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Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
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1966-74: Press Unit
Folder Title: Releases - Bills Signed and Vetoed 1968
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sucramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
2.8.68
# 86
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed his first bill of the 1968
legislative session.
The bill (AB 232-Fenton) corrects errors in the description of
districts contained in the 1967 congressional reapportionment act
(chapter 2, statutes of 1967, 2nd extraordinary session).
The bill passed the Assembly on a 63-1 vote and won unanimous
Senate approval.
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EJG
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3.1.68
# 141
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed a bill which requires that
computations made for the purpose of state school fund foundation
apportionments be based on corrected assessed valuation levels in
cases where equalization proceedings have substantially reduced or
increased valuation levels.
The urgency bill, (AB-9, Cory) was passed unanimously by both
the Assembly and Senate.
Governor Reagan said he agreed with the legislature that state
school aid should be based on the actual assessed wealth of school
districts.
Orange County this year suffered a $23 million reduction in
assessed valuation. However, under terms of the bill, the county
will receive an estimated additional $230,000 in state school aid.
Recommending passage of the bill were the State Department of
Education, the Orange County superintendent of schools and the
Huntington Beach and Brea-Olinda school districts.
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Governor Reagan also signed a bill (AB-125, Badham) which
authorizes the directors of the California water district to change
or supplement an authorized plan of works, and requires a public
hearing before any change may be adopted.
The bill also authorizes a water district to incur additional
bonded indebtedness, if necessary, to carry out the new plan.
California Districts Securities Commission approval is required
if bonds for the original plan have been certified.
The bill's provisions are effective until the 61st day after
adjournment of the 1968 regular legislative session.
The legislation was passed unanimously by both the Assembly and
Senate.
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EJG
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
3.25.68
#212
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that he has signed the
following bills:
AB 105 - Lanterman
Validates organization, boundaries, acts,
URGENCY
proceedings and bonds of counties, cities,
and specific districts, agencies and
entities. Measure is known as First
Validating Act of 1968.
LAB 244 - Townsend
Provides that regional occupational centers
URGENCY
established by school districts under joint
powers agreement are deemed to be school
districts for purposes of the Public
Employees' Retirement Law. The employees
of such centers who are not eligible to
become members of the State Teachers'
Retirement System may become contract
members of PERS by means of a contract
amendment requested by the county superin-
tendent of schools at request of governing
board of center. Retirement system member-
ship will be retroactive to the first day
of employment.
AB 466 - Badham
Establishes a four-year term for members of
URGENCY
the California Advisory Board to the Bureau
of Employment Agencies and lowers the
annual license fees for employment agencies
employed exclusively in furnishing baby-
sitters from $200 to $75.
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PB
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
FOR
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3.25.68
214
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed a bill appropriating $750,000
for use in the Crippled Children Services Program during the remainder
of the current fiscal year.
The appropriation will augment funds contained in the 1967-68
budget for allocation to counties and cities for services to physically
handicapped children.
"I am gratified that the legislation received the unanimous
approval of both houses of the legislature," the governor said.
Noting that he had followed the legislation closely, he said,
"I was highly pleased to be able to sign the bill which will now pro-
vide the funds necessary to fully continue this very worthwhile pro-
gram around the state.
"A compassionate society has special responsibilities toward its
handicapped children who are obliged to suffer out of no fault of their
own," he said.
"The training and care provided by the Crippled Children Services
Program brings renewed hope to parents and increases the possibilities
that these children can lead more productive and meaningful lives in
the future," he said.
Governor Reagan noted that he has requested that $769,000 in
additional funds be allocated to the program in his 1968-69 budget.
These funds would not require any increase in the overall size of
the budget because the funds would be provided from expected savings
in the 1968-69 budgeted capital outlay program.
AB-82
EJG
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
3.26.68
#217
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that he has signed the
following bills:
AB 116 - Knox
Appropriates $275,000 from the Motor Vehicle
Fund for acquisition of land for a branch
office of the Department of Motor Vehicles in
the City of El Cerrito. (Chapter 9)
SB 74 - Richardson
Provides for the appointment of a commission
URGENCY
by county boards of supervisors for the purpose
of certifying "certified raw milk." Requires
boards of supervisors in any county in which
certified raw milk was produced on January 1,
1968, to appoint a milk commission and author-
izes the creation of such commissions in other
counties. Also provides that certified raw
milk must conform to rules and regulations and
standards adopted by the county milk commission.
The milk commissions will consist of five
members--a physician who is a member of a
county medical association, a physician
nominated by the county health department, a
veterinarian, a physician nominated by producer (s)
of certified raw milk in the county, and a
physician nominated by the American Association
of Medical Milk Commissions, Inc.
At the present time, the only commission
certifying raw milk is in Los Angeles County.
The Los Angeles Commission is appointed by the
Los Angeles County Medical Society. The bill
was introduced because the Los Angeles Commission
announced it will discontinue the certification
of raw milk. (Chapter 7)
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EJG
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
4.4.68
#240
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that he has signed
the following bills:
VAB 77 - Ketchum
Provides that for purposes of Vehicle Code
(Chapter 12)
provisions relating to the size, weight
and load of vehicles, equipment which is
attached to the vehicle, such as booms and
masts, but which is not attendant to the
efficient operation of the vehicle, shall
be considered a load.
The bill clarifies an area of confusion as
to whether such equipment is an integral
part of the vehicle and subject to the
single vehicle length limitation, or a load
and subject to other Vehicle Code provisions
relating to loads. It will facilitate
uniform interpretation and enforcement of
the Vehicle Code.
AB 82 - Crown
Appropriates $750,000 for use in the
(Chapter 8)
Crippled Children Services program during
the remainder of the current fiscal year.
This appropriation will augment funds
contained in the Budget Act of 1967 for
allocation to cities and counties for
services to physically handicapped children.
AB 402 - Bagley
Directs the Board of Administration of the
(Chapter 10)
Public Employees' Retirement System to
modify California's Social Security Agree-
ment to exclude from coverage all services
of election workers and officials paid
less than $50 a calendar quarter.
AB 704 - Schabarum
Provides that the total amount of bonds
(Chapter 13)
issued by a junior college district which
will be superseded by a new junior college
district under designated circumstances for
all purposes on July 1, 1968, shall not
exceed 5 per cent of the taxable property,
unmodified by the so-called "Collier
Factor, of such district. The bill's
provisions are not effective after June 30,
1968.
VSB 274 - Kennick
Provides that a county which received less
(Chapter 11)
than the maximum reimbursement from the
state in any fiscal year for special pro-
bation services which reduce the rate of
commitments from such county, may receive,
in the next succeeding fiscal year and
payable in quarterly installments, reim-
bursement from the state of the difference
up to such maximum. The bill applies to
amounts payable to counties for the 1966-67
fiscal year and all subsequent fiscal years.
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EJG
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact: . Paul Beck
445-4571
4.11.68
# 256
The Governor's Office announced today that the following
bills have been signed:
AB 251 - Chappie
Authorizes Alpine County to receive
(Chapter 4)
$2,500 annually from the Airport Assis-
tance Revolving Fund for construction and
maintenance of an airport without provid-
ing any matching funds.
AB 295 - Ray E. Johnson
(Chapter 15)
Deletes provisions requiring the Depart-
ment of Agriculture to report to the
Governor and the Legislature findings on
various subjects including artificial
insemination of bovine animals, commercial
feed, brand inspection fees, milk inspec-
tion fees, milk product plant licenses,
farm product processors, and stabilization
and marketing of fluid milk and fluid
cream.
AB 691 - Ray E. Johnson
(Chapter 16)
Appropriates $152,262 to the Department
URGENCY
of Parks and Recreation from the amount
appropriated by the Budget Act of 1965
for the development of the Lime Saddle
area in the Oroville State Recreation
Area, for expenditure in the Thermalito
Forebay area, Oroville Project.
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
4.11.68
# 257
The Governor's Office announced today that the following
bills have been signed by Acting Governor Robert H. Finch:
AB 43 - Burke
Provides that when local property assessments
(Chapter 24)
are adjusted upward or downward by the county
board of equalization of the county tax appeals
board, after the property tax rate has been
set on the basis of the original tax roll,
the county auditor shall furnish to the super-
intendent of public instruction on or before
April 15 the corrected assessed valuation
within local school districts. The superin-
tendent of public instruction is directed to
use the corrected assessed valuation for com-
puting district aid and area-wide aid used in
computing state school apportionments.
AB 61 - McMillan
Exempts textile maintenance establishments
(Chapter 19)
(laundries and dry cleaners) weighing, count-
ing, or measuring any article in connection
with the business of such establishments from
the provisions of the Weighmasters Law.
AB 134 - Dent
Prescribes separate procedures concerning
(Chapter 25)
uncollected taxes to be applicable in those
counties which operate under alternative pro-
cedure for distribution of property tax levies
on the secured roll, for purposes of estab-
lishing school district tax rates by boards
of supervisors, involving the fixing of an
allowance for subsequent additions, cancel-
lations and corrections affecting the tax
rolls, and authorizing the fixing of an
allowance for delinquencies. The bill becomes
operative on November 1, 1968.
AB 164 - Knox
Provides that counties advancing current
(Chapter 26)
operating requirements to subsidiary political
subdivisions may, upon a finding that time is
of the essence, accept bids for loans without
advertising and fixes net interest cost at
6 per cent, rather than 5 per cent, on all
loans for such purpose. The bill also specif-
ically authorizes use of public agency revenue
bonds, notes, tax anticipation warrants, and
certain evidences of indebtedness, to secure
public deposits.
AB 184 - Mobley
Repeals Section 6718 of the Welfare and Insti-
(Chapter 27)
tutions Code relating to county auditors'
state settlement reports with respect to com-
mitments to hospitals for the mentally
retarded. The deleted section was removed
from the law in 1965 and inadvertently added
to recodification legislation adopted in 1967.
AB 187 - Mobley &
Amends Welfare and Institutions Code Section
Dunlap
6713 to correct a section reference. The bill
(Chapter 28)
makes no substantive change in the law.
AB 188 - Mobley &
Makes a technical amendment to a provision
Dunlap
of the Government Code relating to bonded
(Chapter 20)
indebtedness for the construction of major
county roads. The law presently refers to
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(AB 188)
"primary county roads". The bill eliminates
the word "primary" and adds the word "select"
as all principal county roads are now desig-
nated. The bill also deletes an absolute
reference to bonds existing in 1880. Such
bonds are no longer in existence.
AB 189 - Dent
Makes a conforming change in the Education
(Chapter 21)
Code to reflect legislation enacted in 1967
authorizing a school district to pay salaries
of certificated employees twice a month.
AB 271 - Chappie
Extends the time in which a fire protection
(Chapter 29)
district can file prescribed statement, map
or plat and certificate of completion in order
that a district annexation is effective for
assessment and tax purposes in 1968.
AB 337 - Pattee
Repeals provisions of the Agricultural Code
(Chapter 30)
which provide for the licensing of warehouses
to store agricultural products under bond.
AB 346 - Porter
Allows any irrigation district, reclamation
(Chapter 22)
district, water district or municipal corpor-
ation, to levy a tax on property within its
boundaries.
AB 405 - Knox
Provides that the cost of the financial
(Chapter 31)
feasibility report required in connection with
a city or county reclamation project shall be
a charge, in its entirety, against the city or
county and allows the city or county to collect
a proportion of the cost from private land-
owners included therein, rather than having
the District Securities Commission collect
from both the city or county and private land-
owners.
AB 884 - Quimby &
Provides that a resolution, trust indenture,
Coombs
or mortgage by a redevelopment agency author-
(Chapter 32)
izing redevelopment bonds may provide for the
rate of interest on such bonded indebtedness
which shall not exceed 7 per cent. The bill
further declares that such provision shall be
applicable to bonds of a redevelopment agency
which have been authorized by the agency prior
to the effective date of this act but which
have not been issued prior to such date.
SB 78 - Stiern
Eliminates the requirement that the real prop-
(Chapter 17)
erty transfer tax be evidenced by documentary
stamps supplied by the State Board of Equaliza-
tion.
SB 137 - Whetmore
Specifically allows counties to contract with
(Chapter 23)
blind persons licensed by the Bureau of Voca-
tional Rehabilitation to operate snackbars and
cafeterias, as well as vending stands, in
county owned or occupied buildings.
SB 185 - Short
Authorizes the director of the Department of
(Chapter 18)
General Services to sell, exchange, lease or
otherwise dispose of 165 acres of Stockton
State Hospital land which is no longer needed
for hospital purposes,
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EJG
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
4.18.68
# 269
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that he has signed
the following bills:
AB 51 - Pattee
Permits an elementary school district which
(Chapter 37)
withdraws from a junior high school system to
transfer to its own district general fund the
unused balance of funds available to educate
seventh and eighth grades, so as to reduce
maximum tax rates which may be assessed for
that purpose in the following fiscal year.
AB 227 - Leroy F. Greene
(Chapter 34)
Requires that the State Board of Education in
approving proposals for the formation of new
unified school districts based upon the division
of existing high school districts determine,
among other things, that the assessed valuation
per pupil in kindergarten through grades twelve
in any of the proposed new unified districts
does not vary from the average assessed valua-
tion per pupil, in all of the territory of which
the new districts are comprised, by more than
10 per cent.
AB 294 - Ray E. Johnson
(Chapter 38)
Permits an incorporated city or fire protection
district to file a petition for exemption from
county tax levy for structural fire protection
once, rather than annually. Board of supervisors
may terminate an exemption if the city or dis-
trict does not comply with the requirements to
obtain the exemption.
AB 524 - Belotti
Provides that the increase in the maximum tax
(Chapter 35)
rate of a junior college district, for any
inter-district attendance agreements and any
part and equipment lease agreements, shall
remain in effect until the end of the fifth
(rather than fourth) consecutive fiscal year,
following the election date at which the first
district bond issue is passed, in junior college
districts in which such fifth year expires on
July 1, 1969.
The bill also provides that such increase in
the maximum tax rate shall remain in effect
until the end of the fourth consecutive fiscal
year following such an election date for junior
college district in which such fourth year
expires on July 1, 1970.
SB 70 - Mills
Permits the board of directors of irrigation
(Chapter 33)
districts of over 500,000 acres to appoint the
district treasurer. The treasurer of such dis-
tricts is presently an elected officer,
SB 613 - Lagomarsino
(Chapter 36)
Permits use of a sample ballot not in booklet
form in a punchcard voting system when the
official ballot will consist of one or more
individual ballot cards.
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Bills Signed Folder
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
4.26.63
# 284
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that he has signed the
following bills:
AB 60 - Monagan
Permits board of supervisors to pass ordinances
(Chapter 41)
disposing of unclaimed bicycles and toys in
possession of the sheriff to the county welfare
department as well as the county probation officer
for use in juvenile delinquency work.
VAB 214 - Belotti
Deletes provisions authorizing the 22nd District
(Chapter 46)
Agricultural Association to construct a sports
arena. The bill also deletes provision authoriz-
ing the Department of Agriculture to advance funds
for paying premiums to county or district agri-
cultural associations.
AB 317 - Bagley
Makes a nonsubstantive amendment to a Code of
(Chapter 47)
Civil Procedure section relating to jurors.
The bill was introduced by the Legislative Council
as a part of a continuing program of codification
to maintain the codes.
AB 318 - Bagley
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to Civil Code
(Chapter 48)
provisions relating to obligations arising from
particular transactions.
AB 355 - Crandall
Authorizes governing boards of school districts
and Dent
to pay in advance for postage stamps and permits
(Chapter 42)
and services provided by other governmental
agencies when such action will result in decreased
cost or which cannot be secured without payment
in advance.
AB 370 - Hayes
Requires the State Air Resources Board to consider
(Chapter 49)
technological feasibility and economic cost in
determining criteria for approval of motor vehicle
pollution control devices. The bill provides that
each vehicle tested for certification comply with
emission standards. It further establishes a
schedule for installation of certified devices
for 1966 or later motor vehicles.
AB 496 - Mulford
Allows the benefits of the welfare exemption for
(Chapter 50)
fiscal year 1967-68 to certain organizations
otherwise qualified therefore except that the
articles of incorporation did not provide for
irrevocable dedication of corporate property to
charitable, scientific, religious or hospital
purposes.
SB 60 - Grunsky
Provides a procedure whereby territory already a
(Chapter 39)
part of a county sanitation district may be annexed
to an improvement district in that county sani-
tation district.
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SB 100 - Danielson
Requires all county clerks, instead of just
(Chapter 43)
county clerks with voter registration material
on computer tape or cards, to provide one copy
of the index of registered voters to the Secre-
tary of State at three specific times and permits
Secretary of State to make such information
available.
SB 156 - Schmitz
Provides that candidates for a city or district
(Chapter 44)
election may withdraw their statement of quali-
fication until 5 p.m. of the working day after
the close of the nomination period, rather than
until 3 calendar days after the close of the
nomination period.
SB 157 - Dymally
Makes a nonsubstantive amendment to the Agri-
(Chapter 40)
cultural Code.
The bill was introduced at the request of the
Legislative Counsel as a continuing program of
codification to maintain the codes.
SB 178 - Bradley
Repeals provisions providing for the Santa
(Chapter 45)
Clara-Alameda-San Benito Water Authority.
PB
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE:
Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
5.1.68
# 292
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that the following
bills have been signed:
AB 84 - Conrad
Sets August 24, 1968, as date of the 1968 State
(Chapter 54)
Convention of the Republican Party rather than
the first Saturday in August next following the
date upon which the primary election is held.
AB 145 - Veneman
Simplifies the procedure for handling juvenile
(Chapter 55)
Fish and Game Code Violations. Fish and Game
misdemeanors committed by persons under 18 will
be handled in the same manner as juvenile traffic
violations.
AB 196 - Duffy
Limits the class of physicians, who must report
(Chapter 56)
to the Division of Narcotic Enforcement of the
Department of Justice, with regard to the treat-
ment of addicts, to those physicians prescribing
narcotics,
AB 219 - Duffy
Increases the value from $40 to $125 of estray
(Chapter 57)
animals which may be sold by the Director of
Agriculture after a five-day posting of notice
rather than publication, and posting of notice
and holding the animal for three weeks. Increas-
ing the value of the animals which may be sold
under the simplified procedure will reduce the
handling cost substantially.
AB 344 - Moorhead
Provides that, if it is proven that disbursement
(Chapter 58)
vouchers have been lost or destroyed, an executor
or administrator shall be allowed any item of
expenditure not exceeding $100, rather than $20,
and the total amount of such allowances in all
his accounts must not exceed $2,500, rather than
$500. The present limits were established in
1850.
