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1966-74: Press Unit
Folder Title: Releases - Bills Signed and Vetoed 1969
[08/4/1969-09/03/1969]
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASES Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
8-4-69
#447
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that the following bills
have been signed:
AB 332 - MacGillivray
Appropriates $50,000 to the Division
(Chapter 648)
of State Lands to continue work of
removing beach and underwater obstructions
from state-owned tidelands and submerged
lands near Summerland, Santa Barbara
County.
AB 394 - Moretti
Applies the "Basic Property Insurance
(Chapter 649)
Inspection and Placement Plan" (assigned
risk program for property difficult to
insure) to property in geographic or
urban areas designated by the Insurance
Commissioner, rather than to residential
property only to tangible personal property
generally, rather than at a fixed location,
and to persons who cannot obtain basic
property insurance from licensed surplus
line brokers as well as admitted insurers.
The bill also creates the California Riot
and Civil Disorders Insurance Association,
to be established by specific licensed
insurers with approval of the Insurance
Commissioner. It appropriates $1,500,000
from the General Fund to the Insurance
Commissioner for purposes of the act.
The bill implements the federal Urban
Property Protection and Reinsurance Act
of 1968.
AB 466 - Hayes
Extends the date for conclusion of the
(Chapter 650)
statewide exhaust control device testing
program being conducted by the State Air
Resources Board, and extends to December
15, 1970, the final date for the report
of such testing results.
AB 597 - Crandall
Provides that no classified school
(Chapter 651)
employee, when he is absent because of
any accident or illness, shall be paid
less than the amount of the difference
between his normal salary and the amount
paid to his substitute.
AB 910 - Stull
Provides that pupils shall not be
(Chapter 652)
required to participate in a special
class or program unless the parent is
first informed of the reasons for place-
ments of the pupil in such program.
AB 1115 - Deddeh
Provides that teachers employed less
(Chapter 653)
than full time shall be paid on or
before the tenth day of the month for
services performed during the preceding
month.
AB 1146 - Burke
Deletes escrow requirements from Business
(Chapter 654)
and Professional Code provision providing
for transfer of an alcoholic beverage
license for a fee when 50 percent or
more of the shares of stock of the
corporation which owns such a license is
transferred to new parties.
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#447
AB 1213 - Chappie
Revises qualifications for members of
(Chapter 628)
the Historical Landmarks Advisory Committee.
The bill provides for 4-year terms of office
instead of serving at pleasure of governor,
and authorizes committee to maintain a
comprehensive record of all archaeological
sites in California and to obtain data
for such record from appropriate sources.
The bill also authorizes the California
Bicentennial Celebration Commission to
sell commemorative medallions, booklets,
and artifacts and appropriates the proceeds
for the purposes of the commission without
regard to fiscal year.
AB 1383 - Badham
Includes all districts in the Government
(Chapter 655)
Code section that provides that moneys
left unclaimed in treasuries of local
agencies more than 10 years may become
property of such agencies after specified
publication of notice.
AB 1554 - Bagley
Provides that the Sonoma County Flood
(Chapter 656)
Control and Water Conservation District
shall be known as Sonoma County Water
Agency. The bill also increases maximum
permissible interest rate on district
bonds from 5 to 6 percent.
AB 1797 - Ketchum
Appropriates $300,000 from the Capital
(Chapter 657)
Outlay Fund for Public Higher Education
to the Trustees of the California State
Colleges for purchase of property for the
use of California State Polytechnic College.
The bill also provides for the deposit
of proceeds from sale of certain land in
San Luis Obispo in Capital Outlay Fund
for Public Higher Education.
AB 2061 - Knox
Provides that tangible personal property
(Chapter 658)
of a profession, trade or business
determined by the State Board of Equalization
to be of a specified full cash value may
be deemed an audit for the purposes of
prescribed provisions of the Revenue and
Taxation Code.
AB 2067 - Knox
Permits the blending of olive oil with
(Chapter 659)
other edible oils, if such blend is not
labeled as olive oil or imitation olive
oil, is clearly labeled as a blended
vegetable oil, and if the contents and
proportions of such blend are prominently
displayed on the label.
AB 2352 - Lanterman,
Provides that on or after June 30, 1969,
(Chapter 627)
no state officer or employee shall be
deemed to have a break in service or to
have terminated his employment, for any
purpose, solely because of the failure
to enact a budget bill for the 1969-70
fiscal year prior to the end of the preceding
fiscal year. The bill also provides that,
any officer or employee who entered state
service on July 1, 2, or 3, 1969, shall
be considered a state officer or employee
from the time he entered state service,
notwithstanding the failure to enact a
budget for the 1969-70 fiscal year
prior to that time.
#447
SB 241 - Marler
Allows a community service district which
(Chapter 629)
has in its purposes the providing of
fire protection the right to use the
powers of a fire protection district.
SB 335 - Mills
Authorizes the Department of Public Works
(Chapter 630)
to transfer specified ferries which it
will acquire upon completion of San Diego-
Coronado Toll Bridge to state or local
agency at a nominal price upon condition
the agency will use ferries for a public
purpose.
SB 358 - Carrell
Prohibits local authorities from revising
(Chapter 631)
a speed limit for a street, which had
previously been established by the local
authority on the basis of an engineering
and traffic survey, except on the basis
of such survey.
SB 525 - Short
Requires the manufacturer of implements
(Chapter 632)
of husbandry designed and intended to
travel at 25 miles per hour or less to
equip such vehicle with a specified slow-
moving vehicle emblem after July 1, 1970.
The bill also provides that the Secretary
of the Business and Transportation Agency
may declare a maximum speed limit of 70
miles per hour on the basis of design
standards and projected traffic volumes
on new freeway segments.
SB 535 - Lagomarsing
Permits specified head lettuce used for
(Chapter 633)
chopping and shredding not be packed in
specified standards containers. The bill
also authorizes the Director of Agriculture
to establish by regulation quality standards
for head lettuce to be used for chopping
or shredding or which has been chopped or
shredded.
SB 554 - Coombs,
Provides for the proration of a license
(Chapter 634)
fee for products resembling milk products
to be made on a monthly basis whether or
not the license was in effect for the
preceding year.
SB 621 - Mills
Specifies that if bonds for a rapid transit
(Chapter 635)
district require voter approval of other
that 66-2/3 percent, such other percentage
shall apply to voter approval of special
benefit district bonds under the Mills Act.
SB 636 - Alquist
Provides that school districts adopt their
(Chapter 636)
budgets by June 30 each year. Present law
calls for the adoption of school district
budgets on August 10.
SB 637 - Alquist
Extends the expiration date of the Advisory
(Chapter 637)
Commission on School District Budgeting
and Accounting from June 30, 1970 and
June 30, 1972.
SB 646 - Way
Provides for the optional creation of
(Chapter 638)
county office of director of finance from
the consolidated offices of auditor,
controller, treasurer and tax collector
in counties over 150,000 population, upon
voter approval.
#447
SB 720 - Beilenson
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to provision
(Chapter 639)
of the Labor Code relating to the Public
Employees' Retirement System.
SB 782 - Wedworth
Provides that a group of ten licensed
(Chapter 640)
optometrists, as well as the Board of
Optometry and the Attorney General, may
file an application for an injunction to
restrain violation of the Optometry Act.
SB 816 - Cologne
Includes "devices" as defined in the
(Chapter 641)
definition of dangerous drugs when it
bears the legend: "Caution: federal law
prohibits dispensing without prescription."
SB 961 - Cologne
Increases certain court reporter fees
(Chapter 642)
in Riverside and Los Angeles Counties.
SB 968 - Bradley
Eliminates office of matron of the county
(Chapter 643)
jail, and requires that counties with a
population of more than 275,000 have a
famale deputy sheriff in charge of female
prisoners. In counties with population
of 275,000 or less, if they do not have
a regular jail female deputy sheriff, a
suitable woman is to be appointed to
have the immediate care of female
prisoners.
SB 991 - Bradley
Provides that subject to the terms of the
(Chapter 644)
policy or any agreement between the insured
employee or member, the group policyholder
and the insurer, such insured member of
employer under a group life insurance
policy can assign his rights under the
policy to anyone other than the master
policyholder including any incidents of
ownership conferred on him by law or the
policy including the right to exercise
the conversion privilege or to name a
beneficiary.
SB 1040 - Stevens
Provides that any superintendent, assistant
(Chapter 645)
superintendent, supervisor, or employee
having custody of wards, of each institutic
of the Department of Youth Authority, and
any transportation officer of such departme
is a peace officer.
SB 1078 - Harmer
Specifies that a reproduction from an
(Chapter 646)
electronic recording of video images on
magnetic surfaces which was authenticated
under designated conditions is as admissabl
as original writing itself in court
proceeding.
SB 1309 - Cologne
Provides that where community property is
(Chapter 647)
transferred by husband and wife to
specified inter vivos trust, unless the
trust otherwise expressly provides the
respective interest of each spouse, such
trust shall be community property.
# # # #
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PB
FFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571 8-7-69
#453
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that he has signed the
following bills:
AB 342 - Knox
Provides that the Board of Equalization shall
(Chapter 671)
certify a specified ratio to each county in
which a chartered city assesses its own
property. This ratio would be used to con-
vert property assessed by such a city to a
basis comparable to other property in the
county in order to determine the city's
reimbursements as related to business inventory
relief for such cities.
AB 750 - Biddle
Permits public school employee to respond to
(Chapter 701)
a subpoena served solely to cause him to
produce a pupil record by submitting a
certified copy of the record to the authority
issuing the subpoena in lieu of personal
appearance.
AB 1845 - Murphy
Updates and makes technical changes in the
(Chapter 702)
California Marketing Act of 1937.
SB 46 - Carrell
Extends the exemption from sales and use tax
(Chapter 676)
on vehicles, vessels, or aircraft to include
sales between minor brothers or sisters, in
addition to presently exempted parents,
grandparents, child, or spouse.
pursuant
SB 183 - Short
Provides that records kept by/county hospitals
(Chapter 677)
be preserved and maintained/to regulations
of the State Department of Public Health,
but in alternative, permits boards of
supervisors, at the request of county physicians
or other persons in charge of county hospitals,
to authorize destruction of the records if
they are reproduced in a specified manner.
SB 188 - Coombs
Provides that a person meeting specified
(Chapter 678)
requirements shall be admitted to the
examination for a license as a physical therapis¹
SB 234 - Way
Revises maturity standards for persimmons
(Chapter 672)
and pomegranates.
SB 268 - Mills
Provides that a verification deputy must be
(Chapter 679)
a resident of the district or political
subdivision of the candidate whose papers
he is circulating.
SB 303- Dymally
Exempts, under specified circumstances, homes
(Chapter 661)
or institutions for care of ambulatory children
from requirement of installing an maintain
automatic sprinkler system approved by the
State Fire Marshal. Such homes must be
equipped with a fire alarm system approved
by the State Fire Marshal.
SB 311 - Coombs
Permits the Director of Agriculture to
(Chapter 662)
establish a schedule of fees for performing
certain diagnostic services on livestock and
poultry.
SB 348 - Dills
Redefines the term "resuscitator" as used in
(Chapter 680)
the Vehicle Code to indicate that the device
must adequately, effectively and safely
restore breathing and is not limited to a
portable hand-operated type.
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#453
SB 385 - Danielson
Requires any badge or cap insignia worn by
(Chapter 681)
a person who is a licensee, officer, director,
partner, manager or employee of a licensee
licensed under the Private Investigator and
Adjuster Act to be of design approved by the
Director of Professional and Vocational
Standards and to bear on its face a distinctive
word indicating name of the licensee and an
employee number.
SB 403 - Collier
Repeals an obsolete provision of the Public
(Chapter 682)
Utility Code relating to the Airport Assistance
Revolving Fund.
SB 429 - Cologne
Revises and updates the cost allocations for
(Chapter 663)
recreation and fish and wildlife enhancement
associated with the State Water Project and
revises expenditures for recreation land
acquisition. Also it provides legislative
approval to make effective specified expenditures
for Castaic Dam and Lake recreation land
acquisition.
SB 490 - Whetmore\
Authorizes the clerk of the juvenile court to
(Chapter 664)
serve notices and petitions on minors by
certified mail.
SB 539 - McCarthy
Provides that on and after July 1, 1970,
(Chapter 683)
crawler and wheel cranes with a rated capacity
of more than 10 tons sold oroperated in the
state shall be equipped with boomstops that
meet standards established by the Division of
Industrial Safety, rather than the boomstops
of all cranes of such capacity shall meet
specified standards.
SB 550 - Cologne
Authorizes the city council to summarily
(Chapter 665)
vacate and abandon any portion of a street
by resolution, except where such action would
deprive a person of all access to his property
which adjoins the street.
SB 555 - Coombs
Provides for a lien against buildings, premises
(Chapter 666)
or objects, that the Department of Public
Health is required to decontaminate for
radiological health and safety purposes. The
bill authorizes the Attorney General at the
department's request to institute civil action
necessary to carry out provisions relative to
radioactive material decontamination.
SB 575 - Song
Revises criteria for eligibility for admission
(Chapter 667)
to the certified shorthand reporters' examination
SB 580 - Song
Eliminates the statutory ceiling on the salary
(Chapter 673)
for the executive secretary of the Shorthand
Reporters Board.
SB 612 - Burns
Allows a unified school district which does
(Chapter 684)
not maintain a junior college to remain eligible
for assistance under State School Building
Aid Law of 1952, if certain specified conditions
are met with respect to bond requirements as
related to assessed valuation.
SB 643 - Moscone
Requires that an insurer whose insured has made
(Chapter 668)
a claim under uninsured motorist coverage, which
claim is pending, to notify the insured in
writing at least thirty days before the expiratio
of the applicable statute of limitation, and
provides for tolling of any applicable statute of
limitation or other time limitation in actions
or proceedings under uninsured motorists
coverage for a specified time if insurer fails
to give such notice.
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#453
SB 664 - Burgener
Makes designated persons serving in positions
(Chapter 685)
exempted from the classified service in
school districts subject to specified
Education Code sections relating to tuberculosis
exams, physical exams, sex or narcotic
offenses, and identification cards.
SB 684 - Lagomarsino
Renames the California Riding and Hiking
(Chapter 674)
Trails Law as the California Recreational
Trails Act. The bill redefines "trails" to
include those for motorized vehicles when so
designated and for bicycles as well as for
horse riding and hiking. It authorizes the
Department of Parks and Recreation to transfer
trail or easement to a local governmental
agency if it agrees to maintain and operate
the trail. The bill also requires, rather
than allows, the governor to appoint the
California Recreational Trails Committee,
formerly the California Riding and Hiking
Trails Advisory Committee.
SB 696 - Song
Amends the Accountancy Act by deleting the
(Chapter 686)
requirement that an applicant for admission
to the certified public accountant's
examination be an U.S. Citizen or have
declared his intention to become one.
SB 699 - Coombs
Requires that an affidavit for a writ of
(Chapter 669)
attachment state facts showing that the
action has been commenced in a county or
judicial district where a suit may properly
be started under existing law. It further
provides that plaintiff shall be liable for
reasonable attorney's fees, proximately
caused by any levy made pursuant to a writ
of attachment issued upon an affidavit which
does not comply with this section.
SB 757 - Marler
Extends the 65-foot maximum length to include
(Chapter 687)
combinations of vehicles with forklift trucks.
logging dollies, semitrailers designed to
transport a forklift truck and motortrucks
and truck tractors while being operated in
a driveaway-towaway operation.
SB 772 - Stiern
Permits the State Forester to adopt regulations
(Chapter 688)
regarding the removing of flammable vegetation
around structures constructed of non-flammable
materials.
SB 858 - Alquist
Expands the definition of "fish" as used in
(Chapter 689)
Fish and Game Code to include invertebrates
and amphibians. It authorizes the Fish and
Game Commission to regulate the taking for
commercial purpose of any fish for educational
and scientific purposes, and suspends the
probibition against the transportation of
abalone meat out of state for an additional
two years.
SB 872 - Moscone
Provides that an order for a civil arrest
(Chapter 690)
must contain on its face a statement that
the defendant is entitled to an attorney,
including appointed counsel if he is indigent;
a statement that the defendant must be
immediately taken before the court for the
setting of bail; and a statement that the
defendant is entitled to an immediate hearing
on the validity of his arrest.
SB 926 - Song
Revises requirements relating to payment to
(Chapter 691)
Dry Cleaners Board of Fees for certificates
of completion issued by the State Fire
Marshal for new clothes cleaning establishments.
#453
SB 936 - Bradley
Authorizes a governing board of a school
(Chapter 692)
district to establish and maintain a school
safety patrol in schools of the district
to assist school pupils, rather than pupils
of such school, in safely crossing streets
and highways adjacent to or near the school.
The bill also provides that the members of
such school safety patrol shall be required
to give traffic signals and directions to
assist school pupils, rather than pupils
of the public schools, in safely crossing
streets and highways.
SB 974 - Dills
Establishes the Point Fermin Marine Life
(Chapter 693)
Refuge and authorizes the taking, in specified
refuges under the authority of a sport fishing
license, of certain designated fish, mollusks
and crustaceans.
SB 999 - Sherman
Provides that funds for homemaker services
(Chapter 660)
be allocated to counties and be subject to
Budget Act limitations. All non-federal costs
of providing homemaker services are to be
covered by state funds except where attendant C
care costs are provided through the grant
wherein the regular state-county sharing
formula applies. In addition, grants to
recipients of public assistance requiring
new medical protective living arrangements
will be regulated by rate schedules established
by the Secretary of Human Relations Agency,
and will be subject to Budget Act limitations.
SB 1152 - Sherman
Revises the schedule of labeling relating
(Chapter 694)
to color television picture tubes.
SB 1222 - Petris
Requires that a person claiming classification
(Chapter 670)
of a vessel as a documented vessel eligible
for assessment at one percent of full cash
value annually make a return of the property
to the assessor, and accompany it by an
affidavit giving any information required
by the State Board of Equalization.
SB 1231 - Marler
Provides that the Fish and Game Commission
(Chapter 695)
may issue permits to organizations conducting
special hunts for specified servicemen or
veterans. It would exempt such servicemen
or veterans from certain provisions of the
Fish and Game Code relating to loaded guns
in vehicles and shooting game birds or
mammals from vehicles.
SB 1237 - Marler
Permits domestically reared Indian chukar
(Chapter 696)
partridges to be released and taken on
licensed pheasant clubs and for dog training
and field trials as authorized by the commission
on a statewide rather than a prescribed
area basis.
SB 1303 - Way
Amends several sections of the Vehicle Code
(Chapter 697)
relating to farm trailers and the payment of
registration fees on a quarterly basis.
SB 1314 - Coombs
Authorizes injunctive relief against a person
(Chapter 698)
licensed as a contractor who has engaged in, or
is engaging in, any act, practice, or
transaction which constitutes a violation
of the Contractors License Law wherein
another person may be substantitally injured.
SB 1331 - Petris
Revises authorization of a property tax
(Chapter 699)
assessee to pay taxes under protest when not
notified by the assessor.
#453
SB 1423 - Dolwig
Establishes the James V. Fitzgerald Marine
(Chapter 675)
Reserve in a designated area of San Mateo
County.
SB 1428 - Danielson
Requires the approval by the Public Utilities
(Chapter 700)
Commission be secured by certain public
utilities issuing notes payable at periods
of less than 12 months if the total of
such short-term obligations exceeds 5 percent
of the val ue of the other securities then
outstanding.
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The following bill has been vetoed by Governor Ronald Reagan:
SB 1319 - Petris
Provides that affidavits required for
classification of vessels as documented
vessels eligible for assessment at one
percent of full cash value for purposes of
property taxation shall be filed with the
assessor between the lien date and 5 p.m.
on April 1.
REASON FOR VETO: Governor Reagan said,
"This bill would chapter
out provisions of AB 1840 (Chapter 369,
Statutes of 1969) requiring affidavits for
the homeowner's property tax exemption be
filed by April 15 instead of March 15."
Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned.
#####
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
8-14-69
#470
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today he has signed the
following bills:
AB 190 - Burton
Provides that act creating the Advisory Commission
(Chapter 721)
on the Status of Women shall be operative until
June 30, 1971, rather than June 30, 1969.
AB 986 - Lanterman
Revises the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, Short-
(Chapter 722)
Doyle Act, and related provisions for care
and treatment of mentally disordered persons,
persons impaired by chronic alcoholism, and
persons subject to judicial commitment, and for
the administration and financing thereof.
AB 1708 - Thomas
Authorizes the County of Los Angeles to limit
(Chapter 723)
the size of vehicles as a condition of approving
narrower street sizes in undeveloped areas
on Santa Catalina Island.
AB 1755 - Hayes
Specifies the proper municipal or justice court
(Chapter 724)
in which an action on a contract or installment
accounting subject to the Rees-Levering Motor
Vehicle Sales and Finance Act is to be tried.
AB 2057 - Knox
Makes various changes in the duties and authority
(Chapter 713)
of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and
Development Commission.
AB 2347 - Chappie
Authorizes the governor to provide by proclamation
(Chapter 725)
that an amount not to exceed one million dollars
of increased revenue from the temporary additional
one cent per gallon motor vehicle fuel and use
fuel taxes received in the Street and Highway
Disaster Fund and in the State Highway Fund
under Chapter 52, Statutes, 1969, be transferred
from one such fund to the other upon specified
finding. The bill makes a portion of the
increased revenue in the Street and Highway
Disaster Fund, after termination of such temporary
additional tax increases, available under the
Emergency Flood Relief Law for snow removal.
SB 43 - Carrell
Authorizes the Department of Public Works to
(Chapter 703)
permit exclusive or preferential use of freeway
lanes for mass public transportation.
SB 166 - Cologne
Increases the amount which may be recommended
(Chapter 704)
to the legislature by the Board of Control,
to indemnify an individual who was erroneously
convicted of and imprisoned for a crime he did
not commit from $$5,000 to $10,000.
SB 273 - Cologne
Modifies the requirement that an employee or
(Chapter 714)
applicant who signs any instrument relating
to the holding or obtaining of employment be
given a copy of the instrument, to require
that an applicant be given a copy only upon
request.
SB 423 - Way and
Removes the September 15, 1968, cutoff date for
Ryan
issuance of credentials under the law prior to
(Chapter 715)
the effective date of the Fisher Act (January 1,
1964) to persons who, on November 1, 1963, were
either enrolled in a teacher education curriculum
or were teaching in a foreign country.
