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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE:
Immediate
Sacramento, Californi
95814
Ed Gray, Press Secret
y
916-445-4571
10-1-73
#511
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that he has signed the
following bills:
AB 60 - Dunlap
Authorizes the Napa River Flood Control Project in
Chapter 921
Napa County for financial assistance by the state,
pursuant to the State Water Resources Law of 1945.
AB 196 - Burke
Requires the Department of Parks and Recreation to
Chapter 900
acquire certain beach property in Huntington Beach,
and authorizes the department to acquire Simi Valley
lands, for the state park system.
AB 625 - Kapiloff
Authorizes counties and chartered cities to provide
Chapter 901
for reassessment of property damaged or destroyed by
misfortune or calamity. The bill is contingent upon
adoption by the voters of Assembly Constitutional
Amendment No. 30.
AB 630 - Johnson, H. Expands the coverage of the Contractors License
Chapter 892
Law with respect to mobilehomes. At present the
law applies only to the installation of mobilehomes
and the installation and erection of their accessory
buildings and structures. The bill expands this
coverage to include construction, alteration, repair,
and preparation for moving if performed upon a site
for purposes of occupancy as a dwelling. Manufact-
urers are excluded as to work performed in compliance
with warranties but are included as to other on-
site work.
AB 652 - Bond
Requires the State Department of Health to maintain
Chapter 902
a program of maternal and child health including
authorization for inclusion of educational, prevent-
ative, diagnostic and treatment services.
AB 848 - McAlister
Authorizes a judge, referee, or traffic hearing
Chapter 903
officer, with respect to a traffic violation by a
minor, to order that the driving privilege of the
minor be suspended or restricted for a period not
to exceed 60 days, rather than authorizing a judge,
referee, or traffic hearing officer, with respect to
such violation, to order that the driving privilege
be suspended or restricted as provided in the Vehicle
Code.
AB 1361 - Antonovich
Authorizes the Insurance Commissioner to pre-
Chapter 905
pare a list of all currently licensed agents,
brokers and solicitors at the expense of person
requesting the service unless deemed a part of the
regulatory responsibility of the department.
AB 1276 - Mobley
Requires the Department of Parks and Recreation to
Chapter 904
establish a program designated as the California
Youth Conservation Corps, to be financed by federal,
state, and local government. The bill authorizes the
department to also continue the pilot program
established in San Diego County.
AB 1407 - Sieroty
Prohibits construction of the Education Code provi-
Chapter 907
sion prohibiting certain solicitation on public
school premises, as prohibiting solicitation of
pupils by pupils of the same school.
AB 1409 - MacDonald
Appropriates $8,000,000 to the Department of Water
Chapter 920
Resources for payment of lands, easements, and rights
of way for federal flood control projects.
AB 1465 - Dunlap
Authorizes the Department of General Services to
Chapter 906
sell two parcels of land belonging to the Yountville
Veterans Home to the City of Yountville under
specified terms and conditions.
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#511
AB 1627 - Powers
Permits certain common carriers and warehousemen to
Chapter 908
apply to the Public Utilities Commission for
approval, after opportunity for hearing, of agree-
ments, relating to rates, fares, classifications,
devisions, allowances, or charges, as specified, or
rules and regulations pertaining thereto, or pro-
cedures for joint consideration, initiation or es-
tablishment thereof.
AB 1655 - Chappie
Appropriates $190,000 from the State Highway Account
Chapter 909
for the payment of sewer assessments by the Tahoe
City Public Utility District on real property held
by the Department of Transportation for future Highway
89 construction.
AB 1803 - Knox
Provides for an election to determine whether proposed
Chapter 910
works relating to a sewage system may be acquired or
constructed, to be financed by sewer revenue bonds,
upon petition by not less than 15 percent of the
registered voters, as well as upon petition by not
less than 15 percent of the owners, in the specified
area.
AB 1835 - Maddy
Provides that no fee shall be charged for the storage
Chapter 911
of a motor vehicle beyond 15 days unless written
notice is mailed to the legal owner, if the name and
address of the legal owner is known or may be
ascertained from the registration records in the
vehicle or from the records of the Department of Motor
Vehicles.
AB 1837 - Murphy
Continues to exempt the California State Fair and
Chapter 912
Exposition and all district and county fairs from
applying the statutory license fee rate schedule
after July 1, 1975.
AB 1883 - Lewis
Amends and supplements the Budget Act of 1973 to
Chapter 913
appropriate $180,000 from the State Beach, Park,
Recreational and Historical Facilities Fund of 1964
for the development of Mojave Narrows Regional Park
and to provide for the reversion of the unexpended
balance of the appropriation made by Item 349 1 (qq),
Budget Act of 1970, for the development of Warm Creek
Regional Park.
AB 1945 - Cullen
Increases the maximum market value of improvements on
Chapter 914
a home that may be purchased under provisions of the
California Veterans' farm and home purchase program
from $35,000 to $45,000.
AB 1986 - Cline
Authorizes a contractor under State College Contract
Chapter 915
Law, with the approval of the Trustees of the Califor-
nia State University and Colleges, to receive funds
which would have been withheld from progress payments
under trust laws if he places specified securities in
escrow pursuant to specified arrangements. The bill
authorizes the trustees to specify further conditions
for purposes of this act and provides that this act
applies only to such contracts entered into after its
effective date.
AB 2050 - Beverly
Provides that facilities licensed by the Department
Chapter 917
of Health that provide nonmedical board, room and
care for six or fewer ambulatory children who are
placed with the licensee for such care, shall not be
subject to specified fire and panic safety provisions
or regulations of the State Fire Marshal.
AB 2081 - Kapiloff
Provides that property shall be deemed to have
Chapter 918
escaped assessment if an assessee fails to file a
property statement and if such failure results in no
assessment or an assessment that is lower than would
be the case if the property had been properly reported
AB 2219 - Wood
Provides for industry funding of state operated seed
Chapter 919
programs. It establishes the Seed Advisory Board and
prescribes its membership, powers, and duties. The
bill requires every labeler or seller of agricultural
or vegetable seeds to register with the Director of
Food and Agriculture.
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AB 2408-Boatwright Requires a seller to provide a postal reply card or
Chapter 916
to provide a return envelope with mail order forms or
announcement cards which a consumer may return to
instruct a seller not to ship merchandise. The bill
requires any instruction not to ship on such forms or
cards to be in type as large as other instructions
and terms on the forms or cards. It also requires
that specified material terms of the contract shall be
disclosed on the memberhhip contract or application
form or on the same page and immediately adjacent to
such contract or form in clear and conspicuous languag
The bill is operative on January 1, 1975.
SB 99 - Biddle
Provides that no further payments of principal or
Chapter 896
interest under a specified loan to the Department of
Parks and Recreation for the filling and replenishment
of water in Lake Elsinore and the development of the
Lake Elsinore State Recreation Area are required. It
requires the department to transfer all moneys in the
Elsinore Special Deposit Fund in excess of $60,000
as of December 31, 1973, to the Harbors and Watercraft
Revolving Fund. The department is to make a like
transfer annually thereafter. The bill also appro-
prates $30,000 from the Bagley Conservation Fund to
the department for a general development plan for the
Lake Elsinore State Recreation Area.
SB 239 -Collier
Appropriates $550,000 from the Bagley Conservation
Chapter 890
Fund, from moneys in such fund designated for
miscellaneous capital outlay construction, to the
Department of Parks and Recreation for the removal,
repair, and modification of the existing Benbow Dam
on the Eel River and the construction of a new seasona
dam for recreational purposes during the 1973-74 and
1974-75 fiscal years, as specified.
SB 453 -Berryhill
Requires the approval of the county board of education
Chapter 897
of the annual budget of the county superintendent of
schools.
SB 495 -Holmdahl
Requires that any person who furnishes or supplies
Chapter 898
water for domestic purposes provide an analysis of
such water to the county health officer and the
State Department of Health within 24 hours when any
significant rise in bacterial count of such water
occurs.
of
AB 992 - Wedworth
Revises provisions governing the compensation/members
Chapter 899
of a community redevelopment agency where the
legislative body of a city having a population of
under 200,000, or the legislative body of a county,
declares itself to be such agency to increase the
maximum compensation which may be prescribed by the
legislative body from $25 to $30 per meeting and to
limit the number of meetings for which compensation
may be received to four meetings per calendar month.
SB 1356 - Biddle
Provides for a system of year-round registration of
Chapter 889
motor vehicles commencing with the 1975 calendar year.
The bill appropriates $250,000 for purposes of the Act
SB 1421-Holmdahl
Exempts a city or county from the provisions providing
Chapter 922
for collection of a construction permit fee under the
strong-motion instrumentation program, if the required
installation of accelerographs was completed on or
before January 20, 1972, rather than prior to October
1, 1971. The bill deletes the requirement that the
written request for exemption be received by the State
Geologist on or before June 30, 1972.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that he has signed the
following bills with deletions or reductions:
AB 635 - Arnett
Require the Secretary of the Resources Agency to
Chapter 895
develop an economic practices manual which local
agencies may use in assessing the economic efficiency
and fiscal impact of alternative plan use proposals
by local agencies. Specifies the manual shall include
a step-by-step program for which local agencies may
follow. It authorizes the Secretary to obtain private
counseling and requires him to submit the proposed
manual to the legislature for review prior to final
adoption and distribution to local agencies.
DELETION:
"I am deleting the $50,000 appropriation contained in
Section 2 of Assembly Bill No. 635.
"I have been advised that federal funds are available
to implement the provisions of this bill.
"With the above deletion, I approve Assembly Bill No.
635. =
AB 2302 - Moretti
Appropriates $400,000 from the Agriculture Fund in the
Chapter 894
Department of Food and Agriculture to purchase a mobile
pesticide laboratory, for salaries of necessary
personnel, and for necessary research on farm worker
safety in the use of pesticide.
REDUCTION:
"I am reducing the appropriation contained in Assembly
Bill 2302 from $400,000 to $300,000.
"The reduced appropriation will be adequate to implemer
the provisions of this bill.
"With the above reduction, I approve Assembly Bill
No. 2302.'
SB 399 -Lagomarsino
Amends the Water Code to provide a local cost
Chapter 893
sharing program for small flood control projects
and watershed protection projects which were approved
by appropriate authorities after November 10, 1969.
The bill would require the State to pay 75 percent of
costs apportioned to flood damage reduction benefits
and 90 percent of the relocation costs apportioned to
the benefits resulting from the reduction of flood
damage. The local share would be 25 percent and 10
percent respectively. No financial assistance shall
be provided for allocation, reconstruction, or
replacement of existing improvements, structures, or
utilities for which the owner has no legal right to be
compensated for such relocation, reconstruction, or
replacement.
DELETION:
"I am deleting the $8,000,000 appropriation contained
in Section 9 of Senate Bill No. 399.
"Both this bill and AB 1409 contain duplicate
appropriations. I am deleting the appropriation from
SB 399 because AB 1409 contains an urgency clause and
this bill does not."
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE:
mmediate
Sacramento, Californ
95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
10-1-73
#512
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been vetoed:
AB 98 - Thurman
Provides that any person who is 62 years or older,
upon presentation of proof of age and California
residence to the Department of Parks and Recreation
shall be issued a "Golden Bear Pass for Senior
Citizens" which shall entitle the bearer to free
entrance to California State Parks, except Hearst
San Simeon Historical Monument, under such limitations
as may be determined by departmental regulations
regarding peak hours and contractual arrangements with
vendors. The program is to be a two-year experiment
with a report to the legislature within six months
prior to the end of the two-year period on the
approximate cost.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I question the need for this legislation. Its
enactment would promote pressure for further exemp-
tions for other groups of California residents.
I am also concerned with the effect this exemption
would have on local government parks.
"Federal grants to the Department of Parks and
Recreation require that there be no discrimination
against any person on the basis of residence. So this
bill, if enacted, would apply to California residents
and all visitors from other states.
"Finally, all visitors to units of the California Stat
Park System are currently treated equally and fairly.
There is a $10 annual pass granting unlimited
admission and is available equally to people of all
ages.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 258 - Greene, L.
Repeals the provision that teachers with no service
performed between 1935 and 1950 are required to serve
at least two years after June 30, 1950, in order to
qualify for a retirement allowance. The bill
appropriates $2.5 million annually to the state
Teachers' Retirement Fund for a period of 10 years
beginning July 1, 1974.
REASON FOR VETO:
"This measure is directed at a special interest group
within the broad spectrum of the state Teachers'
Retirement System. I feel that this would establish
a poor precedent and would be unfair to the teachers
who had to contribute fully to the retirement system
to gain eligibility.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 565 - Deddeh
Requires the long-range meteorologic study of pollution
episodes. This study is to also assess the degree to
which current air pollution programs reduce air
pollution as compared with reductions caused by natural
atmospheric conditions.
REASON FOR VETO:
"After short-range forecasting and the emergency plans
have been worked out, it may be more productive to
study use of long-range forecasts.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned." "
AB 758 - Brown
Expands the workmen's compensation laws to cover
persons engaged in domestic service working more than
20 hours per week.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I have signed Assembly Bill 1130 which establishes a
state Workmen's Compensation Advisory Committee. This
committee will have sufficient time to consider any
changes in our workmen's compensation laws.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
#512
AB 763. - Kapiloff
Provides that the homeowners' property tax exemption,
once granted, would remain in effect until such
property is no longer eligible for the exemption.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I believe the annual filing of the claim is an
essential element in the effective administration of
the homeowners' property tax exemption program. It is
a better policy, and in the best interests of the
general taxpayer, to require a positive action to
qualify for the exemption rather than allow the
exemption to continue indefinitely in the absence of
a claim.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 851 Briggs
Provides that property which may be taken by eminent
domain for nonprofit hospital is property immediately
adjacent to, and necessary for, the expansion of
hospital facilities and services of rather than for
the expansion or operation of, a nonprofit hospital
engaged in scientific research or educational activity
The bill requires as a condition of the exercise of
eminent domain that the proposed expansion has
received a favorable decision from such agencies as
are by law required for the certification of health
facilities.
REASON FOR VETO:
"While there is agreement that the areawide health
planning agencies have an interest in proposed
hospital expansion, the bill would create a system
which varies from the process under existing state
and federal law and regulations. The processing of
applications for expansion of hospitals must be
uniform. Variations within the process can only create
excessive administrative burdens upon the hospital and
aggravate an already complex review and approval
system. The present process of issuance of a
certificate of necessity is subject to judicial review
when questioned. I find no compelling reason to
support a change in the existing process.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 855 Burton
Requires the director of Department of Health, after
July 1, 1973, to submit with its budget all plans for
the closure of state hospitals. The bill provides
that such a plan shall not be placed into effect
unless the legislature specifically approves it.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The requirement relating to specific legislative
approval before closure of a state hospital is
incompatible with the separation of responsibilities
between the executive branch and the legislative
branch of state government. Inability of the Depart-
ment of Health to make timely adjustments in
utilization of state hospitals could result in major
unwarranted costs of operation and therefore in
equally unwarranted charges to the counties and other
payors of state hospital care and treatment.
"The Department of Health is submitting information
on the future operation of state hospitals to the
legislature as directed by Assembly Concurrent
Resolution 59. This bill would have requested
similar information.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
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AB 964 - Brown
-eletes the Penal Code provision which makes it a
misdemeanor to picket within the state Capitol.
REASON FOR VETO:
"This law was not enacted, nor is it intended to be
used, to harass any specific individual or group of
individuals. During the period from July 1970 to the
present, 103 demonstrations involving a total of
approximately 28,000 persons occurred on the Capitol
grounds. In 10 of these demonstrations, violence
erupted, resulting in damage to state and private
property. Many injuries were suffered by demon-
strators, bystanders, and California state Police
Division personnel.
"The purpose of this law is to keep the Capitol halls
free from obstruction so that citizens who are
conducting business with legislators and government
officials can do so without fear or intimidation.
"Accordingly, I am returning this bill unsigned."
AB 1150 - Wood
Extends from June 30, 1974, to June 30, 1979, the
operation of specified provisions providing for
industry assessments to pay for 50 percent of the
cost of the beet leafhopper control program.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I question the need for continuing state general fund
support for this program. There will be ample time
in 1974 to enact appropriate legislation to remove
state financial support for the Curly Top Virus
Control Program.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned." "
AB 1177 - Fong
Deletes the Education Code provision that knowing
failure to notify, or provide material to parents or
guardian, or to require a student to attend sex
education classes may lead to revocation or suspension
of a teacher's certification document.
REASON FOR VETO:
"Last year I signed into law major legislation
related to the notification process of parents for
students in sex education or family life classes in
our public school system.
"There have been significant improvements made in
sex education and health education generally. To my
knowledge, there has been no suspension or revocation
of a teacher's credential as a result of the existing
law. I concur with the state Board of Education that
there is no justification in making further changes
in this area.
"Accordingly, I am returning this bill unsigned."
AB 1343 - Knox
Requires the Department of Transportation to prepare,
and the California Highway Commission to budget, the
first project for the improvement of Route 17 from
the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge to Route 80 near
Albany to freeway standards for contract during the
1977-78 fiscal year.
REASON FOR VETO:
"There have been resolutions passed by the legislature
which urge the granting of high priority to specific
projects. The Highway Commission has always given
great weight to such resolutions. The resolution
is a proper way to call the Commission's attention to
the concern of the legislature and at the same time
preserve the duties and responsibilities of the
commission in determining the proper priorities of
needs which can be constructed with the limited funds
available.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
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AB 1419 - Chappie
Adds Douglas Boulevard from Route 80 near Roseville
easterly to the Folsom Lake State Recreational Area
to the state highway system as Route 226.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The proposed Route 226 does not meet the requirements
recommended for the state Highway System as defined
in the '1971 Section 256 Report' and the 'California
Continuing Vehicle Classification Study Report'
which was submitted to the legislature in 1972.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 1530 - Murphy
Increases allowances of persons retired or members
of the Public Employees Retirement System who died
prior to July 1, 1971. Theincrease is in the amount
of $20 per month if the member had 20 or more years
of service or the lesser of 10 percent of the "monthly
allowance" or $20 per month if the member had less
than 20 years. Makes an appropriation of $3,300,000
to reimburse local agencies for costs incurred by
them pursuant to this act.
REASON FOR VETO:
"Omnibus legislation covering all employee benefits
will be introduced early next year. It would be
premature to sign this measure at this time.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 1707 - Berman
Permits board of supervisors of any county, rather
than the counties of under 4,000, OOO population to
initiate proceedings for the establishment of county
service areas upon the written request in the form
of a resolution adopted by a majority vote of
governing body of any city in the county and filed
with the board of supervisors.
REASON FOR VETO:
"This measure permits board of supervisors of any
county, rather than counties of under 4,000,000
population, to initiate proceedings for the establish-
ment of county service areas upon the written request
in the form of a resolution adopted by a majority
vote of the governing body of any city in the county
and filed with the board of supervisors. I am
vetoing this measure because existing law already
includes adequate provisions for the institution of
such proceedings. I feel that Assembly Bill 1707
would provide a limited first step in actions that
would lead to a change in an existing tax inequity
by increasing taxes in unincorporated areas. This
problem is complex and cannot be solved on a piece-
meal basis.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 1821 Miller
Gives the right of confrontation and cross-examinatior
to parents at detention hearings regarding dependent
children under Section 600 of the Welfare and
Institutions Code. The bill also provides that the
parents have the privilege against self-incrimination
at such hearings.
REASON FOR VETO:
"AB 1821 would substantially change the nature of
juvenile detention hearings by changing it from a
court conducted proceeding to an adversary proceeding.
Juvenile detention hearings under Section 600 of the
Welfare and Institutions Code are conducted for the
welfare of the child. To the extent this bill would
shift the nature of the inquiry, the welfare of the
child would suffer.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
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AB 1831 - Badham
Provides for contribution of an employer under the
Meyers-Geddes State Employees' Medical and Hospital
Care Act beginning on the effective date of the bill
or upon the effective date of enrollment in a medical
plan, which is later.
REASON FOR VETO:
"Omnibus legislation covering all employee benefits
will be introduced early next year. It would be
premature to sign the measure at this time.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 2092 - Karabian
Allows all incumbents to include description of
public office with the word "incumbent," If rather than
just Members of the Legislature, and allows inclusion
of these word description of occupations held with th
description of the public office.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The changes proposed by this bill are unnecessary.
Present law already provides the incumbent with a
more than adequate ballot identification.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 2112 - Mobley
Provides for periodic transfer of the unencumbered
balance in the Department of Human Resources Develop-
ment Contingent Fund in excess of $1,000,000 to the
Unemployment Fund and the Disability Fund in the rati
of revenues relating to such funds.
REASON FOR VETO:
"AB 2112 represents the reversal of an established
state fiscal policy. There has been no showing that
the present transfers from the Human Resources
Development Contingent Fund to the General Fund
create any fiscal inequities.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 2455 Waxman
Limits liability under Medi-Cal of responsible
relatives for noncategorically related needy persons
to the spouse of an adult or a parent of a minor.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I believe that adult children, who are financially
able to care for their parents, should continue to
bear that responsibility and that it should not be
passed on to the taxpaying public.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 2585 - Joint Comm.
Establishes educational functions of various
on the Master Plan
segments of public higher education. The bill
for Higher Education
declares legislative intent that a continuous
Vasconcellos, Chairman
planning process, rather than the fixed master
plan approach, be used in development of public
postsecondary education. The bill also prescribes
standards to govern intersegmental cooperation.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I generally agree with the purpose and intent of thi
legislation. However, I feel the new California
Postsecondary Education Commission, established by
AB 770 this year, should take as its first responsi-
bility reestablishment of the educational functions
of the various segments of higher education.
"The new commission should determine the state's role
in higher education as well as defining the roles of
students, faculty, and all those involved in the
benefits of our higher education system.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
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SB
350
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Lagomarsino Increases the annual cost-of-living adjustment of
retirement or survivor's benefits from two percent
to three percent commencing on or after April 1, 1974
for state and local members of the Public Employees'
Retirement System. The bill appropriates $8,250,000
from the General Fund for the reimbursement of the
costs incurred by local agencies pursuant to this bill
REASON FOR VETO:
"Omnibus legislation which will include cost of living
provisions, will be introduced early next year
covering all employee benefits.
"The bill is estimated to cost some $33 million a year
It would be premature to sign SB 350 at this time
when work is being done on a comprehensive bill that
will cover all employee benefits.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
SB 400 - Moscone
Repeals the Winton Act. The bill also adds compre-
hensive new provisions to govern collective negotia-
tions involving employees in education, and makes
same applicable to all levels of public education,
including all school districts, the California State
University and Colleges, and the University of
California.
REASON FOR VETO:
"While SB 400 is silent on the subject of strikes, it
contains no specific prohibition against them. The
teacher organizations sponsoring this bill all favor
'legalized' strikes by teachers. We can only assume
that by later court tests or by amendments that this
questionable 'goal' will be pursued.
"SB 400 contains no management rights clause or limit
on the scope of bargaining. It would make each inter-
pretation, application or violation of an agreement or
any possible dispute or disagreement on any policy,
practice or decision of elected or appointed educa-
tional officials subject to bargaining, a grievance
and/or arbitration proceedings. The curriculum, class
size, choice of textbooks, bussing, facilities,
equipment, teaching methods, class hours, etc., would
all be subject to the conflict and upheaval of
collective bargaining.
"Nothing in the California educational experience
justifies the scrapping of the Winton Act and
California's record under the law is far superior
to the record of those states which now have collectiv
bargaining laws similar to SB 400; Michigan, Hawaii,
Pennsylvania and New York are prime examples of this
fact. The need for collective bargaining in Calif-
ornia's schools has not been proven in any respect and
this bill will not prevent strikes.
"The cost of public education in California (covering
630,000 educational employees) which now amounts to a
total tax expenditure of approximately $7 billion
annually, would likely increase substantially if
SB 400 became law.
"SB 400 obviously serves the personal interests of
teachers but it does not address itself to the welfare
or educational needs of our children. And it is their
welfare which is at stake if conflict, contention and
possible strikes are introduced into our educational
systems by collective bargaining under SB 400. I do
not believe that California's taxpayers want or
support collective bargaining and/or strikes in our
educational system.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill without my
signature.
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SB 890 - Berryhill
Permits a miscellaneous member of the Public
Employees' Retirement System to retire from service
if he has attained age 50 rather than, as now, age 55
and is credited with 15 or more years of state
service.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I believe the current provisions of law are sound
public policy. To encourage retirement as early as
age 50 for individuals in other than law enforcement
or fire fighting activities which require physical
fitness, is not desirable and would deprive the state
of the services of highly trained and capable
employees.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
SB 1084 - Petris
Provides that general unrestricted contributions by
public or public sources to private charitable
organization shall not be deducted from the costs of
providing Short-Doyle services.
REASON FOR VETO:
"the practical effect of this bill would be to
unbalance the allocation of state funds to local
mental health programs. If private contributions are
not considered, state funds would be allocated to a
program already funded wholly or in part by such
contributions. This would over-fund some programs at
the expense of others that could make better use of
the state funds.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
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Ed Gray, Press Secr
ary
916-445-4571
10-1-73
#513
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that he has signed the
following bills:
AB 47 - Lanterman
Removes the right to refuse a lobotomy from those
Chapter 959
rights which persons in a mental health facility
may, for good cause, be denied by the person in
charge of the facility or his designee. Requires
the Director of Health to adopt regulations specify-
ing the conditions under which specified rights may
be denied and establishes reporting requirements for
each local mental health director regarding these
denials.
AB 104 - Boatwright
Requires, upon request of the adopting parents,
Chapter 960
that a new birth certificate be issued without
reference to color and race of the parents, or, at
at any time after issuance of a new birth certificate,
that an amended birth certificate be issued which
omits the color and race of the parents.
AB 177 - Garcia
Permits the issuance of alcoholic beverage club
Chapter 961
license to press club meeting certain requirements,
provided such club does not restrict membership or
use of facilities on the basis of race, religion,
national origin, or sex.
AB 262 - Z'berg
Provides for professional forester members of
Chapter 962
examining committee established under the Profes-
sional Foresters Law to receive specified compensa-
tion. Permits the Director of Finance to authorize
an emergency expenditure of moneys from the Profes-
sional Forester Registration Fund.
AB 267 - Deddeh
Eliminates the distinction in the Banking Law be-
Chapter 963
tween savings banks, commercial banks and nonde-
partmental banks.
AB 442 - Dunlap
Requires the Commission of Housing and Community
Chapter 964
Development to adopt, amend, repeal and enforce
regulations relating to the provision of minimum
fire safety and fire-resistant standards relating
to the manufacture, composition and use of "foam
building systems,' for use or used in the construc-
tion of buildings subject to the State Housing Law,
as well as for mobilehomes and factory-built
housing.
AB 516 - Murphy
Deletes provisions which prohibit the issuance of a
Chapter 965
driver's license to a person who holds a valid
identification card issued under the Vehicle Code.
The bill also deletes provisions which permit any
person 18 years of age or older who does not have a
valid driver's license to be issued an identifica-
tion card, and instead authorizes the Department of
Motor Vehicles to issue an identification card to
any person 16 years of age or older attesting as
to the true name, correct age, and other identifying
date as certified by the applicant for a card.
AB 795 - Lewis
Authorizes an allocation under the Emergency Flood
Chapter 966
Relief Law to the Hi-Desert County Water District
for restoration of wells damaged or destroyed by
the July 4, 1972, earthquake. The bill also
authorizes such relief to local agencies suffering
public building, street, road, or bridge damage in
specified circumstances.
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AB 820 - Meade
- cludes in the definition O₂ "public agency" for
Chapter 967
purposes of Social Security coverage of public
employees any non-profit corporation formed for the
purpose of operating a sports arena for the general
recreational purposes of a city or county.
AB 925 - Greene, L.
Extends the operative date of provisions authorizing
Chapter 968
California to participate in the Compact for Educa-
tion from December 31, 1973 to December 31, 1976.
AB 1079 - Lanterman
Appropriates $3,250 from General Fund to the
Chapter 969
Altadena Library District as reimbursement for the
cost of repairing damage to facilities of such dis-
trict caused by the earthquake of February 9, 1971.
AB 1227 - Thurman
Increases from $67,000 to $80,000 the annual expend-
Chapter 970
iture authorization for milk stabilization funds to
be used for checking the correctness of milk fat,
milk solids not fat, and bacteriological tests, as
well as the weighing and sampling of fluid milk
which is delivered by producers to distributors.
AB 1302 - Duffy
Permits the Tulare County Superintendent of Schools
Chapter 971
to seek a voted tax of up to 5¢ per $100 of assessed
valuation to acquire and maintain land and facilities
for an outdoor science and conservation education
program conducted pursuant to agreements with school
districts in the county.
AB 1315 - Z'berg
Enables the County of Sacramento and cities within
Chapter 972
the county to form consolidated city-county govern-
ment.
AB 1319 - Seeley
Authorizes the State Land Commission to exchange
Chapter 973
vacant state school lands under its jurisdiction for
lands owned by any state agency, political subdivi-
sion, or person, partnership, company, or corpora-
tion for the purpose of acquiring land for specified
projects. Requires the Department of Parks and
Recreation to establish priorities for such projects.
Further provides that such transactions shall not be
completed until reviewed and approved by the Depart-
ment of General Services and the State Public Works
Board.
AB 1421 - Chappie
Makes all off-highway vehicles subject to the Chappie/
Chapter 974
Z'berg Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Law of 1971, on and
after July 1, 1974.
