Chapter 801)
of the Assembly and the Secretary of the Senate with
respect to legislative advocates, to the Joint
Rules Committee.
SB 258 - Marler
Requires the Director of Agriculture by regulation
(Chapter 802)
to establish conditions for movement of female
dairy cattle to prevent outbreaks of brucellosis.
The bill deletes the provision that an owner or
other person that is in charge of any calf is not
obligated to pay for any vaccination or marking of
a calf pursuant to the chapter on bovine brucellosis
SB 261 - Rodda
Requires the State Board of Education to prepare
(Chapter 803)
a consolidated application form for use by school
districts making application for appointment of
specialist teachers in reading, including request
for funds under specified federal and state acts.
SB 268 - Cologne
Directs the Reclamation Board to give consideration
(Chapter 804)
to the fish and wildlife, recreation and environment
factors in setting standards for the maintenance and
operation of levees, channels and other flood
control works.
SB 269 - Lagomarsino Amends various Harbors and Navigation Code
(Chapter 805)
provisions relating to the licensing of yacht and
ship brokers.
SB 288 - Lagomarsino
Requires persons in possession of property to
(Chapter 806)
obtain a commercial hunting club license if they
impose any fee for any type of entry or use permit
including renting or leasing of property, which
includes the privilege of taking birds or mammals
on the property if birds or mammals are taken on
such property, except to a licensed commercial
hunting club.
SB 291 - Bradley
Revises the laws relating to the liability of the
(Chapter 807)
owner of real property to persons entering or
using property for various recreational purposes.
The bill also revises the laws excepting public
entities and employees and grantors of public
easement from liability for condition of certain
recreational roads and trails.
SB 298 - Cologne
Requires prior approval by the board of supervisors
(Chapter 808)
or city council and review by the airport land
commission before an application for construction
of any new airport may be submitted to the
appropriate public agency.
SB 306 - Grunsky
Authorizes a magistrate, in lieu of the prescribed
(Chapter 809)
affidavit, to take an oral statement under oath,
which is required to be recorded and transcribed,
and which is deemed to be such affidavit. The
bill requires the magistrate, in any such case, to
certify and file such recorded statement and
transcription. The bill further permits the
magistrate to orally authorize a peace officer to
sign the magistrate's name on a duplicate original
warrant. The duplicate original warrant shall be
deemed a search warrant.
SB 307 - Teale
Provides for felony imprisonment or misdemeanor
(Chapter 810)
sentencing with respect to acts of malicious
mischief to road traffic control signs, notices,
and historical markers which result in injury or
death.
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SB 319 - Whetmore
Relates to the administration of unclaimed
(Chapter 811)
property of estates by the State Controller. It
increases the limit upon the amount a claimant may
obtain, without the necessity of court action,
from $500 to $1,000. It provides that amounts held
for a named distributee may be claimed by such
distributee or his legal guardian or conservator,
without court action, regardless of amount. The
bill further requires that insofar as practical, rea
property or tangible personal property be converted
to money (when there are no known heirs), during
the course of probate before it is transmitted to
the State.
SB 341 - Carrell
Extends indefinitely, instead of limiting until
(Chapter 812)
January 1, 1975, the power of the Department of
Public Works to regulate or enter into agreements
to allow exclusive or preferential use of
freeway lanes for mass public transportation.
SB 343 - Marler
Provides for staggered registration of motorcycles
(Chapter 813)
and motor-driven cycles registered for the first
time after February 28, 1971.
SB 381 - Rodda
Revises the method of making adjustments in state
(Chapter 814)
apportionments for support of special education
schools and classes due to changes in average
daily attendance between reporting periods, to
require apportionments to be adjusted in subsequent
fiscal year, rather than carrying over for credit
or debit the excess or reduction in average daily
attendance. The bill also validates, ratifies,
confirms, and declares legally effective for all
purposes, all actions undertaken by governing
boards of school districts pursuant to provisions
of the Education Code, relating to fire and panic
safety, during the period of July 1, 1969 and
through August 28, 1969.
SB 385 - Burgener
Establishes the Public Service Internship Program
(Chapter 815)
under the State Scholarship and Loan Commission to
provide college students with opportunities to
work and learn in a government atmosphere.
SB 388 - Sherman
Authorizes the Director of the Youth Authority,
(Chapter 816)
from any moneys made available for such purposes,
to allocate funds to local governmental and non-
governmental agencies to share in the cost of
local correctional programs which are partially
financed by federal grants.
SB 392 - Cologne
Prohibits local governmental agencies, as defined,
(Chapter 817)
whose primary function is the control and conserva-
tion of floodwaters, from contracting to provide
engineering or surveying services, except with
another governmental agency whose boundaries encompas
all or a portion of the agency performing the service
or where the agencies have a mutual interest in the
project or area for which the services are to be
performed.
SB 400 - Teale
Deletes the termination date of the statute
(Chapter 818)
requiring the Department of Public Works to
remove snow from that portion of former U. S. Route
40, which has been superseded by the relocation and
construction of Interstate Route 80, commencing at
its intersection with Route 80 near the Donner
Memorial Park.
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SB 465 - Song
Prohibits a person licensed under the Furniture
(Chapter 820
and Bedding Inspection Act from advertising an
article of upholstered furniture or bedding, using
in the advertisement an illustration of an article
that is not the article advertised unless the
illustration is coupled with a statement that the
article advertised is not as illustrated in
designated type size.
SB 469 - Mills
Extends provision for modified service retirement
(Chapter 821)
allowance formula for certain safety members under
a county retirement system established under the
County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 integrated
with Social Security to juvenile hall group
counselors and supervisors if they are included in
safety member provisions and to other safety
members. The bill applies to counties in which
lifeguard personnel are safety members and which
are integrated with Social Security. The bill
also provides reinstatement rights to a member
with more than ten years of service who is "granted
a deferred retirement" in one county and accepts
appointment by a judge or court in another county
if he returns within five years.
SB 498 - Grunsky
Requires that a private day school receive
(Chapter 822)
verification by the attendance supervisor of the
school district that the school has filed an
affidavit or statement of information as required,
before a pupil may be exempted from compulsory
education in a full-time public day school.
SB 509 - Whetmore
Increases the salary and number of various
(Chapter 823)
officers and employees in the Orange County
Municipal Courts. The bill makes specified
deputy marshals eligible for safety membership in
county retirement system.
SB 526 - Carrell
Revises the Vehicle Code provisions relating to
(Chapter 824)
installation of a motor vehicle engine or motor in
a motor vehicle which is identified in a specified
manner and subject to registration under Vehicle
Code, and provisions relating to the assignment of
vehicle identifying numbers.
SB 552 - Lagomarsino
Establishes a Shipping Point Advisory Committee
(Chapter 825)
in the Department of Agriculture.
SB 553 - Carrell
Exempts from the use tax tangible personal property
(Chapter 826)
loaned for purposes of a driver education program,
the loan of car by a retailer to a state college,
University of California, an accredited private
or parochial secondary school for driver training
purposes, or to a veterans hospital or similar
nonprofit facility which provides instruction to
disabled veterans in the operation of specially
equipped motor vehicles. The bill becomes operative
on September 1, 1970.
SB 559 - Sherman
Specifies that it is unlawful for any pedestrian to
(Chapter 827)
fail to obey prescribed traffic control signs,
signals and devices.
SB 592 - Moscone
Requires the statement that is either a part of the
(Chapter 828)
accusation or accompanies the accusation served
upon a respondent in an administrative proceeding
under the Administrative Procedure Act, to advise
the respondent of his right to counsel.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Im ediate
Sacramento, Califor
a
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
9-3-70
#429
Governor Ronald Reagan today expanded efforts by the Department
of Human Resources Development to find jobs for out-of-work aerospace
A
workers in Northern California.
Under the expanded program, office space and telephones will be
made available in HRD offices in San Mateo, Palo Alto and San Jose,
utilizing out-of-work aerospace specialists.
The program drew national attention under the direction of
Gilbert L. Sheffield, director of the Department of Human Resources
Development. Sheffield said, "No one knows as much about aerospace
skills than former aerospace workers. They are applying their know-
ledge and we are providing office space, telephones and the necessary
services to make this enlarged program a success. We are doing whatever
is necessary to assist aerospace specialists to help them in their
search for new employment. The governor of this state has put top
priority on this program."
Sheffield added that the project shouldn't be misinterpreted as
an offer of job openings for aerospace engineers and those in allied
fields, but is a joint government and volunteer effort concentration.
The project "Experience Unlimited" concentrates on the job place-
ment of unemployed professionals and technicians who have been laid
off in aerospace cutbacks in recent months.
The volunteer program, operating in conjunction with HRD offices,
is already under way in Southern California.
Offices now participating in "Experience Unlimited" are:
Fullerton, Norwalk, San Fernando, Los Angeles, San Diego, West Covina,
Van Nuys and Santa Ana.
Sheffield called the aerospace industry a major supporter of
California economy and of critical concern to the governor.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Califo: la
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
9-4-70
#30
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement
upon the signing of AB-73, authored by Assemblyman Victor Veysey:
"The bill I am about to sign can be the key that will open the
doors to a better education for all California young people from
kindergarten through college and the university.
"It will give the public a stronger voice in determining what
our educational goals should be and how we can make them more
responsive to the needs of society in a changing world.
"It will insure closer cooperation between lower and higher
educational institutions and between our state and community colleges,
private colleges and the university.
"It will provide the means for cooperation at every level to
make certain that our elementary and secondary school children will
be properly prepared as they move on to the next phase of their
education.
"It will give the elementary and secondary schools a stronger
voice in determining and developing goals and programs for higher
education.
"And it will give the Coordinating Council for Higher Education
the tools it needs to initiate the much needed reforms in our entire
educational system that we must have to send our children out into
the world, equipped in every way, to meet the challenges that await
them.
"But before I sign, I want to express my personal thanks to
the bill's author, Assemblyman Vic Veysey for guiding this milestone
measure through the legislature."
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RELEASE.
ediate
Sacramento, Califor a
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
9-8-70
#431
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
SB 603 - Danielson
Deletes specific reference to "sheriff,"
Chapter 829
"coroner," "keeper of a jail, and "constable"
for the Penal Code section imposing criminal
sanctions with respect to peace officers
generally refusing to receive or arrest any
person charged with a crime and provides that
any peace officer who has authority to receive
or arrest such person shall be subject to the
section.
SB 608 - Cologne
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Penal
Chapter 830
Code.
SB 617 - Sherman
Provides that motor coaches or buses not under
Chapter 831
jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission,
and not operated by common carriers of passengers
in urban or suburban service, may have maximum
outside width not exceeding 102 inches. The
bill also provides that gross weight on the
rear axle only of a bus shall not exceed 20, 500
pounds rather than imposing such excess weight
limit on specified buses due to specified reasons
SB 623 - Cusanovich
Includes State Highway Route 118 from Route 23
Chapter 832
to DeSoto Avenue near Browns Canyon with the
state scenic highway system.
SB 629 - Coombs
Approves allocation of joint costs of the State
Chapter 833
Water Project to recreation and fish and wildlife
enhancement and the separate recreation land
costs computed as of December 31, 1969.
SB 649 - Nejedly
Provides that in filling professional,
Chapter 834
scientific, administrative, management or
executive positions in the State civil service,
the appointing authority will be authorized to
select from among the eligibles with scores at
one of the three highest ranks on the employment
list.
SB 651 - Cologne
Establishes procedures for the creation of
Chapter 835
trusts of life insurance proceeds and other
similar benefits. It provides for court
supervision of such trusts exempt from normal
requirements of probate administration. The
bill conforms the inheritance tax aspects of
such trusts to those of inter vivos insurance
trusts.
SB 661 - Coombs
Exempts from the truck tax, charges by a person
Chapter 836
for transporting himself, his employees, tools
or equipment in a motor vehicle when such
transportation is incidental to the performance
of specified contracts.
SB 666 - Kennick
Permits the Public Employees' Retirement System
Chapter 837
to enter into agreements for reciprocity of
retirement benefits with any public agency.
SB 674 - Moscone
Authorizes deferment, waiver, or reduction of
Chapter 838
fee imposed in connection with the adoption of
a child through a public agency if necessary
for placement of a hard-to-place child.
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SB 711 Sherman
Provides that the certificate of limited
Chapter 839
partnership may be signed by an attorney in
fact for limited partners and that proof of
unacknowledged personal signature of a limited
partner may be made by a subscribing witness.
The bill also provides recording of such
certificate which on its face appears valid,
creates conclusive presumption of validly
formed limited partnership in favor of bona
fide purchasers or encumbrancers for value.
SB 714 - Sherman
Authorizes use of funds provided by an increase
Chapter 840
in the tax rate required to bring buildings into
conformity with earthquake safety standards for
lease of temporary portable buildings for housin
of pupils displaced by such reconstruction.
The bill is effective until July 1, 1975.
SB 734 - Carrell
Prohibits advertising for sale, sale or use of
Chapter 841
any device designed primarily to reduce the
mileage indicated on the odometer of a motor
vehicle.
SB 743 - Lagomarsino
Deletes the termination date of the statute which
Chapter 842
makes the Arnold-Kennick Juvenile Court Law
inapplicable to a person under 18 years of age
who violates any law of another state defining
crime and thereafter flees into California.
SB 760 - Danielson
Provides that civil liability for any injury to
Chapter 843
the person or property of another caused by the
discharge of a firearm by a minor under the age
of 15 years shall be imputed to a parent or
guardian having custody or control of the minor
for all purposes of civil damages, and imputes
injury to another caused by discharge of a
firearm by minor under age of 15 to parent or
guardian having custody or control of minor for
all purposes of civil damages, under designated
circumstances. The bill limits the amount of
liability to $15,000 for injury or death of one
person as a result of any one occurrence,
$30,000 for injury or death of all persons as a
result of any one concurrence.
SB 769 - Moscone
Requires that on and after one year after
Chapter 844
adoption of standards by the Bureau of Furniture
and Bedding Inspection, but not later than
January 1, 1973, all mattresses sold or offered
for sale shall be made of flame-retardant materia
The bill specifically includes mattresses sold
or offered for sale for use in a hotel, motel,
or other place of public accommodation.
SB 778 - Schmitz
Extends the initiative and referendum provisions
Chapter 845
of the District Election Law to regional agencies
with specified governmental powers.
SB 798 - Beilenson
Requires that written notices of violations of
Chapter 846
city or county parking ordinances be accompanied
by a statement in bold print that payments of
bail may be sent through the mail.
SB 845 - Lagomarsino
Authorizes the governing board of a school
Chapter 847
district to satisfy the required minimum accident
insurance coverage for members of an athletic
team through policies certified by Insurance
Commissioner to be equivalent to the required
coverage.
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SB 846 - Lagomarsino
Extends felony prohibitions, relating to
Chapter 848
narcotics or drugs other than narcotics being
brought into or possessed in specified
custodial facilities or grounds thereof, to
such possession or the bringing of any device,
instrument, or paraphernalia intended to be used
for unlawfully injecting or consuming narcotics
or drugs other than narcotics.
SB 850 - Cologne
Sets forth procedure for the administration of
Chapter 849
inter vivos and other trusts, as defined. The
bill becomes operative on July 1, 1971.
SB 859 - Cologne
Amends the Penal Code to specify that an
Chapter 850
appellate court may remand the cause to a trial
court for further proceedings as may be just
under the circumstances.
SB 866 - Grunsky
Changes the termination date for the granting
Chapter 851
of exemptions to school districts regarding
foreign language instruction by the State
Board of Education from June 30, 1970, to
June 30, 1973.
SB 885 - Burgener
Makes changes in the California Uniform Aircraft
Chapter 852
Financial Responsibility Act of 1968.
SB 918 - Danielson
Impresses a trust on gains or profits made by an
Chapter 853
officer or employee of the state or of a local
public agency who purchases and sells property
whose value has been enhanced by governmental
action of which he has advance knowledge due to
his public office or employment. These provision
are inapplicable to an officer or employee who
purchases property by bid at public sale after
notice as required by law.
SB 922 - Marks
Includes ecological reserves within the
Chapter 854
provisions establishing a rebuttable presumption
that property appropriated for public use for
particular purposes has been appropriated for
best and most necessary public use.
SB 951 - Lagomarsino
Provides that, for purposes of valuing land
Chapter 855
subject to an enforceable restriction relating
to open space, there shall be a rebuttable
presumption that prudent management does not
include recreational use unless actually being
conducted on the property.
SB 973 - Coombs
Reduces from five years to three years the perio
Chapter 856
during which a contractor may renew a license
which has expired because of nonpayment of the
renewal fee.
SB 980 - Petris
Authorizes a regional park district to plan,
Chapter 857
adopt, improve and maintain trails, natural areas
and ecology and open space preserves. The bill
also authorizes the park district board to
submit to the voters proposals to raise the
district tax rate above the statutory maximum.
SB 997 - Mills
Prohibits the Department of Public Works from
Chapter 858
constructing a state highway as a freeway that
will result in the severance or destruction of
an existing major route for pedestrians, bicycles
equestrians, and light motorcycles, unless it
provides a reasonable alternate route for such
traffic or such a route exists. The bill also
directs the Department, in the design of state
freeways, upon specified findings, to incorporate
pedestrian and bicycle facilities along corridors
where such facilities do not exist,
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SB 1008 - Whetmore
Requires county clerks to forward voter
Chapter 859
registration information to the Secretary of
State on or before May 1 and October 1 of each
odd-numbered year. The bill deletes the
requirement for forwarding such information
immediately following cancellation of affidavits
after each general election.
SB 1022 - Coombs
Provides that each county certify the necessary
Chapter 860
right-of-way and submit such documents to
qualify for each successive fiscal year federal-
aid highway funds rather than requiring that the
projects be advertised for successive fiscal
year funds.
SB 1038 - Bradley
Excepts specified examination and other fees and
Chapter 861
charges from computation of the annual filing
statement fee required to be paid to the
Insurance Commissioner by nonprofit hospital
service plan corporations.
SB 1047 - Schrade
Authorizes the Fish and Game Commission to issue
Chapter 862
permits to permit the construction and operation
of an anadromous fish hatchery by a nonprofit
organization under specified conditions.
SB 1062 - Short
Amends the Employment Agency Act to authorize
Chapter 863
the Bureau of Employment Agencies to adopt
regulations specifying the types of premises it
will reject for licensing purposes, rather than
having such premises described by statute.
SB 1063 - Short
States that fee controversies, which do not
Chapter 864
involve a violation of the Employment Agency Act
or the rules and regulations of the Bureau of
Employment Agencies, are not a proper subject
for complaint to the Bureau. The bill also
makes failure to comply with obligations of
contracts or agreements in certain situations
as well as failure to make fee refunds within
10 working days grounds for disciplinary action.
SB 1077 - Lagomarsino
Requires the California Highway Commission to
Chapter 865
include in its report to interested persons and
public agencies, noise impact upon communities
affected as one of the factors considered in
selecting, adopting, and determining the locatic
for a state highway or freeway.
SB 1092 - Sherman
Clarifies the law regulating receipt of any
Chapter 866
partnership property by a limited partner as
collateral security with respect to any claim
against the partnership. The bill prohibits
making of a loan by a limited partner on securit
of partnership property if the assets of the
partnership are insufficient to discharge
liabilities to specified persons.
SB 1105 - Deukmejian
Specifies that a county may appropriate funds
Chapter 867
to establish and maintain youth service bureaus
for the coordination of activities for the
prevention of juvenile delinquency.
SB 1113 - McCarthy
Prevents the commission or board of any harbor
Chapter 868
district, which consists of the entire area of
a county, to incur indebtedness for, or to take
action to obligate the district for, any capital
expenditure of more than $50,000 pending
proceeding to dissolve such district. The bill
shall remain in effect until November 30, 1970.
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SB 1165 - Richardson
Provides that the Fish and Game Commission, in
Chapter 869
cooperation with the agency authorized to manage
the land may prohibit any activity in the
vicinity of watering places for the preservation
and restoration of mountain sheep and other
birds and mammals on public lands. The bill
also provides that the Department of Fish and
Game may enter into agreements with state or
federal agencies controlling public lands for
the purposes of posting such areas.
SB 1182 - Stiern
Revises provisions of Education Code relating
Chapter 870
to community college academic master plans,
master plans for facilities, courses of
instruction, and educational programs.
SB 1194 - Stiern
Exempts veterans from the prohibition against
Chapter 871
receipt of state competitive scholarships by a
person who has attained his 24th birthday. The
bill also provides for the appointment by
Commission of a director, rather than an
executive director.
SB 1202 - Rodda
Provides that the selection made by a school
Chapter 872
district of a state adopted basic textbook shall
remain in force throughout the adoption period
of that textbook. It also permits the State
Board of Education to furnish additional
textbooks in the subject of reading for
kindergarten and grades 1 through 3 where a
typical basic textbook program includes more
than one basic textbook level, representing
progressive levels of learning.
SB 1272 - Way
Provides that under the Gonsalves Milk Pooling
Chapter 873
Act the transfer of the entire pool quota of any
producer shall carry with it to the recipients
the same percentage rather than the same
quantity, of that producer's production base.
SB 1312 - Marler
Requires the California Highway Commission, upon
Chapter 874
selection, adoption, and determination of
location of a state highway or freeway, to
notify all planning agencies and legislative
bodies responsible for adoption of general plans
for physical development in the area affected
by its action. The bill requires such planning
agencies and legislative bodies to revise the
circulation element in their general plans to
reflect action of the Highway Commission within
90 days after receiving notice.