#470
SB 493 - Deukmejian
Provides that if 50 percent or more of enrollment
(Chapter 716)
in a police training course offered at a junior
college are residents of a junior college
district other than the district offering the
course, all such students enrolled shall be
deemed residents of district for purposes of
computing the average daily attendance of the
district.
SB 587 - Bradley
Requires each insurer transacting business in
(Chapter 705)
California to maintain reserves at specified
levels. The bill authorizes the Insurance
Commissioner to set regulations regarding
reserves and specifies grounds upon which
regulations should be based.
SB 747 - Lagomarsino
Deletes provisions specifying the powers and
(Chapter 706)
duties of the chief of the Division of Soil
Conservation to investigate and report on
proposals for any new soil conservation district,
addition of land to, or consolidation or
partition of, any soil conservation district,
or for transferring land from one such district
to another.
SB 792 - Danielson
Sets forth the functions of the Public Utilities
(Chapter 717)
Commission.
SB 801 - Danielson
Revises the number of and salary of certain
(Chapter 707)
attaches of the municipal courts of Los Angeles
County.
SB 813 - Cologne)
Authorizes municipal water districts to fix
(Chapter 708)
water rates which will result in revenue
which will repay advances, together with
interest at a rate not to exceed the interest
value of money to the district, made from the
district to an improvement district, and to
utilize such revenues for such purposes.
SB 939 - Dills
Sets forth the measure of damages for damage
(Chapter 709)
done to a facility of a telegraph, telephone,
electric or gas corporation.
SB 1025 - Stiern
Authorizes the Board of Examiners in Veterinary
(Chapter 718)
Medicine to set biennial renewal license fees
at a maximum of $65 rather than $45.
SB 1223 - McCarthy
Makes applicable to a general district election
(Chapter 719)
of a sanitary district which is consolidated
with a primary election, those provisions of the
Uniform District Election Law requiring the
supervising authority of the district to
appoint as officers or directors those nominees
who, on the 46th day prior to the date of the
general district election, were unopposed for
the office.
SB 1317 - Petris
Declares that "lease" for purposes of the sales
(Chapter 710)
and use tax does not include a use of tangible
personal property for less than one day for
a charge of less than $10 when the privilege
to use the property is restricted to use on
premises or at business docation of grantor of the
privilege.
SB 1330 - Marler
Raises certain livestock identification fees and
(Chapter 711)
authorizes the Director of Agriculture to raise
or lower certain fees.
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SB 1366 - Carrell
Gives the Board of Aeronautics authority to
(Chapter 712)
adopt, rather than just formulate, rules and
regulations. The bill also changes airport
permit procedures. It also requires the
Department of Aeronautics to submit annual
report to the governor and legislature through
the Business and Transportation Agency.
SB 1427 - Harmer
Appropriates $65,000 out of the Motor Vehicles
(Chapter 720)
Fund to the Automobile Accident Study Commission
for the expenses of the commission for the
1969-70 fiscal year.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact; Paul Beck
445-4571
8-19-69
#477
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today he has signed the
following bills:
AB 37 - Lanterman
Validates organization, boundaries, acts,
(Chapter 748)
proceedings, and bonds of counties, cities,
and specified districts, agencies and entities.
The Second Validating Act of 1969.
AB 38 - Lanterman
Validates organization, boundaries, acts,
(Chapter 749)
proceedings, and bonds of counties, cities,
and specified districts, agencies, and entities.
Third Validating Act of 1969.
AB 164 - Schabarum
Removes the requirement that 156 acres of
(Chapter 750)
land adjacent to Kellogg-Voorhis (Pomona)
Campus of California State Polytechnic College
be sold as surplus state property. The land
is needed for planned expansion of the Pomona
campus.
AB 201 - Barnes
Provides, with specified exception, that
(Chapter 751)
agencies contracting with the Public Employees'
Retirement System do so on the basis of entire
compensation of local members rather than be
limited to specified amount of compensation.
The bill provides that prior service benefits
for local safety and local miscellaneous
members shall be based on final compensation.
It further provides for payment of $500 lump
sum death benefit to members of all contracting
agencies, rather than to only those which
have elected to be subject to provisions.
AB 245 - Barnes,
Clarifies application of 1968 cost-of-living
(Chapter 752)
amendments to the Public Employees' Retirement
Law to allowances of persons retired under a
terminated public agency contract or under a
local system terminated by a public agency's
contract to participate in the system by
providing for cost-of-living adjustment of
all such allowances except those under a
contract terminated before enactment of the
legislation.
AB 287 - Barnes
Provides for reduction of retirement allowances
(Chapter 753)
and contribution rates of local safety members
covered under Social Security whose allowance
is determined on the basis of 2 percent of
final compensation upon retirement at age 50.
The bill applies the maximum for such allowances
and similar allowances for patrol members
to the total allowance payable to the member
for all service to all employers rather than
to service of a single employer and prescribes
the manner of computing allowance for service
to each employer where the maximum applies.
AB 396 - Moorhead
Includes libraries and parks adjacent to
(Chapter 754)
school sites within the definition of "recreation
center" in the statutes authorizing school
districts to jointly participate with other
public authorities in projects for purposes
of community recreation.
AB 495 - Badham
Eliminates minimum license fees that may be
(Chapter 755)
charged employment agencies.
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AB 606 - Veysey
Provides additional allocations of state
(Chapter 784)
funds for school support purposes.
AB 854 - Conrad
Deletes a Health and Safety Code provision
(Chapter 756)
relative to the sale of blank cartridges.
AB 1020 - Hayes
Provides that in cases where preparation of
(Chapter 757)
plans and specifications for construction,
alteration, improvement, or repair of buildings
or structures is subject to architectural
licensing law, each city or county which require:
a building permit for such work shall also
require, as a condition precedent to issuance
of a permit, a signed statement that the
person who prepared the plans or specifications
is registered or certified under architectural
licensing law, or otherwise licensed SO to do.
AB 1072 - Hayes
Authorizes the Department of Harbors and
(Chapter 758)
Watercraft to accept an undertaking or bond
in the amount of the fair market value of the
vessel in absence of the regularly required
supporting evidence of ownership upon application
for registration or transfer of a vessel,
conditioned to protect the department and
its employees, subsequent purchasers, or
persons acquiring a security interest in the
vessel or successors in interest of any of
these persons from loss or damage from any
defect or undisclosed claim in the ownership
of the vessel.
AB 1077 - Briggs
Prohibits specified activities by a manufact-
(Chapter 759)
urer, winegrower, manufacturer's agent,
rectifier, distiller, bottler, importer, or
wholesaler, or any officer, director, or
agent of such person, with regard to off-sale
general licenses and premises.
AB 1136 - Beverly
Imposes a 5 percent penalty, with minimum
(Chapter 760)
of $5 and a maximum of $1,000, for underpayment
URGENCY
of corporate taxes, applicable to returns with
a due date on or after the effective date of
the bill.
AB 1166 - Murphy
Makes the installers of mobilehomes on
(Chapter 761)
mobilehome lots and installers of certain
mobilehome accessories and structures subject
to the Contractors License Law.
AB 1176 - Knox
Establishes procedures for counties and cities
(Chapter 762)
which have a general plan to acquire easements
in property, either in perpetuity or for a
term of not less than 20 years, to restrict
such property to open-space purposes for the
benefit of the public.
AB 1214 - Chappie
Establishes closer scrutiny by the Department
(Chapter 763)
of Real Estate of "land projects" (otherwise
termed promotional subdivisions), which are
defined in the bill in relationship to size,
proximity to urban areas, methods of sale
and manner of financing offsite improvements,
The bill authorizes the R⁻al Estate Commissioner
to deny the issuance of a public report for
such projects if reasonable assurance of
completion of those offsite improvements does
not bear a reasonable relationship to the
value of those lots.
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AB 1246 - Priolo
Provides that the Department of Harbors and
(Chapter 764)
Watercraft may order the destruction of
abandoned undocumented vessels after completing
a prescribed investigation.
AB 1250 - Biddle
Provides for a period not exceeding two years,
(Chapter 765)
rather than until October 1, 1969, during
URGENCY
which persons licensed to practice medicine
in other states and meeting specified other
conditions may be appointed to medical staffs
of state institutions.
AB 1251 - Waxman
Permits a county board of supervisors to
(Chapter 766)
construct street lighting and levy assessments
therefor under the Improvement Act of 1911
on the basis of their own motion as well as
on the basis of a petition of taxpayers of a
lighting maintenance district.
AB 1439 - Mobley
Permits counties which on or after July 1, 1969,
(Chapter 767)
adopt certain provisions for computing the
URGENCY
retirement allowance of "safety members" who
are covered by the Social Security Act to modify
the formula in a prescribed manner.
AB 1471 - MacDonald
Raises the amount for work not requiring
(Chapter 768)
competitive bidding from $2,500 to $3,500
in harbor districts. The bill also raises
from $200,000 to $500,000 the maximum borrowing
or conditional sales contracts a harbor district
may enter into at any one time for district
projects.
AB 1551 - Zenovich
Increases the maximum interest rate payable
(Chapter 769)
on general obligation bonds of the Fresno
URGENCY
Metropolitan Flood Control District to 7
percent.
AB 1689 - Mobley
Provides for the issuing of bonds representing
(Chapter 770)
unpaid assessments against publicly owned
property under the Improvement Act of 1911
and Municipal Improvement Act of 1913.
AB 1690 - Mobley
Requires city or county treasurer, if he
(Chapter 771)
receives for payment an interest coupon from
a bond issued pursuant to the Improvement Bond
Act of 1915 for which notice of advanced
maturity has been given without the bond
being surrendered, to mail a copy of the notice
of advanced maturity to the address given for
payment of the coupon. The bill provides for
the amortization of assessment bonds issued
pursuant to the Improvement Bond Act of 1915
where the procedure used is the Improvement
Act of 1911.
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AB 1714 - Wakefield
Permits, subject to other applicable laws
(Chapter 772)
of this state and the laws of the contiguous
state, purchase by residents of this state of
shotguns or rifles in a contiguous state
in conformance with the federal Gun Control
Act of 1968 and regulations prescribed
pursuant to such act.
AB 1760 - Hayes
Provides that each municipal court has
(Chapter 773)
jurisdiction of case in equity to vacate
a judgment ororder of such court obtained
through extrinsic fraud, mistake, inadvertence,
or excusable neglect.
AB 1825 - Milias
Requires that the notice of intent to circulate
(Chapter 774)
an initiative or recall petition be signed
by at least one, but not more than five,
proponents of the measure. It requires that
affidavit of publication of notice of intent
to circulate an initiative petition be made
by representative of newspaper in which notice
was published, rather than by a voter of the
city. The bill provides that clerk's
certificate of the sufficiency of a referendum
or recall petition be given only to persons
who filed written request therefor rather
than to each petition circulator.
AB 1855 - Mobley
Provides that resolutions or orders for
(Chapter 775)
payment of money may be adopted at duly
noticed special meetings of city councils
rather than only at regular meetings.
AB 1868 - Lanterman
Increases maximum retirement allowance
(Chapter 776)
for elective constitutional officers under
URGENCY
the Legislators' Retirement System, other
than members of the legislature and judges,
if such officer is credited with 24 or more
years of service.
AB 1989 - Pattee
Authorizes local authorities to prohibit
(Chapter 777)
by ordinance parking by commercial vehicles
in a business district with the right-hand
wheels of such vehicles more than 18 inches
from the right-hand curb.
AB 20366- Mulford
Authorizes the establishment of more than
(Chapter 778)
one regional air pollution control district
in a basin.
AB 2223 - Priolo
Provides that voter may receive only one
(Chapter 779)
new ballot after poiling one, rather than
up to two new ballots.
AB 2226 - Priolo
Provides, with respect to an election held to
(Chapter 780)
annex territory to a city under the annexation
act of 1913, that the election is to be
conducted in the manner prescribed for
municipal elections. The bill further provides
that special elections to fill a vacancy in
justice courts shall be conducted in the manner
of electing city councilmen.
AB 2228 - Priolo
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to provisions
(Chapter 781)
of the Election Code relating to voting
machines.
AB 2231 - Priolo
Permits the creation of temporery zones within
(Chapter 782)
sewer maintenance districts to finance special
services and special facilities within the
zones. It also increases from five to ten
years the repayment period for county loans
to sewer maintenance districts and zones
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AB 2252 - Milias
Amends Elections Code to make new political
(Chapter 783)
parties subject to provisions relating to
the Democratic Party rather than the Republican
Party.
SB 13 - Collier
Deletes the portion of State Highway Route
(Chapter 726)
12 from Melita Road near Santa Rosa to
Route 29 from the California Freeway and
Expressway System.
SB 152 - Lagomarsino
Includes a portion of Route 1 from Route 101
(Chapter 727)
at Las Cruces to Route 246 near Lompoc in
the state scenic highway system. The bill
requires the Advisory Committee on Master
Plan for Scenic Highways to study a portion of
Route 1 from Route 246 to San Luis Obispo
county line for inclusion in the state scenic
highway system.
SB 195 - Dymally
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the
(Chapter 728)
Military and Veterans Code.
SB 287 - Coombs
Reduces the additional fees charged to
(Chapter 729)
real estate brokers and salesman to increase
the balance of the Real Estate Education,
Research and Recovery Fund when the balance
falls below $200,000.
SB 291 - Marler
Revises provision regulating the inspection
(Chapter 730)
and identification of livestock.
SB 296 - Cologne
Makes it a misdemeanor to wilfully misrepresent
(Chapter 731)
a charge for a service made on the basis
of weight, time, measure, or count.
SB 322 - Stiern
Requires air taxis in unscheduled operation
(Chapter 732)
to be assessed and taxed the same as other
URGENCY
personal property on the unsecured roll of
the county in which the aircraft is habitually
situated rather than under the provisions
providing for the assessment of air taxis.
SB 354 - Schmitz
Makes specific provision for the election,
(Chapter 733)
appointment, and tenure of board members where
URGENCY
a junior college district and a unified district
have a common governing board of five members,
the organization of which was completed on or
before December 31, 1968, pursuant to specified
provisions of law where the board determines
on or before December 31 of any year that a
separate junior college district governing
board shall be established.
SB 465 - Legomarsino
Provides an alternative measure of expenses
(Chapter 734)
to be paid persons required to serve as
witnesses pursuant to the Uniform Act to
Secure the Attendance of Witnesses from
Without the State in Criminal Cases.
SB 517 - Coombs
Revises provisions of the Contractors License
(Chapter 735)
Law relating to financial solvency of applicants
for contractors licenses.
SB 595 - Stiern
Revises the prepayment schedule for the
(Chapter 736)
insurance tax to include only three prepayments
(May 15, August 15, and November 15), and
the annual tax return due April 1.
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SB 628 - Whetmore
Redefines the meaning of the terms "Uniform
(Chapter 737)
Building Code, II "Uniform Plumbing Code, and
"National Electrical Code" as used in the
Private and Community Mausoleum and Columbarium
Law.
SB 695 - Cologne
Provides for submission to the voters at
(Chapter 738)
the June 1970 primary election of Senate
Constitutional Amendment 26. SCA 26 will
allow the legislature to raise maximum bond
interest rates.
SB 741 - Coombs
Provides that preliminary expenditures on
(Chapter 739)
county projects funded by a bond issue may
be made when bonds have been authorized,
rather than authorized and sold.
SB 763 - Cologne
Raises the maximum rate of interest payable
(Chapter 740)
on state general obligation bonds given in
anticipation of revenue from the sale of
authorized bonds from 5 percent to 7 percent.
SB 764 - Cologne
Deletes the present 5 percent limit on interest
(Chapter 741)
rates payable on bond anticipation notes
URGENCY
issued in anticipation of the sale of
water bonds.
SB 849 - Grunsky
Provides that 50 percent of fines collected
(Chapter 742)
for parking violations occurring on a junior
college campus and cited by the campus
security patrol officers shall go to the
junior college district.
SB 850 - Marler
Provides that cattle shall be inspected upon
(Chapter 743)
movement or rebranding whichever occurs first,
when they are sold or ownership is transferred.
The bill requires cattle owners or shippers
to sort out and identify stray animals prior
to inspection and provides a penalty for
failure to do SO.
SB 880 - Rodda
Permits a person to vote for both county
(Chapter 744)
boards of education if he is resident of
URGENCY
elementary school district which is included
in joint union high school district and both
districts are under jurisdiction of different
county superintendent of schools. The bill
also requires that tax levied by county for
support of its board of education and
superintendent of schools, be levied uniformly
and only in that area of school districts
under its jurisdiction, even though portion
of a district may be in another county.
SB 882 - Rodda/
Prescribes rules whereby taxes for school
(Chapter 745)
districts or county superintendents for support
URGENCY
of regional occupational centers are to be
levied where district territory is situated in
more than one county. The bill prohibits
taxation within a school district for support
of both a county program and a district program.
SB 905 - Grunsky
(Chapter 746)
Authorizes a city to enter into an agreement
URGENCY
with another city in that county or with the
county regarding œs tax funds received for
expenditure on selected streets included in the
select system of city streets.
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SB 1312 - Coombs
Authorizes county boards of supervisors and
(Chapter 747)
legislative bodies of chartered cities which
URGENCY
assess and collect their own property taxes
to cancel or refund the second installment
of taxes for the 1968-69 fiscal year on
real property which is damaged or destroyed
after the lien date in 1968 by a major
misfortune or calamity.
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The following bills have been vetoed by Governor Ronald Reagan:
AB 550 - Bagley
Redefines "cigarette" in the California
Cigarette Tax Law. The bill also prohibits
the State Board of Equalization from issuing
a wholesaler's license to a wholesaler,
rather than to a distributor, whose license
has been revoked or suspended unless specified
conditions are met.
REASON FOR VETO : Governor Reagan said, "This
measure redefines 'cigarette'
in the California Cigarette Tax Law to exempt
cigarettes that are rolled in tobacco (little
cigars) from the cigarette tax.
"It should be noted that while these small
cigars are not included in the federal
cigarette tax definition of 'cigarette,' they
are taxed by federal law under another provisio
Conforming the California definition of
'cigarette' to the federal definition achieves,
therefore, a very different tax result. While
these items would be totally exempt from any
kind of California tobacco tax, they would
still be subject to a federal tobacco tax."
It is estimated that the adoption of this bill
will result in an annual General Fund loss of
$28,000 and a loss of $12,000 to local
government.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 1725 - Quimby
Adds transportation of wheelchair or litter
patients, or both, in nonemergency vehicles,
and the transportation of persons in emergency
vehicles, to exceptions to the authority
granted by the Public Utilities Code to charter
party carriers.
REASON FOR VETO: Governor Reagan said:
"The position of those who
provide nonemergency transportation services
was not heard when this bill was before the
legislature, nor was the potential fiscal impact
of the measure fully examined. I believe that
the matter of regulation of nonemergency
transportation services deserves more intensive
study by the legislature.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
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OFFICE OF THE GOV ERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
8-27-69
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Governor Ronald Reagan announced today he has signed the
following bills:
AB 21 - Stacey
Excludes approved work experience programs
(Chapter 788)
from provisions fixing minimum school day in
high schools at 240 minutes, and includes such
programs within provisions fixing minimum
school day in special day or Saturday vocational
training programs at 180 minutes.
AB 118 - Vasconcellos
Permits destruction of firearms otherwise
(Chapter 789)
subject to sale as unclaimed property or
abandoned property, and requires such destruction
with respect to an exhibit filed in a criminal
action or proceeding. The bill also permits
destruction of a firearm used in commission
of, or attempt to commit, a misdemeanor under
the Penal Code, and provides for restoration
of any such weapon to lawful owner, if the
weapon had been stolen.
AB 120 - Dunlap
Specifies that no proration of property tax
(Chapter 790)
shall be made where a homestead is held in
joint tenancy by the claimant and his spouse
or by him and his or his spouse's parents,
children, or grandchildren, and the taxes for
which assistance is claimed were paid by the
claimant or member of his household.
AB 169 - Chappie
Permits the board of governors of the California
(Chapter 791)
Community Colleges to extend the period of
time for submitting of specified plans and
recommendations concerning organization of
junior college districts.
AB 170 - Chappie
Provides that where a school district, which
(Chapter 792)
meets specified conditions, has annexed a
lapsed school district and thereafter makes
an application for. a state school building
aid, the assessed valuation of the annexed
territory shall be excluded for purposes of
determining the maximum amount of bonds.
AB 171 - Barnes
Requires local public agencies participating
(Chapter 793)
in P.E.R.S. to provide 1/60th formula retirement
allowance for local miscellaneous members
unless they have elected by operative date of
act to use 1/70th formula.
AB 180 - Miller
Revises certain procedures of the State
(Chapter 794)
Personnel Board relating to disciplinary
proceedings.
AB 241 - Briggs
Includes probationary school teachers within
(Chapter 795)
provisions under which the employment of
teachers who have reached the age of 65 is on
a year-to-year basis at the discretion of the
district governing board.
AB 242 - Briggs
Deletes the requirement that trailer coaches
(Chapter 796)
meeting certain health and safety standards
and used for classrooms be moved to another
school site and used/for special educational
purposes at least three times each fiscal
year. The bill also increases maximum number
of students who may use trailer coach classrooms
from 17 to 20.
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AB 292 - Mulford
Requires the Director of General Services to
(Chapter 797)
transfer state-owned property located at 55
and 75 Hyde Street in San Francisco to Hastings
College of the Law. The bill permits such
property to be sold or leased to a nonprofit
corporation to provide housing for students,
faculty and employees of the college.
AB 307 - Hayes
Requires the State Fire Marshal to adopt
(Chapter 798)
necessary regulations for the approval and
listing of fire alarm and automatic sprinkler
systems, rather than adopting rules and
regulations for such systems substantially
consistent with specified publication as
presently required.
AB 309 - Hayes
Amends several sections of the Health and
(Chapter 799)
Safety Code to redefine "mobile home" and
to provide a definition of a "commercial
coach."
AB 412 - Porter
Makes technical corrections, clarifications
(Chapter 800)
and additions to the Water Quality Control
Act of 1969 (AB 413)
AB 512 - Dent
Authorizes the Director of Education, under
(Chapter 801)
conditions established by State Board of
Education, to purchase annuity contracts for
permanent employees of Department of Education
and the California Maritime Academy.
AB 535 - Arklin
Requires deposit of certain fees into the
(Chapter 802)
Transportation Rate Fund of the Public
Utilities Commission and also deletes a
reference to the funding of the City Carriers'
Act.