AB 416 - Leroy F.
Includes, by reference, credentials restricting
Greene
service to speech and hearing specialist and to
(Chapter 59)
teacher of handicapped children among designated
special credentials which may be issued by State
Board of Education outside of the "Licensing of
Certificated Personnel Law of 1961. " The bill
corrects an oversight in 1967 legislation which
created a special credential for teachers of
handicapped children.
AB 440 - Briggs
Authorizes the Department of the Youth Authority
(Chapter 60)
to refund unused money received from private
sources to defray cost of transportation to
return nonresidents committed to the Youth
Authority to the state of their legal residence.
AB 516 - Ray E.
Provides that if any provision of state law
Johnson
relative to the packaging and labeling of con-
(Chapter 61)
tainers is less stringent or requires information
different from any requirement of the federal
Fair Packaging and Labeling Act, the state pro-
vision shall be inoperative to the extent that it
is less stringent or requires different informa-
tion. The federal Fair Packaging and Labeling Act
which was enacted in 1966 supersedes existing
state law if such laws are less stringent than
the federal act.
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\SB 31 - Grunsky
Extends until September 1, 1968, the Education
(Chapter 51)
Code provision which permits the issuance of
a teaching credential pursuant to laws in effect
before 1964 to persons who were in preparation
to qualify for the credentials in 1963.
SB 251 - Coombs
Amends the Agricultural Code to eliminate
(Chapter 52)
inspection and certification requirements for
package bees and the queens shipped within the
State of California.
SB 272 - Mills
Increases from $2,000 to $3,000 the limit to
(Chapter 53)
which community service districts may contract
without calling for bids.
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PB
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
5.6.68
#303
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that he has signed the
following bills:
AB 45 - Veneman
Reduces or cancels a school district's 1967-68
(Chapter 70)
repayment on School Building Aid Loan when the
district inadvertently failed to levy a tax to
meet the cost of the repayment. The bill
provides that the amount cancelled or reduced will
be added to the 1968-69 repayment plus 5 percent
interest.
LAB 68 - Z'berg
Provides for the cancellation or refund of any
(Chapter 68)
tax or penalty imposed during the 1967 calendar
year upon property acquired by an organization
qualified for the welfare tax exemption if such
property presently qualifies for the exemption as
was acquired after the lien date but before the
commencement of the fiscal year and if the fiscal
year began in 1967.
AB 74 - Veneman
Establishes a statewide program of child protective
(Chapter 69)
services under the administration of the State
Department of Social Welfare and county welfare
departments, to provide voluntary services, to
children, parents and guardians.
AB 122 - Hayes
Changes the minimum amount of recovery in municipal
(Chapter 71)
or justice courts below which such courts have
discretion to allow or deny costs to the prevailing
party from $50 to the maximum claimable in small
claims courts.
AB 427 - Veneman
Allows newly elected directors of drainage districts
(Chapter 72)
more time to fulfill the requirements for
qualification.
SB 32 - Danielson
Makes detailed provisions concerning the membership
(Chapter 62)
status and the election and terms of office of
members of Los Angeles Junior College District
Governing Board.
SB 99 - Grunsky
Amends the Education Code to correct obsolete
(Chapter 63)
reference to sections of the Constitution.
VSB 159 - Dymally
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Fish and
(Chapter 64)
Game Code.
SB 168 - Cologne
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Public
(Chapter 65)
Utilities Code.
SB 204 - Song
Makes "The Golden State" the official state
(Chapter 66)
nickname.
SB 366 - Short
Amends the Corporations Code and Financial Code
(Chapter 67)
to correct references to the recently recodified
Agricultural Code.
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EJG
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
5-9-68
#311
Governor Reagan today (4 p.m.) signed into law the first of the
major bills in his legislative program for this year, the Corporate
Securities Law of 1968.
The bill was prepared and proposed by the Commissioner of
Corporations, Robert H. Volk, and introduced as AB 1 by Assemblyman
John T. Knox and co-authored by Senator Robert J. Lagomarsino.
The new law replaces an antiquated and outdated system of securities
regulation which was originally enacted in 1917 and which was never
amended to take into account modern practices and methods in the
securities industry. The old law also did not take into account the
impact of federal regulation through the Securities and Exchange
Commission which commenced in 1933.
Perhaps the most important impact of the bill on the economy of
the state and employment within the state is the removal of discriminator
regulatory provisions against businesses which locate their principal
business operations in California.
"Strangely enough, the 50-year old law applied highly burdensome
regulation on companies providing our citizens with employment and a
tax base and our economy with funds regardless of their state of
incorporation, while permitting companies with their business operations
located elsewhere to sell securities in this state with substantially
less regulatory burden," Commissioner Volk said.
"There are instances where firms have left the State of California
because of such discriminatory regulation, and many more have declined
to locate principal business operations here because of such regulation.
"The Corporate Securities Law of 1968 eliminates this discrimination
and treats all sellers of securities the same regardless of location of
business," Volk said.
In signing the bill, Governor Reagan said, "This will improve the
economic climate in the state and I hope will attract many new businesses
to California in the near future." It
The bill removes many unnecessary regulatory burdens on legitimate
business by providing an exemption for securities listed on the New York
Stock Exchange, as well as an exemption for the small businessman setting
up his own business under the corporate form.
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In addition, the bill eliminates the permit requirement on inter-
state offerings. As a result, the Division of Corporations will be able
to concentrate its regulatory efforts in those areas not subject to
federal regulation and in those areas where the history of the division
has proven that the likelihood of fraud is the greatest.
At the same time, the bill provides for substantially increased
investor protection through the incorporation of fraud provisions
derived from the federal statutes and specific civil remedies for
violation of the law.
"The present law is glaringly defective in that it does not contain
any such fraud provisions or civil remedies," Volk said.
"Broker-dealer regulation will be improved by bringing the intra-
state broker under standards substantially identical to the federal
standards for interstate brokers. It is our hope that this will solve
some of the problems created recently in connection with the failure
of three municipal bond houses in Southern California," he said.
The bill also will close a gap in regulation of the trading market
by providing some supervision over that segment of the market not
presently subject to federal regulation.
The bill was vigorously supported by the State Bar, many local bar
associations, the Investment Bankers Association, representatives of
business and industry as well as the District Attorney's Association of
California and many other individual citizens.
of
"I want to commend particularly the Commissioner /Corporations,
Bob Volk, whose outstanding ability and leadership has made this law
possible," the governor said, adding, "I also want to thank Assemblyman
Knox, who was a member of the drafting committee appointed by the
commissioner, and Senator Lagomarsino, through whose combined legisla-
tive abilities the Corporate Securities Law was so successfully enacted.
"I also commend the efforts of the outstanding lawyers who were
members of the commissioner's committee to draft this legislation."
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
5.10.68
# 323
Governor Ronald Reagan announced that the following bills have
been signed:
AB 69 - Bear
Provides that no write-in votes shall be counted in
(Chapter 79)
any election unless the person whose name is written
in has filed a declaration that he is a write-in
candidate for the particular office or nomination.
The declaration is to be filed no later than the fifth
day before the election.
The bill requires the counting of write-in votes in
primaries for person whose name appears on the ballot
as a candidate for same office in another party.
AB 94 - Belotti
Makes property of a volunteer fire department used
(Chapter 80)
exclusively for fire department purposes eligible
for the welfare tax exemption.
AB 120 - Moorhead
(Chapter 81)
Reduces from six to four months the time which
creditors claims must be presented to the executor
or administrator of an estate.
The bill will expedite the earlier closing of estates
and the transfer of assets to heirs and devisees.
AB 312 - Bagley
Increases annual salary of full-time official court
(Chapter 82)
reporters in Marin County from $12,000 to $12,900.
AB 329 - Milias
Provides that the minimum age for appointment as a
(Chapter 83)
State Traffic Officer, Fish and Game Warden, Special
Agent, or Narcotic Agent is 21. Present law sets
21 as the minimum age to take the State Civil Service
examination for these positions.
AB 330 - Milias
Clarifies the provisions of the State Civil Service
(Chapter 84)
Act relating to the process by which persons having
mandatory reinstatement rights are reinstated into a
State Civil Service position.
AB 438 - Fenton
Permits the governing body of a county to issue a
(Chapter 85)
new warrant, other than one issued for welfare pay-
ments within five years of the date the first warrant
became void. The claimant must declare by affidavit
that such warrant has been lost or destroyed.
AB 477 - Briggs
Requires that efficiency living units of a low cost
(Chapter 86)
housing development for the elderly conform to the
regulations relating to efficiency living units
adopted by the Commission of Housing and Community
Development.
AB 722 - Gonsalves
(Chapter 87)
Authorizes the Joint Committee on Legislative
Organization to prescribe the salary for the Legis-
lative Counsel in an amount greater than presently
fixed by statute,
SB 153 - Cologne
Provides for conversion of certificates to practice
(Chapter 73)
"chiropody" to certificates of "podiatry" commencing
on January 1, 1969.
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SB 287 - Kennick
Increases the distance a quarter horse race may be
(Chapter 74)
run from five-sixteenths of a mile (550 yards) to
one-half of a mile. The bill also deletes the
requirement that such races be in a straightaway.
SB 307 - Sherman
Eliminates the real estate partnership license.
(Chapter 75)
The bill declares that nothing contained in the Real
Estate Law shall preclude a partnership from per-
forming acts for which a real estate broker's license
is required, provided every partner through whom that
partnership acts is a licensed real estate broker.
SB 318 - Marler
Provides that no new trapping license shall be issued
(Chapter 76)
to any person within one year following expiration
of a previous license unless a prescribed report is
submitted to Department of Fish and Game, Present
law requires that such a report be submitted by July
1st in order to avoid being permanently disqualified
from receiving a new license.
SB 371 - Way
Revises boundaries of zones established for admini-
(Chapter 77)
stration of licensed pheasant clubs in the San Joaquii
Valley area.
SB 390 - Marier
Includes all of the territory of Shasta County in
(Chapter 78)
the areas where domestically reared redlegged
partridges of the variety Indian Chukar may be
released and taken.
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MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
5.14.68
# 327
Acting Governor Robert H. Finch announced today that he has
signed the following bills:
AB 92 - Murphy
Increases the annual salary of county supervisors
(Chapter 114)
in Merced County from $7,000 to $7,800. The
increase shall not become effective until a
supervisor enters upon a new term of office after
the effective date of bill.
AB 118 - Elliott
Raises the monetary limit for the estimated cost
(Chapter 115)
of a construction project which may be construc-
ted, with approval of the Department of Finance,
without complying with all of the provisions of
the State College Contract Act, from $50,000 to
$65,000. The bill brings the State College Con-
tract Act into conformity with the State Contract
Act.
AB 183 - Mobley
Requires Department of Mental Hygiene to present
(Chapter 116)
claims to counties, not more frequently than
monthly, for funds due to state for expense of
detention of narcotic drug addicts. The counties
are to process such claims through usual claims
procedures rather than requiring the county auditor
to include in his state settlement report the
amount due to the state and requiring county to
pay amount reported. The bill reflects the present
billing practice of the Department of Mental Hy-
giene.
LAB 186 - Mobley
Authorizes boards of supervisors to cancel unpaid
(Chapter 117)
taxes, penalties, and costs to be transferred to
the unsecured roll if the amount is less than $10.
AB 203 - Moorhead
Provides that when a public administrator has
(Chapter 118)
taken charge of estate of a decedent, costs in-
curred by him for protection of the estate, togeth-
er with reasonable fee for his services of not less
than $25 nor more than $100 may be charged. Such
fees shall be a proper and legal charge as an ex-
pense of administration of the estate of the dece-
dent in case of subsequent appointment of another
person as executor or administrator.
AB 250 - Dent
Deletes from the provision permitting state
(Chapter 119)
employees to take employment interviews during
working hours, the restriction that such permis-
sion is available to only those employees on pro-
motional eligible lists.
AB 302 - Ketchum
Deletes the authority for the director of Agri-
(Chapter 120)
culture to analyze samples of economic poisons
on a servise basis.
The bill does not affect the Department's authori-
ty to make analyses for enforcement purposes.
AB 316 - Bagley
Allows oral responsive pleadings in justice courts,
(Chapter 121)
The bill makes it clear that oral pleadings are
still allowed in justice courts. It corrects an
inconsistency between Sections 402 and 407 of the
Code of Civil Procedure.
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AB 367 - Biddle
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Penal Code.
(Chapter 122)
AB 515 - Ray Johnson
(Chapter 123)
Increases the salary of the board of supervisors
of Colusa County from $3,900 to $4,800 a year.
The raises are not to be effective until a super-
visor enters upon a new term of office after the
effective date of the bill.
AB 538 - Davis
Establishes Fish and Game District 1K, as the
(Chapter 124)
Johnsonville Game Refuge. The bill provides that
it is unlawful for any person to discharge a fire-
arm or other device capable of killing or injuring
any animal in the refuge.
AB 558 - Chappie
Makes technical section cross-reference change in
(Chapter 125)
provisions relating to content of report to be
filed with local legislative body concerning pro-
posed improvements under the Municipal Improvement
Act of 1913.
AB 647 - Moorhead
Prescribes standards for a nonfat liquid yogurt
(Chapter 126)
drink.
SB 171 - Cologne
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Labor Code,
(Chapter 109)
SB 172 - Cologne
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Military
(Chapter 110)
and Veterans' Code.
SB 182 - Collier
Makes the sheriff of Sonoma County the ex-officio
(Chapter 111)
marshal of the municipal court.
SB 360 - Short
Corrects an erroneous cross reference in a Govern-
(Chapter 112)
ment Code provision relating to the investment of
funds by state agencies.
SB 364 - Short
Repeals an obsolete Civil Code provision relating
(Chapter 113)
to foreign bills of exchange.
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Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
5.14.68
# 328
Governor Ronald Reagan's office announced today that he has
signed the following bills:
AB 66 - Ryan
Amends provisions in the Agricultural Code relating
(Chapter 96)
to charges made by commission merchants in the
sale of agricultural products. The bill requires
all changes or variances made in such commissions
and charges, rather than only those made for the
license period, to be by written contract between
the parties, The bill also prohibits the deduct-
ing of more than one charge without the written
consent of the producer where a reconsignment
has been made of where a broker has been employed.
AB 70 - Fong
Authorizes junior college governing boards to meet
(Chapter 97)
at any high school building in the junior college
district if the district consists of more than
one high school district or unified district and
if a notice is posted in each junior college main-
tained in the district.
AB 126 - Biddle
Permits a person retired under the Public Employ-
(Chapter 98)
ees' Retirement System to be employed by a con-
tracting agency during an emergency or because
of his special skills.
AB 128 - Elliott
Provides that service as an instructor in classes
(Chapter 99)
organized pursuant to the Adult Education Act of
1966 shall not be basis of classification as a
permanent employee of a school district. The bill
also excludes such employees from State Teachers'
Retirement System or a district plan retirement.
AB 284 - Thomas
Appropriates from the Fish and Game Preservation
(Chapter 100)
Fund the sum of $13,300 to Department of Fish and
Game for the state's share of expenses of Pacific
Marine Fisheries Commission in augmentation of the
Budget Act of 1967.
LAB 315 - Bagley
Permits a court to consider in misdemeanor cases,
(Chapter 101)
if no probation report is required, information
that could have been contained therein, for pur-
poses of sentencing the defendant. The bill re-
quires that the defendant be given the opportunity
to answer or controvert such information.
AB 387 - Ketchum
Provides that when a plaintiff obtains a writ of
(Chapter 102)
restitution, enforcing officer shall serve the
writ on the defendant tenant upon payment of ser-
vice fees. If the tenant fails to leave within
five days of such notice, the enforcing officer
is required to restore possession of the premises
to the plaintiff. The bill further provides that
the plaintiff shall store for 30 days all tenant's
personal property remaining in the premises and,
upon failure of tenant to redeem such property,
permits plaintiff to sell it at public sale, rathe
than requiring county to perform such functions.
AB 429 - Veneman
Requires that yearly training for property tax ap-
(Chapter 103)
praisers include study of new developments in the
law. The bill fixes July 1, 1968, as the commence
ment date for such training programs. It allows
a three-year carryover credit for training in ex-
cess of 24 hours in any one year, and allows credi
for training received between July 1, 1967, and
June 30, 1968. The bill also states the legisla-
tive intent that the State Board of Equalization
provide for one-half of necessary training sessior
by January 1, 1969.
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AB 444 - Badham
Specifies the manner in which the board of direc-
(Chapter 104)
tors of a water district shall adopt a plan of
irrigation works, and authorizes the board to
thereafter change or supplement the plan. Any
such change requires approval of California Dis-
tricts Securities Commission if bonds for original
plan have been certified, and requires a public
hearing before change may be adopted.
AB 559 - Stacey
Increases the maximum limitation for interim water
(Chapter 105)
storage district project assessments from $2 to
$5 per acre.
AB 644 - Bagley
Permits a city council or a county board of super-
(Chapter 106)
visors to serve as a housing authority. The bill
creates an alternative for the purposes of estab-
lishing a housing authority within any community,
a procedure similar to that already established
for development agencies,
AB 1112 - Wilson
Provides for allocation of funds received by the
(Chapter 107)
county auditor from fees imposed on trailer
coaches between the county, city and elementary
and high school districts. Legislation adopted
in 1967 inadvertently eliminated the provisions
providing for the distribution of trailer coach
fees.
VAB 1293 - MacDonald
(Chapter 108)
Provides that maintenance districts shall be deemed
organized for tax and assessment purposes if cer-
tain requirements are satisfied before April 24,
1968. The bill also provides that the annexation
of public property by a city shall be effective
for assessment and taxation purposes as if required
filings were made prior to January 1, 1968, if
requirements are satisfied prior to April 15, 1968.
SB 110 - Cologne
Makes nonsubstantive changes in the Water Code.
(Chapter 89)
SB 154 - Stiern
Specifies that action by the Coordinating Council
(Chapter 90)
for Higher Education shall require a majority vote
of all members of the council. The bill also re-
quires an affirmative vote of two-thirds of all
the members to appoint or remove the director.
The bill changes the vote requirements to conform
to 1965 legislation which increased the membership
of the coordinating council.
SB 161 - Dymally
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Elections
(Chapter 91)
Code.
SB 167 - Cologne
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Streets and
(Chapter 92)
Highways Code.
SB 207 - Stiern
Provides that second and third members of a county
(Chapter 93)
retirement board established pursuant to County
Employees' Retirement Law of 1937, shall be active
members. The bill assures that two of the five
members of the retirement board are active county
employees.