SB 1327 - Burgener
Requires that initial wage proposals of employee
Chapter 875
organizations representing teachers or a
negotiating council be made to public school
employer or governing board thereof at public
meeting, and provides that thereafter such
proposals shall be a public record.
SB 1333 - Petris
Requires the governing board of any school
Chapter 876
district maintaining courses in driver education
and automobile driver training to advise parents
or guardians of participating pupils of their
potential liability under the Vehicle Code and
to inform parents that insurance of the school
district applies only to the liability of the
district and may not apply to the liability of
the parents.
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SB 1413 Marler
Authorizes governing board of any district
Chapter 877
maintaining a junior college, subject to written
approval of the Local Agency Formation Commission
to establish and operate a fire department,
including ambulance rescue and first aid service:
upon any junior college campus governed by it
and located wholly outside any city, fire
protection district or other local agency which
provides fire protection service.
SB 1419 - Teale
Creates the State College Continuing Education
Chapter 878
Revenue Fund and designates such fund the
successor to the State College Extension Program
Revenue Fund. The bill provides for deposit of
revenues from state college summer session and
other self-supporting instructional programs,
as well as revenues from extension programs, in
such fund.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Sydney J. Scott, an
East Oakland barber shop owner, to the State Board of Barber Examiners
in the Department of Professional and Vocational Standards.
Scott, who is active in the Negro business community, was one of
the organizers of the California Barber's Association and is a member of
the East Oakland Business and Professional Men's Association.
He fills the unexpired term of Mrs. Toshiko Yamamoto of Los
Angeles as a journeyman representative on the board. Mrs. Yamamoto,
resigned to accept a paid position with the board. The term expires
on January 15, 1972.
Scott and his wife have three daughters. The family home is at
22589 Byron Street, Hayward.
He is a Republican.
Board members receive $25 per diem while on official duty.
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#433
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Dr. Owen A. Knorr,
director of the California Coordinating Council for Higher Education,
as a member of the Educational Commission of the States.
He succeeds Bishop Francis J. Furey of San Diego on the
commission, which functions to encourage working relationships among
state governors, legislators and educators for the improvement of
education.
Bishop Furey resigned because of his transfer to another state.
Dr. Knorr, 51, a distinguished educator, administrator and
scientist, holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Colorado and
Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the University
of Colorado in biological sciences.
He is a Fellow of the National Science Foundation and is active
in numerous professional organizations including the American Council on
Education, the Association for Higher Education, the Associatjon for
Institutional Research, the American Conference of Academic Deans, the
American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American
Institute of Biological Science.
He is a former Academic Dean of the University of Colorado, a
former director of the Higher Education Programs for the Western
Interstate Commission for Higher Education and a former director of
Higher Education for the State of New York.
He lives at 4630 Chancery Way, Sacramento.
Dr. Knorr is not affiliated with any political party.
As a commissioner, he will receive necessary expenses.
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#434
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointments
of Dr. William K. Eaton, Jr. of Carmichael and Dr. John E. Affeldt of
Whittier to the State Hospital Advisory Board.
Dr. Eaton, administrator of the Community Memorial Hospital in
Sacramento, succeeds Louis P. Funk of Vallejo, whose term has expired,
as a representative of hospital administrators on the board.
Dr. Affeldt, medical director of Los Angeles County Hospitals,
will fill the unexpired term of Miss Margaret J. Wherry of Woodland,
who has resigned. The term ends October 15, 1971. He will represent
hospital administrations on the board.
Dr. Eaton, named to a four-year-term on the board, lives at
5424 Fair Oaks Boulevard, Carmichael.
Dr. Affeldt lives at 9157 South Lindante Drive, Whittier.
Both men are Republicans. Board members receive expenses.
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#435
Governor Ronald Reagan today reappointed Donald E. Blauert,
president and general manager of the Credit Bureaus of Merced, to a
four-year-term on the California Advisory Board of Collection Agencies
in the Department of Professional and Vocational Standards.
Blauert, 54, of 2699 Fourth Avenue, Merced, has served on the
board since 1967. He is a Republican.
Board members are paid per diem and necessary expenses.
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#436
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed C. Martin Wilmarth, Colusa
farmer and civic leader, to the Colusa County Board of Supervisors.
Wilmarth, 55, will succeed Second District Supervisor Sheldon E.
Morris of Grimes who has resigned. Colusa County Supervisors receive
an annual salary of $4,800.
Wilmarth is chairman of the Colusa County Mental Health Advisory
Board, a trustee of the Woodland Memorial Hospital Foundation, a
director of the 44th Agricultural Association District and foreman of
the Colusa County Grand Jury.
He and his wife Frances have two daughters. The family home
is at 400 Roberts Road, Colusa.
Wilmarth is a Republican.
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#437
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Fred J. Morey, Jr., chief administrative officer of San Diego County,
to a three-year-term on the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and
Training, subject to Senate confirmation.
Morey, 52, a Republican, will represent counties on the
commission, succeeding Thurlow M. Heggland of San Diego, whose term
has expired.
A veteran probation officer who has served as a special
consultant to the Philippine government, Morey has served as chief
administrative officer of San Diego County since 1968.
He is president of the Western Governmental Research Association,
a past president of the San Diego Chapter of the American Society for
Public Administration and a member of the Urban Coalition League's
Steering Committee.
He and his wife Mary have four children and two grandchildren.
The family home is at 14249 Pinewood Drive, Del Mar.
Commissioners receive necessary expenses.
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#438
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Assistant Director Donald F. Pinkerton as director of the Department
of Housing and Community Development, subject to Senate confirmation.
Pinkerton, 38, succeeds Charles R. Le Menager in the $25,000 per
year post. Le Menager resigned to enter business in San Diego.
Named by Governor Reagan as a Commissioner of the State
Housing and Community Development Committee in 1969, Pinkerton was
appointed assistant director of the Department in July of this year.
Active in civic and community affairs before he accepted the
state post, Pinkerton is a former mayor and city councilman of Fairfield,
a former president of the Fairfield Suisun Chamber of Commerce, and was
a board member of the Bay Area Transportation Study Committee, the
Bay Area Airport Study Committee and the State Water Quality Control
Committee for the Bay Delta Division.
He was named as the Fairfield Suisun Junior Chamber of Commerce
Young Man of the Year in 1966, the United States Junior Chamber of
Commerce Young Man of the Year in 1967, Outstanding Young Businessman
of 1968 and an Outstanding Young Man of America in 1967.
Pinkerton and his wife Constance have two sons. The family
home is at 1960 Downing Court, Fairfield.
He is a Republican.
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#439
State Human Relations Secretary Lucian Vandegrift said today
that California will appeal the ruling of a federal court judge that
California is out of conformity with federal welfare requirements.
He said the basis of the appeal will be that California is in
compliance with federal law.
"I am both amazed and dismayed that the judge rendered his
decision without hearing the Attorney General's arguments which
show that California is in compliance with federal law.
"I am confident that when the Appellate Court hears the state's
arguments, and examines the procedural irregularities which preceded
the ruling that California's position will prevail, Vandegrift said.
"I am particularly disappointed that the court refused to
allow the state to exhaust its administrative remedies before
issuing its ruling," he said.
The decision to appeal has been communicated to Attorney General
Thomas C. Lynch so that proceedings can be instituted immediately.
Vandegrift said:
"California has already been assured by the U. S. Department of
Health Education and Welfare (HEW), that the state need not increase
the size of its welfare grants.
"In fact, California already leads the nation in the amount of
social services provided by the taxpayers for welfare recipients
and leads 35 other states in average payments to AFDC (Aid to Families
with Dependent Children) recipients. California is also a national
leader in Aid to the Blind, Old Age Assistanct, and Aid to the Disabled.
"Only a vast welfare bureaucracy intent on perpetuating itself
and its own interests--without regard to the legitimate interests
of the taxpayers--could allow itself to somehow accept the notion that
a state SO generous to the truly needy could be out of conformity.
"The fact is, the whole conformity issue boils down to a matter
of technical and procedural differences--semantics--which have little
if any relationship to the real issues-of helping those who truly
need public assistance.
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"We have already told the federal government in a brief which,
coincidentally, was filed today with Federal Hearing Examiner J. Andrew
Brooks that the continued insistence by HEW on complicated
arithmetical computations, in the name of conformity, is nothing more
than bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo--indeed, a wasteful exercise in
administrative paper work.
"California is not in violation of federal law, even though the
self-serving welfare bureaucracy would seek to make it appear that
way. Statements to the contrary serve not only to confuse
needy welfare recipients, but also the taxpayers of California who
make welfare possible in the first place, and who find it hopelessly
difficult to understand how their ever increasing tax burden could
result in such alledged inadequacy. "
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Governor Reagan is scheduled for office appointments on
Monday, September 14, and Thursday, September 17.
On Friday, September 18, he will attend the Regents meeting in
San Francisco.
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Governor Reagan will sign AB-551-Wakefield, the so-called anti-
bussing bill, at 11 a.m. today in the Governor's Office.
Press coverage is invited.
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#441
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed into law AB-551, Wakefield,
the so-called anti-bussing bill, at a special ceremony in his office.
In a statement at the signing, the governor said:
"Over the past four years, I have had the opportunity to talk with
countless thousands of Californians about the major issues which face us
as a society.
"And, no single issue has produced a greater overall expression of
deep concern from every ethnic segment of our citizenry than that
of forced bussing of school children.
"Judicial rulings intended to force compulsory bussing on parents
and families against their wishes and without their consent have
distressed the vast majority of our citizens who strongly oppose racial
discrimination, but who understandably view mandatory bussing as a
ridiculous waste of time and public money, which could seriously undermine
all efforts to improve the quality of our public schools.
"Besides hampering the quality of education our children need and
deserve by siphoning off millions of dollars in school funds which
could otherwise be used for books, new classrooms, teachers and
maintenance forced bussing would also deprive them of the natural
environment of the neighborhood school.
"Indeed, compulsory bussing shatters the very concept of the
neighborhood school as the cornerstone of our educational system.
"Last February, I pledged to the people of California that this
administration would vigorously oppose the forced bussing of school
children by every legal means.
"In line with this policy, I am today signing into law Assembly Bill
551 by Assemblyman Floyd Wakefield of South Gate which prohibits the
governing board of any school district in California from requiring that
any student or pupil be transported for any purpose, or for any reason,
without the permission of the parent or guardian.
"I am aware, of course, that this new law will be immediately
challenged in the courts. In this connection, I do not believe that in
the separation of powers, the judiciary was intended to legislateor run
our public schools. Moreover, the 1964 Civil Rights Act is very explicit
in its denial of compulsory bussing to achieve social balance.
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"Now, I know that there are those who charge that opposing
compulsory bussing is somehow equivalent to encouraging discrimination.
But those who make this charge lack understanding of the real needs of
our children, whatever their race or ethnic background.
"This was best explained to me by a mother who told me that what
she really wanted was a better education for her child in the
neighborhood school he was attending. She said, 'We want teachers to
keep our children in a grade until they learn what they are supposed to
learn in that grade. We want an end to passing them simply because
they 've come to the end of the year.'
"Forced bussing is not a promise of improved education. On the
contrary, it can only promise to jeopardize educational quality by
diverting public funds which would otherwise be used for true
educational purposes.
"Moreover, mandatory bussing could imperil some of the most
innovative and worthwhile projects for minority children ever instituted
in our public schools vital bilingual teaching programs in neighborhood
schools located in Spanish-speaking areas where, for example, youngsters
of Mexican descent are getting special help in resolving language
problems.
"As I said earlier this year, forcing children to be herded onto
buses and carted across town each day away from their familiar home
environments represents a vast and dehumanizing manipulation of school
populations.
"The legislation I am about to sign will go a long way towards
helping to assure that this does not happen."
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Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that he has vetoed SB 945
at the request of its author, Senator Robert Lagomarsino.
"Senator Lagomarsino has informed me that the amendments added
in the closing hours of the legislature went far beyond his original
intent in introducing the bill," the governor said.
"As written, the bill might have provided some interference with
the right of access to public fishing areas, a situation which Senator
Lagomarsino definitely did not intend in his original drafting of the
bill," the governor said.
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#443
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement:
"The importance of agriculture to the economy of California
is unquestioned. The nearly $4.5 billion a year it produces in new
wealth has an impact on the entire state, not just the rural
communities.
"As a consequence, it is of deep concern to me when labor
disturbances interrupt the orderly production and marketing procedures
of this basic industry.
"The current disputes in the produce industry of our coastal
counties has resulted in the loss of millions of dollars worth of
food. It also has meant the loss of wages for workers, many of whom
are innocent victims of the situation.
"And it has meant the loss of business to merchants and others
in the local communities and it has resulted in increased cost for
consumers.
"I have long endorsed the need for adequate national legis-
lation to protect the rights of workers, of growers and the general
public. I have not changed my position in this regard. I still believe
that this is necessary, and I am now working with President Nixon
seeking his support for such legislation.
"I believe we in California should look, also, to our own
legislature for proper laws to restore orderly procedures to our
agriculture-labor relations and to give us the needed rules to prevent
situations such as the one that currently exists in our produce
industry.
"In the meantime I repeat the offer of the State Conciliation
Service to oversee fair elections so that the farm workers can choose
(by secret ballot) whether they want union representation and if so by
what union.
"Their decision should be made without threat or coercion and
with full protection for their inalienable right to such a choice."
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Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
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Governor Reagan will sign five major bills proposed by his
administration Tuesday, at 11:30 a.m. (September 15) in Room A of the
War Memorial Building in Daly City.
On Wednesday, September 16, he will sign four other major pieces
of legislation at 9:45 a.m. in Dressing Room A of the Century Plaza
Hotel in Los Angeles.
Press and photo coverage are invited.
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#444
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement:
"In January I asked the legislature and the citizens of California
to join me in an all-out war against drug abuse. I submitted a
battle plan for that war which would give us the arsenal we need to
drive the drug and narcotics pushers from this state and help get their
victims back on the road to healthy, productive lives.
"Today I am signing six bills which will give us the weapons we need
to reach these objectives. These measures can serve as models for the
entire nation because this is a campaign that must have the cooperation
of every concerned citizen.
"The first bill (AB 219) which was carried by Assemblymen Pete
Wilson, Bill Campbell and others, is the most comprehensive plan in
history to provide intrastate controls on the inventory, shipment and
sale of restricted dangerous drugs.
"It will allow responsible state agencies to follow every shipment
of dangerous drugs from the time it leaves the manufacturer through
various distribution routes to the physician, the pharmacy or
the hospital. And, it will make it possible to pinpoint any individual
or group of individuals who divert the drugs into the illicit market
to be sold to our young people.
"The second bill, (AB 1782) which was carried by Assemblyman
Newt Russell, will go a long way toward helping victims of drug abuse,
particularly young people, back on the path to healthy productive lives.
"This measure requires that in cases where probation is granted to
those convicted of drug possession, the victim will be referred to a
community agency for education or treatment.
"In the case of a minor, if it is deemed necessary by the court,
the parents will also be required to participate in the education and
treatment program. Our State Office of Narcotics and Drug Abuse will
assist local communities in establishing these treatment and
education centers.
"The third bill, (AB 1951) carried by Assemblyman Campbell, will
offer protection to our law enforcement officers and their families.
It will make it illegal to disclose the addresses and phone numbers of
peace officers when the disclosure is intended to harm the officer or
his family or to obstruct justice.
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"It serves notice to disreputable underground newspapers and other
partisans of the so-called "drug culture" that their harassment of, and
obscene threatening phone calls to, the wives and children of peace
officers will cease.
"The fourth bill (AB 2279) by Assemblyman John Stull, will make it
illegal to use California license plates on cars sold in a foreign
country. It will enable customs and narcotics officials to make an
immediate check by computer at the border to make certain that pirated
license plates are not used in smuggling.
"The fifth bill (SB 1396) by Senator Bob Stevens will tighten up
the requirements for oral prescriptions and the possession and purchase
of hypodermic needles.
"The sixth bill (SB 946) by Senator Bob Lagomarsino, will increase
the penalties against those who make a business of pushing narcotics,
dangerous drugs and marijuana if they have been previously convicted
of these crimes.
"Today the people of California are making it absolutely clear to
the pusher, the illegal pill peddler and the drug culture apologist
that--as of now--we are putting you out of business."
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#445
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed into law four key provisions
of the tough Omnibus Clean Air Law he proposed to the legislature last
January.
At a special signing ceremony at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los
Angeles, the Governor said:
"When I became governor I pledged that we would do all we could to
make our skies bluer and our air cleaner.
"I am pleased to say that we are keeping that promise.
"The fact that California's motor vehicle emission standards are the
strictest in the world---and becoming increasingly tougher each year
bears witness to the tremendous progress we are making.
"Last January, I proposed to the legislature the most comprehensive
and far-reaching Omnibus Clean Air Law ever proposed by any state or
nation law to further strengthen California's stringent controls on
smog, and to provide the teeth necessary to enforce them.
"In the next several minutes I will be signing four new sections
of the Omnibus law we sponsored. bills which are stricter, by far, than
any ever imposed by any other state or nation to battle smog.
"Assembly Bills 80 and 81 carried by Assemblyman Pete Schabarum
of Covina---give the California Air Resources Board the power to
significantly alter the chemical makeup of gasoline and reduce the smog-
causing pollutants it spews into the atmosphere from automobile engines.
"AB-80 will enable the state to regulate what are known as
unsaturated hydrocarbons in gasoline. These fumes are heavy contributors
to eye-irritation in smog. The legislation applies to the entire Los
Angeles-South Coast air basin.
"AB-81, which applies throughout California, will permit the state
to regulate the volatility of gasoline. In effect, it will insure that
evaporative smog control systems which are now required on all new cars
sold in California- are operating at full efficiency to prevent the
escape of hydrocarbon fumes into the atmosphere.
"The third bill in our Omnibus Clean Air Law--AB-1 by Assemblyman
Craig Biddle of Riverside---will, for the first time, require the
assembly-line testing of every new car sold in California to assure that
it fully measures up to California's vehicle emission standards.
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"Let me emphasize that this means every new car---not just typical
samples picked at random along the assembly-line.
"This testing must begin no later than January 1, 1972. And,
starting with the 1973 model year, any manufacturer which sells or tries
to sell a new car which does not meet the state's standards will be
subject to a $5,000 fine for each violation.
"Furthermore, the new law empowers the California Highway Patrol to
conduct random roadside tests of smog control systems to help insure that
they are kept in good operating condition after the cars are sold.
"This marks the first time that any state has enacted such stringent
laws for the specific purpose of reducing smog caused by automobiles.
"The last bill---AB-16 by Assemblyman Bill Ketchum of Paso Robles
bans open burning of both solid and liquid waste materials at such
places as garbage and oil dumps, and wrecking yards.
"The legislation also restricts the use of orchard heaters to low-
pollution types and sets up a program for the control of agricultural
waste burning.
"In sum, this bill will not only eliminate a major source of smoke
and unpleasant odors, but will also help to improve air quality in many
areas of the state where open burning has not been regulated in the past.
"Before signing these four bills, let me hasten to emphasize that
they represent only part of our Clean Air Law.
"A few weeks ago, I signed legislation (AB-88) to impose $6,000-a-da
fines on anyone violating cease-and-desist orders issued by air pollution
control agencies; and a measure (SB-505) which requires that smog control
systems on all new cars sold in the state are properly adjusted and
certified for optimum performance prior to the time of sale.
"Time does not permit listing a number of other provisions in our
Clean Air Law which have only recently been enacted. But, it should be
clear to all that we are keeping our pledge to the people of California--
to make our air cleaner and our skies bluer.
"We are well down the road to victory in the battle against smog."
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RELEAS: Immet ite
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
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Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that the following bills
have been signed:
AB 10 - Crown
Requires the governor's budget to be submitted
(Chapter 980)
to the legislature within the first ten days of
each regular legislative session, rather than
within the first 30 days. The bill also
requires the legislature to complete its action
on the budget by June 15 of each year. The
bill becomes operative only if Assembly
Constitutional Amendment No. 9 is approved by
the voters in November.
AB 19 - Porter
Requires metropolitan water districts to pay
(Chapter 981)
fair market value to state for state lands,
rights-of-way, or easements, if the lands in-
volved are school lands, but requires no
compensation to be paid if the lands involved
are other than school lands.
AB 166 - Beverly
Includes in the excluded class of employees for
(Chapter 982)
workmen's compensation purposes, a person per-
forming voluntary service as a ski patrolman
who receives no compensation other than meals
or lodging, as well as such persons who receive
no compensation other than the use of ski tow
or ski lift facilities.
AB 277 - Brown
Provides that a public entity which acquires
(Chapter 983)
property by eminent domain in any city or
county, rather than only in county whose
population exceeds four million, may pay relo-
cation assistance.
AB 332 - Dent
Provides that the survey made of a school
(Chapter 984)
district's accounting controls by a certified
public accountant or public accountant shall
be in accordance with standards prescribed by
the Department of Finance.
AB 343 - Murphy
Provides for payment by the Department of Human
(Chapter 985)
Resources Development of money from the disabil-
ity fund to a claimant for workmen's compensa-
tion temporary disability indemnity benefits
while reconsideration of an order, decision or
award is pending or has been granted by the
Workmen's Compensation Appeals Board. The bill
provides for a lien by the department against
workmen's compensation benefits finally paid
under the board decision.