AB 572 - Briggs
Permits the director of the Youth Authority
(Chapter 803)
to authorize sale to the public of handicraft
items produced by wards. The cost of any
state property shall be paid for from the
proceeds of sales with the balance to be
placed in the ward's trust account
AB 574 - Lanterman
Extends definition of "paramilitary organization"
(Chapter 804)
to include onewhich, as an organization,
engages in rioting or violent disruption of, or
violent interference with, school activities.
AB 584 - Foran
Directs Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District
(Chapter 805)
to develop a transportation facilities plan
and submit it to legislature by 90th day of
1971 regular session. The bill also authorizes
the district to operate all modes of transporta-
tion within the district.
AB 589 - Badham
Expands the Electronic Repair Dealer Registration
(Chapter 806)
Law to cover repair of tape recorders.
AB 592 - Stacey
Provides that moneys payable or rights existing
(Chapter 807)
under the medical assistance program shall be
subject to a claim of the state or the United
States, but to no others, and that a transfer
or assignment of a right of a provider of
health care to any payment shall not be
enforceable against the state, a fiscal
intermediary, carrier, or prepayment plan.
AB 593 - Stacey
Exempts a portable sanitary facility used
(Chapter 808).
exclusively for the production or harvesting
of agricultural products from registration
as a vehicle.
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AB 598 - Deddeh
Consolidates and clarifies various provisions
(Chapter 809)
of the State Civil Service Act relating to
probation and reinstatement.
AB 618 - Cory
Makes permanent the registration of an
(Chapter 810)
elector who registers in a county other than
the county of his residence.
AB 632 - MacDonald
Requires counties electing to receive Medi-
(Chapter 811)
Cal payments under the option provision of
the Medi-Cal program to receive reimbursements
for tuberculosis patients under the Medi-Cal
program rather than under the tuberculosis
subvention provision of the Health and Safety
Code which are administered by the Department
of Public Health.
AB 634 - Fenton
Exempts one commercial vehicle, registered to
(Chapter 812)
a person who qualifies under the disabled
person's exemption relating to parking, from
the weight fee payable for registration of
a commercial vehicle.
AB 636 - Davis
Requires the Fish and Game Commission to notify
(Chapter 813)
each member of the board of supervisors of each
affected county of the time and date of any
hearing on a proposed order for a special
hunting season of game mammals, birds, or
anterless deer.
AB 642 - Moorhead
Provides the Department of Health Care Services
(Chapter 814)
and the Controller's Office with statutory
authority for making refunds of money erroneously
deposited in the Health Care Deposit Fund.
Presently, the Department of Health Care
Services is required to submit an individual
claim for each refund to the State Board of
Control.
AB 665 - Briggs
Revises and adopts provisions regulating and
(Chapter 815)
licensing pet food slaughterers, processors,
pet food importers, renderers and dead haulers;
revises provisions regulating horsemeat; provides
for annual license fees to be set by the
director at $100; and appropriates $55,969
to carry out the provisions of the chapter.
The legislation places the inspection and control
of fresh and frozen pet food under the cognizance
of the Department of Agriculture. Horsemeat
inspection and control is assigned to the
Department of Agriculture. This parallels
the Federal Meat Inspection Program under the
Wholesome Meat Act.
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AB 673 - Burke
Requires that the California Highway Patrol adopt
(Chapter 816)
regulations prescribing the type of bunks and
bunk stakes which may be used in combination in
transporting logs and poles.
AB 683 - Belotti
Provides for the taking of herring eggs under
(Chapter 817)
permit and Fish and Game Commission regulations.
The bill requires a royalty of at least $50 per
ton to be paid.
AB 701 - Priolo
Permits registration without a fee of vessels
(Chapter 818)
belonging to the United States.
AB 707 - Moorhead
Empowers the Insurance Commissioner to issue
(Chapter 819)
subpoenas duces tecum in addition to subpoenas.
The bill also empowers the commissioner to apply
to the superior court for an order requiring
attendance of defaulting witness.
AB 715 - Badham
Requires that rules and regulations adopted
(Chapter 820)
regarding specified building and housing standards
shall be reasonably consistent with standards set
in the Uniform Housing Code, Building Code,
Plumbing Code, Mechanical Code and the National
Electrical Code.
AB 718 - Cory
Provides for mandatory payroll deductions for
(Chapter 821)
school district employees for purposes of group
life, disability, disability and life insurance
costs where the master contract is held by the
school district or an employee organization, and
annuity programs authorized by the Internal
Revenue Code and approved by the governing board.
The governing board may require the employees seeking
such coverage to submit authorization for the
payroll deductions one month in advance of the
effective date of coverage. Such deductions shall
continue until the employee revokes the
authorization.
AB 726 - Beverly
Provides that judgments in favor of public agencies
(Chapter 822)
shall include process fees which would have been
charged if a public agency had not been involved.
AB 757 - Arklin
Adds a provision to the Public Utilities Code
(Chapter 823)
permitting the commission to accept for deposit
insurance policies issued by nonadmitted insurers
covering the operations of highway carriers,
household goods carriers and for-hire vessels if
such policies meet the commission's regulations.
The bill would allow household goods carriers to
self-insure if authorized by the commission.
AB 759 - Arklin
Permits the Department of Harbors and Watercraft
(Chapter 824)
to register vessels at its Long Beach office rather
than only at its Sacramento office.
AB 774 - Dunlap
Includes in the definition of "remote interest"
(Chapter 825)
the interest of certain public officers and employees
in any contract or agreement entered into pursuant
to the provisions of the California Land Conserva-
tion Act of 1965.
AB 784 - Murphy
Generally revises provision relating to posting of
(Chapter 826)
rates by innkeepers. The bill further requires
that with respect to a hotel, inn, boardinghouse
or lodging house, a person who collects or receives
sum greater than the statement of rate or range
of rates by the day for lodging posted, shall forfeit
greater of $100 or three times the amount of the
sum charged in excess of what he is entitled to
under designated circumstances, rather than just
three times the amount.
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AB 820 - Beverly
Adds specified employment requirements to defini-
(Chapter 828)
tion of "employer" relating to operators of
hospitals for purposes of unemployment insurance.
The bill excludes death, pension and retirement
payments paid by an employer in another state
from definition of "remuneration" for the purpose
of determining the basis of contribution.
AB 821 - Beverly
Provides that the State Treasurer, rather than
(Chapter 829 )
the Department of Finance, will invest the
Disability Fund under the supervision of the
Director of Employment. It also permits investment
of the Disability Fund in enumerated eligible
securities, rather than only in United States or
California interest-bearing obligations only.
AB 822 - Crandall
Revises procedures for transferring territory from
(Chapter 830)
one elementary, unified, or junior college dis-
trict to another such district.
AB 831 - Wilson
Repeals the requirement that perjury be proved by
(Chapter 831)
the testimony of two witnesses, or of one witness
and corroborating circumstances and instead pro-
vides that no person shall be convicted of perjury
where proof of falsity rests solely upon contra-
diction by testimony of a single person other than
the defendant. The bill specifies that proof of
falsity may be established by direct or indirect
evidence.
AB 841 - Duffy
Grants blind persons, visually handicapped persons,
(Chapter 832)
and other physically disabled persons full and equal
access to all housing accommodations offered for
rent, lease or compensation in this state.
AB 849 - Biddle
Permits authorized employees of the Department of
(Chapter 833)
Motor Vehicles to expend appropriated support funds
for the purchase or procurement of evidence or to
investigate violations of laws administered by the
department.
AB 852 - MacDonald
Deletes the specific criteria for the erection of
(Chapter 834)
yield right-of-way signs and would require that
such signs shall be erected only in accordance
with regulations to be established by the Department
of Public Works.
AB 868 - Dunlap
Requires proponents of initiative, referendum and
(Chapter 835)
recall petitions for local and statewide elections
to file with the Secretary of State, not later
than 35 days after measure has qualified for
ballot, a statement of expenses and receipts.
AB 895 - Sieroty
Provides that holder of a certificate of registra-
(Chapter 836)
tion authorizing service as a school audiometrist
issued by the State Board of Public Health may
test the hearing of pupils of a school district
through the use of an audiometer for the purpose
of detecting pupils with impaired hearing.
AB 915 - Murphy
Authorizes a junior college district to contract
(Chapter 837)
with another school district in the same county,
or a county superintendent of schools that main-
tains facilities for the education of physically
handicapped children, if the district does not
maintain its own facilities for such children.
AB 932 - Milias
Provides that the director of Parks and Recreation
(Chapter 838)
may examine any tangible personal property
delivered to the state controller under the
Unclaimed Property Law to determine whether such
property may be useful for the interpretive
program of the State Park System.
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AB 990 - Dunlap
Prohibits erection of stop signs at any railroad
(Chapter 840)
grade crossing controlled by automatic signals,
gates, or other train-actuated control devices,
except where stop signs may be necessary to
control traffic on intersecting highways adjacent
to such grade crossing. The bill requires
preexixting nonconforming stop signs to be
removed prior to January 1, 1971.
AB 967 - Brathwaite
Adds a section to the Insurance Code to extend to
(Chapter 839)
insurance companies protection against false written
statements circulated about them for the purpose
of damaging their financial condition or standing.
AB 995 - Greene
Authorizes secondary school certificated employees
(Chapter 841)
of Sacramento City Unified School District to
teach in grades 4 to 8, inclusive, for a period
of time determined by governing board, but not to
exceed two school years.
AB 2295 - Bagley
Transfers title of certain property in Bolinas Bay
(Chapter 787)
from the Bolinas Harbor District to the County
of Marin.
SB 792 - Bee
Eliminates the provision limiting until January 1,
(Chapter 827)
1970, effectiveness of provisions permitting a
maximum height of loads upon vehicles of 14 feet,
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rather than 13 feet, 6 inches.
SB 1297 - Deukmejian
Authorizes the courts to commit rather than refer
(Chapter 785)
a person to the Youth Authority if specified
conditions are met.
SB 1324 - Schrade
Permits the reinstatement of a retired person by
(Chapter 786)
a state board or commission in a noncivil service
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position, if the person has special qualifications
relating to its function without meeting the usual
requirements for reinstatement if the person has
not attained age 73. The bill requires the
retirement of such a person upon attaining age 73.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
8-27-69
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Governor Ronald Reagan today signed two bills which will
provide property tax relief to homeowners and veterans who have
been excluded from refunds.
The measures, AB-1726 by Assemblyman John Quimby (D-Rialto),
and AB-2349 by Assemblyman R. E. Johnson (R-Chico), extend the deadline
for filing for a $750 reduction in home assessments until September 1.
The Quimby bill also allows persons who qualify for the
1968-69 tax rebate but did not file for the $750 property tax exemption
to now do so.
Qualified veterans who had filed for the exemption but were
told by local assessors that they were ineligible now automatically
become eligible for the $750 under the Johnson bill.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
8-27-69
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Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that he has signed the
following bills:
AB 1010 - Quimby
Increases the number of attaches in the
(Chapter 842)
municipal courts in San Bernardino County.
AB 1011 - Johnson, H.
Increases from six months to one year the time
(Chapter 843)
within which a bank must open a branch which
has been approved by the Superintendent of
Banks. The bill increases from six months to
one year the periods for which the superinten-
dent may extend the times for opening a branch.
The bill further authorizes foreign branch of
bank to transact such business as may be usual
in connection with the transaction of the
business of banking in the places where such
foreign branch is located.
AB 1016 - Miller
Increases the permissible amount of revolving
(Chapter 844)
cash fund of school district.
AB 1036 - Priolo/
Redefines "employees" for purposes of the
(Chapter 845)
workmen's compensation laws to exclude officers
and directors of private corporations where they
are sole shareholders of the corporations except
when their employer has elected to come under
certain compensation provisions by specified
procedures.
AB 1051 - Mulford
Authorizes the governing body of school district
(Chapter 846)
to reimburse, under specified conditions, any
person or persons for loss, destruction, or
damage by arson, burglary, or vandalism of
personal property used in schools of the
district. The bill permits a school district
to bring action in small claims court or other
court of competent jurisdiction for payments
made for damage to or loss of certain personal
property of employees.
AB 1067 - Gonsalves
Requires that structures on property acquired
(Chapter 849)
for future highway use conform to local building
and safety code requirements.
AB 1079 - Briggs
Clarifies that the death of an injured employee
(Chapter 850)
terminates the liability of the employer for
both temporary and permanent disability as of
the date of death.
AB 1084 - Dent
Requires the Department of Public Works to
(Chapter 851)
condemn property for the replacement of the
riding and hiking trail in the vicinity of
Alhambra Avenue in Martinez.
AB 1091 - Johnson, R
Provides an exemption in the Weighmaster Law
(Chapter 852)
with respect to persons who may possess blank
weighmasters certificate forms. The bill pro-
vides that employees of marketing order boards
or grading inspection services under conditions
prescribed by regulation of the Director of
Agriculture are exempt from this provision.
AB 1092 - Priolo
Requires that delegates to a Constitutional
(Chapter 853)
Convention be voters elected from districts
as nearly equal in population as may be
practicable. The bill makes other changes
related to revision of the State Constitution
by ACA 28.
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AB 1095 - Gonsalves
Provides that lands belonging to the state, which
(Chapter 854)
are suitable for cultivation, shall be granted
only to actual settlers in quantities not to
exceed 320 acres for each settler, under condi-
tions prescribed by law. The bill is operative
on adoption of Assembly Constitutional Amendment
No. 30.
AB 1906 - Badham
Codifies various provisions now found in the
(Chapter 855)
California Constitution which are to be omitted
from proposed revised portions of Constitution.
The bill provides for procedures to allow the
Public Utilities Commission to fix compensation
to be paid when property is condemned for cer-
tain grade crossings and railroad rights-of-way
and where property of a public utility is
condemned, with the consent of the condemnor and
condemnee under certain circumstances. The
bill becomes operative upon adoption of Assembly
Constitutional Amendment No. 31 of 1969 regular
session.
AB 1103 - Dunlap
Directs the manner of distribution of specified
(Chapter 856)
community and other property of a decedent which
would otherwise escheat to the state.
AB 1130 - Waxman
Prescribes the manner in which a county pur-
(Chapter 857)
chasing agent may sell various kinds of un-
claimed property, when the property has been
transferred to him. Permits specified agencies
or officers to retain the property that they
received for sale if it is determined that the
property is needed for public use. Reduces per-
iod of time which University of California must
hold unclaimed property before selling it at
public auction from six months to three months.
AB 1133 - Beverly
Redefines motor club service, insurance, travel
(Chapter 858)
and miscellaneous services for the purpose of
updating the motor club laws. Prohibits motor
clubs from furnishing any service on reimburse-
ment basis which constitutes transaction of
insurance, Expands services of motor clubs to
include vacation trailers and boats and their
trailers.
AB 1135 - Beverly
Exempts certain types of insurance from the
(Chapter 859)
effective time of 12:01 a.m. on the date of
coverage and extends coverage for 12 hours
preceding or following such hour.
AB 1150 - Moorhead
Revises the definition of ocean marine insurance
(Chapter 860)
for tax purposes and states that the revised
definition is a restatement and continuation of
existing law.
AB 1160 - Briggs
Declares that the Professional Engineers Act does
(Chapter 861)
not prohibit a licensed contractor, while engaged
in the business of contracting for the install-
ation of electrical or mechanical systems or
facilities from designing such facilities in
accordance with applicable construction codes and
standards for work to be performed and supervised
by such contractor within the classification for
which his license is issued.
AB 1177 - Knox
Provides that open-space lands shall be valued
(Chapter 862)
for tax purposes by the capitalization of income
method which is defined in the bill.
AB 1190 - Lanterman
Provides that the person, his estate and rela-
(Chapter 863)
tives are liable for care provided to person on
leave of absence from state hospital where care
is paid for either by Department of Social Wel-
fare or by Department of Mental Hygiene.
AB 1205 - Cory
Authorizes the Director of the Youth Authority
(Chapter 864)
to purchase annuity contracts for permanent
employees under specified conditions.
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AB 1229 - Quimby
Excludes from "gross operating revenue" all
(Chapter 865)
revenue derived from the transportation of
property in interstate or foreign commerce.
AB 1305 - Beverly
Gives the California Insurance Commissioner the
(Chapter 867)
authority to impose regulatory retaliation
against foreign insurance companies whose home
states attempt to impose unreasonable regula-
tions on California insurance companies. The
retaliation authorized is limited to the denial
of initial certificates of authority to insurers
from states which attempt to assume regulatory
jurisdiction over non-insurance affiliates of
California insurers indirectly through their
control of the insurer.
AB 1336 - Cullen
Requires payment of interest, at a rate which
(Chapter 868)
account is earning, on transfers from the
Pooled Money Investment Account to the General
Fund.
AB 1339 - Johnson, H.
Provides procedures for the custody, evaluation,
(Chapter 869)
and treatment under the Lanterman-Petris-Short
Act of users of narcotics and restricted
dangerous drugs.
AB 1353 - Waxman
Permits voters, whose registrations are subject
(Chapter 870)
to cancellation because they moved to another
precinct within the county, in lieu of executing
a new affidavit of registration, to notify the
county clerk of address change.
AB 1377 - Beverly
Exempts from secured transactions regulation any
(Chapter 871)
security interest created by assignment of
benefits of any public construction contract
under the Improvement Act of 1911.
AB 1389 - Moorhead
Provides for treatment and evaluation or in-
(Chapter 872)
tensive treatment, pursuant to specified
provisions of law, of a prisoner who is a
danger to others as a result of a mental
disorder.
AB 1405 - Knox
Provides that provisions of Industrial Loan
(Chapter 873)
Law, relating to certain transactions between
an industrial loan company and specified per-
sons and transactions under a name other than
that set forth in articles of incorporation of
such company shall not be applicable to a
premium finance agency.
AB 1419 - Mobley
Provides that a county may, with the permission
(Chapter 874)
of an incorporated city, conduct assessment
proceedings wholly within the boundary of such
city.
AB 1428 - Knox
Allows taxpayers, filing property statements
(Chapter 875)
in duplicate, to have the duplicate returned
with the full cash value of each category of
property, as determined by the assessor,
marked on the statement.
AB 1429 - Knox
Grants the Superintendent of Banks clear
(Chapter 876)
authority to regulate the issue of securities
by state banks.
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AB 1437 - Russell
Increases the ceiling on the assessment
(Chapter 877)
that the Superintendent of Banks collects
annually from each state bank for the
support of the State Banking Department.
AB 1438 - Russell
Expands authority of Insurance Commissioner
(Chapter 878)
to decline to grant a certificate of
authority to transact business as an
insurer to revoke such a certificate where
officer or director of insurer has been
convicted of or pleaded guilty or nolo
contendere to any of specified crimes, to
extend to case where person owning or
controlling 10 percent or more of stock of
insurer, its subsidiary or any organization
controlling it has been so convicted or
has so pleaded.
AB 1447 - Cory
Authorizes savings and loan associations,
(Chapter 879)
subject to prescribed conditions, to make
and invest, with or without security, in
any loan not exceeding $5,000 for repair,
equipping, alteration, or improvement of
any real property. The bill also authorizes
such associations, subj ct to commissioner's
regulations, to make loans, advance credit,
and purchase obligations representing loans
and advances of credit for the purpose of
mobile dwelling financing, rather than for
the purpose of financing the acquisition
of mobile dwellings.
AB 1464 - Duffy
Authorizes department, when contracting
(Chapter 880)
for services through health benefit plans,
to limit benefit coverage to a fixed number
of days or amount or duration of services.
Also provides that the carrier may be
authorized to continue to administer the
benefits provided beyond the limitation with
the state paying for such extended coverage
on the basis of reasonable costs or charges.
Declares the intent of the legislature to
authorize a limitation on the liability of
a carrier in catastrophic or extended care
situations.
AB 1473 - MacDonald
Authorizes the board of directors of a
(Chapter 881)
county sanitation district in Ventura County
to include in resolution proposing as
general objects and purposes of the incurring
of the bonded indebtedness the acquisition,
construction or reconstruction of new local
street sewers or laterals.
AB 1484 - Veysey
Authorizes the governing board of a school
(Chapter 882)
district maintaining a community college to
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participate in various enumerated federal
programs, and further authorizes such
board to spend funds as matching funds for
federal grants.
AB 1487 - Veysey
Authorizes state participation in a joint
(Chapter 883)
federal-state feasibility investigation
of the Salton Sea problems, and makes an
appropriation of $47,500 of which $8,000
shall come from the Harbors and Watercraft
Revolving Fund and $39,500 from the General
Fund.
AB 1492 - Gonsalves
Amends the Milk Stabilization Law to revise
(Chapter 884)
the definition of "distributor" and to
clarify the applicability of subdistributor
prices under the Act.
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AB 1519 - Schabarum/
Clarifies the procedure to be used by the
(Chapter 885)
Department of Employment in recovering costs
from an employer or an insurer in disputed
coverage proceedings for disability benefits
after a final decision by a referee or
the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board.
AB 1532 - Biddle
Extends resident status to spouses of military
(Chapter 886)
personnel on active duty.
AB 1540 - Schabarum
Eliminates the Coordinating Council on
(Chapter 887)
Programs for Handicapped Children.
AB 1552 - Zenovich
Permits the Fresno Metropolitan Flood Control
(Chapter 888)
District to develop district property for
recreation uses and purposes in connection
with the use of property for the contro 1
and conservation of flood waters. Authorizes
the district the right to dispose of, or
lease, real and personal property with the
requirement that any compensation from such
transactions be deposited in the general
fund of the district. Also amends the
District Act to declare that a resolution
of intent to take property by eminent domain
shall be prima facie evidence of the truth
of the recitals in the resolution.
AB 1644 - Bagley
Revises definition of affiliated group
(Chapter 889)
and authorization to file consolidated
tax return as such with regard to taxation
of railroad corporations. Provides that
revised definition of "affiliated group"
shall not preclude the application of
income allocation provisions of the
Revenue and Taxation Codes.
AB 1645 - Beverly
Authorizes the Superintendent of Banks to
(Chapter 890)
reduce the reserve requirements for state
banks below the amount fixed by statute,
but not lower than the amount set at the
time by the Federal Reserve System.
AB 1670 - Foran
Adds the Office of Tourism and Visitor
(Chapter 891)
Services to those state agencies which
the Advisory Committee on a Master Plan for
Scenic Highways may consult with for
technical and other assistance.
