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1966-74: Press Unit
Folder Title: Releases - Bills Signed and Vetoed 1971
[10/20/1971-11/23/1971]
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
10-20-71
#582
Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today announced the following
bills have been signed:
AB 165 - Fenton
Expressly permits a lender to pay to an insurance
(Chapter 1103)
agent or broker and permit an insurance agent or
broker to accept from a lender, compensation for
arranging, directing, or performing services in
connection with an insurance premium financing
contract. The insurance agent or broker is to
disclose the amount of the compensation to the borrow
insured in a manner and form established by the
Insurance Commissioner; the agent or broker is also
to maintain for three years and make available to the
Commissioner records regarding such compensation.
Similarly, the lender is to maintain records regarding
such compensation for three years and make them
available to the appropriate regulatory authority.
AB 200 - Dent
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, upon the
(Chapter 1154)
issuance of new license plates in lieu of stolen,
lost, or mutilated license plates, to a person other
than the legal owner, to inform the legal owner of the
vehicle of the number on such new license plates.
AB 280 - Cory
Permits an assessor to employ private legal counsel
(Chapter 1104)
when the presiding judge of the superior court decides
there would be a conflict of interest if he were
represented by the district attorney or county counsel
AB 281 - Cory
Requires a tax collector to make a reasonable effort
(Chapter 1121)
to ascertain the address of an assessee of property,
including, but not limited to, examining the
assessment rolls and various telephone books, rather
than only being required to examine assessment rolls,
in order to give the assessee a notice by mail of an
intention to deed the property to the state, or to
sell the property to a private party, for unpaid
taxes. The bill provides that a failure to make such
effort shall not affect validity of a deed or sale.
AB 328 - Powers
Makes certain welfare fraud investigators and inspect-
(Chapter 1122)
ors peace officers when individually designated as
such by local ordinance or resolution.
AB 376 - Ketchum
Requires that a member of the California Table Grape
(Chapter 1105)
Commission be producing grapes subject to designated
provisions relating to marketing of table grapes at
the time of his election to the commission. It also
provides for the selection of members under procedures
to be established by the Commission and approved by
the Director of Agriculture as an alternative for
the present system of nominations at meetings conducted
by the Director. The bill also repeals the 1972
termination date for the Commission and requires a
referendum to be conducted by the Commission every
five years to determine if operations should be re-
approved and continued in effect.
AB 451 - Campbell
Authorizes destruction by the State Registrar of
(Chapter 1123)
Vital Statistics of preliminary reports, and
destruction by counties of the court clerk's copy of
information required to be sent to the State Registrar,
in actions for marital dissolution, legal separation
or annulment, five years after the action was
commended.
AB 631 - Moorhead
Permits establishment of community correctional centers
(Chapter 1124)
and authorizes work furlough release for residents of
the California Rehabilitation Center.
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#582
AB 674 - Chappie
Requires corporate societies for the prevention of
(Chapter 1094)
cruelty to animals to recommend their appointees for
humane officer to the superior court judge of the
county in which the appointee resides. The bill
specifies that humane officers may carry weapons while
engaged in duties of humane officers, upon satisfactory
completion of training, in use of weapons, approved by
the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training.
AB 704 - Wood
Makes various provisions of law prohibiting or
(Chapter 1106)
regulating employment of minors inapplicable to minors
in described apprenticeship training programs, and
revises and reenacts provisions dealing with the
inapplicability of such prohibitions and regulations
to minors in vocational training and work experience
programs.
AB 863 - Bagley
Conforms the operation of certain charitable
(Chapter 1125)
corporations to the requirements of the federal Tax
Reform Act of 1969.
AB 867 - Warren
Provides that an expert witness in a civil action
(Chapter 1126)
be awarded compensation by the court in the event
that he was subpoenaed to appear in court and
subsequently not notified that the proceeding was
cancelled or continued.
AB 936 - Biddle
Requires the State Air Resources Board, after
(Chapter 1095)
consultation with, and pursuant to recommendations of,
the Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol,
to adopt specified reasonable standards as it
determines are necessary for the public health and
safety for the emission of air pollutants from
exhausts of motor vehicles of 1955 through 1965 model
years.
AB 991 - McAlister
Extends the time within which the defendant in an
(Chapter 1127)
unlawful detainer action may file his answer to the
plaintiff's complaint from three days after service
of summons to five days after such service.
AB 1026 - Moorhead
Requires a public guardian if he does not deposit
(Chapter 1128)
funds in the county treasury, to deposit such funds
in an insured bank or savings and loan association
authorized to do business in the county. It there are
no such insured banks or savings and loan associations
in the county, the public guardian may use any insured
bank or insured savings and loan association in the
state.
AB 1062 - Townsend
Limits the amount of fees which may be charged and
(Chapter 1155)
collected by the Public Utilities Commission for the
issuance of bonds, notes, or other evidences of
indebtedness, or the proposed maximum proceeds of
stock by an applicant public utility where the
utility's security issues are subject to the
jurisdictions of the Federal Power Commission.
AB 1083 - Gonsalves Sets standards for assessment of common areas of
(Chapter 1129)
planned developments to separately owned lots and
limite tax liens to such lots, according to the
proportionate share of the owner in the common areas.
AB 1097 - Belotti
Authorizes one additional municipal court judge for
(Chapter 1130)
the Central Judicial District of Sonoma County, and
also provides that if the Southern Judicial District
of that county is annexed to the Central District,
the latter district will be authorized four judges.
The bill also raises salaries of various employees of
the Sonoma County municipal courts.
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#582
AB 1136 - Chacon
Provides that a board of supervisors by a 4/5th vote
(Chapter 1156)
may transfer to or exchange with the county board of
education any real or personal property belonging
to the county and not required for county use.
AB 1189 Biddle
Increases from $65 to $85, the cost of motor vehicle
(Chapter 1096)
pollution control devices which may be accredited by
the State Air Resources Board for use on specified
used vehicles.
AB 1235 - Waxman
Includes specifically within the practice of
(Chapter 1131)
optometry the prescribing, or the fitting or adaptatic
of contact lenses which may be classified as drugs by
United States or California law.
AB 1309 - Maddy
Permits a claimant for unemployment benefits to use
(Chapter 1112)
twice the amount of disability benefits, workmen's
compensation, or benefits under employers liability
law, of the federal government or of any state to
meet the requirement that a claimant for unemployment
benefits must earn $720 in his first benefit year to
allow him to use wages earned prior to his first
benefit year and after his base period for computing
the amount of his second unemployment benefit claim.
AB 1314 - Porter
Provides for certification of operators of water
(Chapter 1132)
treatment plants by the Director of Public Health.
AB 1318 - Powers
Provides that the result of failure to renew a
(Chapter 1157)
certificate of authority to use the title "consulting
engineer" within five years after its expiration is
the same as the result of a similar failure to
renew a certificate of registration as a professional
engineer or a certificate of authority to use the
title "structural engineer."
AB 1319 - Powers
Amends the Professional Engineers Act to make the
(Chapter 1133)
same provisions applicable to renewal of a certificate
of authority to use the title "consulting engineer"
within five years after its expiration as are now
applicable to the renewal of a certificate of
registration as a professional engineer and a
certificate of authority to use the title "structural
engineer."
AB 1324 - Powers
Broadens the provisions relating to the expiration
(Chapter 1134)
of certificates of authority to use the title
"structural engineer" to apply to all such certificate
of authority.
AB 1380 - Arnett &
Specifies the contents of the tourist map to be
Ryan
prepared by the Division of Tourism and Visitor
(Chapter 1097)
Services.
AB 1417 - Warren
Provides for payment of compensation to court-
(Chapter 1158)
appointed counsel for representation in any appeal or
proceeding, rather than only for representation in
any appeal or proceeding in a criminal matter.
AB 1469 - McAlister
Provides that the precinct board shall post in
(Chapter 1093)
not less than one conspicuous place at the polling
place a facsimile copy of the ballot in which the
ballot measures and the instructions shall be in
Spanish and shall post a similar facsimile ballot in
other languages if a significant and substantial need
is found by the county clerk. The bill also requires
precinct boards to provide upon request copies of
the facsimile for use in the voting booth or compartment
AB 1503 - Beverly
Conforms California unemployment insurance law with
(Chapter 1107)
the provisions of federal law.
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#582
AB 1579 - Seeley
Revises the definition of implements of husbandry to
(Chapter 1135)
include specified vehicles used exclusively in the
transportaion of tools used exclusively for the
production or harvesting of agricultural products.
AB 1653 - Ketchum
Requires that a person condemned to death who is
(Chapter 1136)
found to be insane be confined at a medical facility
of the Department of Corrections instead of a state
mental hospital.