AB 457 - Chappie
Authorizes the State Allocation Board to make
(Chapter 986)
an additional apportionment or apportionments
for school sites and school buildings for a
period of time in excess of two years after
the original approval without requiring a
district to issue additional bonds where
justified on basis of unavailability of state
bond proceeds for apportionment.
AB 501 - Stacey
Authorizes the transfer of State Lands Division
(Chapter 987)
land at Mt. Saint Helena State Park and Red Rock
Canyon State Park to the Department of Parks
and Recreation for inclusion within the State
Park System. The bill also authorizes the
transfer of State Lands Division lands near
Manchester State Beach, Mendocino County, to
the Department of Parks and Recreation to be
used by that department for exchange with
private shoreline property for inclusion within
Manchester State Beach.
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AB 513 - McGee
Provides, specifically for purposes of either
(Chapter 988)
original or modification domestic relations
proceedings, that in cases where there are no
children and either party has or acquires
separate estate, including income from
employment, sufficient for proper self-support,
no support order shall be made or continued
against the other party.
AB 591 - Wakefield
Permits any person holding a specified unexpired
(Chapter 989)
license for a class D radio station, at the
time he makes application for original or
renewal registration, for any motor vehicle,
rather than only for passenger vehicle, to
apply directly to the Department of Motor
Vehicles for specified special license plates.
The bill also permits any person holding a
specified unexpired amateur radio station
license, at the time he makes application for
original or renewal registration, for any motor
vehicle rather than any vehicle, to apply
directly to the department for special license
plates.
AB 600 - Lewis
Makes a nonsubstantive amendment to provisions
(Chapter 990)
of the Streets and Highways Code relating to
the regulation of junkyards adjacent to Inter-
state and federal-aid primary highways.
AB 902 - ''berg
Rearranges and renumbers provisions of the Outdo
(Chapter 991)
Advertising Act without making any substantive
changes. The bill also revises the permit fee
schedule for advertising structures.
AB 993 - Stacey
Makes changes in the provisions governing loans
(Chapter 992)
from the California Water Fund to local entities
for the construction of water delivery systems.
AB 1015 - Deddeh
Authorizes the Department of Finance upon
(Chaptar 993)
request of a state agency to authorize an
increase in budgeted employees of agency to
allow the agency to replace an employee on
disability leave with pay.
AB 1027 - Campbell
Requires reserves of holders of certificates of
(Chapter 994)
authority entering into life care contracts
for an amount less than the annual amount of
aid to a recipient of aid to the aged, to be
based on the amount of advance deposit amortized
on a five-year basis. The bill requires real
estate reserves by such certificate holders be
based on a percentage of net equity. It also
requires furniture and equipment reserves and
requires a set percentage of reserves to con-
sist of bonds, stocks, and certain accounts and
certificates.
AB 1031 - Duffy
Provides that the Board of Nursing Education and
(Chapter 995)
Nurse Registration and the Board of Vocational
Nurse and Psychiatric Technician Examiners may
provide scholarships, tutorial services, or
counseling services, or grants to cover the cost
of books, uniforms, and transportation for
classroom instruction and clinical experience
to a person, under specified conditions, that
is currently employed or has been employed for
the past year in a nursing occupation pursues
a study program and meets other specified
conditions.
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AB 1052 - Foran
Requires the State Registrar of Vital Statistics
(Chapter 996)
to establish new birth certificate for a minor
born in this state when either of his parents
has name changed by court order or in naturali-
zation proceeding, rather than upon change of
surname of parents by court order or change of
surname of father in naturalization proceeding.
The bill authorizes the parent having custody
and control of a minor child born in this state
who has had his name changed by court order to
file an affidavit of such fact with the registrar
if the other parent is dead or otherwise
unavailable.
AB 1132 - Crandall
Specifies that average daily attendance for all
(Chapter 997)
school districts for summer sessions be credited
in the fiscal year of the last day of the session
AB 1200 - Knox
Extends the date on which the San Francisco Bay
(Chapter 998)
Conservation and Development Commission must
file a resolution fixing boundaries of water-
oriented priority land uses within San Francisco
Bay's "shoreline band," from November 10, 1970
to December 1, 1971.
AB 1221 - Barnes
Amends provisions of the Education Code relat-
(Chapter 999)
ing to the State Teachers' Retirement System.
The bill changes the effective date that survivor
allowances begin to accrue. It provides that
survivors allowances terminate on first day of
month in which terminating condition occurs.
AB 1240 - Wilson
Makes several technical amendments to the law
(Chapter 1000)
relating to the organization of the Department
of Human Resources Development.
AB 1265 - Foran
Declares that a specified provision of the
(Chapter 1001)
provision of the Vehicle Code relating to the
driver of a vehicle yielding right-of-way to a
pedestrian does not relieve the pedestrian
from the duty of using due care. The bill
specifies that such provision and the provision
prohibiting a pedestrian from suddenly leaving
curb or other place of safety and walking or
running into path of vehicle which is so close
as to constitute an immediate hazard do not
relieve the driver from a duty of exercising due
care for safety of the pedestrian within a
marked crosswalk or unmarked crosswalk at an
intersection.
AB 1268 - Karabian
Authorizes the California Job Development
(Chapter 1002)
Corporation Law Executive Board out of any
money appropriated to it, to expend money in
administering the Small Business Assistance Law.
AB 1390 - Beverly
Revises provisions of the Rees-Levering Motor
(Chapter 1003)
Vehicle Sales and Finance Act which define
terms used in that act, prescribe requirements
for conditional sales contracts for the sale of
a motor vehicle, and specifying exceptions and
requirements relating to loans to the buyer and
the seller's assistance to the buyer in obtain-
ing a loan.
AB 1419 - Knox
Provides that, when an abstract of judgment is
(Chapter 1004)
recorded with the county recorder, the judgment
creditor or assignee of record shall, within 30
days after satisfaction by execution or other
means, file or deliver an acknowledgment of
satisfaction in a specified manner or deliver
such acknowledgment to the judgment debtor in a
specified manner. The bill also requires a state
agency which has recorded specified tax lien
certificates with county recorder to record an
acknowledgment of satisfaction within 30 days
after the delinquency is satisfied.
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AB 1455 - Z'berg
Enacts the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, and
(Chapter 1003)
repeals existing state laws on the same subject.
1,B 1485 - Foran
Deletes the Vehicle Code provision requiring an
(Chapter 1007)
additional registration fee of $10 for registra-
tion of specified electric passenger vehicles.
AB 1550 - Veysey
Imposes a 10 percent penalty under the livestock
(Chapter 1005)
in-lieu tax for failure to timely file reports,
as well as a 25 percent penalty for false or
fraudulent reports to evade the tax. It re-
quires livestock owners to make business records
concerning their livestock available to assessors
The bill also declares that the provision that
the livestock in-lieu tax be lowered by the same
percentage as is exempt with respect to assessed
values of business inventories shall not be
applicable in 1970-71 tax year.
AB 1556 - Britschgi
Provides for the imposition of specified monetar
(Chapter 1008)
penalties as well as the suspension or revocation
of a license for the violation of provisions of
the law regulating wine fair trade contracts and
price posting.
AB 1589 - Hayes
Makes clarifying amendments regarding offenses
(Chapter 1009)
subject to the Penal Code and Vehicle Code
penalty assessment provisions.
AB 1598 - Brathwaite
Includes county protective services agencies and
(Chapter 1010)
licensed adoption agencies, in the exceptions to
provisions prohibiting access to written records
concerning any particular pupil enrolled in
school.
AB 1605 - Cory
Allows elementary schools in special programs to
(Chapter 1011)
use supplementary textbooks adopted by the
governing board of a high school district. It
also allows high schools in special programs to
use supplementary textbooks adopted for use in
elementary schools.
AB 1628 - Lanterman
Requires the payment of a $5 fee to the Depart-
(Chapter 1012)
ment of Motor Vehicles before a departmental
mandatory suspension or mandatory revocation of
a person's driving privilege may be terminated
or reinstated. The bill excepts from such pro-
visions suspensions or revocations which have
been set aside by the department or a court.
AB 1646 - Barnes
Raises the maximum semiannual contribution of
(Chapter 1013)
school districts or other agencies employing
one or more members of the State Teachers'
Retirement System to the permanent fund for
administration purposes from $1 to $2 for each
member it employs.
AB 1663 - Bagley
Includes instruments and estates involving, or
(Chapter 1014)
which may involve, a bequest or device for
charitable purpose without an identified legatee,
devisee, or beneficiary in the provisions re-
quiring a specified notice to the Attorney
General for designated purposes.
AB 1671 - McCarthy
Requires the California Highway Patrol to conduct
(Chapter 1015)
a study of motor vehicle thefts and submit a
report and recommendations to the legislature and
to make every effort to obtain federal financial
assistance. The bill appropriates $180,000 for
purpose of conducting the study, providing for
return of an amount equal to any portion funded
by the federal government.
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AB 1687 - Johnson, H.
Prohibits separation for disability of a member
(Chapter 1016)
of a county employees retirement system who is
eligible to retire for disability and requires
the employer to apply for disability retirement
for any member believed to be disabled unless
this is waived by the employee.
AB 1780 - Wood
Requires every producer or producer-handler of
(Chapter 1017)
commercial agricultural crops susceptible to
curly top virus to pay an assessment to the
Director of Agriculture. The bill establishes
a "Beet Leafhopper Control Board" advisory to the
director.
AB 1783 - Russell
Authorizes excuse from physical education classes
(Chapter 1018)
during grades 10, 11 or 12 to participate in
automobile driver training. The bill requires
such students to attend upon a minimum of 7,000
minutes of physical education instruction during
such school year.
AB 1816 - Stull
Requires school districts to file courses of
(Chapter 1019)
study with the county superintendent of schools
if requested by such superintendent, rather
than filing without the necessity of a request.
AB 1832 - Porter
Requires any bona fide association of citizens
(Chapter 1020)
filing a written argument regarding school dis-
tract election measures to include its fictitious
name and the names of its officers. The bill
also requires the fictitious name and names of
officers of bona fide association of citizens
to appear in connection with its argument printed
and distributed to voters by the county super-
intendent of schools or other person conducting
the election.
AB 1898 - Foran
Regulates specified aspects of travel promoters'
(Chapter 1022)
financial operations and advertising.
AB 1923 - Russell
Requires the advisory committee on program and
(Chapter 1023)
cost effectiveness to develop and recommend a
methodology for evaluating the cost effective-
ness of projects financed by Titles I and III
of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
of 1965, the Miller-Unruh Basic Reading Act of
1965 and Chapter 106 of the Statutes of 1966,
First Extraordinary Session. The bill provides
that the advisory committee shall also assist
the State Board of Education in the evaluation
of the program achievement of such projects.
AB 1935 - Schabaram
Revises allowable interest rate on bonds issued
(Chapter 1024)
under the Parking District Law of 1951 from six
percent to seven percent. The bill deletes the
prohibition against selling such bonds at less
than par value, and authorizes selling them at
a discount not to exceed six percent of par
value.
AB 1998 - Murphy
Increases from six percent to eight percent the
(Chapter 1025)
interest rate allowable on revenue bonds
authorized under the University of California
Dormitory Revenue Bond Act of 1947.
AB 2011 - Greene, B.
Authorizes counties to conduct or participate
(Chapter 1026)
in training, education, or rehabilitation pro-
grams of juvenile court wards or adult offenders
through contracts with federal, state or local
public agencies, private persons or corporations.
AB 2059 - 'berg
Authorizes the court to order part or all of
(Chapter 1027)
bail money returned to the defendant or other
person who has paid it if the court determines
that good cause does not exist for surrender
of a defendant who has not failed to appear or
has not violated any order of the court.
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AB 2079 - Knox
Imposes additional requirements on health care
(Chapter 1028)
service plans subject to the provisions of the
Knox-Mills Health Plan Act. The bill provides
that violations of rules and regulations adopted
by the Attorney General shall be deemed a viola-
tion of the act.
AB 2105 - Fong
Requires the Department of Finance, with the
(Chapter 1029)
cooperation of Board of Governors of the Com-
munity Colleges to develop factors and census
days for computation of community college summer
school attendance and attendance of adults.
Prescribes the general formula for computations
and makes technical changes regarding attendance
accounting and computation.
AB 2116 - Duffy
Requires Medi-Cal providers of services to keep
(Chapter 1030)
specified records for three years and authorizes
the Department of Health Care Services to
inspect such records and the facilities of any
provider. The bill authorizes the director to
review and reduce a penalty against a provider
prior to suspension and modifies the administra-
tive adjudication provision concerning the
petition for reinstatement or reduction of
penalty. The bill also requires the Health
Review and Program Council to plan a program
of medical care for all medically indigent
by 1977, rather than 1975.
AB 2136 -- Waxman
Authorizes the legislative body of a city, under
(Chapter 1031)
the Improvement Act of 1911, on its own motion
to order construction of sidewalks and curbs on
lots fronting public streets. The bill requires
a 4/5 vote of the legislative body to overrule
objections and protests.
AB 2152 - Lewis
Authorizes the governing board of any school
(Chapter 1032)
district, including the governing board of a
community college district, to contract for
services of a county hearing officer.
AB 2171 - Russell
Provides that no more than $2,200 of state and
(Chapter 1033)
federal funds may be allocated per trainee for
the in-service and preservice training programs
established pursuant to the Professional Develop-
ment and Program Act of 1968.
AB 2277 - Stull
Requires that when an error has been determined
(Chapter 1034)
in the reporting or payment of a classified
employees' salary, the school district shall
provide the employee with a correct statement
and a supplemental payment within five working
days following the determination. The bill also
specifies that money from the school district
revolving cash fund may be used for the supple-
mental payment.
AB 2327 - Crandall
Redefines the period from 45 days to 45 consec-
(Chapter 1035)
utive calendar days after which a certificated
school employee not under permanent tenure who
has failed to signify his acceptance of a notice
of election or employment offered to him in a
specified manner shall be deemed to have
declined such employment.
AB 2395 - Karabian
Provides that the Department of Fish and Game
(Chapter 1036)
shall inventory threatened birds, mammals, fish,
amphibia, and reptiles of this state biennially,
submit various reports to the governor and
legislature, and establish criteria for
endangered and rare species.
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AB 2408 - Lanterman
Requires each county Short-Doyle fiscal year
(Chapter 1037)
plan to separately specify a five-year projec-
tion of county need for mentally disordered
children.
SB 335 - Mills
Provides that any municipal corporation,
(Chapter 961)
transit district, rapid transit district, or
other public entity which provides rail
passenger transportation services through a
contract with a railroad corporation, may pay
all or part of the share of a grade separation
project allocated to such railroad.
SB 360 - Grunsky
Amends the Family Law Act relating to the
(Chapter 962)
division of property. The bill provides that
property from which a homestead has been
selected shall be subject to the equal division
provisions. Personal injury damages shall be
assigned to the party who suffered the injuries
unless the court in the interest of justice
declares another disposition in which case at
least one-half of such damages shall be assigned
to the party who suffered the injuries.
SB 439 - Sherman
Authorizes the board of supervisors of a county
(Chapter 963)
or the legislative body of a chartered city
which levies and collects its own taxes to
provide by ordinance in any year for the
reassessment of property damaged or destroyed
by a major misfortune or calamity in an area
or region subsequently declared by the governor
to be in a state of disaster, if such damage is
in excess of $1,000. The bill defines "damage"
to include property which has diminished in
value as a result of restricted access where
such diminution in value was caused by the
major misfortune or calamity.
SB 522 - Stiern
Provides that the Director of Compensatory
(Chapter 964)
Education may waive the credential requirement
where it is shown that provisionally credentiale
teachers have been provided through various
specified programs.
SB 537 - Sherman
Permits testamentary dispositions to all unin-
(Chapter 965)
corporated associations, societies, or lodges,
rather than only to religious, benevolent or
fraternal societies, associations, or lodges.
The bill makes the statutes relating to manage-
ment and ownership of property by such societies
and associations applicable to unincorporated
societies and associations generally, rather
than only to unincorporated benevolent or
fraternal societies and associations.
SB 604 - Alquist
Provides that the Superintendent of Public
(Chapter 966)
Instruction may exempt not more than four of
the elementary schools and one junior high
school of a district from the minimum class
size standards and reporting requirements.
SB 640 - Marler
Amends the Agricultural Code to give additional
(Chapter 967)
responsibilities to the Livestock Identification
Advisory Board for the administration of the
cattle protection laws.
SB 730 - Carrell
Authorizes the Department of Public Works to
(Chapter 968)
place and maintain signals and other traffic
control devices along, and perform other works
on, city streets and county roads to control
traffic flow onto or off of state highways. The
bill prohibits placement, maintenance, or displa
upon or in view of highway any light of such
brilliance which impairs vision of drivers on
highway. It also appropriates $35,000 from
State Highway Fund for a restudy of the exten-
sion of Long Beach Freeway through the City of
South Pasadena.
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SB 777 - Schmitz
Deletes existing provisions relating to mobile-
(Chapter 969)
home accommodation structures. The bill estab-
lishes procedures to govern construction and
operation of such structures, including promul-
gation of regulations by both state and local
government and provision for nullification of
state regulations by local appeals boards.
SB 816 - Dymally
Specifies that any licensed adoption agency
(Chapter 970)
having aid for adoption of children pilot
program may continue its adoptive placements
of children in the pilot program until December
31, 1971.
SB 865 - Grunsky
Increases specified fees and charges payable
(Chapter 971)
under the Cemetery Act.
SB 921 - Marks
Provides that if a manufacturer or seller of
(Chapter 972)
goods issues a written warranty or guarantee as
to the condition or quality of goods which re-
quires the buyer to complete and return any
form as proof of purchase, such warranty or
guarantee is not unenforceable solely because
buyer fails to complete or return the form. The
bill specifies that waiver of provision which is
not in writing is void and unenforceable.
SB 974 - Coombs
Provides that in assessing implements of
(Chapter 973)
husbandry, the assessor shall determine the
value of the implements in accordance with
standards and guides to the full cash value.
SB 1087 - Grunsky
Appropriates $100,000 from the special account
(Chapter 974)
derived from revenue from the Hearst San Simeon
Historical Monument for maintenance and capital
outlay at the Hearst Monument.
SB 1176 - Mills
Defines as a club for the purpose of the
(Chapter 975)
Alcoholic Beverage Control Act as any parlor
of the American Citizens' Club which has as the
owner, lessee, or occupant thereof operated an
establishment for fraternal purposes for not
less than three years and which meets other
specified conditions.
SB 1286 - Walsh
Authorizes partial payments of mobilization cost
(Chapter 976)
of contracts under the State Contract Act for
specified percentages of completion of project.
SB 1385 - Cologne
Specifies that, as used in the Penal Code
(Chapter 977)
section making certain loitering a crime,
"loiter" means to delay, linger, or idle about
schools or specified public places without a
lawful purpose for being present.
SB 1392 - Cologne
Prohibits solicitation of contributions or pur-
(Chapter 978)
chases with a representation that the money
received is to be used in whole or part for the
benefit of a school or student body, unless the
solicitor has received prior written approval of
the governing board of the school district,
except that such prohibition is not applicable
when the total proceeds of the solicitation or
a contribution is delivered to a public school.
SB 1422 - Petris
Requires corrected school district assessed valu-
(Chapter 979)
ation levels to be reported to Superintendent
of Public Instruction where the same cannot be
determined for a fiscal year until after April
15, and directs that State School Fund appor-
tionments to a district be appropriately adjusted
in subsequent fiscal years to reflect corrected
allowances for the fiscal year involved. The
bill is applicable only to Alameda County.
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Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
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445-4571
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following
bills have been signed:
AB 4 - Belotti
Includes State Highway Route 254 within state
(Chapter 881)
scenic highway system. The bill also revises
Route 255 to be from Route 101 in Eureka to Route
101 near Arcata via Humboldt Bay Bridge and
the Samoa Peninsula, rather than from Route 101 in
Eureka across Humboldt Bay to the Samoa Peninsula.
AB 50 - Chappie
Provides that the owner or tenant of land may apply
(Chapter 882)
to the Department of Fish and Game for a permit to
kill gray squirrels causing damage to his property
provided no poison may be used, and department shall
designate the type of trap to be used to insure
the most humane method, and may require trapped
squirrels be released in parks and other nonagri-
cultural areas.
AB 146 - Chappie
Appropriates $4,700.41 to the Folsom Lake Bridge
(Chapter 883)
Authority for support in the 1969-70 and 1970-71
fiscal years.
AB 209 - Britschgi
Provides that anyone who voluntarily renders
(Chapter 884)
technical assistance to a public entity to prevent
a fire, explosion or other hazardous occurence at
the request of a duly authorized fire or law
enforcement officer of that public entity to whom
the technical assistance was rendered is deemed
an employee of the entity and is entitled to
receive compensation benefits.
AB 229 - Thomas
Permits the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
(Chapter 885)
to provide that taxes on the secured roll become
due and payable October 1st, rather than October 10t
AB 231 - Murphy
Authorizes removal of any vehicle left standing
(Chapter 886)
upon a highway in such a condition as to create
a hazard to other traffic upon the highway.