AB 1681 - Wilson
Increases the limit on the amount that
(Chapter 892)
a state bank may invest in the stock of
small business investment companies
from 2 percent to 10 percent of the bank's
capital and surplus.
AB 1683 - Mobley
Provides that veterans who have suffered
(Chapter 893)
loss, or loss of use, of two or more limbs
or of one eye and one limb, need not pay
annual registration fees on any one non-
commercial vehicle that they own. Under
present law, this exemption is granted
veterans who have lost, or lost the use
of, both legs or who have suffered permanent
blindness.
AB 1702 - Bever ly
Authorizes cities to enact ordinances
(Chapter 894)
requiring sellers of residences to obtain
a report showing the authorized use,
occupancy and zoning classification of
the building and property prior to sale.
Charter cities now have such authority.
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AB 1703 - Beverly
Authorizes a bank, with the prior written
(Chapter 895)
approval of the Superintendent of Banks
to acquire and hold not less than 80 percent
of the voting stock of one or more corporation
that perform functions a bank may perform
other than receipt of deposits.
AB 1726 - Quimby
Permits persons qualified for both the
(Chapter 899)
1968-69 rebate and the 1969-70 exemption
for homeowners who filed an application for
only one, to file for the other before
September 1, 1969. The bill allows
veterans whose claims for the veterans'
exemption for 1969-70 are disallowed to file
for the homeowners' exemption before
September 1, 1969 if qualified.
AB 1728 - Dent
Recodifies the State Teachers' Retirement
(Chapter 896)
Law. The bill makes no substantive change
in the law.
AB 1740 - Britschgi
Permits the board of supervisors to adopt
(Chapter 897)
an alternative procedure for the sale
of county real property.
AB 1750 - Briggs
Authorizes county water districts to acquire,
(Chapter 898)
construct and operate sewer waste and storm
water facilities for inhabitants
outside of district boundaries, except that
such service may not be provided to the
inhabitants of any other public agency, as
defined, without the consent of such agency.
AB 1753 - Hayes
Provides that appointing powers in all public
(Chapter 901)
jurisdictions may take the oath or affirm-
ation of allegiance of their employees.
AB 1754 - Hayes
Provides that, in any action or proceeding
(Chapter 902)
to enforce a judgment, the party against
whom the judgment was recovered may file
certified copy of an order discharging him
from debts in bankruptcy, and the court shall
direct such judgment canceled or discharged
if it appears that the judgment or debt
upon which judgment was recovered has been
discharged and at least one year has elapsed
since such discharge.
AB 1762 - Hayes
Requires motion, notice, and hearing before
(Chapter 903)
court may issue a writ of possession in
forcible entry or unlawful detainer action,
The Bill sets forth contents of notice which
must be served, and allows both parties to
file affidavits with court and present
oral testimony at hearing on motion.
AB 1763 - Hayes
Provides that where an accepted credit card
(Chapter 904)
is lost or stolen after it has reached a
cardholder and the cardholder gives specified
notice to the issuer, the cardholder is not
liable for any unauthorized use of the card.
AB 1764 - Hayes
Directs credit card companies to itemize
(Chapter 905)
all penalties, assessments, and charges
each time they make a billing to the
cardholder.
AB 1772 - Davis
Requires the Department of Fish and Game
(Chapter 906)
and the Department of Parks and Recreation
and other appropriate local and federal
Agencies to submit their recommendations
or comments on reconnaissance studies and
feasibility reports of the Department of
Water Resources relating to fish, wildlife
and recreation features within 60 days
following a formal request of review from
the Department of Water Resources.
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AB 1776 - Duffy
Changes title of state hospital resident
(Chapter 907)
position of medical program director to
program director. Allows position to be
filled by professional persons who do not
meet qualifications of medical director but
meet standards prescribed by Director of
Mental Hygiene. Provides that if the
duties of the program director include the
medical care of patients, the qualifications
of program director shall be the same as thos
of medical director.
AB 1782 - Johnson, R.
Broadens definition of the term "project"
(Chapter 908)
as used with respect to water development
project maintenance areas to include
certain small projects for which funds
are available pursuant to specified
federal flood control act.
AB 1796 - Ketchum
Authorizes the sale of prison-made goods
(Chapter 909)
at the state prisons, in public buildings,
at fairs or on property operated by
nonprofit associations, rather than only
at the state prison.
AB 1801 - Dent
Provides that standard teaching credentials
(Chapter 910)
with specialization in elementary or
secondary teaching shall authorize the
holder to teach any subject in juvenile
detention facilities classes. The bill
provides that holder of secondary credential
may teach any subject in the home or a
hospital teaching grades 7 to 12.
AB 1811 - Dunlap
Allows the Franchise Tax Board to make
(Chapter 911)
credits or refunds of amounts in excess of
$1,000, resulting from overpayment of
estimated tax for personal income tax and
bank and corporations tax, without approval
of the Board of Control.
AB 1816 - Belotti
Revises provision allowing the State
(Chapter 912)
Personnel Board to grant a three-year
extension of rights and benefits of
state civil service employees on military
leave.
AB 1823 - Milias
Authorizes the Secretary of State to make
(Chapter 913)
available ballot paper to any jurisdiction
holding an election, instead of only to
counties and cities, and adds the requirement
that punch cards be available.
AB 1824 - Milias
Requires county clerks to transmit semi-
(Chapter 914)
official election returns to the Secretary
of State in a manner and under a schedule
prescribed by him prior to the election,
but in no event, at intervals greater than
2 hours.
SB 1838 - Song
Authorizes and establishes procedures for
(Chapter 915)
filing of statewide personal property liens
by the state to secure payments of sales
and use taxes, personal income tax, bank and
corporation taxes, and unemployment
compensation insurance taxes.
AB 1854 - Mobley
Creates the Madera County Flood Control and
(Chapter 916)
Water Conservation Agency, consisting of
all the territory of Madera County.
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AB 1869 - Lanterman
Requires that the initial program for
(Chapter 917)
replacement housing for construction of
State Highway Route 105 in Los Angeles to
be conducted in a manner conducive to
maximum community participation. Exempts
contracts for such replacement housing
from conventional contracting procedure
in favor of procedure established by the
Director of Public Works.
AB 1870 - Lanterman
Provides that the requirements of the
(Chapter 918)
Labor Code section relating to decisions
of the Workmen's Compensation Appeals
Board shall not be construed so as to
broaden the scope of judicial review of
appeals board decisions.
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AB 1873 - Mobley
Authorizes local entities to assess fees against
(Chapter 919)
the owner for inspection of places of deliberation,
worship, drinking or dining and awaiting transpotation.
Such authorization is effective until 91st day
after adjournment of 1973 regular session of
legislature.
AB 1874 - Mobley
Provides for exceptions from the professional
(Chapter 920)
qualifications imposed for members of hearing
boards for certain county air pollution control
districts where persons with such qualifications
are not available to serve thereon.
AB 1878 - Barnes
Authorizes school districts having average daily
(Chapter 921)
attendance of 75,000 or more to establish revolving
cash funds for use by school principals and other
administrative officials designated by school
district governing board for purchase of supplies.
AB 1881 - Barnes
Amends the County Employees' Retirement Law of
(Chapter 922)
1937 to provide that the allowance for non-service-
connected disability for safety members under the -
age of 55 shall be the sum to which he would be
entitled to as service retirement or a specified
annuity or disability retirement pension rather than
such specified annuity or pension.
AB 1885 - Murphy
Provides that murder perpetrated by bomb, as
(Chapter 923)
defined, is murder of first degree.
AB 1888 - Murphy
Provides that if a person convicted of a public
(Chapter 924)
offense is committed to the Youth Authority and the
Youth Authority returns him to the committing court
as an improper person or incorrigible, and the court
in turn, commits the person to the state prison,
the maximum term shall be the maximum term for the
public offense committed, less the time served under
the Youth Authority.
AB 1890 - Murphy
Provides that expert witnesses are not required to
(Chapter 925)
determine harmful or obscene character of matter in
cases involving obscenity or harmful matter, and
permits any evidence tending to establish various
elements of obscenity or harmful matter.
AB 1934 - Schabarum
Authorizes the Department of Public Works to
(Chapter 926)
provide in any of its construction contracts
extra compensation not to exceed 50 percent of the
net savings in construction costs, to the contrador
for a proposal resulting in cost reduction changes
in the plans and specifications. The bill has a
termination date of January 1, 1972.
AB 1980 = Murphy
Prescribes punishment of not to exceed $100 for
(Chapter 927)
each violation of misdemeanor provisions relating tc
placing names and addresses of owners of vending
machines. The existing law provides that after
July 1, 1969, every person who owns a vending
machine shall have his name and address affixed
thereto in a place where it may be seen by anyone
using the machine. A person violating this law
would be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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AB 2003 - Briggs
Provides that, whenever a county is the successor
(Chapter 929)
of a harbor improvement district, its supervisors
have all powers and duties of the former district
board with respect to the acquisition, improvement,
and management of harbors or public beaches within
the county.
AB 2008 - Badham
Amends the Collection Agency Act by substituting
(Chapter 930)
conservatorship procedure for present receivership
procedure in cases where licensee's financial
difficulties make it necessary to take over his
business for protection of public.
AB 2027 - MacDonald
Provides that a grand jury may investigate and
(Chapter 931)
report upon method or system of performing duties
of any special purposes assessing or taxing district
located wholly or partly in a county.
AB 2028 - MacDonald
Requires the general plans of counties and cities
(Chapter 932)
to identify areas covered by the plan which are
subject to flooding. The bill requires the plans
to be reviewed annually with respect to areas
subject to flooding.
AB 2037 - Mulford
Reduces subvention to local governments from 30
(Chapter 933)
percent of the gross revenue of the cigarette
tax to 30 percent of the net revenue.
AB 2055 - Knox
Specifies that provisions prohibiting formation of
(Chapter 934)
specified public corporations and public agencies
within a county water district without the consent
of the district shall not be construed to prevent a
city from annexing territory within a county water
district.
AB 2084 - Knox
Prohibits contract providing a local public body
(Chapter 935)
a report of the feasibility of the issuance of
public securities if the contract is with person who
is in business of rating public securities unless
the contract provides that such person will not
rate securities of the agency, or the public entity
to which it is a party, for two years.
AB 2119 - Russell
Amends the Education Code to provide that the last
(Chapter 936)
day to file school district nomination papers is the
close of business on the 54th day prior to the
election. Present law permits such filing until
12 noon on the 54th day prior to the election.
AB 2209 - Fong
Authorizes school district governing boards to
(Chapter 937)
provide, without charge. or at a reduced price,
other nutrition periods during which foods or
beverages, or both, are served to pupils.
AB 2217 - Lewis
Authorizes county superintendents of schools to
(Chapter 938)
obtain air travel insurance for their own office and
to carry a master policy for air travel insurance on
behalf of the school district of the county.
AB 2319 - Stull
Prescribes procedure for governing board of any
(Chapter 945)
school district to establish a revolving cash fund
for the purpose of paying bills for purchase of
$100 or less. Requires monthly list of such
payments to be approved by the governing board.
Provides that person issuing check drawn on such
fund will be personally liable for amount of check
if the expenditure is in violation of rules and
regulations adopted by governing board with respect
to such revolving cash fund.
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AB 2225 - Priolo
Permits deletion of ballot card stubs in the case
(Chapter 939)
of ballot cards used for absent voting.
AB 2229 - Priolo
Changes various procedures for circulating and
(Chapter 940)
filing local initiative, referendum, and recall
petitions.
AB 2247 - Milias
Permits a pricipal as well as a superintendent
(Chapter 941)
to suspend any pupil who has used, sold, or been
in possession of narcotics or other hallucinogenic
drugs.
AB 2266 - Beverly
Establishes procedures for homeowners whose
(Chapter 942)
residential property has been depreciated because O
its proximity to Los Angeles International Airport
and which is condemned or otherwise acquired for
expansion of the airport to petition for an award
representing the amount such property has been
depreciated in value by the presence and operation
of the airport.
AB 2285 - Stull
Authorizes county clerk of organizing county of
(Chapter 943)
local hospital district to accept and distribute
arguments for and against a measure relating to
the election of directors of such district.
AB 2292 - Bagley
Authorizes court, with concurrence of the board
(Chapter 944)
of supervisors, to employ an investigative staff
for purpose of recommending whether a defendant
should be released on own recognizance.
AB 2346 - Lewis
Provides that capital notes and debentures of
(Chapter 946)
banks from time to time outstanding shall be deemed
"capital," "paid-up capital,' and "paid-in
capital, as such terms are used in provisions
relating to loan limits for commercial,
nondepartmental, and savings banks.
AB 2349 - Johnson/
Permits veterans whose claims for the veterans'
(Chapter 900)
exemption for the 1969-70 fiscal year are disallowe
to file claims for the homeowners' exemption for su
year until September 1, 1969, if otherwise qualifie
for the homeowners' exemption.
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RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
8-27-69
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Governor Ronald Reagan today signed the following bills:
AB 1056 - Schabarum
Authorizes State Air Resources Board to establish
(Chapter 847)
exhaust emission standards for used motor vehicles.
AB 1058 - Schabarum
Authorizes the State Air Resources Board to
(Chapter 848)
determine and publish criteria for the accredition
of motor vehicle pollution control devices for used
motor vehicles and authorizes revocation, suspension
and restriction of previously granted certificates
when the device no longer meets such criteria.
AB 1249 - Biddle
Allows criminal defendant committed to a state
(Chapter 866)
hospital as "not guilty by reason of insanity" to
be placed on parole if he has recovered to extent
he is no longer a danger to others and will benefit
from parole within 90 days, rather than three years,
of commitment. Retains three-year limitation for
death penalty cases. Retains requirement of court
approval in all cases. Allows new recommendation
for parole within sex months rather than a year,
in non-death penalty, when court disapproves earlier
recommendation for parole.
AB 2000 - Knox
Enacts the Real Estate Syndicate Act. The bill
(Chapter 928)
provides for regulation of issues of real estate
syndicate securities by the Real Estate Commissioner
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Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
8-29-69
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Governor Ronald Reagan announced today he has signed the
following bills:
AB 3 - Belotti
Extends the effect of provisions authorizing
(Chapter 997)
an increase of not to exceed 10 cents in the
maximum rate of school district taxes to permit
districts to take corrective measures for fire
and panic safety in school buildings from July
1, 1969, to July 1, 1971.
AB 79 - Monagan,
Increases the maximum age from 16 to 18 years
(Chapter 947)
at which junior driver permits may be issued.
It also requires the Department of Motor
Vehicles to cancel any permit six months from
issuance unless the holder has completed
prescribed courses in driver education and
training.
AB 708 - Hayes
Prohibits persons who are registered as
(Chapter 948)
affiliated with a qualified political party
or who were so registered during the year prior
to the preceding primary election at which a
candidate was nominated for the office referred
to in his nomination papers from being candidates
under the independent nomination procedure.
AB 1477 - MacDonald
Provides that in computing aid grants under
(Chapter 998)
federally supported aid programs, the amounts
used shall be based on the nearest dollar.
Provides for similar changes in computing
cost-of-living adjustments for such grants.
SB 40 - Carrell
Requires vehicles or combinations of vehicles
(Chapter 949)
designed to be and operated at a speed of
25 miles per hour or less to display a slow-
moving vehicle emblem and prohibits such
display if operated in excess of 25 miles
per hour. The bill further specifies that the
provisions of the bill are applicable to
implements of husbandry.
SB 41 - Carrell
Specifies that, for a five-year period, the
(Chapter 950)
Director of General Services may dispose of
certain property in Los Angeles County, former
site of San Fernando State Hospital, only to
a public body or local governmental agency who
will dedicate such property exclusively for
public park recreational or public educational
purposes, or both.
SB 52 - Alquist
Declares that money appropriated by Item 345
(Chapter 951)
of Budget Act of 1969 shall also be used
for Aid to Families with Dependent Children.
SB 115 - Dymally
Makes permissive, rather than mandatory, various
(Chapter 952)
specified components of a More Effective Schools
Program. The bill permits up to $1,000,000
of federal funds, rather than $500,000 to be
used for facilities, construction, and personnel
rather than only for facilities. It limits to
$1,000,000 the amount of federal funds which
may be annually allocated by the Educational
Innovation Commission to the More Effective
Schools Program.
SB 122 - Teale
Requires State Board of Education approval for
(Chapter 953)
establishment of Regional Occupational Centers
and Programs.
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SB 137 - Wedworth
Requires additional punishment of
(Chapter 954)
imprisonment for period of not less than
5 years for any person who uses firearm in
commission or attempted commission of
robbery, assult with deadly weapon, murder,
rape, burglary, or kidnapping, and requires
that such additional punishment run
onsecutively with punishment for the crime
for which such person is convicted.
SB 146 - Moscone
Revises the Community Redevelopment Law to
(Chapter 955)
insure that residents of redevelopment
projects are not displaced from the project
area without sufficient opportunity being
made available to them to be rehoused. The
bill also establishes a procedure for improvi;
the communication between redevelopment
agency officials and residents of redevelop-
ment projects.
SB 176 - Sherman
Authorizes peace officers to arrest without
(Chapter 956)
a warrant a person involved in a traffic
accident when the officer has reasonable
cause to believe that the person was under
the influence of alcohol or combined
influence of alcohol and drugs.
SB 193 - Dills
Provides that the court in which proceeding
(Chapter 957)
is pending may make the final determination
as to whether a defendant is financially
able to employ counsel and qualifies for
the services of a public defender.
SB 211 - Moscone
Revises the authority of a court to dismiss
(Chapter 958)
an action for failure to prosecute for two
years after the action is filed. The
Judicial Council is authorized to adopt the
rules governing such dismissals.
SB 213 - Moscone
Authorizes filing of specified tort claims
(Chapter 959)
against decedents' estates within one year
after accrual of cause of action where such
claims are not otherwise filed within time
allowed. Specifies procedure and liability
with respect to such claims.
SB 215 - Cologne
Limits the effect of the provisions of
(Chapter 960)
Chapter 93 of Statutes of 1969 relating to
the adjustment of average daily attendance
in kindergarten classes maintained for
180 minutes or more with a part-time teacher
by providing that such law shall not be
applicable to a school district with respect
to a part-time kindergarten teacher teaching
180 minutes or more in a single session
class with whom an employment contract was
entered into prior to September 1, 1968.
SB 221 - Alquist
Provides criteria for issuance of teacher
(Chapter 961)
credentials for employees of community
colleges and prescribes procedure for
issuance of credentials by the board of
governors of the Community Colleges.
SB 247 - Grunsky
Establishes minimum retirement allowance
(Chapter 962)
for person who retired from service under
the State Teachers' Retirement System,
was reinstated, and subsequently retired.
SB 249 - Carrell
Appropriates $50,000 for support of the
(Chapter 963)
State Environmental Quality Study Council.
SB 256 - Moscone
Increases allowance of judges who retired
(Chapter 964)
for disability prior to January 1, 1948.
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SB 265 - Burgener
Prescribes provisions that may be contained
(Chapter 965)
in policies where two or more automobile
liability insurance policies are applicable
to same loss and one of such policies affords
coverage to named insured engaged in
renting or leasing commercial vehicles,
as defined, or the leasing of any other
motor vehicle for six months or longer.
SB 272 - Bradley
Provides that certain public entities
(Chapter 966)
entering into a joint powers agreement
may provide that the newly created agency
be composed exclusively of officials elected
to one or more of the governing bodies
of the parties to the agreement.
SB 283 - Rodda
Revises formula for computation of tuition
(Chapter 967)
payments paid by elementary school districts,
to high school districts for attendance of
7th and 8th grades, to reflect receipt
of certain federal funds and the levy of
particular taxes for support of the
elementary level.
SB 294 - Beilenson
Authorizes classes for adults to be
(Chapter 968)
maintained in conjunction with day or
evening regional occupational centers,
as well as with day or evening high schools,
junior colleges, or adult schools.
SB 310 - Whetmore and
Prohbits cities, cities and counties, and
Dills
counties from requiring regulatory licenses
(Chapter 969)
and imposing regulatory license fees with
respect to cafe musicians, and defines cafe
musicians. The bill does not prohibit
the licensing of cafe musicians for
revenue purpose.
SB 334 - Teale
Enacts California Health Facility Construction
(Chapter 970)
Loan Insurance Law to provide public
insurance of health facility construction
loans.
SB 342 - Rodda
Requires that adoption of courses of study
(Chapter 971)
and text-books for history, government and
similar courses with respect to the United
States and California include portrayal
of the roles and contributions of entre-
preneurs and labor.
SB 386 - Cusanovich
Raises fines for violation of truancy laws
(Chapter 972)
by parents from $10 to $25 for first
offense and from $10 -$50 to $25-$250 for
each subsequent offense. Increases maximum
fine to $250 from $100, and deletes minimum
fine of $10 for person who willfully disturbs
any public school or any public school
meeting.
SB 390 - Cusanovich
Requires the county superintendent of
(Chapter 973)
schools to make an annual report to the
Superintendent of Public Instruction,
regarding the number and types of requests
for truancy petitions and certifying whether
or not the districts have complied with the
provisions of Chapter 6, Compulsory Full-
Time Education. Authorizes the governing
boards to adopt rules and regulations to
gather the information required to be
reported to the Superintendent of Public
Instruction.
SB 392 - Teale
Amends the Medical Practice Act to eliminate
(Chapter 974)
June 30, 1963 cut-off date for osteopathic
physicians and surgeons to elect to use
title "M.D.," rather than "D. 0.," and
become subject to jurisdiction of Board
of Medical Examiners rather than Board of
Osteopathic Examiners.
SB 395 - Stiern
Prohibits importation into or transport
(Chapter 975)
within the state of designated species
of wild animals not normally domesticated
in or native to this state except by
permit issued by the Department of Public
Health
SB 407 - Grunsky
Authorizes the Director of Parks and
(Chapter 976)
Recreation to convey a specified right-of-
way in Santa Cruz County to Cabrillo College.
SB 413 - Schmitz
Prohibits the public schools from requiring
(Chapter 977)
attendance at sex education classes,
requiring that parents be given opportunity
to withhold their children from such classes,
and requiring that parents be given
opportunity to review instructional material
before a sex education class is held.
SB 415 - Collier
Provides that an employer may make certain
(Chapter 978)
prior service credit provisions inapplicable
to employees who are hired after a certain
date. Provides that districts as well as
counties may elect to contribute for any
member who is reinstated after military
absence, amounts equal to the contributions
which would have been made by the member
and his employer to the retirement system,
if he had not been absent.