SB 208 - Stiern
Clarifies designation of excess funds in a county
(Chapter 94)
employees' retirement system with respect to amount
of reserve permitted for purpose of providing ro-
tirement allowance increases.
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SB 218 - Moscone
Provides that a copy of an affidavit shall be
(Chapter 95)
served with subpoena duces tecum issued before
trial, showing good cause for production of mat-
ters and things described in the subpoena, The
bill requires the clerk or judge, if there is no
clerk, to issue a subpoena or subpoena duces tecum
signed and sealed but otherwise in blank to party
requesting it, who shall fill it in before service.
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SB 169 - Cologne
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Vehicle
Code. (Bill was vetoed at the request of the
author. If signed, it would have chaptered
out AB 370 (Hayes). .
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
5.20.68
# 338
The following bills have been signed by Lieutenant Governor
Robert H. Finch:
AB 39 - Bear
Authorizes, as an alternative to service upon a
(Chapter 132)
person designated as an agent for service of pro-
cess, the service of summons upon a general or limit-
ed partnership by delivering a copy thereof to a
general partner or the general manager of the part-
nership and upon. an association which is not such a
partnership by delivering a copy thereof to the
president or other head of the association, a vice
president, secretary, or general manager.
The bill requires that a diligent search be made
within the state for such officers before service
may be made upon any one or more of the association's
members.
The bill also authorizes the court to order that
service be made on an unincorporated association by
the publication of summons upon the proper showing
that such association has no officer or other person
upon whom summons may be served.
AB 41 - Bear
Provides that a defendant property owner in a con-
(Chapter 133)
demnation action which is later abandoned may recove:
expenses reasonably and necessarily incurred in pre-
paring for trial, during trial, as well as expenses
subsequent to the proceeding, whether rendered before
or after the filing of the complaint.
Such expenses include reasonable attorney fees, ap-
praisal fees, and fees for the services of other
experts.
AB 73 - Bear
Permits a suit to be brought against a public entity
(Chapter 134)
in a tort action within one year from the date of the
accrual of the cause of action of within six months
after the date the claim is acted upon or deemed to
have been rejected, whichever period expires later.
Present law requires that suit be brought within
six months after the claim is acted upon or deemed
rejected.
AB 103 - Z'Berg
Provides that any exception from the risk generally
(Chapter 135)
covered by an insurance policy which insures proper-
ty for the period of time when it is under the domin-
ion and control of a party other than the insured
for purposes of storage or transferring such property
to another location must be printed in at least
8-point blackface type.
AB 169 - Badham
Establishes the Laguna Beach, Newport Beach, and
(Chapter 136)
South Laguna Beach Marine Life Refuges.
AB 297 - Moretti
Limits insurers right to cancel non-commercial
(Chapter 137)
automobile liability, physical damage and collision
insurance policies to non-payment of premium and
suspension or revocation of driver's license or
vehicle registration of named insured, member of
same household or regular operator.
The bill has the effect of preventing cancellation
for at least 6 months in case of policies written
for 6 month terms or less and for one year in other
cases, except for the two designated grounds.
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AB 308 - Moorhead
Requires emergency medical care committees in each
(Chapter 138)
county to report at least annually to the Health
Planning Council and the State Department of Public
Health its observations and recommendations regard-
ing the ambulance services, emergency medical care,
and first aid practices.
AB 555 - Moorhead
Specifically provides that the county board of super
(Chapter 139)
visors shall prescribe the membership, and appoint
the members, of an emergency medical committee and
that when two or more adjacent counties establish
a single committee, the county boards of supervisors
shall jointly prescribe the membership, and appoint
the members, of the committee.
The bill clarifies an ambiguity in 1967 legislation
which authorized the creation of emergency medical
care committees.
AB 616 - Veysey
Revises boundary of areas of the state where
(Chapter 140)
domestically reared redlegged partridges of the
variety Indian chukar may be released and taken.
AB 803 - Belotti
Exempts the sale of fish not used for human consump-
(Chapter 141)
tion, from the provisions regulating the sale or
advertising for sale. by weight of smoked, fresh,
frozen, cooked, dried, or pickled fish.
AB 814 - Chappie
Extends to February 27, 1968, the time in which
(Chapter 142)
annexation by public utility districts and detach-
ments from county water districts are effective for
assessment and taxation purposes if required state-
ments and maps or plats are filed by that date.
/AB 1078 -- Monagan
Amends the Agricultural Code to revise the size
(Chapter 143)
tolerance for asparagus.
SB 3 - Danielson
Authorizes the legislative body of a city to declare
(Chapter 127)
that weeds on specified parcels of land are a
seasonal and recurring nuisance which thereafter
may be abated without further hearing within the
same year of such declaration. The bill also pro-
vides for notice to property owner for abatement
of weeds previously declared to be a seasonal and
recurring nuisance and for their removal by city
authorities in the event the owner does not act.
SB 83 - Alquist
Sets forth budget calendar for adoption of school
(Chapter 128)
district budgets, and provides specific penalty if
a governing board neglects or refuses to make a school
district budget. Legislation enacted in 1967 inad-
vertently deleted provisions which contained the
calendar for adoption of school district budgets.
The bill becomes operational on November 1, 1968.
SB 226 - Lagomarsino
(Chapter 129)
Provides that a member of the board of directors of
a district agricultural association may be removed
by a vote of the board if he misses more than three
consecutive regularly called board meetings unless
his failure to attend is caused by illness, or tem-
porary absence from the district.
SB 254 - Cologne
Provides that the creation of a water district which
(Chapter 130)
was completed prior to the effective date of the bill
shall be effective for tax and assessment purposes if
certain specified requirements are satisfied on or
before February 29, 1968.
SB 265 - Lagomarsino
(Chapter 131)
Provides that the sheriff may be appointed ex officio
director of civil defense and disaster.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
5.22.68
# 345
Acting Governor Robert H. Finch has signed the following bills:
AB 132 - MacDonald
Increases the maximum assessment levied to pay
(Chapter 160)
cost of acquisition and improvement of land under
Vehicle Parking District Law from 35 per cent to
50 per cent. The bill increases the maximum tax
levy for maintenance, operation, repair and
improvement of parking places.
The bill further provides a procedure whereby
in lieu of the above limit, the limit on assess-
ment shall be 400 per cent of assessed valuation
of land and improvements in the district if re-
quested at time of district formation by owners
of 100 per cent of total assessed value of all
assessable lands in district.
AB 212 - Foran
States that the term "property," as used in the
(Chapter 161)
Civil Code, which relates to the regulation of
investments by trustees, includes life insurance,
endowment, and annuity contracts issued by legal
reserve companies authorized to do business in
this state. The bill is intended to clarify
existing law.
AB 322 - MacDonald
Includes ambulance services among "miscellaneous
(Chapter 162)
extended services" of county service areas.
AB 417 - Priolo
Requires the real estate broker negotiating the
(Chapter 163)
sale of real property to cause any deed of trust
executed in connection with such sale to be re-
corded or cause it to be delivered to the bene-
ficiary with a written recommendation that it be
recorded unless specifically directed not to do
so by the beneficiary. If the transaction is
closed through escrow and the deed of trust is
delivered to the escrow holder, it shall be deeme
compliance with such requirement.
AB 482 - Dunlap
Abolishes 5-year maturity date restriction upon
(Chapter 164)
warrants issued by California Water Districts
and authorizes issuance of district warrants at
stated times fixed by district board. The issu-
ance of district warrants bearing maturity date
more than 5 years must be approved by the voters.
The bill also authorizes use of warrant proceeds
for purchase or redemption of outstanding district
warrants.
AB 591 - Badham
Deletes provisions relating to air space in
(Chapter 165)
sleeping rooms, hotel bedding and sanitation,
gas illumination in rented rooms, and exit and
stairway signs in hotels and related lodgings.
AB 593 - Murphy
Amends the Code of Civil Procedure to provide for
(Chapter 166)
two days instead of one day additional time for
the exercise of a right or the performance of an
act where service is made by mail and the distance
is less than one hundred miles.
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AB 923 - Porter
Authorizes member agencies of district formed
(Chapter 167)
pursuant to the Metropolitan Water District Act,
in lieu of appointing representatives to board
of directors for an indefinite term at the
pleasure of the appointing power, to provide by
ordinance for the appointment of representatives
for a term of four years.
The bill specifies that a municipality may appoir
one additional representative for each one bil-
lion dollars, rather than each 750 million dol-
lars of assessed valuation.
The bill also permits each representative present
at meeting of board of directors to cast or ab-
stain from casting an equal share of vote to
which a municipality is entitled, rather than as
part of a unit vote cast for such municipality.
SB 211 - Lagomarsino
(Chapter 155)
Makes compliance with meat inspection and other
related provisions of the Agricultural Code a
qualification for a slaughterer's license.
SB 315 - Cologne
Authorizes courts in guardianship proceedings
(Chapter 156)
to appoint a special guardian of an estate to
serve. pending the final court determination upon
a petition for appointment of a guardian.
The power and authority of the special guardian
are limited to those necessary to conserve and
protect the property of the ward.
SB 358 - Walsh
Permits health department of any city which has
(Chapter 157)
had its own health department for 12 years or more
as well as a local health department qualifying
for prescribed state assistance, to be authorize
by the State Board of Public Health to enforce
provisions relating to retail food establishment:
SB 524 - Lagomarsino
(Chapter 158)
Increases the maximum value of vessel which may
be transferred at death of owner to surviving
spouse, without probate, from $2,000 to $3,000.
SB 641 - Collier
Allows a county board of supervisors to donate
(Chapter 159)
or transfer certain lands to a community service
district within the county for certain specified
purposes.
The bill enables community services districts to
acquire property and dispose of the property
so acquired from a county and to borrow or ac-
cept funds from other agencies for the purpose
of constructing certain facilities and to enter
into certain types of agreements with a county
or other agency.
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Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
5.23.68
# 349
Lieutenant Governor Robert H. Finch announced that the following
bills have been signed:
AB 383 - Townsend
Provides that the maximum franchise or license fee
(Chapter 172)
a city or county may collect from a community
antenna television system shall be 6 percent of the
system's gross receipts within the city or county.
AB 384 - Townsend
Provides that the Public Utilities Code provisions
(Chapter 173)
regulating granting of public utility franchises
by local governments does not apply to community
antenna television systems.
AB 414 - Milias
Provides that retirement from state active duty
(Chapter 174)
with the Office of the Adjutant General shall not
prohibit a person from membership in the active
California National Guard.
AB 418 - Priolo
Authorizes a real estate broker to deposit in
(Chapter 175)
escrow an unconditional written contract obligating
him to purchase a specific real property sales
contract or promissory note secured directly or
collaterally by a deed of trust. The bill also
extends from 30 to 60 days the maximum period in
which such broker, in performing such acts, may
retain such funds in the absence of a provision
therefore in a written agreement with the purchaser
or lender.
AB 419 - Priolo
Amends the Real Estate Law to provide that promotion
(Chapter 176)
al notes as defined in that law need not be sold
through real property securities dealers so long
as a permit for the sale is obtained from the
Real Estate Commissioner and other provisions of
the law are followed.
VAB 679 - Pattee
Permits a doctor with prescribed training and
(Chapter 177)
experience to take the California physicians and
surgeon's examination.
AB 688 - Hayes
Requires that vehicle inspection stickers be placed
(Chapter 178)
within a seven-inch square in the lower corner of
the windshield farthest removed from the driver,
rather than within a five-inch square in the lower
left corner of the windshield.
Placement of stickers on the left side has caused
a danger to the inspecting officers because they
are in the line of traffic, and it has also impaired
the driver's vision in some automobiles.
AB 760 - MacDonald
Amends the Government Code Section relating to the
(Chapter 179)
composition of the Southern California World Trade
Center Authority by changing the present reference
to the Board of Directors of the Oxnard Harbor
District to the Board of Harbor Commissions of the
Oxnard Harbor District.
AB 791 - Fenton
Provides that persons supervising and accompanying
(Chapter 180)
minors driving with instruction permits shall not
hold a probationary license rather than a five-
year license. The five-year license is no longer
issued.
AB 983 - Pattee
Requires that honeyball melon be netted and have
(Chapter 181)
pink flesh. Such melons can be packed in standard
containers 39, 40, 41. The bill also establishes
standard container 44L for melons.
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Contact:
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Governor Ronald Reagan has signed the following bills:
AB 13 - Monagan
Increases the allowances for retired state employees
(Chapter 149)
who retired on or before December 31, 1966. The
increases range from 2 percent for retirements occur-
ring in 1966 to 12 percent for retirements prior to
January 1, 1962.
LAB 40 - Bear
Establishes a procedure for giving a "good faith
(Chapter 150)
improver" relief for improvements on land of another
that enhance the value of the land made in mistaken
belief that he owns the land, where existing forms of
relief are inadequate. The bill provides that limita-
tions period for such action for relief by a good
faith improver is one year from the time he discovers
that he is not the owner of the land improved.
AB 44 - Dent
Provides for a transportation allowance of $389 per
(Chapter 151)
unit of average daily attendance to school districts
which provide transportation to day students who attend
the California School for the Deaf and the California
School for the Blind.
The bill requires school district of residence of
day-class students at California Schools for the
Deaf and the Blind to pay transportation cost of each
such pupil of the district in attendance of such
schools.
The amount required to be paid by the county of resi-
dence for transporation, clothing, and medical care
of pupils attending these schools, whose parents certif
as to financial inability, is increased from $200 to
$300 per school year.
AB 178 - Beverly
Provides that in a judicial district where there is a
(Chapter 152)
marshal, that such marshal shall maintain custody of
prisoners in municipal court facilities.
AB 379 - Cory
Authorizes governing boards of unified school districts
(Chapter 153)
and city boards of education to employ a superintendent
of schools for a term of not more than four years,
rather than requiring such boards to employ a superin-
tendent of schools for a four-year term.
AB 507 - Knox
Requires a $25 filing fee of candidates for office of
(Chapter 154)
director of a municipal utility district. The bill
also reduces the number of signatures required on the
nomination paper to be filed by such candidates.
SB 20 - Carrell
Permits an internally illuminated sign emitting not
(Chapter 144)
more than 0.25 candlepower per square inch and pos-
sessing copy which does not contain a white background
to be displayed on each side, but not on the front or
rear, of a trolley coach or bus being operated in des-
cribed urban or suburban service.
SB 257 - Cologne
Increases maximum interest rate on Riverside County
(Chapter 145)
Flood Control and Water Conservation District bonds
from 5 to 6 percent. The bill also revises provisions
governing district bond maturity dates, issuance, form,
contents, and terms.
SB 387 - Cusanovich
(Chapter 146)
Provides that if an application for registration of a
motor vehicle is filed with the Department of Motor
Vehicles between December 1st and December 31st, inclu-
sive, such application shall be accompanied by full
annual renewal fees in addition to any other fees then
due.
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SB 388 - Cusanovich
(Cl apter 147)
Requires a licensed vehicle dealer, when a certificate
of ownership is demanded in writing by a purchaser,
to satisfy the delivery requirement by submitting
appropriate documents and fees to the Department of
Motor Vehicles for transfer of registration in accord-
ance with prescribed provisions.
SB 748 - Miller
Appropriates $3,908,000 in augmentation of Item 254,
(Chapter 148)
Budget Act of 1967.
The bill was introduced at the request of the Depart-
ment of Finance. It is a deficiency bill to augment
the 1967-68 fiscal year Emergency Fund and is needed
to provide for unforeseen contingencies in excess of
the $1,000,000 provided for this purpose in the 1967
Budget Act.
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Governor Ronald Reagan has vetoed the following bill:
AB 93 - Thomas
Requires that by January 1, 1969, the Los Angeles
Coliseum Commission be increased by two new members,
one appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules, the
other by the speaker of the assembly. The bill
further provides that if new members of the commissio
are members of the legislature, they shall serve in
a capacity consistent with their respective posi-
tions as legislators.
Reasons for disapproval:
No valid argument has been advanced to support a
unilateral amendment of the joint powers agreement
that constitutes the basis for the operation and
management of the Coliseum compound. At the present
time, the city of Los Angeles, the county of Los
Angeles, and the state of California share equally
in the management of the Coliseum. The present
balance of membership in the Commission should be
retained. The city of Los Angeles, the county of
Los Angeles, and the Sixth District Agricultural
Association share this conviction.
There is a possibility that the two new appointees
to the commission would be members of the legisla-
ture. Such membership would constitute a violation
of the constitutional principle of the separation of
powers. The legislature has ample authority to
review the activities of the Coliseum Commission
if it so desires. This can be done without the
unnecessary addition of members to the commission.
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Contact:
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#373
Governor Ronald Reagan announced that the following bills have
been signed:
VAB 48 - Belotti
Specifies that any unified school district which
(Chapter 185)
became unified by operation of law is properly
organized for the purpose of receiving the unifica-
tion bonus.
AB 85 - Karabian
(Chapter 221)
Revises the definition of school bus to include only
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a motor vehicle used for transportation of any school
pupil at or below the 12-grade level. In 1967, the
Vehicle Code was amended to exempt buses transporting
public school students above the 12-grade level.
This bill provides the same exemption for private
and parochial schools.
LAB 86 - Sieroty
Provides that the provision of the Parking Law of
(Chapter 196)
1949 prohibiting the acquisition of property being
used as a parking facility, other than property
owned or controlled by the city, unless the new
facility will provide three times the parking capacit
shall not apply where the project in question is to
be leased by the parking authority to the city.
AB 90 - Davis
(Chapter 222)
Provides for the allocation of funds pursuant to the
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Emergency Flood Relief Law for the repair, restora-
tion, or replacement of public real property damaged
or destroyed by storm and flood or flood conditions.
AB 141 - Porter
Incorporates by reference in the Education Code the
(Chapter 197)
absentee voting provisions of the Elections Code.
The bill will eliminate the cost of special absentee
voting notices for school elections and provide
uniform instructions to the voters.
AB 143 - ''Berg
Exempts vacation credits of a state civil service
(Chapter 198)
employee from attachment or execution.
AB 239 - Bear
Permits a county board of law library trustees to
(Chapter 199)
increase the law library fee to not more than $5.
Such fees are payable by parties in civil actions.
LAB 328 - Milias
Provides when a former state employee returns to
(Chapter 200)
state service during a period through which a lump-
sum payment for vacation or overtime was computed,
he will be permitted to refund the portion of his
lump-sum payment that exceeds his actual break in
service, and to have the corresponding vacation and
overtime credits restored. The present mandatory
refund by an employee who returns to the same job
and agency within 15 working days after separation
is continued.