AB 1675 - Badham
Requires the State Board of Equalization to establish
(Chapter 1137)
a fee schedule for costs of processing boundary
changes of districts.
AB 1688 - Dent
Makes a series of technical amendments to provisions
(Chapter 1138)
of the Education Code relating to community colleges.
AB 1711 - Mobley
Provides that an amended assessment under the
(Chapter 1108)
Improvement Bond Act of 1915 shall be accompanied by
an amended map or plat. The bill provides that such
diagram shall substantially comply with specified
requirements and shall be recorded by the county
recorder. The bill further authorizes county
recorder to charge appropriate fee for recording the
amended map or plat.
AB 1712 - Mobley
Provides that the county recorder shall file a
(Chapter 1109)
modified or amended boundary map of an assessment
district with specified endorsements in a book of
maps. It requires that such maps be cross-indexed
to the original map of the affected assessment distric
AB 1713 - Mobley
Makes the provisions of the Special Assessment,
(Chapter 1139)
Investigation, Limitation and Majority Protest Act
of 1931 inapplicable to the acquisition, or the
construction and acquisition, as well as to the
construction, of sanitary sewers, sewage disposal
works and storm water drains, when certain requirement
are met.
AB 1715 - Mobley
Provides that if prepayments of other assessments
(Chapter 1140)
under the Improvement Bond Act of 1915 along with the
regular amount of payment, rather than just the
regular amount of payment, are sufficient to create
surplus funds with which to redeem any outstanding
improvement bond before maturity, then the bonds
may be redeemed as provided, deleting the provision
for the person making the payment to direct the
treasurer to redeem the bond.
AB
1760
-
Gonsalves Makes various modifications and clarifying changes
(Chapter 1141)
with respect to the type of information in an
assessor's records available to other county assessors
and to the assessees of property or their representa-
tives.
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#582
AB 1811 - Hayes
Raises the maximum number of pound for which the
Chapter 1142
will pay for transportation of household goods where
state employees are relocated from 8,000 to 11,000
pounds.
AB 2054 - Hayes
Prohibits an employer from requiring a registered
Chapter 1159
nurse, a licensed vocational nurse or any other
person employed to furnish direct personal services
to a patient to directly participate in the induction
or performance of an abortion if such employee has
filed a written statement with the employer indicatir
a moral, ethical, or religious basis for refusal to
participate in the abortion.
AB 2122 - Bee
Prohibits termination of a tenancy in a mobilehome
Chapter 1143
park for the purpose of making a tenant's space
available for a person who purchased a mobilehome
from the owner of the mobilehome park or his agents.
The bill also prohibits charging of fees to tenants
other than charges for rent, utilities, or incidental
reasonable service charges.
AB-2126 - Fenton
Provides that, for purposes of the Insurance Holding
Chapter 1098
Company System Regulatory Act, certain foreign
insurers licensed to do business in the state shall
be deemed a commercially domiciled insurer.
AB 2185 - Beverly
Provides that, with respect to protests against the
Chapter 1160
incorporation of a new city, the incorporation
proceedings shall be terminated upon the protest of
qualified signers representing 51 percent of the
assessed valuation of land and improvements, rather
than owners representing 51 percent of land alone,
within the area proposed for incorporation.
AB 2241 - Russell
Provides that state land declared surplus by the
Chapter 1144
legislature shall be offered to local governmental
entities at fair market value and authorizes the
Director of General Services to convey surplus state
lands for 50 percent of fair market value upon
specified terms to local public agencies for park
and recreation purposes. The bill also permits
transfer of such land to public entities at a sale
price of no less than 50 percent of fair market value
to be used for other public purposes if certain
conditions are met.
AB 2291 - Cary
Prohibits the sale, lease, or other transfer of real
Chapter 1099
property owned by a local agency lying between the
high water mark of the Pacific Ocean and the nearest
street or highway unless an alternate route is made
available giving equal or greater public access to
the ocean in the same immediate vicinity.
AB 2363 - Foran
Requires every passenger vehicle manufactured and
Chapter 1110
first registered after January 1, 1973, except
motorcycles, to be equipped with an emergency brake
system, constructed in a specified manner.
AB 2386 - Stacey &
Authorizes the establishment of the Greater Bakersfie:
Ketchum
Metropolitan Transit District in the City of
Chapter 1161
Bakersfield and the unincorporated area of the County
of Kern adjacent thereto.
AB 2648 - Lanterman
Clarifies the law to allow superior courts, if no
Chapter 1162
objection is made, to hold hearings for mentally
disordered persons under the Lanterman-Petris-Short
Act at any place in or out of the county, suitable to
the mental and physical condition of the patient; to
prescribe procedures for the patient at hearing to
waive the presence of treatment personnel of the
facility treating the patient; to require local mental
health programs to use private resources and facilitic
of cost and quality comparable to county resources
before developing new county-operated resources; to
require the drug abuse and alcoholism portion of the
annual county Short-Doyle Plan to be submitted to the
State Office of Narcotics and Drug Abuse and the
Office of Alcohol Program Management, respectively.
#582
AB 2651 - Lanterman
Appropriates $15,000 to the Central Registry of the
Chapter 1145
Department of Justice. The Central Registry unit
assists local jurisdictions in locating absent
parents for the purpose of enforcing child support
obligations.
AB 2669 - Ralph
Requires that the governing board of community
Chapter 1180
college districts affected approve the transfer of
one part of one district to another district under
specified procedures.
AB 2674 - Ralph and
Raises the contract amount to $10,000 from $2,500
B. Greene
before a public agency must require a payment bond
Chapter 1101
from the contractor who is awarded the contract.
AB 2741 - Hayes
Requires proponents of a petition to recall a public
Chapter 1146
official of the state, county, or school district
governing board member to serve, file and publish
a notice of intent containing a statement of the
grounds for the recall. Allows each such officer
or governing board member to file and serve an
answer justifying his course of conduct in office.
The bill also requires the answer, if any, to be
included in recall petition before it can be
circulated.
AB 2773 - Lanterman
Adds care homes serving dependent and neglected
& Bagley
children to care homes deemed residential for
Chapter 1163
zoning purposes. The bill applies to homes
providing 24 hour care only.
AB 2785 - Mobley
Establishes additional procedures in cases of
Chapter 1111
condemnation of land restricted by contract to open
space uses under the California Land Conservation
Act of 1965 and permits additional provisions in
such contracts.
AB 2829 - Maddy
Authorizes certificated employees who are absent
Chapter 1102
because of illness or accident for five months or
less to be paid their regular salary less the amount
paid or payable to a substitute employee, rather
than the amount actually paid. The bill also
requires a school district to make every reasonable
effort to secure the services of a substitute.
AB 2832 - Townsend
Prohibits the sale of the nonenriched form of a
Chapter 1147
food after definition and standard are established
as specified for the enriched form of the food.
The bill permits the use of unenriched form of such
food as an ingredient of another food only under
specified conditions. The bill also provides that
enriched food or food prepared from enriched
ingredients which features the use of enriched food
or ingredients, as specified, shall be labeled in
accordance with requirements for special dietary
foods.
SB 274 - Deukmejian
Extends the authority to establish regional
Chapter 1113
occupational centers to school districts of 50,000
or more average daily attendance located in a county
of 750,000 average daily attendance or more.
SB 371 - Cologne
Establishes the Litigation Deposits Fund in the
Chapter 1148
State Treasury for the deposit of money received as
litigation deposits where the State of California
is a party to the litigation. The bill provides
for the investment or deposit of the fund and for
the allocation of income.
SB 533 - Moscone
Requires, when a person has been arrested and is
Chapter 1149
subsequently released from custody and a certificate
of detention is issued, the arresting agency and the
Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation
to delete from their records of the action the word
"arrest" and substitute the word "detention."
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#582
SB 701 - Nejedly
Makes it unlawful to use any recorded or
Chapter 1114
electrically amplified bird or mammal calls or
sounds, or recorded or electrically amplified
imitations of bird or mammal calls or sounds, to
assist in taking any bird or mammal, except nongame
birds and nongame mammals as permitted by regulations
of the Fish and Game Commission.
SB 725 - Petris
Requires the director of local mental health services
Chapter 1115
to be psychiatrist, psychologist, clinical social
worker, or hospital administrator who meets the
qualifications set by the State Director of Mental
Hygiene, where the director is other than the local
health officer or medical administrator of the county
hospital. The bill requires the director to be a
psychiatrist if his duties include the direct medical
care of patients or if not a psychiatrist to have a
psychiatrist in the program whose duties include
such care.
SB 758 - Harmer
Designates automobile driver training as the
Chapter 1116
laboratory phase of driver education, and prescribes
two additional alternate plans for such instruction.