SB 426 - McCarthy
Amends the Water Resources Law of 1945 to
(Chapter 979)
provide that recreational uses shall be
considered in formulation of flood control
or water conservation program. The bill
provides that project design of the
facilities be coordinated with the
Department of Water Resources.
SB 437 - Petris
Amends, adds, and repeals provisions of
(Chapter 980)
the Personal Income Tax Law relating to
definition of educational institutions,
filing of separate returns after filing
joint returns, interest information
returns, refund claims statute of limitations
interest on credits, anti-disclosure,
and access to returns and reports by the
Attorney General.
SB 455 - Short
Changes the license procedures of the
(Chapter 981)
Insurance Department in those cases
where a licensee ( agent, broker or
solicitor) desires or is forced to become
inactive but desires to retain the right
to later resume active status without
retaking the qualifying examination.
SB 459 - Danielson
Increases the maximum statutory liability
(Chapter 982)
of a common carrier for loss of or damage
to each box, bundle, or package and its
contents from $10 to $50, unless a higher
valuation is established as specified.
SB 460 - Mills
Requires that the cemetery authority submit
(Chapter 983)
to the Cemetery Board annual reports on
endowment care funds. It raises from
$50 to $100 per day examiner costs of
endowment care funds payable by cemetery
authority and conducted by the Cemetery
Board whenever examination requires more
than two days. The bill provides where
such examination reveals endowment care
funds improperly invested, Cemetery Board
shall order certain such investments
reinvested within not less than 30, rather
than 180, days.
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SB 472 - Rodda
Provides that a certificated school
(Chapter 984)
district employee, on termination of a
leave of absence, shal serve the district
for a period at least twice as long as
his leave. It also provides a formula
for reimbursing the district if the
employee fails to render the full post-
leave service required.
SB 499 - Schmitz
Authorizes Orange County to exchange
(Chapter 985)
specified property with the Division of
Highways in the Department of Public Works
subject to approval of the Resources
Agency.
SB 504 - Dymally
Provides that seniority credit for veterans
(Chapter 986)
who do not enter state service until more
than one year after discharge will be
limited to two years credit and will be
provided only to those who had no intervening
employment other than temporary work while
attending college or a vocational training
school. It provides further that not more
than five years of schooling shall be
covered and that it must commence within.
one year from discharge.
SB 513 - Marler
Changes the status of the mountain lion
(Chapter 987)
from a non-protected mammal to a game
mammal and provides for the taking of
mountain lion causing or threatening
damage to property by the owner or his
agent. It also provides for $1 mountain
lion tag and requires that except in the
case of damage or threatened damage the
use of such tags will be required.
SB 516 - Marler
Requires the Fish and Game Commission
(Chapter 988)
to encourage multiple recreational use of
wildlife management areas. The bill authoriz
the development of minimum facilities for
camping, picknicking, boating and swimming,
as well as hunting and fishing in the
wildlife management areas. The bill also
allows the commission to set fees for use
to defray the costs of developing the multipl
use areas.
SB 519 - Grunsky
Provides that no person licensed under the
(Chapter 989)
State Medical Practice Act, who in good
faith upon the request of another person
so licensed, renders emergency medical
care to a person for a medical complication
arising from prior care by another person
SO licensed, shall be liable for any civil
damages as a result of any acts or omissions
by such licensed person in rendering such
emergency care.
SB 523 - Sherman,
Limits the time within which a court may
(Chapter 990)
on its own motion recall a sentence and
a commitment to the custody of the Director
of Corrections and resentence to 120
days after the date of commitment.
SB 567 - Danielson
Provides with respect to "final compensation"
(Chapter 991)
for purposes of determining retirement
allowance under the Public Employees' Retireme
System that periods of service separated
by a period of retirement, as well as breaks
in service, may be aggregated to constitute
a period of three consecutive years if
the periods of service are consecutive
except for such period of retirement or
break in service.
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SB 570 - Cusanovich
Revises law relating to truancy and the
(Chapter 992)
reporting of truancy.
SB 579 - Harmer
Authorizes the State College Trustees to
(Chapter 993)
enter into group life and disability contracts
for their employees.
SB 590 - Way
Specifies that the Director of Health Care
(Chapter 994)
Services may suspend or temporarily suspend
prior to hearing a provider of service
from further participation under the
medical assistance program for violation
of the provisions of Medi-Cal or rule or
regulation promulgated thereunder. The
bill authorizes a carrier acting under
regulations adopted by the director to
require prior authorization for services
when the director of the carrier determines
that the provider has been rendering
unnecessary services.
SB 592 - Carrell
Requires the State Department of Public
(Chapter 995)
Health, in cooperation with the State
Department of Education, to conduct a
study of school health services. This bill
provides that funding must come from federal
sources.
SB 608 - Harmer
Provides that the president of each state
(Chapter 996)
college shall be responsible for the propriety
of the expenditure, and the integrity of
the finanical reporting for state appropria-
tions, gifts, bequests, trust funds, grants
and loans or combinations thereof and
auxiliary organizations.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
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#489
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that he has signed the
following bills:
SB 633 - Dymally
Limits the mode of expression by a person
(Chapter 999)
directing, prior to his death, the preparation
for, type and place of interment of his remains,
to written instructions.
SB 642 - Marler
Authorizes California Disaster Office to dispose
(Chapter 1000)
of equipment which was purchased and released
to local governments. The bill affects commu-
nications, attack warning systems and rescue
equipment purchased by the state for use by
local governments in fulfilling their civil
defense obligations. Title to the federal
share has already passed to local governments.
SB 645 - Kennick
Provides that prescribed annual inspections
(Chapter 1001)
conducted by the judge of the juvenile court
and the Department of the Youth Authority be
made with respect to jails, juvenile halls or
lockups which were used for specified confine-
ment of persons known to be under 18 years of
age rather than with respect to such facilities
which were used for such confinement without
regard to whether use occurred knowingly.
SB 650 - Beilenson
Specifically includes frame or receiver of a
(Chapter 1002)
pistol, revolver, and firearm capable of being
concealed upon the person within the definition
of pistol, revolver and such firearm for
specified regulatory purposes.
SB 651 - Beilenson/
Provides, with respect to state regulation of
(Chapter 1003)
possession and transfer of machineguns, that
the definition of "machinegun" also includes
any combination of parts designed and intended
for use in converting a weapon into a machine-
gun.
SB 654 - Dills
Brings dump truck carriers under the provisions
(Chapter 1004)
of the Highway Carrier's Act which is enforced
by the Public Utilities Commission.
SB 660 - Sherman
Repeals the expiration date of the cancer
(Chapter 1005)
quackery law.
SB 662 - Grunsky
Repeals the 1970 termination date for open
(Chapter 1006)
space assessment procedures for the valuation
of land under the Land Conservation Act and
certain scenic easement deeds.
SB 666 - Kennick
Extends retirement reciprocity provisions, which
(Chapter 1007)
are presently limited to members of Public
Employees' Retirement System and certain county
employees, to also permit transfers to and from
certain cities within California.
SB 669 - Lagomarsino/
Provides that a person taken into custody by a
(Chapter 1008)
peace officer or probation officer and who
misrepresents his age as 18 or over must be
released within 48 hours of determing his true
age unless a petition or complaint is filed.
The bill provides that this extension of the
48-hour rule will be granted only if the
misrepresentation of age effected a material
delay in the investigation which prevented the
filing of a petition or complaint within the
prescribed period of time.
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SB 672 - Alquist
Establishes criteria to be used in computing
(Chapter 1009)
average daily attendance of junior college
students enrolled in work experience education
programs.
SB 678 - Short
Provides that, for purpose of provisions of law
(Chapter 1010)
relating to offenses by prisoners, person is
confined in "state prison" if he is confined
in prison or institution under jurisdiction of
Department of Corrections by order made pur-
suant to law, including commitments to Depart-
ment of Corrections or Department of the Youth
Authority, regardless of purpose of such
confinement or validity of order directing
confinement, until judgment of court setting
aside such order becomes final.
SB 680 -- Lagomarsino/
Provides that the Juvenile Court Law does not
(Chapter 1011)
apply to a person who violates any law of
another state defining crime and is at the time
of such violation under 18 years of age, if
such person thereafter flees from that state
into California. The bill authorizes proceedings
against any such person in the manner provided
in specified provisions of the Penal Code
relating to proceedings against fugitives from
justice.
SB 681 - Stevens
Permits retired State Narcotic Agents and CII
(Chapter 1012)
Investigators the privilege of carrying con-
cealed weapons.
SB 688 - Dolwig
Permits the Department of Finance to render
(Chapter 1013)
certain demographic services to any political
subdivision or the federal government upon
terms satisfactory to the Director of Finance
provided that the state shall be reimbursed
for all costs incurred. The bill provides that
revised county population estimates made by
the Department of Finance, other than the first
revision, shall not change the amount of state
money given to local agencies or owed to or
paid to the state by local agencies.
SB 704 - Lagomarsino
Allows the State Lands Commission, in its
(Chapter 1014)
discretion and only after a finding that there
are no known deposits of commercially valuable
minerals within the top 500 feet of the sur-
face of designated state lands, to convey or
otherwise modify the rights of the state to
the use of the surface of such lands and to
entry within such 500 feet which exist in
connection with the mineral rights required by
law to be reserved to the state.
SB 716 - Schmitz
Provides that when a school district adopts a
(Chapter 1015)
higher salary schedule for certificated
employees effective at the beginning of the
second semester, the employees shall receive
not more than half the salary payable under
the previous schedule and not less than half
the salary payable under the new schedule.
SB 719 - Beilenson
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Govern-
(Chapter 1016)
ment Code.
SB 721 - Beilenson
Requires any of the authorized enforcement
(Chapter 1017)
agencies for food crop labor sanitation pro-
visions of the Health and Safety Code to re-
port violators to all offices of the Division
of Farm Labor Service located in the county
where the violations occur. In addition, it
prohibits the division from referring persons
for employment to such violators until the
violation has been corrected.
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SB 723 - Beilenson
Defines "resident student," for purposes of
(Chapter 1018)
state college tuition, to include a minor who
has lived continuously in the state for more
than 10 years rather than a minor who has been
a bona fide resident of the state for more than
10 years.
SB 739 - Coombs
Provides that fee for Department of General
(Chapter 1019)
Services approval of school building plans
shall not be in excess of one-half of one
percent of estimated cost, rather than provid-
ing a schedule for determining the fee.
SB 754 - Way
Specifies that "comparable sales" for property
(Chapter 1020)
tax assessment purposes shall be near in time
to the lien date and comparable in character-
istics.
SB 758 - Marler
Makes it a misdemeanor for any person to assist
(Chapter 1021)
in the escape of any judicially committed, or
remanded, patient of a state hospital, instead
of judicially admitted patient only. The bill
clarifies the section making it a misdemeanor
for any person to furnish, knowingly, a firearm.
to a mental patient in a hospital or institu-
tion SO that it is clear that the hospital
or institution is either a public or private
institution.
SB 759 - Dymally
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Educa-
(Chapter 1022)
tion Code.
SB 769 - Deukmejian
Authorizes the Director of the Youth Authority
(Chapter 1023)
to provide useful work projects to persons
committed to the Youth Authority and to pay
wages for such work from funds made available.
SB 777 - Lagomarsino
Authorizes the Department of General Services,
(Chapter 1024)
with the approval of the State Public Works
Board, to dispose of specified parcels of
property upon giving of public notice and to
transfer certain property to the Department
of Public Works.
SB 798 - Collier
Provides that a board of supervisors shall
(Chapter 1025)
decide on formation of a county road division
after a hearing. The bill authorizes the board
to change boundaries only if it decides to form
the division.
SB 807 - Stiern
Specifies the powers and duties of the Board
(Chapter 1026)
of Governors of the California Community
Colleges and governing boards of junior
college districts and districts maintaining
junior colleges.
SB 815 - Cologne
Permits the San Gorgonio Pass Water Agency to
(Chapter 1027)
condemn property situated outside the agency
upon consent of the board of supervisors of
the county in which such property is located.
SB 817 - Cologne
Provides for the licensing of nonresident
(Chapter 1028)
distributors of hypodermic needles and syringes
doing business in this state.
SB 829 - Dymally
Expands the definition of dependent children
(Chapter 1029)
to include dependent children under 25 who are
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full-time students and dependent children who
are physically or mentally incapacitated, for
whom local public agencies, including school
districts, may pay group accident and health
insurance premiums. Validates establishment of
a pension trust established by a specific
housing authority.
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SB 834 - Dolwig
Permits any state department, board, or
(Chapter 1030)
commission to lease real property for up to
one year subject to approval of the Department
of General Services and provided such leases do
not exceed a total rental of $1,000.
SB 841 - Cologne
States the expiration date of the New Car
(Chapter 1031)
Dealers Policy and Appeals Board is the 91st
day after final adjournment of the 1971 regu-
lar session of the legislature and that
neither the New Car Board or the Cannery
Inspection Board will be affected by the
Governor's Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1969.
SB 846 - Grunsky
Requires the advisory board appointed by Joint
(Chapter 1032)
Legislative Investigating Committee for
Revision of Penal Code to review all proposed
tentative drafts prepared by committee staff
and make whatever recommendations it considers
appropriate. The bill also requires appoint-
ment of a peace officer and a public defender
to the advisory board.
SB 853 - Short
Deletes certain provisions in the Vehicle Code
(Chapter 1033)
which set up standard specifications for some
official traffic control devices and would
direct the Department of Public Works, after
consultation with local agencies, to adopt
standard specifications for all official traf-
fic control devices.
SB 867 - Moscone
Provides that a notice in lieu of a subpoena
(Chapter 1034)
duces tecum may be used to compel production
of books, documents or other things in a civil
action or proceeding by a party to the action
or by a person immediately benefited thereby
or by the agents of such party or person.
SB 878 - Collier
Authorizes Department of Public Works, for
(Chapter 1035)
projects under construction which will not be
completed within the current fiscal year, to
obligate and make available funds, on and
after January 1 preceding the forthcoming
fiscal year, for expenditures on such projects
during the current fiscal year.
SB 884 - Collier
Amends the State Contract Act so as to permit
(Chapter 1036)
more simplified procedures for administering
contracts estimated to cost less than $10,000.
SB 890 - Collier
Increases the amount which may be spent annually
(Chapter 1037)
for maintenance of landscaping and functional
planting along state highways from $10,000,000
to $12,500,000.
SB 893 - Collier
Authorizes the Sonoma Creek Flood Control
(Chapter 1038)
Project in Sonoma County for state payment of
lands and rights-of-way costs required by Corps
of Engineers construction. Recommendations as
to amounts to be appropriated by the legisla-
ture will be made by the Department of Water
Resources.
SB 917 - Song
Limits exemption of hotels and resident clubs
(Chapter 1039)
from regulation as drycleaners to those hotels
or resident clubs whose services in the nature
of drycleaning involve only spotting, sponging
or pressing for their guests or employees only.
SB 919 - Burgener
Authorizes statewide association composed
(Chapter 1040)
exclusively of school district governing boards
or county boards of education, or both, and
Department of Education to conduct annual work-
shops in the state to include but not limit
study and instruction on the subjects of school
finance, the Education Code and related laws,
and the ethics, duties, and responsibilities of
school district governing boards and county
boards of education.
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SB 924 - Burgener
Requires the Director of Social Welfare to
(Chapter 1041)
adopt regulations establishing criteria for
evaluation of allowances provided to applicants
or recipients who reside in a facility operated
by organizations providing any or all basic
needs or reside in a living arrangement paid
for and controlled by an organization. Such
facilities or arrangements are often called
"life-care" situations.
SB 941 - Moscone
Enlarges functions of State Environmental Study
(Chapter 1042)
Council to conduct study into noise emission
control problems. Directs council to appoint
a scientific advisory group to report on the
state of the art of noise control. Requires
council to acquire available federal technical
information.
SB 947 - Lagomarsino
Increases the fine and imprisonment applicable
(Chapter 1043)
to anyone who deposits in, permits to pass
into, or places where it can pass into, the
waters of the state any of certain substances
or materials as specified.
SB 950 - Short
Authorizes State Lands Commission to negotiate
(Chapter 1044)
with, and with the approval of the governor, to
enter into agreements with the United States
concerning the effect of any fill, dredging,
or construction operations, or other activities
on or adjacent to tide and submerged lands
within the County of Ventura upon the boundary
between state-owned submerged lands and outer
continental shelf lands. Provides that such
agreements may, without limiting scope of
agreements, waive on behalf of state any
increases in submerged lands resulting from
such activities which would otherwise inure
to the state. Requires finding of public
interest prior to entering into such agreements.
SB 951 - Sherman
Prohibits the Department of Motor Vehicles'
(Chapter 1045)
order of suspension or revocation of the
driving privilege or order imposing terms or
conditions of probation relative to safe
operation of a vehicle in specified situations
from becoming effective until 30 days, rather
than 10 days, after the giving of written
notice to the person affected.
SB 958 - Mills
Provides that land leased by an irrigation
(Chapter 1046)
district to the Department of Parks and Recrea-
tion at a reduced rental will have the taxes
on that land reduced in proportion to the
reduction in rental.
SB 983 - Petris
Adds continuation education to provisions
(Chapter 1047)
presently authorizing maximum school districts
tax rate increase of $0.05 per $100 of assessed
valuation in elementary or high school districts
and $0.10 per $100 of assessed valuation in
unified school districts for support of oppor-
tunity schools.
SB 984 - Dolwig
Increases the maximum amount of money which
(Chapter 1048)
may be raised by an annual tax to support the
police department in a police protection
district.
SB 988 - Richardson
Makes eligible for Cal-Vet loan benefits all
(Chapter 1049)
those California veterans who served 90 or more
days on or after August 5, 1964. The bill
deletes the requirement that a campaign medal
must have been awarded. It places Vietnam
veterans in the same position as veterans of
other wars.
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SB 1001 - Sherman
Revises various Business and Professions Code
(Chapter 1050)
provisions relating to inactivating of and
reinstating or renewing licenses of real
estate brokers or salesmen.
SB 1010 - Short
Authorizes the Department of Public Works to
(Chapter 1051)
participate in fringe parking facility demon-
stration projects provided for by Federal-Aid
Highway Act of 1968.
SB 1013 - Lagomarsing
Establishes the Resources Protection Account
(Chapter 1052)
in the General Fund to be used for resources
affected by state highways and for facilities
along state highways for overnight recrea-
tional use. It requires the Department of
Public Works to determine the value of certain
property it acquires and to deposit such
amount in the Resources Protection Account. The
bill appropriates $100, 000 from this account
for 1969-70 to be allocated by the Director of
Finance upon recommendation by the Resources
Secretary.
SB 1105 - Bradley
Provides that school district governing boards
(Chapter 1053)
shall act by majority vote of all of the
members of the board.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE:
Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
9-2-69
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Governor Ronald Reagan announced today he has signed the
following bills:
AB 870 - Zenovich
Exempts from withdrawal procedure and fee
(Chapter 1055)
insurance companies that are merging with
an admitted insurer providing that they
receive the Insurance Commissioner's
prior written consent.
AB 1000 - Dent
Authorizes a peace officer, in cases involvin
(Chapter 1056)
traffic accidents to issue and deliver a
written notice of violation to any person
who he has reasonable cause to believe has
committed a violation of the Vehicle Code
not declared to be a felony, or a violation
of local vehicle ordinance.
AB 1027 - Milias
Creates the Mountain View Shoreline Regional
(Chapter 1109)
Community Park in Santa Clara County.
AB 1061 - Veysey
Provides a new method for the taxation
(Chapter 1057)
of livestock. The new tax is five mills
($0.005) per head-day on all livestock
subject to the Act except sheep. The rate
on sheep is 0.55 of one mill ($0.00055)
per head-day on all sheep. Covered by the
Act are cattle other than dairy cattle,
male animals held for breeding purposes,
and sheep. The tax will be administered
by county officials pursuant to rules and
regulations of the State Board of Equalizatio
AB 1082 - Campbell
Requires the governing board of school
(Chapter 1058)
district to increase the salary of classified
employees for the period he is required
to work out of classification, if the
period exceeds 5 days within 15 calendar
days.
AB 1087 - Fong
Changes the period of scholarships, relating
(Chapter 1059)
to nursing education, awarded to persons
under specified provisions from 10 months
to 12 months.
AB 1093 - Priolo
Provides for submission to the voters at
(Chapter 1060)
1970 primary election of Assembly
Constitutional Amendments Nos. 28, 29, 30,
and 31.
AB 1113 - Deddeh
Revises provision allocating costs of
(Chapter 1061)
engineering and traffic surveys to determine
the need for traffic control devices near
schools, by deleting requirement that they
be borne equally by the requesting school
district and the city, county, city and
county, or state agency involved, and by
providing that the city, county, city and
county, or state agency involved may require
the requesting school district to pay an
amount not to exceed 50 percent of the
costs of such survey.
AB 1137 - Beverly
Provides that an insurer may insure against
(Chapter 1062)
expense of defending suit for serious and
willful miscondut by an employer or his
agent.
AB 1144 - Z/Berg/
Requires FEPC to maintain liaison with
(Chapter 1063)
human relations commissions of cities,
counties and city and county, and to
provide any non-confidential information
to such commissions on request.
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AB 1147 - Burke
Extends the license period of Motor Vehicles
(Chapter 1064)
Pollution Control Device and Inspection
Stations to provide that they are valid for
not less than one year nor more than four
years, as established by the Commissioner
of the Highway Patrol, rather than only
one year.
AB 1219 - Stull
Authorizes the Department of Water Resources
(Chapter 1065)
to grant under the Davis-Grunsky Act to the
Poway Municipal Water District up to $860,000
for recreation and fish and wildlife enhancement
in connection with the construction of the
Poway Water Storage Project.
AB 1221 - Russell
Provides that the money penalty in lieu of
(Chapter 1066)
suspension of license or other action against
an insurer found for the first time by the
Insurance Commissioner to have violated the
insurance law shall not exceed 20 percent of
gross commission, rather than 1½ percent
of gross premiums, or any unlawfully received
and retained amount such as a rebate.
AB 1239 - Greene, B.
Authorizes cities and counties to contract
(Chapter 1067)
and cooperate with federal, state and local
agencies and private entities in federal
housing programs and other federal programs,
and to do all acts necessary to participate
therein.