AB 1514 - Deddeh
Prevents, except in limited instances, a lender from
Chapter 975
requiring a real property borrower to pay taxes and
insurance into an impound account.
AB 1553 - Lewis
Makes technical amendments to provisions of the
Chapter 976
Education Code, relating to the State Teachers'
Retirement System.
AB 1601 - McCarthy, Chairman
Makes it unlawful for any person, associa-
Joint Committee on Aging
tion or corporation to conduct a referral
Chapter 924
agency, or to refer persons to extended
care, skilled nursing home or intermediate
care facilities for remuneration without having a
license from the Department of Health. The bill
establishes standards for the licensure of referral
agencies, conflict of interest provisions and penal-
ties for violation of such provisions.
AB 1615 - Johnson, R. Makes several technical changes to the weights
Chapter 977
and measures laws and authorizes injunctive relief
for violations of such laws. In addition, the bill
adds a new chapter to provide for the registration
of weighing and measuring device repairmen.
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AB 1642 - Dunlap
equires spark arresters afte. January 1, 1974, on
Chapter 978
all hydrocarbon fueled equipment designed for use
in harvesting or hauling flammable agricultural
crops. Arresters must be installed by seller or
installed and maintained in effective working order
by any bailor of such equipment.
AB 1685 - McAlister
Authorizes Los Angeles County to designate the
Chapter 979
county clerk as commissioner of civil marriages,
and permits commissioner to appoint deputy commis-
sioners to perform marriages. Establishes a $10
fee for solemnization to be paid into county
treasury.
AB
1724 - Antonovich Makes it unlawful for any person to knowingly use
Chapter 980
any aborted product of human conception other than
fetal remains, as defined, for scientific or labora-
tory research, or for any other kind of experimenta-
tion or study, except to protect or preserve the life
and health of the fetus. Provides that any viola-
tion of the act constitutes unprofessional conduct
within the meaning of the State Medical Practice Act.
AB 1936 - Dunlap
Provides that the California Maritime Academy is
Chapter 981
within the Department of Education. Revises provi-
sions regarding the terms of office of appointive
members of the board of governors. Also authorizes
use of college opportunity program grants and occu-
pational education and training program grants for
attending the California Maritime Academy.
SB 54 - Carpenter
Exempts from criminal penalty any person who sells,
Chapter 925
or possesses with intent to sell, any product made
from the oil of sea turtles if such acts occur
prior to April 1, 1974.
SB 83 - Collier
Generally excludes authorized employees of the De-
Chapter 926
partment of Transportation, acting within the scope
of their employment in the pursuit of seismic
explorations, from specified provisions regarding
the handling, possession, storage, transportation,
or use of explosives.
SB 213 - Grunsky
Authorizes judges who have resigned from office to
Chapter 927
solemnize marriages.
SB 224 - Coombs
Provides that funds appropriated by Item 357, Budget
Chapter 928
Act of 1973, shall be available for minor improvement
projects on any campus of the University of Cali-
fornia.
SB 254 - Grunsky
Provides that property shall be assessed as open-
Chapter 929
space lands for the 1973-74 fiscal year if such
property satisfies the requirements therefor by
May 25, 1973, rather than March 1, 1973; provided
that prior to March 1, 1973, either the land was
included in a submitted proposal to establish an
agricultural preserve or the matter of accepting an
open-space easement or scenic restriction had been
referred to the planning commission or planning de-
partment.
SB 272 - Lagomarsino
Revises provisions requiring reporting of a
Chapter 930
casualty or accident involving a vessel and re-
quires the Department of Navigation and Ocean
Development to adopt regulations to maintain a
uniform casualty and accident reporting system for
vessels in conformity with federal casualty and
accident reporting regulations. Also permits a
majority of the electors in the Marin County Transit
District voting at a special election called for
the purpose to increase the maximum tax limit of 5¢
per $100 of assessed valuation.
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SB 323 - Zenovich
Requires sanitary facilities in public accommodations
Chapter 931
and facilities made available for the physically
handicapped when such sanitary facilities are made
available for the public, clients, or employees.
The bill specifies that any new requirements imposed
by the act apply only to such accommodations con-
structed on or after the effective date for the act.
575
SB
387
- Roberti
Provides that a hospital, facility, or clinic organ-
Chapter 935
ized or operated by a church, religious organization,
or religious order, if the governing board so deter-
mines, shall not be required to admit or not to ad-
mit a patient for the purposes of performing an
abortion, but requires such hospitals, facilities,
or clinics refusing to permit abortions to post a
notice to that effect. Prohibits any employer or
other person from requiring a physician, registered
nurse, licensed vocational nurse, or any other per-
son employed or with staff privileges at a hospital,
facility, or clinic to directly participate in an
abortion if such employee or other person has filed
a written statement indicating a moral, ethical, or
religious basis for refusal to participate.
SB 415 - Grunsky
Appropriates $30,000, from designated unencumbered
Chapter 932
balance of funds, to the Department of Parks and
Recreation for the preparation of a General Develop-
ment Plan for Hearst San Simeon State Historical
Monument.
SB 428 - Beilenson
Prohibits persons and organizations from referring
Chapter 923
or recommending persons for profit to a physician,
hospital, or other health facility for any form of
medical care or treatment, except referrals or
recommendations under the crippled children services
program or prepaid health plans. Also prohibits
physicians, hospitals, or other health facilities
from entering into agreements to accept for care or
treatment any person referred or recommended by an
out-of-state referral service if that service would
be prohibited if located in this state.
SB 466 - Mills
Requires the California Toll Bridge Authority to
Chapter 933
grant toll-free passage on toll bridges, tubes,
and other toll highway crossings under its juris-
diction to vehicles in a funeral procession of a
person who died while on active duty with the armed
services of the United States.
SB 489 - Behr
Revises the method of filling vacancies on certain
Chapter 934
special district governing boards.
SB 618 - Marks
Revises definition of "weekly student contact hours"
Chapter 936
for purposes of computing state support under
Community College Construction Act of 1967 by includ-
ing ungraded, as well as graded, classes and by in-
cluding classes convened prior to 10:00 p.m. rather
than 4:30 p.m.
SB 631 - Stull
Authorizes the governing board of an elementary
Chapter 937
school district in San Diego County which will have
its school athletic and youth center facility donated
by a non-profit, charitable organization at no cost
to the district to permit the general use of the
facility for supervised recreational activities
by the donor organization.
SB 666 - Way
Revises and updates the cattle brand inspection
Chapter 939
system to make the law consistent with modern cattle
raising and marketing practices.
SB 667 - Way
Updates and revises the cattle protection laws.
Chapter 938
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SB 793 - Way
Authorizes mosquito abatement or vector control dis-
Chapter 941
trict boards to treat breeding places of mosquitoes,
flies, and other insects with appropriate chemical
or biological control agents, rather than with oil
or other larvicidal material. Grants mosquito
abatement or vector control district boards authority
to assess civil penalties as determined by the board
against the owner or party in possession, but not to
exceed $500 per day for each day that a notice or
hearing order to abate a nuisance has not been com-
plied with.
SB 801 - Rodda
Provides that any nonacademic employee of the state
Chapter 942
university and colleges who is promoted to a position
with substantially different duties and is not made
permanent, may return to the class in which he was
serving before his promotion as well as any class in
which he was permanent.
SB 841 - Walsh
Prohibits the Department of Motor Vehicles from
Chapter 943
issuing a new certificate of ownership from an appli-
cation for duplicate certificate under certain
circumstances.
SB 897 - Bradley
Changes numbers and salaries of various court attaches
Chapter 944
in the Santa Clara County municipal courts.
SB 923 - Zenovich
Revises the salary and positions of various municipal
Chapter 945
court attaches and officers of the Fresno Municipal
Court.
SB 941 - Moscone
Requires the State Fire Marshal to develop fire
Chapter 946
safety regulations for new and existing high-rise
buildings. State and local fire officials would
enforce the provisions, and local governments would
have authority to adopt stricter standards.
SB 1110 - Mills
Clarifies and makes technical changes in the law
Chapter 947
relating to bicycles and other nonmotorized
transportation.
SB 1120 - Cusanovich Authorizes air pollution control districts to per-
Chapter 948
mit open burning of wood wastes on property being
developed for commercial or residential purposes,
or with respect to the disposal of brush cuttings
on the property where the brush was grown when the
cutting was done in compliance with local ordinances
to reduce fire hazards. Such burning may be allowed
if the district finds that it is more desirable to
dispose of such wastes by burning rather than by
other methods.
SB 1131 - Coombs
Amends the Psychology License Law to require the
Chapter 949
annual renewal of the registrations of psychological
assistants, revise provisions relating to the super-
vision of such assistants, and provide for the adop-
tion of regulations prescribing the nature of such
supervision.
SB 1140 - Biddle
Enacts the Uniform Management of Institutional Funds
Chapter 950
Act.
SB 1250 - Behr
Prohibits any person from operating an unauthorized
Chapter 951
motor vehicle on any state, county, city, private,
or district bicycle path that is clearly marked by
an authorized agent or owner with signs at all
entrances and exits and at intervals of not more
than one mile indicating no unauthorized motor
vehicles are permitted on the bicycle path, except
bicycle paths which are contiguous or adjacent to a
roadway dedicated solely to motor vehicle use.
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SB 1254 - Behr
makes workmen's compensation provisions applicable
Chapter 953
to members, rather than male members, of volunteer
fire departments.
SB 1301 - Marler
Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue
Chapter 891
a temporary driver's license to any licensee whose
license is required to be changed, added to, or
modified. Also authorizes the department to waive
the driving test part of the driver's license examin-
ation for specified persons. Also makes other changes
relating to drivers' licenses.
SB 1317 - Coombs
Makes a number of clarifying and technical correc-
Chapter 952
tions to the Personal Income Tax Law.
SB 1365 - Marks
Authorizes the State Department of Health, until
Chapter 954
July 1, 1975, to approve a licentiate of the healing
arts to give on-the-job training, based on instruc-
tional standards prescribed by the department, to
a student of radiologic technology, if certain
specified conditions are complied with. The bill
empowers the department to establish and collect
fees in an amount sufficient to defray its cost in
administering such program.
SB 1399 - Biddle
Increases the salary ranges of various court
Chapter 955
attaches in the Riverside, Corona and Desert Judi-
cial Districts of the Riverside County Municipal
Court.
SB 1401 - Bradley
Requires that at least one magistrate be available
Chapter 956
on call, if a court is not in session, to expedite
issuance of search warrants, release from actual
custody upon bail, and other specified matters upon
which a magistrate is authorized to act. Requires
officer in charge of a jail, or his designate, to
assist any person held in custody, or his attorney,
to contact the magistrate on call for purpose of
seeking release on bail.
SB 1413 - Marler
Authorizes the State Department of Health to transfer
Chapter 957
to the Northern California Emergency Care Council
any state funds appropriated by the legislature for
the purpose of such transfer for state support of a
pilot project establishing an emergency medical care
delivery system in designated counties.
SB 1416 - Grunsky
Authorizes the Salinas Union Valley School District
Chapter 958
to form an improvement area within the district in
order to finance in specified manner the construction
of specified facilities.
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretry
916-445-4571
10-1-73
#514
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been vetoed.
AB 112 - Karabian
Provides specified retirement benefits for court
commissioners in Los Angeles County.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I am informed by the County Supervisors Association,
who opposed the bill along with the Los Angeles
County Board of Supervisors, that enactment of AB 112
would establish a serious precedent which could lead
to a collection of competing retirement categories
for various specialized groups thereby disrupting
the county's long established retirement system.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 358 - Dixon
Requires school districts of 400,000 or more average
daily attendance to establish a reference library in
each school of the district containing at least five
copies of rules and regulations of the district
applicable to certificated employees thereof, and to
distribute to such employees a summary of any changes
in employee's rights, benefits and burdens.
REASON FOR VETO:
"Even though this bill applies only to the Los
Angeles Unified School District and the district in
part is already doing much of what the legislation
requests, AB 353 mandates a program in an area which
should be solely the discretion of the local school
board.
"Currently, school district governing boards prescribe
regulations for the government and discipline of
schools under their jurisdiction. I feel the means
of informing their employees is best determined by
the local board.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 374 - Miller
Permits school districts to contribute additional
contributions to decrease members' contributions and
requires the state Teachers' Retirement Board to
credit such contributions to members' individual
accounts.
REASON FOR VETO:
"Legislation enacted in 1971 provided that employer
matching contributions of 8 percent were to be phased
in over a 7 year period, beginning with 3.2 percent
in 1972-73. This was done to accommodate low wealth
districts; to enable them to meet the 8 percent level
over the 7 year period and because they could not
afford the immediate increase to 8 percent.
"Many low wealth school districts would be unable to
obtain qualified teachers if other districts paid all
or a significant portion of the teachers' 8 percent
contribution as this bill would provide.
"Until school districts are all paying equal amount
of the retirement program, any major change or move
toward a non-contributory system would be both
premature and costly.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 402 - Warren
Creates a 12-member Ski Safety Advisory Council with-
in the Division of Industrial Safety of the Depart-
ment of Industrial Relations. The bill provides that
the subjects to be considered by the council include
all matters pertaining to ski safety.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The bill is unnecessary. The Director of Industrial
Relations already has statutory authority to
establish advisory councils.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
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AB 559 - Chacon
Requires governing board of school districts to
employ bilingual persons to work in the administrative
office of each school when at least 15 percent of the
pupils enrolled in the school speak a single primary
language other than English. The bill prescribes
rules for the recruitment and the duties of such
employees.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I regret that because of bad management there are
some school districts that have not made provisions
for language problems. However, such problems and
their solutions are the responsibility of the local
school districts. I feel approaches to such solutions
will vary from district to district and should not be
dependent on a restrictive mandate from the state.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 1110 - Dixon
Adds peace officer members of the marshal's department
of the municipal court to the list of police personnel
for purposes of peace officer programs provided by
the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training
REASON FOR VETO:
"Marshals provide services as court attaches and not
as line enforcement officers. As such, it appears
that training under POST is unnecessary.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 1281 - Holoman
Requires beer sold under a special daily license for
the sale of beer on a temporary basis, and beer sold
under a daily on-sale general license, to have been
purchased at retail from the holder of an off-sale
license, except draft beer sold in one-quarter barrel
containers or larger.
REASON FOR VETO:
"Ordinarily the holder of a special daily alcoholic
beverage license purchases the beer to be sold under
his license at wholesale from a beer wholesaler. A
special daily licensee is generally a charitable,
religious or fraternal organization which sells
alcoholic beverages on a temporary basis for the
advancement of a particular charitable, fraternal or
philanthropic purpose. Requiring beer to be bought
at retail prior to reselling it could very seriously
hamper the non-profit organization involved.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 2095 - Maddy
Requires the Trustees of the California State
University and Colleges to adopt procedures for direct
student input regarding fees established for services,
facilities, or materials.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I am returning this bill unsigned at the request of
the Trustees. The Trustees already utilize direct
student input on an across-the-board basis including
granting floor privileges to students at their
regularly scheduled meetings. The chancellor's office
has included students on statewide committees, and on
campus students serve on all but the personnel
committees.
"I feel there are sufficient procedures in allowing for
student input. This legislation could inhibit
existing modes for the exchange of information that
have worked successfully.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEAS'
Immediate
Sacramento, Califori
95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
10-2-73
#515
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced he has vetoed the following
bills:
AB 447 - Vasconcellos Requires maintenance of state hospitals and major
program services for the mentally retarded and
multiply handicapped at existing levels in present
geographic locations pending legislative investigation
to be completed by the legislative analyst prior to
February 1, 1975.
REASON FOR VETO:
"AB 447 would needlessly tie the hands of the Executiv
Branch in administering state hospital services. It
would also interfere with the authority and responsi-
bility given to the area developmental disabilities
boards by the legislature. This authority and
responsibility includes development of area-wide plans
on a long-range basis for the mentally retarded and
other developmentally disabled individuals.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 448 - Vasconcellos Requires maintenance of all state hospitals and all
major program services for the mentally disordered
(with certain specified program exceptions) at
specified levels until various review procedures have
been completed and the legislature enacts legislation
specifically approving the closure or reduction of
services.
REASON FOR VETO:
"It is my opinion that this measure would inappro-
priately and unnecessarily reduce the administration's
authority to efficiently manage the Department of
Health's programs. In 1972, I signed legislation
requiring the Department of Health to notify the
legislature nine months in advance of any plans to
close state hospitals. This provides adequate time for
the legislature to review the proposal and take
whatever action it feels may be in the public interest
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 512 - Deddeh
Provides that specified local safety personnel who are
members of the Public Employees Retirement System or
County Employees Retirement System Law of 1937 who are
temporarily or permanently disabled by illness or
injury arising out of and in course of employment are
entitled to paid leave of absence for duration of
disability until returned to duty or retired on perma-
nent disability, whichever occurs first. The bill
changes the present one-year limitation to 18-months
limitation.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The one-year leave of absence provisions under the
Labor Code has been operative for many years. In
addition, the employee has had the protection of the
leave for the full year without threat of earlier
separation from the payroll without his consent in the
form of a voluntary application for retirement. Any
change in this important employee benefit should be
subject to further study by the legislature and
affected employers and employees.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 1516 - Foran
Modifies the procedure for selection of physicians on
workmen's compensation claims. It permits the employer
based on qualified medical advice, to designate the
area of medical specialty and provide a list of five
physicians, from which the employee chooses one for
provision of medical treatment. The employer is re-
quired to make such designations upon request of the
employee. The bill further designates the means by
which the employer may request a change of physicians.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I have signed Assembly Bill 1130 which establishes a
state workmen's compensation advisory committee. This
committee will have a sufficient time to consider any needed changes in
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AB 1603 - McCarthy
quires the Department of E 1th to establish, to
the extent permitted by federal law, reimbursement
rates for nursing home care based on the quality,
quantity and type of services furnished by the nursing
home that are required and necessary to meet the
specific needs of the individual recipient.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The proposed system would increase costs significant-
ly by requiring individualized and itemized cost
accounting for an estimated 68,000 Medi-Cal patients,
instead of the four flat rate reimbursements now in
use, without adding any assurance of better quality
or quantity of service to the patients.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
SB 64 - Dymally
Repeals provisions requiring the governing board of
each school district, except community college
districts, to develop and adopt specific certificated
personnel evaluation and assessment guidelines which
are required to include specified elements. The bill
adds a provision requiring a governing board of each
school district, except community college districts,
to adopt rules and regulations establishing specific
procedures for evaluation of certificated employees on
an individual basis, setting forth reasonable but
specific standards for the performance, and requiring
such procedures and standards to apply to all
certificated employees of the district.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The state Board of Education has expressed concern
over the drastic changes in current law proposed by
SB 64. I share the board's concern.
"The Stull Act has been in effect only one year.
There has not been sufficient experience under the
current law to warrant the changes proposed in SB 64.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
SB 187 - Moscone
Prohibits the importation, transportation, possession
and release alive into the state of all live wild
animals not normally domesticated in this state and
not normally native to the state as determined by the
commission. It permits the commission to designate
classes, orders, families, genera and species of wild
animals which may be possessed with a permit. The
bill also appropriates $60,000 from the Fish and Game
Preservation Fund to the state controller for alloca-
tion and disbursement to local agencies, or to the
department.
REASON FOR VETO:
"SB 187 does not offer any added protection to
California's agricultural interests or wildlife
resources, but instead directs itself to importation
of non-native animals such as the elephant, rhino,
tiger, baboon, etc., for the pet industry.
"The bill would appropriate $60,000 from the Fish and
Game Preservation Fund to the State Controller for
allocation and disbursement to local agencies or the
Department of Fish and Game. California hunters,
sport and commercial fishermen, should not be required
to support the cost of protecting non-native wildlife.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
SB 519 - Alquist
Raises the death benefit payable to the state or
designated beneficiary of a retired member of the
Public Employees' Retirement System from $500 to $750.
REASON FOR VETO:
"While this is an important benefit to the surviving
spouses of PERS members, it would be premature at this
time to approve this bill. An omnibus bill, covering
employee and retiree benefits, will be introduced
early next year.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned.'
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SB 542 - Coombs
Requires the Department of Health to establish and
maintain a system for providers to bill by a
recipient's identification number alone, which for
emergency services shall be all the documentation
required to establish the recipient's eligibility for
Medi-Cal for any given month.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The Department of Health presently maintains a
comprehensive beneficiary eligibility system, which
provides for immediate proof of eligibility. This
system, which utilizes the Medi-Cal card, provides
for emergency services as well as all other services
and has proven to be effective in properly identifying
Medi-Cal beneficiaries, as well as controlling over-
utilization of the Medi-Cal program. There appears
to be no reason to separate the identification process
for emergency services from other services.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
SB 692 - Alquist
Permits academic and nonacademic employees of the
state University and Colleges to inspect the employee's
personnel file. The employee is also given the
rights to review and comment upon any derogatory
information entered in his file.
REASON FOR VETO:
"Fifteen of the 19 state university and college
campuses have personnel procedures which are already
in compliance with the provisions of SB 692. The
four remaining campuses will have procedures in
operation by July 1, 1974, making this measure
unnecessary.
"Accordingly, I am returning this bill unsigned."
SB 1030 Dymally
Requires persons and firms who clean grounds and
structures in connection with work performed by
contractors to register with the Registrar of
Contractors and pay a registration fee of not more
than $25.
REASON FOR VETO:
"There has been no satisfactory demonstration that
this new program is necessary for the protection of
the public. In addition, any public purpose this
particular bill might provide would be negligible
since the bill requires no qualifications for regis-
tration, makes no provision for disciplinary action or
other regulatory control of registrants, and imposes
no criminal sanctions for failure to register. Under
these circumstances, the bill would be an unwarranted
and ineffectual extension of state authority.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
SB 1168 Marks
Adds a student member to the Board of Trustees of the
California State University and Colleges.
REASON FOR VETO:
"Faculty and students are now provided full opportunity
to be heard and to participate in discussion during
trustee meetings. This bill would limit opinion to a
single representative to no advantage to students in
general. In addition, this change toward having
representative membership would change the nature of
the board, hindering the trustees' ability to function
as an objective governing board overseeing the general
direction of the California State University and
Colleges.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
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SB 1227 - Dymally
expresses legislative intent regarding participation
in athletic programs by female and male students, and
declares that such programs provide as nearly equal
opportunities for male and female students as is
practicable. The bill requires school district
governing boards to reasonably apportion amounts for
athletic programs equally to male and female students,
except as prescribed. It prohibits the use of public
funds in connection with any amateur athletic programs
conducted under the auspices of a school district
governing board or student organization which dis-
criminate on the basis of sex.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I do not believe it is the proper role for the state
to tell local school boards what type of competitive
athletic programs they shall offer. I personally
agree that meaningful, competitive sports should
exist for both male and female students, however, this
decision must be left up to local control.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
SB 1228 - Dymally
Expresses legislative intent regarding participation
in state university and college athletic programs,
and declares that such programs provide as nearly
equal opportunities for male and female students as
is practicable. The bill requires the Trustees of
the California State University and Colleges to
reasonably apportion amounts for athletic programs
to male and female students.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I do not believe that it is a proper role of the
state to require the trustees to establish certain
types of competitive sports programs for both male
and female students. This decision should be left
to the trustees who have the responsibility to govern
our state University and Colleges system.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
Governor Ronald Reagan today also announced he has signed the
following bill with a deletion:
SB 1083 - Petris
Appropriates $1,240,000 to the Department of Water
Resources for payment of the costs of lands, ease-
ments, and rights of way for the San Leandro Creek
flood control project in Alameda County.
DELETION:
"I am deleting the $1,240,000 appropriation contained
in Section 1 of Senate Bill No. 1083.
"The deleted appropriation is unnecessary since $8
million is already provided for local flood control
projects in AB 1409 (Chapter 920, 1973 Statutes). "
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RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Califo ia 95814
Ed Gray Press Secietary
916-445-4571
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been vetoed:
AB 212 - Alatorre
Requires consumer contracts to be made available in
both English and Spanish versions when the person
offering the contract advertises in Spanish.
Violation of the act renders the contract voidable
at the option of the consumer. A Spanish language
notice of the availability of the Spanish-language
contract is required to be conspicuously displayed.
The bill exempts contracts for rental of accommoda-
tions or for service provided by a utility under the
jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission. It
also exempts certain transactions involving construc-
tion and sale of structures and real property.
REASON FOR VETO:
"AB 212 in its present form would go far beyond the
author's intent of insuring a fair marketplace.
Concern has been expressed that both the Spanish-
language media and the businesses which supply the
Spanish-speaking community could be unintentionally
harmed if this bill were approved. If a significant
number of television, radio, newspapers and other
businesses were forced by financial considerations to
eliminate their Spanish-language advertising in the
Spanish-language media, the harmful effect on these
important institutions would be obvious. I would
regret the weakening or destruction of the very media
that is important to the cultural and informational
needs of the Spanish-speaking community. My adminis-
tration has sought actively to remove from the market.
place those who seek to perpetrate fraud or misuse the
public's confidence while not unfairly regulating the
majority of those who deal honestly with consumers.
"I urge and look forward to immediate action in
January on the part of the legislature to create
legislation which will not be destructive of institu-
tions of importance to the Spanish-speaking community
while meeting the needs of insuring a fair and
equitable marketplace in our state.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 255 - Fenton
Extends unemployment insurance to cover agricultural
workers.
REASON FOR VETO:
"Earlier this year, representatives of my administra-
tion urged passage of a national unemployment
insurance system for farm workers. Unfortunately,
the Congress has not acted.
"In addition, the enactment of this measure would have
the effect of increasing food prices for California
consumers.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 268 - Gonzales
Revises provisions for legal and fiscal analyses of
statewide ballot measure by the legislative counsel
and legislative analyst, respectively, to require a
combined legal and fiscal analysis in simple non-
technical language, approximately 500 words in length
unless the length and complexity of the measure
requires more.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I do not feel it appropriate for two separate
entities to combine their efforts to formulate analy-
sis for statewide ballots. I feel this would cause a
conflict between the legal and fiscal aspects of each
measure. The public is entitled to separate analyses.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
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AB 80 - Duffy
Requires the Secretary of State to prepare regulations
pertaining to the preparation, posting and distribu-
tion of foreign language voting instructions signs
in precinct polling places. The bill requires English
and Spanish language instructions statewide, and other
language instruction on a precinct basis.
REASON FOR VETO:
"Section 4 of this bill provides that its provisions
become operative only in the event that AB 790 does
not become effective on January 1, 1974. I have
approved AB 790 (Chapter 885). For this reason
nothing would be accomplished by approving AB 80.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 333 - Chappie
Requires certain persons to be licensed under
"Auctioneers License Law" upon compliance with
specified requirements and conditions in order to
engage in business of acting as auctioneer.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I do not feel there is sufficient evidence to justify
the state licensing and regulating auctioneers. This
is now done by local communities.
"Accordingly, I am returning this bill unsigned."
AB 361 - Brown
Continuously appropriates, for fiscal year 1974-75
and thereafter, computable sums to the Regents of
University of California, the Trustees of California
State University and Colleges, and the Board of
Governors of California Community Colleges, respect-
ively, for higher educational opportunity programs
in the respective institutions.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I feel it is inappropriate to establish such
programs on a permanent basis without regular legis-
lative and executive review. This type of continuous
appropriation proposed by AB 361 would make yearly
budget review impossible.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 373 - Brown
Revises definition of qualified renters and provides
that the amount of the credit for such qualified
renters; under the Personal Income Tax Law shall be
$40, rather than basing such credit on a scale from
$25 to $45 depending upon adjusted gross income.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The recently enacted provisions authorizing an income
tax credit for renters recognized that rent payments
vary with income, and the credit should be graduated
accordingly. I question the need to make material
changes in the renter credit law without a clearer
showing that the present provisions are in need of
modification.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 472 - Berman
Specifies that the time during which a female
certificated employee is required by her employer to
be absent from her duties on account of pregnancy
shall be deemed to be absence for illness for purpose
of provisions entitling employees to leave of absence
for illness. The bill also authorizes sick leave to be
taken for absences necessitated by pregnancy.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I question whether the expansion of sick leave pro-
posed by this bill is appropriate in light of existing
sick leave practices of private and public employers.
There is insufficient available evidence to support
this enriched employee benefit.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned." =
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AB 496 - Meade
Requires, in administrative proceedings regarding
dismissal of permanent or regular certificated
employees, that the hearsay rules of evidence for
civil action be utilized, rather than the hearsay
rules of evidence ordinarily utilized in administra-
tive adjudication.
REASON FOR VETO:
"This is one of a continuing series of attacks upon
the present sections of the Education Code affecting
teacher tenure and educator accountability. I believe
that a major step forward was taken in this area when
the state legislature removed the question of teacher
tenure and dismissals for incompetency from the
superior courts. I believe that AB 496 would under-
mine that major change in the law.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 587 - Waxman
Provides that the payment of any additional compen-
sation payable by the state pursuant to the article
on subsequent injuries payments shall commence
immediately upon termination of benefits, if any,
payable to the injured employee by the employer, and
any required reduction of such additional compensation
shall be determined by Workmen's Compensation Appeals
Board not in excess of specified rate.