SB, 800 - Petris
Permits certain judges to order a prisoner in a city
Chapter 1117
or county jail to be taken to a facility for 72-hour
treatment and evaluation under the Lanterman-Petris-
Short Act, where such prisoner is suspected of being
mentally disordered. The bill deletes the provision
requiring examination of a prisoner in a city or
county jail suspected of mental disorder, before
such prisoner may be taken to a facility for 72-hour
treatment and evaluation under the Lanterman-Petris-
Short Act.
SB 820 - Deukmejian
Requires, in any action for damages for personal
Chapter 1150
injury, death, or property loss arising out of the
ownership, maintenance, or use of a motor vehicle,
which is filed in Los Angeles County, that the
settlement conference be held within a specified
period after filing of an at issue memorandum,
except where the court grants extension of time.
SB 838 - Cologne
Permits expenditure of license fees of at large
Chapter 1151
weighmasters by the Department of Agriculture from
the Department of Agriculture Fund for the
administration and enforcement of tare requirements.
SB 938 - Burgener
Provides that Assembly Bill 698, relating to a
Chapter 1118
transfer of the Department of Rehabilitation's
Alcoholic Rehabilitation Program to the Department
of Health, shall not become operative if the United
States Department of Health, Education and Welfare
issues a formal ruling that such transfer does not
meet federal requirements.
SB 988 - Deukmej:
Extends the existence of the California Crime
Chapter 1119
Technological Research Foundation from 1971 to 1975.
The bill also appropriates $56,250 to support the
Foundation for this remainder of the 1971-72 fiscal
year.
SB 1366 - Beilenson
Revises the definition of clinics which are eligible
Chapter 1120
for licensure by the State Department of Public Healt
SB 1374 - Alquist
Establishes an earthquake strong-motion
Chapter 1152
instrumentation program to be organized and monitored
by the Division of Mines and Geology, Department of
Conservation, which is to be supported by a fee from
applicants for construction permits.
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SB 1451 - Burgener
Authorizes school districts maintaining community
Chapter 1153
colleges to contract on a full-cost basis with the
federal government or any agency of the federal
government to provide community college courses
and classes to persons in military service of United
States at Military locations inside or outside the
district or state.
Acting Governor Ed Reinecke also announced that he has vetoed the
following bill:
SB 1503 - Moscone
Excepts from the obscenity prohibitions of the Penal
Code a motion picture film developer who is employed
by person licensed by any city or county and acting
within scope of employment, if such film developer
has no financial interest in the motion picture
which he is developing and does not know that such
film constitutes obscene matter.
REASON FOR VETO:
"There has been a marked increase in the number of
film developers in California, whose entire business
is that of developing and producing pornographic
films. If this bill were law, it might be possible
for management personnel employed by pornographic
film developers to be exempt from prosecution even
though they act in concert with producers of
pornographic films.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned,"
the governor said.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
10-21-71
#586
Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today announced the following
bills have been signed:
AB 171 - Z'berg
Enacts the Veterans Bond Act of 1971 which authorizes
(Chapter 1167)
issuance of $250 million in bonds to finance farm
and home loans for California veterans. The bill
requires that the Act appear as Proposition No. 1 on
the ballot of the special election to be held June 6,
1972.
AB 204 - Thomas
Directs the Department of Public Works to conduct
(Chapter 1168)
a study of all access routes between Routes 11 and 213
in San Pedro and to recommend to the legislature by
January 1972, the specific location of a new state
highway.
AB 282 - Cory
Provides that when a person who has been placed on
(Chapter 1169)
probation in one county moves to another county he may
be committed to the care and custody of the
probation officer of the county to which he has moved.
AB 527 - MacGillivray Requires fisherman selling fish, mollusks or
(Chapter 1170)
crustaceans taken from waters of this state or
brought into this state in fresh condition, to
persons not licensed as a fish dealer, canner or
processor to fill out a commercial fishing receipt
pursuant to designated provisions.
AB 608 - MacGillivray Extends for four more years the Fish and Game
(Chapter 1171)
Code provisions relating to commercial fishing
license fees and fish privilege taxes.
AB 635 - Townsend
Allows a school district governing board maintaining
(Chapter 1172)
and operating regional occupational centers and
programs to excuse a pupil enrolled in grade 10, 11,
or 12 who is also attending a regional occupational
center or program from attending courses in physical
education under specified circumstances. The bill
also requires school districts which receive federal
funds because of attendance at a regional occupational
center operated pursuant to a joint powers agreement
to allocate such funds to the center at which the
attendance occurred.
AB 846 - Burton
Deletes authority for a teacher to suspend, with
(Chapter 1173)
good cause, any pupil from the school for not to
exceed one and a portion of a second school day, and
provides instead that a teacher may suspend, for good
cause, any pupil from his or her class for the day of
the suspension and the day following. The bill also
requires a teacher to ask a parent or guardian to
attend a conference regarding the suspension and
requires attendance at such conference of a school
administrator if either the teacher or parent or
guardian so requests.
AB 871 - Barnes
Makes it unlawful to alter any drivers license or
(Chapter 1174)
identification card in any unauthorized manner.
AB
905
-
Brathwaite Provides that the transcript of testimony of
(Chapter 1175)
witnesses examined in a coroner's inquest shall be
completed and filed within 10 days of the inquest with
the office of the coroner or county clerk as
determined by the beard of supervisors.
AB 986 - Murphy
Increases the amount payable by the State Forester
(Chapter 1176)
to eligible persons for arson information from $100
to $500.
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AB 1014 - Johnson, R.
Requires boards of supervisors of all counties
(Chapter 1177)
to transfer the duties of the redemption officer
to the tax collector by January 1, 1974.
AB 1486 - Greene, B.
Requires that specified plans regarding vocational
(Chapter 1189)
education be submitted before September 15, 1973,
rather than September 15, 1972. The bill also extends
the period for required allocations of specified
federal funds by the State Board of Education by one
fiscal year.
AB 1490 - Wood
Makes it a misdemeanor, rather than an infraction,
(Chapter 1178)
to fail to comply with any rule or regulation adopted
by the California Highway Patrol pertaining to hours
of service of drivers of certain motor vehicles.
AB 1620 - Burke
Limits the scope of matters which may be proposed
(Chapter 1179)
in "meet and confer" sessions under the Winton Act
by any certificated employee, organization, and any
classified employee organization, respectively to
matters directly related to certificated employees
and classified employees, respectively, unless
such proposals have first been submitted to the
designated employee organization. The bill provides
that the public school employer will resolve any
disagreement as to whether or not a matter is so
directly related.
AB 1637 - Waxman
Changes form of the ballot regarding judicial offices.
(Chapter 1180)
AB 1654 - MacDonald Authorizes the governing boards of school districts to
(Chapter 1181)
establish deferred compensation plans for certificated
and classified employees.
AB 1848 - Cory
Provides that the provision exempting fuel specified
(Chapter 1182)
for and used in vehicles equipped with certain low-
emission systems from the use fuel tax is applicable
to vehicles over 6,001 pounds manufacturer's gross
weight and certain vehicles 6,001 pounds and less,
and the provision that excludes the cost of installing
such system from the market value of vehicles for pur-
poses of the Vehicle License Fee Law applies to ve-
hicles over 6,001 pounds manufacturer's gross weight
and certain vehicles 6,001 pounds and less.
AB 1975 - Mobley
Authorizes the Westlands Water District to enter into
(Chapter 1183)
a contract with the United States in the manner
provided for the authorization of general obligation
bonds of the district.
AB 2035 - Ketchum
Permits the licensee of any bona fide public eating
(Chapter 1184)
place to sublease the sale and service of meals on
such premises as required by provisions of the
Alcoholic Beverage Control Act.
AB 2044 - Moorhead
Authorizes cooperative arrangements with other
(Chapter 1185)
jurisdictions to carry out term-fixing and paroling
functions for California state prisoners.
AB 2197 - Townsend
Provides that all meetings of the Hearing Aid
(Chapter 1186)
Dispensers Examining Committee shall be held upon
15, rather than 30 days' notice. The bill also pro-
vides for application for temporary license as hearing
aid dispenser under certain circumstances on or before
July 15, 1972.
AB 2260 - Ketchum
Clarifies and strengthens the authority of the
(Chapter 1187)
Department of Agriculture and the county agricultural
commissioners concerning the use and application of
pesticides. One of the principal changes made by
the bill is that the Director of Agriculture is given
authority to summarily stop pest control operations
pending a hearing if determined necessary for the
protection of the public welfare or safety.