AB 1240 - Greene, B
Changes the name of the Division of Job
(Chapter 1068)
Training and Development within the
Department of Human Resources Development to
the Division of Job Training, Development
and Placement. The bill authorizes an Office
of Manpower Utilization within that Division
to plan and develop entry level jobs for
economically disadvantaged persons and specifie
purpose and functions of the office.
AB 1245 - Barnes
Provides that school districts which participat
(Chapter 1069)
in federally financed programs shall charge
the Federal Government for all retirement
costs associated with such service including
that portion which is presently financed by
the State General Fund.
AB 1308 - Stull
Authorizes the Department of Water Resources
(Chapter 1070)
to grant under the Davis-Grunsky Act to the
City of Escondido up to $857, 600 for recreation
and fish and wildlife enhacement, in connection
with the construction of the Dixon Dam and
Reservoir Project.
AB 1312 - Veysey
Provides that for the current fiscal year
(Chapter 1071)
only, upon approval of the Superintendent of
Public Instruction, the deductible amount of f
fire insurance for any school district may
exceed $1,000 for each occurrence.
AB 1327 - Knox
Authorizes the Commission on Peace Officer
(Chapter 1072)
Standards and Training to carry out specified
functions and programs and allocate money
therefor, with respect to peace officer
members of regional park districts and
policemen of districts authorized by statute
to maintain police department.
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AB 1335 - Dunlap
Specifies eligibility of designated persons
(Chapter 1073)
to be granted psychiatric technicians' licenses
without examination. States that no provision
of chapter relating to psychiatric technicians
shall be construed to prevent persons from
performing specified services for purpose of
training to qualify for licensure under a
program authorized by the Board of Vocational
Nurse Examiners of the State of California.
Provides that persons may perform services
limited to licensed psychiatric technicians
if they are training in another professional
field.
AB 1388 - Moorhead/
Amends the California Uniform Gifts to
(Chapter 1074)
Minors Act to permit the donor to designate,
in the same transaction and by the same
document by which the gift is made, one or
more successor custodians to serve consecutively
under conditions prescribed in the bill.
AB 1407 - Chappie
Provides for regulation and identification
(Chapter 1075)
of snow-mobiles as vehicles exempt from
registration but provides for payment of a
$5 fee and issuance of an identification
plate.
AB 1408 - Chappie
Grants authority to certain junior college
(Chapter 1076)
districts meeting specific criteria, to
award bids for the initial equipment of
buildings and facilities which have been
approved by the Board of Governos of the
Community Colleges and the Department of
Finance.
AB 1412 - Greene, B
Makes provision allowing governing board to
(Chapter 1077)
recommend minimum educational and work
experience requirements for classified
service positions, requiring the personnel
commission, in approving such requirements, and
requiring position duties and qualifications
to be prepared and approved prior to issuance
of announcement for competitive examination
to fill position vacancies, applicable to
school districts with a.d.a. of more than
400,000 and to junior college district in
territory of city with population of more
than 4,000,000.
AB 1421 - Chappie
Authorizes the Department of Alcoholic
(Chapter 1078)
Beverage Control to issue four additional
original on-sale general licenses in any
county where the inhabitants number less than
7,000 and where the major economy of the
county is dependent upon the continual use
of that county's recreational facilities.
Provides that to qualify for such a license
a premises must have a seating capacity for
100 or more diners.
AB 1466 - Duffy
Authorizes director to adopt rules and
(Chapter 1079)
regulations for payment of services by
monthly payment for each recipient and for
methods of enrollment. Provides that the
department may provide that once enrolled
the enrollment of the recipient may not be
terminated, except for good cause, within
one year of enrollment.
AB 1491 - Gonsalves
Eliminates January 1, 1969, termination date
(Chapter 1080)
on authority of Professional Engineers Board
to register industrial engineers without
examination, re-opens opportunity to apply
for such registration without examination
until January 1, 1970.
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AB 1509 - Priolo
Under specified conditions, authorizes
(Chapter 1081)
the Insurance Commissioner to deny the right
of cancellation on fire insurance policies
unless 60 days' notice is given.
AB 1558 - Bagley
Requires school districts when referring
(Chapter 1082)
to a pupil's surname to use the surname
on the document submitted to prove the pupil's
age for admission to school. If the surname
has been changed subsequently pursuant to
judicial process, the surname shown on the
court order shall be used.
AB 1588 - Burkel
Directs the escrow holder required in
(Chapter 1083)
alcoholic beverage business of license
transfer involving purchase price or
consideration to notify the transferor's
bona fide creditor who files a claim with
escrow holder, in a case where the transferor
disputes the claim.
AB 1596 - Stacey
Directs the State Department of Public
(Chapter 1084)
Health to maintain, in cooperation with
local agencies, Emergency Medical Services
Program, and enumerates functions. Provides
program shall terminate if federal funds
become unavailable.
AB 1599 - Stacey
Authorizes the Kern Delta Water District
(Chapter 1086)
to adopt a water allocation plan and establish
ground water charges and assessments.
AB 1600 - Stacey
Amends the Water Storage District Law to
(Chapter 1086)
clarify procedures and broaden the authority
of a district to finance projects and contracts
AB 1601 - Stacey
Revises fee schedule for waterright application:
(Chapter 1087)
and establishes an annual application fee
equal to the amount in such schedule if the
application is delayed. Requires payment
of fee equal to one-half the amount specified
in the fee schedule for applications at the
time the permit is issued.
AB 1613 - Greene,
B
Requires governing board of each school
(Chapter 1088)
district to prescribe regulations requiring the
evaluation of pupil's achievement for each
marking period and requiring written report
to, or conference with, parents of failing
pupil not later than the week during which
the end of the first half of instruction
for the course falls.
AB 1623 - Miller
Requires each sheriff and chief of police
(Chapter 1089)
to furnish the Bureau of Criminal Statistics
with a specified annual report of justifiable
homicides committed in his jurisdiction.
AB 1667 - Foran
Authorizes officers of the University of
(Chapter 1116)
California Police Department to remove
vehicles from University property.
AB 1692 - Unruh
Authorizes the Los Angeles County Board of
(Chapter 1090)
Supervisors to lease property to nonprofit
entities, not to exceed 40 years and without
bidding, for public medical or dental schools
use including related public health care
facilities, title to revert to the county
upon end of lease.
AB 1698 - Moorhead
Eliminates the requirement that narcotics
(Chapter 1091)
and opium pipes which are required to be
turned over to the Department of Justice
be turned over immediately. The bill also
provides method for the seizure and disposition
of restricted dangerous drugs.
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AB 1939 - Chappie
Authorizes issuance by the Department of
(Chapter 1092)
Fish and Game of a permit for delivery by a
licensed domesticated fish breeder of live,
domesticated fish to a licensed wholesale
fish dealer or processor. The bill requires
such dealer or processor to kill such fish
and then to tag or package the fish in a
prescribed manner.
AB 1992 - Pattee
Raises the maximum amount of a contract of a
(Chapter 1093)
school district for materials or supplies
(but not for work to be done) exempt from
the lowest responsible bidder requirement
from $4,000 to $5,000. The bill also permits
a school district, with an average daily
attendance of 1,000 or more, to let a contract
for materials or supplies, but not for work to
be done, to the lowest responsible bidder
without publishing the bid notice if the
cost estimate is less than $8,000 rather
than $7,000.
AB 1993 - Pattee
Increases amount of surety bond required of
(Chapter 1094)
farm labor contractors to $5,000 from $1,500.
AB 2243 - Crandall
Changes the cutoff date for filing an applicatic
(Chapter 1095)
for reassessment with the county board of
equalization from August 26 to September 15
in counties of the second to ninth classes.
AB 2256 - Campbell
Makes it a misdemeanor for unauthorized
(Chapter 1096)
persons to willfully and knowingly enter
into and remain within an area immediately
surrounding any command post activated to
abate any calamity or riot or other civil
disturbance if such area has been closed
by certain peace officers.
AB 2263 - McCarthy
Authorizes the Trustees of the California
(Chapter 1097)
State Colleges to rent, lease, sell, or trade
state property used for the San Francisco
State College Downtown Center.
AB 2273 - Stull
Revises definition of "veteran" and
(Chapter 1098)
"disabled veteran" as those terms are used
with reference to merit systems in school
districts.
AB 2302 - Fenton
Increases the homestead which may be selected
(Chapter 1099)
and claimed by person 65 years of age or older
who is not head of a family from not exceeding
$75,000 to not exceeding $15,000 in actual
cash value over and above all liens and
encumbrances on property at time of levy of
execution.
AB 2357 - Crandall
Raises the permissive interest rate on
(Chapter 1100)
State College Revenue Bond Act of 1947 revenue
bond anticipation notes and revenue bonds
from 6 percent to 7 percent.
SB 14 - Collier
Authorizes placement of yield right-of-way
(Chapter 1101)
signs at entrances to any highway or inter-
section rather than only those which are not
through highways. The bill also clarifies
requirements to yield the right-of-way at
intersections controlled by a stop sign.
SB 38 - Stiern
Exempts transfers of real property from
(Chapter 1102)
documentary transfer taxes, if any entity of
government is acquiring title, rather than
providing for the collection of such taxes
from the other party liable therefor.
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SB 225 - Rodda
Authorizes the State Board of Education,
(Chapter 1110)
for purposes of any provision of California
Constitution which requires adoption of
a series of textbooks for use in elementary
schools; to adopt one or more separate
series of textbooks for any of several courses,
or any combination of such courses, offered
in elementary schools.
SB 368 - Moscone
Authorizes the widow and any surviving
(Chapter 1111)
children of a private citizen who prevented
a crime, apprehended a criminal, aided in
preventing a crime, or aided in the apprehensic
of a criminal and who died as a consequence
thereof, to file a claim with the Board of
Control for compensation for such death and
for any related personal injury and property
damage, to extent not compensated from any
other source. Limits amount of claim which
may be approved by board to $5,000. To be
operative only upon enactment of SB 108.
SB 510 - Carrell
Provides that driver training can be offered
(Chapter 1103)
only to pupils who are at least 15½¹₂ years of
age at the completion of a driver training
course and not more than 18 years of age
at the time of enrollment in such a course.
SB 532 - McCarthy
Provides that institutional prisoners fighting
(Chapter 1112)
a fire at the request of the United States
Government shall be employees of the State
Department of Corrections for purposes of
workmen's compensation. Cost of workmen's
compensation can be considered in fixing
the reimbursement paid by the United States
for the services of prisoners.
SB 632 - Grunsky
Authorizes person with designated subject
(Chapter 1113)
credentials in vocational education to
teach physically handicapped minors in
special day or remedial classes. The bill
also permits a $910 allowance for reader
services, mobility instruction, and purchase
of braille books to also be used for individual
supplemental instruction in vocational arts,
business arts or homemaking.
SB 635 - Carrell
Extends authorization to conduct driver
(Chapter 1104)
training programs to county superintendents
of schools, the California Youth Authority and
the Department of Education.
SB 658 - Lagomarsing
Requires each applicant for a commission
(Chapter 1105)
merchant or produce dealers license or for
the renewal of such license to include a
financial statement with the application.
It authorizes the Director to require a current
financial statement when he has reason to
believe a licensee is in an unsound financial
condition.
SB 734 - Beilenson
Deletes provisions authorizing construction
(Chapter 1106)
of state college student body center buildings
to be financed by means of borrowing in whole
or in part under specified conditions by the
student organization. The bill also provides
that all state college student fees collected,
under specified provisions shall be available
for financing, operating, and constructing
a student body center.
SB 822 - Marks
Provides that textbook contracts entered
(Chapter 1114)
into by the State Board of Education shall
include the right to reproduce the book
to make it useable for handicapped minors.
This bill further authorizes the State Board
of Education to produce or contract for
production of texts for the use of handicapped
minors, and makes related changes.
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SB 840 - Burgener
Consolidates the statutes relating to
(Chapter 1107)
functions and programs of the Department of
Rehabilitation into the Welfare and
Institutions Code.
SB 851 - Marler
Provides that a documentary transfer tax
(Chapter 1108)
is not to be paid by a government agency
when it is acquiring property. A tax will
be paid where a public agency conveys title
to real property.
SB 1018 - Lagomarsino
Provides for State cooperation in implementatio
(Chapter 1115)
of a national flood insurance program. It
permits the Department of Water Resources to
cooperate in studies of flood prone ageas
and management of such lands as are effected
by flooding; review and comment on flood
insurance applications made by local agencies;
and provides assistance to public agencies
in identification of flood areas and development
of plans for management.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
9-3-69
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Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that he has signed the
following bills:
AB 44 - Veysey
Exempts a trap wagon or spray rig when empty or
(Chapter 1214)
when transporting not more than 1,000 gallons of
flammable liquids from provisions relating to
the transportation of flammable liquids on
highways.
AB 54 - Greene, L.
Revises minimum age requirements in special
(Chapter 1215)
education programs to reflect minimum age of
six for compulsory attendance at public schools.
AB 83 - Chappie
Increases salary of supervisors in Tuolumne
(Chapter 1216)
County from $7,800 per year to $8,700 per year.
AB 100 - Dunlap
Provides for the establishment of salary and
(Chapter 1217)
classification of the superior court judicial
secretary in Solano County by approval of the
board of supervisors and a majority of the
judges of the superior court.
AB 122 - Schabarum
Requires the Division of Industrial Welfare to
(Chapter 1218)
appoint such staff as needed to carry out its
duties and to loan the necessary staff to the
Industrial Welfare Commission during periods
when the commission is revising its orders.
The Industrial Welfare Commission is to include
a statement which is concurred in by a majority
of the commissioners indicating a basis upon
which each revised order is predicated. To
afford legislative review the orders of the
commission are to be promulgated during the first
three calendar months of the year and become
effective on a date fixed by the commission
which is not less than 60 nor more than 90 days
from the publication of the orders.
AB 124 - Deddeh
Provides generally for payment by the state of
(Chapter 1219)
assessments against state-owned land used for
public functions, rather than, as now, for
payment by city benefited by improvements when
assessments remain unpaid for period of 30 days.
Makes exception as to property acquired prior
to recordation of notice of assessment or notice
of award of contract for assessment within
boundaries of a state highway or freeway or
route therefor. Provides that state is not
obligated to pay such assessment until
legislature has appropriated funds to make
payments therefor. No direct state cost. Any
assessments would be subject fo future
appropriations by the legislature.
AB 158 - Hayes
Deletes requirements for a coroner's jury and
(Chapter 1220)
instead permits the hearing to be conducted by
the coroner, his deputy or a hearing officer.
The bill requires the coroner to subpoena all
persons whose names have been given to him by
the next of kin, attorney for the next of kin
or the district attorney if he believes they
are necessary witnesses. Findings by the
coroner or coroner's jury shall not include
nor make any reference to civil or criminal
responsibility on the part of the deceased.
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AB 162 - Z'berg
Requires a notice of payment which is due to be
(Chapter 1221)
mailed by registered mail to the owner of
property delinquent on bond payments before
certain actions for foreclosure of bond lien
under the Improvement Act of 1911 are commenced.
AB 174 - Chappie
Requires the State Lands Commission to conduct
(Chapter 1222)
research and investigations, as well as title
searches, of Lake Tahoe beaches dedicated for
public use. The bill allows the commission to
contract with individuals, private organizations,
and public agencies to conduct such research and
investigations.
AB 192 - Waxman
Authorizes the solicitation of funds and
(Chapter 1223)
recruitment of members or workers, during school
hours, by a nonpartisan, charitable organization
organized by act of Congress for charitable
purposes for nonpartisan and charitable purposes
with the approval of the county board of
education of the governing board of the school
district.
AB 219 - Bagley
Requires meetings of Regents of University of
(Chapter 1224)
California to be open to the public. Authorizes
the holding of special meetings so long as
public is notified in specified manner of the
time and place of meetings. Excepts meetings
to consider matters relating to national
security, the conferring of honorary degrees
or other honors, matters involving gifts,
devises and bequests and matters involving
purchase and sale of investments for endowment
and pension funds; matters involving litigation
where open discussion could adversely affect
public interest, matters involving acquisition
and disposition of property, matters relating
to complaints or charges against employees of
university unless employee requests public
hearing, and matters relating to appointment,
employment, performance, compensation, or
dismissal of officers and employees.
AB 232 - Cory
Changes the date or organizational meeting of
(Chapter 1225)
the Democratic State Central Committee from the
day following a Saturday in August following the
direct primary to the fourth Sunday in January
following a general election. The bill changes
the date of organizational meetings of the
Democratic county central committees from the
second Tuesday in July following primary to the
second Monday after first day in January
following the primary.
AB 257 - Barnes
Clarifies and makes minor amendments in
(Chapter 1226)
service credit provisions.
AB 258 - Barnes
Revises, without substantive change, provisions
(Chapter 1227)
of retirement statutes relating to employment
of retired persons.
AB 375 - Brathwaite
Establishes a program to provide relocation
(Chapter 1228)
assistance and information to owners of homes,
businesses and farms taken for purposes of
airport expansion and development.
AB 402 - Hom
Authorizes state, county or city authorities
(Chapter 1229)
charged with maintenance or operation of any
highway, highway facilities or public works
facilities, in cases necessitating prompt work
on or service to such highway or facility, to
move to nearest available parking location any
unattended vehicle which obstructs or interferes
with the performance of such work or service or,
if such moving would be impractical, to remove
and store such vehicle.
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AB 424 - Townsend
Permits contributions to pension funds and to
(Chapter 1230)
health and welfare benefit to be made by state,
city, and county in same manner as private
employer.
AB 455 - Porter
Authorizes the Department of Public Works to 1
(Chapter 1054)
lease to a local agency for park purposes the
remaining portion of land, not to exceed 200
feet from the closest boundary of the state
highway or public work, where the department
acquires a whole parcel of land and only a part
of it is needed for highway purposes.
AB 478 - Biddle, et al
Enacts the Tear Gas Act of 1969. Exempts from
(Chapter 1231)
definition of tear gas any economic poison, as
defined, not intended for use to produce
discomfort or injury to human beings. The bill
defines "tear gas weapon" and regulates selling,
purchasing, possessing, and transporting such
weapons. The bill further requires the Commissio
of Peace Officer Standards and Training to
prepare course of instruction in use of tear gas.
AB 480 - McCarthy
Authorizes the State Water Resources Control
(Chapter 1232)
Board to make water quality control studies of
the type made by the board pursuant to Chapter
1351, Statutes of 1965. This bill authorizes
continuation of the Bay=Delta Study within the
State Water Resources Control Board.
AB 494 - Badham
Makes several clarifying amendments to the
(Chapter 1233)
Employment Agency Act regarding fees, exemptions,
notice requirements, contracts, disassociation
of qualifying persons and qualifications of
Advisory Board members.
AB 518 - Z'berg
Authorizes the Attorney General, in connection
(Chapter 1234)
with actions brought pursuant to state or federal
antitrust laws for recovery of damages by state
or its political subdivisions or public agencies,
to enter into contracts relating to investigation
and prosecution of such action with any other
party plaintiff who has brought a similar action.
AB 521 - Ketchum
Authorizes Department of Water Resources, upon
(Chapter 1235)
demonstration by the district of the statewide
interest in the project, to grant under the
Davis-Grunsky Act, to the County of Kern an
amount of $5,620,000 for enhancement of fish and
wildlife and recreation in connection with
construction of the Buena Vista Aquatic
Recreation Area Project. Also provides that
the grant not be made until a favorable project
report is filed with the legislature.
AB 544 - Chappie
Creates the Tuolumne County Water Agency,
(Chapter 1236)
consisting of the territory of Tuolumne County.
AB 558 - Priolo
Provides for proportionate relief against
(Chapter 1237)
liability to participate in assigned risk
program for property difficult to insure to
insurers who voluntarily write basic property
insurance in areas designated as "brush hazard
areas. =
AB 622 - Badham
Requires the State Lands Commission, whenever
(Chapter 1238)
the granting of a permit for geological or
geophysical surveys, or the offering of any tide
or submerged land etc., is being considered, to
hold, prior to granting the permit, a public
hearing and give not less than 60 days notice
thereof to each city and county adjacent to the
area involved.
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AB 623 - Chappie
Provides that a person is a resident student of
(Chapter 1239)
this state for state college residency
determinations for the year immediately following
the date he becomes 21 years of age if he was
deemed to be a resident student under specified
conditions.
AB 658 - Brown
Requires Youth Authority to adopt standard
(Chapter 1240)
governing confinements of minors in juvenile
halls.
AB 666 - Briggs
Enacts the "Pure Pet Food Act of 1969. #
Chapter 1241)
AB 675 - Burke
Permits the issuance of small identification
(Chapter 1242)
plates for publicly owned special construction
equipment, special mobile equipment and
cemetery equipment for no fee.
AB 692 - Moorhead
Requires that in the application to disability
(Chapter 1243)
insurance of provisions relating to insolvency,
reserves for unearned premiums and amounts
estimated to reinsure outstanding risks are to
be determined according to designated provisions.
AB 712 - MacGillivray
Requires priority status be given project for
(Chapter 1244)
the construction of the Imperial Valley
Warmwater Hatchery.
AB 720 - Deddeh
Authorizes the Department of Public Works and
(Chapter 1245)
County of San Diego to enter into a joint powers
agreement relative to joint acquisition of
rights-of-way for State Highway Route 54 and
the Sweetwater Flood Control Project.
AB 747 - Campbell
Permits the governing board of a school district
(Chapter 1246)
to increase the annual salaries of persons
requiring certification qualifications during
the school year at any time rather than only when
the board has retained this right to increase the
salaries of such employees by rules and
regulations adopted by the board prior to the
commencement of the school year or when the
contracts of such employees contain such
provisions.
AB 776 - Gonsalves
Extends date of notice of election to receive
(Chapter 1247)
credit for service as safety member under County
Employees Retirement Law of 1937 from April 1,
1968, to April 1, 1970. Makes provisions giving
right to have past service credited as safety
membership service effective until April 1, 1970,
rather than April 1, 1968. Includes within such
provisions persons employed in active fire
suppression service prior to January 1, 1965.
Allows member of retirement system employed in
active law enforcement or fire suppression who
could have elected to become a safety member.
Permits the member to elect to receive credit for
service as a safety member from 1955, rather than
from 1952.
AB 798 - Lewis
Includes additional violations which are not
(Chapter 1248)
required to be reported by the court clerk or
judge, within 10 days after conviction, to the
Department of Motor Vehicles.