AB 262 - McCarthy
Specifies that an application for original
(Chapter 887)
registration of a motorcycle shall contain, in
addition to data presently required, the motor
and frame numbers stamped on the vehicle by the
manufacturer and be accompanied by a tracing of
the motor number. The bill requires the Department
of Motor Vehicles to maintain a cross-index file
of such motor and frame numbers. The bill requires,
in addition to other registration fees, one-dollar
fee on the original registration of motorcycle.
AB 311 - Chappie
Allows a person who possesses a valid certificate
(Chapter 888)
to practice photogrammetry to obtain a certificate
of authority to use the title of consulting
engineer if he makes application and presents
evidence of certain qualifications to the
satisfaction of the Board of Registration for
Professional Engineers.
AB 314 - Briggs
Redefines "employment" for purposes of the
(Chapter 889)
unemployment insurance laws to exclude officers and
directors of corporations where they are the
sole shareholders of the corporations and such
corporation is not subject to the Federal
Unemployment Tax Act.
AB 374 - Mulford
Permits uniformed employees of private investigators
(Chapter 890)
and patrol operators to carry loaded weapons in the
performance of their duties.
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AB 363 - Foran
Creates the Metropolitan Transportation Commission
(Chapter 891)
to provide regional comprehensive transportation
planning for the region comprised of the counties of
Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco,
San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano and Sonoma. The
bill directs the Commission to adopt a regional
transportation plan by June 30, 1973.
AB 384 - Johnson, H. Requires the State Fire Marshal, with the advice of
(Chapter 892)
the State Fire Advisory Board, to prepare and
adopt regulations establishing minimum standards
for prevention of fire and for protection of life
and property against fire and panic in any movie
theatre with capacity of 10 or more persons which
charges an admission fee.
AB 392 - Cory
Authorizes the State Allocation Board, pursuant
(Chapter 893)
to the State School Building Aid Law of 1952 and
under specified conditions grant apportionment
priority to school districts which have sold facili-
ties replaced under a previous application and have
applied resulting proceeds in reduction of prior
apportionments.
AB 408 - Gonsalves
Increases the minimum limit of ability to respond
(Chapter 894)
in damages for licensed transporters of vehicles.
AB 409 - Berryhill
Requires the Department of Public Works or the
(Chapter 895)
State Highway Commission prior to submission of the
quadrennial report to the legislature to notify all
affected cities and counties of recommended deletion
from the State Highway System, and to hold public
hearings.
AB 447 - Ketchum
Makes various changes in the Geology Act, including
(Chapter 896)
providing for the issuance of specialty seals,
providing for a registration fee and renewal fee
for specialty geologist, eliminating the minimum
fees due under the act and making various other
technical changes.
AB 606 - Wilson
Permits the governing body of a city or county
(Chapter 897)
to call upon residents in a housing authority projec
to form project committee considered representative
by the governing body, to consult with such committe
on matters which affect residents at the project.
The bill makes other changes in tenant relationships
with housing authorities.
AB 643 - Murphy
Revises legislative intent relating to regional
(Chapter 898)
occupational centers and the training for immediate
employment in fields of higher skill requirements.
AB 656 - Mobley
Extends from six months to one year the period
(Chapter 899)
after a successful protest under the Municipal
Improvement Act of 1913 within which no further
proceedings may be taken. The bill authorizes the
withdrawal of a protest, in writing, any time
prior to the conclusion of the protest hearing.
AB 663 - Wilson
Allows a joint powers agency in San Diego County to
(Chapter 900)
issue revenue bonds for a public airport and facili-
ties and improvements related thereto. The bill is
effective only until December 31, 1972.
AB 702 - Priolo
Appropriates $150,000 to the Department of
(Chanter 901)
Navigation and Ocean Development from the Harbors
and Watercraft Revolving Fund to conduct independent
economic and technical feasibility studies of local
recreational boating facility funding requests.
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AB 841 - Crandall
Allows the Educational Research Advisory Commission
(Chapter 903)
to provide instruction in Kindergarten and Grades
1 through 3 rather than only Grades 1 through 3.
AB 893 - Townsend
Authorizes governing boards of community college
(Chapter 905)
districts to establish bookstores on district
property and prescribes permissible investments
and expenditures of proceeds from the operation of
a community college bookstore.
AB 932 - Dunlap
Provides that for purposes of the Senior Citizens
(Chapter 906)
Property Tax Law, the provisions requiring proration
of property taxes do not apply, to the extent of
ownership interest in the claimant's homestead by
the claimant and one or more specified relatives of
the claimant or the spouses of such relatives.
AB 934 - Wilson
Includes a Public Housing Authority within the
(Chapter 907)
class of public agencies which do not pay fees for
certain legal transactions.
AB 942 - Duffy
Authorizes a loan program for medical students to be
(Chapter 908)
administered by the Board of Medical Examiners.
The bill appropriates $75,000 from surpluses
accumulated in the contingent fund of the Board of
Medical Examiners for scholarship purposes.
AB 952 - Dunlap
Revises provisions relating to eligibility of
(Chapter 909)
certain junior college districts to award bids for
construction of buildings and facilities contained
in proposed projects approved by the Departments of
Education and Finance, prior to appropriation of
the state's share of funding from the Junior College
Construction Program Bond Act of 1968.
AB 983 - Hayes
Makes a technical, nonsubstantive amendment to a
(Chapter 910)
Code of Civil Procedure section relating to
malpractice actions.
AB 994 - Stacey
Makes changes in the state program to aid in the sale
(Chapter 911)
of bonds issued by local agencies to finance
distribution system projects taking water from the
State Water Project.
AB 1040 - Chappie
Delays the operative date from January 1, 1971 to
(Chapter 912)
December 1, 1971 of aircraft and aircraft engine
noise standard regulations adopted by the Department
of Aeronautics.
AB 1126 - Johnson, H. Exempts from execution, attachment, and garnishment
(Chapter 913)
in bankruptcy proceeding, all moneys in private
retirement plans and private profit-sharing plans
designed and used for retirement purposes, and
prescribed moneys received by any person from such
plans, except for moneys contained in, or received
from, certain self-employed private retirement plans.
AB 1128 - MacDonald
Authorizes the Superior Court in Ventura County to
(Chapter 914)
assign a court commissioner, in addition to other
duties assigned by law, duties prescribed for court
commissioners in counties with population of 900,000
or more and the duties of probate commissioner.
AB 1226 - Brathwaite Authorizes the county treasurer pursuant to prescribe
(Chapter 916)
provisions to deposit, invest, or reinvest any part
of inmate welfare fund not needed for immediate use.
The bill authorizes the sheriff to expend money from
such fund to provide indigent inmates, prior to
release, with essential clothing and transportation
expenses within the county.
AB 1248 - Wilson
Permits the governing bodies of cities and counties
(Chapter 917)
to agree to form area housing authorities, having all
powers of a city or county housing authority under
existing law. The bill prescribes the procedure for
the formation of such area authorities, including
appointment of commissioners.
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AB 1251 - Porter
Makes several clarifying amendments to the
(Chapter 918)
Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act.
AB 1263 - Lanterman
Excludes buildings utilized by adult schools or
(Chapter 919)
community colleges for off-campus, noncredit,
voluntary adult education courses from the
definition of a school building for purposes of
earthquake safety provisions.
AB 1302 - Zenovich
Provides that loans secured by real property
(Chapter 921)
held by a savings and loan association may be
purchased directly from the association by a
pension fund, credit union, labor union fund, or
public employee association.
AB 1326 - Briggs
Provides that the Public Utilities Commission shall,
(Chapter 922)
rather than may, regulate the leasing of motor
vehicles by highway carriers.
AB 1371 - Greene, B. Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Vehicle
(Chapter 923)
Code.
AB 1374 - Greene, B. Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Streets and
(Chapter 924)
Highways Code.
AB 1421 - Badham
Requires any highway permit carrier whose operating
(Chapter 925)
permit is suspended at request of the carrier
to pay to the Public Utilities Commission, for
deposit in the Transportation Rate Fund, a permit
suspension fee of $50.
AB 1458 - Powers
Prevents the use of motor vehicles upon levees,
(Chapter 926)
canal roadways, natural watercourse banks and
pipeline rights-of-way under the maintenance
control of the State or a reclamation, levee,
drainage, or irrigation district or other local
agency without permission. The bill requires that
warning signs be posted indicating that permission
is necessary for public use.
AB 1468 - Johnson
Authorizes certain county waterworks district
(Chapter 927)
contracts to be let under specified conditions
by the county purchasing agent on behalf of the
district.
AB 1472 - Stacey
Amends the Dental Practice Act to provide for
(Chapter 928)
issuance of specialty permits to certain categories
of dental school faculty members.
AB 1479 - Stacey
Excepts specified semitrailers from the vehicle
(Chapter 929)
provisions prohibiting any vehicle from exceeding
40 feet in length.
AB 1526 - Powers
Authorizes county water districts to adopt ordinan-
(Chapter 930)
ces relating to provision of sewer services and regu-
lation of such services, and prescribes manner in
which such ordinances shall become effective. Makes
violation of such ordinances a misdemeanor.
AB 1629 - Lanterman
Establishes a limit of $0.01125 of tax per gallon
(Chapter 931)
on gasoline for State highway administration and
maintenance purposes.
.B 1656 - Gonsalves
Deletes the requirement, for cities in Los Angeles
(Chapter 932)
County, that the city agree to devote land to
public purposes as a condition of release from the
agreement with the county to maintain such land as
park or recreation area. The bill is effective until
December 31, 1971.
AB 1661 - Bagley
Creates an optional bank holiday on Good Friday
(Chapter 933)
commencing at 3:00 p.m.
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AB 1711 - Townsend
Provides no act or omission of any rescue team, as
(Chapter 934)
defined, operating in conjunction with an authorized
emergency vehicle, while attempting to resuscitate
any person in immediate danger of loss of life shall
impose liability upon the rescue team, the owners
or operators of any authorized emergency vehicle,
if good faith is exercised.
AB 1716 - Wilson
Specifies that various tax liens and liens filed with
(Chapter 935)
respect to unemployment compensation shall not be
valid, insofar as a beneficial interest under a
mortgage or deed of trust is concerned, as against
a purchaser of such interest in personal property
for value without actual knowledge of the lien.
The bill applies to liens filed on and after
January 1, 1971.
AB 1745 - Murphy
Provides that if, without sufficient excuse, a
(Chapter 936)
defendant admitted to bail fails to appear when
lawfully requiredb the court has reason to
believe sufficient excuse may exist, the court,
without ordering forfeiture of bail or issuing a
bench warrant, may continue the case for a
reasonable period to enable defendant to appear.
AB 1755 - Briggs
Provides that the Diretors of the Department of
(Chapter 937)
the Youth Authority and the Department of Mental
Hygiene may enter into an agreement whereby persons
committed to the Youth Authority may be transferred
to a state hospital under the control of the
Director of Mental Hygiene for the purpose of care
and treatment in the state hospital.
AB 2276 - Hayes
Excepts uniformed security guards, rather than
(Chapter 938)
building guards, employed by any public agency
from certain prohibitions involving the carrying
of loaded firearms.
AB 1762 - Chappie
Provides for appointment of a proxy for California
(Chapter 939)
water district elections by certification in
accordance with specified procedure, as well as
by acknowledgment. The bill also provides that
a municipal water district may issue bond
anticipation notes for the purposes of an
improvement district.
AB 1778 - Wood
Excepts federal grants made to political subdivisions
(Chapter 940)
from the requirement that all federal grants for
outdoor recreation purposes which result from the
expenditure of state funds under the State Beach,
Park, Recreational, and Historical Facilities Bond
Act of 1964 be deposited to the credit of the State
Beach, Park, Recreational, and Historical
Facilities Fund and specifying that such grants
shall be available when appropriated by the
legislature, for expenditure for specified bond
act purposes.
AB 1784 - Russell
Changes the Controller's role in its review of the
(Chapter 941)
Department of Finance from an annual audit to an
annual analysis.
AB 1855 - Badham
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to
(Chapter 942)
serve copies of its decisions or orders without
charge only upon each party appearing in the
proceeding instead of requiring service upon each
carrier affected. The bill further provides that
the Commission furnish, for a reasonable charge not
to exceed costs, copies of its tariffs, decisions or
orders applicable to each class of transportation
service.
AB 1876 - Berryhill
Changes the termination date of the annual vehicle
(Chapter 943)
registration renewal period from February 4 to the
first Friday in February.
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AB 1984 - Foran
Adds sales tax revenue bonds of transit districts
(Chapter 944)
to permissible investment of savings banks and
to the list of eligible securities for active or
inactive deposits of local agencies. The bill also
allows the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit
District to pledge income from property taxation
to payment of revenue bonds or equipment trust
certificates.
AB 2001 - Moretti
Makes it a misdemeanor to sell intoxicating liquor
(Chapter 945)
within one mile of the grounds of the University of
Santa Clara in the City of Santa Clara.
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Johnson, R. Permits transfer of sick leave and vacation credits
(Chapter 946)
and rights for employees of State College auxiliary
organizations who become State College employees
when an auxiliary function is transferred to a State
College after January 1, 1969.
AB 2052 - Bee
Authorizes the Alameda County Water District to
(Chapter 947)
levy a ground water pumping charge at a different
rate, not to exceed $8 per acre foot, for
agricultural or recreational use than the rate for
water pumped for domestic, municipal or industrial
purposes.
AB 2090 - Hom
Permits any school district to exchange its real
(Chapter 948)
property for the real property of an individual or
other entity.
AB 2157 - Beverly
Revises the law relating to service of process,
(Chapter 949)
notices, and papers with respect to certain insurers,
societies and nonresident insurance agents and
brokers.
AB 2161 - Burke
Permits a school district or a county superintendent
(Chapter 950)
of schools to arrange for transportation of pupils
instructors, and other persons involved in an
outdoor science program in marine science for a
distance not to exceed five miles west of any
California offshore island, aboard a U. S. Coast
Guard approved vessel.
AB 2170 - Russell
Authorizes the Director of General Services with
(Chapter 951)
the approval of the State Public Works Board to
dispose of five parcels of property. The bill
also authorizes the Director to lease two parcels
of property.
AB 2209 - Hayes
Provides that a court may act ex parte on a
(Chapter 952)
petition to establish the fact of death where the
death affects an interest in property of a survivor,
if the petitioner files an affidavit with the
petition stating he has no reason to believe that
there is any opposition to, or contest of, such
petition.
AB 2285 - Campbell
Provides that a determination of protests by a
(Chapter 953)
district board or the results of an election on
a question of annexation or detachment shall be
declared by resolution, and that upon defeat of
a proposal by protest or by the voters at an election
no further proceedings may be taken for a period of
one year.
AB 2308 - Fong
Provides for appointment of school district employ-
(Chapter 954)
ees as notaries public with the costs to be paid by
the school district. Any fees collected by such
notaries are to be remitted to the school district.
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AB 2344 - Johnson, R. Requires irrigation districts utilizing the
(Chapter 955)
optional alternate procedure for district
assessments and collection of assessments by the
county to comply with specified provisions relating
to district boundaries.
AB 2350 - Roberti
Limits the period of time in which any aggrieved
(Chapter 956)
person may petition the State Water Resources
Control Board to review any action or failure to
act by a regional board to 30 days after the action
or failure to act. The bill provides that in case
of failure to act, the 30-day period shall commence
upon refusal of the regional board to act or 60
days after a request to act has been made to the
board.
AB 2377 - Mobley
Amends the Military and Veterans Code to provide
(Chapter 957)
relief from installment payments when enlisted
California Guardsmen are called to state active duty
The bill provides that guardsmen may receive a
one-month extension of time in making loan, contract
or rent payments for each month in which they are
called to active duty for seven days or more.
AB 2409 - Lanterman
Declares legislative intent that special
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consideration be given to children service programs
in funding county Short-Doyle plans to expand
existing programs or to establish new programs.
AB 2430 - Veysey
Revises the legislative declaration, in connection
(Chapter 904)
with setting of minimum standards and guidelines
for educational programs, to encourage local school
districts to develop programs that will best fit
the needs and interests of pupils, pursuant to
stated philosophy, goals, and objectives, rather
than to encourage local districts to develop
programs that will best fit the needs and interests
of pupils.
AB 2459 - Belotti
Deletes the requirement, which was to have become
(Chapter 959)
operative on December 12, 1970, that one member of
Sonoma County Board of Supervisors be appointed as
a director of the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway
District. The bill provides that a Sonoma County
Supervisor may be appointed as a director of the
district.
AB 2527 - Bee
Authorizes a student attending an embalming
(Chapter 960)
college to receive credit for apprenticeship if he
is also a full-time employee of a funeral director.
The bill also authorizes oral as well as written
direction of preparafor, type or place of interment
of one's remains, and specifies that a written
contract for funeral services may only be modified
in writing.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 506 - Alquist
Requires a public school employer to grant its
Chapter 1054
regular classified employees, except substitute,
short-term or limited-term employees, a minimum of
five-sixths of a day per month vacation for each
month in which the employee is in a paid status for
more than one-half of the working days in the month.
The bill provides that such vacation may be taken
at any time during the school year with the approval
of the employer and that if not taken shall
accumulate for use in next year or be paid for, at
the option of governing board.
AB 551 - Wakefield
Prohibits the governing board of a school district
Chapter 1039
from requiring any student or pupil to be
transported for any purpose or for any reason
without the written permission of the parent or
guardian.
AB 1691 - Bee
Reduces from 30,000 to 25,000, the minimum current
Chapter 1040
average daily attendance of a school district
authorized to participate in an experimental year-
round elementary school program. Increases the
authorizedduration of such programs from 2 years to
7 years.
AB 1759 - Chappie
Provides that for purpose of the provision
Chapter 1095
requiring withholding amounts from state
apportionments for special education, expenditures
for equipment for the 1968-69 fiscal year shall be
considered as current expenses of operating a
special class or program.
AB 2385 - Thomas
Authorizes any school district with an average
Chapter 880
daily attendance of 400,000 or more to contract
with the county superintendent of schools or another
school district for the education of physically
handicapped minors, mentally retarded minors, or
educationally handicapped minors.
SB 45 - Nejedly
Deletes the provision disallowing renewal of public
Chapter 1041
assistance warrants, and provides that such
warrants may be renewed the same as other county
warrants. The bill provides that new warrants issue
to replace void warrants are subject to the same
limitations as the original warrants they replace
rather than the limitations of presentation within
six months.
SB 55 - Nejedly
Revises procedure for the reporting of the sales of
Chapter 1042
commercial fertilizers and agricultural minerals to
the Director of Agriculture.
SB 77 - Carrell
Authorizes, after public hearing, a county air
Chapter 1043
pollution control district, with specified exemption
the Board of the Bay Area Air Pollution Control
District and the board of a regional air pollution
control district to adopt rules and regulations to
require every 1955 through 1965 model year motor
vehicle within the district to be equipped with a
certified or accredited device to control emissions
from the crankcase and exhaust.
SB 82 - Carrell
Requires the Department of Public Works to reserve
Chapter 1044
exclusive or preferential lane facilities for mass
transit vehicles in future widening of State Highway
Route 14 from a point near the proposed Palmdale
Airport to Route 5. The bill directs the department
to submit a study to the legislature on methods of
moving people between Los Angeles International
Airport and the Palmdale airport.
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SB 95 - Cologne
Re-enacts, without substantive change, provisions
Chapter 1045
of the Code of Civil Procedure, relating to
depositions in arbiyration proceedings.
SB 278 - Dills
Permits the City of Los Angeles to use specified
Chapter 1046
tidelands and submerged lands that were granted to
that city in trust by state, or to grant franchises
and permits for such lands, for specified purposes,
and provides for the management and control of such
lands and the revenue from such lands.
SB 290 - Bradley
Requires personnel examinations for classified schoo
Chapter 1047
employees be given in at least two independent parts
This limits the oral examination to general fitness
for employment in the class unless specifically
directed to evaluate candidate's technical knowledge
and skills. The bill also requires electronic
recordation of oral examinations, such records are
to be held for 90 days after compiling the eligibili
list.
SB 337 - Rodda
Provides that the President of the California
Chapter 1048
Library Association is a member of the Board of
Library Examiners. Requires the board to maintain
a register of all librarians who meet qualifications
prescribed by the board and a register of qualified library
assistants.
SB 344 - Coombs
Provides that there shall be no adjustment of an
Chapter 1049
underpayment of member contributions to the Public
Employees' Retirement System if the error was
unknown to the member and was not the result of
erroneous information provided by him and the member
seeks such relief within 90 days of discovery of
the error.
SB 379 - Dymally
Provides that the governing board of a school
Chapter 1050
district may request waiver of any provision of the
Education Code for any compensatory education
program if such waiver is necessary to establish
and operate a program for low-income children rather
than for demonstration programs in intensive
instruction in reading and mathematics for low-
achieving pupils only.
SB 386 - Burgener
Specifies that the California Arts Commission may
Chapter 1051
accept grants of funds. The bill also creates a
California Arts Commission Fund in the State Treasur
and provides that except for federal funds and funds
received from the General Fund, gifts, donations,
bequests, or grants received by the Commission shall
be deposited in such fund and appropriates money in
the fund for expenditures by it without regard to
fiscal year.
SB 435 - Danielson
Eliminates the provision which renders out-of-state
Chapter 1052
employees ineligible for enrollment in a Meyers-
Geddes plan and continuation of a Meyers-Geddes plan
into retirement once they have enrolled in an out-
of-state plan.