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AB 2800 - Karabian
Deletes specific Education Code provisions regarding
(Chapter 1188)
the creation, composition, duties, and responsibilities
of numerous educational commissions and advisory
committees. The bill creates the Educational
Innovation and Planning Commission, Curriculum
Development and Supplemental Materials Commission,
Educational Management and Evaluation Commission, Equal
Education Opportunities Commission, Advisory Committee
on Educational Research in Basic Educational Programs
and Advisory Committee on Special Education. The
bill also authorizes the Superintendent of Public
Instruction to establish educational task forces to
render recommendations on specified procedures and
standards.
SB 1239 - Harmer
Provides that the Trustees of the California State
(Chapter 1164)
Colleges shall initiate a pilot management, planning
and budgeting system at selected state colleges
beginning with 1972-1973 fiscal year.
SB 1303 - Cusanovich Includes school districts, county boards of
(Chapter 1165)
education, personnel commissions of a school
district, and county superintendents of schools
within the definition of agencies who can contract
for health benefits under the Meyers-Geddes Act. The
bill provides that an agency which elects to contract
for coverage through the Meyers-Geddes Act may not
also maintain another health plan in competition with
the Meyers-Geddes plan.
SB 1592 - Lagomarsino Provides that another amended birth certificate
(Chapter 1166)
which omits the name, and address of the hospital or
other facility where an adopted child was born or
which omits the city and county of birth may be
issued upon the request of the adopting parents at
any time after the issuance of a new birth certificate.
The bill requires a fee of $5 to be paid to the
State Registrar by the applicant for the preparation
of an amended record.
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Contact:
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445-4571
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#589
Acting Governor Ed Reinecke announced today the following bills have
been signed:
AB 381 - Schabarum
Extends the definition of "agricultural burning" to
Chapter 1195
include open outdoor fires used in improvements of
land for wildlife and game habitat, The bill
prohibits any such burning unless the person
desiring to conduct the burning obtains from the
Department of Fish and Game a written statement
certifying that the burning is desirable and proper
for such improvement and the statement is filed with
the regional or county air pollution control officer
of the region or county in which the burning is to
take place.
AB 963 - MacDonald
Adds district attorneys' investigators, public
Chapter 1196
defenders, and public defenders' investigators to
the list of persons authorized to issue subpoenas
in criminal cases.
AB 1043 - Schabarum
Directs the commissioner of the California Highway
Chapter 1197
Patrol, after public hearings, to adopt regulations
setting noise standards for pneumatic tires. The
bill provides that such regulations shall be filed
with the legislature eight months after the federal
study on tire noise is available and shall become
operative one year after such filing. The bill
provides that, one year after the filing of
regulations with the legislature, no dealer or
person holding a retail seller's permit shall sell
or install on a vehicle a tire which fails to comply
with specified regulations.
AB 1101 - Chappie
Increases the maximum limit from $30 to $35 which
Chapter 1198
the Director of Agriculture may fix as a minimum fee
for a license to sell any nursery stock. The bill
also provides for an acreage fee in an amount to be
established by the Director of Agriculture.
AB 1102 - Briggs
Adds that portion of State Highway Route 57 from
Chapter 1199
Route 90 to Route 60 near the City of Industry to
the state scenic highway system.
AB 1162 - Ryan
Prohibits, with prescribed exceptions, the taking
Chapter 1200
of any seal. The bill makes it a misdemeanor, with
prescribed penalties, to import into this state for
commercial purposes, or to sell within the state,
the dead bodies, or any parts or products thereof,
of seals.
AB 1173 - LaCoste
Amends the Agricultural Code standard for the
Chapter 1201
minimum solids not fat in market milk from 8.5 to
8.7 percent.
AB 1247 - Bagley
Provides that the expenses of fighting a fire are a
Chapter 1202
debt of the person who negligently, or unlawfully
sets the fire, allows it to be set, kindled, or to
escape onto any forest, range or nonresidential
grass-covered land, rather than providing such
liability only where the fire damages the property
of another.
AB 1254 - Crown
Requires the Bureau of Criminal Statistics to
Chapter 1203
periodically review governmental units using criminal
statistics, and to make recommendations to the
Attorney General for changes it deems necessary in
the design of criminal justice statistics systems.
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AB 1267 - Burke
Revises the population figures for California's
Chapter 1204
58 counties to reflect the 1970 federal census.
The bill also reclassifies counties to reflect the
1970 census.
AB 1268 - Murphy
Provides that where a husband and wife hold title
Chapter 1205
to a bank or savings and loan account as joint
trustees, at the death of one of them the account
shall be treated for inheritance tax purposes as if
it had been held by them as joint tenants.
AB 1358 - Deddeh
Prohibits the Department of Parks and Recreation
Chapter 1206
fromcollecting any fee from any group of pupils in
kindergarten or grades 1 to 12 or their escorts who
are visiting any unit in the state park system
except Hearst San Simeon State Historic Monument
pursuant to a school outing or field trip. The bill
also allows the Department of Parks and Recreation,
subject to approval of the Director of General
Services, to extend for a period not to exceed 25
years the existing agreement between specified
parties for the use of a portion of Cuyamaca Rancho
State Park as a recreational playground and camp.
AB 1607 - Townsend
Specifies that operators of airports subject to
Chapter 1207
county enforcement of noise standards shall reimburse
the county for costs of enforcement of such standards
The bill directs the county to credit each such
operator for amount of any penalties assessed for
violation of such noise standards for purposes of
provisions specifying disposition of such penalties.
AB 1615 - Pierson
Authorizes the trustees of the California State
Chapter 1208
Colleges to establish a program of motor vehicle
liability and automobile insurance for their employee
The bill requires that premiums of such program be
borne by participating employees.
AB 1621 - Miller
Adds provisions requiring declarations of intent for
Chapter 1190
candidates for legislative office. Requires a
candidate's filing fee to be paid upon filing of a
declaration of intent and specifies such filing fee
shall be nonrefundable.
AB 1668 - Badham
Ratifies and approves a specified agreement entered
Chapter 1209
into by the Orange County Harbor District and the
Avco Community Developers, Inc. The bill releases
to such corporation any rights of the public in
certain described real property of the corporation
in exchange for conveyance by the corporation of
certain beaches, beach accesses, and parking areas
described in the agreement. The bill further requires
approval of the agreement by the State Lands
Commission and the Orange County Board of Supervisors
after the Attorney General reports on the agreement
as prescribed.
AB 1816 - Hayes
Eliminates adultery in previous divorce actions as
Chapter 1210
one of the grounds for declaring a minor free from
parental custody and control. The bill permits a
court, in the interest of justice, to transfer to
another county any enforcement or modification
proceeding after final judgment in an action under
the Family Law Act, when both the petitioner and the
respondent have moved from the county in which the
decree was rendered. The bill further provides that
retroactivity of an order of modification or
revocation of child support order or spousal support
order is discretionary with the court, rather than
mandatory.
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AB 1916 - MacDonald
Provides that delinquent and unpaid charges for
Chapter 1211
water and other services furnished at the written
request of the landowner by county or municipal
water districts and which are unpaid for 60 days on
July 1, will become a part of the annual taxes
levied on the property which received the services.
AB 2095 - Burke
Requires the Department of Public Health to prepare
Chapter 1212
educational materials on venereal disease to be made
available for use by the Department of Alcoholic
Beverage Control and the State Board of Pharmacy.
These agencies are required to inform license
applicants of the availability of such materials
and encourage its use.
AB 2104 - Badham
Declares legislative intent to encourage institution
Chapter 1191
of higher education to provide, through cooperative
agreement with school districts, training programs
for high school teachers to improve instructional
skills. The bill authorizes school districts to
establish staff development projects and to contract
with institutions of higher education for training
in such projects. Requires participating
institutions to grant academic credit for courses
that are taken as part of the staff development
projects.
AB 2162 - Seeley
Amends provisions of the Public Resources Code
Chapter 1213
relating to geothermal resources. The amendments
clarify specified documents to be filed upon
completion of well operations, gives the Director of
Conservation flexibility in establishing district
boundaries, requires a permit approved by State Oil
and Gas Supervisor prior to any drilling operations,
adjusts fee schedules and authorizes a shallow well
program.
AB 2214 - Belotti
Revises various Vehicle Code provisions regarding
Chapter 1214
issuance of special plates, licenses, and certificate
to manufacturers, transporters, dealers, and
dismantlers and requirements for applicants for
occupational licenses. The bill also revises
provisions regarding submission of information by
principal offices and directors of corporations to
the Department of Motor Vehicles.
AB 2328 - Russell
Authorizes the Department of Parks and Recreation to
Chapter 1215
lease lands in the area of Castaic Lake to Los
Angeles County for park purposes.
AB 2370 - LaCoste
Revises the law relating to recounts in school board
Chapter 1216
member elections. The bill provides that a voter may
order a recount by filing an affidavit showing that
the vote was within the lesser of 1 percent or 10
votes in any precinct or 1 percent or 100 votes in
all precincts.