REASON FOR VETO:
"AB 587 provides for two significant changes to the
existing law involving the administration of the
Subsequent Injuries Fund, and while it is difficult
to calculate the total fiscal impact of the two
changes, based upon the experience of the Attorney
General's Office in its defense of the Fund, it is
conservatively estimated by that office that these
changes could double the actual liability of the
Subsequent Injuries Fund. The subject of this bill
merits further legislative study.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned." "
AB 614 - Montoya
Establishes separate eligibility provisions under
Medi-Cal for patients needing dialysis and related
services where such patients have a net worth, as
defined, above the Medi-Cal eligibility levels. The
bill requires such persons to first utilize their
prior legal and contractual entitlements to dialysis
treatment and provides for liability of such patients
to pay a fixed percentage of the cost of dialysis and
related services where their net worth reaches
specified levels.
REASON FOR VETO:
"Under Public Law 92-603, Social Security Amendments
of 1972, Medicare has been providing financial
assistance since July 1, 1973, to all disabled
kidney disease patients, including those under age
65, who meet Social Security eligibility requirements.
This will cover the majority of those with kidney
failure or chronic kidney disease. Medi-Cal will
continue to provide assistance to those not eligible
for Medicare, but still requiring financial assis-
tance to meet these medical costs.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 671 - Ingalls
Requires manufacturers, distributors and others who
deal with legal barbiturate and depressant drugs to
submit reports to the Department of Justice instead of
the Board of Pharmacy concerning transactions of such controlled sub-
stances. It also transfers responsibility from the Board of Pharmacy to
the Department of Justice for establishing and maintaining a data system
to monitor statewide movements of these controlled substances.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The data monitoring system has been implemented, but
there has not been sufficient time to determine its
effectiveness. The present system should continue in operation under the
direction of the state Board of Pharmacy for at least a year. A proper
evaluation of the system can then be made.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned." =
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AB 705 Brown
Requires the Department of Health to establish and
maintain a system for providers to bill by a
recipient's identification number which, for
emergency services, shall be all the documentation
required to establish the recipient's eligibility
for Medi-Cal for any given month. The bill eliminates
the limit of two provider visits permonth under the
Medi-Cal program, and inserts a limit of 24 visits
per year. The bill also eliminates the limit of two
drug prescriptions per month under Medi-Cal and in
lieu of such limits, inserts a provision allowing 24
drug prescriptions per year. The bill further estab-
lishes a Medi-Cal Appeals Committee for the purpose
of reviewing appeals from denials of prior authori-
zation guidelines.
REASON FOR VETO:
"This bill would change the utilization controls that
presently govern the provisions of some major Medi-
Cal program benefits. These changes would not pro-
vide any more service to beneficiaries than is
presently possible under existing program controls.
Rather, the changes would result in an initial
uncontrolled utilization of program benefits with a
commensurate increase in General Fund expenditures
estimated to be about $24 million.
"By altering the coverage of designated services
under the program's basic schedule of benefits from
two visits per month to 24 per year, it is probable
that early utilization of these benefits will result
in the beneficiary's losing his protection of a
distribution of a variety of services over a period
of time. Adding dental services to this yearly limit
of services further aggravates that situation,
particularly when dental services under $50 are
permitted without a requirement for prior authoriza-
tion.
"By removing all utilization controls from inpatient
hospital services relating to pregnancy or delivery
of a child, the provision of therapeutic abortions
as an inpatient service would go uncontrolled. Since
outpatient therapeutic abortions are subject to prior
authorization, uncontrolled inpatient services would
be encouraged at a much greater expense to the program
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 841 MacDonald
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction,
under closely prescribed conditions, to apportion
from the state School Fund to the district of atten-
dance the excess costs incurred in educating pupils
from another district.
"The bill also provides that a school district
educating pupils under interdistrict agreement and
meeting certain criteria may apply for an apportion-
ment from the state Allocation Board to cover the
cost of leasing classroom facilities for a period
not to exceed three years.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I am vetoing this bill because I feel it would dis-
courage a permanent solution to the accessibility
problem in Simi Valley. Current law permits the
Simi Valley District to pay an interdistrict tuition
fee up to the revenue limit of the Las Virgenes
District. I feel that by signing this measure into
law would only establish an undesirable precedent
for future state assistance in similar situations.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
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AB 881 - Keene
nilows a taxpayer an income tax deduction for blood
donations. The deduction is $30 per pint and cannot
exceed $150 in any given year.
REASON FOR VETO:
"While I recognize the desirability of moving toward
a total volunteer blood donor system to avoid trans-
mission of communicable diseases such as hepatitis,
I believe this bill does not provide an effective
method for achieving that objective.
"Whenever a dollar value is placed on the donating of
blood, there is a greater tendency for some indivi-
duals to misrepresent their medical histories in orde
to assure their acceptance as blood donors. This
provides an extremely dangerous and harmful situation
for patients and is the risk inherent in the use of
paid donors whose blood is known to carry a greater
potential for transmitting disease.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned." "
AB 921 - Dunlap
Makes provision for any city or county to exercise
the power of eminent domain, subject to a specified
limitation, for the acquisition of any right or
interest in any privately owned land designated as
open space in an adopted open-space element.
REASON FOR VETO:
"Current law provides for a series of methods to
maintain land in open space. I do not feel that
eminent domain should be utilized when other methods
are available for preserving open space. The William-
son Act, zoning law and similar devices should be
examined in order to determine their effectiveness.
We should look toward incentive systems for the
preservation of open space rather than the extension
of governmental authority to condemn land.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 919 - Lanterman
Directs the Superintendent of Public Instruction to
conduct a statewide study to determine the number of
eligible persons not receiving educational services,
and to report thereon to the legislature by March 1,
1974. The bill appropriates $3,300,000 to the
Superintendent of Public Instruction for the support
of the development centers for the handicapped for
the 1973-74 fiscal year to replace loss of prescribed
federal matching funds.
REASON FOR VETO:
"This bill makes a technical change adding 'education-
al services" to the intent language of the develop-
ment center program. The proposed technical language
will not affect the day-to-day operation of develop-
ment centers but could result in a loss of $3.3 millio
in federal (Title IV A) assistance. These federal
funds would otherwise make it unnecessary to expend
state tax dollars for the same purpose.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 943 - Thomas
Appropriates $1,000,000 from the General Fund to the
Fish and Game Preservation Fund for expenditure by
the Department of Fish and Game for expansion of non-
game species fish and wildlife programs in accordance
with a specified schedule.
REASON FOR VETO:
"No compelling reason has been advanced why functions
of the Department of Fish and Game should be funded
from the General Fund. These functions have and
should be funded by the Fish and Game Preservation
Fund. If the fee and tax schedules providing revenue
to that fund are inadequate, they should be changed,
but not at the expense of the general taxpayer.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
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AB 1006 - MacDonald Requires payment under Medi-Cal to a provider upon
his certification under penalty of perjury of a
claim submitted in lieu of an earlier claim which he
submitted to the fiscal intermediary for payment and
believes in good faith was lost, so that receipt was
not acknowledged by the fiscal intermediary, if
submitted within 60 days of expiration of the original
billing period.
REASON FOR VETO:
"If approved, this legislation would adversely affect
current Medi-Cal Reform Plan goals through the loss of
program controls and timely utilization review. This
could result in a substantial cost impact to the pro-
gram since necessary standards could not be applied to
the rebillings. Legitimate claims will continue to
be paid.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 1069 - Montoya
Specifies circumstances under which a school
certificated employee may utilize up to 6 days per
year of his sick leave entitlement for other than sick
leave purposes.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I agree with the state Board of Education, who
opposed this measure, that since current law allows
for use of sick leave in cases of personal necessity
and since current law requires districts to establish
rules and regulations, it is unnecessary that the
legislature act in an area which determination should
be made by the local school district.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 1093 - Z'berg
Provides that it is state policy that the workday of
state employee shall be 8 hours.
REASON FOR VETO:
"State employees generally are presently compensated
for overtime when their workweek exceeds 40 hours.
Changing this procedure to paying overtime when the
work day exceeds eight hours could force revisions in
work schedules which would cause a reduction in the
efficiency and thereby the economy in the operation
of some state departments.
"It could have the effect of prohibiting state em-
ployees from voluntarily working extra hours on one
day in order to gain compensating time off on another
day for the employee's own convenience.
"Cost implications of such a change are potentially
significant. The bill would also cause an increase in
the administrative workload involved in keeping over-
time records, making the system more cumbersome and
expensive.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 1096 - Waxman
Changes the required elements of a complaint or cross-
complaint arising out of personal injury or wrongful
death, and filed in any superior court proceeding to
not include a statement of specific amount demanded as
recovery. The bill also provides that the defendant
may demand a damages statement.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I am vetoing this bill at the request of the Judicial
Council. By prohibiting the statement of dollar
amount required in a complaint in a superior court
action arising out of personal injury or wrongful
death, this legislation creates a myriad of problems
which outweigh the necessity for the legislation.
AB 1096 strikes at the determinative factor in estab-
lishing superior court jurisdiction, that is a
specific monetary amount which exceeds the jurisdic-
tion of the municipal court.
"The bill also places undue hardships on a defendant
and raises serious constitutional issues relative to
jurisdictional matters and due process requirements.
"Acccordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
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AB 1117 - Ingalls
pecifies that successful applicants for any position
with peace officer status in the Department of
Corrections shall meet at least the minimum standards
required of peace officers. Requires that such
applicants be investigated, for good moral character.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The department investigation already includes a
check of FBI and state criminal identification
records, Department of Motor Vehicles files, and
contacts with the applicant's last three employers.
Department experience indicates this is adequate and
no need has been demonstrated for the more expensive
and time consuming investigation that could delay
the filling of posts that are important to maintaining
the security of our institutions. The investigations
required by this bill would cost the taxpayers an
additional $285,000 a year unnecessarily.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 1178 - Fong
Requires Department of Education to establish an in-
service training program in family life education
for school district leadership teams of school
certificated personnel, youth, and community
representatives. The bill appropriates $80,000 from
General Fund to Department of Education to administer
and carry out program for first years.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The state Department of Education currently has
authority to establish in-service training programs
in family life education just as the local districts
do. I feel there is no justification in mandating
such a program at the state level.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 1206 - Murphy
Provides that all state employees, including employees
of the University of California, who are disabled by
illness or injury arising out of and in the course of
duty will be entitled to receive industrial disability
leave at full salary while so disabled. This salary
is in lieu of workmen's compensation temporary
disability payments for a period not to exceed 52 weeks
REASON FOR VETO:
"Omnibus legislation covering all employees benefits
will be introduced early next year. It would be
premature to consider AB 1206 at this time.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned," "
AB 1252 - Greene, L. Provides for Medi-Cal payment of the cost of surgery,
and loss of income up to $1,000 for a kidney donor,
when a kidney transplant is provided a Medi-Cal
beneficiary.
REASON FOR VETO:
"Since Medi-Cal already covers kidney transplant
surgery for both donor and recipient, the overriding
issue is whether or not it is appropriate for a
medical care program to pay for non-medical expendi-
tures at the taxpayers expense.
"Since reimbursement for income loss because of
surgery does not fall within the intent or meaning of
a medical assistance program as defined by federal or
state law, I find no compelling reason to add such a
benefit.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
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AB 1351 - Powers
Prohibits a public entity from withholding final
progress payments on public works contracts except
that 50 percent of the final payment for prime con-
tractor's work may be withheld when the project has
been completed but final acceptance is pending due to
a dispute over the work of one or more subcontractors.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The changes proposed by AB 1351 would erode the
control over final progress payments and possibly
frustrate the operation of the stop notice procedure
by reducing funds withheld from the contractor prior
to final acceptance of the contract work.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 1402 - Meade
Appropriates $1,163,000 to the UC Regents for salary
increases and staff benefits for teaching assistants
and student research assistants for 1973-74.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I am informed that salaries for these two groups of
employees are already above like salaries at
comparable institutions, but other institutions grant
tuition waivers that the University of California
does not grant. To provide salary increase funds for
the purpose of automatic fringe benefits of this type
appears to go against the basic principle that such
waivers should be granted on the basis of need.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 1428 - Berman
Increases from 10 to 15 percent the amount an award
shall be increased where payment of workmen's compen-a
sation benefits has been unreasonably delayed or
refused.
REASON FOR VETO:
"Insufficient evidence has been presented to justify
a 50 percent increase in the late payment penalty.
"A 10 percent payment is a sufficient penalty to
assure compliance with the law.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 1984 - Keene
Appropriates $250,000 from the General Fund to the
Department of Fish and Game to conduct an investiga-
tion on the decline of market crab.
REASON FOR VETO:
"No compelling reason has been advanced why functions
of the Department of Fish and Game should be funded
from the General Fund. These functions have and
should be funded by the Fish and Game Preservation
Fund. If the fee and tax schedules providing revenue
to that fund are not adequate, particularly from
commercial license fees, they should be changed.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 2223 - Berman
Provides that no city, county or local agency may
impose residence requirements for any of its employees
The bill specifies that such provision shall not pre-
clude employer-employee organization agreement on
emergency response time of employees.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I share the concern of the California Municipal
Utilities Association, the Association of the Calif-
ornia Water Agencies, and the County Supervisors
Association over the provision that makes response
time the subject of negotiation.
"There are many positions in government which must be
able to respond within a given time in emergency
situations. The ability of local government to
effectively respond to emergencies must be protected.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
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AB 2251 - Z'berg
kes a legislative finding that an area, which has
a noise level which exceeds the noise level accept-
able to a reasonable person residing in the area, is
a blighted area for Community Redevelopment Law
purposes.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I have just signed SB 1220 which creates the Office
of Noise Control in the State Department of Health.
This bill appears to be a proper subject for review
by the new Office of Noise Control.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 2456 Waxman
Requires the Department of Health to print on the
face of the Medi-Cal card that when all of a
recipients Medi-Cal labels for services have been
used, authorization for additional services may be
requested by his physician, pharmacist, or hospital
by calling the nearest Medi-Cal district office.
REASON FOR VETO:
"Information such as that required by AB 2456 is
already available to beneficiaries from their local
health care providers and their local county welfare
offices. Therefore, I find no compelling need for
additional notification.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
Governor Ronald Reagan today also announced the following bill has
been signed with a deletion:
AB 688 - Z'berg
Appropriates $14,580,000 to the Department of Parks
and Recreation for acquisition and development of
land for the state park system.
DELETION:
"I am reducing the appropriation contained in
Assembly Bill 688 from $14,580,000 to $3,205,000 by
deleting the appropriations contained in Schedule (a)
$1,500,000, (e) $1,000,000, (g) $775,000, (h)
$300,000, (j) $7,700,000, and (k) $100,000.
"The 1973-74 budget already contains an unprecedented
amount for park and beach acquisitions. I do not
believe additional funds should be allocated at this
time from existing state resources.
"With the above reductions, I approve Assembly Bill
No. 688."
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR R NALD REAGAN
RELEASF
Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
10-2-73
#517
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced he has signed the
following bills:
AB 12 - Johnson, R. Reduces minimum corporation franchise tax on inactive
Chapter 989
quicksilver mining corporations from $200 annually to
$25 annually.
AB 69 - Gonsalves
Provides for valuation of storage media for computer
Chapter 990
systems as if there were no computer program on such
media, except basic operation programs, on the 1972
lien date and thereafter, rather than on 1972 and
1973 lien dates only.
AB 132 - Burton
Requires the state through the county welfare
Chapter 991
department to reimburse in an amount not exceeding
$650 foster parent or foster parents for funeral
expenses and burial plot of children receiving foster
care to extent that foster parent or foster parents
are not otherwise reimbursed for costs incurred for
such purpose.
AB 135 - Crown
Establishes procedures for recording, reporting, storin
Chapter 992
disseminating, and using criminal offender record
information. The bill requires the Department of
Justice to perform certain functions with respect to
such information. The bill becomes operative on
July 1, 1978.
AB 150 - Select
Enacts the California Occupational Safety and Health
Comm. on Industrial
Act of 1973. The bill makes extensive legislative
Safety, Fenton,
changes to the provisions of California Labor Code
Chairman
regulating worker safety and, also, makes changes in
Chapter 993
certain related sections of the Government Code and
California Health and Safety Code.
AB 161 - McCarthy
Provides for the issuance of state bonds in a total
Chapter 994
amount not exceeding $250,000,000, and expenditure of
the proceeds for state grants for the planning,
research and development, and construction, of
treatments works, and for transfers to the State
Water Quality Control Fund for loans to public agencie
pursuant to the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control
Act. The bill provides for the submission of the bond
proposal to the voters at the 1974 direct primary
election.
AB 214 - z'berg
Authorizes local agencies to be reimbursed by the
Chapter 995
state for 50 percent of costs which are incurred in
operation, maintenance and replacement of completed
flood control project facilities authorized under the
State Water Resources Law of 1945, and which are
directly attributable to the retention of controlled
vegetative cover for wildlife, recreational, scenic,
and aesthetic purposes on project levees.
AB
225
- Gonsalves Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to license
Chapter 996
distributors and manufacturer representatives. The
bill places added responsibility upon manufactureres
of motor vehicles as franchisors. The bill changes
the name and broadens the duties of the New Car Dealer
Policy and Appeals Board. The New Motor Vehicle
Board would be the arbiter of certain protests and
disputes among those persons required to be licensed
by this bill.
AB 234 - Badham
Extends the present provisions of the law relating to
Chapter 997
duplication of water service facilities now limited
to facilities owned and operated by private water
corporations and public agencies, to duplication of
such facilities by one political subdivision which
duplicate facilities owned by another political
subdivision.
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AB 280 - Murphy
Authorizes any community college district to classify
Chapter 998
a student as a community college district resident if
he lives with a parent who earns a living primarily
by performing agricultural labor for hire and who has
worked in agricultural labor in this state for at
least two months per year in each of the preceding
two years.
AB 312 - Waxman
Prohibits the denial of credit to women under
Chapter 999
designated conditions and requires credit reporting
agencies upon request of a married person to identify
the credit history of each spouse and their joint
accounts.
AB 343 - McCarthy
Provides that an unemployed person shall not be
Chapter 1000
ineligible for unemployment compensation or welfare
benefits because of refusal to accept employment with
an employer who does not possess the appropriate state
lic ense to engage in his business, trade, or professic
or does not either carry workmen's compensation
insurance or possess a certificate of self-insurance
or does not withhold or hold in trust employee
contributions for unemployment compensation disability
benefits and transmit such contributions as required.
AB 350 - Brown
Appropriates $435,000 in Health Sciences Bond Act
Chapter 1001
funds to the University of California for the purpose
of planning the construction of dental school facili-
ties at the University's San Francisco Campus.
AB 425 - Duffy
Transfers all disability evaluation functions now
Chapter 1002
performed by the Department of Rehabilitation for the
Social Security Administration and all disability
review functions now performed by the Department of
Social Welfare in relation to the Aid to the Totally
Disabled to the Department of Health.
AB 443 - Antonovich
Provides that Revenue and Taxation Code provision
Chapter 1003
relating to cancellation of uncollected penalties and
interest erroneously attached shall apply with respect
to taxes on the unsecured roll for which an application
for a reduction in assessment has been filed and the
assessment reduced. The bill provides for interest at
the rate of one half of 1 percent per month on taxes
unpaid by the statutory delinquency date and for
penalties and interest on taxes unpaid by the date
specified in provision relating to cancellation of
uncollected penalties and interest erroneously attached
AB 446 - Thurman
Provides that revenues anticipated from state or
Chapter 1004
federal grants or subventions for which state or
federal funds have been committed or appropriated,
or revenue anticipated from services provided under
contract or agreement not specifically set forth in
the budget, may be made available for specific
appropriation by four-fifths vote of board of
supervisors at specified meetings. The bill also
grants county board of supervisors authority to do
all acts necessary to participate in Federal, State
and Local Assistance Act of 1972.
AB 451 - Moretti
Provides for a fiscal, management and program audit
Chapter 1005
of the State Preschool Education Program. The bill
appropriates $31,662,000 from the General Fund for
1973-74 and 1974-75.
AB 476 - Brown
Provides, with designated exceptions, for payment
Chapter 1006
of $200 to each prisoner upon discharge from a state
prison, narcotic detention center, or treatment and
rehabilitation facility.
AB 478 - Brown
Extends to men specified regulations regarding hours
Chapter 1007
and working conditions now applicable to women and
minors. Requires the Industrial Welfare Commission
to conduct specified hearings and review, and to con-
sult with Industrial Safety Board concerning overlap-
ping jurisdiction.
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AB 499 - Priolo
Appropriates $277,000 from the General Fund to the
Chapter 1008
University of California for increased retirement
benefits of university police officers.
AB 500 - Kapiloff
Deletes the provision that, among other factors, the
Chapter 1009
market value, as determined by the assessor, of
certain properties comparable to the property being
valued shall be considered by local boards of
equalization.
AB 505 - Foran
Requires all commercially designed motor vehicles
Chapter 1010
weighing less than 4,000 pands unladen to pay a
weight fee of $15. The bill increases weight fees
on all commercially designed motor vehicles over
5,000 pounds unladen weight, and all trailers subject
to weight fees. The bill also reduces registration
fee on all station wagons from $12 to $11.
AB 558 - Chacon
Authorizes the State Board of Education to set
Chapter 1011
priorities and approve or disapprove bilingual
bicultural education programs funded through state
and federal sources. The bill also authorizes the
Grossmont Union High School District to contract
with nonprofit organizations to acquire, construct,
and improve recreational centers on school property.
AB 577 -Greene, B.
Permits the governing board of any school district,
Chapter 984
regional occupational center or county superintendent
of schools to contract with private postsecondary
schools for the provision of vocational training to
its students.
AB 580 - Deddeh
Increases from $75 to $90 the maximum weekly benefit
Chapter 1012
amount payable under the unemployment compensation
law, with corresponding increase in high quarter base
period wages required to qualify for such increased
weekly benefit amounts.
AB 602 - Chappie
Authorizes an increase from $1.50 to $2 per calendar
Chapter 1013
day, the enrollment maintenance allowance in lieu of
transporting certain students not residing within 90
miles of a community college, that shall be paid to
the student or parents or other persons having charge
of such students by the community college district in
which the student attends.
AB 606 - Sieroty
Makes various technical clarifying changes in the
Chapter 1014
California Coastal Zone Conservation Act of 1972.
AB 613 - Montoya
Increases the period of eligibility for Cal-Vet farm
Chapter 1015
and home loans from 20 to 25 years, postdischarge.
The bill provides that eligibility shall not terminate
for veterans who were wounded, are disabled as a
result of war service, or were prisoners of war.
AB 632 - Berman
Requires the proposed decision of a hearing officer in
Chapter 1016
a hearing for termination of a probationary certifi-
cated school district employee to contain a determin-
ation as to the sufficiency of the cause and a
recommendation as to disposition. The bill requires
submission of copies of the proposed decision to be
submitted to the employee, as well as to the governing
board, on or before May 7 of the year in which the
proceeding is commenced.
AB 637 - Dunlap
Revises the provision requiring the cancellation of
Chapter 1017
a claim for senior citizens property tax assistance,
if the claimant dies after filing a claim but before
receipt of such amount, if there is no surviving
spouse or otherwise qualified claimant, and, instead,
provides that such claim be disbursed to any other
member of the claimant's household.
AB 640 - Deddeh
Prohibits specified lenders from making available
Chapter 982
the contents of the fire/casualty insurance policy
to any person for purposes of soliciting such in-
surance coverage if the borrower has signed and filed disignated state-
ment with the lender.
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AB 674 - Dixon
Establishes procedures for county committees on school
Chapter 1018
district reorganization to govern the transfer of
territory from one school district to another to
assure that matters of racial or ethnic distribution
affecting pupils will be considered and reported to
the state agency and with the right of appeal assured
to anyone questioning the committee's decision.
AB 711 - Fenton
Exempts from sales and use taxes the gross receipts
Chapter 1019
from certain sales in bulk of coins and other forms o:
money and the storage, use or other consumption in
this state of coins and other forms of money SO sold.
SB 24 - Grunsky
Permits the governing board of any school district,
Chapter 985
regional occupational center or county superintendent
of schools to contract with private post-secondary
schools for the provision of vocational training to
their students.
SB
AB 265 - Wedworth
Prohibits manufacturing, selling, or installing in
Chapter 986
any vehicle, any vehicle part which is or has been
determined to be defective and subject to customer
notification or recall. The bill provides that
Bureau of Automotive Repair shall enforce the
chapter of the Vehicle Code dealing with the sale
of automobile parts.
SB 569 - Dymally
Revises numerous provisions of law relating to
Chapter 987
relationship between husband and wife and their
property.
SB 1058 - Stull
Abolishes the California Advisory Commission on
Chapter 988
Marine and Coastal Resources.
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californi
95814
Ed Gray, Press Secret
916-445-4571
10-2-73
#518
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today he has signed the following
bills:
AB 724 - Antonovich
Requires the Commission for Teacher Preparation
Chapter 1020
and Licensing to develop additional separate
subject matter examinations for single subject
instruction in the areas of history, government,
and life science.
AB 750 - Fenton
Reduces from 28 to 21 days the period for which a
Chapter 1021
temporary disability must last in order for disabil-
ity payments to be made effective the first day of
disability; and provides for the start of both
temporary and permanent disability payments on the
fourth rather than the eighth day after the employee
leaves work. The bill makes a General Fund appro-
priation of $106,000.
AB 751 - Fenton
Increases the death benefit award under Workmen's
Chapter 1022
Compensation from $25,000 to $40,000 except in cases
where there are surviving dependent children, in
which case the benefit is increased from $28,000
to $45,000. The bill appropriates $1,096,000 to
the State Controller for allocation and disburse-
ment to local agencies for costs resulting from the
provisions of this bill.
AB 752 - Fenton
Increases the maximum disability payments allowable
Chapter 1023
under workmen's compensation and revises the method
of computing average earnings. Makes a General
Fund appropriation of $1,582,223.
AB 767 - Knox
Attributes liability for cumulative industrial in-
Chapter 1024
juries and occupational diseases to the last five
years of the claimant's employment, except that
evidence may be introduced of specific injury, or
compensated disability, or non-industrial disability
pre-dating the five years, for purposes of appoint-
ment. If the employment was for more than five
years with one employer, liability is not so limited.
AB 771 - Hayden
Increases the maximum age requirement under Medi-Cal
Chapter 1025
from 18 to 21 in respect to Medi-Cal eligibility of
person qualified financially, but not as a dependent
child under AFDC and eliminates provisions limiting
eligibility when such person is voluntarily living
apart from his parents. Also deletes the five-year
residency requirement in respect to existing eli-
gibility criteria for basic health care under Medi-
Cal for a person who is not eligible for aid under
specified programs or who has an application pending
for aid under specified programs.
AB 809 - Deddeh
Would provide for payment of disability benefits for
Chapter 1026
up to 26 weeks for pregnancy, but only upon a doctor's
certification of any abnormal complication of
pregnancy, or any disabling condition that would
disable without regard to pregnancy.
AB 810 - Deddeh
Provides for freezing wage credits for disability
Chapter 1027
benefits for persons disabled due to an industrial
injury or disease for 60 days or more up to two years,
and for substitution of quarters of such frozen
wage credits to support a claim for disability
benefits for non-occupational disability incurred
after the industrial disability.
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AB 831 - McAlister
S. jects any person violating Lules and regulations
Chapter 1028
of the Bay Area Air Pollution Control District and
prescribed provisions regardi nonvehicular pollu-
tion control to a civil penalty of not to exceed
$500 for each day in which violation occurs.
AB 852 - Boatwright
Provides that the surviving spouse of members of
Chapter 1029
the State Teachers' Retirement System shall not be
required to be dependent in order to receive any
benefits.
AB 860 - Duffy
Allocates $500,000 from the proceeds of State School
Chapter 1030
Building Aid Bonds of 1966 by a joint powers entity
created by two or more school districts in Tulare
County under administrative direction of the State
Allocation Board, as a state loan for the construc-
tion of facilities for a regional occupational center
or program in Tulare County.
AB 872 - Maddy
Makes it unlawful and a violation of the Vehicle
Chapter 1031
Code for any holder of a dealer's license to adver-
tise vehicles without identifying such vehicles in
a manner as prescribed, to advertise the total price
of a vehicle without including all costs to the
purchaser at time of delivery at the dealer's
premises, with specified exception, and to refuse
to sell a vehicle to any person at such advertised
total price while such vehicle remains unsold, except
under specified conditions.
AB 913 - Bagley
Appropriates $900,000 per year to the newly created
Chapter 1032
State Park Highway Account in the Bagley Conserva-
tion Fund for the maintenance, repair, and construc-
tion of highways in the State Park System.
AB 948 - Johnson, R. Provides that the Director of Agriculture shall
Chapter 1033
adopt and promulgate rules and regulations govern-
ing inspection procedures and variances applicable
to alcoholic beverages in conformity with specified
federal law. Provides that there is no violation of
the provisions of the Business and Professions Code
where such containers comply with a rule or approval
of the United States Treasury Department, Internal
Revenue Service or Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms, instead of Internal Revenue Service,
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Division.
AB 950 - Lanterman
Increases, commencing with the 1974-75 fiscal year,
Chapter 1034
from 3.5% to 4.25% of prior year's high school
graduates, the maximum number of new scholarships
to be awarded in any one year. Fixes the maximum
award of $2,200 to be applicable to students ini-
tially selected for state scholarship prior to
January 1, 1974, and incorporates a maximum of $2,500
for students selected after such date; and limits to
$2,200 the maximum award in interim fiscal year.