AB 816 - Priolo
Increases the bond for a yacht and ship broker's
(Chapter 1249)
license or renewal from $2,500 to $5,000 and
transfers funds in the Yacht and Ship Brokers
Fund to the Harbors and Watercraft Revolving Fund.
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AB 819 - Beverly
Will extend from 10 to 15 years the period
(Chapter 1250)
during which the California legislature may
appropriate, for administrative expenses of the
Department of Employment, federal "Reed Act"
money. Changes the period to be utilized in
connection with appropriations for administrative
expenses from, and determines the availability
of moneys therefor in, the state's account in
Unemployment Trust Fund under federal Social
Security Act from 10 to 15 fiscal years.
AB 866 - Hayes
Prohibits, with prescribed exceptions, the
(Chapter 1251)
concealment of a child proposed to be adopted
within the county in which adoption proceedings
pertaining to the child are pending or, except
with court approval, the removal of such child
from such county. The bill makes violation of
the prohibition a crime.
AB 886 - Mobley
Raises the maximum interest rate payable on bonds
(Chapter 1252)
issued pursuant to the Veterans Bond Act of
1968 to 7 percent. To become operative, ACA 87
must be approved by the voters.
AB 896 - Hayes
Makes existing motor vehicle air pollution
(Chapter 1253)
emission standards for gasoline-powered motor
vehicles applicable to motor vehicles which
have been modified or altered to use a fuel other
than gasoline or diesel. The bill requires the
State Air Resources Board to adopt test
procedures to establish that Such motor vehicles
are in compliance with specified standards.
AB 907 - Knox
Requires approval of faculty adviser to student
(Chapter 1254)
body organization and representative of student
body organization, as well as employee or
official designated by governing board of school
district, for expenditure of funds of such
organization.
AB 909 - Stull
Requires the Director of Social Welfare to
(Chapter 1255)
immediately serve a copy of a request for a
public assistance appeal on the other party to
the hearing and allows such other party to file
a written statement supporting or objecting to
the requests.
AB 930 - Lanterman
Provides for apportionment of a condemnation
(Chapter 1256)
award between holder of senior lien and holder
of junior lien in a specified manner and under
designated circumstances in cases where only a
portion of encumbered property is sought to be
taken, where encumbered property sought to be
taken or some portion of it is also encumbered
by junior lien, and where junior lien is against
only a portion of the property is encumbered by
senior lien.
AB 934 - Miller
Authorizes governing board of a school district
(Chapter 1257)
which establishes and supervises a work
experience education program in which mentally
retarded students are employed in part-time jobs
to use funds derived from any source, to the
extent permissible by appropriate Law or
regulation, to pay wages of such students.
AB 937 - Crandall
Provides that grants to students under College
(Chapter 1258)
Opportunity Grant Program may be made to students
who are admitted to and enroll in a California
public community or junior college accepted as a
recognized candidate for accreditation by the
Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
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AB 939 - Murphy
Provides whenever an arrested person is booked
(Chapter 1259)
for a misdemeanor it would require that there
be an immediate check into the person's back-
ground to determine whether he is a fit subject
for immediate release upon notice to appear.
Whenever a defendant is unable to obtain his
release from pre-trial custody within a week
after having his bail set, he will be entitled
to an automatic review of his case to determine
whether bail should be lowered. The bill would
also provide for an automatic transference of
bail from one accusatory pleading to another
when both pleadings charge offenses arising from
the same set of facts.
AB 957 - Greene, B.
Provides that a joint apprenticeship committee
(Chapter 1260)
shall have the discretion to exempt a public
works contractor from certain apprentices to
journeymen ratio requirements under specified
conditions. The bill provides that individual
contractors will not be required to obtain
exemptions from local joint apprenticeship
committees when an organization representing
contractors on a statewide basis has been
granted the exemptions, provided such individual
contractors are already covered by local
apprenticeship standards.
AB 984 - Wilson
Revises requirements relating to the notice which
(Chapter 1261)
every person, including the insurer, who makes
advance payment or partial payment of damages
as an accommodation to an injured person or to
heirs of deceased person is required to make
to the recipient thereof.
AB 996 - Fong
Permits State Department of Education, as well
(Chapter 1262)
as school districts and county boards of
education, to contract with teacher-training
institutions for assignment of certificated
personnel to the institution for a period not to
exceed one year. Permits such employment to
be on a part-time as well as full-time basis.
AB 997 - Fong
Authorizes the State Board of Public Health and
(Chapter 1263)
the State Department of Public Health to consult
with the California Conference of Local Health
Officers on matters affecting health generally.
AB 1094 - Knox
Codifies various provisions now found in Art.XI
(Chapter 1264)
of California Constitution relative to cities
and counties which are to be omitted from
proposed revision of this article. The bill is
operative on adoption by the voters of Assembly
Constitutional Amendment No. 29.
AB 1100 - Dunlap
Provides that school district governing board
(Chapter 1265)
shall prescribe rules for government and
discipline, rather than government only, of
schools under its jurisdiction. Provides that
such provisions may be enforced by suspending,
or, if necessary, expelling pupils who refuse
or neglect to obey such rules.
AB 1123 - Campbell
Permits school marching bands to perform at
(Chapter 1266)
private athletic events under certain conditions.
AB 1220 - Mobley
Makes records of special proceedings of any
(Chapter 1267)
board of inquiry convened by the commanding
general of the state military forces to investi-
gate any accidents involving National Guard
aircraft for purpose of preventing future
accidents not admissible for any purpose in the
courts. Requires collateral investigation when-
ever such accidents involve property damage or
personal injury to ascertain the cause and makes
records of such collateral investigations
subject to discovery.
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AB 1325 Lanterman
Provides that the state miscellaneous
(Chapter 1268)
members with 20 or more years of service
may elect to have 3 years' military service
terminating within 10 days of entering state
service counted as state service for
disability retirement purposes.
AB 1356 - Wilson
Includes firefighting employees within the
(Chapter 1269)
definition of "public employee" for purposes
of the public employer-emplcyee relations
law.
AB 1410 - Veysey
Provides for reimbursement by local govern-
(Chapter 1270)
ment to a school district for cost of educa-
tion in grades kindergarten to 12 of non-
citizen children without immigration status
in same manner as nonimmigrant children.
AB 1444 - Deddeh
Amends the County Employees Retirement Law
(Chapter 1271)
of 1937 to permit the board of retirement
in a county system to pay for all or a
portion of the premiums on a policy or
certificate of life insurance or disability
insurance required for the benefits under
the bill; such payments to be made from the
reserves over and above the one percent limit
on the total assets of the retirement fund.
AB 1475 - MacDonald
Provides that the funds of wards, patients
(Chapter 1272)
of state hospitals, or inmates under the
control of the Directors of Youth Authority,
Mental Hygiene or Corrections, respectively,
may be invested by such director when
authorized by the inmate or patient or a
person in his behalf, in securities eligible
for the investment of surplus state moneys.
AB 1539 - Schabarum
Authorizes conveyance of all lands included
(Chapter 1273)
within the Puddingstone State Recreation Area
to the County of Los Angeles upon specified
conditions.
AB 1595 - Stacey
Provides that cost reports, the basis for
(Chapter 1274)
computation of nursing home per diem rates,
be considered as true and correct unless
audited within 18 months after July 1, 1959,
close of the period covered by the report,
or the date of submission of an amended re-
port, whichever is later.
AB 1700 - Beverly
Enacts Insurance Holding Company System
(Chapter 1275)
Regulatory Act to permit, under prescribed
conditions, domestic insurer, either alone
or in cooperation with any one or more
others, to organize or acquire one or more
subsidiaries through investments in securities,
mergers and other means, Provides for
administration by Insurance Commissioner.
AB 1716 - Beverly
Authorizes the Director of Parks and Recrea-
(Chapter 1276)
tion to transfer specified parcels of park
units or portions thereof upon terms and
conditions as the director determines are in
the best interests of the state park system
and to retain specified property within the
system for two years from effective date of
act.
AB 1738 - Britschgi
Prohibits a winegrower or brandy manufacturer
(Chapter 1277)
from selling in his off-sale premises any
wine or brandy, other than wine or brandy
produced or produced and packaged for him
and which is sold under a brand name owned by
him (operative July 1, 1970). The bill also
provides that when a winegrower has not
carried on the business of a winegrower
actively for one year such license may be
transferred only to a person qualified as a
winegrower as defined.
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AB 1741 - Britschgi
Authorizes service of summons upon corpora-
(Chapter 1278)
tions by registered or certified mail with
respect to offenses involving violations of
the Vehicle Code or local traffic ordinances.
AB 1743 - Badham
Requires interstate highway carriers to regis-
(Chapter 1279)
ter annually with the California Public
Utilities Commission, pursuant to standards
adopted by the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Registration is conditioned on proving suffi-
cient insurance coverage or surety bonds, and
designating a local agent to receive service
of process.
AB 1749 - Briggs
Prohibits a bank from establishing or maintain-
(Chapter 1280)
ing a place of business unless it is author-
ized to do so by the Superintendent of
Banks. The bill provides procedures and fees
for applying for and issuing a certificate
authorizing a bank to establish and maintain
a place of business.
AB 1752 - Briggs
Permits a California branch of a foreign bank
(Chapter 1281)
to accept deposits that originate in foreign
countries without Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation (FDIC) insurance coverage.
AB 1779 - Duffy
Provides that disadvantaged children between
(Chapter 1282)
ages three and six years who are not currently
enrolled, rather than between ages three and
five years or until enrolled, in the public
schools are eligible for Department of Social
Welfare preschool educational programs and
makes related changes in programs operated by
the school district or county in conjunction
therewith.
AB 1781 - Duffy
Vests administration of certain local govern-
(Chapter 1283)
ment merit systems in the State Personnel
Board.
AB 1783 - Johnson, R.
Authorizes the Reclamation Board to provide
(Chapter 1284)
necessary assurances to the Secretary of the
Army required for flood control or clearing
work in the Sacramento and San Joaquin River
Basin and tributaries for emergency flood
control work on state-owned property.
AB 1812 - Belotti
Provides that one member of the Sonoma County
(Chapter 1286)
Board of Supervisors be appointed as a director
of the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District
operative on December 12, 1970.
AB 1826 - Milias
Permits members of agency contracting with
(Chapter 1287)
P.E.R.S. who did not elect coverage under
survivor allowance provisions to elect to be
subject to such provisions.
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AB 1847 Moretti
Increases fee of notary public for services transcribing
(Chapter 1289)
depositions.
AB1375 - Mobley
Authorizes county board of supervisors to retain an
(Chapter 1290)
easement for future public road in a proceeding for
abandonment of a county highway. The bill also
revises provisions providing for reversion of title
on property abandoned by the county.
AB 1895 Murphy
Grants certain described tide and submerged lands
(Chapter 1291)
to the City of Santa Cruz upon certain trusts and
conditions.
AB
1906
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Brathwaite
Provides that if patient does not identify himself
Chapter 1292)
to provider as Medi-Cal beneficiary, provider may
submit his statement within 60 days after date
provider certifies as date when patient first so
identified provided that date is not later than one
year after service was rendered.
AB 1917 - Johnson
Revises the function of the Fairs Allocation and
(Chapter 1293)
Classification Committee. The bill broadens the
authority of the Committee to include investigation
and study of the effect and operations of the laws
relating to district agricultural associations.
Further it directs that the committee review
regularly the administration of the Fair and Expositio
Fund and to make recommendations to improve efficiency
and economy in the operation of fairs.
AB 1931 - Schabarum
Changes requirement of a permit number plate for the
(Chapter 1294)
placing of any outdoor advertising display to a
requirement of an identification number plate. The
bill also increases the original permit fee and the
annual renewal fee for an advertising structure.
AB 1937 - Chappie
Includes county boards of education in provisions
(Chapt er 1295)
presently authorizing establishment and maintenance of
opportunity schools or classes by school districts.
AB 1955 - Burton
Provides that mineral rights in San Francisco Harbor
(Chapter 1296)
lands reserved to the state shall not be exercised
so as to interfere with specified rights of persons
acquired under lease, franchise, permit, license,
or privilege; provided that lease, franchise permit
or license must contain a provision specifying the
place and manner of ingress and egress to subsurface
deposits.
AB 1958 - Vasconcellos Increases the membership of the Research Advisory
(Chapter 1297)
Panel from 6 to 7 members by adding the Chairman of
the Interagency Council on Drug Abuse.
AB 1985 - Schabarum
Provides that the Air Resources Board adopt
& Sieroty
regulations, emission standards and procedures for
(Chapter 1298)
assembly line emission tests and imposes a $50 penalty
on manufacturers for each vehicle which fails to
meet test procedures and standards specified by the
Air Resources Board.
AB 2016 - Stacey
Revises provisions authorizing school district
(Chapter 1299)
reorganization proposals to include proposed
format on of four or more unified school districts and
the division of four or more existing high school
districts, to remove lim tation of four or more as to
the number of new unified districts which may be
proposed, to specify that such proposal must be one
included in a county master plan, that it include two
or more existing unified school districts, that an
election held in the territory shall not affect the
existing unifind districts, and that at such an
lect on the formation of Individual unified districts. may be approved
wh le other propo unified district format ORS are disapproved.
Specifies that a county master plan under the revised provisions be
submitted to the State Board of Education on or before December 31, 1969
and that succeeding elections be held on or before June 2, 1970. Makes
provision for related matters.
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AB 2053 - Chappie
Permits boards of supervisors to levy special
(Chapter 1300)
assessment on property within a county service area
for recreational services and facilities benefiting
such property if such county service area has been
formed between January 1, and June 1, 1966.
AB 2065 - Knox
Requires that boundary changes made after protest
(Chapter 1301)
hearings regarding new cities or city annexations
be resubmitted to the local agency formation
commissions. The bill authorizes commissions to
approve city detachments and district formations
agreed to by all landowners without hearing,
election, or both, rather than only city annexations
as previously.
AB 2066 - Assembly
Prescribes number, salaries and qualifications of
Committee on Local
attaches and employees of various municipal and
Government
superior courts.
(Chapter 1302)
AB 2077 - Knox
Increases the maximum interest rate on joint powers
(Chapter 1303)
agreement revenue bonds from 6 to 7 percent.
AB 2078 - Milias
Provides that the California State Board of
(Chapter 1304)
Landscape Architects may fix an examination fee
at any amount not exceeding $50. The bill provides
that the renewal fee shall be fixed by the Board
at any amount not exceeding $75.
AB 2081 - Knox
Provides for licensing and regulation of commodity
(Chapter 1305)
advisers by Commissioner of Corporations.
AB 2039 - Sieroty
Permits an applicant for an assessment change to
(Chapter 1306)
cause an exchange of information with assessor by
submitting at time of application or at least 20
days before hearing, specified data relating to basis
of claim. Requires an assessor if such data is
submitted, to submit specified information relating
to his assessment at least 10 days before the hearing.
The bill prohibits, unless other party consents,
introduction of evidence on matters not SO exchanged,
but permits new material based on information
received from other party.
AB 2126 - Russell
Excuses pupil from family life and sex education
(Chapter 1307)
instruction when it conflicts with religious training
and beliefs of parent or guardian and a written reques
is made by parent or guardian for excuse; and excuses
pupil from health education when same conflicts with
religious training and beliefs, rather than religious
beliefs, of parent or guardian and such written reques
is made for excuse. Defines "religious training and
beliefs" to include personal moral convictions.
AB 2163 - McCarthy
Requires each school district to meet with local
(Chapter 1308)
recreation and park authorities to review all possible
methods of coordinating planning, design, and
construction of new school facilities and school
sites or major additions to existing school facilities
and recreation and park facilities in the community.
The bill further declares that architectural and
engineering firms may be employed on a temporary
basis for a specific project by a governing board
or by the personnel commission of school district
when so designated by the commission.
AB 2174 - Johnson
Updates the container provisions of the Weights and
(Chapter 1309)
Measures Law to conform with the Federal Fair
Packaging and Labeling Act.
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AB 2187 Veysey
Requires test results under Miller-Unruh Basic
(Chapter 1310)
Reading Act of 1965 to be submitted on a school-
by-school basis commencing in the 1969-70 school
year, and requires that priorities for allocation
of funds for expansion of programs be based upon
the performance of particular schools, rather than
entire districts.
AB 2200 - Greene
Permits child who will be 4 years and 9 months of
(Chapter 1311)
age on or before September 1, to be admitted to
pre-kindergarten summer program maintained by
school district for pupils who will be enrolling
in kindergarten in September.
AB 2210 - Fong
Authorizes school district governing boards to
(Chapter 1312)
utilize persons not having certification qualification
to supervise pupils during any breakfast period or
other nutrition period and authorizes such personnel
to be paid from funds from which lunch period
supervisors may be paid.
AB 2215 - Lewis
Prohibits the Secretary of State from disclosing
(Chapter 1313)
information, other than applicant's name and address,
on an application for notary public to other than an
applicant or officers or employees of governmental
agencies acting in their official capacities.
AB 2216 - Lewis
Provides that salary schedules for certificated
(Chapter 1314)
employees, other than employees in administrative and
supervisory positions, shall be based on a uniform
allowance for years of training and years of experience
Eliminates provisions specifying that in cities
teachers of beginners be ranked with highest salaried
elementary teachers of equal training and experience.
Prohibits salary schedule classification of employee
solely on basis of grade level taught. Excludes
substitute teachers and junior college teachers from
such provisions.
AB 2221 - Lewis
(Chapter 1315)
Makes changes with respect to hearing procedures
when probationary school employees are terminated.
It makes changes regarding a hearing officer's
findings relating to school or pupil welfare, and
requires the hearing officer to include these findings
in his proposed decision. It provides that the
proposed decision shall not contain a determination
as to the sufficiency of the cause or a recommendation
as to the disposition, and leaves these decisions
to the school boards.
AB 2241 - Z'berg
Provides that Democratic county central committee
(Chapter 1316)
of each county, (except those containing 20 or more
Assembly districts) may provide for the election of
all or a portion of central committee members to
represent districts with each member residing in the
district he represents. Each member is to be elected
at large within the Assembly district in which the
county central committee district he represents is
located.
AB 2242 - Z'berg
Provides that in Sacramento Couty the Democratic
(Chapter 1317)
county central committee may provide for 25 central
committee districts, with each member residing in the
district he represents. (Each member is to be
elected at large within the Assembly distri ct in
which the county central committee district he
represents is located.)
AB 2254 - Milias
Revises noise limit standards applicable to the
(Chapter 1318)
operation of motor vehicles and to new motor vehicles
at time sold or offered for sale.
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AB 2262 - McCarthy Requires that persons who have been convicted of
(Chapter 1319)
prostitution who have a prior such conviction be
sentenced for not less than 45 days in the county
jail, and for those who have two or more such
prior convictions to serve not less than 90 days.
AB 2267 - Russell
Amends and adds various sections to the Revenue and
(Chapter 1320)
Taxation Code, relating to tax-exempt organizations.
The primary purpose of this bill is to achieve an
information filing program for organizations exempt
from tax under the Bank and Corporation Tax Law
in order to enable the state to determine what is
happening in the exempt organization field. It relate
to the 60,000 organizations that are exempt from
paying state income tax.
AB 2279 - Stull
Permits the legal guardian, parent, or one having
(Chapter 1321)
custody of a child if its parents or guardians are
divorced or separated, to consult with a certificated
employee and inspect any written records concerning t1
child. This bill also permits a child's parent or
guardian, upon written request, to receive the same
information in writing concerning the child's academic
performance, that is given to the parent or guardian
having custody of the child.
AB 2305 - Knox
Provides authority to cities and counties which
(Chapter 1322)
have signed land conservation contracts or agreements
to provide financial assistance to any elementary, hiç
school, or unified school district in which there is
land covered by a land conservation contract or
agreement, if the decrease in assessed valuation
because of the conservation program seriously
affects the level of education.
AB 2338 - Wilson
Revises scope of Governor's economic report and
(Chapter 1323)
extends time for its submission.
AB 2345 - Knox
Permits a local agency to offer a reward for
(Chapter 1324)
information leading to identity and apprehension of
any person who willfully damages or destroys property
of such local agency. The bill makes the person who
destroys or damages property of a local agency or
parent or guardian of minor who destroys or damages
such property liable for the amount of such rewards.
AB 2359 - Thomas
Permits state agencies to budget expenditures by
(Chapter 1325)
program rather than requiring classification.
Authorizes the Department of General Services to
include a program cost accounting system as considered
necessary for the required accounting system for each
state agency.
SB 1238 - Marler
Authorizes Director of the Department of Public
(Chapter 1327
Works to lease non-operating right-of-way parcels
to public agencies for public purposes. The bill
provides that Director of Public Works may contribute
towards the cost of developing local parks and other
recreational facilities on such parcels, and that
he may accept for such state contribution any
substantial benefits the state will derive from the
local agency's undertaking maintenance or landscaping
costs which would otherwise be the obligation of
the state.
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The following bills were signed by Acting Governor Ed Reinecke yesterday:
AB 53 - L. Greene
Establishes a state testing program and redefines
(Chapter 1408)
terms used in the chapter on testing programs. Provide:
that State Board of Education shall require a minimum
testing program in all school districts. It requires
the governing board of a school district to provide
the State Board of Education with the result of any
state testing program, except physical performance test
with a specified exception.
AB 284 - Badham
Includes within definition of dependent children,
(Chapter 1381)
for purposes of survivorship benefits, full-time
students under the age of 22.
AB 324 - McCarthy
Raises the maximum amount a retired teacher may earn
(Chapter 1382)
as a substitute teacher from $2,500 to $5,000 without
impairing retirement benefits.
AB 356 - Davis
Requires the Legislative Analyst to prepare an
(Chapter 1383)
analysis of measures submitted to voters if, in his
opinion, they involve additional cost.
AB 564 - Thomas
Provides that sardines may be taken for bait prposes
(Chapter 1384)
under permits issued by the Department of Fish and
Game up to a maximum limit for the state of 250 tons
per year. When this maximum limit is reached, the
Department of Fish and Game shall notify all permittee
of closure. After the closure, sardines may not be
taken or possessed on any boat except that loads of
fish may contain 15 percent or less by weight of
sardines taken incidentally to other fishing operation
Sardines taken incidentally may be possessed and used
for canning, peserving, and reduction only. Provides
that the Department of Fish and Game shall prepare
a comprehensive master inventory and preliminary
master plan for the utilization of all ocean fish
resources.
AB 643 - Quimby
Permits county board of supervisors to authorize and
(Chapter 1385)
provide for contributions to nonprofit educational
radio as well as television stations.