SB 461 - Kennick
Includes within the definition of "construction,
Chapter 1053
for purposes of the provisions relating to the
Department of the Youth Authority sharing in the
cost of construction of specified juvenile facilities
by counties, payment by a county under a lease-
purchase agreement or similar arrangement
authorized by law.
SB 511 - Grunsky
Modifies and updates the treatment of proposals for
Chapter 1055
community college organization or reorganization.
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S? 555 - Dymally
Establishes a program for the study of the
C. apter 1056
correlation between emphasis of heavily phonics-
oriented state textbooks and increased study from
regular state textbooks for pupils from grades 1
to 3, inclusive. The bill requires the
Superintendent of Public Instruction to select two
comparable school districts in different geographic
sections of the state for purposes of the program.
SB 564 - Richardson
Provides, with respect to weapons that would
Chapter 1057
otherwise be disposed of by the public officers in
charge of them, that, instead, such weapons may be
sold at public auction to persons licensed under
federal law to deal with such weapons, if they are
of a type which can be sold to the public, generally
and if they are considered to have value with
respect to sporting, recreational, or collection
purposes.
SB 582 - Short
Revises the expiration date of the term of office
Chapter 1058
of one of the two psychiatric technician members of
the Board of Vocational Nurse and Psychiatric
Technician Examiners to permit expiration of such
terms at different times, rather than at the same
time. The bill also changes the definition, duties,
and responsibilities of psychiatric technicians.
SB 583 - Short
Permits a member of the Public Employees'
Chapter 1059
Retirement System to receive service credit for time
absent on "war relocation leave" upon payment of
employer and employee contributions and interest.
SB 585 - Marler
Provides that marketing orders affecting dried
Chapter 1060
fruits, raisins, or nuts, if approved by producers
or handlers affected, may authorize an allowance to
a handler of credit for promotion of a private brand
or trade name if such advertising or promotion is in
accord with a plan adopted by the advisory board
administering the marketing order.
SB 602 - Lagomarsino
Increases various witness fees from $4 per day to
Chapter 1061
$12 per day and mileage fees from $0.15 per mile
one way to $0.20 per mile one way.
SB 615 - Sherman
Allows certain bond issues of municipal utilities
Chapter 1038
districts and the Alameda County Flood Control and
Water Conservation District to be approved by a
majority of electors voting on such bond issue except
that the majority vote requirement will be of no
effect if not constitutionally required. The bill
further provides that a determination that the
majority vote requirement is not constitutionally
required shall not invalidate bonds authorized
between effective date of the bill and such a
determination.
SB
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Lagomarsino Places in the Commission of Housing and Community
Chapter 1062
Development, instead of the Department of Housing
and Community Development, authority to issue rules
and regulations on farm labor housing. The bill
provides that the Commission establish registration
fees, and fees for operation of labor camps, rather
than merely for construction of buildings in such
camps. The bill also provides for enforcement of
labor camp housing by local government or by the
Department of Housing and Community Development if
local government does not assume responsibility.
SB 689 - Dills
States that there shall be a rebuttable presumption
Chapter 1063
with respect to property assessed under the
provisions providing for the assessment of open space
lands that the present use of open land subject to an
enforceable restriction and devoted to agricultural
use is its highest and best agricultural use.
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SB 702 - Sherman
Revises scope of application of the Business and
Chapter 1064
Professions Code provisions relating to clinical
laboratory technology. The bill exempts the state
or an agency or official thereof from the payment
of an application or renewal fee for clinical
laboratory permit.
SB 703 - Sherman
Provides for the issuance of "clinical chemist" or
Chapter 1065
"clinical microbiologist" licenses.
SB 704 - Sherman
Revises provisions relating to the licensing and
Chapter 1066
regulation of persons in the field of clinical
laboratory technology.
SB 716 - Sherman
Authorizes the Commissioner of the California Highwa
Chapter 1067
Patrol to license specified fleet owners, as
licensed inspection and maintenance stations for
performance of specified functions with regard to
their own vehicles. The bill makes it unlawful for
any person to knowingly place or permit to be placed
any sticker authorized for specified vehicles on any
vehicle not complying with specified requirements.
SB 726 - Teale
Allows neighboring units of local government to
Chapter 1068
contract with each other to provide police or fire
protection services.
SB 728 - Carrell
Requires the Joint Legislative Budget Committee and
Chapter 1069
the Senate Education Committee to conduct a study
of accreditation associations and visiting
accreditating teams.
SB 762 - Danielson
Provides that for purposes of allowable service
Chapter 1070
credit under the State Teachers' Retirement System,
certificated employees on sabbatical leave shall
receive full-time service credit therefor if they
pay specified employer costs and pay contributions
they and the state would have paid if not on leave
within two years after the leave.
SB 781 - Mills
Authorizes local agencies to use any funds available
Chapter 1071
to them to finance their share of cost of grade
separation projects.
SB 806 - Nejedly
Specifically includes live obscene conduct, as
Chapter 1072
defined, and persons connected with its presentation
within the Penal Code provisions relating to
obscenity. The bill was introduced at the request
of the Attorney General's Office. A recent court
decision has held that the existing obscenity law
covered only obscene "matter" and not live
performances.
SB 826 - Burgener
Provides that the governor may designate which state
Chapter 1073
agency shall be responsible for each federal program
in which federal money is given the state with the
requirement that it be handled by single state
agency.
SB 842 - Way
Requires legislative analyst, with the assistance of
Chapter 1074
the Departmentof Health Care Services and the
controller, to conduct a study on the practicability
of a plan to have county hospitals submit Medi-Cal
bills directly to and be paid by the Department of
Health Care Services. The bill provides if the stud
reveals direct payment to be more efficient that
Director of Department of Health Care Services may
provide for direct payment.
SB 926 - Dolwig
Exempts an underwritten title company and an
Chapter 1075
organization organized for the purpose of doing
underwritten title business, whether licensed or not
from the definition of "insurer" for purposes of the
Insurance Holding Company System Regulatory Act.
The bill also establishes specified annual renewal
fees for specified certificated title insurers and
underwritten title companies.
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SB 957 - Stevens
Extends the time during which the Director of Human
Chapter 1076
Resources Development is required to approve of
specified amendments to voluntary unemployment
compensation disability insurance plans from
January 1, 1971 to January 1, 1972.
SB 965 - Stevens
Changes from 25 to 66 years the limit for which
Chapter 1077
Santa Monica may grant franchises and leases of tide
or submerged lands granted to the city by the state.
The 25-year limit is retained for oil and gas leases
SB 995 - Grunsky
Provides that money received by the Trustees of the
Chapter 1078
California State Colleges as gifts, bequests,
devises, and donations may be invested by the State
Treasurer, upon approval of the trustees, in those
eligible securities listed as authorized investments
for surplus funds in the State Treasury.
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Chapter 1079
the first three applicants on a classified school
employee eligibility list where possession of a
driver's license is required, as well as where
facility in a foreign language is required.
SB 1014 - Coombs
Provides that any time after 95 percent of the work
Chapter 1080
has been completed on a contract under the State
Contract Act the amount of money withheld from
payment may be reduced to 125 percent of the amount
of work yet to be completed upon written approval
of the respective sureties.
SB 1033 - Bradley
Authorizes the Industrial Welfare Commission to issu
Chapter 1081
special licenses to non-profit organizations to
permit the employment of handicapped women or minors
at less than the minimum wage without requiring
permits to be individually issued to prospective
employees of such organizations.
SB 1044 - Dills
Deletes the requirement that the Public Utilities
Chapter 1082
Commission give 30 days notice before authorizing a
special temporary suspension after an application of
the passenger air carrier to suspend or delete
service to any certificated point. The bill provide
that such suspension, when authorized, shall be
effective 30 days after the filing of application.
SB 1064 - Short
Adjusts the salary of the Marshal of the Stockton
Chapter 1083
Municipal Court.
SB 1090 - Sherman
Provides that prior to December 31, 1972, counties
Chapter 1084
do not have to supply homemaker services to public
assistance recipients, rather than granting
additional aid grants to allow such recipients to
obtain such services.
SB 1124 - Collier
Requires the State Lands Commission to determine
Chapter 1085
which tidelands in Humboldt County lie above the lir
of mean high tide, and are no longer necessary or
useful for commerce, fisheries or navigation. These
lands would be freed of public use and trust
exclusively for commerce, fisheries and navigation.
These lands would be freed of public use and trust
exclusively for commerce, fisheries and navigation
after recording by the State Lands Commission.
SB 1125 - Collier
Transfers, under prescribed conditions and for
Chapter 1086
specified purposes, certain tide and submerged lands
in Humboldt Bay to the City of Eureka for the
furtherance of navigation, commerce, and fisheries
and provides for the management and control of the
land.
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SB 1127 - Song
Revises the provision in the Employment Agency Act
Chapter 1087
that exempts persons engaged in the business of
management consulting to provide that such exemption
applies if the individual who is recommended for
consideration for an executive or professional
position is not charged a deposit, retainer or fee,
rather than if such individual is not charged a fee.
SB 1128 - Song
Provides for reciprocity in the licensing of
Chapter 1088
physical therapists.
SB 1162 - Petris
Requires that the California Industries for the Blin
Chapter 1089
contribute not less than $10 per month for each non-
civil-service production worker for health insurance
Present law provides for an $8 per month contributio
SB 1170 - Harmer
Makes it a misdemeanor for any person to knowingly
Chapter 1090
duplicate, use, or have in his possession any key to
a building or other area owned, operated, or
controlled by the State of California, any state
agency, board, or commission, a county, city, or any
public school or community college district without
authorization from person in charge of such building
or area.
SB 1247 - Grunsky
Specifies that no petition may be filed to adopt a
Chapter 1091
child declared free from custody and control of
either or both of his parents and referred to a
licensed adoption agency for adoptive placement, as
well as a child relinquished to a licensed adoption
agency, except by the prospective adoptive parents
with whom child has been referred for adoptive
placement by the agency. The bill further specifies
with regard to citations to provide notice of
proceedings to declare persons under the age of 21
years free from the custody and control of their
parents, that if the place of residence of the fathe:
or mother of a person is not known, then grandparents
and adult brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, and first
cousins of such minor person, rather than only some
relative, shall be notified by citation if such
relatives and their residences are known to the
petitioner in the proceedings.
SB 1375 - Beilenson
Provides for additional income to finance the
Chapter 1092
pesticide registration program and appropriates
$56,308 to finance data processing of agricultural
chemical registrations. The bill also requires
continuous annual re-evaluation of registered
chemicals, authorizes the development of a lable
code to indicate the degree of toxicity of harmful
propensity and for the regulation of the storage and
disposal of pesticides.
SB 1403 - Way
Authorizes the Department of Social Welfare to
Chapter 1093
contract with the Office of Administrative Procedure
to conduct hearings on social welfare appeals which
involve complicated issues of fact or law, or to
reduce the backlog of cases.
SB 1417 - Nejedly
Authorizes cities to finance their employee pension
Chapter 1094
plans with an approved insurance company through the
medium of "deposit administration group annuities."
At the present time deposit administration annuities
are not covered by the Government Code as an approved
investment even though the Attorney General has
approved it as appropriate financing for a pension
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Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation which
makes it a misdemeanor to mutilate, burn or defile the flags of the
United States and the State of California.
The measure (AB1260) by Assemblyman E. Richard Barnes,
R-San Diego, brings state law into conformity with federal law on the
defilement or mutilation of the flag.
"Our flags are the symbols of everything we believe in
and honor as Californians and Americans. To defile them is to defile
the ideals and beliefs of every citizen who believes in freedom and
those who have given their lives so that we can live in freedom," the
governor said.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today signed a bill which
makes it illegal for pickets or marchers to disrupt courtroom procedures
The bill (AB-2174) by Assemblyman Don Mulford, R-Oakland,
which was strongly supported by the Reagan administration, makes it
a misdemeanor for demonstrators to attempt to influence a judge, juror,
witness or officer of the court in the discharge of his duty.
"This law will prohibit those who make a mockery of
justice from turning our courtrooms into three-ring circuses," the
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Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation
designed to provide better medical care by relieving physicians of
routine duties and training qualified physicians' assistants to perform
simple medical tasks.
The bill (AB-2109) by Assemblyman Gordon Duffy, R-
Hanford, empowers the State Board of Medical Examiners to establish
training programs and qualifications for the para-medical employees.
"At a time when we face a shortage of qualified physicians
this measure will make it possible for physicians and other professional
medical personnel to devote more time to treat patients who require
their skills while supervised qualified assistants handle more routine
medical tasks," the governor said.
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Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that he has signed the
following bills:
AB 71 - Lanterman
Validates organization, boundaries, acts,
(Chapter 1149)
proceedings, and bonds of counties, cities, and
specified districts, agencies, and entities.
The Third Validating Act of 1970.
AB 215 - Vasconcellos
Requires the Bay Area Air Pollution Control
(Chapter 1227)
District to give notice in a prescribed manner
of hearings to grant a variance, or orders of
the board, or of hearings to revoke or modify
any order permitting a variance.
AB 331 - Dent
Allows school districts to provide transporta-
(Chapter 1228)
tion for preschool or nursery school pupils
without state reimbursement and without the
requirement that the county superintendent of
schools must give his consent. It also estab-
lishes the Federal Bureau of Indian Affairs to
be among the agencies with which the county
superintendent of schools is allowed to contract
regarding audial and visual instructional
equipment.
AB 369 - Hayes
Postpones from November 1, 1970, to November 1,
(Chapter 1229)
1971, the date by which the State Air Resources
Board is to complete the statewide exhaust con-
trol device testing program, and from December
15, 1970, to December 15, 1971, by which the
written report on the program is to be submitted
to the legislature. The bill also appropriates
an amount equal to specified unexpended funds
for the testing program.
AB 387 - Burton
Requires the board of directors of the Bay Area A:
(Chapter 1230)
Pollution Control District to establish stand-
ards for emission of identifiable odor-causing
substances which exceptions or variances may be
granted in the manner provided by the board.
AB 451 - Greene, L.
Authorizes the Superintendent of Public Instruc-
(Chapter 1232)
tion to designate any person in his office
holding a position specified in Section 2.1 of
Article IX of the California Constitution to act
in his place on any state board, commission,
committee, or governing body of which he is a
member, except the State Board of Education,
the Regents of the University of California or
the Trustees of the California State Colleges.
AB 461 - Vasconcellos
Declares it to be the policy of the legislature
(Chapter 1233)
that all resident applicants to California
institutions of public higher education, who
are determined to be qualified by law or by
admission standards established by the respec-
tive governing boards, should be admitted to
either public community junior colleges,
California State Colleges, or the University
of California.
AB 469 - Knox
Changes the number, salaries and employment
(Chapter 1234)
conditions of various court attaches in various
counties.
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AE 479 - Knox
Activates the counties of Napa, Solano and
(Chapter 1235)
Sonoma in the Bay Area Air Pollution Control
District. It also provides that if the board
of supervisors of any of these three counties
pass a resolution declaring that a portion of
these counties is not in the Bay Area Air
Basin, and if the Air Resources Board approves
such a finding, such portions of the counties
shall become part of any regional district
which has a common boundary with any portion
of the excluded area.
AB 506 - Greene, B.
Limits the persons that may inspect documents
(Chapter 1236)
made available to the probation officer in
making his report, or to the judge, referee,
or other hearing officer, when any such document
is thereafter retained by the probation officer,
judge, referee, or other hearing officer.
AB 575 - Crandall
States that salaries of executive, administrative
(Chapter 1237)
and professional employees earned for labor in
excess of 40 hours in a calendar week are due
and payable on or before the 26th day of the
calendar month immediately following the month
in which such labor was performed.
AB 602 - Wilson
Permits the Department of Housing and Community
(Chapter 1238)
Development to contract with local entities to
provide staff services usually performed by
local redevelopment agencies or housing
authorities.
AB 614 - Campbell
Extends for one year the provisions of existing
(Chapter 1239)
law which authorize a special bad debt income
tax deduction and a special income tax credit
for financial institutions which make loans to
low and moderate income families for residential
housing purposes.
AB 675 - Chappie
Provides for allocation of funds by the State
(Chapter 1240)
Superintendent of Public Insturction to county
superintendents of schools for operation of
opportunity schools and classes and continuation
schools. Allocations are to be computed in the
same manner as an allocation for the foundation
program of a high school district. Opportunity
schools and classes maintained by the county
superintendent of schools are added to the types
of schools for which the Superintendent of
Public Instruction shall make allowances to the
County School Service Fund.
AB 688 - Wood
Provides that required special continuation
(Chapter 1241)
education classes shall be conducted within the
boundaries of the district offering them. An
exception is made for schools having an enroll-
ment of more than 100 pupils in grade 12 if an
agreement has been made with another district
to operate these classes for either district and
if excessive travel is not required.
AB 698 - Schabarum
Specifies the criteria for regulation of a
(Chapter 1242)
division of land not a subdivision of five or
more lots by local ordinance with respect to
requirements relating to improvements.
AB 731 - Burton
Includes within the definition of persons
(Chapter 1243)
eligible for assistance from the Manpower
Development Fund those persons living outside
economically disadvantaged areas but who reside
in a county in which an economically disadvan-
taged area exists and who qualify under criteria
established by the Director of the Department
of Human Resources Development.
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AB 734 - Wilson
Provides that prohibition relating to the size
(Chapter 1244)
of signs advertising the sale of alcoholic
beverages are not applicable to buildings,
located within a state park.
AB 903 - Z'berg
Provides that when there is an assignee by
(Chapter 1245)
operation of law that the lien rights of the
assignee will pertain to special damages awarded
in a personal injury action as distinguished
from general damages.
AB 920 - Lanterman
Requires that advertisements, brochures, and
(Chapter 1246)
manuals relating to 1972 or later year model
gasoline-powered motor vehicles with a
manufacturer's gross vehicle weight rating of
under 6,000 pounds containing any reference to
the horsepower, to state the actual horsepower
as determined by a specified test; and, if they
state the S.A.E. horsepower, to display in such
actual horsepower.
AB 1121 - Ralph
Revises the Civil Code provisions granting liens
(Chapter 1247)
for the benefit of specified types of keepers
or places of lodging on baggage or other property
of persons using such lodging to prohibit
enforcement of liens by specified parties
except under order of a court for possession
issued after filing of complaint in an action
to recover debts and charges.
AB 1130 - Bee
States that Department of the California Highway
(Chapter 1248)
Patrol, may, upon request, provide protection
for school pupils required to cross highways
in unincorporated areas, to counties, if such
counties reimburse the state for salaries,
wages, and expenses made in connection with
providing such protection. The bill requires,
when requested by any county which had in
effect on June 30, 1970, a contract with the
department to provide such protection, the
department is to provide such service, and the
county shall reimburse the state for salaries,
wages, and expenses made in connection with
providing such protection.
AB 1155 - Knox
Requires local agency formation commissions to
(Chapter 1249)
consider proposals before them for conformity
to local planning. It authorizes a commission
to charge processing fees from cities, counties
and districts. The bill requires hearing to
disapprove a reorganization under the District
Reorganization Act. The bill also provides for
representatives of special districts as commis-
sion members and for commission's review of
changes in scope of functions of districts under
certain circumstances.
AB 1201 - Knox
Permits inclusion of any form of therapy,
(Chapter 1250)
treatment, or healing practice agreed upon
voluntarily in writing between an employee
and his employer, within the treatment of
injuries at the expense of the employer under
the workmen's compensation laws. The bill
requires such written agreement to be in a form
approved by Department of Industrial Relations
and further requires the agreement to include
specified items.
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AB 1331 - Veysey
Specifies that the State Board of Education
(Chapter 1251)
shall select a school district to undertake
an individualized instruction program, the goal
of such program being to convert at least high
school and a network of elementary and junior
high schools to a program of individualized
instruction based upon performance criteria,
including the full integration of vocational
education with regular coursework. The bill
appropriates $35,000 for fiscal year 1971, and
$40,000 for fiscal year 1972, to State Board of
Education to carry out the provisions for
individualized instruction program. The bill
requires the board to provide $42,000 for fiscal
year 1971, $456,000 for fiscal year 1972,
$600,000 for fiscal year 1973, and $170,000
for fiscal year 1974, to the school district
which undertakes individualized instruction
program from funds made available to board under
Federal Vocational Education Act of 1963 and
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
AB 1338 - Burke
Requires that every application for transfer of
(Chapter 1252)
a vehicle purchased from any person other than
specified manufacturer or dealer be accompanied
by a certified statement from the transferee
stating the name and address of the person from
whom he acquired the vehicle. The bill requires
Department of Motor Vehicles to collect costs,
not exceeding $50, incurred by the department
arising from the preparation for the seizure
of a vehicle for non-payment of registration or
transfer fee and any penalty, and revises
provisions relating to the sale of such vehicle
to pay specified fees, costs, and penalties.
AB 1385 - Dunlap
Restricts commercial registration of station
(Chapter 1226)
wagons to persons engaged in bona fide businesse
and requires that such registration to be in the
name of the business.
AB 1386 - Duffy
Provides that a person eligible for, but not yet
(Chapter 1253)
assigned, a production base or pool quota under
the Gonsalves Milk Pooling Act shall not be
eligible for such a production base or pool
quota.
AB 1398 - Ryan
Authorizes cities to impose standby charges
(Chapter 1254)
for sewer service.