AB 990 - Russell
Authorizes the Director of General Services, with
Chapter 1035
approval of the State Public Works Board, to dispose
of the Mendocino State Hospital property containing
approximately 250 acres.
AB 1047 - Crown
Permits the grand jury in each county to investigate
Chapter 1036
and report upon the fiscal matters of any city in the
county. Also permits the grand jury to employ more
than one, instead of only one, expert with court
approval for certain investigations. Also increases
from $7,500 to $25,000 the amount which the grand jury
may spend annually on experts and assistants for
investigations of special-purpose assessing or taxing
districts in the county, without obtaining board of
supervisors' approval.
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AB 1062 - Vasconcellos
Requires State Board of Aducation to adopt
Chapter 1037
master plan, which shall be submitted to legislature
by April 1, 1974, and to adopt rules and regulations
providing for and implementing the following services
with regards to migrant children: instructional,
health and welfare, preservice and inservice educa-
tion of professional and nonprofessional personnel,
supportive, child development activities, and local
involvement. Requires that such services be pro-
vided by the 1976-77 school year.
AB 1081 - Wilson
Requires state and local agencies disposing of sur-
Chapter 1038
plus land to offer such land to specified entities
for either park and recreation or open-space purposes.
Also establishes procedures for transfer of surplus
state land to local governmental agencies at 50% of
fair market value to be used for open-space purposes
and operated by local agencies at no state expense.
AB 1116 - Cory
Deletes the Education Code provision requiring man-
Chapter 1039
datory physical education for a minimum of 120 min-
utes per week for students in community colleges.
AB 1130 - Beverly
Provides that the surety bond required of a self-
Chapter 1040
insurer will be a minimum of $100,000 or 100% of
the self-insurer's incurred liability for payment of
compensation, whichever is greater, rather than
100% of such liability. Also creates the State Work-
men's Compensation Advisory Committee.
AB 1196 - Dixon
Requires, on or before February 1, 1974, county
Chapter 1041
committees or school district organizations to
change the boundaries of trustee areas from which
members of county boards of education are elected
to insure that such areas are as nearly equal in
population as practicable.
AB 1200 - Fenton
Provides a civil penalty for violation of any in-
Chapter 1042
junction issued pursuant to the Business and Pro-
fessions Code provisions relating to false advertis-
ing not to exceed $6,000 for each violation. Author-
izes the Attorney General, district attorney, county
counsel and city attorney to assess and recover
such penalty in a civil action.
AB 1219 - Meade
Requires every milk product or product resembling
Chapter 1043
a milk product at the time of sale to the retail
trade to be labeled and billed with the correct name
of the product. Requires every milk product or pro-
duct resembling a milk product containing any
ingredient other than a milk product, when packaged
for intended sale, to bear a label stating the
common or usual name of each ingredient in descending
order of predominance by weight, as prescribed by
regulations of the Director of Food and Agriculture.
AB 1242 - Z'berg
Provides that returnable soft drink bottles shall
Chapter 1044
be assessed only to the person in possession thereof
on March 1st and specifies that the cash value of
such containers shall be the cost of such containers,
less depreciation, but not less than the amount of
deposit or similar charge.
AB 1279 - Sieroty
Authorizes the Air Resources Board to test the
Chapter 1045
composition of fuel additives.
AB 1280 - Lanterman
Appropriates $2,200,000 from the General Fund to
Chapter 1046
the Department of Health to replace loss of certain
federal funds for work activity program for the
mentally retarded in the 1973-74 fiscal year.
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AB 1306 - Crown
minates current provisions on the California
Chapter 1047
Council on Criminal Justice and creates a new
council by that name consisting of specified per-
sonnel to act as the supervisory board of the state
planning agency concerning criminal justice pursuant
to federal acts. Establishes the Office of Criminal
Justice Planning to be administered by an executive
director appointed by, and responsible to, the
governor, and prescribes its powers and duties.
AB 1324 - Ralph
Expressly provides that the decision of the Cali-
Chapter 1048
fornia Horse Racing Board specifying racing days
and dates shall be subject to change, limitation,
or restriction only by the board, and that no
municipality or county shall adopt or enforce any
ordinance or regulation which has or may have
effect of directly or indirectly regulating, limit-
ing, or restricting racing days and dates of horse-
racing meetings.
AB 1339 - Knox
Provides that all partnerships formed after
Chapter 1049
November 1, 1973, or ones formed prior to that date
which elect to do so, must be dissolved upon the
retirement, death, or insanity of the general part-
ner unless the business is continued by the remain-
ing general partners under a right to do so in the
partnership certificate or with the consent of all
members of the partnership. The law will only be
effective until December 31, 1975.
AB 1440 - Keene
Authorizes the Board of Governors of the California
Chapter 1050
Community Colleges to issue an eminence credential
authorizing service in a community college district.
The use of an eminence credential would allow the
various districts to hire personnel who cannot
qualify under existing criteria, but who are other-
wise qualified due to special training, unique
experiences, etc., to teach in the community colleges.
AB 1489 - Arnett
Provides various specified maximum amounts members
Chapter 1051
of school district governing boards, including com-
munity college governing boards, may receive per
meeting and per month for districts with an average
daily attendance of 25,000 to 60,000, 10,000 to
25,000, 1,000 to 10,000, and 150 to 1,000.
AB 1499 - Johnson, H. Provides that the examination which certain first
Chapter 1052
year law students must take is to be given twice
a year at reasonable intervals.
AB 1507 - MacGillivray
Requires the State Lands Commission to promul-
Chapter 1053
gate rules and regulations to require any per-
son extracting oil or gas or other minerals from
lands under the jurisdiction of the commission to
remove beach and underwater obstructions. Appro-
priates $75,000 to the Division of State Lands for
removal of beach and underwater obstructions that
exist on state-owned tidelands and submerged lands
near Elwood in Santa Barbara County.
AB 1515 - Deddeh
Authorizes San Diego City School District to estab-
Chapter 1054
lish and maintain regional occupational center or
program.
AB 1526 - Holoman
Deletes the special procedure applicable to school
Chapter 1055
districts which make appointments from eligible
lists in determining order of employment of
certificated employees.
AB 1539 - Ingalls
Amends the Automotive Repair Act to require repair
Chapter 1056
dealers to include with their written estimates. a
statement of any service which will be performed by
someone other than the repair dealer or his employees. Provides that
such service shall not be performed without the consent of the customer
unless he cannot be reasonably notified. Makes the dealers responsible
for such service in the same manner as if he or his employees had
performed it.
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AB 1600 - Joint Comm.
Requires the Department of Health to implement
on Aging, McCarthy,
a system of citation and civil penalties for
Chairman
nursing homes, skilled nursing facilities, ex-
Chapter 1057
tended care facilities, and intermediate care
facilities.
AB 1607 - Joint Comm.
Authorizes the Department of Health to establish
on Aging, McCarthy,
a pilot project in preventive health care for
Chairman
the aging in three counties by defraying county
Chapter 1058
costs of providing programs of scheduled visits
by public health nurses to existing senior citi-
zen housing and center facilities. Requires the
California Commission on the Aging to render tech-
nical assistance and advise on the pilot project and
to report on its implementation to the legislature
each year.
AB 1640 - Lewis
Increases from $50 to $60, maximum limit upon amount
Chapter 1059
per pupil instructed in laboratory phase of driver
education for reimbursement for actual cost of
instructing pupils in the operation of motor
vehicles and makes related change in provision
providing for reimbursement for actual cost of re-
placing specified vehicles and simulators. In-
creases from $50 to $60 the allowance per pupil
instructed in laboratory phases of driver education.
Further provides that, in addition to other juvenile
court penalties, a judge, referee, or hearing
officer, upon an admission by a minor that, or upon
a finding that, such minor committed specified traf-
fic violations, may require such minor to pay to
the Driver Training Penalty Assessment Fund a penalty
assessment of a specified amount.
AB 1727 - Gonsalves
Authorizes, if approved by a majority of those
Chapter 1060
voting on the proposition, the Southern California
Rapid Transit District to issue limited tax bonds to
be financed from a retail transactions and use tax,
not to exceed 1%, with 1/2 of such tax revenues to
reduce fares and the other 1/2 to be used, in general,
for maintenance and operation, to be allocated under
a specified formula between the district and in-
cluded municipal operators.
AB 1762 - Lanterman
Revises provisions for submission and review of
Chapter 1061
county Short-Doyle plans, and the financing of
mental health services pursuant thereto. Makes
related changes. Appropriates $383,000 to the
State Controller for allocation and disbursement to
local agencies for costs incurred by them pursuant
to this act.
AB 1807 - Brown
Provides that a school district is an entity eligible
Chapter 1062
for in lieu tax payments from redevelopment agencies.
Requires any city and county to pay any school dis-
trict with territory within a redevelopment project area in the city and
county a proportionate share of any amount of money received in lieu of
taxes from a redevelopment agency. Defines proportionate share as the
ratio of the school district tax rate, which is included in the total
tax rate of the city and county, to the total tax rate of the city and
county.
AB 1914 - Crown
Appropriates $106,790 for funding of the California
Chapter 1063
Council on Criminal Justice.
AB 1944 - Z'berg
Creates a Tahoe Conservancy Agency with bi-state
Chapter 1064
membership appointed equally by the governors of
California and Nevada. The compact becomes valid
upon approval of both states and the United States Congress. There is
also created the California Tahoe Conservancy Agency as a separate legal
entity and as a state agency of the State of California. The agency
would be empowered to negotiate contracts and enter into agreements for
management of land for the state, local government, or federal govern-
ment.
AB 2032 - Beverly
Provides for a two-year extension of state grant funds
Chapter 1065
to allow the City of Torrance to acquire property for
Columbia Park.
AB 2045 - Fong
Renumbers various sections of the Education Code
Chapter 1066
relating to private schools.
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AB 2053 - McCarthy
Requires the Department of Corrections and physicians
Chapter 1067
or surgeons rendering treatment to make designated
reports to the Division of Labor Statistics and
Research concerning injuries sustained by state
prisoners while performing labor. The bill authorizes
the Division of Industrial Safety to make nonbinding
recommendations to the Department of Corrections
relative to improved safety for state prisoners
while performing labor.
AB
2059
- Gonsalves Provides that a county of over 6,000,000 which
Chapter 1068
provides contract or authorized services to any city
within the county shall charge the city only those
additional costs incurred by the county in providing
such services. Provides that a county shall not
charge a contract city for any portion of costswhich
are for services made available to all portions of
the county, as determined by resolution of the board
of supervisors, or which are general overhead costs
of county government.
AB 2068 - Brown
Establishes a State-Child Health Board with five
Chapter 1069
members within the Department of Health. The bill
grants the board the power and duty to review and
recommend standards regarding health screening,
evaluation, and diagnostic procedures for community
child health and disability prevention programs.
AB 2091 - Lancaster Provides that the legislative body of any special
Chapter 1070
district subject to specified provisions shall give a
mailed notice of every regular meeting, and any
special meeting which is called at least one week
prior to the date set for the meeting, to any owner of
property located within the district who has filed a
written request for such notice with the legislative
body. The bill provides that the district legislative
body may establish a reasonable annual charge for
providing this service.
AB 2097 - Arnett
Exempts community clinics, as defined, which contract
Chapter 1071
with or employ individual licensed physicians and
surgeons to render medical care, for laboratory work
performed on patients of such physicians and surgeons
from operation of provisions relating to clinical
laboratories. The bill requires such clinics to
demonstrate to the state Department of Health
satisfactory performance in proficiency testing
programs approved by the department.
AB 2123 - Hayden
Requires the California Hospital Commission to develop
Chapter 1072
and submit to the legislature proposals to establish
standards for hospital costs and rate increases. It
also provides that fees for funding the commission be
collected by the commission instead of the state
Department of Health.
AB 2162 - Waxman
Revises definition of "potentially hazardous food"
Chapter 1073
for purposes of Sherman Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law
to mean any food capable of supporting growth of
infections or toxicogenic micro-organisms when held at
temperatures above 45, rather than above 50, degrees
Fahrenheit. The bill declares any food to be mis-
branded if it is a potentially hazardous processed
food which is preserved by refrigeration at tempera-
tures of 45, rather than 50 degrees Fahrenheit or
lower and is not conspicuously labeled "Perishable
Keep Refrigerated."
AB 2174 - Priolo
Provides that public agencies may change construction
Chapter 1074
contracts for public improvements during construction
to bring the work into compliance with state and
federal environmental requirements and standards. The
bill requires payment to the contractor for such changes in accordance
with contract provisions as agreed by the parties. The bill also permits
public agencies having authority to contract, excluding the state, to
terminate, amend or modify, by mutual consent of the contracting parties,
the terms of such contract unless it was entered into pursuant to a
statute requiring that such contract be awarded on the basis of
competitive bids.
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AB 2205 - Knox
Includes the University of California, and California
Chapter 1075
State University and Colleges, in provisions for rules
governing standards for peace officers and eligibility
provisions for peace officer training subventions.
AB 2209 - Karabian
Requires the state Oil and Gas Supervisor, upon
Chapter 1076
receiving notification from the Department of Fish
and Game, to give written notice of oil sumps which
are dangerous to wildlife to the party responsible
for the condition. The Oil and Gas Supervisor shall
close the operation if the condition is not abated.
AB 2211 - Chacon
Provides that any city or county may establish a
Chapter 1077
central relocation agency to coordinate all relocation
activities within their jurisdiction.
AB 2228 - Sieroty
Revises specified offenses and penalties relating to
Chapter 1078
controlled substances in order to restore such
offenses and penalties to the same status as the
offenses and penalties relating to narcotics and
restricted dangerous drugs prior to the enactment of
Chapter 1407 of the Statutes of 1972.
AB 2244 - Johnson, R. Authorizes the Department of Water Resources to
Chapter 1079
construct a recreation dam on the Feather River at
the site of the former Western Canal Dam below
Oroville, and authorizes the Department of Parks and
Recreation to develop the recreational facilities
at the site.
AB 2263 - Burton
Abolishes the existing Office of Aging and creates a
Chapter 1080
new Office of Aging with departmental status and a new
commission with advisory status. The office will
coordinate programs, plan coordinated services for
aged, provide technical assistance to local programs,
prepare and disseminate pertinent material, arrange
for research and administer activities.
AB 2268 - Keene
Allows a full time teacher credentialed to teach
Chapter 1081
physically handicapped pupils in integrated
instructional programs to be hired by more than one
district.
AB 2322 - Wood
Appropriates $1,800,000 from the Bagley Conservation
Chapter 1082
Fund to the Department of Parks and Recreation for
the acquisition of lands located in Monterey County
for the state park system.
AB 2372 - Antonovich Permits the court, in its discretion, to pay, as
Chapter 1083
county charges, specified witness in a criminal case,
if the witness is employed and if his employer does
not continue his salary while he serves as a witness,
a sum equal to his gross salary for all the time
spent away from work for the purpose of serving as a
witness, but not to exceed $18 per day. The bill
provides that witnesses so compensated are not persons
for whom the court may also order the payment of
witness fees.
AB 2384 - Beverly
Requires the chairman of the state Air Resources Board
Chapter 1084
to convene a committee of 11 members, with specified
membership, to recommend standards to the board for
adoption, in accordance with specified provisions of
the Administrative Procedure Act, for sandblasting
operations, which standards are the strictest that
can be reasonably achieved. The bill specifies that
the standards shall be statewide and that no rule or
regulation of any air pollution control district that
is applicable to sandblasting operations will be
stricter or less strict than such standards.
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AB 2443 Waxman
Provides that prescribed provisions relating to
Chapter 1085
crippled children services shall be known and may be
cited as the Robert W. Crown Crippled Children
Services Act. The bill requires the state Department
of Health to update the financial eligibility
standards for treatment services rendered under the
crippled children's program effective January 1, 1974,
to reflect changes in the cost of living, and requires
the department to annually update the financial
eligibility standards on such basis thereafter.
AB 2447 Waxman
Prohibits, except in specified emergencies, the owner
Chapter 1086
of an ambulance from permitting the operation of such
ambulance in emergency service unless the attendant
or the operator possesses evidence of specialized
training prescribed, pursuant to standards prescribed
by the state Department of Health. Requires such
standards to be adopted and go into effect no later
than July 1, 1974, with certain exceptions.
AB 2468 - Brown
Authorizes the Department of Parks and Recreation
Chapter 1087
to acquire and develop real property at Candlestick
Point for the state park system.
AB 2500 Fenton
Adds methaqualone to Schedule III of the California
Chapter 1088
Controlled Substances Act and provides a misdemeanor
punishment for possession of same.
AB 2518 - Thurman
Creates the South Delta Water Agency.
Chapter 1089
AB 2565 - Burton
Requires any person issuing, selling, or offering to
Chapter 1090
sell any passenger ticket for passage or conveyance
aboard any foreign vessel to make a statement that
such vessel is not subject to American safety
regulations in any advertisement or other printed
paper or notice in regard to the passage.
AB 2603 - Bagley
Extends from December 31, 1973, to January 1, 1975
Chapter 1091
the expiration date of the Health and Safety code
provision which authorizes districts to incur bonded
indebtedness for the purpose of providing sewer
facilities after a majority, rather than two thirds,
vote under specified circumstances.
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE:
Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
95814
Ed Gray, Press Secre ry
916-445-4571
10-2-73
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Governor Ronald Reagn today announced the following bills have been
vetoed:
SB 66 - Nejedly
Appropriates $2,400,000 from the state Highway Account
in the State Transportation Fund to the San Francisco
Bay Area Rapid Transit District.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The Bay Area Rapid Transit District agreed to advance
funds to the Department of Public Works to construct
a portion of state highway route 24 to coincide with
the construction of BARTD facilities. This agreement
resulted in the savings of many millions of dollars
in construction costs to BARTD. No provision was
made in the agreement for interest payments because
of this fact. No compelling reason has been presente
to support the payment of interest at this time.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
SB 449 - Berryhill
Provides that the county board of education shall
establish policy for the county superintendent of
schools in certain of the physically handicapped
programs.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I am vetoing this bill at the request of the author.
He has advised me that SB 449 is technically deficient
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
SB 483 - Short
Requires, rather than authorize, the governing boards
of school districts to establish and maintain
development centers for handicapped pupils.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The Department of Education is now in the process of
preparing a master plan for special education. The
plan is expected to propose new programs for educating
the physically and mentally handicapped. It would be
inappropriate to sign SB 483 until the details of the
master plan are known.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned.'
SB 510 Alquist
Requires the Commission of Housing and Community
Development to adopt rules and regulations establiship
minimum standards of energy insulation in new
mobilehomes.
REASON FOR VETO :
"As amended this bill could cause duplication and
possible conflict in enforcing mobilehome regulations.
"The Department of Housing and Community Development
will continue to make factory inspections to enforce
compliance with structural specifications while the
newly created state Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission would be responsible for making
inspections in the same factories to enforce complianc
with insulation requirements.
Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned.'
SB 532 - Wedworth
Provides that a contracting agency of Public
Employees' Retirement System may elect to use one year
rather than three years in computing final compensa-
tion for benefits of local safety members.
REASON FOR VETO:
"Earlier this year I vetoed AB 29 on the same subject.
As I stated at that time: 'Final compensation
computations in a multiple employer, multi-membership
classification system, such as the Public Employees'
Retirement System, must be uniform. Variations within
the system can only create excessive administrative
burdens and further aggravate the already complex
problem of estimating and funding future benefits.
The present three year basis for computing retirement benefits already is
a very liberal provision and I find no compelling evidence to support the
need for a different method of computing benefits for classes of local
government emplovees.' I continue to hold these views. Accordingly, I
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SB 706 - Nejedly
Requires the Department of Corrections to establish
specific training program for state correctional
personnel meeting POST standards or, if SB 705 were
enacted, to establish training program meeting
standards of the Correctional Standards Commission.
REASON FOR VETO:
"While the intent to improve the effectiveness of
correctional personnel is laudable, the bill is not
necessary to accomplish that objective. SB 706 is
overly detailed, spelling out rigidly the lengths of
time that particular classes of employees are to be
trained, when they are to be trained, the frequency
for retraining, and much of the curricula.
"The department should have the flexibility needed to
keep curricula current, match it with the needs of
personnel being recruited, and to provide it at a
time and place that is most appropriate. Such
flexibility would be eliminated by this measure.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
SB 707 - Nejedly
Requires the Department of the Youth Authority to
establish a training program for its peace officer
personnel.
REASON FOR VETO:
"While the intent to improve the effectiveness of
Youth Authority personnel is laudable, the bill is
not necessary to accomplish that objective. SB 707
is overly detailed, spelling out rigidly the lengths
of time that particular classes of employees are to
be trained, when they are to be trained, the frequenc
for retraining, and much of the curriculum. The
department should have the flexibility needed to keep
curriculum current, match it with the needs of
personnel being recruited and to provide it at the
time and place that is most appropriate. Such
flexibility would be eliminated by this measure.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
SB 708 - Nejedly
Requires conversion of Correctional Officer positions
to Correctional Program Supervisors and revises
qualification.
REASON FOR VETO:
"While it now appears desirable to convert more
Correctional Officer positions to CPS, no legislation
is necessary to authorize the conversions. Basically
the rate, extent, and timing of conversion is a
budgetary matter that should be considered during
the legislative and executive review of the budget.
"Furthermore, the measure lowers the minimum qualifi-
cations for the CPS, downgrading rather than upgradin
correctional manpower.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
SB 710 Nejedly
Provides that salary ranges for correctional officers
and youth group supervisors for the 1974-75 fiscal
year shall be increased 15 percent over the pay
program approved by the legislature and governor for
that fiscal year. The bill directs the state Per-
sonnel Board to adjust the compensation of all
appropriate classes of correctional personnel to
maintain necessary salary relationships of the
classes.
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REASON FOR VETO:
frently, Government Code Section 18850 provides the
SB 710
state Personnel Board shall establish and adjust
salary ranges for each class of position in the state
civil service. The Board is further required to
base salary ranges
on the principle that like pay
shall be paid for comparable duties and responsibili-
ties, and to give consideration
to the prevailin
rates for comparable service in other public employ-
ment and in private business.
"The provisions of SB 710 would represent a signifi-
cant departure from Section 18850. The bill provides
a 15 percent salary increase over the salary recom-
mendations of the state Personnel Board for the
specified classes. This would contravene the basic
intent of salary principles expounded in Section 18850
The 1973-74 Salary Program is evidence of my commit-
ment to provide salary equity for state employees, and
I will continue to seek full implementation of un-
expended salary funds in this program resulting from
the federal Cost of Living Council decision. A
special salary increase of this nature, not based on
prevailing rates or internal equity, would disturb
the equitable salary structure we hope to achieve with
full implementation of the 1973-74 program.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned." "
SB 791 - Way
Provides for the allocation of funds, property and
obligations of a school district when a new school
district is formed from a portion of an existing
district of the same type, and when the allocation of
funds, property and obligations is not prescribed.
REASON FOR VETO:
"This bill would provide a means for the division of
materials and funds between two districts without
taking into consideration past tax contributions made
by the separated district components. I feel that
district organizations which currently have the
responsibility for dividing assets can best decide
what would be fair and equitable. This legislative
determination does not take into account the unique-
ness of each district involved.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
SB 1061 - Behr
Provides for the disregard of the value of any item
of need supplied by a nonneedy relative caretaker in
determining income or resources for purposes of AFDC
unless he declares them in writing as a voluntary
contribution. The bill appropriates $586,750 to the
State Controller for allocation and disbursement to
local agencies for costs incurred by them pursuant to
this act.
REASON FOR VETO:
"This bill would eliminate consideration of any item
of need as income or resources to a needy child
living with a non-needy relative unless the relative
declares in writing that he is making a voluntary
contribution of such item.
"A major ingredient of the Welfare Reform Act of 1971
was the philosophical reaffirmation that relatives
with sufficient means, should exercise a moral
responsibility to care for their family members who
are unable to provide for themselves. While our
current procedure embraces this philosophy, it does
not impose a financial hardship upon these caretaker
relatives because the grant payment structure for
these cases provides all the child's actual needs
without additional cost or financial gains.
"Enactment of this measure would weaken the state's
ability to apply the principle of family responsibi-
lity in the administrating of the welfare program.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
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SB 1093 - Moscone
Includes psychologists in the definition of physician
for the purpose of, among other things, certification
of disability under workmen's compensation.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I have not been presented with sufficient evidence
to support the need for the addition of psychologists
to the list of those eligible to treat injured
workmen.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
SB 1146 - Carpenter Authorizes certificated employees who are pupil
service employees to elect to either be represented
by a certificated employee council or establish a
pupil services committee which would have all the
rights, powers, privileges and duties of a certifi-
cated employee council under the Winton Act.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I made the following statement when I vetoed a
similar bill (AB 1764) last year:
""I can see no need at this time to establish another
council for pupil service employees. It could mean
much more negotiating time for administrators and
employees alike.
"Certificated employees who are pupil service and
employees are members of and are represented in the
certificated employee council. The duplication that
would result by the creation of another committee
would contribute to the fractionalization of
certificated employees.
"These reasons are still valid today.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
SB 1157 - Dills
Provides that the contract of a school district not
included in the County Superintendent of Schools
contract (Los Angeles City Unified and L.A. Community
College) shall subject the district and its employees
to those rate and benefit provisions applicable to
school members without district elections. Permits
district to exercise those options which relate only
to local miscellaneous provisions.
REASON FOR VETO
"This bill would eliminate the freedom of the Los
Angeles City Unified School District and the Los
Angeles Community College District to determine the
employee benefit structure for their non-certificated
personnel. The ability of these districts to decide
questions of their employee benefits should be
retained.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
SB 1165 - Dymally
Deletes the Education Code provision requiring the
Superintendent of Public Instruction to reduce
district apportionments for early childhood education
programs in accordance with amounts received pursuant
as allowances for specialist teachers.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The enactment last year of the Early Childhood
Education Program was intended to eliminate duplica-
tion of services and provide for needed coordination
of Kindergarten-third grade programs. The Miller-
Unruh Reading Program was to be phased-out to
eliminate such duplication of service. This bill,
however, deletes the provision allowing for the
planned phase-out of the Miller-Unruh Program.
"SB 1165 would only promote the continued overlap and
duplication between the Miller-Unruh Basic Reading
Program and the Early Childhood Education Program.
Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
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SB 1203 - Stiern
Includes within the definition of a state holiday
any day appointed by the President or governor as a
day of mourning.
REASON FOR VETO:
"This bill is technically deficient. It would chapter
out AB 13 (Chapter 520). AB 13 provides that
Veterans Day, presently a state holiday celebrated
on the 4th Monday in October, shall be on November 1.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
SB 1264 - Moscone
Requires school districts to apply to Department of
Education for federal and state funds to provide a
nutritious breakfast or lunch, or both, each schoolday
The bill requires the Superintendent of Public
Instruction to supervise and investigate program, and
requires him to certify to the Attorney General
districts which fail to comply.
The bill requires school districts or county superin-
tendent of schools to apply to Department of Education
for federal and state funds to provide a nutritious
breakfast or lunch or both. The bill also appropri-
ates $27, 874, to the State Controller for allo-
cation and disbursement to local agencies for partial
reimbursement for costs incurred by them pursuant to
this act.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I fully agree with the legislative intent of this
measure that no child should go hungry. However, it
would be wrong for the state to deny local districts
the ability to establish funding priorities in
accordance with their needs and concerns.
"The law presently permits school districts to
provide free meals to students. This measure would
take a permissive program and turn it into a state
mandated program that would include all school
districts throughout California.
"What may be considered a problem in one school
district may not exist in another. I believe local
school boards should continue to have the authority
to determine their own needs and priorities.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
SB 1328 - Behr
Wouldauthorize the transfer of surplus state lands to
local agencies to use for park and recreation purposes
at the administrative cost to the Department of
General Services. Present law permits a sale of 50
percent of market value.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The bill favors communities that have surplus state
property within their boundaries at the expense of
the statewide taxpayer. It reduces a fairly sub-
stantial source of revenue to the general fund
because, with minor exceptions, the proceeds from the
sale of surplus state land go to the general fund.
It also materially reduces the prospects of surplus
state property being restored to local tax rolls.
"There has been a significant commitment to increasing
public park projects in this state. In this year's
budget alone, $60 million has been provided for park
acquisition. The continued purchase of state parks
and the existing 50 percent discount on state surplus
properties should prove to be adequate.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned." "
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Governor Ronald 1. agan today also announced
has signed the
following bills with deletions:
SB 1109 - Rodda
Authorizes Superintendent of Public Instruction to
perform analyses of selected school districts to
identify factors which distinguish between high-
performing and low-performing districts.
DELETION:
"I am reducing the appropriation contained in Section
2 of Senate Bill 1109 from $100,000 to $50,000.
"The reduced appropriation is sufficient to fund the
first year of this proposed two-year study. The
second-year costs should be handled through the
normal budgetary process.
"With the above deletion, I approve SB 1109."
SB 1220 - Beilenson Enacts the California Noise Control Act of 1973. The
bill creates the Office of Noise Control in the state
Department of Health.
DELETION:
"I am deleting the $115,000 appropriation contained :-
in Section 2 of Senate Bill 1220.
"The provisions of this bill can be implemented
within the existing budgetary resources of the
Department of Health.
"With the above deletion, I approve SB 1220."