AB 916 - Chappie
Provides for time, place, and notice of quarterly
(Chapter 1387)
meetings to be held by Industrial Safety Board.
AB 950 - Duffy
Provides that the Director of Health Care Services
(Chapter 1386)
shall notify the appropriate state licensing,
certifying or registering agency of supension for
cause of any provider under the Medi-Cal program.
Along with such notice of action, he shall submit any
information obtained as a result of the director's
investigation.
AB 1165 - Cory
Modifies the prohibition against utilization of
& Fong
instructional aides to increase the number of pupils
(Chapter 1388)
in relation to the number of classroom teachers in
special education programs to make an exception to
allow class size ratios existing prior to November 13,
1968, in special education classes to be maintained
or decreased. The bill authorizes school district
governing boards to designate these positions by an
appropriate title other than "instructional aide."
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AB 1278 - Burke
Declares that provision of law authorizing public
(Chapter 1389)
agencies to adopt rules and regulations restricting
management and confidential employees from representin
employee organizations on matters of employment
relations, does not otherwise limit the right of
employees to belong to or hold office in employee
organizations.
SB
AB 1305 - Burgener
Requires withholding from state apportionments to
(Cahpter 1407)
school districts for rembursement for transportation
of pupils with certain described handicaps to where
the Superintendent of Public Insturction determines
that the current expense of providing such
transportation does not equal or exceed the allowance
provided for such purpose. Provides for apportionment
of amount withheld to districts maintaining and
operating vehicles exclusively for handicapped pupils.
AB 1350 - Milias
Makes provision affording indemnification of public
& Mulford
employees regarding judgment against them applicable
(Chapter 1390)
to National Guardsmen in active service pursuant to
an order of the President of the United States as a
result of a state of emergency, if such active member
or person is not indemnified by the federal government
AB 1374 - Fong
Provides that attendance of pupils at junior college
(Chapter 1391)
summer schools be credited to district in fiscal year
in which last day of summer school falls. Provides
that July 21, 1969, may be deemed to be a regular day
of school attendance for certain specified purposes
and average daily attendance for that date shall be
deemed to be the actual attendance for July 22, 1969.
AB 1387 - Beverly
Authorizes a school district or county superintendent
(Chapter 1392)
of schools to use its school buses or contract for
transportation for any school related activity
conducted by the district or county superintendent.
It specifically allows for transportation for school
district employees and one adult person related to
each such employee.
AB 1394 - Briggs
Provides for registration and protection of dogs
(Chapter 1393)
engaged in sentry duty or dogs handled by sentry dog
company.
AB 1547 - Zenovich
Allows the Commission of Housing and Community
(Chapter 1394)
Development to establish a schedule of fees in order
to pay the cost of administration of the Earthquake
Protection Law.
AB 1564 - Fong
Requires rather than permits school district
(Chapter 1395)
governing boards to provide for leaves of absence
for pregnancy and convelescence following childbirth
and to adopt reasonable rules and regulations
regarding such leaves of absence.
AB 1746 - Badham
Abolishes California Districts Securities Commission
(Chapter 1396)
and transfers the powers, duties and responsibilities
heretofore exercised by the commission pursuant to
any provision of law to the State Treasurer upon the
date the Governor's Reorganization Plan No. 1 becomes
operative. Authorizes State Treasurer to create a
board to assist him in carrying out such powers,
duties and responsibilities.
AB 1877 - Cory
Provides that continuing contracts for the transporta-
(Chapter 1397)
tion of pupils are renewable at the option of the
school district and the contractor, jointly, at a
rate not to exceed a 5 percent increase over the rate
currently set in the existing contract. At present,
the contract is renewable only at the school district'
option and at a rate not more than 5 percent above
the rate of the existing contract.
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AB 1828 - Milias
Provides that counties may abolish the office of
(Chapter 1398)
coroner and provide for office of medical examiner
to perform same functions. Requires that medical
examiner be a licensed pathologist.
AB 1913 - Stull
Requires an assessor to provide an assessee with
(Chapter 1399)
data relating to sales of comparable property, if
an assessment is based, in whole or in part, on such
sales.
AB 1956 - Burton
Provides that no amendment, modification, in whole
(Chapter 1400)
or in part, of the transfer of lands in trust provided
for in act authorizing the transfer in trust of the
state's interest in, and control of, San Francisco
Harbor to the City and County of San Francisco, shall
impair or affect the rights or obligations of
specified third parties.
SB 97 - Cologne
Specifies that irrigation districts providing electric
(Chapter 1374)
power to areas outside their boundaries shall be subject
to reasonable rules, regulations, and orders of the
governing body of the city or county areas being
served, but, in no event, more restrictive than those
imposed by the Public Utilities Commission upon
utilities providing such service. Provides no
district may impose rates, rules, regulations, or
orders in such area different from those imposed
within the district except with consent of the
governing body of the area.
SB 327 - McCarthy
(Chapter 1375)
Modifies terms of trust relating to tidelands granted
to County of Marin and purposes for which they
may be used. The bill extends for 10 years the period
within which such tidelands are required to be
improved, restored, preserved or maintained by such
county without expense to state.
SB 418 - Short
Provides that the employer's contribution, up to the
(Chapter 1376)
limit of $8 shall be the amount necessary to pay the
cost of the basic health benefits plan and that if
the state's contribution is less than the maximum
($3), the difference may be applied at the election
of the employee to the cost of enrollment of a family
member.
SB 421 - Rodda
Modifies the requirements for teaching credentials.
(Chapter 1401)
SB 541-Harmer
Requires a new system of accounting and reporting
(Chapter 1405)
of State College expenditures. Specifically, it
provides that the president of each State College shall
present to the Trustees and the Trustees in turn to
the legislature a report comparing in detail the
actual expenditures in comparison with budgeted
amounts with explanations for each deviation.
SB 542 - Harmer
Transfers audit staff in Chancellor's Office to the
(Chapter 1406)
California State College Trustees and specifies duties
of audit staff. Adds to Education Code the Trustees'
authorization for flexibility in the use of
appropriated funds and in the establishment and
classification of positions.
SB 370 - Moscone
Provides that neither federal funds distributed to
(Chapter 1377)
persons of California Indian descent by P. L. 90-507
nor property derived therefrom be considered for any
purpose in determining any type of public assistance
to needy persons.
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SB 879 - Collier
Authorizes the Department of Public Works to
(Chapter 1378)
restrict any portion of a state highway within the
Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District to a
particular mode of transportation provided such
restriction would expedite the flow of traffic.
SB 1252 - Moscone
Directs the Department of Education to develop and
(Chapter 1379)
implement, in cooperation with local school districts,
a demonstration program in a selected county or city
and county designed to promote specified purposes
with respect to providing bilingual instruction for
non-English-speaking students, to be administered by
county superintendent of schools, or city superintendni
of schools in the case of a city and county.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation which will benefit
California consumers"by further strengthening poultry inspection
procedures in the state and, at the same time, saving taxpayer dollars."
The legislation (AB 970), imposes stricter inspection of poultry
products and plants to bring them up to federal standards.
The governor said: "I am pleased to sign this legislation, because
it promises to benefit California consumers in two ways--by further
strengthening poultry inspection procedures in the state and, at the
same time, saving taxpayer dollars."
The administration-sponsored measure, authored by Assemblyman
Ray E. Johnson, (R-Chico) authorizes the State Director of Agriculture
to enter cooperative agreements with federal agencies to enforce federal
standards on poultry plants and products.
By bringing the state inspection system up to standards required
under the Federal Wholesome Poultry Products Act, the state will be
reimbursed up to 50 percent of the cost of the program.
It is estimated that this will save California taxpayers more than
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Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that he has signed
the following bills:
AB 974 - Foran
Creates a State Transportation Board in the Business
(Chapter 1404
and Transportation Agency. The Board will function
to advise and assist the Secretary of Business, and
Transportation in formulating and evaluating
state policy and plans for transportation.
AB 970 - Johnson
Authorizes the Director of Agriculture to adopt
(Chapter 1403)
standards and requirements equal to those of the
Federal Wholesome Poultry Products Act. It prohibits
the adoption of regulations less restrictive than
present state statutory requirements.
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An important step toward meeting California's future transportation
needs was taken today when Governor Ronald Reagan signed a bill
creating the California Transportation Board.
In signing the measure, AB 974, the governor paid tribute to its
author, Assemblyman John Foran, D-San Francisco, and to Gordon C. Luce,
Secretary of Business and Transportation, who strongly supported it.
"Both Assemblyman Foran and Secretary Luce can take pride in their
efforts which brought us this important new tool to work on California's
future transportation needs," the governor said.
Creation of the seven member board implements a recommendation
made in November by the Governor's Task Force on Transportation following
an 18 month study of public and private air, land and sea transportation
systems.
Los Angeles architect William L. Pereira headed the 24-member
task force, initiated by Secretary Luce, which included experts in
every field of transportation.
The new board will review master plans, both private and public,
for the overall state-wide transportation system including the Californi
Freeway and Expressway System, the State Aviation Master Plan and
regional transportation plans developed by such organizations as the
Bay Area Transportation Study Commission, the Transportation Association
of Southern California, the San Diego Comprehensive Planning Organization
and the Sacramento Regional Area Planning Commission.
In addition it will assist the state in planning and developing
policies for new transportation systems including supersonic air
transport, automated highways, computer-dispatched urban transit systems,
super-tanker ships and containerized freight trucking.
"This board and our recently announced HUD grant will assist
our agency in bringing together the planning and coordination of
transportation in California and represents the culmination of efforts
by many people toward these goals," Luce said.
Five members of the new board will be appointed by the Governor,
subject to Senate confirmation. The remaining two posts will be filled
by the Chairmen of the Assembly and Senate Transportation Committees
serving as ex-officio members of the Board. Members will serve without
pay and will meet at least four times a year.
Governor Reagan is screening potential members of the board.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today climaxed a major effort by his
administration to "further strengthen state control and regulation of
pesticides" by signing into law two key bills in his legislative program
which "will benefit not only agriculture, but the general public as a
whole."
Both measures (AB-1209, Pattee and Ray Johnson; and AB-1210, Pattee)
were sponsored by the Reagan administration and approved unanimously in
the legislature.
In a statement, the governor said:
"During recent months there has been considerable scientific and
public concern over the use of pesticides in California.
"While the state has exercised tight controls over such usage for
more than half a century, this administration has been working actively
for the passage of legislation to further strengthen state control and
regulation of pesticides.
"I am pleased to say that these two bills will help us accomplish
these important objectives and will benefit not only agriculture, but
the general public as a whole."
AB 1209 requires that before any pesticide application is made, the
applicator must have a written recommendation from the pesticide dealer
or his agent in considerable detail. This should prevent any mis-
application of chemicals due to misunderstanding or poor communication.
It also puts on record exactly where the responsibility for any misuse
of pesticides lies.
AB 1210 requires that a pesticide dealer must be licensed by the
director of agriculture and that the dealer's agent or salesman must be
registered with the agricultural commissioner of every county in which
he operates. To get a dealer's license, the applicant must pass a test
of his knowledge of laws and regulations governing pesticides.
Up to now, state laws did not regulate the operations of pesticide
dealers or salesmen. AB 1210 fills this gap.
It also provides California with additional tools to ensure that
pesticides are used properly. Dealers' license fees, to be shared with
the counties, will cover the cost of administering this program.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today signed into law a key element in his
anti-crime legislative program, a bill (SB-66, Sherman) designed to
protect informants who provide evidence of activities in such areas as
narcotics, bookmaking, prostitution and organized crime.
"The legislation," he said, "will give law enforcement another
effective means of obtaining evidence of vice activities by protecting
the informant against reprisal by protecting his identity. For, once an
informant is identified, he is useless for future activity and is in
danger of losing his life."
The bill establishes a judicial procedure which will protect the
informant against disclosure by permitting a closed hearing. On the
other hand, the defendant will be guaranteed a fair and open hearing
because, if the court determines in closed session that the informant is a
material witness to the alleged crime, the informant must be identified.
Governor Reagan noted that "some 90 percent of all narcotic
convictions are made possible through the use of confidential informants.
"Most vice activities such as narcotics, bookmaking, prostitution
and organized crime involve willing victims rather than complainants
who ask for police protection or prosecution. Those in the law
enforcement field are agreed that informants are necessary in the fight
against crime, he said.
"I believe that this legislation with its protection of the
informant and fairness to the defendant will move California a step
closer toward insuring the safety of the state's law abiding citizens,"
he added.
The governor expressed his appreciation to Senator Lewis F. Sherman
who carried the bill for the administration and noted the support it
received from such organizations as the California Peace Officers'
Association and the District Attorneys' Association.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today signed into law a bill which "could
substantially reduce the cost of housing construction to low income
families in California" by "cutting through red tape and speeding the
end product to the consumer.
The measure, AB-1971 (Wilson, R-San Diego), was sponsored by the
Reagan administration and will be known as the California Factory Built
Housing Law. It establishes a uniform state code for factory-built,
pre-fabricated housing and permits inspection of such construction at
the factory, prior to being accepted at the site.
Governor Reagan said: "The introduction of factory methods in
building homes coupled with the easing of an over-abundance of
regulations, as provided in this legislation could substantially reduce
the cost of housing construction to low income families in California.
"The bill will not only help meet the ever growing need for such
housing by cutting through red tape and speeding the end product to the
consumer, but it should also open up a new labor market, stimulate the
economy, and further develop space-age technology in the field of
housing, " he said.
Governor Reagan congratulated Assemblyman Pete Wilson for
successfully guiding the measure through the legislature and commended
the Department of Housing and Community Development, the California
Builders Council, the League of California Cities, and the California
Real Estate Association for their efforts in drafting the model housing
legislation.
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Governor Reagan today signed legislation which would broaden the
protective and prevention features of California's highly successful
probation subsidy program. The bill---part of the governor's legislative
program also appropriates $200,000 to finance delinquency prevention
projects throughout the state, the first such state appropriation ever
made.
The measure SB-428, Kennick- will permit the counties to place
pre-delinquent youths and adults who have committed misdemsenors in specia
supervision programs which are financed by the probation subsidy.
Under the subsidy program, the state provides subsidies for counties
in return for reducing their expected level of commitments to state
institutions, both youth and adults. The subsidies must be used to set
up special supervision programs to provide intensive counseling,
psychiatric and other services to help rehabilitate those who are not
sent to the state institutions.
Governor Reagan noted that "during the first three years of the
program, commitments to state institutions were reduced by more than
7,000 persons. Although the state subsidy totaled $30 million, the state
was able to save several times this amount, taking into consideration
what it would have cost to build new institutions for these offenders
and for maintaining them, " he said.
"By making it possible for pre-delinquents and lesser offenders to
receive probation services under the program," the governor said, "the
state will help the counties rehabilitate potential criminals before
they commit really serious offenses.
"I believe there is no more effective and economical way to meet
the problem of crime and delinquency than to prevent it. And, this can
best be done by providing opportunities for rehabilitation before the
potential offender has embarked upon his criminal career."
Governor Reagan said that the $200,000 appropriation for deliquency
prevention projects will qualify the state for several times that amount
in federal funds. The money will be disbursed to many of the counties
setting the stage for a community based assault on delinquency.
A portion of the appropriation will also be used to fund two
demonstration projects developed at the direction of State Human Relations
Secretary Spencer Williams to identify potential delinquents early in
their school careers and take prompt steps to prevent them from becoming
delinquent. The projects are called the Delinquency Early Warning System.
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.
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed into law two administration-
backed bills which lay the groundwork for greater highway beautifica-
tion and improved community values in the state.
The measures (SB 1238, Marler; and AB 455, Porter) will permit
the state to lease non-operating parcels of highway rights or excess
lands to local government for use as mini-parks and recreational areas.
The governor said his action "is in keeping with the concern of
this administration for preserving and improving California's
environment and assuring that all our citizens receive maximum benefit
from existing highway property."
SB 1238 permits the director of public works to lease non-operating
rights of way to local agencies to combine beautification and
recreational uses, and will allow the state to assume a more flexible
position regarding the cost of developments on such parcels by local
governments.
State funds cannot now be used to defray expenses in establishing
such a facility. The bill enables the state to allow a local agency
full credit for funds that would have been spent on landscaping,
maintenance or similar amenities that would have been required had the
land remained solely under state control.
"This could cut the cost of the lease by a substantial amount or
be applied to the actual development of the facility," Public Works
Director James Moe said.
The measure also authorizes the state to classify portions of
the state highway right of way as non-operating lands. It applies to
those lands which, while not actually required for traffic operation,
must be retained by the state because they are under a freeway, in an
interchange, or required for freeway drainage purposes.
Governor Reagan said AB 455 may prove, in the future, to be of
even greater assistance in improving community values because it involves
excess property which otherwise would be sold.
The bill provides that any excess parcels or portions of parcels
lying within 200 feet of the closest boundary of the state highway may
be leased to a local agency for park purposes. It will make it possible
for determinations to be made in each case that the development of a
park on such property would protect the highway and preserve its view,
appearance, light and air, and usefulness.
Both measures will make it possible for many communities to develop
mini-parks or recreational areas at very little expense.
Los Angeles and San Francisco recently expressed a desire to lease
space adjacent to operating freeways. San Diego is interested in lands
located in an interchange now under development.
Department of Public Works records indicate there are several
hundred potential sites where the joint use could become reality.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today signed into law five administration-
backed bills designed to help tighten up welfare and Medi-Cal
expenditures.
One measure (SB 847, Stevens) part of the governor's legislative
program--not only saves the taxpayer the cost of an unnecessary state
subsidy to families with adequate financial resources, but also uses a
portion of the savings to expand placement opportunities for the
mentally retarded who cannot be kept in their own homes.
The bill corrects a present inequity under which aid is granted to
totally disabled persons, without regard to the financial resources of
the parents of such persons. It prohibits parents who are financially
well-off from claiming welfare allowances for room rent and other items
of household expense which would exist even though the disabled persons
were not living with them.
Governor Reagan said he was especially pleased to sign the legis-
lation because "it strengthens the important concept we have been
pushing during the course of this administration the need for family
responsibility wherever possible."
One half of the savings to the state general fund from the new
provision or, roughly $1.6 million this fiscal year will be allo-
cated to the State Department of Social Welfare to help pay private
institutional costs for mentally retarded persons who cannot be kept at
home.
These additional funds will permit the release of a number of
mentally retarded persons from state hospitals and pay for their
placement in private institutions, generally at less expense than the
cost of state hospitalization.
Another administration-sponsored measure (SB 857, Deukmejian)
signed by the governor will make sure that welfare funds intended to aid
needy children are not siphoned off for use by an unrelated man living
with the family.
Under the bill, the man will have to contribute to the expenses of
the family---at least to the same extent it would cost him for the same
accommodations secured independently.
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A bill (AB 1351, Ketchum) to develop efficient, highly automated
processes for determining eligibility and making aid payments will also
reduce the cost of administering welfare programs. Heart of the
measure is the creation of an integrated welfare management information
system employing the most sophisticated electronic data processing
equipment.
In signing the legislation, Governor Reagan said:
"Development of this information system will enable the state to
greatly improve the management and the effectiveness of public assist-
ance programs. It will help analyze policy alternatives, make accurate
cost estimates, assist in controlling program costs, eliminate duplica-
tion of effort by various governmental agencies, and improve the
exchange of pertinent information."
When developed, the system should further cut down paperwork and
relieve social workers of clerical tasks so they can devote their time
to those who need their assistance.
The State Human Relations Agency will be responsible for developing
the system in cooperation with the counties and with the federal
Department of Health, Education and Welfare. HEW recently selected
California as one of four pilot states to help develop a nationwide
uniform social welfare information system.
The measure appropriates $108,000 as the state's share of first-
year development costs. The federal government will contribute
$350,000.
Plans call for the Welfare Information System to ultimately form
the nucleus of a broad, agency-wide information system serving nine
departments, and facilitating exchange of information in such welfare-
related fields as Medi-Cal, rehabilitation and human resource
development.
Another measure (AB 1454, Duffy) signed by the governor provides
for disqualification from Medi-Cal of any person who charges the program
more than the reasonable value of the services he receives.
A companion bill (AB 1460, Duffy) receiving the governor's
signature will strengthen the state's ability to recover the cost of
medical assistance given to persons who were injured by someone else
who is civilly liable. This measure will assist the state in recouping
its costs when, for example, a welfare recipient is injured by an
insured driver.
Governor Reagan said "the two bills will go a long way toward
reducing Medi-Cal costs to the state's taxpayers and appropriately
discipline those who try to gouge the program--both prime objectives
of this administration."
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Governor Ronald Reagan today signed two bills designed to give
college administrators more muscle to deal with hard-core campus
troublemakers.
The measures are AB 534 by Assemblyman Frank J. Murphy (R-Santa
Crua) and AB 1286 by Assemblyman John Stull (R-Encinitas).
The Murphy bill is aimed at those who disturb the peace on the
campus, students or employees who have been dismissed for campus
disruptions and re-enter without permission, those who fail to leave
the campus after ordered to do so by college authorities and outsiders
who are ordered off campus and return within 72 hours without permission.
Violators will be subject to misdemeanor complaints and if found
guilty could be fined up to $500 and jailed for six months, or both.
"Assemblyman Murphy's bill will give college administrators
muscle to deal with hard-core campus troublemakers by making it possible
to isolate them. It also provides criminal penalties if the trouble-
makers return to the campus," the governor said.
"This measure can assist in maintaining our campuses as educational
institutions--not battlegrounds," the governor remarked. "As I've
pointed out repeatedly, academic goals must be pursued through
legitimate educational channels without force or violence. Nonacademic
goals must not be allowed to destroy the educational process."
The Stull bill gives college and university officials the power
to discipline students or faculty members convicted of crimes arising
from a campus disturbance, and would withdraw state financial aid from
students participating in campus disorders.
It also allows the Regents of the University of California,
Trustees of the State Colleges and the governing boards of junior
colleges to adopt rules of student behavior and establish penalties
for violations which will be presented to each student at the beginning
of the semester or quarter.
"There is absolutely no reason why the state should financially
assist students who are actively engaged in destroying the schools that
are providing them with an education," the governor said.
"This bill will withdraw state scholarships from students who
commit criminal acts on and disrupt the peace of the campus.
"The people of this state, who have generously supported our
institutions of higher education, will no longer tolerate public
assistance to students who reciprocate by destroying the very institutions
this assistance enables them to attend. We will not pay for our own
destruction."
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