AB 1399 - Ryan
Allows a city to levy a tax to pay the expense
(Chapter 1194)
of workmen's compensation insurance and health
and medical benefits for municipal officers and
employees without reference to the limit on the
city annual property tax of $1 on each $100
of assessed valuation.
AB 1981 - Bagley
Revises the laws relating to status of records
(Chapter 1231)
of the State Banking Department, Department of
Savings and Loan, Department of Corporations,
and the Department of Insurance as public
records to bring such departments within the
provisions of law relating to public records
generally. The bill removes trade secrets
exception to the definition of public records
and adds an exception for applications filed
with any state agency responsible for the regu-
lation or supervision of the issuance of secur-
ities or of financial institutions, and
examination, operation, or condition reports
of financial institutions used by the state
agency that regulates or supervises such
institutions.
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AB 1991 - Sieroty
Requires that the State H way Commission
(Chapter 1201)
consider environment and planning, including
architecture and landscape design in arriving
at its decisions. The commission is required
to include in the public report it issues, a
statement as to the basis for its decisions,
including factors of environment and planning.
AB 1993 - Britschgi
Cancels the property tax, interest and penalties
(Chapter 1202)
on property for the fiscal year commencing in
1970 for which the affidavit for the cemetery,
church, college, exhibition, orphanage or wel-
fare exemption was required to be filed by
March 15, 1970, was not filed by that date, but
was filed before April 15, 1970. The bill also
cancels property tax, interest and penalties
resulting from a denial of the welfare exemption
due to inadequate articles of incorporation dur-
ing 1965 and 1966 where the property now quali-
fies for the welfare exemption.
AB 2022 - Greene, L.
Provides that mathematics improvement programs
(Chapter 1192)
shall be afforded pupils in grades 1-12, rather
than specified grades from 2-8. The bill re-
quires the Department of Education to enter
into a contract, not exceeding $50,000 with the
Regents of the University of California for the
recruitment, training and supervision of mathe-
matics specialists.
AB 2029 - Campbell
Increases membership of the Intergovernmental
(Chapter 1193)
Board on Electronic Data Processing from 12 to
14, one new member to be selected from candi-
dates nominated by the California State Board
of Education, one representing the Department
of Justice.
AB 2056 - Miller
Establishes a supplemental food program admin-
(Chapter 1195)
istered by the Department of Social Welfare to
distribute food made available by the United
States Department of Agriculture for persons
in low-income groups vulnerable to malnutrition.
AB 2071 - Crandall
Revises the provisions authorizing the Trustees
(Chapter 1196)
of the California State Colleges to enter into
contracts of group life insurance and group
disability insurance or protection with respect
to their employees and establishing conditions
for such policies.
AB 2101 - Fong
Permits funds allocated by the state for com-
(Chapter 1197)
munity college construction purposes to be used
to provide carpeting in any community college
facility constructed with such funds in accord-
ance with standards and limitations contained
in the Budget Act.
AB 2103 - Fong
Provides that if school bonds have not been offer
(Chapter 1198)
for sale for one year from the date of the
election at which they were authorized, rather
than one year from the date of their issuance,
the governing board may petition the board of
supervisors to cause the unsold bonds to be
cancelled.
AB 2127 - Vasconcellos
Provides for the establishment of three pilot
(Chapter 1199)
SHARE projects for volunteer college student
tutoring of language-handicapped elementary
and secondary students in mathematics and
language development.
AB 2146 - Dunlap
Requires the governing board of a school dis-
(Chapter 1200)
trict or school districts maintaining special
continuation education classes to provide for
an independent study of the effectiveness of
such program and to file a report with the
Department of Education.
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AB 2188 - Zenovich
Provides for a loan not to exceed $2,500,000
(Chapter 1203)
from the proceeds of bonds issued pursuant to
the State School Building Aid Bond Law of 1966
to be expended for allocation by State Alloca-
tion Board to the Fresno Unified School District
for remodeling and construction of a permanent
campus for a newly created regional occupational
center in Fresno County.
AB 2190 - Crandall
Exempts certain described unified school dis-
(Chapter 1204)
tricts from unification procedures pursuant to
the county master plan for school district
organization and declares such a district to be
a unified school district for all purposes,
including areawide school support programs.
AB 2194 - Briggs
Revises the law relating to insolvency of
(Chapter 1205)
insurers, including the law relating to the
California Insurance Guarantee Association.
AB 2225 - Cory
Requires the State Department of Public Health
(Chapter 1206)
to contract with voluntary area health planning
agencies for purpose of providing such agencies
with funds up to an amount equal to funds
budgeted annually for health facility planning
derived from local sources. The bill establishes
specified special license fees for hospitals
and other prescribed facilities to fund such
contracts or so much thereof as will equal the
appropriation for these purposes.
AB 2253 - Sieroty
Amends the Professional Engineers Act to permit
(Chapter 1207
use of a retired member's name in a firm name
under prescribed conditions.
AB 2255 - Sieroty
Requires the county clerk to distribute a list
(Chapter 1208)
of family planning and birth control clinics in
the county prepared by the county health officer
to persons applying for marriage license.
AB 2259 - Lanterman
Permits a majority of the committee composed of
(Chapter 1209)
the governor, treasurer and controller to
determine the rate of interest paid on registered
warrants until April 1, 1972.
AB 2267 - Burton
Provides that the governing board of a school
(Chapter 1210)
district, the boundaries of which are coterminous
with those of the City and County of San Fran-
cisco, may contract for electromechanical or
electronic data-processing work.
AB 2292 - Hayes
Permits a court to order that a person who
(Chapter 1211)
claims an interest in a proceeding under the
Family Law Act be joined as party to the
proceeding in accordance with rules adopted
by the Judicial Council.
AB 2299 - Wilson
Requires loan trust funds (advance mortgage
(Chapter 1212)
payments for taxes and insurance) be retained
in California, and if the funds are invested,
invested with California residents or with
businesses operating in California.
AB 2315 - Deddeh
Provides that in any case in which person is
(Chapter 1213)
arrested for a felony without a warrant and
the amount of bail is fixed for first time by
order of magistrate, no other magistrate shall,
prior to the time the person is arraigned,
reset bail in a lower amount than originally
ordered or release the person on his own
recognizance without first finding good cause
therefor after hearing, notice of which is
given within a reasonable time prior to such
hearing to the prosecuting attorney.
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AB 2321 - Murphy
Allows a county board of education to construct
(Chapter 1214)
dormitories for use of handicapped persons for
whom the county must provide training and
education.
AB 2325 - Murphy
Amends the definition of mobile transportation
(Chapter 1215)
equipment, the lease of which is not considered
a sale for sales and use tax purposes.
AB 2382 - Wood
Requires the Labor Commissioner to refuse
(Chapter 1216)
to issue or renew a farm labor contractor's
license if the Department of Human Resources
Development advises by written notice that a li-
censee has failed to remit disability insurance
contributions.
AB 2394 - Duffy
Prohibits the sale, on or after January 1, 1971,
(Chapter 1217)
of new or used unvented heaters designed for
use in a dwelling except for electric heaters
or for decorative gas logs for use in a vented
fireplace, unless the heater contains a
specified warning on the outside visible
surface. The bill completely prohibits the
sale or offer of sale of such unvented heaters
on or after January 1, 1972.
AB 2405 - Lanterman
Requires the Department of Public Health to seek
(Chapter 1218)
supplemental grant funds to establish a one-year
demonstration project in one regional diagnostic
center designated by the department to serve a
caseload of 100 handicapped persons and to
report findings and recommendations of the
effectiveness of the project not later than
the fifth calendar day of the 1972 regular
session of the legislature.
AB 2406 - Lanterman
Provides that designated facilities for the
(Chapter 1219)
mentally or physically handicapped shall be
considered as a residential use for purposes
of local zoning. The bill directs the
Secretary of the Human Relations Agency to
develop a plan not later than March 1, 1971,
to consolidate specified functions of the
Human Relations Agency.
AB 2407 - Lanterman
Requires the Department of Mental Hygiene to
(Chapter 1220)
conduct a one-year pilot project unifying under
a county Short-Doyle program designated by the
director all diagnostic services required to be
provided by law in the county.
AB 2425 - Wilson
Revises the limitations on loans on the security
(Chapter 1221)
of real property or a leasehold first lien which
commercial and savings banks may make.
AB 2498 - Greene, B.
Provides that in school districts encompassing
(Chapter 1222)
more than 200 square miles and which are
divided into smaller areas for assignment of
classified personnel, when an eligibility list
is exhausted in one assignment area but there
are available eligibles in another assignment
area, an area eligibility list may be established
for the assignment area in which the eligibility
list is exhausted. The bill provides that the
life of the new list shall be one year.
AB 2512 - Sieroty
Establishes various disclosure requirements for
(Chapter 1223)
the sale of fine prints. The bill provides civil
remedies, for violation of such requirements.
AB 2516 - Sieroty
Provides that the Department of Fish and Game
(Chapter 1224)
is authorized to clean up or abate the effects
of any petroleum or petroleum product deposited
in the waters of the state and to recover any
costs incurred as a result of such cleanup or
abatement activity.
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AF 2534 - McCarthy
Increases the number of judges of the superior
(Chapter 1189)
court in the City and County of San Francisco
from 24 to 26.
AB 2535 - Quimby
Increases the number of superior court judges
(Chapter 1190)
in San Bernardino County from 11 to 12 effec-
tive March 1, 1971.
AB 2536 - Murphy
Increases the number of judges of the superior
(Chapter 1191)
court of Merced County from two to three.
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in the administration's 1970 legislative program at a special ceremony
in his office tomorrow, Thursday, September 17, at 11 a.m.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today signed into law a bill which further
strengthens the state's hand in the war against drug abuse by making it
a felony to drive while knowingly under the influence of a dangerous drug
The bill (AB-1963) authored by Assemblyman Tom Hom (R-San Diego)
was a part of the Reagan administration's legislative program.
Felony driving under the influence of drugs calls for mandatory
suspension of a person's driving privilege.
Governor Reagan expressed appreciation to Assemblyman Hom for
successfully guiding the tough new measure through the legislature.
"This new law further strengthens the state's hand in our continuing war
against the use of dangerous drugs," the governor said.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today signed into law a bill which bans the
dumping of liquid waste such as poisonous chemicals into community
sewer systems.
The measure (AB-718) a part of the Reagan administration's
legislative program to fight pollution was authored by Assemblyman
Clare L. Berryhill (R-Modesto).
The new law also requires that any person who is engaged in the
hauling of liquid waste must hold an unrevoked registration issued by
the State Water Resources Control Board. It further specifies that
the hauler must dispose of such waste only at those sites designated by
the Regional Water Quality Control Board.
The legislation requires the State Attorney General to bring action
in court against violators, and provides for criminal penalties against
those who break the law.
Governor Reagan thanked Assemblyman Berryhill for carrying the bill
which he said "further escalates California's fight against water
pollution by making our laws in this field already the strictest in
the world even tougher."
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following
bills have been signed:
AB 154 - Dunlap Authorizes compliance with specified Penal Code provisions
(Chapter 1150) later than the 10-day period prescribed with respect to
a felon applying for, or who has applied for, a
certificate of rehabilitation and pardon, where the
applicant is late (after the required 10-day period)
in contacting certain peace officers after he has filed
his notice of intention to apply for such certificate
of rehabilitation and pardon. The bill provides that the
period of rehabilitation in any case shall commence to
run upon service of a certified copy of such notice on
a specified peace officer, rather than upon filing such
notice of intention with county clerk.
AB 178 - Badham Provides that contracts for participation of a public
(Chapter 1151)
agency in the Public Employees' Retirement System may
be approved by vote of a majority rather than two-thirds
of the members of the governing body.
AB 518 - Milias Increases the amount in the revolving fund for the
(Chapter 1153)
purchase of ballot paper and punchcards from $90,000 to
$110,000. The bill appropriates $20,000 from the
General Fund to the Ballot Paper Revolving Fund on order
of the State Controller.
AB
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Authorizes planning and land assembly by redevelopment
(Chapter 1154)
agencies of new communities within the meaning of
the Federal New Communities Act of 1968. It requires
approval of the local agency formation commission having
jurisdiction over the area where it is proposed to
develop such new community. The bill also provides
that the Department of Housing and Community Development
may accept federal grants and be appointed by local
legislative body to act as redevelopment agency for
development of such communities.
AB
716 - Deddeh Revises the procedure for suspension or transfer of
Chapter 1155)
certificated employee on grounds of mental illness,
rather than mental disability, to provide for suspension
by action of governing board prior to formal
administrative proceedings inquiring into the employee's
mental health, rather than psychiatric examination and
report.
AB 739 - Moorhead Makes available to employees in the state covered by
(Chapter 1156)
unemployment insurance the extended unemployment
benefits provided by the Federal-State Extended
Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970.
AB 749 - Cory
Requires school districts to annually fix salaries for
(Chapter 1157)
classified employees and authorizes school districts
to increase salaries of classified employees at any
time during the school year. The bill further allows
districts to adopt an interim salary schedule for classi-
fied employees when unable to fix the annual salary because
it was engaged in a study to increase salaries of
classified employees.
AB 810 - McGee
Provides as an alternative to the written examination
(Chapter 1158)
administered by the Department of Education that a
certificated employee may be examined by a specialist
teacher selection committee of five persons, for
certification as a specialist teacher in reading. The
bill provides that expenses of the committee shall be met
by the particular school district.
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AB 836 - Chappie
Changes the basis of calculating the rate of interest
(Chapter 1159)
on loans made by the State Water Resources Control
Board from the State Water Quality Control Fund,
for construction of water pollution control facili-
ties specified in the Porter-Cologne Water Quality
Control Act, and on loans to North Tahoe, South
Tahoe, Tahoe City Public Utility Districts and to
Truckee Sanitary District for construction of sewage
and storm drainage facilities. The bill further
provides that at the election of the State Water
Resources Control Board with the concurrence of the
Director of Finance, the moratorium on interest
payments of the Tahoe agencies may be extended from
the fiscal year 1971-72 to the end of the 10-year
moratorium onprincipal payments authorized for such
loan. This bill also permits a 10-year moratorium
on interest payments on a specified loan to North
Tahoe Public Utility District.
AB 915 - Burke
Requires the Commissioner of the California
(Chapter 1160)
Highway Patrol to charge fees for lamp and brake
adjustment certificates and for motor vehicle
pollution control device certificates of compliance
which, together with related license fees, would
not exceed the cost to the department of administerin
the related statutes.
AB 924 - Zberg
Authorizes the Highway Commission to contract with
(Chapter 1161)
specialists to independently evaluate highway
routing proposals.
AB 927 - Crandall
Authorizes the State Librarian, at his discretion,
(Chapter 1162)
to duplicate any braille book master, other than
textbook masters, which are presented directly to
him for duplication by either a legally blind person
or any other person or agency.
AB 1089 - Ketchum
Bars prosecution of person for certain nonfelony
(Chapter 1163)
motor vehicle offenses pending at time of his
imprisonment in state prison. The bill prohibits
suspension, revocation or refusal to issue or
renew a driver's license because of certain
nonfelony offenses occurring prior to time of such
imprisonment or because of notice received by
Department of Motor Vehicles that such person has
violated written promise to appear for such
offenses occurring prior to such time.
AB 1147 - Chappie
Increases the amount of subventions to Amador,
(Chapter 1164)
Calaveras, Nevada, and Yuba Counties to compensate
for revenues lost by reasons of the partial
exemption for business inventories. The bill also
provides for subventions for the 1969-70 fiscal
year to certain local taxing authorities for
revenues lost by reason of the homeowner's property
tax exemption and the partial exemption for
business inventories.
AB 1187 - Hayes
Deletes the provision which authorizes the
(Chapter 1165)
issuance of a writ of possession if the defendant
is insolvent or has no property that is subject to
execution sufficient to satisfy the amount of
damages sought to be recovered by the plaintiff.
AB 1229 - Britschgi
Specifies that any animal which has become
(Chapter 1166)
abandoned after being left with a veterinarian or
facility having a veterinarian, and a new owner
cannot be found, be humanely destroyed by such
veterinarian.
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AB 1287 - Murphy
Requires that the members of the board of directors
(Chapter 1167)
of the Lower San Joaquin Levee District be appointed
by the Boards of Supervisors of Merced, Fresno, and
Madera counties rather than that each member be
elected on a division basis. The bill also allows
a representative of a corporate landowner to be
appointed as a district director, and specifies that
he live within the division he represents.
AB 1291 - Mulford
Increases number of judges of Oakland-Piedmont
(Chapter 1168)
Judicial District from 11 to 14 and of Berkeley-
Albany Judicial District from 3 to 4. The bill
also increases the number of superior court judges
in the Alameda County from 23 to 25.
AB 1308 - Knox
Authorizes officials of private business or
(Chapter 1169)
professional schools and colleges approved,
authorized or certified as specified, to be
permitted access to written records concerning
students but restricts information available to such
officials to name and address lists of 12th grade
pupils and pupils who have terminated prior to
graduation. The bill provides that the use of such
information for other than the schools' own
solicitation is a misdemeanor.
AB 1409 - Brown
Requires certain depositaries to furnish a customer
(Chapter 1185)
with a receipt containing a statement, if such is the
case, that the depositary does not have fire or
theft insurance covering the deposited goods. The
bill imposes strict liability on the depositary who
fails to furnish receipt when required or makes
misrepresentation in the receipt.
AB 1438 - Crandall
Authorizes a community college governing board to
(Chapter 1183)
charge a fee of not more than $7.50 for health
services and parking fee not to exceed $20 per
semester or $40 per regular school year for parking
services. The bill also increases from 7 percent
to 8 percent the interest rate allowable on bonds
authorized under the Junior College Revenue Bond Act
of 1961.
AB 1442 - Dent
Requires school districts of residence to pay a
(Chapter 1173)
prescribed amount to the State Department of
Education for pupils that attended the California
Diagnostic School for Neurologically Handicapped
Children.
AB 1469 - Johnson
Authorizes the Director of Water Resources to
(Chapter 1170)
declare an emergency in times of extraordinary
stress where damage to watershed lands by forest
fires has created an imminent threat of floods and
damage by water, mud, or debris upon the future
occurence of storms, and to take remedial measures
to prevent such damage.
AB 1474 - Stacey
Requires Director of Health Care Services to estab-
(Chapter 1171)
lish a procedure for review of a complaint by a
provider of service for monies alleged payable in
connection with assistance under Medi-Cal. The bill
authorizes the provider if dissatisfied after compli-
ance with such procedure to file a claim for money
against the state and proceed under government
claims act.
AB 1486 - Foran
Authorizes holder of a permit to use toll bridges and
(Chapter 1172)
toll highway crossings on a credit basis to furnish
and maintain with the Department of Public Works, a
certificate of deposit approved by the Department,
as an authorized alternative to cash deposit and
corporate security bond. The bill increases the
presently authorized monthly fee from $5 to $7. The
bill also authorizes the Department to charge, in
addition to such monthly fee, such other fee for
each individual credit transaction which, combined
with such monthly fee, will cover estimated printing
and other overhead expenses.
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AB 1535 - Chappie
Permits a local agency under the Revenue Bond Law of
(Chapter 1174)
1941 to sue, in the case of unoccupied property, the
owner in addition to the guarantor of payment of
bills and occupier of property for unpaid deposits
and charges and penalties of service was rendered to
the occupier of the property. The bill allows a
claim or lien upon real property served by a local
agency that provides for obtaining, conserving,
treating and supplying water in addition to
agencies supplying sewerage services.
AB 1549 - Veyney
Adds reusable educational material to the definition
(Chapter 1175)
of supplementary textbook for purposes of provisions
relating to state-furnished textbooks and materials
for elementary schools.
AB 1561 - Britschgi
Provides that the term volume or quantity as used
(Chapter 1176)
in the California Marketing Act of 1937, in designate
provisions may be in terms of gross dollar value if
the Director of Agriculture finds that such volume
or quantity cannot readily be ascertained otherwise
or that gross dollar value is a more equitable
measure of the commodity involved.
AB 1616 - Z'berg)
Provides that the term "employment" for purposes of
Chapter 1177)
determining, under the Meyers-Geddes State Employees'
Medical and Hospital Care Act, completion of six
months of employment for commencement of employer
contributions for an employee shall include service
in which a contribution was made for him by his
employer to another plan or program offering prepaid
hospital and medical care.
AB 1737 - Thomas
Allows a local agency to declare and abate a nuisance
(Chapter 1178)
at expense of owner in the case of certain abandoned
or neglected wells or mines.
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AB 1771 - Dunlap
Permits members of the San Francisco/Conservation
(Chapter 1179)
and Development Commission, subject to confirmation b
their appointing power, to appoint alternates for
attendance at meetings and voting in their absence.
AB 1796 - Ryan
Increases the number of superior court judges in
(Chapter 1180)
San Mateo County from 12 to 13.
AB 1827 - Mobley
Authorizes the legislative body, under the Municipal
(Chapter 1181)
Improvement Act of 1913, to contribute for an
improvement from sources of revenue not otherwise
prohibited by law.
AB 1856 - Badham
Revises provisions requiring establishment of
(Chapter 1182)
airport land use commission in all counties under
certain circumstances to provide instead that in a
county of less than 4 million population an
airport land use commission shall be established in
the county to formulate a comprehensive land use plan
for each airport facility unless the board of
supervisors and the selection committee of mayors
in such county, each by a majority vote, determines
that an appropriately designed body shall carry out
this planning function. The bill provides further
that in counties over 4 million the county regional
planning commission shall carry out this planning
function.