SB 1335 Moscone
Establishes the Bilingual-Crosscultural Teacher
Preparation and Training Act of 1973. The bill
requires the Commission for Teacher Preparation and
Licensing to design career ladder programs and
provide for grants to allow bilingual aides to become
fully certificated bilingual teachers. The bill also
creates Bilingual Teacher Development Grant Program
Loan Commission, and prescribes minimum available
grants for bilingual aides and teachers. The bill
appropriates $490,000
for purpose of implementing act and of awarding grant
DELETION:
"I am reducing the appropriation contained in Section
2 of Senate Bill 1335 from $490,000 to $20,000 by
deleting the appropriations contained in schedules
(b) $145,000, (c) $155,000 and (d) $170,000.
"The $20,000 appropriation left in this bill should
be adequate to design a career ladder for bilingual
aides. The ladder should be an incentive for aides
to continue on to become fully certificated bilingual
teachers.
"There appears to be sufficient available funds to
enable bilingual aides to continue their education
without the creation of a new grant award system.
"With the above reduction, I approve Senate Bill 1335.
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
10-2-73
#520
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced he has vetoed the following
bills:
AB 477 - Brown
Requires the Department of Transportation to landscape
and maintain certain lands as parks for public use.
Any land located within any city held by the Department
for state highway purposes, would be subject to this
requirement if it is not to be used withinttwo years
after its acquisition. The bill excludes any land
from which the department is receiving rent, and any
land which the department, with the concurrence of the
city, determines is not feasible to be developed into
a park.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The landscaping and maintenance of parks for temporar
use pending construction of State highways could cost
many millions of dollars each year. With the limited
funds available, the money can be better spent in
eliminating deficiencies in the state highway system.
This is particularly true when the highway improvement
are of a permanent nature whereas this bill would only
provide temporary use.
"The use of gasoline taxes for such non-highway relate
facilities would probably be unconstitutional.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 553 - Brown
Provides for an increased employer contribution to
state employees' health benefits plans. Under this
bill, the employer's share of the cost is based on a
specified percentage of premium charges rather than a
flat dollar amount. The bill further appropriates
moneys from the Salary Increase Fund to fund the cost
of this Act.
REASON FOR VETO:
"This bill would provide increased employer contribu-
tions to state employees' health insurance programs
in varying percentage amounts of 90 percent for single
employees to 70 percent for employees with dependents.
"Based on current health insurance costs, the new
contributions would range as follows:
"Employee only
$21.00
"Employee and one dependent
31.00
"Employee and two or more dependents
40.00
"Increasing the state's contribution to employee
health insurance programs over the current $16
contribution to make them more comparable to other
public and private plans is a worthwhile and realistic
objective.
"Omnibus legislation covering all employee benefits
will be introduced early next year. It would be
premature to approve AB 553 at this time.
"Funds to cover the costs of this benefit increase
would be appropriated from the Salary Increase Fund.
Such a transfer of salary increase funds could preclude
the state's ability to fully implement the 1973-74
salary program should our appeal to the Federal Cost
of Living Council be successful or controls be
terminated later in the fiscal year. I strongly oppose
any such transfer of funds at this time.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
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AB 804 - Warren
Changes the name of Workmen's Compensation Appeals
Bca rd referees to that of workmen's compensation
judges.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I share the concern of the Judicial Council that
AB .804 raises fundamental questions involving
judicial power and the use of the term 'judge'.
The change proposed by this bill would confuse
civil service referee positions with those of
elected state judicial officers.
"The work done by a workmen's compensation referee
is more closely akin to that of other hearing officers
than it is to a judicial position.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 835 - Brown
Provides for matching grants by the Council on
Intergovernmental Relations to cities and counties
to aid in accomplishing reorganization of local
governmental services. The bill requires the council
to adopt rules and regulations for proposal evaluation
and priority. Specifies factors to be considered and
included. The bill also appropriates $750,000 from
the General Fund for such grants.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The Office of Intergovernmental Management (OIM) as
staff for the Council on Intergovernmental Relations
(CIR) is currently holding hearings throughout the
state for the purpose of hearing local government
leaders and interested person who wish to suggest new
methods, patterns and concepts of local government or
to simply point out problems in local government as
they perceive them. During the current year, CIR/OIM
has entered into contracts with the University of
California, Los Angeles Technical Services, Institute
for Local Self Government and Rand Corporation to
develop alternative mechanisms for applying technology
to state and local government problems, to study
reallocation of public services and to study the use
of modern research and program methods to deliver
services in addition to the aforementioned hearings.
"All of the data is being collected and analyzed by
staff and presented to the Governor's Task Force on
Local Government Reform.
"Approval of this bill would add an additional
responsibility on CIR/OIM to develop procedures,
regulations, and review of grants for which they are
presently not staffed. Further, the possibility of
receiving a grant to prepare suggested changes in
local government would tend to undermine participation
in existing hearings and unnecessarily extend the
hearings.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned." =
Allows
AB 965 - Brown
/Registered nurses and licensed vocational nurses
to perform the following procedures when directed
by a physician and surgeon: (a) administer medica-
tions by hypodermic injections; (b) withdraw blood
from a patient if previously instructed in such
procedure; (c) start and superimpose intravenous
therapy if the nurse has previously completed a course
of instruction approved by the nurse's licensing
board and has demonstrated competence in performing
the procedure and understanding its effect and the
appropriate action necessary in the event of an
untoward reaction. As to registered nurses, the bill
postpones compliance with the requirements of (c)
until 1-1-75.
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REASON FOR VETO
"There is definitely a need for new definitions of
of AB 965:
nursing practice in the nurse licensing laws. Rapid
changes in health science, medical and nursing prac-
tice, and the organization of nursing services in
hospitals and other health facilities have brought
about a need to redefine what is regulated by these
licensing laws---to provide for change, and especially
to permit registered nurses and licensed vocational
nurses to expand the usefulness of their services
within the team of health workers. However, I feel
that AB 965, if enacted, will have the opposite effect
that it will restrict and narrow the scope of
practice for registered nurses (and perhaps for
licensed vocational nurses, as well).
"AB 965 amends what is now a very general definition
of registered nurse practice by listing three of the
many diagnostic and therapeutic procedures that are
commonly performed by some or all registered nurses.
I believe there is a very serious danger that such a
partial listing of specific items would be interpreted
by the courts to exclude from nursing practice a much
larger (and changing) group of procedures that are not
included in the bill.
"Through a special committee, the Assembly is studying
the whole problem of how to maximize the contribution
of various licensed occupations to the health delivery
team. The California Nurses' Association and other
health groups are also considering the matter.
Affirmative action on AB 965 at this time would be
premature.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 1152 - Chacon
Creates a state housing finance agency within the
Business and Transportation Agency headed by a board
composed of the State Controller, Treasurer, Director
of Housing and Community Development, Director of the
Department of Finance, Savings and Loan Commissioner,
Superintendent of Banks, as well as five Governor-
appointed public members representing the housing
finance industry. The bill authorizes issuance of
a maximum of $300,000,000 in revenue bonds and
$200,000,000 in general obligation bonds, and a one-
time General Fund appropriation of $300,000 to the
proposed state agency. The bill specifies that the
provisions of the act creating the State Housing
Finance Agency, authorizing creation of regional and
local finance agencies, and prescribing the powers and
duties of such agencies, shall not become operative
unless and until the State Housing Finance Bond Act
is adopted by the people at the 1974 general election.
REASON FOR VETO:
"This measure would establish the State Housing
Finance Agency with the power to make loans to non-
profit housing corporations, consumer housing
cooperatives, limited dividend housing corporations
and public agencies for the rehabilitation or
construction of housing. Similar powers would be
extended to various regional and local agencies.
Financing of these programs would be through bond
issues. When a public agency enters the bond market
it is not creating new capital; it is competing for
it with other areas of demand. The agencies proposed
in this bill would in effect be competing in the
housing bond market with the Cal-Vet program, which
this administration has supported.
"I share the concern of the State Treasurer that an
additional use of California's credit capacity fo finance housing programa
may jeopardize the state's recently acquired AAA bond rating, which will
result in substantial savings to the state. My reservations about bond
financing are compounded by the conditions now prevailing in financial
markets. If this bill were to become law, the electorate would be asked
to approve a $200 million issue of state general obligation bonds at a
time of high interest rates and in addition to several other bond issues
to be considered in 1974. Demand for capital throughout the economy is
at record levels, and contributes to the unacceptable rate of inflation.
(Reason continued on nage 41
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REASON FOR VETO
"The local and regional housing functi ons proposed by
OF AB 1152 CONT.:
the bill, with additional hundreds of millions of
dollars in bond authority, would only multiply the
potential economic problems of this measure. The
creation or expansion of additional layers of
government is not an efficient or constructive approach
to meeting public needs. It seems particularly unsound
to confer bonding authority upon regional planning
agencies which have no taxing powers to support bond
obligations. Any obligations undertaken by such
agencies must ultimately devolve upon the local
governments which support them.
"The bill provides for loans of up to 100 percent of
project cost. Because such loans are relatively high
in risk, I am concerned that the finance agency might
at some time have to call upon the general fund to
maintain its solvency. The risks incurred here are
similar to those encountered in federal housing programs
which have been suspended and will eventually be
overhauled or replaced. I believe the state should
not embark on a possibly obsolete program while a new
design is under development at the national level.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 1290 - Keene
Authorizes the governing board of a community college
district to contract with a nonprofit organization,
a public entity, or nonprofit private corporation for
the education of community college students whose
capacity to function is impaired by age or physical
or mental deficiency or injury in vocational education
classes.
REASON FOR VETO:
"My only objection to this bill is the provision that
includes students with mental deficiencies within
programs offered by the community colleges. Last year
the legislature removed mental retardation programs
from the Community Colleges in AB 300 (Fong), which
I signed into law. This bill, then, runs counter to
the policy established by AB 300.
"The legislature reaffirmed its policy on August 13,
1973, when the Senate Finance Committee refused pas-
sage of SB 622 (Zenovich), which would have returned
mental retardation programs to the community colleges.
"In addition, the provision in AB 1290 relating to
mental retardation programs in community colleges was
not discussed in committee. Therefore, I must assume
that the legislative policy in this matter is unchanged.
"I am vetoing AB 1290 without prejudice to its primary
purpose and recommend that it be resubmitted in January
for full legislative review."
AB 1412 - Miller
Appropriates $711,000 to the Regents of the University
of California for salary increases to professional
librarians employed by the University.
REASON FOR VETO:
"There is need for more substantive and precise data
to determine the appropriate salary levels for
professional librarians at the University of California
When such data is available, any warranted increases
will be considered as a part of the total budgetary
process. The budget, with its review by the legislature
and my office, is the appropriate vehicle for salary
legislation.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
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AB 1602 - Joint
Requires the Department of Health to review
Comm. on Aging
intermediate care and skilled nursing facility
McCarthy, Chrmn.
care costs through December 31, 1973 and December 31
of every odd-numbered year thereafter; adjust such
rates in July of every even-numbered year by applying
the methodology used in developing the existing rates,
except that rates would be developed reflecting
geographical cost differentials and be adjusted for
anticipated cost of living increases.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The requirements for automatic increase, including
anticipated cost of living increases, would be highly
inflationary, contrary to current rate setting methods
and could create a fiscal crisis for the state.
"The Department of Health is now engaged in a
comprehensive study of institutional rates, and I
will consider any adjustments once the full impact
of federal regulations implementing Public Law 92-603
has been determined.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 1606 - Murphy
Revises homemaker services and provisions on inhome
supportive services to include, but not be limited to,
homemaker, housekeeping, and personal services, chore
services, and day care services for former, current,
andpotential adult aid recipients.
REASON FOR VETO:
"This bill would attempt to provide a comprehensive
program of services for former, current and potential
adult welfare recipients to be funded solely by the
state and federal governments. The bill contains
various flaws which could not be resolved before
enrollment. These include unclear funding provisions
vague provisions establishing special allowances for
individuals to purchase services, and a required
increase in emphasis upon Medi-Cal funded services
over social services.
"The presence of these flaws is an indication that the
preparation of the bill did not adequately consider
the several variables which are currently evolving
and which will have a direct impact upon the
development of service programs in this state. These
include the revised social service regulations,
the federal government's close-ended appropriation for
social services, and the program and fiscal impact
of the state supplemental program to be adopted by
the state under the provisions of HR-1 as amended.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 1726 - Ingalls
Authorizes the Director of Health to deny for cause
the renewal of a Medi-Cal participation agreement of
a provider required to have a participation agreement.
It requires the notice of denial of renewal be given
to the provider within specified period. The bill
provides that the provider may request a hearing after
receipt of such notice.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The objection to this bill lies with the provision
which requires that 60 day notice be given to the
provider prior to renewal of a participation agree-
ment. This is contrary to proposed federal regula-
tions. Many state and federal statutory and
regulatory changes based upon P.L. 92-603 (HR-1),
will be necessary under the Medicare and Medi-Cal
programs. Therefore, rather than setting forth
legislation which will conflict with proposed federal
changes, I feel it would be prudent to await
finalization of federal regulations. This would
afford the state the opportunity to affect legislation
during the upcoming session which will set forth
applicable federal standards.
"Federal and State regulations in thisinstance should
be aligned to minimize unnecessary duplicate
regulatory mechanisms.
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AB 1874 - Gonzalves Changes the tax treatment of capital gains and
losses under the California Personal Income Tax
Law.
REASON FOR VETO:
"This bill would materially change the method whereby
state net taxable capital gains are determined.
Whenever possible, tax laws should be simple and
easily understood. AB 1874 adds complications to
an already overly complex law.
"AB 1874 does not represent a complete solution to
inequities in the present law. It will only result
in taxpayer confusion and errors. This is a matter
that should be reconsidered by the legislature in
1974.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 1973 - Murphy
Revises provisions of the Business and Professions
Code to delete lack of good moral character as a
ground for denial of license. Permits denial,
suspension or revocation on grounds of conviction
of a crime only if the crime is substantially re-
lated to the licensed business or profession.
Requires licensing boards to develop criteria to
aid in determining whether a crime is so related.
REASON FOR VETO:
"This bill would significantly revise the law
governing denial, suspension, or revocation of the
various business, professional and technical li-
censes governed by the Business and Professions
Code. Existing statutory provisions provide a
vital public protection by requiring that candidates
for license have a good moral character. This pro-
vision should be retained in the public interest.
"Accordingly, I am returning this bill unsigned."
AB 2171 - Waxman
Provides for eye or vision care services and mater-
ials as set forth in specified Medi-Cal schedules
of benefits, rather than eyeglasses, within the
definition of health care and related remedial
or preventive services, and includes such care
within the definition of minimum coverage.
REASON FOR VETO:
"This bill would include eye and vision care services
in the definition of 'health care services' and
include those services under minimum coverage.
"The bill has no immediate substantive effect on
the current benefit structure of the Medi-Cal
program. However, having these services included
as minimum coverage would mean that in the event of
a fiscal crisis, the Director of Health would be
unable to exercise the full authority he has under
Section 14105 of the code.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
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AB 2454 - Waxman
E.
ablishes maintenance level for medically indigent
persons under Medi-Cal at 133 1/3 percent of the
AFDC aid payment level for families and related
level for a single individual instead of an amount
established under the AFDC need standard. The
bill grants the Department of Health discretion to
vary such level under certain circumstances.
REASON FOR VETO:
"This bill would make specific in the law the
maintenance need level for medically needy benefi-
ciaries now in effect. At present, the standard is
133 1/3 percent of the payment standard for an AFDC
family of comparable size, as required by federal
law to achieve maximum federal financial participa-
tion. It also includes a provision granting the
director the discretion to increase or decrease the
maintenance level in order to achieve maximum federal
financial participation in the event of federal
adjustments in the law.
"However, AB 2454 would also introduce a concept of
deducting incurred medical or other remedial care
expenses from income which would result in a sub-
stantial reduction or total elimination of a
beneficiary's liability. This would result in an
estimated $2.5 million added cost to the taxpayers.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned." "
AB 2458 - Waxman
Provides that authorization by a Medi-Cal consultant
would constitute full authority for fiscal inter-
mediary payment regardless of other Medi-Cal re-
quirements. Permits payments for dental items or
services undertaken for eligible beneficiaries
whether the items or services are delivered during
a period of eligibility. Also permits payment of
items or services precluded under law which are
mistakenly authorized by a dental consultant.
Would add language to the law to mandate fiscal
intermediary payment "in an amount not less than
the minimum payment used by the Medi-Cal program
for such procedure." Claims are reimbursed up to
a maximum amount (pursuant to a Schedule of Maximum
Allowances) or in the amount billed, if less.
REASON FOR VETO:
"This bill would provide that authorization by a
Medi-Cal consultant would constitute full authority
for fiscal intermediary payment. The Department of
Health contends that this would require payment of
claims for services inadvertently authorized by
Medi-Cal consultants regardless of other Medi-Cal
laws or requirements or whether the beneficiary
was eligible for benefits at the time of delivery
of the dental items or services. This bill would
also provide advantages to dental providers through
Medi-Cal consultant authorizations which are ex-
cluded to other provider types.
"AB 2458 would add language to the law to mandate
fiscal intermediary payment 'in an amount not less
than the minimum payment used by the Medi-Cal program
for such procedure. The Department of Health
points out there is no 'minimum payment' concept in
the present billing process. Claims are reimbursed
up to a maximum amount (pursuant to a Schedule of
Maximum Allowances) or in the amount billed if less.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned." II
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE
Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
95814
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916-445-4571
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Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that he has signed the
following bills:
SB 20 - Grunsky
Authorizes an expenditure of not more than $4 mil-
Chapter 1097
lion from the State School Building Aid and Earth-
quake Reconstruction and Replacement Bond Act of
1972 for establishment and construction of the
permanent campus for a regional occupation center
or program in Santa Cruz County. Prior to alloca-
tion of any of these funds an election authorizing
establishment of the regional center and repayment
obligations must be called by the county superinten-
dent of schools and passed by two-thirds of the
electorate.
SB 36 - Collier
Requires the Council on Intergovernmental Relations
Chapter 1098
to recognize as a planning district any two or more
contiguous counties which by a majority of their
voters elect to form a district. Also requires the
council to transfer from one district to another
any county in which a majority of the voters have
approved the transfer and where the counties com-
prising the receiving districts approve the transfer
and requires the same procedure to be used in
changing the boundaries of established districts.
SB 173 - Dills
Provides for 4 years' service credit under the
Chapter 1099
State Teachers Retirement System for members of
Japanese ancestry required to leave teaching posi-
tions by the Wartime Civil Control Administration.
SB 186 - Rodda
Requires apprentices enrolled in specified classes
Chapter 1100
in community colleges to be reported separately
and would require allowances for such apprentices
to be based on high school foundation program for
regular students.
SB 205 - Walsh
Requires the Southern California Rapid Transit Dis-
Chapter 1101
trict to submit, not later than January 10, 1974,
to the legislature its plan for the implementation
of a rapid transit system, and the financing thereof,
in the district. Requires the district, prior to
adding any new, or extending any existing, scheduled
or regularly scheduled bus service, to prepare a
cost-benefit study of the proposed added or extended
bus service.
SB 217 - Deukmej
Provides judges who resign prior to age 70,
Chapter 1102
with at least five years of service, may elect
to receive specified retirement allowance and
survivor's benefits upon reaching the permissible
retirement age. Prohibits payment of such allow-
ances until age 63 unless the judge is age 60 with
20 years of judicial service.
SB 262 - Nejedly
Would repeal provisions of the Mobilehome Law
Chapter 1103
relating to mobilehome occupancy and accessory
structures, and re-enact them, unchanged, in the
Mobilehome Parks Act. The bill would also require
the Commission of Housing and Community Development
to adopt regulations defining substandard mobile-
homes and establishing procedures for their abate-
ment.
SB 359 - Zenovich
Requires, rather than permits, upon the approval of
Chapter 1104
2/3 of the voters of Fresno County, certain proceeds
of bonds issued under the State School Building
Aid Bond Law of 1966 to be used to provide voca-
tional facilities for a regional occupational cen-
ter in Fresno County.
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SB 370 - Alquist
quires every electrical, gas, heat, telephone,
Chapter 1105
or water corporation proposing to increase any rate
to furnish affected customers with notice of its
application to the Public Utilities Commission for
approval of such increase transmitted with the
corporation's first regular bill for charges follow-
ing the date of the application stating the amount
of increase applied for, the reasons therefor, and
the address of the commission to which inquiries
may be directed.
SB 426 - Wedworth
Authorizes school districts or county superintendents
Chapter 1106
of schools which maintain and operate development
centers for handicapped pupils to admit pupils
residing in specified licensed children's centers,
institutions, or family homes located either within
or without the district or county.
SB 496 - Holmdahl
Requires suppliers of domestic water to prepare an
Chapter 1107
emergency notification plan designed to provide
immediate notification to his customers of any
determination by the department that the quality
of domestic water fails to comply with the standards
of the Department of Health.
SB 498 - Gregorio
Authorizes the Trustees of the State University and
Chapter 1108
Colleges to enter into agreements with other uni-
versities and colleges so that students of the
State Universities and Colleges could attend such
other institutions and vice versa with a waiver
of fees or tuition.
SB 543 - Kennick
Recodifies, with various substantive changes, the
Chapter 1109
State Fireworks Law.
SB 547 - Alquist
Subjects any person violating rules and regulations
Chapter 1110
of the Bay Area Air Pollution Control District and
prescribed provisions regarding nonvehicular pollu-
tion control to a civil penalty of not to exceed
$500 for each day in which the violation occurs.
SB 1461 - Collier
Provides that funds appropriated by Budget Act of
Chapter 1136
1973 for state employee salary increases including
University of California, State University and
Colleges salary increases which are not expended
during the 1973-74 fiscal year shall be retained
in or transferred to for retention in the Salary
Increase Fund until appropriated by the legislature.
SB 1455 - Marks
Makes technical amendments for purpose of state
Chapter 1135
apportionments and computing community college dis-
tricts revenue limit. Also adds provisions allow-
ing foreign students lawfully admitted to the
United States with the intent to become permanent
residents and enrolled in a community college class
in English and citizenship for that purpose, to be
counted as resident students.
SB 1398 - Biddle
Increases the number of municipal court judges in
Chapter 1134
the Riverside Judicial District of Riverside County
from 4 to 5 on July 1, 1974. Creates the Barstow
Division of the San Bernardino County Municipal
Court District.
SB 1389 - Short
Creates the Central Delta Water Agency.
Chapter 1133
SB 1358 - Nejedly
Provides for the issuance to an out-of-state
Chapter 1132
osteopathic physician of a license as a physician
and surgeon in this state if certain specified
conditions are met.
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SB 1341 - Deukmejian
Delays the implementation until January 1,
Chapter 1131
1974, of the Vehicle Code requirement that
the judge is mandated to order a presentence in-
vestigation of all drunk drivers on the second or
subsequent conviction to determine whether the driver
could benefit from alcoholism treatment.
SB 1293 - Zenovich
Revises provisions for licensing and regulation of
Chapter 1130
underwritten title companies by the Insurance
Commissioner.
SB 1289 - Deukmejian
Requires the State Oil and Gas Supervisor to
Chapter 1129
order the recordation of an oil and gas
development unit agreement in the office of the
county recorder in each county in which any part
of the unit area is situated upon giving his approv-
al to the agreement.
SB 1268 - Deukmejian
Revises the penalty structure for persons
Chapter 1128
convicted of driving under the influence of
alcohol or drugs and alters the treatment of such
offenders to include attendance at driver improve-
ment schools, alcoholic treatment programs or serv-
ing time in jail on weekends or days off.
SB 1262 - Song
Increases penalty, under certain conditions, for
Chapter 1127
persons who sell or otherwise transfer information
or mechanisms, as specified, for purpose of tele-
phone or telegraph fraud, to up to one year and
one day in prison or one year in county jail,
or $5,000 fine, or both. The bill decreases the
state prison penalty applicable to other specified
telephone fraud offenders to one year and one day
rather than not more than 5 years.
SB 1173 - Beilenson
Changes the minimum requirement for written
Chapter 1126
notice of meetings of a state agency to per-
sons requesting such notice from 24 hours prior to
the meeting to one week prior to the meeting.
Adds a requirement that the agenda items be in-
cluded in the notice of meetings.
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SB 549 - Wedworth
ermits the sale, advertisement, offering for
Chapter 1111
sale and installation of smog devices which meet
exhaust standards but are not accredited by the
Air Resources Board.
SB 576 - Grunsky
Authorizes State Scholarship and Loan Commission
Chapter 1112
to make various adjustments in contracts with
private colleges and universities for the study of
medicine. Appropriates $12,863,400 to the com-
mission from General Fund for contract payments
during 1973-74 to 1977-78 fiscal years.
SB 579 - Berryhill
Requires containers of wine sold in this state to
Chapter 1113
conform to standards, including standards of fill,
established by the Secretary of the Treasury
pursuant to the Federal Alcohol Administration
Act.
SB 632 - Mills
Revokes as of January 31, 1984, conveyance in
Chapter 1114
trust to the San Diego Unified Port District of
tidelands and submerged lands which are now
subject to leases to the Western Salt Company.
The bill directs the Resources Agency, in coopera-
tion with the State Lands Commission, to undertake
a study to determine which state agency should be
assigned jurisdiction over such tidelands with
special consideration given to the practicability
of inclusion in the state park system. A report
and recommendation is to be submitted to the
Legislature by January 1, 1976.
SB 755 - Stull
Allocates $500,000 annually for the next five years
Chapter 1115
from state tidelands oil and gas revenues to be
used, as approved by the Secretary of the Resources
Agency, as up to two-thirds of the local matching
share for projects under the National Sea Grant
College and Program Act of 1966.
SB 816 - Cusanovich
Declares that customer lists of an employment
Chapter 1116
agency constitute a trade secret and confidential
information of the employment agency. The bill
declares that no liability shall attach to and
no cause of action shall arise from use of
customer list by a former employee of an agency
who enters business as an employment agency more
than one year after termination of his employment.
SB 826 - Walsh
Requires the Commissioner of the California High-
Chapter 1117
way Patrol to adopt regulations setting standards
for recapped motor vehicle tires. The bill
prohibits dealers from selling, offering for sale,
exposing for sale, or installing on a vehicle for
use on a highway, a recapped motor vehicle tire
which is not in compliance with such regulations.
SB 883 - Dills
Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission
Chapter 1118
specifically to allow research and development
expenses by electrical, gas, heat, and telephone
corporations for rate-setting purposes.
SB 1001 - Biddle
Recasts provisions of the Vehicle Code regarding
Chapter 1119
the transportation of specified hazardous sub-
stances. The bill also requires that vehicles
transporting radioactive material display placards
or markings in accordance with the provisions
of the Health and Safety Code.
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SB 1009 - Grunsky
Appropriates $1,000,000 from the Capital Outlay
Chapter 1120
Fund for Higher Education for site acquisition,
preliminary plans, working drawings, construction,
and equipping of new facilities for the California
School for the Blind and the California School
for the Deaf, Northern California. The school is
required to be located in a major Northern Calif-
ornia metropolitan area and the appropriation
supplements item 356 of the 1973 Budget Act. The
bill also makes changes in existing code regard-
ing the location of such schools and admission
criteria.
SB 1089 - Carpenter
Appropriates $7,600,000 to the Department of Parks
Chapter 1121
and Recreation for acquisition of lands located
between Newport Beach and Laguna Beach for the
state park system.
SB 1112 - Mills
Requires every railroad, passenger stage, and
Chapter 1122
street railroad corporation, and passenger air
carrier to display notices in the passenger seat-
ing area of such carriers printed, posted, and
displayed in a specified fashion advising the
location of the space required by law to be
designated for non-smoking passengers.
SB 1113 - Grunsky
Increases specified retirement benefits by five
Chapter 1123
percent with respect to employees retired or
members who died during the period of January 1,
1971, to June 30, 1971, inclusive, in addition
to the cost-of-living adjustment. Applicable to
employees of contracting agencies when elected by
employers. The bill appropriates $1,921,000 from
the General Fund to the Public Employees' Retire-
ment Fund for purposes of act.
SB 1149 - Lagomarsino Increases number of judges in Court of Appeal for
Chapter 1124
the Third Appellate District from four to six.
Adds one more judge effective January 15, 1975.
The bill also increases the number of municipal
court judges in South Bay Judicial District from
4 to 5.
SB 1164 - Dymally
Requires Secretary of State to notify proponents
Chapter 1125
as well as county clerks of official summary for
statewide initiative or referendum petitions, and
requires all such notices to set forth the
schedule of applicable deadlines. The bill re-
vises various deadlines for the filing and
examination of such petitions.
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
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Immediate
Sacramento, Califo!
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916-445-4571
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed with deletions:
SB 204 - Gregorio
Appropriates $12 million from the General Fund to the
Chapter 1137
Office of Alcohol Program Management for use as the
state's share under county Short-Doyle alcoholism
plan. Seventy five percent of the funds are for
community alcoholism projects such as detoxification
centers, recovery houses, information and referral
centers, and presentence investigation and treatment
services for drunk drivers. The remaining 25 percent
is to be used for occupational alcoholism programs
for public and private employees, a pilot program for
reimbursement of health insurance premiums for
alcoholism treatment, and educational and early
detection programs for the prevention of alcoholism.
Deletion:
"I am reducing the appropriation contained in Section
2 of Senate Bill No, 204 from $12,000,000 to
$9,000,000.