AB 2528 - Schabarum
Changes the membership of the Health Planning Council
Chapter 1217
from 21 to 25.
AB 2576 - Waxman
Revises procedures for filing computer vote programs
Chapter 1218
with the Secretary of State, and requires Secretary
of State to hold such programs for at least six
months and make such programs available to courts and
county clerks in election contests and official
recounts. The bill also gives the Commission on
Voting Machines and Vote Tabulating Devices the right
to withdraw approval of voting machines without prior
reservation of such right. The bill further makes
an error in any computer vote counting program an
additional ground for elector's contest of an election
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AB 2934 - Cory
Revises provisions for registration of voters in
Chapter 1219
counties other than the county of residence to allow
the county clerk of the county of residence to use
an affidavit of registration from other county as
his permanent record. The bill requires a county
clerk to affix the precinct numbers of signers to a
nomination paper. The bill further requires the
circulator of a nomination petition or paper to
designate in his affidavit the dates between which
all signatures to the petition or paper wereobtained.
AB 2999 - Russell
Requires the State Board of Education to develop
Chapter 1220
guidelines which school districts may use in
development of specified teacher evaluation procedure
and to distribute such guidelines to school districts
AB 3039 - Maddy
Provides, in the case of certain small elementary
Chapter 1221
and unified school districts, that the county
superintendent of schools, rather than the district
governing board, shall receive and review for
selection, basic textbooks and supplementary
textbooks.
AB 3071 - Ketchum
Appropriates $125,000 from the Special Deposit Fund
Chapter 1222
to the Department of Parks and Recreation for the
development of San Simeon State Beach.
AB 3073 - Badham
Amends and supplements the Budget Act of 1971 to
Chapter 1223
appropriate $2.1 million from State Beach, Park,
Recreational and Historical Facilities Fund to the
Department of Parks and Recreation for land
acquisition at Doheny Beach.
SB 303 - Behr
Enables state departments to reimburse an employee
Chapter 1192
for job-required personal tools when stolen from
the job site through no fault of the employee.
SB 337 - Grunsky
Appropriates $300,000 from funds accumulated under
Chapter 1193
the provisions of Item 214, Budget Act of 1970, for
expenditure by the Department of Parks and Recreation
for capital outlay at Hearst San Simeon State
Historical Monument.
SB 1302 - Cologne
Authorizes the State Board of Cosmetology to adopt
Chapter 1194
regulations relating to the issuance of a special
certificate authorizing the holder to engage in
the practice of wig styling without holding a
certificate and license as a cosmetologist.
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Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
10-22-71
#591
Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today announced the following bills
have been signed:
AB 85 - Thomas
Increases license fees for bail bond agents and
(Chapter 1231)
solicitors. The bill requires the Insurance
Commissioner to report to the Legislature by
June 1, 1972, whether the increase in such license
fees is sufficient to make the licensing program
self-supporting.
AB 388 - Dent
Permits funds allocated for grade separation
(Chapter 1232)
projects to be expended on projects effecting
elimination of grade crossing by removal or
relocation of streets or railroad tracks.
AB 775 - Thomas
Increases the annual fees for a license to conduct
(Chapter 1233)
or give a boxing contest, sparring or wrestling
match, or wrestling exhibition and for other annual
licenses. The bill prohibits charging and
receiving an admission fee for exhibiting simultaneou
telecast of live, current, or spontaneous boxing
or sparring match, or wrestling exhibition or
performance on closed-circut television without
a permit from the State Athletic Commission. The
bill authorizes the fees to be charged in connection
with issuance of such permits.
AB 890 - Stacey
Requires that records be kept to insure that
(Chapter 1234)
expenditures of fees derived from different
professions in behavioral Science Examiners Fund bear
a reasonable relation to revenue derived from
each category. The bill permits expenditures of
surpluses in reasonable relation to revenue derived
from each licensing or registration category, and
permits such surpluses to be used for education and
research related to each of the licensing or
registration categories.
AB 1382 - Arnett
Allows the State Highway Commission to provide
(Chapter 1235)
matching funds from the State Highway Fund for
the Special Interest Stopping Place Fund to the
extent that it is constitutionally permitted and
upon a determination that such authorization would
constitute a highway purpose.
AB 1651 - Stacey
Permits the Director of General Services to
(Chapter 1236)
dispose of surplus state personal properties to
any nonprofit corporation which operates facilities
for the blind.
AB 1663 - MacDonald
Places responsibility for planning, budgeting and
(Chapter 1237)
expenditure control of electronic data processing
with the Department of Finance. The bill creates
a State Data Processing Officer serving under the
Director of Finance. The bill also creates the
California Information Implementation Committee
which would be required to formulate recommendations
for more efficiently implementing State policy on
electronic data processing utilization and present
these recommendations to the legislature and the
governor by February 1, 1972.
AB 1756 - Sieroty
Provides that a machine-prepared assessment roll may
(Chapter 1238)
be displayed in printed form, on microfilm, or by
any other means that would make it readily
available to the public in legible form.
AB 1969 - Greene, L. Authorizes school districts and county superintend-
(Chapter 1239)
ents of schools to conduct experimental programs
for educationally handicapped minors; to conduct
experimental programs for physically handicapped minors; and to design,
implement, and evaluate innovative exemplary education and training
programs for exceptional minors, under specified conditions. The bill
provides that the authorization for such experimental programs shall
terminate in three years. The bill also requires Department of Education
to evaluate and report to the legislature each year on such programs.
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Greene, L. Requires school districts to make payments to
(Chapter 1240)
local jurisdictions with respect to property of
the school district not used for school purposes
within a specified period after acquisition. The
bill provides for commencement and termination of
such payments and for the computation of such pay-
ments based on the last assessed value of the
property and current property tax rates.
AB 2870 - Knox
Requires, rather than allows, local agency formation
(Chapter 1241)
commissions to initiate and make studies of existing
governmental agencies. The bill provides that local
agency formation commissions shall develop and
determine the sphere of influence of each local
governmental agency within the county. The bill
further provides that local agency formation
commission shall use spheres of influence as basis
for decisions on proposals over which it has
jurisdiction and for the basis of recommended
governmental reorganization.
SB 357 - Carpenter
Authorizes county supervisors to require the county
(Chapter 1224)
counsel to act as attorney for the public
administration where he has priority, including
estates under specified provisions relating to the
sale of property and collection of debts of estates
of $1,000 or less. The bill also authorizes a
public administrator to employ private counsel in
specified types of estates where there is no conflict
with the county charter.
SB 500 - Short
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction
(Chapter 1225)
to apportion $83,974 from the State School Fund
to the San Joaquin Delta Junior College District.
SB 661 - Moscone
Provides that an action for injury or wrongful
(Chapter 1226)
death may be continued against a defendant who
dies after commencement of the action without
appointment of representative or successor in
interest, in specified cases in which defendant had
liability insurance applicable to the cause of action.
The bill declares that presentation of a claim
against an executor or administrator is not
prerequisite to commencing an action against a
decedent in specified cases.
SB 783 - Holmdahl
Defines "freeway" for the purposes of the Streets
(Chapter 1227)
and Highways Code provisions relating to the
cost of relocating utilities in freeways, to include
any toll bridge, including approaches under the
jurisdiction of the California Toll Bridge Authority.
SB 784 - Holmdahl
Requires school district governing boards to
(Chapter 1228)
provide for the payment of the actual and necessary
expenses, including traveling expenses, of any
district employee incurred in the course of performing
services for the district, whether within or outside
of the district, rather than requiring governing board
to provide only for traveling expenses of employees.
SB-996 - Deukmejian
Provides that a final determination by a court of
(Chapter 1229)
competent jurisdiction on the leagality of
activities of a taxpayer in a proceeding in which
a state or local entity of government is a party
is binding upon the Franchise Tax Board and State
Board of Equalization for purposes of the Personal
Income Tax Law and the Bank and Corporations Tax
Law.
SB 1407 - Lagomarsino Creates the Commission for Economic Development.
(Chapter 1230)
The bill states that its purpose is to provide
continuing bipartisan legislative, executive branch
and private sector support and guidance for the best
possible overall economic development of the
state. The Commission is to succeed the Industry
and World Trade Commission and the Tourism and
Visitor Services Commission.
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The acting governor has also announced the veto of the
following bills:
AB 297 - Dunlap
Authorizes the Napa River Flood Control Project in
Napa County for financial assistance by the State.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I share the Governor's position that it is
inequitable for the taxpayers of this state to bear
the cost of flood control projects without requiring
greater local participation in the cost of such
projects.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned,"
the acting governor said.