AB 399 - Belotti
Revises the qualifications that must be possessed by
(Chapter 201)
an applicant in order to take the state civil service
examination for dairy inspector.
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AB 413 - Milias
Authorizes the Fish and Game Commission to grant to
(Chapter 202)
the holder of a domesticated fish breeder's license
a permit to release and recapture domestically-
reared anadromous fish in state waters. Provides
that any permit issued shall be on an experimental
basis until impact on fishery resource can be
ascertained and restricts application of the bill
of Waddell Creek in Santa Cruz County until 1972.
AB 445 - Barnes
Makes technical amendments to Government Code pro-
(Chapter 203)
visions relating to the Public Employees' Retirement
System to conform to changes made by legislation
enacted in 1967.
AB 465 - Vasconcellos
(Chapter 204)
Permits a producer or supplier of alcoholic beverages
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to perform specified services for off-sale retail
licensees on the latter's licensed premises and with
his permission.
AB 473 - Knox
Provides for minimum wine selling and resale prices
(Chapter 205)
to consumers, rather than specified selling and
resale prices. The bill also redefines trading
areas, allows discounts on consumer purchases of a
case or more of assorted wines, and sets the 15th of
each month as the deadline for filing prices with
the department, instead of the 25th.
LAB 553 - Hayes
Includes, within the class of persons that may demand
(Chapter 223)
a transfer of their case to a municipal court judge
at the county seat upon the filing of a specified
affidavit, those persons who have received a written
notice to appear, or against whom a misdemeanor
complaint has been filed, rather than only those
persons who have given their written promise to
appear.
AB 565 - Brown
Provides that in all counties in which the informa-
(Chapter 224)
tion on affidavits of voter registration is kept on
tabulating cards or on electronic tape, copies of
the cards or tapes will be made available to county
central committees before the primary and general
elections instead of only for general elections.
Present law makes such information available only
in Los Angeles County.
AB 571 - Crown
Appropriates $881,000 to the University of California
(Chapter 225)
in augmentation of the Budget Act of 1967.
AB 575 - Harvey Johnson
(Chapter 206)
Changes designation of temporary retail liquor license
to temporary retail permit, and specifies that such
temporary permit can be issued to a transferee of a
retail license to continue the operation of a retail
premises during the period a transfer application is
pending.
AB
620 - Moorhead Makes costs incurred by a public guardian in protect-
(Chapter 207)
ing potential ward's or conservatee's estate, together
with reasonable fee for his services of not less than
$25 nor more than $100, a proper and legal charge
of the estate in case of the subsequent appointment
of another person as guardian or conservator.
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AB 639 - Milias
Permits a public agency with surplus in its
(Chapter 226)
1915 Improvement Bond Redemption Fund to transfer
surplus to its general fund.
AB 694 - Powers
Provides that a mailed application for assessment
(Chapter 208)
reduction postmarked August 26 or earlier within
prescribed application period shall be deemed filed
within such period. The bill is intended to
clarify existing law.
AB 698 - Ray E. Johnson
(Chapter 209)
Authorizes a school district to lease buildings and
other facilities such as warehouses, athletic
facilities, recreation facilities, and outdoor
assembly facilities, for period of time not to exceed
12 years, with an option to renew such lease for a
period of not to exceed 12 years, if school district
has entered into a joint powers agreement and the
agreement so authorizes.
AB 726 - Elliott
Authorizes a school district retirement board to
(Chapter 227)
pay for consulting and management services in con-
nection with administration of the board's invest-
ment program. The fees for such services are to be
considered as a reduction in earnings from such
investments or a charge against the assets of the
retirement fund.
AB 731 - Biddle
Authorizes the amendment of any record of survey -
(Chapter 210)
to correct omissions or errors in courses or dis-
tances shown or to correct errors in the description
of the land of which such record comprises, in the
same manner as subdivision maps may be amended under
the Subdivision Map Act. The bill is intended to
clarify the law with respect to the method of cor-
recting records of survey.
AB 773 - Brown
Repeals the requirement that no acquisition, develop-
(Chapter 211)
ment, or protection of any beaches for public use
shall be accomplished in any county which has not
adopted a master plan of beaches for that county.
AB 793 - Pattee
Permits a licensed beer and wine wholesaler to
(Chapter 212)
solicit orders for California-manufactured or pro-
duced wine or brandy from retail licensees on behalf
of licensed producers and suppliers who are authorize
to sell such wine or brandy.
AB 796 - Bee
Permits winegrowers, beer manufacturers, and beer
(Chapter 213)
and wine wholesalers to instruct licensess and their
employees on the subject of wine or beer, including
skill in selecting and serving, history, nature,
values, and characteristics. The manufacturer or
wholesaler can furnish equipment necessary to the
instruction, including wine or beer, and the instruc-
tion can be given on licensed premises, including
on-sale retail premises, or on non-licensed premises.
VAB 835 - Foran
Makes the Vehicle Code rules of the road and equip-
(Chapter 228)
ment provisions apply uniformly to two axle and
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three axle campers or house cars regardless of the
manner in which they are registered.
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AB 858 - Bagley
Permits a local legislative body to change or add
(Chapter 229)
to a general plan. The bill provides for a hearing
by the planning commission on the proposed changes
and a report by commission within 90 days. The bill
restores a provisionswhich formerly was in the law
but was inadvertently omitted when the planning
laws were revised in 1965.
AB 1003 - McGee
Clarifies the authority of the superintendent of
(Chapter 214)
banks to collect an annual assessment for the support
of the State Banking Department from foreign banking
corporations that are licensed to operate offices
in California.
VAB 1189 - Beverly Permits certain traps to be used to take shrimp
(Chapter 230)
in a prescribed portion of Santa Monica Bay.
AB 1206 - Wilson
Extends to April 15, 1968, the time in which homes
(Chapter 215)
for aged may file with the county assessor additional
affidavit containing specified data with respect
to the 1967-68 fiscal year. The bill also extends
from November 15, 1967, to April 15, 1968, the time
in which such homes may submit certain required data
to State Department of Social Welfare.
AB 1330 - MacDonald
(Chapter 231)
Authorizes the governing board of the Ventura County
Flood Control District to create special zones within
existing zones of the district for the purpose of
acquiring, engineering, designing, reconstructing,
operating, or maintaining flood control projects or
storm drainage facilities, in addition to the purpose
of constructing flood control projects.
SB 1 - Miller
Repeals existing provisions relating to required
(Chapter 182)
courses of study in the public school and requires
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local governing boards to prepare the courses of
study for schools under their jurisdiction pursuant
to broad minimum standards and guidelines for educa-
tional programs. The bill requires not less than -
200 minutes each 10 school days in physical educa-
tion in grades 1 through 6, and not less than 400
minutes each 10 school days in physical education
in grades 7 through 12.
SB 54 - Teale
Permits warden and forestry members of the Public
(Chapter 186)
Employees' Retirement System to elect to come within
provision permitting them to be considered as state
miscellaneous members in matters relating to normal
contributions, current service pensions and prior
service pensions.
SB 01 - way
Specifies that the maintenance allowance provided
(Chapter 216)
for junior college students entitled to special
interdistrict attendance, based upon their residing
more than 90 miles from an attendance center, shall
be paid to parents or other persons in charge or
control of a qualified minor student and directly to
the qualified veteran between 21 and 25 and the
qualified married student between 18 and 21 years
of age.
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SB 151 - Coombs
Changes the expiration date of license and regis-
(Chapter 187)
tration of manufacturers, importers, and dealers in
economic poisons from June 30th to December 31st of
each year. Under present law, renewal of licenses
and registrations for chemicals takes place in the
months of June or July. This is the peak period for
the Department of Agriculture, as well as for the
agricuitural industry.
SB 160 - Dymally
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Education
(Chapter 217)
Code.
SB 165 - Dymally
Makes nonsubstantive amendment to the Welfare and
(Chapter 218)
Institutions Code.
SB 245 - Collier
Repeals the Vehicle Code provision that prohibits
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the parking of any trailer coach, housecar, or
vehicle equipped with a camper upon any highway
during the hours of darkness except in an area
designated for such parking and to make emergency
repairs.
SB 317 - Sherman
Extends from 15 to 20 days the time within which
(Chapter 188)
interrogatories must be answered. The court may
enlarge this time, for good cause and without
notice, not to exceed 15 days. The bill also extends
from 15 to 20 days the minimum time which a request
for an admission as to the genuineness of any relevan
document as the period of time after which each of
the matters of which an admission is requested is
deemed admitted if the court has not shortened or
lengthened time.
SB 356 - Mills
Permits a voter to receive a new ballot each time
(Chapter 189)
he spoils or defaces a ballot for a total of three
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ballots. Present law has been interpreted to allow
a voter to receive only one new ballot if he spoils
or defaces the first.
SB 361 - Short
Repeals obsolete provisions of the Business and
(Chapter 190)
Professions Code relating to terminal weighing
stations and weighing services for agricultural
products.
SB 362 - Short
Eliminates a duplicate of the Business and Profes-
(Chapter 191)
sions Code section relating to motel rate signs. The
bill makes no substantive changes.
SB 368 - Collier
Prohibits a dealer from selling or offering for sale
(Chapter 192)
any vehicle, and any person from selling or offering
for sale any vehicle equipment, unless such vehicle
or equipment is certified to comply with applicable
federal standards under the "National Traffic and
Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966." The bill will
provide a means of checking vehicles and equipment
for compliance with the federal safety standards.
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SB 384 - Cologne
Sets forth the rules for the determination of
(Chapter 193)
principal and income for all transactions by which
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a principal was established without the interposi-
tion of a trust on or after September 13, 1941, or
which are established after July 1, 1968. The bill
re-enacts Civil Code provisions as they apply to
legal estates (principals created without inter-
position of a trust). Legislation enacted in 1967
repealed the Civil Code Sections relating to both
legal and equitable estates. That law, which becomes
operative on July 1, 1968, enacted new rules
regarding trusts but not legal estates.
SB 392 - Mills
Provides for a grand jurors fee of $10 per day in
(Chapter 194)
San Diego County and increases mileage fee for such
grand jurors.
SB 515 - Marler
Deletes the requirement that an engineer's report,
(Chapter 184)
regarding a proposed Yolo County Flood Control and
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Water Conservation District flood control project,
be submitted to voters for approval along with a
bond Proposition. The bill brings the Yolo County
Flood Control and Water Conservation District Act
into conformity with other special district act
laws.
SB 561 - McCarthy Authorizes consolidation of school district library
(Chapter 220)
bond elections with other elections, and provides
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for manner and time of notice.
SB 581 - Marler
Provides that the count of apricots in a container
(Chapter 195)
may be used to designate the contents of a container.
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Governor Ronald Reagan announced that the following bills have
been signed:
AB 160 - Z'Berg
Imposes on the husband the duty to support a child
(Chapter 235)
born as a result of artificial insemination of his
wife, where he has consented thereto in writing.
AB 296 - Ray E. Johnson
(Chapter 236)
Deletes the requirement that fruit trees, nut trees,
and grapevines be held "in storage" to qualify for
exemption from personal property taxation.
AB 326 - Fong
Amends the Bank and Corporation Tax Law to provide,
(Chapter 237)
with respect to a credit for overpayment of
estimated tax, that interest shall be allowed and
paid from the due date or date of payment to date
of allowance of credit rather than due date of
amount against which credit is taken. This bill
would reduce the amount of interest paid for over-
payments applied against subsequent year's taxes
by an estimated $20,000.
AB 335 - Russell
Revises provisions of the Vehicle Code relating
(Chapter 238)
to the possession of alcoholic beverages. It
eliminates the exemption granted to all common
carriers and publicly-owned vehicles and makes
specific exemptions for passengers in taxicabs,
buses and the living quarters of a housecar or
camper.
\AB 349 - Barnes
Makes the provisions defining "final compensation"
(Chapter 239)
as the highest average annual compensation earnable
during a period of 3 consecutive years for purposes
of determining retirement allowances under the
Public Employees' Retirement System, mandatorily
applicable to all contracting agencies under this
system. The bill also requires that contracting
agencies give credit for service for the period
of time during which a member was in military
service.
VAB 350 - Barnes
Provides that with respect to actions by the Public
(Chapter 240)
Employees' Retirement System against retired mem-
bers, or surviving beneficiaries based on erroneous
payment, the statute of limitations begins to run
from the date of payment, rather than from the
date of discovery of the error in payment.
VAB 489 - Veneman
Provides that a retailer may within 15 days of
(Chapter 241)
delivery return wine to a seller when the wine
delivered was other than that ordered by the retailer
or was in a quantity other than that ordered.
The bill includes, among wine which may be returned
in exchange for the identical quantity, brand, and
item of wine, wine which has deteriorated in quality
or the container of which has been damaged or the
label or container of which has been changed.
VAB 621 - Moorhead
Specifies that in the deduction from charitable
(Chapter 242)
bequests and devises to reduce the total of such
dispositions to the statutory maximum of one-third
of the estate, where there are both specific and
residuary charitable dispositions, the residuary
dispositions must be reduced entirely before the
specific dispositions must be reduced.
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AB 646 - Moorhead
Requires that notice of the sale of personal proper-
(Chapter 243)
ty on execution be posted for not less than 10
days, rather than for not less than 5 days nor more
than 10 days. The bill requires mailing of a
notice of the time and place of the sale to the
judgment debtor at his business or residence address
last known to the judgment creditor or his attorney
or delivery of such notice to the judgment debtor.
AB 851 - Ray E. Johnson
(Chapter 244)
Defines "principal county" in irrigation district
consolidation or reorganization proceedings to mean
the county in which the greatest portion of the
total combined acreage of the districts to be con-
solidated or reorganized is located.
AB 938 - Veysey
Extends the period in which certain charter-party
(Chapter 245)
carriers of passengers must have applied to the
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Public Utilities Commission for an initial annual
certificate to operate.
AB 1027 - Ray E. Johnson
(Chapter 246)
Provides that in any irrigation district with 15
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or less qualified voters, no general district elec-
tion shall be held, and all offices shall be
filled by appointment by the board of supervisors.
The bill further provides that in any district
having no more than 15 freeholders who are voters
in the district, a person need not be a voter but
shall be qualified to be a director if he is a
freeholder of the district.
SB 64 - Mills
Makes it a misdemeanor on and after January 1, 1970,
(Chapter 232)
to sell a new refrigerator, icebox, or deep-freeze
locker, not equipped with an integral lock, which
cannot be opened from the inside by the exertion
of 15 pounds of force against the latch edge of
the closed door.
The bill applies to refrigerators, iceboxes, and
deep freezes having a capacity of two cubic feet
or more.
SB 291 - Danielson
(Chapter 233)
Provides that vehicles of charter-party carriers
shall display an identifying symbol, in a form
prescribed by the Public Utilities Commission,
showing the classification to which the carrier
belongs. Carriers subject to the Interstate Com-
merce Commission may use symbols required by that
commission.
LSB 311 - Sherman
Authorizes the local registrar of birthsand deaths,
(Chapter 234)
with the approval and under the supervision of the
state registrar, to dispose of the local registrar's
copies of records, under certain conditions, after
one year, rather than five years.
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Governor Ronald Reagan announced that the following bills have
been signed:
AB 7 - Chappie
Requires that buildings intended for the use of
(Chapter 261)
the public and reasonably available to physically
handicapped persons and built by state, county,
city or political subdivisions thereof, be designed
for accessibility and use of physically handicapped
persons according to certain American Standards
Association specifications.
The bill exempts from this requirement all except
one floor of the buildings and facilities of an
elementary, high school, or unified school district
if the district provides special buildings and
facilities for the physically handicapped.
AB 22 - Gonsalves
Increases the number of judges in the Whittier
(Chapter 262)
Municipal Court from three to four.
AB 78 - Crandall
Revises the definition of class A transferees for
(Chapter 263)
purposes of the inheritance tax and class A
donees for purposes of the gift tax to include
persons adopted by stepparents and the lineal
issue of such persons, even though such persons
were adopted at the age of 21 or older, provided
that such relationship existed for at least 10
years prior to the date of transfer.
AB 97 - Burton
Provides for a cancellation or refund of taxes
(Chapter 264)
if an organization eligible for the orphanage
exemption acquired property after the lien date
in 1967 but prior to the commencement of the
1967-68 fiscal year.
The bill also provides for a refund or cancellation
of the tax on church property if the church failed
to make a timely application for an exemption in
1968, as well as in prior years.
LAB 185 - Mobley
Deletes the requirement that county special road
(Chapter 265)
fund tax be used only for the construction and
maintenance of main county highways.
LAB 510 - Chappie
Authorizes a county waterworks district to fix a
(Chapter 255)
water standby charge or immediate availability
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charge on land within district to which water is
made available. The bill exempts land used pri-
marily for commercial extraction or processing of
minerals from such charges.
AB 563 - Brown
Declares that in actions on a contract where the
(Chapter 266)
contract specifically provides that attorney's
fees and costs, which are incurred to enforce the
provisions of such contract, shall be awarded to
one of the parties; the prevailing party, whether
he is the party specified in the contract or not,
shall be entitled to reasonable attorney's fees.
It bars waiver of such fees by parties to any
contract entered into after the effective date of
the bill.
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AB 585 - McMillan
Includes within funeral expenses of decedent,
(Chapter 267)
interest from 60 days after the date of death,
rather than interest from date of interment, on
the reasonable costs of interment and certain
expenses connected therewith. The bill also
includes interest on the reasonable cost of
funeral services from 60 days after the date of
death, rather than 90 days after the filing of the
notice to the creditors by the executor or adminis-
trator of the estate.
AB 605 - Porter
Makes various changes in election procedures under
(Chapter 268)
the Uniform District Election Law.
AB 614 - Leroy F. Greene
(Chapter 256)
Increases the number of members of the county
committee on school district organization required
to be elected from among the qualified electors
of each county supervisorial district from one
to two.
AB 780 - Shoemaker
Provides that a conveyance of land to a public
(Chapter 269)
agency, public entity, or public utility shall
not be considered a division of land for pur-
poses of the Subdivision Map Act.
AB 809 - Meyers
Ratifies acts of the Public Employees' Retirement
(Chapter 257)
System with respect to social security system.
It permits the PERS to obtain coverage for employees
of an agency which ceased to exist and had paid
taxes in mistaken belief that such action estab-
lished coverage for its employees.
The bill further permits the PERS upon proper
guarantee to enter into agreement with federal
government to extend period of limitation of
assessment of federal government in order to correct
wages erroneously reported.