"I am in support of the alcoholism prevention and
rehabilitation programs which will reduce the tragic
social and economic toll on the citizens of
California caused by this serious health problem.
SB 204 will provide additional support and adminis-
trative authority to the California Alcoholism
Program. However, the $12 million appropriated for
this program is excessive and cannot be effectively
utilized during the initial 18 months as provided in
the bill. Trained manpower and facilities are not
presently available to support programs at this level
I am informed that $9 million will be sufficient to
support the new and expanded programs during their
initial stage of development.
"With the above reduction, I approve Senate Bill 204.
SB 551 - Marler
Increases number of judges in Shasta County Superior
Chapter 1093
Court from two to three. The bill appropriates
$60,000 to the State Controller for allocation and
disbursement to Shasta County for costs incurred by
it pursuant to this act.
Deletion:
"I am deleting the $60,000 appropriation contained
in Section 2 of Senate Bill No. 551.
"The appropriation is being deleted from this bill
because I feel that the cost of additional municipal
and superior court judges should be the responsibi-
lity of local government.
"With the above deletion, I approve Senate Bill 551.
SB 779 - Rodda
Authorizes the Trustees of the California State
Chapter 1138
University and Colleges to initiate, on a pilot
basis, for two university campuses, an exemption from
salary savings requirements, in order to determine if
a more effective administration of allocated
resources can be implemented without salary savings
requirements. The bill also appropriates $15,800,000
from the General Fund to the Emergency Fund for the
purpose of paying claims by the University of
California, State University and Colleges, and the
Board of Governors of the California Community
Colleges arising out of reductions in projected
federal reimbursements for student financial aid
programs.
Deletion:
"I am deleting the $15,800,000 appropriation con-
tained in Section 2 of Senate Bill No. 779. The
$15,800,000 appropriation deleted from this bill
does not reflect subsequent federal funding for
student financial aid nor does it reflect the
availability of additional aid funds from other
sources.
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SB 959 - Collier
Requires the Department of Parks and Recreation to
Chapter 1139
identify northern California coastal lands suitable
for inclusion in the state park system. The bill
authorizes the department, subject to the provisions
of the Property Acquisition Law, to acquire such
lands directly by purchase or by the purchase and
exchange of vacant state school lands under the
jurisdiction of the state Lands Commission. The bill
also appropriates $5,000,000 to the department for
purposes of the act.
Deletion:
"I am reducing the appropriation contained in Section
6 of Senate Bill No. 959 from $5,000,000 to $1,000,000
"The reduced appropriation is sufficient to make
acquisitions of high priority coastal lands.
"With the above reduction, I approve Senate Bill 959,
SB 1026 - Dymally
Appropriates $2,000,000 from the General Fund to the
Chapter 1140
University of California for the support of a program
of clinical health sciences education, research, and
public service to be conducted by the Charles R. Drew
Postgraduate Medical School in conjunction with the
University of California at Los Angeles.
Deletion:
"I am reducing the appropriation contained in Section
4 of Senate Bill No. 1026 from $2,000,000 to
$1,200,000.
"I am in support of medical manpower training programs
which will enhance health services to residents of
California. This measure will provide much needed
training activities in the health sciences. However,
I have been advised by the Health and Welfare Agency
that the entire amount appropriated by this bill will
not be required to carry out the intent of the measure.
"With this reduction, I approve Senate Bill 1026.'
SB 1083 - Petris
Appropriates $1,240,000 to the Department of Water
Chapter 1092
Resources for payment of the costs of lands, ease-
ments, and rights of way for the San Leandro Creck
flood control project in Alameda County.
Deletion:
"I am deleting the $1,240,000 appropriation contained
in Section 1 of Senate Bill No. 1083.
"The deleted appropriation is unnecessary since $8
million is already provided for local flood control
projects in AB 1409 (Chapter 920, 1973 Statutes) .
Governor Ronald Reagan today also announced the following bills have
been signed:
SB 9 - Harmer
Provides a state member of the Public Employees'
Chapter 1141
Retirement System, whose effective date of retirement
is within four months of separation from state employ-
ment, shall be credited at his retirement with four-
thousandths of a year of service for each unused day
of sick leave certified to the board by his employer.
SB 25 - Roberti
Authorizes the governing board of any community
Chapter 1142
college district to operate a student health center
or centers. Such districts are also authorized to
impose an annual health fee not to exceed $10 for
the regular school year.
SB 121 - Gregorio
Revises the duties of the California Arts Commission
Chapter 1143
to include granting of funds for programs and projects
in the arts. The bill provides criteria to establish
priority for funding and appropriates $777,819 to
carry out the provisions of the bill during the 1973-
74 fiscal year.
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SB 149-Behr
Substantially modifies the law relating to victims
Chapter 1144
of violent crimes. It broadens the scope of victims
who may qualify for awards, and substantially in-
creases the amount and type of awards which may be
made.
SB 165 - Cusanovich Establishes a twelve-member Board of Registered
Chapter 1145
Construction Inspectors in the Department of Consumer
Affairs.
SB 230 - Biddle
Provides that there shall be three regular election
Chapter 1146
dates in each even-numbered year and two in each odd-
numbered year, one on the first Tuesday after the
first Monday in March of each year, one on the first
Tuesday after the first Monday in June of each even-
numbered year, and one on the first Tuesday after the
first Monday in November of each year. In even-
numbered years, the two elections in June and November
shall be statewide elections.
SB 246 - Petris
Increases the mileage allowance for which an injured
Chapter 1147
employee shall be reimbursed from 12 to 14 cents per
mile for medical examinations at the request of
interested parties or agencies.
SB 278 - Grunsky
Provides that all meetings of the Assembly and Senate
Chapter 1148
and the committees and subcommittees thereof and the
conference committee on the budget shall be open to
the public. The only exceptions will be the executive
sessions regarding the appointment of committees, the
appointment or dismissal of a public officer or
employee, charges against such an officer or employee
or elected public official, internal house matters,
matters affecting the safety or security of the
State Capitol, or legislative members or staff,
conference committees other than the budget, and
private political party caucuses.
SB 286 - Dills
Provides that a local safety member under the Public
Chapter 1149
Employees' Retirement System shall be retired for
disability only upon his employer's determination of
physical and mental incapacity and termination of his
employment for that reason. The bill prohibits
reinstatement except upon the employer's determination
that the member is no longer incapacitated.
SB 321 - Zenovich
Provides for the licensing of mortgage bankers under
Chapter 1150
the Industrial Loan Law.
SB 324 - Rodda
Abolishes the California State Exposition and Fair
Chapter 1152
Executive Committee. The bill creates the Division
of Exposition and State Fair in the Department of
Parks and Recreation. The bill also establishes the
California State Fair Advisory Commission, with pre-
scribed membership, powers, and duties, to provide
information and advice to the Department of Parks
and Recreation with respect to the operation and
management of the annual California State Fair.
SB 398 -Petris
Specifies that designated reports in connection with
Chapter 1151
suspected abuse of minors may be made alternatively
to county welfare department or county health depart-
ment as an alternative to reporting both to local
police authority and juvenile probation department.
The bill provides that certain such reports be filed
without delay, rather than within 36 hours.
SB 456 - Mills
Increases, commencing with the 1974-75 fiscal year,
Chapter 1153
from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000, the amount to be set
aside annually by the California Highway Commission
and the Department of Transportation for grade
separation projects. Requires $5,000,000 to be trans-
ferred each fiscal year of 1974-75 and 1975-76
directly from the Motor Vehicle Fuel Account in the
Transportation Tax Fund to the state Highway Account
in the state Transportation Fund for such purposes.
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SB 479 - Biddle
-stablishes a motor vehicle inspection and mainten-
Chapter 1154
ance program to be planned and operated by the
Department of Consumer Affairs with the advice and
cooperation of the California Highway Patrol and the
Air Resources Board for the purpose of conducting a
demonstration program of annual mandatory periodic
exhaust and emission inspection of all vehicles
registered in the six counties which make up the
South Coast Air Basin.
SB 529 - Nejedly
Defines solid waste for the purposes of the Nejedly-
Chapter 1156
Z'berg-Dills Solid Waste Management and Resource
Recovery Act of 1972 to include liquid wastes. The
bill provides for the chairman of the state Solid
Waste Management and Resource Recovery Advisory
Council to receive $100 for each day attending meetin
of the council or the state Solid Waste Management
Board.
SB 554 - Deukmejian Provides alternative survivor benefit options for
Chapter 1157
children of judges who die and do not have a sur-
viving spouse. The bill also provides that a judge
or a retired judge may elect to come under the pro-
visions of this act on or before April 1, 1974.
SB 572 - Whetmore
Requires every taxicab display a sign informing the
Chapter 1158
passengers of who regulates and controls the taxicab.
SB 584 - Nejedly
Excludes facilities, which house persons who are not
Chapter 1160
physically or mentally handicapped, from automatic
sprinkler and fire alarm system requirements.
SB 600 - Harmer
Enacts the Elementary Demonstration Scholarship Act
Chapter 1159
of 1973. It authorizes no more than four school
districts or groups of districts to participate.
Educational scholarships will be made available to
school pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 - 12.
SB 605 - Grunsky
Relates to the transfer of handicapped minors from
Chapter 1161
state hospitals to community placement and provides
that when such minors are in need of an educational
training program notification shall be made by the
appropriate regional center or local mental health
program to the county superintendent of schools of
the county of residence of the minor and to the county
superintendent of schools of the county of placement.
The bill also provides that the school superintendent
of the county of placement shall certify to the
Director of Health and the Superintendent of Public
Instruction regarding the availability of appropriate
public or private educational facilities or program
for such minors.
SB 620 - Song
Provides for a change in the violation point count
Chapter 1162
regardingnegligent drivers, for persons who drive
25,000 miles or more a year. The bill further expands
the infraction concept to include "rules of the road"
violations except for certain public offenses.
SB 652 - Moscone
Provides for payment of disability benefits for up to
Chapter 1163
26 weeks for pregnancy, but only upon a doctor's
certification of any abnormal complication of preg-
nancy, or any disabling condition that would disable
without regard to pregnancy. This bill is identical
to AB 809 (Deddeh).
SB 683 - Robbins
Requires aircraft owners to advise renter pilots
Chapter 1164
whether or not liability insurance for bodily injury
and property damage is in effect.
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SB 702 - Carpenter
Provides for the assessment as open-space land of
Chapter 1165
land subject to a wildlife habitat contract which
restricts the use of the land to wildlife habitat and
native pasture. The bill requires the county assessor
to value such land by using the average current per-
acre value of such lands sold within the same county,
for purposes of property tax assessments. The bill
requires the Controller to report to the legislature
on the amount of claims submitted by units of local
government for reimbursement of property tax revenues
lost as a result of this enactment, in order that the
legislature may appropriate funds for subventions
required by law.
SB 716 - Moscone
Deletes and adds provisions relating to specified
Chapter 1166
financial disclosure by specified public officers and
candidates for public office and requires yearly dis-
closure, by a public official, of, among other things,
all investments in a business entity worth more than
$1,000; a description of any real property he is
interested in whose fair market value is worth more
than $1,000; and the source of income, loans, or
gifts in excess of $250 received in the previous 12
months. The bill provides for enforcement of such
provisions and for specified penalties for violation
of such provisions.
SB 804 - Rodda
Appropriates from the General Fund $70,000 to the
Chapter 1167
Superintendent of Public Instruction for purposes of
undertaking a study by an independent consulting firm
in a county selected by the Superintendent of Public
Instruction, regarding the feasibility of combining
existing data processing centers presently operating
in at least 4 school districts and the office of the
county superintendent of schools. The bill also
provides that specified requirements of Budget Act of
1973 relating to electronic data processing equipment
are not applicable to initial lease of equipment and
initial acquisition of services and supplies for
Stephen P. Teale Consolidated Data Center.
SB 851 - Marler
Provides for regular class instruction to educationally
Chapter 1168
handicapped and mentally retarded pupils under
specified conditions and with prior approval of the
Superintendent of Public Instruction. Wherever such
programs are conducted they shall be in accordance
with rules and regulations established by the state
Board of Education. An additional annual allowance
of $1,018 is provided under the legislation for each
unit of average daily attendance for mentally retarded
and educationally handicapped pupils in regular day
classes and for speech handicapped pupils in specified
classes.
SB 911 - Coombs
Excludes, for the 1974-75 to the 1979-80 fiscal year,
Chapter 1169
inclusive, time both in the air and on the ground prior
to certain aircrafts' first revenue flight as well as
time on the ground in excess of twelve consecutive
hours from computation of time in state for purposes
of assessing such aircraft for property taxation.
Includes such time for purposes of assessing such air-
craft for the 1980-81 fiscal year and thereafter.
The bill revises formula regarding aircraft revenue
flights for allocation of income from foreign and
domestic sources for purposes of Bank and Corporation
Tax Law. The bill also requires the state Board of
Equalization to compute the reduction in local property
tax revenues which would have occurred if such time
were excluded in the 1972-73 fiscal year and to
certify such reduction to the Controller and Department
of Finance upon which reimbursements to local govern-
ment are to be based. This bill is intended to
encourage the expansion of the aircraft testing and
repair industry in California.
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SB 1054 - Biddle
akes technical amendments to the Unemployment
Chapter 1208
Insurance and Welfare and Institutions Codes to
conform to federal changes in the Work Incentive
Program.
SB 1107 - Rodda
Authorizes, under specified circumstances, reduction
Chapter 1170
of annual repayment obligations under state School
Building Aid Law of 1949 for districts maintaining
continuous school programs. The bill authorizes
apportionment of school building aid funds for such
modification of existing facilities as is necessary
for implementation of continuous school programs.
The bill further provides for notification of the
Superintendent of Public Instruction by a school
district desiring to operate a continuous school
program and permits a one-time grant of up to $25,000
for districts with attendance units of more than 500
who are operating such a program prior to July 1,
1979. Makes an appropriation of $800,000 from the
General Fund to the Department of Education to make
such grants.
SB 1123 - Petris
Requires a redevelopment agency to send the governing
Chapter 1171
body of each taxing agency which levies taxes upon
any property in the project area a statement attached
to its notice of hearing regarding effects of the
division of tax revenues contained in the proposed
redevelopment plan.
SB 1128 - Alquist
Provides that specified loans or grants be considered
Chapter 1172
for educational purposes and, to the extent permitted
by federal law, shall not be used or considered in
determining the eligibility or needs of public
assistance recipients or applicants.
SB 1158 - Schrade
Appropriates $1,450,000 from the Real Estate Fund to
Chapter 1173
the Department of Real Estate to be administered by
the Real Estate Commissioner for the advancement of
real estate and consumer education.
SB 1171 - Zenovich
Requires the Department of Health and community
Chapter 1205
mental health programs, in referring mentally
disordered patients to licensed facilities, to
provide the licensee with information concerning the
patient's previous conduct which would be relative
to the suitability of placement.
SB
1176 - Beilenson Requires family planning services to be provided to
Chapter 1213
former, current, or potential recipients of child-
bearing age, as provided by Public Law 92-603. The
bill authorizes the Department of Health to provide
such services by contract. The bill includes family
planning services within the basic schedule of
benefits under the Medi-Cal Benefits Program. This
bill also establishes the Office of Family Planning
within the Department of Health and appropriates
$4,770,000 to the Department for the 1973-74 fiscal
year.
SB 1194 - Stevens
Appropriates $5,700,000 from the General Fund to the
Chapter 1174
Department of Parks and Recreation for the acquisition
of lands (Century Ranch) located in the Malibu area
of Los Angeles County for the state park system.
SB 1221 - Beilenson Requires the Southern California Rapid Transit
Chapter 1175
District, in cooperation with the Department of
Transportion and other local and regional entities in
the south coast air basin, to prepare and submit to
the legislature by January 1, 1974, a comprehensive
plan for the development and operation of preferential
facilities for highoccupancy vehicles.
SB 1224 - Song
Establishes a family physician training program
Chapter 1176
appropriating $3,150,000 to the state Health and
Welfare Agency to be allocated by contract tomedical
training facilities for family practitioner and
primary care physician assistant training programs and to fund adminis-
tration of the state contract program. The bill establishes a Health
Manpower Policy Commission which will set program standards and other
specific guidelines for the implementation of programs contracted for by
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SB 1284 - Roberti
Revises requirements for ballot pamphlets with regard
Chapter 1177
to statewide measures. The bill establishes
procedures for contesting accuracy of ballot pamphlet.
SB 1299 - Gregorio
Directs the California Highway Commission, on
Chapter 1178
January 1, 1974, to quitclaim to the City of San
Bruno specified parcels lying within the city that
were acquired by the state upon the dissolution of
Joint Highway District No. 10.
SB 1438 - Marks
Authorizes local governments with populations of
Chapter 1201
600,000 or more, to issue revenue-producing special
obligation bonds for the purpose of making loans for
residential rehabilitation. This bill is identical to
AB 2583.
SB 1443 - Collier
Authorizes the director of General Services, with the
Chapter 1179
approval of the state Public Works Board, to sell,
exchange, or lease designated lands located in the
City of Santa Rosa. The bill appropriates $438,000
from the Motor Vehicle Account for acquisition of a
field office site for the Department of Motor Vehicles
at or in the vicinity of the City of Santa Rosa.
SB 413 - Beilenson
Revises various statutes governing planning for, and
Chapter 1202
licensing and regulation of, hospitals and related
facilities.
SB 197 - Grunsky
Prohibits the Departments of Justice and Health from
Chapter 1204
charging fees for investigating an applicant for a
license to operate a facility providing nonmedical
board, room, and care for six or less children. It
would prohibit the state Fire Marshal or any local
agency from charging fees for enforcing fire safety
provisions affecting such family homes.
SB 387 - Deukmejian Changes the name of the California Job Development
Chapter 1211
Corporation Law to California Job Creation Corporation
Law. The bill declares intent to develop employment
and small business opportunities for youth, in
addition to the disadvantaged and minority and
disabled persons.
SB 586 - Marks
Provides that unemployed person shall not be deemed
Chapter 1210
ineligible for the receipt of unemployment compensa-
tion benefits or welfare benefits, as applicable, for
refusing to accept employment with an employer who
does not possess an appropriate state license to
engage in his business, trade, or profession, or
does not withhold or hold in trust the employee
contributions required for unemployment compensation
disability benefits and transmit such employee contri-
butions as required, or does not either carry work-
men's compensation insurance or possess a certificate
of self-insurance.
SB 510 - Alquist
Requires the Commission of Housing and Community
Chapter 1214
Development to adopt rules and regulations establishing
minimum standards of energy insulation in new
mobilehomes. (Previously reported in Press Release
#519 as vetoed, in error).
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AB 6 - Cline
Revises the personal income tax rates imposed on the
Chapter 1180
income of heads of households, and allows certain'
married persons filing separate returns to compute
their tax liability by use of the head of household
schedule. The changes are to become effective for
income year 1974.
AB 63 - McCarthy
Amends the appropriation language of Chapter 918,
Chapter 1181
Statutes of 1972 to allow the funds to be used to
implement a nutrition program under Title III of
the Older Americans Act, with the stipulation that
if Title VII becomes operational the state would
then utilize its funds under Title VII.
AB 86 - Alatorre
Requires state and local agencies to employ a suffi-
Chapter 1182
cient number of qualified bilingual persons in pub-
lic contact positions where contact is made with
a substantial number of non-English-speaking people.
The determination of what constitutes a substantial
number of non-English-speaking people and a suffi-
cient number of qualified bilingual persons shall
be made by the state or local agency.
AB 139 - Priolo
Appropriates $1,000,000 to the Regents of the
Chapter 1183
University of California for purposes of establish-
ing a Neuromuscular Disease Research Center. Also
appropriates $100,000 to the regents for purposes
of funding research and teacher education projects.
AB 189 - Boatwright
Requires, upon conviction of any violation of any
Chapter 1184
provision of the Vehicle Code, other than a felony
violation, that execution of sentence of imprison-
ment in the county jail be suspended, at the request
of the convicted person, for a period of 24 hours,
unless the judge determines that such suspension
would cause risk to the community or that the per-
son would not return.
AB 306 - Chappie
Appropriates $50,000 to the Resources Agency for
Chapter 1185
allocation to the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency
to pay legal fees and other litigation expenses
of the agency.
499 - Gregorio
Grants specific authority for a local agency govern-
Chapter 1155
ing body by ordinance, to authorize employees of
public pounds, of societies for the prevention of
cruelty to animals, or of humane societies who are
humane officers, and which societies or organiza-
tions have contracted with such local agency to
provide services, to issue notice to appear for
violations of state of local animal control laws.
Provides that such employees may not be authorized
to take any person into custody even though no
written promise to appear is received.
AB 510 - Greene, B.
Repeals provisions relating to career guidance
Chapter 1209
centers, and establishes in its place a revised
pilot career guidance center program.
AB 703 - Waxman
Creates the Waxman-Dymally Campaign Disclosure Act,
Chapter 1186
repealing the Campaign Statements Law, the Political
Contributions Law, and the law requiring statements
of receipts and expenditures for or against ballot
measures, and generally revising the law relating
to campaign reporting with respect to candidates
and ballot measures.
AB 770 - Lanterman
Establishes the California Postsecondary Education
Chapter 1187
Commission which will succeed to the powers, duties,
and functions vested in the Coordinating Council
for Higher Education on April 1, 1974. Also appro-
priates $200,000 from the General Fund for the
purpose of the Act.
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AB 806 - Deddeh
Increases maximum weekly benefit amount for disabil-
Chapter 1188
ity benefits from $105 to $119 effective April 1,
1974. The bill raises the annual taxable wage
base for employee tax for disability benefits from
$8,500 to $9,000, effective January 1, 1974.
AB 1103 - Greene, B. Creates the Department of Employment Development
Chapter 1206
by combining the Department of Human Resources
Development and California Job Development Corpora-
tion Law Executive Board. The bill vests the new
department with the responsibility of job creation.
It provides for coordinated local-regional-state-
wide manpower planning.
AB 1126 - Dunlap
Adds discrimination based on physical handicap to
Chapter 1189
unfair employment practices prohibited by the
California Fair Employment Practice Act, and makes
such discrimination subject to the jurisdiction and
control of State Fair Employment Practice Commission.
AB 1172 - Kapiloff Makes various changes relating to the assessment
Chapter 1190
of property and corrections and cancellations of
assessments.
AB 1244 - Moretti
Redefines and restates child development services
Chapter 1191
established by AB 99 (Chapter 670), Statutes of
1972). The bill requires the Department of Educa-
tion to improve the program and establish certain
fees for child development services to conform with
pending Federal Social Services regulations. It
establishes certain priorities for services in the
event of insufficient Federal matching funds.
The bill calls for a management and fiscal audit
of all existing Child Care Programs with report
due February 1, 1974.
The bill also requires the Department of Education
to conduct a two-year pilot study utilizing two
model child development sites to test new delivery
methods and the effect of the expansion of child
development services through the use of parent fee
payments and to nonfederally eligible children.
The bill appropriates $6,152,500 to replace any
loss of funds due to pending revisions to Federal
Social Services regulations and $3,000,000 to fund
the two-year pilot study called for by the bill.
URGENCY LEGISLATION.
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AB 1392 - Johnson, H. ermits local miscellaneous members of the Public
Chapter 1192
Employees Retirement System to receive prescribed
industrial disability allowances if their employing
contracting agency so elects. The bill further
provides increased industrial disability allowance for
totally disabled local miscellaneous and local safety
members. Not applicable to contracting agency unless
elected.
AB 1570 - Briggs
Amends the Dairy Standards Law to require cottage
Chapter 1193
cheese, buttermilk and sour cream dressing to be made
from market grademilk or derivatives of market milk,
and amends the Milk Stabilization Law to reclassify
certain products for pricing purposes. In addition,
it clarifies provisions that require condensed and
evaporated milk products to be assigned the usage
classification of the ultimate product as utilized
in bulk by distributors.
AB 1645 - Seeley
Provides for regulation of the medication or drugging
Chapter 1194
of racehorses sold at horse sales or horseauction sale
The bill specifically exempts horse sales or horse
auction sales when such sales are solely for the
sale of racehorses or breeding stock that is used for
the production of racehorses and when such sales are
held or conducted on the premises of any racing
association under the jurisdiction of, and with the
authorization and approval of, the California Horse
Racing Board from the designated provisions regu-
lating public herse shows, horse competition, or
horse sales. The bill further requires the board to
establish rules and regulations for such horse sales
or horse auction sales as are reasonably necessary to
provide the horse, owners, general public with
adequate protection, and requires such rules and
regulations to provide for regulation of the medica-
tion or drugging of racehorses sold at horse sales or
horse auction sales.
AB 1661 - Chappie
Repeals provisions requiring reimbursement of fuel tax
Chapter 1195
collected on fuel which is used when operating on-
highway vehicles for off-highway recreation. The bill
also requires the Department of Transportation to
estimate the amount of motor vehicle fuel tax collecte
which is attributable to off-highway recreational use
every two years. The estimate made by Transportation
will then be used as a basis for transferring money
from the Motor Vehicle Fuel Account to the Off-Highway
Vehicle Fund. Money in the Off-Highway Vehicle Fund
is used to "carry out programs of planning, acquisi-
tion, development, construction, maintenance, admini-
stration, and conservation of trails and areas for use
of off-highway vehicles.
AB 1796 - Keysor
Extends by one hour the time for the close of the
Chapter 1196
polls at a general district election and the time
before which vote totals or returns at such election
may not be announced or disclosed. The bill makes it
a misdemeanor to refuse to allow a prospective signer
to read initiative, referendum, a recall petition, or
to obscure the Attorney General's summary of statewide
initiative or referendum. The bill provides that an
arrest or conviction for this misdemeanor shall not
invalidate or otherwise affect the validity of any
signature obtained by the person arrested or convicted
This bill makes poll-closing times uniform for all
elections.
AB 1805 - Knox
Establishes a state Board of Fire Services within the
Chapter 1197
office of the state Fire Marshal. Vests in the state
Board of Fire Services all of the powers, duties and
responsibilities of the existing state fire advisory
board, which is abolished. The Fire Services Board is
required to make studies, recommendations, and reports
regarding fire protection personnel appointments,
apparatus, and training.
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AB 1816 - Brown
-nacts Small Business Procurement and Contract Act
Chapter 1198
providing generally for increased participation of
small businesses in state procurement and contract
awards by giving special consideration, preferences
and assistance to small businesses. The bill creates
within the Department of General Services an Office
of Small Business Procurements and Contracts and
prescribes duties of such office.
AB 1950 - Brown
Establishes a Department of Benefit Payments to
Chapter 1212
handle fiscal affairs, and supervise and administer
the payment of aid. The bill transfers to the
Department of Benefit Payments certain fiscal func-
tions of the Department of Social Welfare.
AB 2262 - Lanterman Permits nonprofit community care facilities to become
Chapter 1203
eligible for state insurance on construction loans.
Requires a 21-member advisory committee to be
appointed by the Director of Health which shall
include representatives of professional organizations.
Will bring under licensure: 1,600 family care homes,
80 rehabilitation centers, 45 workshops, and 47 work,
activity centers.
AB 2583 - Foran
Authorizes local governments with populations of
Chapter 1199
600,000 or more, to issue revenue-producing special
obligation bonds for the purpose of making loans for
residential rehabilitation. This bill is identical
to SB 1438.
AB
2652
- MacGillivray Appropriates an additional $6 million to fund the
Chapter 1200
payment of claims filed under the Senior Citizens
Property Tax Assistance Law in fiscal year 1973-74.
SB 601 - Lagomarsino Creates the Department of Employment Development by
Chapter 1207
combining the Department of Human Resources Develop-
ment and California Job Development Corporation Law
Executive Board. The bill vests the new department
with the responsibility of job creation. It provides
for a coordinated local-regional-statewide manpower
planning.
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RELEASE:
Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
95814
Ed Gray, Press Secre ary
916-445-4571
10-2-73
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Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that he has vetoed the
following bills:
SB
174
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Cusanovich
Establishes separate eligibility for dialysis
patients under Medi-Cal where such patients have
income above present qualifying levels. The
patient's liability would be to use other sources
before qualifying and then would pay, on the basis
of income levels, a fixed percentage of dialysis
and related services costs.
REASON FOR VETO:
"Enactment of this bill would create a new group
of Medi-Cal eligibles 'dialysis patients' who
would receive program benefits under a separate,
more liberal financial and resource eligibility
criteria than other Medi-Cal applicants. Also,
there would be no federal financial participation
in the cost of medical care for persons qualifying
under the bill whose income and resources are
above the allowable federal maximums.
"Under O.L. 92-603, the Social Security Amendments
of 1972, Medicare will pay for dialysis treatment
for all disabled kidney patients, including those
under 65, who meet Social Security eligibility
requirements. This will cover the majority of
individuals with kidney failure or chronic kidney
disease. Medi-Cal will continue to provide assist-
ance to those not eligible for Medicare who meet
Medi-Cal eligibility requirements.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
SB 283 - Alquist
Enacts the Warren-Alquist State Energy Resources
Conservation and Development Act. Establishes
the State Energy Resources Conservation and Develop-
ment Commission and prescribes its membership,
powers, and duties.
REASON FOR VETO:
"For four years my administration has worked for
the passage of a power plant siting bill. The
bill before me now, however, is an unfinished
product which was denied the benefit of committee
hearings in the Senate. The bill is a massive
proposal which still contains many unacceptable
details that would have been worked out if it had
been given the full hearing process.