AB 653 - Wood
Adopts and authorizes the federal flood control
project for the Pajaro River in Monterey and Santa
Cruz Counties for state financial participation
pursuant to the State Water Resources Law of 1945
and the Flood Control Law of 1946.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I share the governor's position that it is
inequitable for the taxpayers of this state to bear
the cost of flood control projects without requiring
greater local participation in the cost of such
projects.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned," the
acting governor said.
AB 1347 - LaCoste
Permits a community college district to exempt a
nonresident student who is both a citizen and a
resident of a foreign country, based upon financial
need of the student as determined by the district,
from all or part of the nonresident fee independently
of the exemption authorized for specified other
persons.
REASON FOR VETO:
"This bill seeks to modify the Education Code
provisions concerning the payment of nonresident
fees by community college students who are both
residents and citizens of foreign countries. I
question whether the changes made by this bill will
have the effect desired by its proponents. However,
I have a more basic objection to this proposal.
AB 1347 amends a law that gives a substantial
advantage to citizens of other countries without
providing equivalent benefits to native born
nonresident students. I urge the legislature to
address itself to solving this fundamental problem
before it attempts to further amend an inequitable
law.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned,"
the acting governor said.
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Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
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#592
Governor Ronald Reagan, in what he called "one of the most
difficult decisions I have made during my term of office," today
vetoed the so-called "Cling Peach Bill."
In his veto message, the governor said:
"I am fully aware of the economic distress of cling peach growers
caused by overproduction. I know that many of them regard this bill as
a way out of their dilemma.
"Yet, I am convinced that any short-run advantage gained
from SB 522 would be far outweighed by its long-term detrimental effects
on the cling peach industry itself, on California agriculture generally
and on the economy of the State.
"The bill would authorize acreage certificates to limit the
number of acres from which cling peaches may be marketed. This type
of interference with a free market is undesirable and it will not work,
except perhaps temporarily.
"Prospective new growers would be limited to no more than a
total of 500 acres annually, although the bill ostensibly makes 500
acres the minimum rather than the maximum. This is a restraint of
free enterprise with which this administration cannot agree.
"An arbitrary curb on production, if reflected in a higher
price for the end product, could intensify and encourage competition both
at home and abroad from foreign cling peach canners and from other canned
fruits. This would inflict great economic harm on California peach
growers.
"The bill has other specific defects, such as the unrealistic
requirement that findings be made of the estimated supply and market
demand for three years in advance of the current marketing season.
"For these reasons, I feel that I must veto SB 522. This is
with full recognition of the many economic problems plaguing the industry.
Many cling peach growers have suffered considerable economic hardship and
are in need of help to develop solutions for improved stability. To this
end I am asking our Director of Agriculture, Jerry Fielder, to meet with
cling peach industry representatives to seek other methods of solving
the economic problems of producers.
"Our objective is to seek long range and lasting solutions to
this type of problem."
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
10-28-71
#594
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 426 - Burton
Extends the time period to 35 years in which the
Chapter 1253
City and County of San Francisco must issue bonds
for harbor purposes and lowers the minimum amount
of such bonds to $25,000,000. The bill further
provides that land not required for certain uses
may be used in the public interest. It also
eliminates the Director of Finance and Secretary
of the Agriculture and Services Agency as ex officio
members of the port commission.
AB 436 - Moorhead
Requires newspaper publication of a notice of lost
Chapter 1254
or saved property only where the value of the
property is $25 or more, The bill provides for
disposition of such property if it is unclaimed
within 90 days and its reported worth is less than
$25.
AB 522 - Foran
Creates a Transportation Tax Fund and a State
Chapter 1243
Transportation Tax Fund. The bill abolishes eleven
separate special funds which are now used to account
for state transportation revenues. The abolished
funds are kept in existence as special accounts in
the two newly created funds.
AB 554 - Wilson
Extends until 1976 the operation of both Commission
Chapter 1255
of Housing and Community Development and the
Department of Housing and Community Development.
AB 931 - McAlister
Specifies that when unmarried persons, not minors,
Chapter 1244
who have been living together as man and wife, are
married by a clergyman without a license, the
marriage certificate be filled out by the parties
to the marriage, authenticated by the clergyman
performing the ceremony, and filed by him with the
county clerk within a specified time. The bill
further provides that such certificates be maintaine
by the county clerk not subject to public inspection
except upon specified order of the superior court.
AB 1045 - Schabarum
Decreases the noise limits applicable to the
Chapter 1256
operation of motor vehicles or combinations of
vehicles. The bill prohibits the operation of motor
vehicles or combination of vehicles so as to exceed
noise limits.
AB 1121 - Deddeh
Provides that it constitutes an infraction for any
Chapter 1257
person to operate a vehicle equipped with a compress
or liquefied natural or petroleum gas fuel system
unless such fuel system complies with regulations
established by the highway patrol.
AB 1134 - Porter
Changes the producer assessment under the California
Chapter 1258
Dairy Council Act from a milk fat basis to a whole
milk hundred-weight basis. The bill authorizes the
payment to the Director of Agriculture through
milk pooling accounting procedures.
AB 1200 - Karabian
Prohibits actions by persons to prevent a state
(Chapter 1259)
officer or employee from reporting actual or
suspected violations of laws occurring on the job
or directly related thereto to the Attorney General
or other appropriate authority. The bill provides
such actions create liability for civil damages.
AB 1597 - Duffy
Allows prepaid health plans and pilot project
(Chapter 1260)
contractors with the Department of Health Care
Services to inform potential enrollees of the
availability of services under the Medi-Cal program.
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AB 1865 - Pierson
Requires the California Highway Patrol to adopt
(Chapter 1261)
test procedures which allow, to the extent feasible,
noise measurement and enforcement action to be
accomplished in confined areas such as residential
areas of urban cities.
AB 2434 - Z'berg
Revises provisions relating to the appointment and
(Chapter 1262)
compensation of the assistant marshal and deputy
marshals of the Sacramento municipal court.
AB 2455 - Thomas
Requires the state Athletic Commission to establish
(Chapter 1263)
a trust fund for each professional boxer who
boxes in this state and requests the establishment
thereof, such funds to be created by the promoters'
withholding from the boxers' share of each purse
an amount established by regulations of the
Commission not exceeding 10 percent of each purse
between $200 and $1,000 and 15 percent of each purse
over $1,000. The bill requires the Commission to
establish an actuarially sound pension plan for
professional boxers who box in this state and fix
an equitable schedule for contributions by boxers,
managers, and promoters sufficient to finance the
plan.
AB 2675 - Ralph
Requires courses of instruction in social sciences
(Chapter 1245)
in community colleges to include the role, participa-
tion, and contribution of minority and ethnic groups.
AB 2859 - Powers
Provides that variable interest rate provision shall
(Chapter 1265)
be set forth in both the security document and
evidence of debt issued in connection therewith, where
the purpose is to finance the purchase or construction
of real property on which four or fewer residential
units are to be constructed or on which there are
four or fewer residential units. The bill prohibits
change of interest rate during first 6 months of the
loan.
AB 3001 - Vasconcellos Staggers the expiration date of the terms of the
(Chapter 1264)
six public members and representatives of the
private colleges and universities of the Coordinating
Council for Higher Education.
SB 283 - Teale
Provides for the establishment of a California
(Chapter 1242)
Hospital Commission for the purpose of requiring
periodic and uniform reporting to the commission
of hospital cost data in providing health care service
SB 345 - Coombs
Requires the Director of Agriculture to adopt an
(Chapter 1246)
appeal procedure for any lot of citrus fruit held
in noncompliance with designated Agricultural Code
provisions, and requires such appeal procedure
to provide for reinspection of such fruit.
SB 258 - Gregorio
Deletes that protion of State Highway Route 1 from
(Chapter 1247)
the San Mateo-Santa Cruz county line to the Higgins-
Purisima Road and that portion of Route 84 from
Route 1 to the westerly approach to the Dumbarton
Bridge from the California freeway and expressway
system.
SB 482 - Lagomarsino Makes it a crime to advocate the killing or
(Chapter 1248)
injuring of a peace officer. The bill makes such
crime a misdemeanor if the peace officer is not
killed or injured and a felony if the peace officer
is killed or injured.
SB 537 - Collier
Appropriates $320,000, subject to federal
(Chapter 1249)
reimbursement, for acquisition of land in the
Mendocino Headland and Big River Beach and Flat
areas and north beach area and Penny Island for
inclusion in the State park system.
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SB 722 - Behr
Directs the Department of Fish and Game to attempt
(Chapter 1250)
to relocate surplus tule elk and prohibits the Fish
and Game Commission from allowing tule elk to be taken
until the total statewide population of such mammals
exceeds 2,000 or it is determined by the legislature
that suitable areas cannot be found in this state to
accommodate such a population in a healthy condition.