AB 852 - Vasconcellos
(Chapter 258)
Provides that when existing school districts are
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included as a whole in a unified district, any
authorized but unsold bonds of such school district
may be issued in the name of the unified district.
AB 875 - Campbell
Clarifies Water Code provisions regarding the
(Chapter 270)
alternative method for the levy, collection and
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enforcement of California water district assessments
AB 984 - Pattee
Increases the maximum charges allowed on loans
(Chapter 271)
made pursuant to the Personal Property Brokers
Law. The rates for loans under $500 are not
changed.
AB 1273 - Ketchum
Amends the Standard Container provisions for
(Chapter 272)
grapes. The bill also designates the 1967 Table
Grape Commission Act as the "Ketchum Act".
SB 61 - Song
Revises the rules by which estates of decedents
(Chapter 247)
escheat to the state.
SB 141 - Rodda
Validates certain final apportionments of state
(Chapter 259)
school building aid based on conditional apportion-
ments made prior to the 61st day after final
adjournment of the 1968 regular session.
SB 227 - Lagomarsino
(Chapter 248)
Makes a correction in the description of the
boundaries of Santa Barbara County.
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SB 242 - Marler
Authorizes a public utility district to exercise
(Chapter 249)
any of the powers, functions, and duties of a fire
protection district pursuant to the Fire Protection
District Law of 1961.
The bill further provides that if the district
includes any part of a city, fire district, or
other local agency which provides fire protection
service, the district shall have no authority to
provide for protection service to such territory
unless consent is obtained from the local agency.
SB 391 - Marler
Repeals provisions regulating and licensing
(Chapter 250)
purchasers of gold or silver ores, concentrates,
or amalgams.
SB 402 - Schrade
Specifies that each zone representative within
(Chapter 251)
San Diego County Flood Control District receive
compensation not exceeding $10 for each zone
commission meeting attended, not exceeding two
meetings in a calendar month.
8B 426 - Whetmore
Increases the salaries of the Orange County Board
(Chapter 252)
of Supervisors from $13,200 to $15,000 per year.
Such increases become effective when a board
member enters into a new term.
SB 449 - Lagomarsino
(Chapter 253)
Authorizes annexation and detachment of territory
to and from established special fire protection
zones within fire protection districts formed
pursuant to the Fire Protection District Law of
1961.
SB 577 - Short
Permits boards of supervisors to establish $5,000
(Chapter 254)
revolving fund for county departments in counties
with a population of at least 200,000 rather than
235,000, according to the 1950 federal census.
SB 605 - Stiern
Authorizes a water storage district to fix tolls
(Chapter 260)
or charges for the use of ground water.
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Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
6.12.68
#398
Governor Ronald Reagan announced that the following bills have
been signed:
AB 303 - Stacey
Increases the number of judges in the Bakersfield
(Chapter 295)
Municipal Court from four to five, and from five
to six on July 1, 1969.
AB 511 - Chappie
Authorizes a county to fix a water standby charge
(Chapter 275)
on all land within a county service area to which
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water is made available whether water is actually
used or not.
AB 806 - Bagley
Permits a winegrower or beer manufacturer to
(Chapter 296)
serve food and alcoholic beverages to any person,
including a licensee and his employees and repre-
sentatives, who is attending a meeting held upon
or who is visiting the premises of the winegrower
or beer manufacturer.
AB 978 - Bagley
Provides that in a two-judge superior or municipal
(Chapter 297)
court the presiding judge shall be selected on the
basis of administrative qualifications and interest,
but if no selection can be agreed upon, the pre-
siding judgeship shall rotate each calendar year
between the two judges.
AB 992 - Duffy
Increases the number and compensation of various
(Chapter 298)
attaches of the Visalia Municipal Court.
AB 1094 - Dent
Requires the board of directors of a county water
(Chapter 299)
district to meet and elect a president within 30
days after taking office, instead of requiring
such board to meet and organize on the last Friday
in December following the election. The bill
authorizes a board to elect one of their number
vice president.
AB
1491
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Moorhead Permits the Los Angeles County Flood Control District
(Chapter 300)
to set up a revolving fund for the purchase of
rights of way or other interests in real property.
SB 27 - Teale
Authorizes the governing board of a junior college
(Chapter 276)
district to designate any motor vehicle, operated
by the district, as a schoolbus when used to trans-
port junior college pupils to and from school and
school activities. Provides that such notice is
effective when filed with the superintendent of
public instruction.
SB 149 - Deukmejian
(Chapter 273)
Transfers provisions in the Penal Code dealing with
crimes involving fire alarms, from the portion of
that code relating to malicious mischief to the
portion relating to crimes against the public justice
The bill makes no substantive changes in the law.
VSB 163 - Dymally
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Insurance
(Chapter 277)
Code.
VSB 164 - Dymally
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Financial
(Chapter 278)
Code.
SB 173 - Cologne
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Revenue and
(Chapter 279)
Taxation Code,
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SB 174 - Cologne
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Unemployment
(Chapter 280)
Insurance Code.
SB 190 - Burgener
Provides that the governing board of a high school
(Chapter 274)
district having the same boundaries with a junior
college district shall not constitute the junior
college governing board.
SB 247 - Mills
Deletes the statutory requirement that Imperial
(Chapter 281)
County maintain a section of State Highway Route 78
between the easterly junction of Route 115 and the
Imperial-Riverside county line.
SB 248 - Collier
Makes technical changes in the Streets and Highways
(Chapter 282)
Code relating to the description of routes in the
California Freeway and Expressway System, the State
Scenic Highway System, and the State Highway System.
SB 278 - Collier
Increases the annual salary of the Sonoma County
(Chapter 283)
district attorney from $20,000 to $21,500.
SB 294 - Coombs
Permits the sale of certain Patton State Hospital
(Chapter 284)
land to the city of San Bernardino.
SB 322 - Alquist
Eliminates the city of Alviso from the San Jose-
(Chapter 235)
Milpitas-Alviso Judicial District. The bill also
increases the number of, and salaries of, various
court attaches of certain municipal and superior
courts in Santa Clara County.
SB 324 - Whetmore
Makes a nonsubstantive amendment to the Education
(Chapter 286)
Code.
SB 374 - Cologne
Prescribes the procedure by which a personal repre-
(Chapter 287)
sentative may be authorized to invest any surplus
moneys in any manner provided for in the will,
after the time for presenting claims has expired
and all uncontested claims have been paid or secured
by mortgage or otherwise.
SB 383 - Richardson
(Chapter 288)
Simplifies the procedures to be followed with
respect to the movement of nursery stock and seed
within the state,
SB 395 - Way
Raises the salary of the Mono County board of
(Chapter 289)
supervisors from $3,600 to $4,300 per year. The
bill provides that the raise shall not go into
effect until a supervisor enters upon a new term
of office.
SB 439 - Teale
Requires all daily reports by pawnbrokers, relating
(Chapter 290)
to specified transactions, to be on forms prescribed
by the chief of the Bureau of Criminal Identification
and Investigation, rather than requiring reports
on approved forms in the absence of local ordinances
requiring such reports.
SB 505 - Harmer
Increases the filing fees for applications to
(Chapter 291)
purchase or lease state lands from $5 to $25.
SB 514 - Marler
Authorizes, rather than requires, the Department of
(Chepter 292)
Harbors and Watercraft to cooperate with the federal
government regarding harbor development with respect
to non-revenne producing portions of small craft
harbors.
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SB 736 - Schrade
Establishes the general design and details of the
(Chapter 293)
Seal of the Senate of the State of California. The
bill provides that use of Seal of the Senate shall
be as prescribed by Senate rules and makes it a
misdemeanor to use or allow use of copy of such
seal maliciously, for commercial purposes, or
contrary to Senate rule.
SB 1107 - Alquist
Provides that any change of boundaries of any city
(Chapter 294)
which was completed after March 1, 1968, but prior
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to the effective date of the bill shall be effective
for assessment and taxation purposes in 1968, if
the required statement and map or plat are filed
by the city with the county assessor and with the
Board of Equalization on or before June 30, 1968.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
6.12.68
#399
Governor Reagan has vetoed SB 192,
This measure declares a moratorium on interest payments until
fiscal year 1970-71 on state loans to the North Tahoe and Tahoe City
Public Utility Districts and the Truckee Sanitary District for con-
struction of sewage and storm drainage facilities to prevent and
control water pollution. The bill further provides that no interest
shall be charged on the interest amounts accruing during the
moratorium.
Governor Reagan said he is not opposed to a moratorium on interest
payments in this case, since the North Tahoe and Tahoe City Public
Utility Districts and the Truckee Sanitary District need additional
time to provide revenue-producing services.
However, he said he does object to the provision in the bill
which provides that no interest shall be charged on the interest
accruing during the moratorium period.
The governor also said
/the affected districts should be required to pay interest on
the deferred interest.
Accordingly, the governor returned the bill unsigned.
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RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
6.12,68
#401
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed into law a bill which will
require the completion of college level courses in real estate law
and real estate practice beginning in 1970 for admission to the
practice of real estate brokerage. The bill adds an additional course
requirement in appraisal and finance, beginning in 1972.
In signing the new piece of legislation, the governor complimented
the bill's author, Senator Walter Stiern (D-Bakersfield) and the
real estate industry for their efforts to raise the standards for
admission to the practice of real estate brokerage.
The bill--SB 253--was sponsored by California Real Estate
Commissioner Burton E. Smith. His department is within the Business
and Transportation Agency headed by Gordon C. Luce. The bill had the
active support of the California Real Estate Commission and the
Reagan administration.
In signing SB 253, Governor Reagan emphasized that the ultimate
benefactor from the bill would be the public. "The increased com-
petence of those in the real estate profession as a result of this
legislation will in turn contribute to the protection of the public
in real estate transactions," Reagan said.
"This is a field of growing complexity," the governor said,
adding, "transactions handled by brokers frequently involve the life
savings of the individuals for whom these brokers act,
"It is only right and proper that these individuals possess a
knowledge of the law and a skill in the management of these
transactions that will provide the degree of protection to which
everyone is entitled when entrusting his life savings to another's care.
"I am pleased to sign this bill and I compliment the author, the
state departments and agencies involved and the California Real Estate
Association for its active support of this legislation."
Both Smith and Stiern emphasized that the addition of the pre-
requisites contained in SB 253 will not deter qualified individuals
from entering the real estate field because the courses are available
at 76 junior colleges throughout the state, at 13 state colleges, at
private colleges and through university extension programs.
They also pointed out that the courses could be completed easily
within the period of two years in which an individual must perform as
a real estate salesman before becoming eligible for a broker's license.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
6.19.68
#408
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation designed to
assist local transit operations in metropolitan areas of California.
The bill (SB-202) will help to relieve the financial burden on
property taxpayers in these areas and will also assist minorities, the
aged and low-income families by providing better transit service to
and from work, particularly within the core areas of major cities.
The legislation was authored by Senator James R. Mills of
San Diego and coauthored by Assemblyman James A. Hayes of Long Beach.
The bill had strong support from the Business and Transportation
Agency and the California Division of Highways, even though the bill
at first appears contrary to administration policies which generally
oppose any measure which would divert fuel taxes--or other such
transportation-related revenues--from highway construction.
A special exception was made in this case, with the legislative
intent specifically written into the bill, to assure that the funds
saved in fuel tax relief would be used exclusively to improve commute
and local transit services.
Governor Reagan emphasized that the bill will prove especially
beneficial in major urban areas with large minority commuter and aged
residents living in "core cities" within the metropolitan areas.
Specificially, the legislation relieves from paying the normal
fuel taxes:
a) transit districts, transit authorities and/or cities
which own and operate a local transit system itself
or through a wholly owned non-profit corporation.
b) passenger stage corporations subject to the jurisdiction
of the Public Utilities Commission when the motor vehicles
of such passenger stage corporations are exclusively oper-
ated in urban and suburban areas as defined by the Revenue
and Taxation Code.
c) common carriers of passengers operating exclusively on
any line or lines within the limits of a single city
between fixed termini or over a regular route, providing
that 98% of these operations are exclusively within the
limits of a single city and, who by reason of the above,
are therefore not considered a passenger stage corporation
subject to the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission.
The governor commended the two authors and Business and Transpor-
tation Secretary Gordon Luce for the months of work that went into
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making passage of the bill possible.
"The movement of industry to the suburbs has greatly increased
the distance between home and job opportunities, making it more
difficult for the unemployed to make their way to the door of potential
employers or to training centers, resulting in severe social and
economic problems," the governor said.
"Studies of Watts and other areas indicate that congestion and
the lack of adequate mass transportation in the inner city increases
the difficulty of our minority groups and senior citizens.
"These are the problems which this bill deals with. I am
pleased to sign it."
The estimated overall savings in fuel tax payments is estimated
at about $2 million statewide.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
6.20.68
#410
Governor Ronald Reagan has signed the following bills:
LAB 781 - Shoemaker
Increases the number of clerical positions and
(Chapter 311)
establishes the salary range for the position of
intermediate typist-clerk for the municipal court
in the Santa Barbara-Goleta Judicial District.
AB 1123 - Elliott
Corrects obsolete references to the state consti-
(Chapter 312)
tution, and repeals statutory provisions rendered
obsolete by the amendments to the constitution
adopted in 1966.
AB 1152 - Briggs
Broadens the authority of county sealers of weights
(Chapter 313)
and measures to test any non-commercial weighing
and measuring devices.
AB 1175 - Biddle
Extends to March 15, 1968, the time in which the
(Chapter 317)
statement, map or plat regarding annexation to a
city may be filed with the State Board of Equali-
zation for the annexation to be effective for
assessment and tax purposes for the 1968-69 fiscal
year. The bill applies to cities completing annex-
ations bstween January 17 ard January 27, 1967.
SB 55 - Stiern
Increases the annual salary of court reporters in
(Chapter 314)
Kern County from $9,600 to $12.000 a year.
SB 104 - Marks
Increases the number and salary of certain person-
(Chapter 301)
nel of the San Francisco Super: or Court.
SB 116 - Collier
Permits boards of directors of resort improvement
(Chapter 302)
districts to authorize the payment of specified
amounts of compensation to board members for
attendance at board meetings. The bill specifies
that secretary of district may be member of dis-
trict board of directors and authorizes board to
fix his compensation. It also specifically
authorizes such districts to hold, use, enjoy,
lease, or dispose of, any of its property.
SB 170 - Cologne
Revises the maximum aggregate amount for which a
(Chapter 303)
municipal water district may issue negotiable
promissory notes for general district purposes.
The bill further provides that any person represent-
ing a municipal water district on board of direc-
tors of a metropolitan water district may receive
compensation and expenses from the water district
for such service.
SB 188 - Lagomarsino
(Chapter 304)
Authorizes the entry of the fact and date of proper-
ty sold for taxes on the reproduced roll where a
machine-prepared assessment roll is used.
LSB 224 - Grunsky
Provides that an indeterminate commitment of a
(Chapter 315)
defendant as a mentally disordered sex offender,
a commitment for insanity, and a commitment for
narcotics addiction, 90 days after such commitment
shall be deemed a final judgment for purposes of
allowing an appeal by a defendant from final judg-
ment of conviction.
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SB 253 - Stiern
Establishes new educational requirements for
(Chapter 305)
applicants for a real estate broker's license,
Beginning January 2, 1970, applicants for a
broker's license must have completed courses in
real estate law and real estate practice and take
examinations or courses in real estate financing
and real estate appraisal. The bill requires
applicants for a broker's license to take courses
in each of the four above-named subjects after
January 2, 1972. The real estate commissioner is
to waive these requirements if an applicant for
a broker's license has been admitted to the Cali-
fornia State Bar or has completed a course of
study equivalent to that required by SB 253.
USB 302 - Way
Provides that a community service district may be
(Chapter 306)
formed without an election upon the consent of
all registered voters of the proposed district.
The bill does not apply to community service dis-
tricts situated in more than one county.
SB 326 - Sherman
Permits a defendant to demur to a complaint when
(Chapter 307)
it appears, from any matter of which court must
or may take judicial notice, as well as when it
appears on the face of the complaint, that ground
for demurrer exists.
LSB 455 - Marks
Increases the salaries of certain of the San Fran-
(Chapter 308)
cisco Superior Court administrative personnel.
SB 466 - Marks
Extends the termination date of the state's
(Chapter 319)
alcoholism program (McAteer Alcoholism Act) to
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the 61st day after adjournment of the 1969 Regular
Session of the legislature. The bill appropriates
$751, 294 to the Department of Public Health to
carry out the operations of the Division of
Alcoholism.
SB 533 - Whetmore
Revises the number of and salaries of personnel
(Chapter 309)
in specified Orange County Municipal Courts.
LSB 603 - Marks
Increases the number and compensation of various
(Chapter 310)
attaches of the San Francisco Municipal Court.
LSB 844 - Stevens
Specifies that certain tidelands granted in trust
(Chapter 316)
to the City of Palos Verdes Estates may be used
for various conservation and recreation purposes.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
6.21.68
#413
Governor Ronald Reagan announced that he has signed the
following bills:
AB 57 - Priolo
Allows a holder of an off-sale beer and wine license
(Chapter 336)
to sell alcoholic beverages outside of a one-half
mile radius of the Sawtelle Veterans Home in
Los Angeles County. Present law allows the holder
of an off-sale general license to sell alcoholic
beverages outside of the one-half mile radius while
those holding an off-sale beer and wine license can
operate 1½ miles from the home.
LAB 153 - Barnes
Expands definition of "forestry member, " for pur-
(Chapter 337)
poses of Public Employees' Retirement System, to
include advisors and recreation specialists in
forestry job corps conservation centers.
AB 168 - Badham
Provides that community services districts may pro-
(Chapter 338)
vide for the conversion of existing overhead electric
and communication facilities of a public agency or
public utility, with its consent, to underground
locations and for financing such conversion pursuant
to the Improvement Act of 1911.
AB 339 - Porter
Increases number of judges in the Compton Municipal
(Chapter 339)
Court District from four to five.
AB 403 - Knox
Authorizes the California Districts Securities Com-
(Chapter 340)
mission to collect fees to cover costs incurred in
performing any commission function rather than limit-
ing the fees to functions. The bill also transfers
from Department of Water Resources to California
Districts Securities Commission responsibility for
inspecting progress of any work financed from pro-
ceeds of any certified bond issue and for determining
whether project has been satisfactorily completed.
LAB 450 - Porter
Increases the number of judges in the Los Cerritos
(Chapter 341)
Municipal Court District of Los Angeles County from
2 to 3.