"It includes a new tax to produce $32 million
annually just for one part of the new operation.
It would duplicate many functions currently being
performed by a number of state agencies. The bill
contains an appeals procedure which would make
the new process subject to delays that could
defeat the purpose of the act, namely speeding the
approval of power plant sites.
"California is facing an energy crisis that requires
a new process for expediting the location and
construction of power plants. Because of its ill-
considered features, this bill would not contribute
to the solution of the problem. The legislature
has several bills currently before it which could
be used to finish deliberations on this vital issue.
I am hopeful the legislature will approve and
deliver to my desk early next year a workable power
plant siting bill.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned." "
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SB 533 - Wedworth
Provides, if PERS contracting agencies so elect,
that cost-of-living adjustments for local safety
members shall be limited to an increase in monthly
allowance of 5 percent per year, rather than 2
percent.
REASON FOR VETO:
"This bill would permit individual contracting
agencies under the Public Employees' Retirement
System to provide for automatic adjustment of
allowances of local safety members on the basis
of changes in the Consumer Price Index of up to
5 percent per year, compounded.
"I signed legislation instituting administrative
cost-of-living adjustment of allowances for all
members of the Public Employees' Retirement System
in 1968 and legislation liberalizing the limits in
1970 for all members. A study is currently under
way to determine if further adjustments are
feasible.
"The bill would commit taxpayers to substantial
adjustments of allowances and already overburdened
property owners to possible major increases in tax
levies.
"Furthermore, changes in the cost-of-living
affect all retired equally. Any improvement should
apply to all members, not to a small minority.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
SB 595 - Moscone
Revises provisions for return of registration
materials by deputy registrars of voters, and for
reissuance of such materials. Also revises pro-
visions for cancellation of voter registration
for failure to vote at the preceding general
election, and for postcard notice regarding such
cancellation.
REASON FOR VETO:
"SB 595 would make it possible for a county clerk
to accept a prepaid notice of a change of address.
The applicant would then be allowed to reregister
by mail in his new county without the necessity
of executing a new affidavit of registration.
"The present registration requirements offer better
guarantees of minimizing election fraud. I ser-
iously question the real value of any registration
by mail laws. This bill would be a step in that
questionable direction.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
SB 674 - Moscone
Abolishes the Board of Pilot Commissioners and
the Pilotage Rate Committee for the Bays of San
Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun. It creates a
new Board of Pilot Commissioners for these waters
and prescribes the organization, membership,
powers, and duties of the board including the
establishment of pilotage rates. Places the new
Board of Pilot Commissioners within the Department
of Navigation and Ocean Development. It provides
that the board shall consist of two public members,
one maritime industry member, one pilot member, and
one maritime seagoing union member.
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REASON FOR VETO:
The final version of this bill differs in several
(SB 674)
important respects from that previously agreed to
by the groups affected by this measure. Last
minute amendments change the composition of the
new board and the method of electing of its chair-
man. I do not feel that it would be appropriate
to sign SB 674 under these circumstances.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned.
SB 695 - Alquist
Requires the Department of Transportation to submit
an annual budget report as part of the governor's
budget bill to be reviewed and approved by the
legislature. It stipulates that administrative and
maintenance expenditures of the department may be
expended only after legislative appropriations for
such purposes. Also repeals Section 188.3 of the
Streets and Highways Code which limits maintenance,
landscaping maintenance, and functional planning
expenditures.
REASON FOR VETO:
"From the standpoint of sound fiscal management,
this proposal creates a difficult situation. Under
this bill, the legislature would control the portion
of the budget relating to such things as the highway
disaster programs and the general administration
of the highway program. The California Highway
Commission would continue to be responsible for
the program budget for the capital improvement of
the state highway plan but would not have the
authority to prepare or review the budget items
concerning the most essential persons needed to
carry it out.
"Under these circumstances it would impair manage-
ment's ability to be responsive on a timely basis
during periods of rapidly changing needs and con-
ditions in terms of allocating manpower and finan-
cial resources. The recent changes embodied in
the Federal Aid Highway Act are an example of the
need for a timely response capability.
"The procedure proposed by this bill creates some
serious timing problems in preparing the budget.
The Highway Commission would be forced to continue
preparing the capital outlay portion of the budget
in the fall preceding the start of each fiscal
year, and capital outlay projects would continue
to be commenced six months prior to the start of
the fiscal year.
"Under this bill, the Commission would not know
whether there would be sufficient staff available
to administer such a program nor would they know
whether adequate funds would be available to main-
tain such projects when completed.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
SB 705 - Nejedly
Establishes a Commission on Correctional Standards.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The commission created by SB 705 would establish
minimum standards for the recruitment, selection,
and training of local and state correctional personnel, together with
recommended salary structures.
"The major effect of this bill is the creation of another governmental
mechanism for providing state funding and policy direction in establish-
ing standards for correctional workers.
"Although I am sympathetic with the intent of SB 705, I believe that
the creation of another segment of government would not be in the public
interest. This can be accomplished within the existing framework of
government with considerably less cost to the taxpayers of California.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
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SB 990 - Wedworth
Includes firemen in the general group of safety
personnel who shall receive compensation when
required to appear as a witness upon being served
with a subpoena. Makes provisions relating to the
court appearance and testimony of specified law
enforcement officers applicable to firemen.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The cost of fulfilling the mandates of SB 990
would be substantial. The increased cost to local
governments would be more than $140,000 annually,
which would have to be borne by the State General
Fund. I do not believe this would be an appropri-
ate use of the statewide taxpayers' resources.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned.
SB 1031 - Dymally
Provides that members of school district governing
boards in districts which exceed 60,000 in average
daily attendance may set their own compensation
for participation on the board by resolution
adopted at a public meeting.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I believe there must be some limitation imposed
on school district governing board salaries. The
provisions of this measure would not be in the best
interests of local property taxpayers.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
SB 1066 - Berryhill
Includes hospitals and hospital related facilities
within the property tax exemption for property
which is owned by a nonprofit corporation and
leased to and used by government for its interest
and benefit.
REASON FOR VETO:
"This bill would define hospitals which are owned
by a nonprofit corporation and leased to government
to be property of a governmental character for
purposes of exempting such property from taxation.
"The inclusion of hospital districts in the defini-
tion of government is a device to avoid property
taxation for a special class. It is inequitable
to exempt certain revenue-producing facilities
from taxation while requiring others to share the
burden of government.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
SB 1179 - Beilenson
Revises the Pharmacy Act with respect to the sale
and distribution of prophylactics.
REASON FOR VETO:
"This bill would eliminate from the Pharmacy Act
the present prohibition against the distribution
of prophylactics through mechanical devices and
machines located in public restrooms.
"Although I am sympathetic to what I understand to
be the bill's purpose of providing additional
assistance in the control of venereal disease, I
believe it would permit an indiscriminate access
to prophylactics which would not be in the public
interest, The safeguards afforded by present law
should be retained.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
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SB 1202 - Stiern
includes firemen within existing legal provisions
presently applicable to members of the CHP, sher-
iffs, marshals and policemen causing such persons
to be susceptible to subpoena in a civil action
in connection with a matter which they have per-
ceived or investigated in the course of their
duties.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The bill would include firemen in the general
group of safety personnel who shall receive com-
pensation when required to appear as a witness in
a civil case upon being served with a subpoena.
"The cost of fulfilling the mandates of SB 1202
would be substantial. The increased cost to local
governments would be more than $140,000 annually,
which would have to be borne by the local taxpayers.
I do not believe this would be an appropriate use
of the local taxpayers' resources.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
SB 1212 - Moscone
Provides funds for the State Department of Health
to implement responsibility mandated under provi-
sions of the Health and Safety Code specifically
with regard to providing financial and technical
aid to Indian health programs in California.
Appropriates $1 million annually to the depart-
ment for the purposes of the act.
REASON FOR VETO:
"This measure would duplicate services already
available for the health and care of Indian
families. The State Department of Health main-
tains a program for the care of Indians, and the
federal government also provides health care
services for California Indians.
"Currently, $1 million in federal funds is budgeted
for California Indians to promote basic health
care, to increase the number of health aides and
to determine what other resources are available
to meet both rural and urban Indian health needs.
"In addition, the federal government is in the
process of developing, on a one year trial basis,
a Prepaid Health Plan for Indian families.
"I feel that implementing another permanent program
before the results of the federal Prepaid Health
Plan for Indians are known would be premature at
this time.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
SB 1302 - Moscone
Provides for Child Nutrition Education Program for
grades K-12, to include: coordination of instruc-
tion with food services; use of nutrition education
specialists and paraprofessionals; training of
teachers, parents, and food services personnel in
principles of nutrition; evaluation. Appropriates
$500,000 for 1973-74 and 1974-75 to develop state-
wide program and establish model projects. Also
appropriates $1.5 million in 1975-76.
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REASON FOR VETO:
This bill would establish a child nutrition
(SB 1302)
education program administered by the Department
of Education to coordinate classroom instruction
with the food service program. The bill would
appropriate $2 million for 1973-74, 1974-75, and
1975-76 to implement provisions of the bill.
"The United States Department of Agriculture has
awarded the Department of Education a $39,000 grant
during the 1973-74 school year to conduct a pilot
study to determine the need for correlating class-
room instruction in nutrition with school food
service. The decision of whether to create/state-
wide program should come after the results of the
study have been evaluated.
"The framework for training teachers and para-
professionals in principles of nutrition already
exists through courses in higher education insti-
tutions.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
SB 1310 - Alquist
Permits safety members to retire upon completion
of 20, rather than 30, years, regardless of age
and prescribes formula for computing allowances
between ages 41 and 50.
REASON FOR VETO:
"By allowing retirement with a minimum of 20 years
of service, without regard to the age of the
retiree, many county safety units could lose the
valuable services of highly trained and skilled
middle and upper level supervisors who could take
advantage of this law while in their forties and
move on to other full time employment with a
25 percent or more lifetime pension.
"SB 1310 would further perpetuate the problem of
a double standard or level of benefits between
one group of safety employees versus other safety
members and all miscellaneous employees.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
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AB 464 - Kapiloff
Defines "documented vessel" for property taxation
purposes to include a vessel registered with or
licensed by the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Eliminates the requirement that the port of
documentation of a documented vessel be in this
state in order to be assessed at 1 percent of its
full cash value and includes vessels engaged or
employed exclusively in carrying or transporting
people for hire for sportfishing purposes among
documented vessels entitled to such special assess-
ment; operative from lien date 1974 to lien date
1978, inclusive.
REASON FOR VETO:
"Under current law, these types of vessels are taxed
in the same manner as other forms of personal property
There is no reason to provide a special tax benefit
to a special class of property. If there are tax
inequities in this area, legislation should be
introduced to provide equal treatment.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 1797 - Keysor
Revises provisions for voter registration, challenges
of voters at the polls based on residence, and
applications for absent voter ballots, to reflect
abolition of durational residence requirements for
voting. Establishes 18-year old vote and affidavit
of registration to state whether voter is presently
registered in another state, and if so, authorizes
the clerk to request cancellation thereof. The bill
specifies that a convicted felon may vote upon the
expiration of his term of imprisonment and parole.
REASON FOR VETO:
"This measure would prevent election officials
from challenging a potential voter on the length
of his residency in a precinct. I feel this could
weaken existing law designed to reduce election fraud.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 2272 - Berman
Requires the governing board of any school district
to deduct, without charge, from the salary due any
classified employee, requested amount for dues in,
or other services provided by, prescribed organiza-
tions consisting in whole or in part of district
employees.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I object to the mandatory features of this bill.
The existing provisions of the Government Code that
govern dues deductions by public agencies are fair to
both the employer and the employee. I see no reason
why classified school employees should be treated
differently than other public employees.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned." "
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AB 2283 - Moretti Creates the South Coast Air Pollution Control
District to include all the area of the existing
South Coast Air Basin. A district board of ten
members would include three members appointed by the
Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles,
one member of the Los Angeles City Council, one member of any city coun--
cil, except the Los Angeles City Council, in Los Angeles County, and one
member appointed by each of the other Boards of Supervisors of counties,
included, in whole or in part, within the District.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The act of changing responsibility for air quality
in the South Coast Basin, which would be accomplished
by this bill, would create another segment of
government with the authority to levy taxes. While
I agree that a great need exists to improve air
quality, I cannot approve a bill of this magnitude
until there is some evidence that the taxpayers will
receive their money's worth in reduced pollution.
"Accordingly, I have today signed SB 479, which will
establish a pilot program in the South Coast Air
Basin requiring mandatory inspections of motor
vehicles. The provisions of SB 479 are included in
AB 2283, but without the addition of a permanent
new layer of government.
"I join the boards of supervisors of Los Angeles and
Ventura Counties, and the Ventura County Association
of Governments in believing that it would be unwise
to implement the all encompassing provisions of AB
2283 at this time. In addition, I am hopeful that
the pilot program ectablished in the South Coast
Air Basin by SB 479 will provide the necessary
information to further reduce air pollution.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 2264 - Deddeh
Increases from $5,000 to $20,000 the amount of surety
bond or cash bond required to be filed by a used
vehicle dealer, except dealers who deal exclusively
in mobilehomes, motorcycles or snowmobiles. The bill
also authorizes the creation of a Vehicle Consumers
Indemnity Fund.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I am concerned with the adverse effect this bill
could have on many small businesses throughout
California. There should be a clearer showing that
the proposed increase in the amount of the surety
bond is adequate to protect the consumer and yet not
so high as to drive the honest used car dealer from
the marketplace.
"The provisions relating to the creation of the
Vehicle Consumers Indemnity Fund merit further
legislative review. I am concerned that enactment
of AB 2264 will result in used car dealers being
compelled to join a single dealer organization just
to obtain the protection of the special indemnity
fund.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned." "
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AB 2467 Brown
Requires the Bay Area Air Pollution Control District
to merge with any multifunctional regional organization
with specified powers, duties, and authority. The
bill requires, from and after noon January 6, 1975,
that the district board of directors consist of 22
directors, 9 appointed (1 appointed by each board of
supervisors of a county included in the district) and
13 elected (1 from each ward of as nearly equal
population as possible.)
REASON FOR VETO:
"I share the feelings of the County Supervisors
Association, the League of California Cities, and
the boards of supervisors of Contra Costa, Marin,
Napa, San Mateo and Sonoma Counties that the current
structure of the Bay Area Air Pollution Control
District provides effective representation of the
people of the district. No compelling reason has
been advanced to support the changes proposed by this
including the substantial additional costs to
the taxpayers of California.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Califorr
95814
Ed Gray, Press Secre ary
916-445-4571
10-3-73
# 524
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that, should Proposition
1 pass on November 6, next year's budget could be as much as $600
million above that of the current year.
In making the announcement, the governor said, "I hope this
will answer once and for all those who charge that passage of
Proposition 1 will somehow reduce the state's ability to meet its
obligations and responsibilities."
At the same time, the governor announced that, under Proposition
1, even "if we should add the entire $600 million to this year's budget,
there will still be sufficient money over and above the limitation to
fully fund the 7½ percent on-going income tax cut, and the total
income tax relief for families earning $8,000 or less, and individuals
earning $4,000 or less."
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Garcia
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
95814
Ed Gray, Press Secret ry
916-445-4571 10-3-73
#525
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement
pertaining to AB 2572 (Brown) which requires construction of a legislative
building located in the area bounded by 15th, L, 17th, and N Streets in
Sacramento unless the Joint Rules Committee of the legislature determines
an expansion of the annex of the State Capitol building is more feasible:
"I permitted Assemblyman Brown's bill to become law without my
signature because I believe determining the legislature's needs is not
a function of the executive branch of government.
"The leadership of the legislature has promised to conduct full
public hearings on proposals to construct new legislative offices. I
hope that all proposals will be given a fair hearing, particularly the
plan to restore the historic Capitol Building and enlarge the annex,
proposed by Senator Lagomarsino and Assemblyman Burke.
"I urge all citizens who are interested in the Capitol and the
legislative process to become involved in the upcoming hearings.
"I have taken this unusual action because legislative leaders have
said this is their responsibility alone and they will be accountable to
the people for their action,"
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE
Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
95814
Ed Gray, Press Secre ry
916-445-4571
10-3-73
#526
Creation of a $2.5 million research center to explore the causes and
seek means to combat the ravages of muscular dystrophy has been assured
by Governor Ronald Reagan's signature on the Neuromuscular Disease
Research Act of 1973 (AB 139 - Priolo).
The measure appropriates $1 million to the University of California
regents to establish the research center.
Before he signed the bill, Governor Reagan was informed by
Assemblyman William T. Bagley (R-San Rafael) that the National Muscular
Dystrophy Association, through Comedian Jerry Lewis, its chief sponsor,
has pledged to augment the state funds with a grant of $1.5 million.
"It is heartening, " the governor said, "to participate in the
combined efforts of the state government and an organization funded by
the voluntary contributions of private citizens to help in the fight
against this tragic and long-mysterious disease. I have been informed
there is a good possibility that substantial progress can be made in
conquering this terrible disease."
The legislation resulted from the joint efforts of Assemblyman
Bagley, Assemblyman Paul Priolo (R-Pacific Palisades) and Governor
Reagan.
The act charges the center with exploration of the causes of
neuromuscular diseases, to seek ways to eliminate them "and ameliorate
their debilitating effects."
The UC center is authorized to coordinate its efforts with other
research and treatment programs and make annual reports to the governor
and the legislature.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR ONALD REAGAN
RELEASE
Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
10-4-73
#527
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Judge Donald A. Pollack of Oxnard, to the Ventura County Superior
Court bench. He replaces Judge Edwin Beach, who was elevated to the
2nd District Court of Appeal, Division two.
Judge Pollack, 65, a Republican, has been serving as a Municipal
Court Judge since 1965. He earned his Municipal Court seat by
defeating the incumbent judge in the 1964 elections.
He attended the University of Nebraska for two years and
earned his law degree by attending night school for four years at the
George Washington University Law School. He graduated first in his
class. He was in the private practice of law until his election to
the bench.
Judge Pollack is married to the former Georgia Lee Bivens and
they are the parents of two grown daughters.
Superior Court Judges receive an annual salary of $37,615.
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Garcia
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR ONOLD REAGAN
RELEAS
Immediate
Sacramento, Califo. la 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
10-4-73
#528
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Richard L. Perry of Hacienda Heights to the State Health Care
Commission. He replaces the late James M. Shaw of Newport Beach.
Perry, a 22 year old Democrat, is a paraplegic and will
represent the general consumer on the commission. He is presently
attending Mount San Antonio Junior College. He is active in youth
and church work.
Commission members serve at the pleasure of the governor and
receive necessary expenses.
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Address: 15073 Mountain Spring Street
Hacienda Heights
91745
Garcia
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR ONALD REAGAN
RELEA
:
Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
rd Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
10-4-73
#529
Governor Ronald Reagan announced the appointment of Lowell
"Wayne" Turner, of San Diego, as a member of the Apprenticeship
Council. He replaces George H. Henneberg, of Los Angeles, who
resigned. The term expires January 15, 1974.
Turner, 48, a Democrat, is the administrator of the Apprentice-
ship Program at General Dynamics Convair. He is also director of the
Affirmative Action Program and education counseling at Convair.
After service in the U.S. Navy during World War II, he
joined Convair as an apprentice aircraft electrician and worked his
way up to Senior Educational specialist. He holds an A.A. degree in
aircraft electrical from San Diego City College, a certificate in
Industrial Relations from the University of California at San Diego,
and a bachelor of technology in Safety Engineering from Texas State
Technical Institute.
Turner is married to the former Marjory Ruth Peck and they
are parents of two children.
Council members serve two year terms and receive $25 per day
while on official duty.
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Address;
8417 Mono Lake Drive
San Diego 92119
Garcia
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento Californi 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secret
y
916-445-4571
10-4-73
#530
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Mark W. Zimmerman of Sacramento to the Repair Services Adv Isory Board
in the Department of Consumer Affairs. He replaces Peter D. Hannaford
of Piedmont, who resigned. The term expires Jun 1, 1977.
Zimmerman, 24, a Republican, is the owner-operator of the Mark II
Pool Service in Sacramento. He holds an A.A. degree in real estate
from Sacramento City College and a B.A. degree in government from
Sacramento State University. He is currently attending Lincoln
University Law School.
The appointment requires Senate confirmation.
Board members serve four-year terms and receive per diem and
expenses. Zimmerman will represent the general public on the board.
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Appointee's address:
Mark W. Zimmerman
3327 American River Drive
Sacramento 95825
Garcia
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californi 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
10-4-73
#531
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Philip M. Hawley of Los Angeles to the board of directors, California
Museum of Science and Industry. He replaces the late William S.
Bartman of Los Angeles.
Hawley, 48, a Republican, is president of Broadway-Hale Stores in
Los Angeles. He attended Stanford University and earned his B.S.
degree at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was elected
to Phi Beta Kappa. He also attended the Advanced Management Program at
Harvard University's graduate school of business.
The Los Angeles businessman is also on the board of directors of
numerous banks, corporations and companies in Southern California. He
was recently honored by the governments of Great Britain and Italy,
having been made an honorary commander of the Most Excellent Order of
the British Empire and a Knight Commander of the Star of Solidarity
of the Republic of Italy.
Hawley will serve a two-year term and will receive necessary
expenses.
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Appointee's address:
Philip M. Hawley
155 South Plymouth Boulevard
Los Angeles 90004
Garcia
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR P
ALD REAGAN
RELEASE
Immediate
Sacramento, Californ 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
10-5-73
#532
Governor Ronald Reagan today offered a $10,000 reward for
information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or
persons responsible for the deaths of Oakland police officers Wendell
Troyer and David G. Guider.
The officers were slain October 2 as the result of an unprovoked
sniper attack upon their helicopter.
In a statement, Governor Reagan said:
"I have been requested by the Chief of Police of Oakland,
Charles R. Gain, and the Oakland Police Officers' Association to offer
a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the
person or persons responsible for the deaths of Officers Troyer and
Guider.
"Accordingly, I have directed that a reward of $10,000 be offered
in this case, pursuant to the provisions of Penal Code section 1547.
"Anyone with information concerning this crime should report it
immediately to the Oakland Police Department.
"This senseless and brutal crime has resulted in the loss of two
fine, dedicated police officers. Officer Troyer was a 22-year veteran
of the force. He leaves behind a wife, three children and seven
grandchildren. Officer Guider was a promising young member of the
force. He is survived by his wife.
"Mrs. Reagan and I extend our deepest sympathy to the families
and friends of these two fine men. "
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RC ALD REAGAN
RELEASE:
mmediate
Sacramento, Californi
95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
10-5-73
#533
Governor Ronald Reagan today requested Attorney General Evelle
Younger to present arguments to the California Supreme Court for
authorization to grant state employees' salary increases appropriated
in the state's 1973-74 budget.
averaging
The salary increases,
/
12.9 percent, are being held up by
the President's Cost of Living Council in Washington, D.C. The Council
granted only an average seven percent increase on August 29.
Governor Reagan asked the Attorney General to present the following
letter to the state Supreme Court:
"It is somewhat unusual for me to express my views directly to this
Honorable Court. Yet I feel that the importance of this issue--both in
terms of the legitimate needs of state employees and in terms of
maintaining the proper relationship between the state and federal
government---requires such communication.
"I urgently request the Court to permit us to pay the employees of
the State of California the salary increases authorized by the Budget
Act of 1973.
"The only thing standing in the way of our civil service employees
receiving the pay increase they so rightly deserve and critically need
is the President's Cost of Living Council. Without specific authorizatior
from Congress, this Council has unlawfully used its regulatory and rule-
making powers to prevent a sovereign state from implementing a state
statute. This action certainly appears unconstitutional. The Council
lacks jurisdiction in this case and should be told so.
"The Economic Stabilization Act of 1970 does not authorize the
regulation of state employees' salaries. And even if it did, there
would be a serious question as to whether or not Congress has the
constitutional power to so regulate these internal affairs of a
sovereign state.
"The law of California is clear. As a result of salary studies
requested by me, the state Personnel Board recommended and I whole-
heartedly approved a budget bill which included a pay increase for all
civil service state employees which averaged 12.9 percent, effective
July 1, 1973. The legislature agreed with this proposal and I signed
AB 110, the 1973 State Budget Act, which is Chapter 129 of the Statutes
of 1973.
"The State of California is now and always has been ready and eager
to implement this statute. The monies illegally restricted by the
Council have been placed in trust, pending this Court's action, for one
purpose only---to pay already authorized salary increases.
"This issue is of great public importance and deserves a prompt
resolution. I trust that the Court agrees.'
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
Sacramento, Californ
95814
MEMO TO
E PRESS
Ed Gray, Press Secre ry
916-445-4571
10-5-73
#534
GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
October 8, 1973
through
October 14, 1973
Monday, October 8
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Los Angeles
Tuesday, October 9
1:45 p.m.
Securities Industry luncheon, Fairmont Hotel,
San Francisco. Speech.
Overnight - Sacramento
Wednesday, October 10
4:30 p.m.
Depart with Senator Harmer for the Sacramento
Bishop's Storehouse and Cannery, 8401 - 24th Avenue
4:50 p.m.
Tour of Cannery
Overnight - Sacramento
Thursday, October 11
Evening
Fundraiser for Senator Fred Marler and Assemblyman
Ray Johnson, Elks Club, Chico
Overnight - Los Angeles
Friday, October 12
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Los Angeles
Saturday, October 13
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Los Angeles
Sunday, October 14
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Los Angeles
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STATEMENT ATTRIBUTABLE TO A SPOKESMAN IN RESPONSE TO PRESS INQUIRIES
OF OCTOBER 10, 1973, REGARDING THE RESIGNATION OF VICE PRESIDENT AGNEW:
Governor Reagan today said he vas shocked and saddened as
he's sure all Americans are over the events leading to Agnew's
resignation.
The Governor said he would have no further comment.
....
October 11, 1973
Governor Ronald Reagan today sent the following telegram
to Charles O. Finley, owner of the Oakland A's:
"Congratulations to you, manager Dick Williams and those
great Oakland A's for winning the American League pennant for
the second straight year. Thanks to the A's California is still
the baseball capital of the world. Best of luck in the World
Series. We will be pulling for the A's to make it two straight
world championships. Sincerely, Ronald Reagan, Governor of California."
The above given to UPI, AP, BEE, Union, Oakland Trib., S.F. Chron.
and S.F. Examiner
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretury
916-445-4571
10-11-73
#535
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointments of 13 members
to the Advisory Health Council and designated Yoshi Honkawa of the Los
Angeles County Department of Health Services as council chairman.
The council was created by the legislature (AB 2528) in 1971 to
advise the state Department of Health. It assumes the advisory roles of
the state Health Planning Council and the state Board of Public Health
which were terminated July 1, 1973.
Governor Reagan also designated Mrs. William (Gwendolyn) Stephens of
San Diego as vice chairman. She and Honkawa were members of the Health
Planning Council.
The governor's appointees are:
--Yoshi Honkawa, 49, is director of fiscal and legislative services,
Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. He is a 1955 graduate
of the University of Southern California with a B.S. degree in Business
Administration. He is a Democrat.
--Gwendolyn W. Stephens, a Republican, is a member of the board of
trustees of the San Diego County Association for Retarded Children.
Samuel J. Tibbits, 49-year-old Republican, and president of the
Lutheran Hospital Society of Southern California. He lives in Los Angeles
He is a graduate of U.C.L.A. with a B.S. degree in Public Health, and
holds a M.S. degree in Public Health-Hospital Administration from the
University of California at Berkeley.
Orrin S. Cook, M.D., 49, a Republican, of Sacramento. A member of
the former Board of Public Health, he is a graduate of the University of
California at Berkeley and received his medical degree in 1946 from the
U.C. medical school in San Francisco.
-Edward J. Kinney, 35-year-old Republican, city councilman at
Pleasanton. A pharmaceutical sales manager, he is a 1961 graduate of
San Francisco State College.
--Mrs. Lestee (Loretta) Ceasar of Vallejo. She is a board member and
consultant to the Solano County Business Development, Inc., a corporation
promoting minority enterprises. She is a Republican.
--Albert L. Anderson, Jr., a 40-year-old Republican from San Diego.
A dentist, he is a graduate of the University of Redlands and received his
D.D.S. degree from the University of Southern California. He is a past
president of the San Diego County Tuberculosis and Health Association.
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Rev. Msgr. Timothy E. O'Brien, a 45-year-o1d Democrat, he is
director of health and hospitals and associate general director of
Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of San Francisco. He is a graduate of
St. Joseph's College in Mountain View, holds a M.A. degree in theology
from St. Patrick's Seminary in Menlo Park, and a M.S. in social welfare
from Catholic University, Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Health
Affairs Committee of the U.S. Catholic Conference.
--Mrs. Joseph (Patricia) Costello of San Francisco. A Republican,
she is a 1947 graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and is
a member of the board of directors of the National Mental Health
Association.
--V.K. Meedom, 79-year-old Democrat of Crescent City. Retired, he
is a former member of the Board of Supervisors of Del Norte County.
-Stephen P. Cushman, 32-year-old Republican of San Diego. A member
of the San Diego Assessment Appeals Board, he is a graduate of California
Western University with a B.A. degree in business administration.
--Ella Mae Turner, a Republican, is chairman of the National
Advisory Council on Environmental Education, and makes her home in Los
Angeles. She is a 1957 graduate of the University of Southern California
with a degree in music.