SB 757 - Harmer
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to notify
(Chapter 1251)
the Department of Education upon placing a qualified
instructor on probation as a negligent operator of a
motor vehicle, in addition to notification upon the
suspension or revocation of a qualified instructor's
driver's license. The bill prohibits reimbursement
for classes taught after the Department of Education
notifies the school district, county superintendent
of schools, or the California Youth Authority.
SB 1008 - Collier
Provides for a $250,000 loan from Long Beach
(Chapter 1252)
tidelands oil and gas revenues to the City of Eureka
to develop previously granted tide and submerged lands.
Governor Reagan has also announced the veto of the following
bills:
AB 115 - Deddeh
Declares legislative intent that proper steps be
taken to identify and provide special training for
limited-English speaking pupils. The bill specifies
the content of elementary and secondary school programs
to aid such pupils and establishes standards for the
personnel involved in such programs.
REASON FOR VETO:
"Our state has always included those who come from
many nations. The education of some has been
handicapped because of lack of proficiency in the
English language. One important approach to helping
those who are language handicapped in their educational
achievement is an effective system of bilingual
instruction.
"I am vetoing this particular bilingual education bill
because I feel it is imperative that we direct
programs in a manner which will most effectively insure
that our language handicapped students achieve their
full potential in the shortest period of time.
"AB 115 offers uncertainties in our quest for the
above objective. It mandates that all school
districts establish bilingual education programs and
that these programs include mathematics, science and
social science taught in the foreign language native
to all English handicapped students. This would be
done before we know the true dimension of the problem
and the teaching resources available. We know there
are over a half million Spanish speaking children
alone in our state, some of whom are not proficient
in English. We also know there are a limited number
of teachers trained to serve the needs of foreign
language speaking youngsters so as to bridge
educational deficiencies where they exist.
"Assembly Bill 115 would not provide school districts
with the flexibility to employ their resources to the
highest and best use. We should recognize that at
the present time there are over $8 million in federal
funds being spent by California school districts each
in its own way exploring solutions to bilingual prob-
lems. The Department of Education has properly
established a Bilingual-Bicultural Task Force to
evaluate and to learn from existing programs. This
task force has not completed its mission, It is
working on a Master Plan to cope with bilingual and
bicultural deficiencies. It is hoped that the plan
will offer goals for districts and will inventory
teaching personnel and curriculum resources available.
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AB 115
"The executive and legislative branches of government
REASON FOR VETO:
should have the information this group is gathering
(Continued)
and the advice of the Department of Education before
investing the limited tax resources available for
this worthy and high objective.
"Accordingly, I am returning this bill unsigned," the
governor said.
AB 550 - Foran
Provides a yearly allowance of $150 for uniforms,
revolvers and distinctive accessories of California
Highway Patrol members, payable upon proof of purchase.
The bill appropriates $850,00 from the Motor Vehicle
Fund to finance such allowances.
REASON FOR VETO:
"Although the appropriation in the bill from the Motor
Vehicle Fund would represent current fiscal year costs,
it should be pointed out that should this bill become
law, a like amount would have to be reflected in the
Highway Patrol's budget for each successive year, since
the bill calls for an annual uniform allowance. The
budgeted amount would also have to reflect any future
increase in the uniformed strength of the Patrol.
"While I am concerned over this substantial increase
in State government costs, I believe a more basic
policy question is raised by this bill. Providing
for the cost of uniform allowances for state employees
should not be approachedon a segmented basis.
"Additionally, I believe any decision on uniform
requirements and allowances for state employees
should await careful consideration of the
recommendations made by the legislative analyst in
his report prepared pursuant to Senate Concurrent
Resolution No. 62 (Res. Chapter 67). In that report,
the analyst recommends that the State Personnel Board
conduct a detailed review of the entire subject of
state employee uniform requirements, and that any
action to provide uniform allowances prior to this
review and resulting recommendations would be premature
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned," the
governor said.
AB 790 - Brown
Makes the University of California and the California
State Colleges subject to the Government Code provision
relating to payroll deductions.
REASON FOR VETO:
"AB 790 is unnecessary inasmuch as the California
State Colleges and the University of California
already provide for payroll deductions for their
academic and nonacademic employees.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned,' the
governor said.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation that will make it
a crime to advocate the killing or injuring of a law enforcement officer.
Part of the governor's anti-crime program, the bill (SB 482 by
Senator Robert J. Lagomarsino, R-Ventura) makes it a felony if the
officer is harmed and a misdemeanor if he is not harmed.
"There is no doubt that the man who wears the badge has become the
number one target of those who would destroy our society. This
legislation serves notice on the criminal and the revolutionary alike
that Californians recognize the responsibility we have to protect those
brave men who place their lives on the line to protect us," the governor
said.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 296 - Z'berg
Enables trust funds established pursuant to
Chapter 1284
collective bargaining agreements to file stop
notices and claims against payment bonds. The bill
exempts these funds from various preliminary notice
requirements.
AB 418 - Barnes
Makes several technical amendments to provisions
Chapter 1300
relating to the Public Employees' Retirement System.
The bill also provides for federal social security
coverage for members of the legislators' retirement
system.
AB 760 - Sieroty
Provides for five or more "undivided interests" in
Chapter 1285
real property are to be treated as "subdivided lands
and are within the jurisdiction of the Real Estate
Commissioner. The provisions include exemptions if
the transactions are between relatives or persons
who could be reasonably assumed to have a capacity
to protect their own interests.
AB 834 - Townsend
Amends the State Contract Act to require the
Chapter 1286
contractor to pay subcontractors promptly upon
receiving progress payments for work performed by
subcontractors. The progress payment withhold
provisions of the State Contract Act have been
modified to require a 5 percent retention from each
progress payment.
AB 999 - Monagan
Extends an Education Code provision which allows
Chapter 1302
the levy of a permissive override of 10 cents per
$100 of assessed valuation for purposes of paying
costs of educating resident pupils in another junior
college district or for leasing a plant and
equipment. It amends the section to extend the
period of time the increase shall remain in effect
from three years to seven years.
AB 1021 - Seeley
Requires rewards to be paid by the court to persons
Chapter 1287
giving information leading to the arrest and
conviction of persons violating designated littering
laws or the prohibition against shooting firearms
on public highways.
AB 1315 - Porter
Makes several technical amendments to the Water Code
Chapter 1288
provisions relating to Water Quality.
AB 1421 - LaCoste
Provides that retired members of the State Teachers'
Chapter 1289
Retirement System may serve as a member of the
teaching staff of a state college and that retired
members of the Public Employees' Retirement System
may serve on the academic staff of the University
of California or a state college, without reinstate-
ment from retirement, for not to exceed 90 teaching
days per year if their compensation does not exceed
$4,000 in that fiscal year.
AB 1506 - Fenton
Increases by $1 the filing fees in superior and
Chapter 1290
municipal court civil cases, the proceeds to be
placed in the Judges' Retirement Fund.
AB 1623 - Bee
Authorizes certain housing authorities to make
Chapter 1291
expenditures for planning new projects that would
replace temporary dwelling units. It would require
the housing authorities that operate defined
temporary housing projects to submit a housing
replacement workable plan to the Department of
Housing and Community Development prior to July 1,
1972. It would extend the operations of such
temporary housing projects until not later than one
year after the 91st day after final adjournment of
the 1973 Regular Session of the legislature.
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AB 1735 - Moorhead
Specifies that a railroad right-of-way shall be
Chapter 1292
assessed only to the extent it will benefit from the
proposed improvement, when included within an
assessment district created under the Improvement
Act of 1911. The bill requires, in determining such
a benefit, that it be presumed that the use of the
right-of-way for a railroad is permanent.
AB 1778 - Russell
Requires all limited and general partners and
Chapter 1293
officers to submit their names on an application for
an occupational license for a dismantler, dealer,
manufacturer and transporter.
AB 1836 - Cory
Requires county clerk to file copies of all precinct
Chapter 1294
maps with the Secretary of State following each
general election. The Secretary of State is to
retain such maps on file for 12 years.
AB 1885 - Wood
Authorizes the Director of Agriculture to establish
Chapter 1295
quality standards for cabbage.
AB 1953 - Z'berg
Makes a minor found by a judge of the juvenile court,
Chapter 1296
juvenile traffic hearing officer, or referee of a
juvenile court, to have committed the offense of
operating a vehicle while under the influence of
intoxicating liquor subject to the vehicle code
provisions relating to the suspension or revocation
of driving privilege by the Department of Motor
Vehicles.
AB 2002 - Barnes
Provides local agencies having established their own
Chapter 1297
pension trusts with more diversified investment
opportunities.