LAB 546 - Biddle
Limits the rehabilitation period in cases of multi-
(Chapter 342)
ple convictions with consecutive sentences to a
maximum period of 50 months. The superior court
to which the application for rehabilitation is made
has authority to extend the period of rehabilitation.
AB 547 - Biddle
Provides that persons confined in a county jail,
(Chapter 343)
whether under sentence of imprisonment or as a con-
dition of probation, may request and receive a prompt
disposition of outstanding and unresolved criminal
charges in the courts of this state in the same
manner in which the disposition of such charges may
be obtained by inmates of state prisons or
institutions.
LAB 548 - Biddle
Requires persons who are not specifically authorized
(Chapter 344)
by statute to inspect the record of juvenile court
proceedings to petition the juvenile court for an
order permitting their inspection of such records.
AB
597 - Moorhead Provides that where an executor or administrator of
(Chapter 345)
an estate doubts a creditor's claim, the claimant
and the personal representative may enter an agree-
ment to refer the matter in controversy to a com-
missioner, or referee, some disinterested person,
or the judge for settlement by way of summary
procedure.
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AB 623 - Burke
Provides that the county from which a patient of a
(Chapter 346)
state hospital or institution was admitted shall be
liable for public assistance received by patient
up to three years after release on leave of absence
of patient from the hospital or institution.
LAB 629 - Knox
Broadens the definition of "mortgage guarantee
(Chapter 347)
insurance" contained in the Insurance Code to include
residential apartment houses, buildings occupied for
industrial purposes, and leases on buildings occu-
pied for industrial or commercial purposes.
LAB 777 - Fong
Adds to the definition of "professional nurse, 11 for
(Chapter 348)
purposes of the Nursing Practice Act, the require-
ment that such person be licensed by the state as a
registered nurse.
AB 838 - Cory
Requires that a ballot pamphlet be sent with each
(Chapter 349)
absentee ballot.
AB 853 - Belotti
Permits a winegrower as to wine and a beer manufac-
(Chapter 350)
turer as to beer, to give or sell such alcoholic
beverages below established prices to (a) a non-
profit charitable corporation or association exempt
from federal income taxes, or (b) a nonprofit incor-
porated trade association exempt from federal income
taxes, the members of which are alcoholic beverage
licensees. In the latter instance, the wine or
beer shall be used solely for an association con-
vention or meeting.
AB 904 - Badham
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to prescribe
(Chapter 351)
installation of stop signs at unprotected railroad
crossings unless the commission finds that they
would create an additional danger.
LAB 1011 - Powers
Increases the maximum fees the Division of Indus-
(Chapter 352)
trial Safety may charge for elevator inspections.
AB 1016 - Crandall
(Chapter 353)
Extends the inspection interval for installed tanks
from three to five years.
LSB 115 - Collier
Increases the annual salary of the Siskiyou County
(Chapter 320)
district attorney from $7,200 to $15,000. The bill
also prohibits the district attorney from engaging
in private practice during his term of office.
SB 138 - Rodda
Provides that
an employee in a position requir-
(Chapter 321)
ing certification requirements who serves less time
than the minimum schoolday, rather than one who
serves less time than the majority of employees in
same grades, may specifically contract with school
district governing board to serve as a part-time
employee. The bill also alters the method for
establishing the rate of compensation for such part-
time employees as a ratio to amount paid full-time
employees.
SB 158 - Dymally
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Business and
(Chapter 322)
Professions Code.
SB 162 - Dymally
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Health and
(Chapter 323)
Safety Code.
SB 175 - Cologne
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Public
(Chapter 324)
Resources Code.
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SB 232 - Grunsky
Extends the provisions of California's Equal Pay
(Chapter 325)
Law to all employees in a business establishment,
rather than limiting its applicatinn to women. The
bill is intended to prevent discrimination on the
basis of sex where employees are doing work on jobs
requiring equal skill, effort and responsibility
performed under similar working conditions in the
same establishment.
SB 292 - Moscone
Provides that every measure submitted to the people
(Chapter 326)
by the legislature shall appear on the ballot of
the first general election occurring after 150
days after the adoption of the proposal by the legis-
lature. The bill provides that constitutional
amendments of the current legislative session shall
be placed on the ballot of the 1968 general election
if adopted on or before July 7, 1968.
SB 304 - Moscone
Provides that where a minor has no guardian of his
(Chapter 327)
estate but has money exceeding $2,000 but not more
than $10,000, the person holding such money may
petition the court to take jurisdiction over the
disposition of such money. The court may order
that such money be deposited in a bank or trust
company, or invested in an insured account in a
savings and loan association, or that a guardian
be appointed to care for the money.
SB 349 - Short
Permits the use of funds from override taxes to
(Chapter 328)
purchase land, buildings, and furniture for develop-
ment centers for handicapped minors.
SB 386 - Sherman
Increases fees paid by subdividers to the Division
(Chapter 329)
of Real Estate in connection with the filing of ap-
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plications by subdividers for investigations and
issuance of public reports.
LSB 421 - Sherman
Makes several technical and clarifying amendments
(Chapter 330)
to provisions of the Business and Professions Code
relating to the Real Estate Recovery Fund.
SB 435 - Coombs
Provides that land zoned for commercial development
(Chapter 331)
with approved access to a city street and approval
of interior street alignment would be excluded from
the definition of a subdivision. Land zoned for
industrial development is presently exempted.
SB 473 - Lagomarsino
(Chapter 332)
Repeals an obsolete provision of the Public Resources
Code relating to the use of explosives.
SB 480 - Collier
Permits retired members of the Public Employees'
(Chapter 333)
Retirement System to vote for members of, and to
hold office on, the board of administration of that
system.
SB 802 - Lagomarsino
(Chapter 334)
Appropriates $200,000 to augment the Budget Act of
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1967 to provide funds for claims against the state.
SB 910 - Stevens
Permits a board of directors of a nonprofit corpor-
(Chapter 335)
ation to act, if the articles of incorporation or
bylaws of such corporation so provide, without a
meeting if all members of the board consent in
writing to such action. Business corporations al-
ready have this authority.
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MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
6.26.68
#429
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that the following bills
have been signed:
AB 198 - Stacey
Authorizes the Kern County Agency to levy ground
(Chapter 369)
water production charges within improvement districts
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within the agency which will benefit from the re-
charge of underground water supplies or the distribu-
tion of imported water.
AB 268 - MacDonald
(Chapter 370)
Appropriates $2.7 million in augmentation of the
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1967 Budget Act relating to the support of hospitals
for the mentally ill and the Short-Doyle local mental
health program.
AB
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Russell Authorizes a minor 15 years of age or older living
(Chapter 371)
separate and apart from his parents or legal guardian,
and who is managing his own financial affairs regard-
less of the source of his income, tc consent to
certain medical, dental or hospital care.
AB 441 - Murphy
Directs the superintendent of public instruction to
(Chapter 372)
apportion state supplemental support funds to certain
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elementary and high school districts which are
ineligible for such support because of an insufficient
tax rate due solely to a fluctuation in the units of
average daily attendance in the district.
AB 543 - Pattee
Provides that Franchise Tax Board may waive the
(Chapter 373)
10 percent penalty for underpayment of estimated
tax in case of a showing of good cause.
AB 607 - Lanterman
(Chapter 354)
Provides that 24 percent of the rent received by the
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Division of Highways on properties rented prior to
interstate highway construction projects shall be
distributed to local revenue and taxing districts,
Under present law, 24 percent of rentals on non-
interstate projects are distributed to local taxing
bodies. It is estimated that the bill will result
in an additional $560,000 being distributed to local
government each year.
AB 674 - Knox
Authorizes the insurance commissioner to suspend the
(Chapter 388)
right of an insurer to obtain life certificates of
convenience for its new agents if, during a calendar
year, more than 66 2/3 percent of its appointees fail
to qualify for permanent licenses within six months
after obtaining such certificate. Suspension may be
terminated if the commissioner is satisfied that the
insurer has established procedures for the proper
training of prospective agents.
AB
719 - Moorhead
(Chapter 374)
Requires the court clerk, immediately after judgment
in a criminal case, to mail a copy of any statement
of views respecting the defendant that is filed with
the court and submitted by the court, district attor-
ney, or law enforcement agency, to the attorney for
the defendant, and to the defendant. The bill also
requires that a copy of any statement submitted in
behalf of the defendant be mailed to the district
attorney.
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AB 830 - Veysey
Provides that jurisdiction of a county superintendent
(Chapter 375)
over a joint school district shall not be changed
from one county superintendent to another except by
a majority vote of the electorate in the district.
Present law automatically changes the jurisdiction
to the county in which the greatest area of the dis-
trict lies, if a schoolhouse is constructed in the
portion of the district in that county.
AB 859 - Bagley
Extends the exemption from civil and criminal liability
(Chapter 376)
to a hospital, laboratory or clinic employing or
utilizing the services of, physicians, registered
nurses, licensed laboratory technologists or clinical
laboratory bioanalysts who properly administer a
blood test when requested to do so in writing by
a peace officer. The bill also requires the Depart-
ment of the California Highway Patrol, in cooperation
with the Department of Public Health, to adopt
uniform standards for the withdrawal, handling and
preservation of blood samples prior to analysis,
rather than uniform standards for the giving of blood
alcohol tests.
AB 876 - Ketchum Requires that the first agency to book a person after
(Chapter 377)
arrest shall furnish fingerprints and a description
of persons arrested for specified offenses to the
Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation.
AB 914 - Knox
Transfers a section of the Revenue and Taxation Code
(Chapter 378)
relating to the cancellation of certain penalties to
another chapter of that code. The bill also adds
the requirement that to receive the cancellation of
such penalties, the payment of the corrected amount
must be made within 30 days from the date the correc-
tion is entered on the roll.
AB 939 - Beverly Allows a probation officer to invest moneys he is
(Chapter 379)
authorized to received in federally-insured savings
and loan associations doing business in this state,
which are approved by the board of supervisors, as
an alternative to depositing such moneys in the
county treasury or approved commercial bank accounts.
AB 985 - Chappie Requires irrigation districts which, prior to
(Chapter 380)
November 8, 1967, by either resolution or written
agreement with a district landowner, have provided
a different basis for levying district assessments
against such landowner, to utilize such basis for
levying district assessments against such landowners,
rather than the county assessment roll.
AB 1056 - Moretti
(Chapter 381)
Authorizes investments in securities of the Asian
Development Bank by savings bank and incorporated
insurers.
AB 1473 - Badham Authorizes the Orange County Water District to deter-
(Chapter 382)
mine the amount and percentage of water extracted
from district's ground water supplies, to require
producers to use more or less than their allotted
percentage and to levy a basin equity assessment upon
producers who are required to use more than their
allotted percentage share for the purpose of reim-
bursing those producers who are required to use less
than their allotted percentage share, so as to equalize
the per-acre-foot cost of water to producers through-
out the district.
AB 1634 - Russell
(Chapter 383)
Specifies range of amounts of bond which the treasurer,
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auditor, secretary, directors and other employees
must give to the Upper Santa Clara Valley Water
Agency. The bill also increases the maximum interest
rate on Agency bonds from five to six percent.
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SB 6 - Stiern
Provides that the Board of Governors of the California
(Chapter 355)
Community Colleges succeeds to the powers and duties
of the superintendent of public instruction, as well
as those of the State Board of Education, the direc-
tor of Education, and the Department of Education, in
the administration of junior colleges.
SB 63 - Song
Revises the California law relating to the disposition
(Chapter 356)
of unclaimed property. The new law will become
operative on January 1, 1969.
SB 112 - Collier
(Chapter 357)
Amends the Health and Safety Code provisions relating
to the withdrawal of fire protection districts from
cities.
SB 308 - Sherman
Prohibits a person who has had his sport hunting or
(Chapter 358)
fishing license revoked from purchasing another one
during the period of revocation, and permits further
periods of revocation for any additional violations.
SB 313 - Whetmore
(Chapter 359)
Increases the additional fee for court reporters
in Orange County from $6 to $10.
ISB 316 - Danielson
(Chapter 384)
Eliminates the $50 minimum on costs which a public
entity, including the state, may collect against a
plaintiff when the plaintiff fails to recover a
judgment.
SB 347 - Burgener
(Chapter 360)
Adopts and authorizes the San Diego River (Mission dd
Valley) and Tahquitz Creek flood control projects in
accordance with congressional action and at such
estimated costs for state cooperation as may be
appropriated by the legislature upon recommendation
by the Department of Water Resources.
LSB 375 - Cusanovich
(Chapter 361)
Exempts an employer engaged in the operation of a
licensed hospital from the Labor Code provisions
limiting maximum working hours of women, if he adopts,
pursuant to an agreement or understanding voluntarily
arrived at between the employer and employee, a work
period of 14 consecutive days instead of seven con-
secutive days for purposes of overtime compensation
and maximum hours limitations.
SB 389 - Cusanovich
(Chapter 362)
Provides that a National Guardsman who is federalized
during a civil disturbance may be defended by the
State of California in the event he is sued for an
act performed while on federal duty.
SB 442 - Moscone
(Chapter 385)
Revises and recodifies the law relating to appeals
in civil actions and proceedings.
SB 529 - Marks
Allows boards of supervisors to establish and operate
(Chapter 386)
a ferry across a bay subject to any restrictions con-
tained in the Toll Bridge Authority Act or contained
in any bond resolution of the California Toll Bridge
Authority.
SB 604 - Stiern
Exempts administrative offices of a junior college
(Chapter 363)
district from the Field Act when such offices are
located on a site separate from a junior college
campus and when pupils are not required to enter the
building. The Field Act requires strict standards in
the construction of school buildings to protect stu-
dents and teachers from fire and earthquake hazards.
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SB 607 - Moscone
Adds a section to the Code of Civil Procedure which
(Chapter 387)
cross-references authorization for new trials to the
provisions relating to new trials ordered on appeals
in civil cases.
SB 639 - Deukmejian
(Chapter 364)
Provides that when certain attaches of municipal
court are assigned to serve a municipal court judge
sitting as a superior court judge, they shall
receive same salary as comparable personnel of the
superior court.
SB 680 - Lagomarsino
(Chapter 365)
Increases the annual salary of court reporters in
Santa Barbara County from $6,000 to $13,500. The
bill also provides for a $45 per diem for reporters
pro tempore and for a $10 filing fee in Santa
Barbara County.
SB 688 - Marler
Authorizes the governing board of a school district
(Chapter 366)
to donate obsolete textbooks to children and other
persons who reside in the school district in order
to promote general literacy of the citizenry, in-
stead of allowing the donations of such textbooks
to only pupils of the district or destroying the
books.
SB 699 - Coombs
Clarifies the Health and Safety Code provisions
(Chapter 367)
relating to earthquake safety requirements for
certain rural buildings.
SB 882 - Marler
Makes clarifying amendments to provisions of the
(Chapter 368)
Public Resources Code relating to the use of
incinerators within specified state and federal
forest areas.
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RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571 6.26.68
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Governor Ronald Reagan has vetoed the following bill:
AB 257 - Burton The measure would allow boards of supervisors to
establish and operate a ferry across a bay subject
to any restrictions contained in the Toll Bridge
Authority Act or contained in any bond resolution
of the California Toll Bridge Authority.
The governor said he has already approved an identical
bill (Chapter 386, Statutes of 1968). Approval of
AB 257 would result in duplicate provisions being
added to the Streets and Highways Code.
He, therefore, returned the bill unsigned.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
#441
445-4571
6.27.68
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that the following bills
have been signed:
AB 192 - Fong
Permits the board of directors of a municipal utility
(Chapter 401)
district to declare that when a holiday falls on a
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Saturday it will be observed on the preceding Friday.
The bill specifies that the district may close its
office and excuse its employees from work on a Friday
holiday so declared.
AB 369 - Duffy
Revises provisions governing officers and employees of
(Chapter 402)
state hospitals. The bill provides for positions of
medical director, medical program director, and
hospital administrator.
AB 463 - Cory
Increases from five to ten years the permissible term
(Chapter 403)
of a school district contract for transportation of
pupils, renewal at the option of the district if the
rate is not increased by more than five percent.
AB 580 - Fong
Authorizes school boards to execute a contract with
(Chapter 404)
any California teacher-training institution whereby
certificated personnel of the school district, or the
county, may be assigned to the teacher-training
institution for full-time duty for a period not to
exceed one year.
AB 628 - Milias
Provides that a nominee for an office having more than
(Chapter 405)
a two-year term is a delegate to succeeding state
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conventions until the one after the district primary
at which nominations for the office are again made.
The bill further provides that where a person qualifies
as a delegate to the same state convention more than
once, he is a delegate by virtue of the most recent
election by which he becomes a delegate.
VAB 682 - Sieroty
(Chapter 406)
Permits a local agency to insure its officers and
agents for death or injury incurred in any aircraft.
Presently such authority is limited to coverage for
nonscheduled flights.
AB 1369 - Milias
(Chapter 407)
Adds the national committeeman and committeewoman,
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chairman and vice chairman of state central committee,
and 20 chairmen of county central committees to the
Republican State Convention.
SB 114 - Collier
(Chapter 394)
Raises the salary of the Sonoma County district attorney
from $20,000 to $21,500, and that of members of the
board of supervisors from $10,000 to $13,200. The
bill provides that raises for supervisors shall not be
effective until a supervisor enters upon a new term
of office on the board after the effective date of
the bill.
SB 323 - Marler Requires competitive bidding on all fire district
(Chapter 395)
building contracts, where cost is in excess of $3,000.
VSB 399 - Sherman
(Chapter 396)
Raises the compensation for court reporters in the
Alameda County Municipal Courts from $35 to $45 per
day. The bill also increases compensation of the
clerk of the Fremont-Newark-Union City Municipal Court.
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SB 420 - Sherman
Simplifies procedures for real estate license
(Chapter 397)
application and transfer. The bill also clarifies
a provision relating to exemption from the licensing
requirement.
SB 496 - Cusanovich
(Chapter 389)
Provides that the Department of Finance shall file a
certified copy of the population estimate of a city
made for gas tax funds allocation purposes only if
requested to do so by such city. Authorizes one
such estimate per fiscal year, instead of one per
calendar year.
SB
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Burgener Authorizes school districts to lease property for
(Chapter 398)
not to exceed 99 years from the state, and any city,
county, or district, for the purpose of constructing
school buildings and facilities. School districts
presently may make such leases with the federal
government.
\SB 376 - Rodda
Exempts motion picture machine operators, under cer-
(Chapter 399)
tain specified conditions, from liability for the
exhibition, or the possession with intent to exhibit,
any obscene matter.