AB 1878 - Berryhill
Eliminates the provisions that specify that the
(Chapter 1184)
registered owner of a vehicle or vessel is rebuttably
presumed to be person who operated such vehicle or
vessel when it was operated in an area within the
state park system in violation of specified laws,
rules or regulations.
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AB 1949 - Campbell
Requires a sheriff or chief of police to notify a
(Chapter 1186)
school district when a pupil has been arrested on
a narcotics charge only when a petition is filed
with the juvenile court or a criminal complaint is
issued against him. Where such arrest is not
followed by a petition or criminal complaint and the
pupil is released, the sheriff or chief of police
is given discretionary power to inform the school
district.
AB 1990 - MacDonald
Requires the county board of supervisors in all
(Chapter 1187)
counties of over 40,000 population to designate a
county officer to leave the responsibility for
developing a coordinated countywide community drug
abuse control plan. The bill requires the Human
Relations Agency to review, combine, and summarize
plans for submission of a report to the legislature
with recommendations by March 1, 1971.
AB 2005 - Greene, B. Provides that the Civil Code provision which permits
(Chapter 1188)
parents of the deceased parent of a minor child
to apply to superior court for reasonable visitation
rights to child shall not apply if the child has
been adopted by a person other than the step-parent
and any visitation rights granted pursuant to
provision prior to adoption shall be automatically
terminated upon adoption.
SB 1 - Moscone
Deletes the requirement that the Superintendent of
(Chapter 1096)
Public Instruction allocate funds to specific
schools or agencies, approved by the Superintendent
for purposes of the School Lunch Program at the
rate of $1 for each $1 expended during the preceding
fiscal year. The bill also prohibits the use of
specified funds to reduce the level of district or
school expenditures for any existing program,
unless free or reduced-price lunches are provided
for each eligible needy child.
SB 59 - Teale
Requires the California Highway Commission to
(Chapter 1097)
include in its report to interested persons and
public agencies, the impact on agricultural values
as one of the factors considered in selecting,
adopting and determining the location for a state
highway or freeway.
SB 94 - Song
Amends the government tort liability law by
(Chapter 1099)
removing the present immunity for actual damage
which results from entries by public entities on
private property for survey and test purposes,
revising the liability and immunity of public
entities and employees charged with the care and
custody of prisoners and mental patients, and makes
public entities liable for injuries caused by the
use of pesticides.
SB 105 - Carrell
Provides elective survivorship coverage for minor
(Chapter 1100)
children (unmarried children until age 18 or full-
time students until age 22) of a judge who dies
prior to retirement without a surviving spouse or
whose spoise dies after the judge. A judge electing
such coverage is required to contribute $2 a month
to the Fund.
SB 120 - Burgener
Increases the number of judges in the El Cajon
(Chapter 1101)
Judicial District from 3 to 4. The bill also
increases the number of judges in the North County
Judicial District from 3 to 5.
SB 136 - Deukmejian
Increases the number of superior court judges in
(Chapter 1102)
Los Angeles County from 134 to 149.
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SB 241 - Grunsky
Requires an officer who arrests a person for
(Chapter 1103)
driving a motor vehicle while under influence of
intoxicating liquor to inform the person arrested
that he does not have the right to have an attorney
present before stating whether he will submit to
a chemical test, before deciding which test to take,
or during the administration of the test chosen.
SB 265 - Cologne
Increases the number of judges of the superior court
(Chapter 1104)
in Riverside County from 10 to 11 and on and after
July 1, 1971, to 12. The bill also increases the
number of sessions from three to four in certain
superior courts.
SB 279 - Bradley
Provides that the increase in the maximum tax rate
(Chapter 1105)
of a junior college district for any interdistrict
attendance agreement and any plant and equipment
lease agreement shall remain in effect until the
end of the seventh consecutive fiscal year following
the first district bond election at which a junior
college bond issue was passed in districts in which
such seventh consecutive fiscal year ends on
June 30, 1975, and such first bond issue passed pro-
vided for bonds with an interest rate of 5 percent.
SB 280 - Coombs
Revises the period after sale by a car dealer in
(Chapter 1106)
which vehicles may be operated without registration
card or plates.
SB 355 - Short
Provides that the purchase by any school district of
(Chapter 1107)
trailer coach of greater than 16 feet in width,
between December 1, 1969, and June 30, 1970,
otherwise completed pursuant to law, is valid and
effective. The bill makes the provision limiting
the personal liability of members of school district
governing boards, inapplicable to members of a
board which purchased a trailer coach subject to this
act.
SB 391 - Danielson
Increases the number of judges in the Los Angeles
(Chapter 1108)
Municipal Court District from 58 to 64.
SB 443 - Cologne
Includes sewer system corporations within definition
(Chapter 1109)
of a public utility for purposes of the Public
Utilities Act.
SB 447 - Dills
Authorizes formation of chiropractic corporations
(Chapter 1110)
pursuant to the Moscone-Knox Professional Corporation
Act.
SB 475 - Cologne
Requires every insurer providing professional
(Chapter 1111)
liability insurance to a person who holds a license,
certificate, or similar authority issued under the
healing arts provisions of the Business and Profession
Code, or to a hospital, to annually report to the
licensing authority any final judgement over $3,000
rendered during the preceding year against a person or
hospital, or settlement over $3,000 during the
preceding year, in a claim or action for damages for
malpractice.
SB 500 - Nejedly
Makes it a misdemeanor for any person to keep an
(Chapter 1112)
animal confined in an enclosed area without providing
it with an adequate exercise area and, if the animal
is restricted by a leash, affixed in such a manner
that it will prevent an animal from becoming entangled
or injured and permit the animal's access to
adequate shelter, food, and water. The bill does
not apply to animals which are in transit, in a
vehicle, or in the immediate control of a person.
SB 503 - Moscone
Permits formation of accountancy corporations
(Chapter 1113)
subject to provisions of the Moscone-Knox Professional
Corporation Act. The bill becomes operative
July 1, 1971.
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SB 512 - Moscone
Provides for the creation of an executive
(Chapter 1114)
committee by the board of directors of a credit
union to perform specified functions. The bill
also revises limits on loans, gifts, fines, and
investments made by credit unions.
SB 536 - Sherman
Exempts from the rapid transit district transaction
(Chapter 1115)
tax, sales of items registered by the State to an
out-of-district location by residents of that out-
of-district address or by a business with out-of-
district address.
SB 546 - Beilenson
Authorizes the State Department of Public Health
(Chapter 1116)
to conduct specified activities relating to
population, public health, and environmental study.
It authorizes the Department to report to the
legislature every two years on its findings related
to public health, the environment, and population
trends and distribution, with specified recommendatio
SB 565 - Burgener
Amends the Structural Pest Control Act to eliminate
(Chapter 1117)
a requirement that parties to real property transac-
tions receive certain notices concerning the availa-
bility of inspection reports.
SB 566 - Burgener
Revises allocations and transfer of licensing fees
(Chapter 1118)
between the Real Estate Fund and Real Estate
Education, Research and Recovery Fund. The bill
also specifies that an application for payment of
damages remaining unpaid upon judgement against
licensee must be filed within one year after
judgement becomes final.
SB 573 - Moscone
Makes it unlawful to notify any person by any means,
(Chapter 1119)
as part of an advertising plan or scheme, that he has
won a prize and that as a condition of receiving
such prize he must purchase or rent any other item.
SB 595 - Whetmore
Increases the number of judges of the superior court
(Chapter 1120)
in Orange County from 22 to 24 and to 25 on and after
July 1, 1971.
SB 597 - Moscone
Makes it unlawful to falsely represent in an
(Chapter 1121)
advertisement the quantity of any article that will
be sold in a single transaction and to willfully or
negligently fail to include in such advertisement a
statement of any restriction on the quantity sold.
SB 598 - Moscone
Provides for the issuance of a permit under
(Chapter 1122)
specified circumstances and conditions to psychologi-
cal corporations allowing the use of a name not
stated in the article of incorporation.
SB 621 - Sherman
Provides that, upon a plea of nolo contendere, in
(Chapter 1123)
addition to a plea of guilty, to an information or
indictment in any case, in addition to a case in
which the jury has the power to recommend or
impose punishment upon a plea of not guilty, the
defendant may, at the time of plea, specify the
punishment and other disposition of the case.
The bill specifies the procedure to be followed in
accepting the plea and informing the defendant
of his right to withdraw the plea if the court
subsequently withdraws its approval of the plea.
SB 699 - Whetmore
Increases the number of judges in the West Orange
(Chapter 1124)
County Municipal Court from 6 to 7 and from 7 to 8
on and after May 1, 1971.
SB 706 - Sherman
Requires the State Department of Public Health
(Chapter 1125)
to appoint a committee to assist, advise, and make
recommendations for the establishment of rules and
regulations necessary to insure proper administra-
tion and enforcement of provisions relating to
clinical laboratory technology and to assist and
advise department in matters concerning examinations
of clinical laboratory technology license.
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SB 753 - Danielson
Revises various provisions of the Uniform
(Chapter 1126)
Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act to conform to
corresponding provisions in the Revised Uniform
Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act of 1968.
SB 794 - Beilenson
Requires public employees be given time off with pay
(Chapter 1127)
when answering a subpoena requiring their presence as
a witness unless he is a party or an expert witness.
The bill also provides that such provision shall not
apply when an employee receives compensation for an
appearance in excess of his regular earnings.
SB 834 - Beilenson
Provides that any coverage of "sterilization
(Chapter 1128)
operations or procedures" included in a disability
policy, or family hospital service contract, health
care service plan, a self-insured plan, may not be
restricted because of the reason or reasons of the
covered person for desiring the procedure. Provides
these contracts will be construed so as to comply
and need not be reprinted or refiled. The bill does
not mandate that such overage be granted by any of
these plans or contracts.
SB 843 - Way
Provides for evaluation and treatment under the
(Chapter 1129)
Lanterman-Petris-Short Act of juveniles and
criminal defendants who are dangerous to themselves
or others as a result of the use of narcotics or
restricted dangerous drugs.
SB 858 - Cologne
Permits sessions of the Riverside County Superior
(Chapter 1131)
Court to be held in Palm Springs at such times as
may be prescribed by superior court judges sitting
at the Indio Court.
SB 892 - Dills
Authorizes cities in Los Angeles County to make
(Chapter 1132)
compensation from state funds allocated for city
street and highway purposes to persons for their
moving expenses who are displaced because of city
street and highway construction.
SB 931 - Dolwig
Provides that the additional unemployment compensatic
(Chapter 1133)
disability hospital benefit requirements are
satisfied by certification by a practitioner
authorized by any bona fide church, sect, denominatio
or organization whose principles or teachings call
for dependance for healing entirely upon prayer or
spiritual means. The bill adds those institutions
operated as hospitals but exempt from licensing by
State Department of Public Health to the definition
of "hospital" for purposes of these provisions.
SB 960 - Walsh
Requires public agencies awarding construction
(Chapter 1134)
contracts to assume responsibilty for the removal
relocation, or protection of existing utilities on
site of projects subject to contract if the
utilities are not identified in the plans and
specifications made a part of the invitation for
bids.
SB 984 - Petris
Declares that a nonprofit organization meeting
(Chapter 1135)
specified requirements whose primary purpose is
promoting good health and the saving of lives is a
consumer, rather than retailer, of candy or other
confectionery which it sells when profits are used
exclusively for such purpose.
SB 1050 - Dolwig
Provides an allowance for the surviving spouse of a
(Chapter 1136)
judge who dies during retirement while receiving
specified retirement benefits.
SB 1058 - Short
Provides for a State Board of Examiners of
(Chapter 1137)
Nursing Home Administrators, its powers and duties,
and the standards and procedures by which nursing
time administrators are to be licensed.
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SB 1061. - Short
Specifies that should an employment agency send an
(Chapter 1138)
applicant for employment and the applicant secures
employment other than that position specified in
the order for employment, the agency is entitled to
a fee payable by the applicant under specified
circumstances.
SB 1065 - Short
Authorizes the Superior Court of the County of
(Chapter 1139)
Sacramento, subject to the approval of the Board
of Supervisors, to appoint the necessary court
attaches required to carry out its functions.
SB 1069 - Short
Revises the definition of a 'limited production
(Chapter 1140)
vehicle' which is exempted from the Pure Air Act of
1968 to include only those makes of motor vehicles
which had sales of less than 200 units in
California in the 1968 calendar year. It extends
the exemption of these vehicles from the model year
prior to 1971 to model year prior to 1973.
SB 1099 - Burgener
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction
(Chapter 1141)
to withhold specified funds for use in research,
program development, and evaluation in special
education through contractual agreements.
SB 1107 - Carrell
Extends the life of the Environmental Quality Counci
(Chapter 1142)
one year to end of 1972 Regular Session of the
legislature and makes related changes in reporting
dates.
SB 1181 - Stiern
Provides for any community college district to
(Chapter 1144)
award construction bids prior to the legislature
appropriating the State's share of funds necessary
for the project. The district must first substanti-
ate the need for early awards to the Board of
Governors of the California Community Colleges.
SB 1184 - Dolwig
Prohibits a city from imposing a license fee or
(Chapter 1145)
tax on businesses which rent, lease, or operate
laundry equipment, whether coin-operated or not,
unless the fee or tax is based solely upon gross
receipts derived from the conduct of business
within the city. The bill expressly prohibits a
city from imposing a license fee or tax based on
the number of business locations or laundry
machines within the city, or a minimum tax per
business location.
SB 1186 - Moscone
Allows real estate investment trusts to deduct
(Chapter 1146)
income distributed within a certain period of time
after the close of their income year from their
corporate tax liability, in conformity with federal
law.
SB 1420 - Moscone
Increases the number of judges of the municipal
(Chapter 1148)
court in San Francisco from 17 to 19.
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Governor Ronald Reagan announced today he has signed into law a
bill which makes it a criminal offense for any licensed motor vehicle
dealer, manufacturer or transporter to commit a fraudulent act in
repairing or servicing a vehicle.
The legislation SB-417 Cologne (R-Indio) appropriates $75,000
from the State Motor Vehicle Fund to provide fraud investigators to
enforce the law.
Up until now, the State Motor Vehicle Code has governed primarily
the advertising and selling of automobiles.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today signed into law three major bills in
his 1970 consumer protection legislative program.
At a signing ceremony in his office, the governor said:
"Last March, in my consumer protection message to the legislature,
I reaffirmed a long-standing policy of this administration that
government does have a proper and vital role to play in looking out for
the consumer interests of all our citizens, so long as this role does not
interfere with, or impair, the legitimate balanced workings of our
competitive free enterprise system.
"The fact is, free enterprise has prospered in our society indeed,
it has brought this nation the highest standard of living ever known to
man because, on the whole, the system has served our people honestly
and fairly.
"Nevertheless, there are always some persons who try to misuse and
exploit the system through dishonest and unethical operating methods.
"The laws I have proposed to the legislature have been directed at
these unrepresentative few---to either bring them into line or put them
out of business.
"At the same time, I have cautioned that we must always be
scrupulously careful not to penalize the vast multitude of hard-working,
honest and legitimate businessmen for the sins of the few.
"Today, I am pleased to tell you that every law we proposed in our
consumer protection program this year was passed by the legislature. In
a few moments, I will be signing the final three bills of this package
into law.
"However, before mentioning them specifically, I would like to recall
for you just a few of the many consumer protection laws we have sponsored
and signed during the course of this administration laws to protect
against unsolicited merchandise in the mail; against unscrupulous merchant:
who try to force citizens to pay for things they haven't ordered and don
vant; against being charged for unrequested goods and services from
unsolicited credit cards; against unethical land promoters; and against
fly-by-night swimming pool contractors.
"During this year alone---as part of our current consumer program
I have signed bills:
--To strengthen our ability to protect the insurance-buying public
by preventing the summary cancellation of homeowner policies without good
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--To assure that information from clients used in the preparation
of income tax returns is maintained in the strictest confidence.
--To permit the adoption of high safety standards for all tires
used on motor vehicles in the state.
--And to establish, for the first time, uniform sanitation and
health requirements for all retail food outlets and grocery stores in
the state.
"The remaining three bills in our program will strengthen even
further the state's ability to protect legitimate businossmen and
consumers from the unscrupulous entrepreneur.
"Assembly Bill 1192 carried by Assemblyman Jim Hayes (R-Long Beach
will, for the first time, give the state boards of Medical and Dental
examiners the power they need to crack down on those few in the healing
arts professions who gouge their patients by imposing unnecessary or
excessive treatment and drugs.
"The bill will allow our boards to investigate such abuses and,
if necessary, suspend or revoke the licenses of persons found guilty of
these practices.
"The next bill---SB-647 by Senator Clark Bradley (R-San Jose)
is
the first federal or state law of its kind ever enacted to protect
franchise buyers from the misleading and deceptive practices of an
increasing number of unscrupulous franchise peddlers who have entered
this fast growing field.
"The International Franchise Association strongly supports this
legislation which will help prevent shady operators and confidence men
from duping innocent people---and reflecting unfairly on the rest of the
industry.
"From now on, franchise sellers will have to fully disclose the
financial capabilities of the firms they represent, and clearly spell out
the obligations of the franchise buyer.
"Finally, SB-1290- by Senator Lew Sherman (R-Berkeley) will, for
the first time, guarantee that the accounts of small investors in
financially troubled industrial loan companies are protected from loss
by up to $10,000. Unlike banks and savings-and-loans, the deposits of
thrift holders in industrial loan firms have not been insured in the past
"The consumer confusion and hardship which results when a company
fails have made it imperative that there be a law to protect against such
losses.
"In sum, the fact that every bill in our program this year is being
written into law, is a testimonial for all to see, of our continuing
commitment to effective and responsible consumer protection for the
people of California."
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Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation that will
allow the Tahoe City Public Utility District to borrow $2 million from
the State Water Quality Control Fund to construct sewage and storm
drainage facilities.
"This measure is another important step toward the preservation
of Lake Tahoe's natural beauty," the governor said in signing the bill
(AB 1279, by Assemblyman Gene Chappie, R-Cool).
"It will allow Tahoe City to complete the construction of
needed facilities to export sewage from the Lake Tahoe Basin by
extending the system to the north and west shores of the lake," the
governor said.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation which will
allow authorized public agencies to use airspace above and under State
freeways for public transportation routes with the approval of the
California Highway Commission.
The governor said the bill (AB 1890) by Assemblyman Henry
Arklin, R-Mission Hills, will provide local governmental agencies "with
a tool to develop new approaches to ease our mass transportation
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Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation that will
permit a trial to continue in a felony case if the defendant is
removed from the court because of disorderly and disruptive behavior.
The bill (SB 857) by Senator George Deukmejian of Long Beach,
the governor said, "will prevent the accused from deliberately thwarting
the system of justice by actions that disrupt the court and demonstrate
contempt for our judicial process.
"In the past too often defendants in felony cases have
conducted themselves in a manner that made it necessary for them to be
removed from the courtroom and under the existing law, the court had
no alternative but to declare a mistrial," he said.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today signed two bills that will serve
to tackle the problem of noise pollution.
One of the bills--SB 1108 by Senators Tom Carrell, D-San
Fernando, and Bob Lagomarsino, R.-Ventura--requires that environmental
factors be considered by the Department of Aeronautics in approving
airport sites.
The bill would also require that public hearings be held
before military airports are released for civilian use.
The second bill, AB 1512, by Assemblyman Hank Arklin, R-
Mission Hills, prohibits freeway construction that would create a noise
problem in adjacent public schools and authorizes the use of
highway funds to alleviate noise.
In signing the bills, the governor pointed out that California
is the first state in the nation to attack the problem of noise
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Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that he has signed the
following bills:
AB 96 - Ryan
Clarifies and extends the definitions of
(Chapter 1225)
school district personnel for purposes of
reporting to the Superintendent of Public
Instruction regarding the ratio of teachers
to administrative personnel and others. The
bill requires the Superintendent to compare the
number of classified, administrative, and pupil
services employees to the number of teachers.
AB 174 - Warren
Exempts from the prohibition against the sale
(Chapter 1285)
of alcoholic beverages near a university any
license within premises occupied by a bona fide
club meeting specified requirements located one
mile from Stanford University.
AB 211 - Brown
Designates March 5 of each year as Black Ameri-
(Chapter 1256)
can Day to be observed by suitable exercises in
public schools and educational institutions.
AB 255 - Miller
Authorizes districts maintaining junior colleges
(Chapter 1307)
to provide meals and lodging for members of
junior college athletic teams engaged in
athletic events away from school.
AB 377 - MacDonald
Provides that the Personnel Board may authorize
(Chapter 1286)
payment of a rate above the maximum to an
employee who meets standards established by the
board if the employee's position is allocated
to a lower class, or if the salary range of the
class is reduced. The bill also provides that
if an employee with a minimum of 10 years state
service, who meets other eligibility standards,
is moved to a position in a lower class because
of reductions in force or other management ini-
tiated changes the board may, upon recommenda-
tion by the appointing power, authorize such
payment for such time as the board may designate.
AB 419 - Greene, L.
Changes the site of Governor's Mansion and re-
(Chapter 1257)
quires that the mansion shall be used only for
a residence of the governor.