Frederick B. Hodges, M.D., a 41-year-old Democrat, is assistant
director of the state Department of Health. He is a 1954 graduate of the
University of California at Berkeley and received his medical degree from
U.C.L.A. He also holds a M.S. degree in Public Health from U.C. Berkeley.
The terms of Honkawa, Mrs. Stephens, Tibbits, Dr. Cook, Kinney and
Mrs. Ceasar will expire July 1, 1977. Anderson, O'Brien, Mrs. Costello
and Meedom will serve until July 1, 1976 and the terms of Cushman,
Miss Turner and Dr. Hodges will expire July 1, 1975.
Council members receive their actual and necessary expenses.
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Appointees' addresses:
Yoshi Honkawa
Loretta C. Ceasar
Stephen P. Cushman
3020 Durand Drive
408 Lakeside Drive
531 Silvergate Avenue
Hollywood 90068
Vallejo 94590
San Diego 92106
Gwendolyn W. Stephens
Albert L. Anderson, Jr.
Ella Mae Turner
3569 Silver Gate Place
1540 Garrison Place
1049 So. Cloverdale Ave
San Diego 92106
San Diego 92106
Los Angeles 90019
Samuel J. Tibbits
Rev. Msgr. Timothy E. O'Brien
1224 Adair Street
1086 Guerrero Street
San Marino
San Francisco 94110
Orrin S. Cook, M.D.
Patricia F. Costello
Frederick B. Hodges MD
440 Hopkins Road
2838 Green Street
4857 Sherlock Way
Sacramento 95825
San Francisco 94123
Carmichael 95608
Edward J. Kinney
V.K. Meedom
5493 Greenfield Way
P.O. Box 323
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
10-12-73
#536
GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
October 15, 1973
through
October 21, 1973
Monday, October 15
9:00 p.m.
Eastern Star Convention
Memorial Auditorium, Sacramento, Speech.
Overnight - Sacramento
Tuesday, October 16
10:30 a.m.
PRESS CONFERENCE
11:30 a.m.
Presentation of U.S. Bicentennial Medallions,
Council Room
1:30 p.m.
Presentation by Governor Reagan of Medal of
Valor Awards, governor's office
2:00 p.m.
YPTV (Press Conference Room)
Overnight - Sacramento
Wednesday, October 17
Noon
Northern California Broadcasters
St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco. Speech.
Overnight - Sacramento
Thursday, October 18
7:15 p.m.
Monterey County Fundraiser
Holiday Inn at the Beach, Monterey. Speech.
Overnight - San Francisco
Friday, October 19
Noon
Commonwealth Club
Sheraton Palace Hotel, San Francisco. Speech.
8:00 p.m.
United Organization of Taxpayers, Inc. Meeting,
Hollywood High School Auditorium. Speech.
Overnight - Los Angeles
Saturday, October 20
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Los Angeles
Sunday, October 21
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Los Angeles
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
10-12-73
#537
Governor Ronald Reagan this evening made the following statement
at his Pacific Palisades residence on the President's nomination of
Representative Gerald Ford as Vice President:
"I am pleased with the President's swift action in this
unprecedented situation. He has acted wisely and has fulfilled his
responsibility under the Constitution. Now, it behooves all Americans
to unite behind the President's administration and his efforts to
cope with the many urgent and serious domestic and international
problems confronting the country today."
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Califor a 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
10-16-73
#538
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointments of Morris
E. Goatley of Oroville and Mrs. David (Connie) Moya of Pasadena to four
year terms as members of the state Board of Cosmetology.
Goatley, a 40-year-old Republican, fills the vacancy created by the
resignation of Mrs. Claire H. Jones of Los Angeles. He operates beauty
colleges in Oroville, Santa Rosa, and Ukiah and is in partnership with
beauty shops in Santa Maria and Milpitas.
He is a former president of the California Cosmetology Association
affiliate in Tulare County and served as the northern California advisor
to the Board of California Association of Schools of Cosmetology. He
earned his teaching credential at Sacramento State College.
Mrs. Moya replaces Donald Yamanoto of Sacramento. She is a
Republican and the founder of the California Teachers of Cosmetology
Association and served two terms as its president. She is a graduate of
the Los Angeles Trade College, and received a teaching credential from
the University of California at Los Angeles.
She currently manages a beauty salon in Burbank and does volunteer
work with the mentally retarded at Pacific State Hospital.
Board members receive $28 per diem when on official business.
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Appointees' addresses:
Morris E. Goatley
Mrs. David (Connie) Moya
3250 Glen Avenue
70 Malcolm Drive
Oroville 95965
Pasadena 91105
Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE:
Immediate
Sacramento, Californi
95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretury
916-445-4571
10-16-73
#539
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement:
"I have today sent the following letter to the Superintendent of
Banking and the Commissioners of Insurance, Corporations and Savings
and Loan.
"Here is the text of my letter:
'A number of complaints have been received by this office, and I
understand by your departments, concerning a letter written by the
chairman of the Assembly Committee on Finance and Insurance to numerous
financial, insurance and business firms concerning Proposition 1. This
letter was sent to firms located both in California and in other states.
'The letter alleges that budget cuts for the fiscal year 1974-75
would be necessitated by Proposition 1 and could result in eliminating the
funds now appropriated for the support of the State Departments of
Banking, Savings and Loan, Insurance and Corporations. It incorporates
the spurious reasoning of the legislative analyst which has now been shown
to be incorrect. As you know, all of these departments are continuing to
budget for the next fiscal year on a normal basis and no cuts in service
or elimination of functions are contemplated or would be necessitated by
Proposition 1. The implication that any cuts would be made in these
essential regulatory functions, which protect the public, is completely
false.
'The letter appears to be a blatant 'scare' document designed to
threaten the addressees and to elicit their opposition to Proposition 1.
It appears that this action by the chairman of the Assembly Committee on
Finance and Insurance, who is appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly, is
merely part of the continuing effort to misuse legislative resources,
funded by the taxpayers, to mount a false and strident campaign against
Proposition 1. Complainants have accurately assessed it as a form of
intimidation, 'bordering on blackmail.
'I am requesting that each of you determine the extent of this mailing
among the business firms within your area of regulation and to investigate
whether the sending of such a letter to businesses regulated by the state
constitutes a violation of law by the legislative personnel involved.
I particularly direct your attention to the articles of the constitu-
tion prohibiting undue influence and improper conduct in regard to
elections, as well as those provisions of the Elections Code prohibiting
corrupt practices intended to influence voters, intimidation of any person
to affect his vote, and the use of fraudulent devices to interfere with the
free exercise of the elective franchise.
'Your immediate attention to this matter will be appreciated so that
any further dissemination of false information by the assembly leadership
and any further attempts to utilize corrupt practices and intimidation can
be prevented.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE-
Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
10-16-73
#540
Governor Ronald Reagan today presented Medals of Valor to
California Highway Patrolmen Edward Stamelos and Earl Doyle and a
posthumous award to Harvey Robert Huss, former Department of Transportatic
employee. Huss' award was received by his widow, Mrs. Mary Huss.
The medal of valor is awarded to state employees who risk their
lives in efforts to rescue individuals in danger or to save property
Today marks only the second time in the history of the medal that it has
been awarded posthomously.
Huss earned his award when he went to the rescue of a motorist
reported to be in a vehicle caught in a landslide. He lost his life
when his skiploader was caught in a subsequent landslide.
Sergeant Stamelos is being awarded the medal of valor for
extraordinary heroism, when at the risk of his own life and safety
he entered a burning building to save the lives of nine children and
their parents.
Officer Doyle, risked his life to extricate a driver from a burning
automobile as a result of an accident. Mr. Doyle has already been
presented his award, but had not received personal congratulations from
the governor.
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(Editor's note: The citations for Huss, Stamelos and Doyle enclosed.
and give specific details of each incident.
HUSS MEDAL OF VALOR CEREMONY
Governor's Council Room
October 16, 1973 - 1:30 p.m.
HARVEY ROBERT HUSS
The Medal of Valor is being awarded posthumously to Harvey
Robert Huss of the State Department of Transportation.
Huss, a maintenance employee, was killed on February 11, 1973,
while trying to drive a skiploader in the dark along a slide-ridden,
storm-lashed section of the Coast Highway near Big Sur to help a
vehicle full of people caught in a slide and in danger of being
swept over the edge. On his way south he had to break through
several smaller slides covering or partly covering the roadway
until he, himself, was swept to his death by a slide that took
out more than 100 feet of the highway at Laffler Creek. The car
reported in danger was able to get out on its own later without
loss of life.
Huss, 25, is survived by his wife, Mary-Frances, and a 2½-year-
old son. The son of Harvey H. Huss, a long-time maintenance employee
with the Department, he was born in San Luis Obispo and graduated
from high school in Salinas. He went to work for the Department in
June, 1970, at Big Sur and worked out of that maintenance station
until his death.
HUSS MEDAL OF VALOR CEREMONY
Governor's Council Room
October 16, 1973 - 1:30 p.m.
The Party
The party which will attend the Governor's presentation of
the Medal of Valor to the widow of Mr. Huss will include the
following:
Mary Dasinger Huss - the widow of Harvey Robert Huss
Robert L. Huss - the infant son of Harvey Robert Huss
Mrs. Francis Dasinger - mother-in-law of Harvey Robert Huss
Mr. and Mrs. (Mary) Harvey H. Huss - parents of Harvey Robert Huss
Raymond Huss - brother of Harvey Robert Huss
W. A. Saunders - Assistant District Maintenance Engineer
Roy E. Alderman - District Maintenance Engineer
Howard Ullrich - Chief Deputy Director, Department of
Transportation
Frank Walton - Secretary, Business and Transportation Agency
State of California
SPECIAL ACT AWARD RECOMMENDATION
TO: Merit Award Board
In accordance with the provisions of Section 13926 of the Government Code, Article 14
of Rules and Regulations of the State Board of Control, and procedures set forth in
Sections 4770 through 4774 of the State Administrative Manual, it is recommended that
award consideration be given for the Special Act herein described, which was
performed by the following named employee of this agency:
NAME:
Edward Stamelos
POSITION TITLE: State Traffic Sergeant
DESCRIPTION OF ACCOMPLISHMENT: (Give specific facts, including all pertinent data,
listed on the reverse side. Attach additional sheet
if necessary.)
Details of the incident to support our nomination of the above named
Sergeant for a Special Act Award are contained in the attached file.
In summation, Sergeant Stamelos observed a house fire, radioed for
assistance, and immediately responded to the scene. The roof of the
home was totally engulfed in flames; the Sergeant pounded on the back
door. A child opened the door and Sergeant Stamelos asked how many
persons were in the house. On four occasions, the Sergeant entered
the burning, dark interior of the house and removed eleven family
members to safety.
NAME: Walter Pudinski
TITLE: Commissioner
AGENCY: California Highway Patrol
DATE:
DESCRIPTION OF THE RESCUE
Sergeant Stamelos was patroling IS 605 freeway at approximately
0345 hours, when he noticed a residence on fire two blocks west
of the freeway. He drove off the freeway and arrived on
the street to the rear of the house. At this time he noticed no
other emergency vehicles were at the scéne. He had Communications
call the fire department, then ran through two back yards to the
house.
The roof of the house was now engulfed in flames. Sergeant Stamelos
pounded on the rear door of t he house to wake the family. He was
about to force his way in, when one of the children opened the
door for him. He asked the child how many people were in the house
and she said nine children and the two parents.
The sergeant started taking children from the two bedrooms out
through the front door to the street in front of the house. A
neighbor, Bill Livingston, took the children from him and kept
count. The removal of the children was complicated by the fact
that it was so dark in the house. and that the burning roof rafters
were now falling through the ceiling.
Sergeant Stamelos had located and removed eight children and was
searching for the ninth when Bill Livingston joined him in the
search. They discovered the child had pushed out a window screen
and was now outside the house.
Sergeant Stamelos started back into the house to rescue the parents,
and Bill Livingston tried to stop him. Livingston felt that to enter
the house at this time was too great a risk for the sergeant to
take. Sergeant Stamelos entered the house despite the increased
hazard and located the parents in their bedroom still asleep. At
this time so much debris was falling from the ceiling, it was
necessary to take the parents through the burning kitchen and out
the back door. Within a few minutes after the entire family was
reunited across the street, the fire department arrived and started
to extinguish the fire.
It was the consensus of opinion of the neighbors present that
Sergeant Stamelos risked his own life to save the lives of the
Candia family. They felt that his action was far above what would
have been expected of him in the line of duty.
Captain Gonzales of the Los Angeles County Fire Department was the
first fire department unit on the scene. He stated that to enter
that fire without protective clothing was extremely hazardous.
He felt that Sergeant Stamelos was fortunate to have escaped without
being burned.
RESCUED
The entire Candia family, who reside at 6435 S. Danby
Street, Whittier:
Father - Luis Candia, age 33
Mother - Ruby Candia, age 30
Children - Vicky Candia - 14
Ester Candia - 12
Christopher Candia - 12
Jerry Candia - 11
Stacy Candia - 11
Gary Candia - 9
Candy Candia - 8
Vincent Candia - 6
Cindy Candia - 5
Form 276 (11-67)
State of California
SPECIAL ACT AWARD RECOMMENDATION
TO
Merit Award Board
In accordance with the provisions of Section 13926 of the Government Code, Article 14
of Rules and Regulations of the State Board of Control, and procedures set forth in
Sections 4770 through 4774 of the State Administrative Manual, it is recommended that
award consideration be given for the Special Act herein described, which was
performed by the following named employee of this agency:
NAME: Earl T.. Doyle
POSITION TITLE: State Traffic Officer
DESCRIPTION OF ACCOMPLISHMENT: (Give specific facts, including all pertinent data
listed on the reverse side. Attach additional sheet
if necessary.)
Dotails of the incident to support our nomination of the
above named Traffic Officer for a Special Act Award are
contained in the attached file.
In summation, Officer Doylo witnessed a traffic collicion,
one of the vehicles involved started to burn. Officer
Doyle attempted to open the doors on the burning pickup
truck but they were jammed shut. The Officer kicked in a
side window; however, the intense heat forced Doylo to
movo back. Officer Doyle enptied his fire extinguishor on
the flames. At this point Doylo climbed onto the hood and
attempted to renove the unconscious driver from the cab.
Deopito the inminont hazard of explosion Officer Doyle con-
tinuod his attompts and was able to extricato the man to
safety.
NAME:
TITLE: Commissioner
AGENCY:
California Highway Patrol
DATE:
5-7-73
Earl L. Doyle
State Traffic Officer
California Highway Patrol
Date of Birth: February 12, 1937
Age 36
Date of Employment: January 3, 1966
Years of Service 7
Officer Doyle observed a traffic collision in which the driver
of one vehicle was rendered unconscious, his vehicle on fire.
Officer Doyle performed an heroic act at great personal risk to
himself while effecting the rescue of Steven Earl Reynolds from
his burning pickup truck. The circumstances are as follows:
At 1736 hours, February 12, 1973, a car driven by Paul R. Edwards
drove northbound through the center divider of State Route 99
near Sacramento Boulevard, colliding headon with a southbound
pickup driven by Steven E. Reynolds. The Reynolds' pickup began
to burn as it skidded to the west shoulder.
Mr. Reynolds was rendered unconscious and thrown to the floor
between the seat and fire wall. Officer Doyle, southbound on the
freeway, observed the pickup coming to rest on fire. He radioed
for an ambulance and fire equipment as he was approaching in
traffic.
Dr. Charles French, northbound on the freeway, observed the series
of events which started with a collision in the northbound lanes,
He stopped in the center divider and ran to the burning pickup,
being the first person to reach it.
Officer Doyle attempted entry through the doors. The left door
was jammed shut. He went to the right door, which was locked and
kicked in the window. However, by this time the fire had grown
in intensity and spread to the right side of the vehicle, driving
Officer Doyle away. The accident scene was on a slight grade
causing the burning gasoline to run from the rear of the pickup
to the front. The slight breeze present was not a factor in any
way.
Officer Doyle and Officer G. G. Olinares (who had responded to
the radio call) both emptied their fire extinguishers on the fire
There were a number of civilians present who also emptied their
fire extinguishers on the fire; however, the fire was much too
intense, and the portable extinguishers had no effect on the in-
tense heat and force of the fire. The fire continued to gain in
intensity.
After being driven away from both doors, Officer Doyle, Dr. French:
and Mr. Alfred Williams climbed onto the hood of the pickup and
attempted to pull the victim out through the windshield opening.
There was only room on the hood for two people to work so Mr.
Williams got off. Officer Doyle and Dr. French pulled the vic-
tim partially out over the dashboard but his legs were caught
inside. Mr. Williams, Charles Dietrich and Royce Zumalt at-
tempted to free the victim's legs by reaching into the burning
vehicle. At this time, the fire and heat became too intense;
flames reaching at least ten feet in height. Officer Doyle and
Dr. French were driven from the hood and the others were also
driven back.
The victim fell back against the seat and then the interior of
the cab began to burn. The victim's hair and clothing near his
back and arm began to burn. Mr. Williams removed his own shirt
and threw it over the head of the victim. Officer Doyle was using
his uniform jacket to try to beat the flames away from the victim--
all in the hope of keeping the victim alive until the arrival of
fire equipment.
The actual contact of the flames apparently roused the victim who
stood up or leaned out through the windshield opening. At this
point there apparently was a combined effort of the rescuers who
again rushed forward, despite the heat and flames and grabbed
whatever they could of the victim--arms first, then trousers, etc.,
and jerked him out.
He was removed several feet from the burning pickup and given
emergency aid by Dr. French.
The accident occurred during peak rush hour traffic and due to
the accident and fire, southbound traffic on the freeway stopped
completely. As a result, the fire equipment did not arrive until
after Mr. Reynolds was removed from the vehicle and the vehicle
completely consumed by fire. According to Fire Department Offi-
cials, there was a definite danger to the rescuers in that there
was a possibility of the gas tank exploding or rupturing further.
Officer Doyle received singed hair and a cut on the bottom of his
foot from a sliver of glass.
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR P NALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californ a 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
10-17-73
#541
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Anthony M. Duquette, of Los Angeles to the El Pueblo de Los Angeles
State Historical Monument Commission. He replaces Mrs. Dorothy A.
Burnaby, of Los Angeles, whose term expired.
Duquette, 53, a Republican, is the owner of the Tony Duquette
Studio, a design company for sets and costumes.
Commission members serve three year terms and receive necessary
expenses.
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824 N. Robertson Boulevard
Los Angeles 90069
Garcia
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR P. NALD REAGAN
MEMO THE PRESS
Sacramento, Californ a 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
10-18-73
Governor Reagan will hold a press conference today at 10 a.m.
in the Governor's Office (Cabinet Room). .
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
10-18-73
#542
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement:
"I am very pleased that the Attorney General's opinion, issued
today, supports the position taken by the Director of Finance in his
budget estimates for next year.
"The Attorney General has reached his conclusion after long and
careful study of Proposition 1, the law, and the expressed intent of the
authors of the tax limitation initiative. He has ruled that when
Proposition 1 passes, the Economic Estimates Commission established under
the initiative will be justified in including 1972-73 surplus revenues
used to finance tax reduction as part of the 1973-74 tax base upon which
the revenue limits for future years will be computed.
"Clearly, the slender reed upon which the principal opponents have
contrived their case against Proposition that future state revenues
will not cover expenses has now been removed.
"This confirms what has already been stated that the budget I will
submit to the legislature in January can be $600 million larger than the
current budget approaching $10 billion the largest ever. And, this
can happen under the revenue limit.
"Every local official city, school or county who has been
concerned about the fiscal effects of Proposition 1 can now have complete
confidence in the solid financial foundation on which Proposition 1 is
based.
"Allegations made by some that Proposition 1 would cause a reduction
in current state services and programs essential for the public good are
now shown to be incorrect.
"The single remaining issue in this campaign is whether the tax
spenders in government will continue to get their way or whether the
taxpayers will regain control over government spending.
"On November 6 the people themselves will have their first chance to
limit and reduce their own tax burden.
"Without Proposition 1 the tax burden will continue to mount and
government's share of the people's earnings will continue to spiral
upwards. With Proposition 1, the rapid growth in the tax burden will be
halted once and for all.
"The issue is whether the vested interests who consume public funds
at the current runaway rate will prevail, or whether the taxpayers will
control their own destiny and retain a greater percentage of their
earnings for themselves."
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE:
Immediate
Sacramento, Californi. 5814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
10-19-73
#543
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Harold O. Wilson, administrative vice president of California Polytechnic
State University at San Luis Obispo, as his chief advisor on education.
Wilson, a 63-year old veteran educator, succeeds Dr. Alex C.
Sherriffs, who was appointed vice chancellor for academic affairs of
the California State University and Colleges September 25, 1973. Wilson's
appointment is effective November 1.
A native of Riverdale in Fresno County, Wilson has been
administrative vice president of Cal Poly since 1967, and has been with
the school 37 years. Prior to becoming vice president, he was executive
dean of the school's three campuses at San Luis Obispo, San Dimas and
Kellog. He also served four years as dean of the Voorhis campus at
San Dimas.
As administrative vice president at Cal Poly, Wilson had
responsibility for facilities development, personnel and community
relations and the operational divisions for business and student affairs.
Wilson, a Republican, attended Fresno State College and received
a B.S. Degree in agriculture in 1932 from the University of California
at Davis. He holds a teaching credential in vocational agriculture
from the Davis campus, and a secondary education teaching credential
earned at the University of California at Los Angeles.
During World War II, Wilson wrote the state plan for the
California War Production Training Program for the State Department of
Education.
He is a member of the California Agriculture Teachers
Association, the State Bcard of Agriculture, the California Professional
Metrology Committee (which deals with exact weights and measurements),
Alpha Zeta, national honorary agriculture fraternity, and the board of
directors of the San Luis Obispo Chamber of Commerce.
Wilson and his wife have two adult children. They will make
their home in Sacramento. He will receive an annual salary of $33,960.
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE:
Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
10-19-73
#544
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Arthur N. Schwartz, Ph.D., of Sherman Oaks, Mrs. Harry J. (Fern L.)
Robinson, of San Leandro, and the reappointment of Dr. Floyd L.
Wergeland, of Santa Ana, to the Board of Examiners of Nursing Home
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Administrators.
Schwartz replaces Mrs. Carmella L. Riehl of San Jose who resigned
and Mrs. Robinson replaces Sandra L. Karr of Los Gatos whose term has
expired.
Dr. Wergeland, 69, a Republican, is a Medical Consultant for
Goodwill Industries of Orange County. He retired in April 1962 as a
Major General of the Army Medical Corps after 31 years service. He is
a 1923 graduate of Loma Linda University School of Medicine.
Dr. Schwartz, 51, is the Project Director, Gerontology Center,
at the University of Southern California. He is a liberal arts graduate
of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri, and did graduate work in
psychology at the University of Houston, Texas, and Eastern State College,
Chaney, Washington. He earned his doctorate in psychology at Washington
University, St. Louis, Missouri. He is married and has five children.
He is not registered with any political party.
Mrs. Robinson, a Republican, is the administrator for the Marina
Sanitarium in Alameda. A native of Fresno, she is a graduate of Fresno
State College. She is a Fellow in the American College of Nursing Home
Administrators, California Chapter. She is also active in numerous
civic and service organizations and is a member of the Alameda County
Council Comprehensive Health Planning Commission. She is married and
has a grown daughter and son.
Commission members serve three year terms and receive per diem
and necessary expenses.
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Addresses:
Floyd L. Wergeland, M.D.
Arthur N. Schwartz, Ph.D.
32582 Balearic Road
3564 Summerfield Drive
Laguna Niguel 92677
Sherman Oaks 91403
Fern L. Robinson
2435 Marine View Drive
San Leandro 94577
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
MEMO TO
E PRESS
Sacramento, Californ.
95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
10-19-73
#545
GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
October 22, 1973
through
October 28, 1973
Monday, October 22
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Los Angeles
Tuesday, October 23
Noon
Roll-out of the United Air Lines plane named
"The Justin Dart"
Los Angeles International Airport
Overnight - Los Angeles
Wednesday, October 24
Noon
League of California Cities
Hilton Hotel, San Francisco. Speech.
Overnight - Los Angeles
Thursday, October 25
11:00 a.m.
Ceremony to transfer Navy Planes to Department
of Conservation, North Island (Coronado).
Noon
San Diego Rotary Club
E1 Cortez Hotel, 7th and Ash, San Diego. Speech.
7:15 p.m.
Imperial County Fundraiser
Imperial Valley Country Club
(Between El Centro and Holtville). Remarks.
Overnight - Los Angeles
Friday, October 26
Noon
Channel City Club
Earl Warren Fairgrounds, Santa Barbara. Speech.
Overnight - Santa Barbara
Saturday, October 27
evening
Santa Barbara County Fundraiser
Residence of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Balch,
749 Fuera Lane at Las Tunas (Montecito). Remarks.
Overnight - Santa Barbara
Sunday, October 28
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight Los Angeles
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Statement released Monday, October 22, 1973:
"All Americans should be happy with the cease fire in the
middle east and be proud that it was through the efforts of the
United States that it was accomplished,
"At the same time our country should continue its resupply
of materiel to Israel until we know for sure that a genuine
peace will follow. "
Statement released Sunday, October 21, 1973, pertaining to
the death of Norman Chandler, chairman of the board, Los Angeles
Times-Mirror Corp.
"California and the nation has lost a longtime giant in
the newspaper industry and a distinguished American with the death
of Norman Chandler. He helped build the Los Angeles Times into
one of the nation's great newspapers, and contributed immensely
of his time and many talents to the development of Los Angeles
as one of the world's leading metropolitan areas. He was admired
by all who knew him.
"Mrs. Reagan and I join all Californians in mourning his
death and extend our heartfelt sympathies to his family."
Statement released Monday, October 22, 1973:
"I will not comment on the issue of Archibald Cox being
discharged, since it is relatively unimportant. President Nixon
faced the same problem that confronted President Truman during
the Korean War. What is important is that the President has
agreed to make available the pertinent information contained
in the tapes. Now we should all have patience until the content
of those tapes is made known. "
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 5814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
10-23-73
#546
Mrs. Ronald Reagan, continuing her efforts to meet and visit with
wounded and disabled veterans of Vietnam and other conflicts involving
the United States, will tour the Veterans Administration Hospital in
San Diego Wednesday, October 24, 1973.
She will arrive at the 811-bed hospital at 11:30 a.m., and will have
lunch with some members of the staff and a number of patients.
Mrs. Reagan is concerned that veterans of Vietnam and other wars
not be forgotten for the sacrifices they have made for their country.
She has been invited to tour most of the veterans hospitals in the state
and visit with their patients.
Her tour will include the hospital's chapel, multipurpose room, and
the areas for manual arts, physical and occupational therapy, radiology,
dentistry, home nursing care, as well as patients' wards.
She will be accompanied by Dr. Turner Camp, hospital director,
Dr. William Coppage, the hospital's chief of staff, and Donald Pouliot,
tour director.
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE:
Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
10-26-73
#547
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
John R. Teerink, director of the Department of Water Resources, as a
member of the Western States Water Council.
Teerink fills the vacancy created by the resignation of
William R. Gianelli of Sacramento, former director of the Department
of Water Resources.
A Republican, Teerink joined the Department of Water Resources
in 1946, and participated in all phases of planning for the state
Water Project. He is a registered civil engineer and a member of the
American Society of civil engineers.
Council members receive their necessary expenses.
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Address:
John R. Teerink
2929 Latham Drive
Carmichael 95825
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE
Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
10-26-73
#548
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Roger A. Taylor of San Francisco as chief of the Fair Employment
Practices Division of the Department of Industrial Relations.
Taylor, a 46-year-old Republican, succeeds Paul A. Meaney of
Novato, who has resigned. The appointment is effective immediately.
A retired master sergeant in the United States Air Force, Taylor
is a native of Buffalo, New York. He joined the division in 1966 as
an investigator of complaints alleging discriminatory employment
and housing practices. He was named assistant chief in 1969 and
assisted in formulating and revising the division's administrative and
enforcement procedures.
The father of three children, Taylor will receive an annual
salary of $28,584.
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Address:
Roger A. Taylor
1085 South Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco 94110
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
10-26-73
#549
GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
October 29, 1973
through
November 4, 1973
Monday, October 29
11:30 a.m.
Press Conference - Hilton Hotel, Fresno
Noon
Joint Lunch sponsored by the Fresno Stock
and Bond Association and the Fresno Rotary Club,
Fresno Hilton. Remarks. Q & A.
9:00 p.m.
Taping of the Advocates, KTLA-TV
5800 West Sunset, Los Angeles
Overnight - Los Angeles
Tuesday, October 30
6:45 p.m.
Press availability Hyatt House, San Jose
7:00 p.m.
Santa Clara County GOP Fundraising Reception
and Dinner, Hyatt House
Overnight - Los Angeles
Wednesday, October 31
Noon
Town Hall Lunch, Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles
Remarks. Q & A.
1:45 p.m.
Press availability - Patio Room, Hilton Hotel,
Los Angeles
Overnight - Los Angeles
Thursday, November 1
12:15 p.m.
Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI,
Hotel Del Coronado, San Diego. Speech.
Overnight Los Angeles
Friday, November 2
Noon
Californians for Lower Taxes Luncheon,
Crystal Room, Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles
Overnight - Los Angeles
Saturday, November 3
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight Los Angeles
Sunday, November 4
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Los Angeles
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