SB 788 - McCarthy Requires all cranes with cabled controlled booms and
(Chapter 390)
a lifting capacity of 10 tons and over to be equipped
with telescopic ram boomstops mounted to the gantry
or "A" frame and to be secured to the boom. The
bill further requires boomstops to have specified
gradual buildup pressure for cranes of specified
tonnage.
VSB 824 - Stevens
Authorizes a corporation to pay, in whole or in part,
(Chapter 400)
the premium or other charge for any type of indemnity
insurance in which any officer, director, or employee
of such corporation is indemnified or insured against
liability or loss arising out of such person's
specified acts in connection with such corporation.
[SB 890 - Stevens
States that notice must be given before the execu-
(Chapter 391)
tion on a judgment or exercise of a power of sale
in a mortgage or deed of trust of a leasehold estate.
The bill requires a copy of the notice to be placed
in some conspicuous place on the real property 20
days before date of sale of leasehold under a power
of sale or an execution on a judgment. The bill
further declares that these amendments are merely
declaratory of existing law.
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OFFICE 9F THE GOVERNOR
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
6.28.68
442
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that the following bills
have been signed:
AB 467 - Stacey Requires that audiometric testing meet standards estab-
(Chapter 416)
lished by the State Board of Public Health and specifies
that the Board shall issue certificates of registration
in audiometry to qualified supervisors of health as
well as to school audiometrists. The registration fee
for candidates for the audiometrist certificate is
raised from $3 to $10.
AB 656 - Sieroty
(Chapter 417)
Permits a minor 12 years of age and older who may have
come into contact with any infectious, contagious, or
communicable disease, required by law to be reported to
the local health officer, to give consent, to the
furnishing of hospital, medical and surgical care
related to the diagnosis or treatment of such disease.
The bill also makes parental consent unnecessary to
authorize such care and declares that parents or
guardians shall not be liable for payment for any such
care.
AB 899 - Conrad Provides that Attorney General approval is required for
(Chapter 418)
discharge from accountability by the State Board of
Control when an item exceeds $300, rather than $100,
as provided under current law.
AB 942 - Z'berg Establishes a Delta Water Agency for the purpose of
(Chapter 419)
negotiating and entering into one or more agreements
with the United States and the State of California to
protect the water supply of the lands within the Agency
against the intrusion of ocean salinity and to assure
the lands within the Agency a dependable supply of water
of suitable quality sufficient to meet present and
future needs. The bill provides that no agreement can
be entered into by the Agency unless such agreement
is first approved by a majority of the votes cast at
an election held within its boundaries.
AB 957 - Veneman
(Chapter 420)
Provides that unredeemed pledged goods possessed by a
pawnbroker, but not owned by him to hold and dispose of,
shall not be assessed to him for property tax purposes.
AB 1026 - Wilson
(Chapter 421)
Makes person eligible to be elected or appointed judge
of a municipal court of a judicial district in San Diego
County if he is a resident eligible to vote in the
county in which the judicial district is located, rather
than in the judicial district itself, for at least 54
days prior to his election or appointment.
AB 1038 - Badham
(Chapter 422)
Specifies that property otherwise eligible for assess-
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ment as open-space lands shall be so assessed for the
1968-1969 fiscal year if the instrument reflecting the
fact the property is enforceably restricted to open-
space uses is signed and recorded on or before
June 15, 1968.
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AB 1059 - Beverly
(Chapter 423)
Conforms the Government Code section dealing with
leases of city property with a similar Civil Code
section permitting leases of city property for 55 years.
AB 1076 - Wilson
(Chapter 424)
Amends the County Water Authority Act by revising the
formula for determining preference to authority water,
and the basis for appointing representatives to the
board of the authority by each member agency.
VAB 1095 - Dent
Authorizes a county water district improvement district
(Chapter 425)
to annex territory, whether or not contiguous, within
the water district which is not part of any other
improvement district constituted for a similar purpose,
rather than not part of specified improvement district.
AB 1164 - Cory
Specifies the time when an assessment roll may be
(Chapter 426)
considered complete for purposes of establishing a limit
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for bonded indebtedness.
VAB 1168 - Leroy F. Greene
(Chapter 427)
Requires the State Board of Education to adopt minimum
academic standards for grades 6, 8 and 12 to include
minimum level of student competence, and to adopt
achievement tests to adequately evaluate the minimum
level of student competence required by the Board.
VAB 1535 - Dent
Includes the United States government within the
(Chapter 429)
Revenue and Taxation Code provision relating to
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partial refunds of taxes paid on property acquired by
public entities,
VAB 1453 - Schabarum
(Chapter 423)
Provides for computations of bonding capacity of certain
unified school districts by the last equalized assessment
of the county without modification by the "Collier
factor".
VSB 189 - Lagomarsino
(Chapter 409)
Provides that on or after July 1, 1963, redemption
penalties on tax sold property and tax deeded property
shall remain at one percent per month rather than
dropping to one-half percent per month after the first
year to the time of redemption.
VSB 239 - Short
Requires the superintendent maintaining a development
(Chapter 410)
center for handicapped minors to designate a supervising
head teacher who shall be required to hold a credential
to teach exceptional children. Such a person shall be
entitled to all benefits of teachers employed in the
school district maintaining the center.
SB 261 - Cologne
(Chapter 411)
Makes Long Beach tideland revenues available for
construction of the State Water Project.
SB 275 - Grunsky
(Chapter 412)
Increases the number of judges in the Monterey County
Superior Court from 3 to 4 on January 1, 1969.
SB 339 - Bradley
(Chapter 413)
Provides that in establishing an agricultural preserve
a county must give written notice to the Local Agency
Formation Commission and cities within one mile of the
proposed boundaries of the preserve two weeks before
the hearing. If a city has protested a county contract
with respect to land within one mile of its boundaries
it may upon annexation of such land, elect not to
the contract.
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SB 625 - Bradley
Chapter 414)
Extends the Savings and Loan Commissioner's jurisdiction
with respect to loans to members of the immediate family
of an officer of a savings and loan association.
SB 823 - Sherman
(Chapter 415)
Deletes use for residential purposes as an authorized
use of the City of Emeryville tidelands. The bill also
extends the deadline for substantial improvement of
the grant.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
7.1.68
C-O-R-R-E-C-T-I-O-N
In press release #442 issued June 28, AB 942 (Delta
Water Agency) was authored by Monagan, instead of
Z'berg.
Thank you.
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MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
#450
7.3.68
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that he has signed the
following bills:
AB 129 - Townsend
Authorizes regional occupational centers to hire
(Chapter 445)
instructors without requiring them to hold a
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teaching credential. The bill is operative
until the 61st day after final adjournment of
the 1969 Regular Session of the legislature.
AB 519 - Chappie
Provides that the board of a public utility
(Chapter 446)
district may change the name of a district by
adoption of an ordinance and by giving notice
of the name change to the state controller, the
State Board of Equalization, and the board of
supervisors of each county which has land within
the district,
VAB 1201 - Lanterman
Repeals an obsolete provision of the Welfare and
(Chapter 447)
Institutions Code.
AB 1646 - Z'berg
Provides for the equitable proration of testa-
(Chapter 448)
mentary trust income between the income benefi-
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ciary or his personal representative and the
person next entitled to income under the trust
instrument, when income beneficiary's right to
income terminates during the period of probate
administration, The bill becomes operative on
July 1, 1968.
SB 85 - Cologne
Requires the Department of Public Works to place
(Chapter 431)
route shield signs designating the portion of
Interstate Highway 10 between Blythe and Beau-
mont as both Interstate Highway 10 and U.S.
Highway 60.
VSB 119 - Collier
Provides for a refund of gas taxes paid for fuel
(Chapter 432)
used in propelling a vessel operated by its
owner on waters located on private property
owned or controlled by him.
SB 127 - Dymally
Requires materials in personnel files of school
(Chapter 433)
employees which may serve as a basis for affect-
ing the status of their employment, other than
(1) ratings, reports, or records which were
obtained prior to the employment of the person,
(2) which were prepared by identifiable exami-
nation committee members, or (3) which were
obtained in connection with a promotional exami-
nation, to be open to his inspection. This
bill provides that every such employee has the
right to inspect such material on request, other
than at a time when he is actually required to
render services to the employing district.
SB 133 - Cologne
Eliminates the fixed statutory fee or compensa-
(Chapter 450)
tion for court-appointed appraisers, and requires
the court to fix the fee or compensation in
an amount determined by the court to be reason-
able, not to exceed similar fees for similar
services rendered in the community. At the
present time, court-appointed appraisers may
receive not more than $50 a day for their ser-
vices.
SB 348 - Short
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Govern-
(Chapter 449)
ment Code.
SB 365 - Short
Corrects an erroneous section reference in the
(Chapter 434)
Business and Professions Code,
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SB 417 - Cologne
Makes the sale of intoxicating liquor, within
(Chapter 435)
one mile of the campus or grounds of Loma Linda
University in the County of San Bernardino, a
misdemeanor. The bill exempts the sale of
specified beverages of low alcohol content,
including beer.
SB 477 - Burgener
Changes titles of the Office of the Adjutant
(Chapter 436)
General and the adjutant general to Office of
the Commanding General of the State Military
Forces and the commanding general of the state
military forces, respectively.
SB 608 - Stevens
Authorizes superintendents of state hospitals
(Chapter 451)
to establish sheltered workshops for patients.
SB 665 - Whetmore
Requires real estate contracts of sale pertain-
(Chapter 437)
ing to improved subdivision lots to have a
provision permitting the contract vendee to
prepay all or part of the contract balance.
The bill applies to contracts entered into after
January 1, 1969.
SB 668 - Cologne
Corrects an erroneous section reference in the
(Chapter 438)
Revenue and Taxation Code.
SB 707 - Moscone
Prohibits a seller from inducing or attempting
(Chapter 452)
to induce any person to enter into contracts
within the provisions of the Unruh Act or the
Reas-Levering Motor Vehicle Sales and Finance
Act, by offering a rebate, discount, commission,
or other consideration, contingent upon the
happening of a future event, on the condition
that the buyer either sells, or gives informa-
tion or assistance for the purpose of leading
to a sale by the seller of the same or related
goods.
SB 712 - McCarthy
Provides that public agencies, in addition to
(Chapter 439)
cities and counties, may utilize specified
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procedure to determine and establish uncertain
boundaries.
SB 718 -- Stevens
Specifies that, in the Insurance Code provision
(Chapter 440)
authorizing group disability policies to pro-
vide for benefit reduction if an individual has
any other coverage other than individual policie
or contracts, "individual policies or contracts'
does not include selected group disability
policies or contracts,
SB 742 - Coombs
Requires the board of supervisors of San Ber-
(Chapter 441)
nardino County, upon request of the Cucamonga
County Water District, to annually levy an
improvement district tax up to a maximum of
$2.50 for each $100 of assessed valuation of
land in each improvement district.
SB 746 - Moscone
Increases the additional filing fee in the
(Chapter 442)
San Francisco Municipal Court from three dol-
lars to seven dollars.
VSB 752 - Cologne
Provides that no person shall be denied the
(Chapter 453)
right to receive credentials issued by the
State Board of Education, to receive teacher
training, or to engage in practice teaching on
the ground he has physical deformities, if such
physical deformities do not constitute a health
hazard to others with whom he may become
associated.
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SB 761 - Mills
Prohibits a person from filing nomination papers
(Chapter 454)
for more than one county office in the same coun-
ty or more than one city office in the same city
at the same election. Under present law a per-
son can file for only one state office at the
same election, No such restrictions are placed
on local elections.
SB 794 - Beilenson
Permits each member of the Psychology Examining
(Chapter 455)
Committee to serve for a maximum of one year,
rather than six months, after the expiration of
his term if no successor has been appointed.
The bill further provides that licenses issued
pursuant to the Psychology Licensing Law before
January 1, 1969, rather than January 1, 1968,
expire and become invalid at 12 p.m. on Decem-
ber 31, 1968, if not renewed.
SB 800 - Lagomarsino
Authorizes the board of directors of any county
(Chapter 443)
water district collecting taxes pursuant to the
alternative tax provisions to determine that
property taxes shall be due and payable in such
installments and shall become delinquent on the
same dates as county taxes.
33 806 - Bradley
Changes the name of the State Board of Registra-
(Chapter 444)
tion for Civil and Professional Engineers to
State Board of Registration for Professional
Engineers. The bill also changes the name of
the act administered by the board to the Pro-
fessional Engineers Act.
SB 1131 -Grunsky
Requires that the Monterey County treasurer
(Chapter 456)
transfer once each month to the account of the
Monterey Peninsula Airport District 50 percent
of the fines or forfeitures collected for viola-
tions of ordinances of the district.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7.9.68
#460
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed into law a bill designed to
make available to some two million, three hundred thousand non-driving
Californians, an identification card that will be as widely accepted
as a California driver's license for check cashing and other activities
requiring positive proof of identity.
The bill (AB 26) was authored by Assemblyman Richard E. Barnes
(R-San Diego). The new legislation has had the active support of the
Department of Motor Vehicles, the State Transportation and Commerce
Agency and the Governor's Office.
"This legislation recognizes a very important fact of life," =
Governor Reagan commented in signing AB 26.
"Ever since California driver's licenses with the bearer's photo-
graph became commonplace following their authorization in 1958, they
have been the most freely accepted, prima facie identification card a
person can carry. The California driver's license has become THE
document which anyone who wishes to cash a check finds he is almost
always asked for. A person who can't produce a driver's license is
at a great disadvantage.
"Several million Californians who, because of age or physical
disability, are unable to obtain a driver's license, are deprived of
the kind of identification they need to cash old age assistance checks,
pension checks or otherwise prove their identity.
"This situation will soon be corrected, thanks to Assemblyman
Barnes' bill, and the many months of fact finding and hard work that
went into making this piece of legislation become a reality," the
governor concluded.
Assemblyman Barnes described the voluntary identification card
concept embodied in AB 26 as a It true California citizens' service
program."
"It is," he commented, "a strictly permissive (as opposed to
mandatory) self-liquidating program. The total cost of the cards
will be borne by those who wish to purchase them. They will not cost
the taxpayers a dime."
Verne Orr, director of the Department of Motor Vehicles and a
major influence in developing the identification card program, des-
cribed the procedures for obtaining a card.
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"An applicant, II he pointed out, "will pay a $3.00 fee at his
neighborhood Department of Motor Vehicles office. He will have his
picture taken--as for a driver's license--and will attest to his name,
sex, age and address before a person authorized to administer oaths.
"The card will be good for four years and will be renewable on
the holder's birthday. Individuals with these cards will have to
report address or name changed to the Department of Motor Vehicles
within ten days after the change occurs."
Orr said that any person who has reached his 21st birthday will
be entitled to either a driver's license or an identification card,
but not both.
Persons applying for identification cards will have to submit
adequate identifying documents, such as a birth certificate, Social
Security number, Selective Service card, citizenship papers, documents
showing a current address or whatever else, within reason, the depart-
ment may require.
As with driver's license data, records of persons to whom the
cards are issued will be publicly available for verification.
Orr pointed out that the Department of Motor Vehicles was con-
sidered the logical agency to process and produce the cards because it
already has the photographic and most other necessary equipment in its
local offices throughout the state.
The new identification card will be encased in plastic, Therefore,
the department will arrange for laminating equipment to be installed
by the Sacramento firm which now processes all identification photo-
graphs for the department. Installation of this equipment and setting
up a new filing system will take several months.
The department will issue an announcement=-probably in November--
indicating when individuals may apply for identification cards at
their neighborhood department offices.
Orr also stated that as a result of efficiencies established
within the Department of Motor Vehicles under the Reagan administration,
applicants should have their identification cards in their hands
within approximately two weeks from the date they applied.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7.10.68
#461
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that he has signed the
following bills:
AB 136 - Leroy F. Greene
(Chapter 472)
Requires school districts to pay tuition to parent
or guardian of handicapped children in public or
private school in or out of state when special
education services needed are not available under
any district, county or state program and cannot
be reasonably provided because of the cost or
distance involved. The bill becomes operative
on July 1, 1970.
AB 447 - Dunlap
Revokes the authorization for the disposal of a
(Chapter 473)
parcel of about 760 acres in Napa County com-
prising a portion of the Veterans Home property.
AB 794 - Elliott
Authorizes an increase in the compensation paid
(Chapter 474)
members of the Personnel Commission of the Los
Angeles Unified School District to not more than
$50 per meeting, but not over $250 per month.
LAB 1055 - MacDonald
Authorizes the spouse, rather than the wife, of
(Chapter 475)
a missing person, to petition the superior court
to have a trustee appointed for the estate of such
person and requires that the spouse or his nomi-
nee, rather than the wife or nominee, be pre-
ferred by the court when appointing a trustee.
LAB 1088 - Ray E. Johnson
(Chapter 476)
Provides that any woman who is a California resi-
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dent shall not lose her residence status for pur-
pose of University of California or state college
fees by virtue of her marriage to a non-resident
who is a member of armed forces of United States
and who is required to serve outside of this state.
LAB 1111 - Crandall
Provides a procedure for filling vacancies on
(Chapter 477)
grand juries which have been impaneled when the
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membership has been reduced for any reason, rather
than only for specified reasons. The bill also
eliminates the requirement of a finding by the
superior court that membership of the grand jury
has been reduced below the required number of mem-
bers before a vacancy can be filled. At the
present time, grand jury vacancies can only be
filled when they are due to death, change of resi-
dence, illness, or conviction of malfeasance in
office or any felony.
LAB 1154 - Russell
Permits a custodian under the California Uniform
(Chapter 478)
Gifts to Minors Act, whether or not the donor, to
designate a successor without executing instrument
of resignation. The bill permits the minor, if
he has reached 14 years of age, to designate a
successor custodian, if the custodian does not
make such designation before he dies or becomes
legally incapacitated.
AB 1176 - Knox
Permits marshals, as well as sheriffs, to serve
(Chapter 479)
writs of habeas corpus.
LAB 1315 - Veneman
Validates certain acts of taxing agencies and
(Chapter 480)
revenue districts or their officers relative to
determining or fixing the budget or tax rates,
equalization of property, tax sales, and related
matters.
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AB 1432 - Fong
Makes the equalization procedure which is avail-
(Chapter 481)
able to the assessee whose property was not on
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prior year's secured roll and to whom the assessor
did not send a notice of an increase in assess-
ment available also to assessee of real property
on a local secured roll. The bill restores a
provision that was inadvertently repealed in
1967.
AB 1469 - Foran
Makes technical and clarifying amendments to the
(Chapter 482)
Contractors License Law relating to license bonds.