AB 493 BE Dunlap
Requires subdividers of coastal lands to provide
(Chapter 1308)
for access to the ocean from public highways,
unless reasonable access is otherwise
available.
AB 553 - Wilson
Specifies that drug abuse programs in the public
(Chapter 1287)
schools are within the scope of county Short-
Doyle plans.
AB 695 - Cory
Provides that in a situation where a school
(Chapter 1309)
district boundary change involves only a minor
change in district boundaries, as defined, the
petition may be transmitted directly to the
county board of supervisors by the county
superintendent of schools without transmittal
to county committee on school district
organization. Limits direct transmittal to
county board of education to once every five
years.
AB 697 - Mulford
Revises provisions relating to the licensing of
(Chapter 1310)
marriage, family and child counselors.
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AB 816 - Biddle
Defines murder as the unlawful killing of human
(Chapter 1311)
being, or a fetus, with malice aforethought,
rather than as the unlawful killing of human
being with malice aforethought.
AB 849 - Milias
Permits a nonresident hunter to purchase a one-
(Chapter 1312)
day hunting license for taking domesticated
migratory game birds on licensed areas. The
bill provides for a license to establish an area
for hunting of domesticated migratory game birds,
and prescribes the conditions and fees therefor.
AB 892 - Britschai
Revises the requirements for admission to the
(Chapter 1258)
examination for a certificate of registration
and license as a cosmetologist, cosmetology
instructor, electrologist or manicurist; the
licensing of junior electrologists as registered
electrologists; the examination of applicants
for a license in the branches or practices of
cosmetology; establishments limited to the
practice of manicuring; schools of cosmetology
and schools of electrology; display of licenses
by licensees; and change of address of licensees.
AB 1022 - McCarthy
Extends the filing time for the homeowner's
(Chapter 1313)
exemption in the case of a veteran when, for
the first time, a claim for the veteran's
exemption on his principal place of residence
is disallowed.
AB 1030 - Fong
Authorizes the Department of Public Works, from
(Chapter 1314)
federal funds available for promoting public
safety on the streets, to allocate to cities and
counties, up to 50 percent of the cost of con-
structing, repairing, or improving street
lighting facilities.
AB 1136 - Berryhill
Substitutes the Department of the California
(Chapter 1315)
Highway Patrol for the State Fire Marshal with
respect to various duties relating to the trans-
portation of explosives. The bill sets forth
various requirements regarding transportation
of explosives and hazardous materials.
AB 1189 - Brown
Regulates payments or deposits of money given
(Chapter 1317)
primarily to secure performance of rental
agreements, requiring the landlord to hold such
money for tenant, giving tenant priority of
claim to such amount, specifying reasons for
withholding of amounts by landlord and procedure
for transfers of such monies upon termination
of landlord's interest in the tenancy. The
bill makes bad faith retention of tenant's
lawful share of such money in violation of act
subject to damages not to exceed $200, in addi-
tion to actual damages. The bill is applicable
to payments or deposits made on or after
January 1, 1971.
AB 1192 - Hayes
Authorizes the agencies with licensed dentists,
(Chapter 1318)
physicians, and surgeons, drugless practitioners,
midwives, podiatrists, physical therapists,
psychologists, optometrists, and osteopaths to
take disciplinary action against licensees who
provide unnecessary or excessive services to
their patients.
AB 1225 - Brathwaite
Increases from $125 to $200 the minimum monetary
(Chapter 1319)
amount exclusive of interest and attorney's
fees, which must be claimed before attachment
will issue in any action.
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AB 1339 - Burke
Reduces the age requirement from 25 years to
(Chapter 1288)
21 years for a person accompanying a driver
using an instruction permit and specifies that
the age restrictions do not apply to licensed
instructors or those qualified as driver train-
ing instructors under the Education Code.
AB 1435 - Wilson
Sets forth specific responsibilities of both
(Chapter 1320)
the Commission and Department of Housing and
Community Development with regard to implemen-
tation of a state policy relating to housing
including development of a California State-
wide Housing Element.
AB 1439 - Foran
Extends the exemption to the transportation
(Chapter 1321)
license tax to persons who transport children
to public or nonprofit private schools and who
receive over $100 a month compensation or per-
sons who lease vehicles for the above purpose.
AB 1482 - Foran
Permits a non-certified shorthand reporter to
(Chapter 1249)
report depositions only if he delivers to the
parties or their counsel present at the deposi-
tion and prior to its commencement an affidavit
that no certified reporter is then available or
by stipulation in the record at the commencement
of the deposition by the parties or their
counsel present at the deposition.
AB 1501 - Berryhill
Provides that the requirements that wages be
(Chapter 1260)
paid within a specified period shall be deemed
satisfied by the payment of wages for weekly or
biweekly payroll if such wages are paid not
more than seven calendar days following the
close of the payroll period.
AB 1572 - MacGillivray
Requires that every person operating under a fish
(Chapter 1262)
packaging and processing license shall in addi-
tion to the license fee pay a privilege tax
of a specified amount for each pound of abalone
purchased, received, or taken by him. The bill
provides that such a privilege tax is in lieu
of other specified privilege taxes.
AB 1584 - Beverly
Revises provisions concerning a person's absence
(Chapter 1263)
from, and right to reenter, the State Teachers'
Retirement System, where a person is in state
service or employed by a local school district
or a county superintendent of schools.
AB 1596 - Hayes
Provides rules with respect to proceedings in-
(Chapter 1264)
volving prosecutions for contempts of court
presented pursuant to affidavits or statements
of facts.
AB 1606 - Zenovich
Permits formation of optometric corporations
(Chapter 1265)
subject to the provisions of the Moscone-Knox
Professional Corporation Act.
AB 1612 - Z'berg
Provides for the transfer of tide and submerged
(Chapter 1266)
lands, within the boundaries of Miller Park,
to the City of Sacramento.
AB 1633 - Lanterman
Provides for severance aid allowances to school
(Chapter 1322)
districts for property acquired for state high-
way purposes to be paid over a five-year period
after acquisition. The bill is only applicable
where the taxable real property has been reduced
two percent or more by acquisitions in any one
year. The bill also provides for a reduced
amount of severance aid to school districts for
state highway land acquisitions completed sub-
sequent to June 30, 1962, but prior to the
effective date of this bill.
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AB 1637 - Mulford
Defines (a) what are operations as "a household
(Chapter 1267)
goods carrier," and (b) what are gross receipts
derived from operations as a household goods
carrier for the purpose of determining the motor
vehicle transportation tax. Provides that the
State Board of Equalization shall increase the
taxes if projected revenues under the measure
are less than they otherwise would be. Effec-
tive from January 1, 1971 to December 31, 1972.
AB 1638 - Mulford
Authorizes the Commissioner of the California
(Chapter 1268)
Highway Patrol to issue authorized emergency
vehicle permits to vehicles used for law
enforcement work by peace officers of the state
park system.
AB 1680 - Quimby
Authorizes the Director of General Services,
(Chapter 1269)
with the consent of the state agency concerned,
to lease specified state property to the City
of San Bernardino on specified terms and condi-
tions.
AB 1682 - Priolo
Requires that aid made to the Department of
(Chapter 1270)
Parks and Recreation for boating safety and
enforcement programs from the Harbors and Water-
craft Revolving Fund be based on a boat entry
unit cost factor derived from the most recent
annual boat entry count, as prescribed, instead
of basing such aid on formula prescribed by the
Department of Navigation and Ocean Development.
The bill requires fees and other proceeds col-
lected from use of boats or boating facilities
in state parks and on waters under state's con-
trol to be paid into state treasury to the
credit of Harbors and Watercraft Revolving Fund.
AB 1748 - Murphy
Permits a court to review an order granting the
(Chapter 1289)
defendant's motion to return or suppress property
or evidence if the people appeal from an order
dismissing the case prior to trial which is
granted pursuant to prescribed provisions of the
Penal Code and is based upon the granting of
the defendant's motion.
AB 1769 - Dunlap
Requires the consent of a patient, or his
(Chapter 1291)
guardian or conservator before a professional
person employed by a mental health facility may
disclose confidential information or records to
a professional person not employed by the
facility who does not have the medical responsi-
bility for the patient's care. The bill
eliminates the six-month limitation on dis-
closure of a patient's records by his physician
after completion of the records.
AB 1775 - MacDonald
Prohibits pharmacists from advertising profes-
(Chapter 1271)
sional fees or prices. The bill does not pro-
hibit advertising of any drug or device which
does not require a prescription.
AB 1817 - Stull
Prohibits publicly-owned utilities from providing
(Chapter 1272)
water service within an area already being served
by a municipal water district on which there
is outstanding bonded indebtedness or an indebt-
edness arising under any contract between the
district and the United States to provide water
service. The publicly-owned utility may provide
service if a majority of the voters within the
area affected give their written consent, except
that if the number of voters within the area is
less than 12 there must also be a resolution
from the district consenting to the service.
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AS 1821 - Ryan
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruc-
(Chapter 1273)
tion to establish a broadbased working committee
composed of selected school district business
officials to develop a consolidated application
form and to develop improved administrative
procedures for the application for and the
disbursement of federal categorical aid funds.
AB 1835 - Sieroty
Provides that the Director of Corrections may
(Chapter 1323)
release a man from prison for up to three days
for any purpose. The director may require the
inmate to be under custody and that the inmate
reimburse the state for any expenses involved
in his release. The bill becomes operative on
January 1, 1972.
AB 1846 - Sieroty
Excludes, under specified conditions, employees
(Chapter 1292)
of burglar alarm companies from certain pro-
hibitions against having loaded firearms in
public areas, and specifies that such provision
shall not be construed as prohibiting cities
and counties from enacting ordinances requiring
local licensing of such persons.
AB 1849 - Beverly
Provides for payment of seven percent simple
(Chapter 1274)
interest per annum on construction claims that
are properly filed and the validity is not dis-
puted or have been settled or agreed upon
against the state or a local public entity
commencing 90 days after proper submission of
such claim.
AB 1865 - Crandall
Appropriates $200,000 from the psychiatric
(Chapter 1324)
technicians account in the Vocational Nurse
and Psychiatric Technicians Examiners Fund
to the Board of Governors of the California
Community Colleges to establish, administer,
and operate training programs for psychiatric
technicians.
AB 1877 - Berryhill
Deletes the Agricultural Code provision pro-
(Chapter 1275)
hibiting the payment for the removal of acreages
of trees or vines which have in a specified
period produced an average yield above the
statewide average yield as determined by the
Director of Agriculture.
AB 1881 - Zenovich
Conforms state law to various federal changes
(Chapter 1276)
in the income taxation of farming activities
which are part of the Federal Tax Reform Act
of 1969. The conformity provisions cover six
major areas: (1) hobby losses, (2) citrus
growers, (3) crop insurance proceeds, (4) live-
stock, (5) sale of farm land, and (6) farm
losses.
AB 1883 - Mulford
Provides that provisions of a contract of bail-
(Chapter 1277)
ment for parking or storage of motor vehicle
shall not exempt the bailee from liability for
theft of motor vehicle when such motor vehicle
is parked or stored with such bailee, and the
keys are required to be left in parked or
stored motor vehicle by such bailee.
AB 1890 - Arklin
Authorizes public agencies having responsibility
(Chapter 1294)
for the planning and development of public
transportation systems to use the air space
over or under existing state freeways, with
the approval of the California Highway
Commission.
AB 1904 - Foran
Amends the Streets and Highways Code to permit
(Chapter 1278)
more flexibility in the expenditure of local
gas tax funds for city streets and county roads.
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AB 1922 - Russell
Authorizes the State Board of Education to
(Chapter 1325)
waive the minimum school day requirement in
grades 1, 2, and 3 to enable a school district
to conduct an experimental program in reading
and mathematics. The bill would further author-
ize the State Board of Education to exempt dis-
tricts from fiscal penalty provisions now pro-
vided when the class size in kindergarten or
grades 1 to 3 is in excess of that specified in
the Education Code.
AB 1971 - Vasconcellos
Includes specified vital creeks and tributaries
(Chapter 1279)
within the area of jurisdiction of the San
Francisco Bay Conservation and Development
Commission.
AB 2033 - Wilson
Defines "untenable" for purposes of the law
(Chapter 1280)
requiring maintenance by the lessor of premises
for human habitation as a dwelling. It also
sets forth affirmative obligations of the lessee,
failure to conform to which releases lessor from
liability under specified provisions. The bill
also declares that tenant waiver of specified
statutory rights are unenforceable with respect
to conditions of the premises. It also prohibits
retaliatory eviction and certain other actions
in specified circumstances.
AB 2100 - Fong
Revises requirements with respect to mandatory
(Chapter 1326)
evaluation of vision of pupils attending the
public schools, to require appraisal upon first
enrollment in elementary school and every three
years thereafter until completion of eighth
grade. The bill deletes the declaration that
such evaluation shall be made without cost to
parents.
AB 2109 - Duffy
Establishes a program of certification for
(Chapter 1327)
physicians' assistants under jurisdiction of
the Board of Medical Examiners.
AB 2150 - Lewis
Creates Extraordinary Commission on the Vietnam
(Chapter 1328)
Veteran. It provides that the commission shall
be funded by federal or private funds, or both,
if and when they are available.
AB 2164 - Burke
Authorizes a county board of education to formu-
(Chapter 1329)
late plans and recommendations for formation of
a unified district of less than a high school
district as intermediate step to unification
of territory of the high school district. The
bill exempts districts in such proposal which
have been approved by the voters from areawide
school support scheme.
AB 2178 - Joint Committee
Adds land devoted to recreational uses to
(Chapter on Open Space
the California Land Conservation Act.
1281) Lands
AB 2233 - Chappie
Provides for the licensing of dealers, manufact-
(Chapter 1290)
urers and transporters of snowmobiles.
AB 2235 - Chappie
Specifies that identification plate issued for
(Chapter 1330)
snowmobile on and after January 1, 1971, expires
at midnight on December 31 of even-numbered
year following date of insurance. The bill
imposes a special fee of $5 on snowmobiles at
time of applying for or renewal of identification
plate, and requires such fee to be deposited by
department in newly created Snowmobile Trust
Fund.
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AB 2452 - Miller
Declares legislative intent regarding objectives
(Chapter 1332)
of a pilot educational program on drug abuse,
to be administered by the Regents of the
University of California.
SB 382 - Collier
Creates the Humboldt Bay Ha rbor, Recreation, and
(Chapter 1283)
Conservation District.
SB 857 - Deukmejian
Provides that the absence of a defendant in
(Chapter 1255)
felony case after trial commenced in his
presence shall not prevent continuing trial
to and including return of ¿. verdict if, after
he has been warned by a judge that he will be
removed if he continues disruptive behavior, he
nevertheless insists on conducting himself in
manner so disorderly, and disruptive, that the
trial cannot be carried on with him in the
courtroom. The bill further provides that in
prosecution of a felony offense not punishable
by death, the voluntary absence of defendant
after trial commenced in his presence shall not
prevent continuing trial to and including return
of verdict.
SB 417 - Cologne
Makes it unlawful for the holder of a manu-
(Chapter 819)
facturer, transporter or dealer license to com-
mit a fraudulent act in the repairing or
servicing of a motor vehicle or the parts or
accessories thereof.
SB 938 - Dolwig
Requires an insurance company or its authorized
(Chapter 1284)
representative, upon sale of salvage vehicle as
a result of a total loss insurance settlement,
to issue a bill of sale to the purchaser of such
vehicle within 10 days after receipt of payment
in full for salvage.
AB
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1152 - Crown
Extends aid to the potentially self-supporting
(Chapter 1316)
blind to blind persons who are eligible for aid
to the blind and attend or reside in an orienta-
tion center for the blind. The bill authorizes
loans from the Revolving Loan Fund to assist
recipients of aid to the blind or potentially
self-supporting blind in businesses, professions,
or other gainful employment.
SB 1290 - Sherman
Provides for the establishment of a Guaranty
(Chapter 1306)
Corporation to be known as "Thrift Guaranty
Corporation of California" to guarantee thrift
obligations of industrial loan companies. The
bill also revises the limitations on the types,
amounts, and terms of permissible loans, pro-
hibits balloon payments on certain consumer
loans of industrial loan companies, permits,
effective until December 31, 1972, charges at
the alternate rate of 1½ percent per month on
the unpaid principal balance of the loan.
SB
2268 - Burton
Requires that elementary and high school courses
(Chapter 1331)
in history include the study of the role and
contributions of persons of oriental extraction
to the economic, political, and social develop-
ment of this state and country, in addition to
requiring that such courses of instruction in-
clude the study of such role and contributions
of various other specified ethnic groups.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement
following a decision by the Marine Corps to offer a portion of the
Southern California coastline for development of a state park:
"I am delighted with the decision of the Marine Corps that
will allow the development of 3½1/2 miles of Southem California coastline
as a state park.
"This is a graphic example of how the state and federal
governments can and are cooperating in the best interests of the
citizens of California.
"This decision by the Marine Corps will open a vitally needed
recreation area to the citizens of California. It also establishes a
precedent for continued cooperation that will make it possible for all
citizens to make use of federally-controlled lands that have been
previously closed for recreational purposes.
"I particularly want to thank Senator George Murphy who worked
quietly and very effectively to bring about this major breakthrough.
Senator Murphy and the State Parks and Recreation Department spent
months negotiating for this prime beach property that can now be used
and enjoyed by millions of Californians. Their effectiveness in
making this beach land available to the taxpaying public should be
remembered as an outstanding example of our determination to make our
parks and beaches open to this and future generations."
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Governor Ronald Reagan announced today he has signed into law a
bill which makes significant reforms in the system of appointing
inheritance tax appraisers.
The legislation (SB-361, Cologne) requires potential appraisers to
pass a qualifying examination. It also prohibits campaign contributions
to the state controller by inheritance tax appraisers, limits
contributions to other candidates, and establishes four-year terms for
these potentially lucrative positions.
The law changes the title "Inheritance Tax Appraiser" to
"Inheritance Tax Referee" and eliminates a fee for appraising cash.
Governor Reagan called the measure which was backed by the
California Bar Association "one of the most important bills of the
1970 legislative session."
The new law enacts many reforms which have already been adopted
through administrative order by State Controller Houston Flournoy.
"Hugh Flournoy's persistent efforts over the past four years to
eliminate the spoils from this system have paid off with a solid step
forward by putting these reforms into law, " the governor said.
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445-4571
9-17-70
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Governor Ronald Reagan, in cooperation with State Attorney
General Thomas C. Lynch, today arranged for the continuation of law
enforcement services in Santa Barbara County.
The action was taken at the request of Sheriff James Webster and
the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors, after members of the
County Sheriff's Department went out on strike.
The governor said:
"In the interests of public safety, I have directed the
California Highway Patrol and the State Department of Corrections to
immediately provide whatever law enforcement personnel may be
necessary to assist Santa Barbara County in guaranteeing the protection
of life and property within the county.
"The county will reimburse the State of California for the cost
of the services provided by these departments.
"The Attorney General is making available sufficient Department
of Justice personnel until a settlement of the strike is reached.
"I have already directed the State Conciliation Service to make
available its services to all parties concerned, in the firm hope that
the issues in this dispute may be resolved at the earliest possible date.
"The protection of life and property must be guaranteed. As
governor, I will not permit any citizen of California, at any time, to be
denied vital law enforcement protection services.
"I want to assure the citizens of Santa Barbara County that
their right to law enforcement protection will be met. This assurance
has been communicated to local officials. That same assurance also is
given to every citizen of California."
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
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Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
9-17-70
#466
A bill to develop a comprehensive program for the prevention and
treatment of alcoholism and the rehabilitation of its victims was
signed today by Governor Ronald Reagan.
The measure (AB 1889) by Assemblyman Frank Lanterman (R-La Canada)
creates a State Office of Alcohol Program Management in the Human
Relations Agency to coordinate the many programs now conducted.
"This act enables us for the first time to focus all our resources
into a concerted attack on alcoholism," Governor Reagan said. "Our
number one priority in this field is the drunken driver.
"Drinking drivers are involved in about one-third of the state's
fatal traffic accidents," the governor said. "Every five hours, on the
average, a Californian is killed on the highway in an accident in which
someone had been drinking.
"We have provided law enforcement with better tools to arrest and
convict drunken drivers,' Governor Reagan said. "This law will help us
get at the basic causes and keep the drunken driver off the highway
through prevention and rehabilitation."
The need for coordination is illustrated, the governor said, by the
fact that there are 11 clinics in cities and counties operated in
association with the Department of Rehabilitation and 14 other specific
programs operated by communities in association with the Department of
Mental Hygiene. In addition, the Department of Mental Hygiene conducts
treatment and research in its hospitals. The Departments of Public
Health, Highway Patrol, Alcoholic Beverage Control, Corrections, and
Youth Authority are also concerned.
The bill requires that the Office of Alcohol Program Management
develop and implement a comprehensive, uniform plan for the prevention,
treatment, and control of alcoholism throughout the state. The plan is
to include objectives, goals, and means of determining when the
objectives and goals have been achieved. Based on the plan, the office
will submit to the Department of Finance and to the legislature for the
first time, a program budget for the state's alcoholism programs.
The legislation authorizes the Office of Alcohol Program Management
to coordinate all alcoholism programs conducted by state agencies with
the federal government and ensure that there is no duplication.
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