The bill becomes operative on July 1, 1969.
SB 19 - Song
Requires in a divorce or separate maintenance
(Chapter 457)
action that the spouse be awarded all of the
community property that represents damages for
his or her personal injuries unless the court
determines that justice requires a division. In
no event, however, may the court award more than
one-half of such damages to the noninjured
spouse.
LSB 71 - Song
Provides that the wife has the management and
(Chapter 458)
control over community personal property received
by her as her personal injury damages, subject
to use by the husband to pay or reimburse him
for expenses incurred by reason of wife's per-
sonal injuries.
SB 223 - McCarthy
Requires in situations where the consideration
(Chapter 459)
involved in a transfer of an alcoholic beverage
general license deposited with an escrow holder
is insufficient to pay filed claims of bona fide
creditors in full, that claims based on taxes,
with specified exceptions, be paid after the pay-
ment to the United States of claims based on
income or withholding taxes.
LSB 345 - Cologne
Requires every governmental agency that issues
(Chapter 460)
building permits to provide space on the permit
for the name and address of the lender involved
and further requires that agency to keep this
information on file and open to the public. The
bill further provides that where there is no
known lender, such facts will be noted and the
failure to indicate the name and address of the
lender does not relieve any obligated person of
giving the lender the required notice to with-
hold under the mechanics lien law.
VSB 369 - Grunsky
Defines various rights of blind persons, visually
(Chapter 461)
handicapped and other physically disabled persons
pertaining to accommodations, transportation, and
public facilities. The bill requires that the
governor annually proclaim October 15 as White
Cane Safety Day. It also declares state policy
to encourage and enable blind persons and other
physically disabled persons to participate fully
in the social and economic life of the state,
VSB 376 - Mills
Provides that the number of signatures required
(Chapter 462)
for nominating petitions for recall elections
shall be at least 500 or 1 percent of the entire
county vote in the last general election, which-
ever is less, but not more than 1000. The bill
also provides that a city councilman is recalled
when a majority of those voting on the recall
question vote "yes" rather than a majority of
those voting at the election.
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SB 401 - Whetmore
Permits the presence of a probation officer at
(Chapter 463)
a hearing to declare a minor to be a ward or
dependent child to be waived by the probation
officer, judge or referee and the minor.
SB 461 - Beilenson
Changes the number of days required for the notice
(Chapter 464)
of the filing of certain real property petitions
relating to alteration or abandonment of a sub-
division map to be published from not less than
30 nor more than 50 days as directed by the
judge, to once a week for a period not less than
five consecutive weeks.
SB 573 - Dymally
Combines two subjects in the list of subjects
(Chapter 483)
in the examination that a person must pass to
receive a certificate to practice podiatry.
SB 585 - Coombs
Requires that a certificate of income tax payment
(Chapter 465)
be obtained if an estate exceeds $50,000 and
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$5,000 or more is distributable to out-of-state
beneficiaries. At present, certificates are
required for all estates having assets worth
$5,000 which are distributable to one or more
nonresident beneficiaries.
LSB 586 - Coombs
Allows contracts between a construction con-
(Chapter 466)
tractor and a person or legal entity for whose
account the construction contract is not being
performed but who, as an accommodation, has
agreed to permit the contractor to enter upon
its property for the performance of construction
work for others.
SB 599 - Deukmejian
Permits a state employee to receive up to two
(Chapter 467)
years retirement credit for service, while on
leave, with a college or governmental agency or
nonprofit organization provided he pays into the
fund both his contribution and the employer's
contribution plus interest that would have ac-
crued on such contributions.
SB 612 - Short
Authorizes a tax rate of 25 cents per $100 of
(Chapter 468)
assessed valuation for the San Joaquin Local
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Health District. A tax rate in excess of 15
cents per $100 must be approved by the board of
supervisors,
SB 690 - Moscone
Shifts the due date for payment on credit purchase
(Chapter 469)
of cigarette stamps and meter impressions from
the 20th to the 25th day of the month following
purchase.
LSB 722 - Grunsky
Makes a clarifying amendment to provisions of
(Chapter 470)
the Education Code relating to the denial, sus-
pension or revocation of teaching credentials on
the ground of conviction of certain narcotics
offenses.
SB 733 - Short
Permits public employee retirement systems formed
(Chapter 471)
under County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937,
municipal, municipal utility, and school district
retirement systems to invest in mutual funds.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7.10.68
#462
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that he has signed the
following bills:
AB 321 - Dent
Authorizes the state director of education, sub-
(Chapter 506)
ject to such conditions as the State Board of
Education may prescribe, to purchase annuity con-
tracts under a qualified plan for employees of
the California Schools for the Deaf, the Blind,
and the Diagnostic Schools for Neurologically
Handicapped Children.
AB 406 - Powers
Discontinues the granting of veterans' preference
(Chapter 507)
points in state civil service promotional exam-
inations.
LAB 604 - Bear
Increases from 50 cents to $1 the maximum daily
(Chapter 495)
amount which can be credited for work done by a
person in custody on any industrial farm or in-
dustrial road camp who is not found to have any
person dependent upon him for support.
VAB 664 - Milias
Allows an income tax deduction of up to $100 for
(Chapter 496)
political contributions in any year.
AB 735 - Beverly
Makes a person eligible to be elected or appointed
(Chapter 513)
judge of a municipal court in judicial districts
in Los Angeles County in which the population
exceeds 1, 000, if he is a resident eligible
to vote in the county in which the judicial dis-
trict is located, rather than in the judicial
district itself, for at least 54 days prior to
election or appointment.
AB 915 - Knox
Provides that any filing required of a taxpayer
(Chapter 497)
with a taxing agency shall be deemed to be filed
on time if it is sent by mail properly addressed
and has a cancellation mark of the specified
date. The bill also provides that a property tax
remittance sent by mail may, upon submission of
satisfactory proof, be deemed received upon the
date of mailing where the cancellation mark
shows a later date.
AB 989 - Gonsalves
Permits any city or county to pass an ordinance
(Chapter 514)
declaring private roads generally held open to
the public to serve commercial establishments
subject to the provisions of the Vehicle Code.
AB 1097 - Dent
Provides that county water districts formed for
(Chapter 498)
less than 18 months may borrow an amount not ex-
ceeding $25,000 or two percent of the assessed
valuation or estimated valuation of the taxable
property in the district, whichever is greater.
AB 1256 - Britschgi
Requires the director of finance to count money
(Chapter 499)
in the treasury at least twice each year rather
than at least once every three months.
AB 1301 - Schabarum
Permits the use of raised pavement markers to
(Chapter 508)
simulate painted lines when such markers are
placed in accordance with standards established
by the Department of Public Works.
AB 1303 - Z'berg
Provides that State Personnel Board may, within
(Chapter 500)
one year of appointment, declare void an appoint-
ment made and accepted in good faith, which would
not have been made but for a mistake of law or
fact which would have made appointment illegal.
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AB 1337 - Schabarum
Deletes the limitation that a highway, on which
(Chapter 509)
the Department of Public Works and local authori-
ties may designate a two-way left-turn lane,
have two or more lanes for through traffic in
each direction.
AB 1429 - Fong
Provides that when sales and use taxes collected
(Chapter 501)
from customers exceed the taxes due measured by
gross receipts during the period, the excess
constitutes an obligation owed the state if such
taxes are not returned to the customer. The bill
also revises the alternative prepayment formula
for persons engaged in business during preceding
year.
AB 1487 - Beverly
Prohibits municipal recall election when the term
(Chapter 502)
of the officer being recalled is scheduled to end
within six months after the recall petition is
submitted to the legislative body.
AB 1543 - Schabarum
Specifies that the laws, rules, or regulations
(Chapter 510)
of this state which are inconsistent with laws,
rules or regulations of the United States, shall
not apply with respect to federal-aid highway
work.
AB 1688 - Knox
Provides that municipal, justice, and small
(Chapter 503)
claims courts shall have jurisdiction in actions
to enforce payment of a delinquent unsecured per-
sonal property tax if the legality of the tax is
not contested by the defendant.
AB 1753 - Ketchum
Requires all aircraft liability insurance poli-
(Chapter 511)
cies, which contain a provision indicating that
coverage is extended to accidents occurring, and
losses arising, in Mexico, to contain a warning
that the insurance policy may not be honored in
Mexico. Such statements are presently required
in motor vehicle liability insurance policies.
AB 1803 - Ryan
Establishes the general design and details of
(Chapter 512)
the Seal of the Assembly of the State of Cali-
fornia. The bill makes it a misdemeanor to use
or allow use of copy of such seal maliciously,
for commercial purposes, or contrary to Assembly
rule.
AB 2050 - Bagley
Increases the salaries of certain employees of
(Chapter 504)
the Central Sonoma County and Southern Sonoma
County Judicial Districts.
SB 148 - Deukmejian
Requires the Board of Equalization to issue an
(Chapter 484)
appraiser's certificate without further examina-
tion to city employees who have passed a civil
service or merit system examination for appraiser
prior to the effective date of the bill.
SB 310 - Sherman
Requires an applicant to pay to the state regis-
(Chapter 485)
trar of Vital Statistics for an amendment to
certain records of birth, death, or marriage,
except for those amendments filed within one
year of the date of the event. The bill also
requires state registrar to send a certified
copy of such amended record to the applicant
without additional charge, except for those
amendments which are filed within one year of
the date of occurrence of the event.
\SB 525 - Lagomarsino
Requires the Department of Harbors and Water-
(Chapter 486)
craft to submit a report to the legislature and
to the governor each odd-numbered year rather
than each year in which a general session of the
legislature is held.
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SB 645 - Marler
Excludes from the definition of "dealer" banks
(Chapter 505)
and those persons not exclusively engaged in the
bona fide business of exporting vehicles but who
are engaged in the business of soliciting orders
for the sale and delivery of vehicles outside
the territorial limits of the United States only
if their sales of such vehicles produce less than
10 percent of their total gross revenue from all
business transacted.
SB 684 - Burgener
Terminates right of California Board of Nursing
(Chapter 487)
Education and Nurse Registration or the Board
of Vocational Nurse Examiners to appoint a person
to fill a vacancy if the governor fails to exer-
cise his right of appointment within the specified
time.
SB 796 - Grunsky
Specifies that the San Luis Obispo County Flood
(Chapter 488)
Control and Water Conservation District cannot
acquire riding or hiking trails by condemnation.
SB 879 - Lagomarsino
Redefines the definition of "uncontrolled fire, "
(Chapter 489)
subject to the jurisdiction of Division of For-
estry, to add the requirement that any type of
uncontrolled fire is one that threatens to destroy
life, property, or resources.
SB 928 - Whetmore
Makes a number of nonsubstantive amendments to
(Chapter 490)
provisions of the Military and Veterans Code
relating to the Veterans Home at Yountville.
SB 988 - Lagomarsino
Allows a city, county, or local agency to agree
(Chapter 491)
to indemnify a grantor and hold him harmless and
to repair or pay for damages proximately caused
by uses authorized by an agreement granting an
easement, lease, right-of-way or right-of-entry.
SB 1082 - Cologne
Increases the maximum amount of negotiable
(Chapter 492)
promissory notes which may be issued by the Desert
Water Agency to the lesser of $1,500,000 or three
percent of the assessed valuation of property in
the agency.
SB 1112 - Walsh
Prohibits individuals and firms from engaging in
(Chapter 493)
the business of a dispensing optician before
being issued the proper certificate of registra-
tion by the Board of Medical Examiners.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7.12.68
# 464
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that he has signed the
following bills:
AB 14 - Moorhead
Provides that in misdemeanor cases a
(Chapter 528)
person who refuses to answer a question
on the ground of self-incrimination may
agree in writing with the district
attorney or prosecuting attorney to testi-
fy, have the agreement approved by court,
and be compelled to answer, thereby
receiving immunity.
AB 342 - Murphy
(Chapter 529)
Includes within the provisions of law
relating to the establishment and main-
tenance of regional occupational centers,
regional occupational programs and sets
forth procedures to be followed by
counties which presently operate such
regional programs. The bill also permits
county superintendent of schools operat-
ing these programs to receive state
reimbursement.
\AB 363 - Dent
Provides that the director of corrections
(Chapter 530)
may authorize the temporary removal,
under custody, of inmates from prisons or
other institutions for adult detention
for participation in community action
programs directed toward community better-
ment and delinquency prevention, for a
period not longer than one day. The bill
also provides that director may authorize
removal of inmates for disaster aid,
including local mutual aid and state
emergencies.
VAB 411 - Fong
Specifies that Division 7 of the Education
(Chapter 531)
Code pertaining to the course of instruc-
tion in the elementary and secondary
schools may be known as the George E.
Miller, Jr. Education Act of 1968.
AB 436 - Murphy
Permits the people, in a criminal case,
(Chapter 532)
to take an appeal from an order or judg-
ment of the superior court dismissing or
otherwise terminating the action before
defendant has been placed in jeopardy or
where the defendant has waived jeopardy.
The bill prohibits the people in such
cases from refiling after an adverse
decision on appeal.
LAB 443 - Deddeh
Authorizes state financial participation
(Chapter 533)
in the construction of the Tijuana River
Flood Control Project.
AB 476 - Burke
Increases the number of judges in the
(Chapter 534)
West Orange County Municipal Court from
three to five and from five to six on and
after July 1, 1969. The bill also
increases the number of judges in the
Central Orange County Municipal Court
from six to seven.
AB 526 - Mulford
Increases the number of judges in the
(Chapter 516)
Alameda County Superior Court from 20 to
22.
AB 671 - Stull
Makes specified Penal Code provisions
(Chapter 517)
authorizing removal of prisoners in county
or city jails to hospitals applicable to
county industrial farms, county industrial
road camps, and joint county road camps.
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AB 684 - Lanterman
Changes the formula for the allocation
(Chapter 543)
of cigarette taxes to the cities.
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AB 732 - Biddle
Makes it unlawful for any person to
(Chapter 535)
operate a motor vehicle on private property
while under the influence of intoxicating
liquor or combined influence of intoxicat-
ing liquor and any drug. The bill makes
the law the same on public highways and
private property.
AB 1065 - Biddle
Makes it a misdemeanor for a person under
(Chapter 536)
custody of a probation officer in a county
juvenile hall, or committed to a county
juvenile home, ranch, camp, or forestry
camp, to escape or attempt to escape from
such facility. The bill further provides
that in a detention hearing, a minor has
the right to confrontation by, and cross-
examination of, any person examined by
court under section providing that the
court will examine minor, his parent,
guardian, or other person having relevant
knowledge.
AB 1134 - Ryan
Revises the boundaries of San Mateo and
(Chapter 537)
Santa Clara Counties.
AB 1137 - Ryan
Permits county boards of supervisors to
(Chapter 538)
provide that not more than 50 percent of
the fines and forfeitures received from
vehicle code violators and which is
deposited in the special road fund of the
county, be transferred into the general
fund of the county.
AB 1248 - Fong
Permits a credit or refund of tax under
(Chapter 539)
the Cigarette Tax Law when an amount not
required to be paid has been paid by any
person, rather than when such amount has
been paid more than once or has been
erroneously or illegally collected or
computed.
\AB 1249 - Fong
Provides that if a person who has filed
(Chapter 540)
a claim for refund of sales or use taxes
requests that the State Board of
Equalization defer action on the claim,
the board may require that the claimant
waive interest as a condition to the
deferral. The waiver of interest would
apply only to the period during which the
claimant requested that the board defer
action.
AB 1274 - Pattee
Increases the maximum charges allowed
(Chapter 541)
upon loans made under the Industrial
Loan Law.
AB 1662 - Fong
Authorizes assessors of counties to meet
(Chapter 542)
and prorate number of migratory livestock
to be assessed in each county where such
livestock are ranged in two or more
counties. The bill will not be operative
after July 1, 1970.
VSB 379 - Teale
Provides for a new rate schedule for
(Chapter 518)
short-term small loans made by pawnbrokers.
SB 591 - Cologne
Repeals an obsolete section of the
(Chapter 519)
Business and Professions Code,
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SB 679 - Short
Declares that the term "subdivision, " as
(Chapter 520)
used in Subdivision Map Act, does not
apply to land divided into lots or parcels,
each of which is a quarter-quarter sec-
tion or larger. Present law exempts
parcels of 40 acres or more.
SB 730 - Teale
Increases the maximum charges allowed
(Chapter 521)
on loans made by pawnbrokers. The rates
for loans under $500 are not changed.
SB 734 - Schmitz
Authorizes the Orange County Flood
(Chapter 522)
Control District to minitor drainage,
flood, storm or other waters within the
district, to record the quality of these
and to report the results to the appro-
priate regional water quality control
boards.
SB 749 - Bradley
Exempts interstate railroad company
(Chapter 523)
regulated by the Public Utilities
Commission of this state and by a regu-
latory agency of the United States from
the provisions relating to the disposi-
tion of unclaimed property.
SB 861 - Stiern
Provides for an annual public hearing in
(Chapter 524)
May on the proposed budget of a school
personnel commission. The bill requires
the commission to notify the governing
board of the school district as to the
time, date and place of the hearing and
to forward the proposed budget to the
board for its recommendations.
SB 1009 - Lagomarsino
Authorizes a county water district to
(Chapter 525)
contract with a nonprofit water supplier
located wholly or partially within the
district even though directors or officers
of the district are also members or
officers of such nonprofit water supplier.
SB 1137 - Grunsky
Increases salaries of court clerks in
(Chapter 526)
the Salinas and Monterey-Carmel municipal
court districts.
SB 1138 - Way
Requires all vending machines, which
(Chapter 527)
dispense an article of value for five
cents or more, to have the name and
address of the owner affixed to them.
The name and address must be placed on
such vending machines on and after
July 1, 1969.
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RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
7.12.68
#465
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today he has vetoed AB 470
which would have provided that the marshal in Los Angeles and San
Diego counties had sole responsibility to serve civil processes.
In a message to the legislature, the governor said he vetoed the
measure because the operation of sheriff's and marshal's departments
is primarily a matter of local concern.
"Where no overriding need for uniform statewide policy exists,
matters concerning the internal organization of county government
should be determined by local boards of supervisors in accordance with
the needs of their particular communities," the governor said.
The bill would have "deprived local government of its inherent
right to manage its own affairs," the governor said.
The bill, by Assemblyman Walter J. Karabian (D-Monterey Park),
was opposed by the Los Angeles and San Diego county boards of
supervisors, the San Diego County Grand Jury, the associations of
California Peace Officers and District Attorneys, the County Supervisors
Assn. and others.
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