AB 2577 - Waxman
Requires the clerk to provide a Spanish translation
Chapter 1298
of a local candidate's statement of qualifications,
at the candidate's cost, if the candidate so requests
AB 2763 - Chappie
Removes exceptions to the requirements that public
Chapter 1301
buildings and facilities conform to specified
standards for access thereto by handicapped persons
particularly for school districts providing special
buildings and facilities for handicapped persons.
The bill requires that buildings and facilities
constructed with public funds conform to specified
standards of access. The bill also extends access
requirements to public buildings and facilities
which are leased, rented, contracted, sublet or
hired for a period exceeding two years by a city,
county, district or state if more than 50 percent
occupied by the public entity. The bill further
provides for exceptions upon approval of the
Department of Rehabilitation.
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SB 109 - Collier
Authorizes the Department of Water Resources to
(Chapter 1266)
make a loan to the Calaveras Public Utility
District pursuant to the Davis-Grunsky Act in
an amount not to exceed 4.5 million for construction
of a municipal distribution system.
SB 254 - Carpenter
Changes the name of the Office of Administrative
(Chapter 1303)
Procedure to the Office of Administrative Hearings,
and changes the title "presiding officer" to
"director."
SB 229 - Harmer
Provides that the payment bond provisions of the
(Chapter 1267)
Civil Code shall not be construed to give a right
of action to an architect, registered engineer,
or land surveyor unless the work was performed
by such person for the principal on such payment
bond.
SB 271 - Beilenson
Requires the Department of Parks and Recreation to
(Chapter 1268)
prepare an inventory of scenic, natural, and cultural
features of unit of state park system prior to
the unit's classification or reclassification into
any of specified categories. The bill also requires
the Park and Recreation Commission to hold public
hearings regarding the classification or
reclassification of such units.
SB 464 - Marks
Amends the Government Code provision relating to
(Chapter 1269)
Compensation for good Samaritans. The bill
provides benefits to persons dependent upon a
good Samaritan for their principal support. The
bill also provides for the Board of Control to
approve good Samaritan claims without submitting
such to the legislature and to award reasonable
attorney's fees up to 10 percent of the amount of
the award.
SB 671 - Wedworth
Authorizes the State Board of Education to
(Chapter 1270)
negotiate the purchase of the copyright of any
song designated by the legislature as the official
state song. The bill also states that, notwith-
standing Item 276 of the Budget Act of 1971, funds
for new textbooks for the 1971-72 fiscal year
shall not be limited to textbook priority No. 4,
but shall be available for basic and supplementary
social science textbooks for grades 5 to 8, which
meet specified standards.
SB 744 - Lagomarsino
Revises the Penal Code relating to possession of
(Chapter 1271)
concealable firearms by minors, firearms as
constituting a nuisance, and the procedure for the
surrender, disposition and destruction of firearms
under specified circumstances.
SB 746 - Holmdahl
Provides that unemployment or disability insurance
(Chapter 1272)
benefits are not reduced or denied because a
claimant receives vacation pay earned but not
paid until termination of employment, and provides
that such vacation payments are not taxable wages
for unemployment or disability insurance purposes.
SB 749 - Marks
Permits lessees and registered owners of passenger
(Chapter 1273)
vehicles, commercial vehicles, and trailers, rather
than only registered owners of passenger vehicles
to purchase personalized license plates for such
vehicles or trailers.
SB 754 - Gregorio
Provides that any person who wishes to register to
(Chapter 1274)
vote may telephone the office of the county clerk
and state his name, address, telephone number,
and political affiliation, if any. The county
clerk will make this information available to
deputy registrars and county central committees.
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SB 857 - Petris
Prohibits a landlord, with the intent to evict
(Chapter 1275)
a tenant of residential property, from willfully
causing an interruption or termination of any
utility service furnished the tenant. The bill
provides civil penalties for violation.
SB 967 - Coombs
Modifies the manner of taxing commencing and
(Chapter 1304)
dissolving corporations by removing the doubling
up tax on new corporations and by imposing a tax
on the last year's income of a corporation.
SB 1085 - Kennick
Extends to constitutional officers certain provision
(Chapter 1277)
of the Legislator's Retirement Law which are
presently applicable only to legislators.
SB 1241 - Harmer
Creates the State College Special Projects Fund
(Chapter 1278)
for deposit of revenues of the State College Trustee
for research and other specified special projects.
SB 1301 - Carrell
Amends Vehicle Code provisions relating to medical
(Chapter 1279)
examination reports for drivers of heavy equipment,
and the records of suspended or revoked drivers'
licenses.
SB 1426 - Zenovich
Provides that state agencies may perform work for
(Chapter 1280)
or on behalf of the federal government in a foreign
assistance program between the state and foreign
nations financed with federal funds. The bill
provides any agreement to perform the work must
be approved by the Department of Finance.
SB 1549 - Short
Specifies that the term "employer" for purposes of
(Chapter 1281)
the unemployment insurance law, means any person
contracting with a labor organization for the
services of musicians if specified conditions are
met.
SB 1601 - Marks
Provides for the establishment of a duplication
(Chapter 1282)
center to provide specialized educational
materials for use by handicapped minors. The bill
appropriates $30,000 for the program.
SB 1614 - Beilenson
Prohibits the importation into the state for
(Chapter 1283)
commercial purposes, or possession with intent to
sell, or sale within the state, of the dead body
or any part or product thereof of specified
endangered species of animals. The bill also
prohibits the sale and possession with intent to
sell, after June 1, 1972, of any fish, bird,
amphibian, reptile, or mammal specified in
prescribed provisions of the Penal Code, even though
the part or product may lawfully have been possessed
or imported prior to 1970.
SB 166 - Short
Appropriates $956,000 from the General Fund for the
(Chapter 1299)
purpose of payment of night-shift differential
(Signed with deletion) compensation to State civil service employees
working on evening or night shifts established on
or after July 1, 1971.
REASON FOR
DELETION:
"I am reducing the appropriation contained in
Senate Bill No. 166 from $956,000 to $640,000.
"The State Personnel Board estimates that $640,000
will be needed for night shift differential
payments for the period November 15, 1971 through
June 30, 1972. The reduced appropriation reflects
the Personnel Board's estimate.
"With the above reduction, I have approved SB 166,
the governor said.
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Governor Ronald Reagan has announced the Veto of the following
bills:
SB 679 - Stevens
Replaces the Director of General Services with the
Director of Finance on the State Board of Control
and makes the Controller the chairman thereof,
rather than the Director of General Services.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The Department of General Services was
established to administer many of the housekeeping
functions of the State and to relieve the Director
of Finance of the statutory assignments to many
boards and commissions. This bill would reverse
this policy decision and restore the Director of
Finance to membership on the Board of Control.
"The types of claims and other action items coming
before the Board of Control fit most closely with
the statutory responsibilities carried by the
Director of General Services and make him especially
well qualified to make decisions on these issues.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned,"
the governor said.
SB 1338 - Wedworth
Permits Medi-Cal providers to assign receipts from
health care claims to third parties no earlier than
30 days after submission of claims to fiscal
intermediaries.
REASON FOR VETO:
"There has not been any real need demonstrated for
this proposal which would introduce an unnecessary
complexity into the accounting for and payment of
Medi-Cal claims, requiring additional personnel
and increased administrative costs.
"The bill is written so that all Medi-Cal providers
could have all their recurring expenses, such as
telephone bills, gas bills, etc., paid through
assignment and would thus shift their bookkeeping
costs to the fiscal intermediaries and ultimately
to the State and the general taxpayer.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned,"
the governor said.
SB 861 - Kennick
Makes several amendments to the Health and
Safety Code provisions relating to the management
and operation of local housing authorities. It
expands the definition of the term "housing project'
The bill requires housing authorities to include
one tenant as a commissioner. The bill also
requires a written statement of reasonable cause
for eviction and a grievance procedure before
any eviction action is filed. The bill also
makes changes relating to the right of entry of a
tenants dwelling, tenant liability for damage to
a dwelling, requirement for public notices, waiting
lists, and a requirement that certain documents
be translated into languages other than English
in certain cases.
REASON FOR VETO:
"My principal concern with SB 861 is the provision
that mandates the appointment of a housing
authority tenant as one of the commissioners of
that authority. While I have no objections to a
tenant being appointed as a member of an appointive
housing authority, I believe that local governmental
jurisdictions should have maximum latitude and
flexibility in appointing such members. Senate
Bill 861 would, if enacted, remove that flexibility
by mandating tenant membership.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned," " the
governor said.
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AB 2155 - Knox
Clarifies what Election Code violations constitute
grounds for ineligibility to register to vote.
REASON FOR VETO:
AB 2155 apparently seeks to reflect the decision of
the California Supreme Court in Otsuka V. Hite
(1966). The court in that case discussed the type
of crimes that would constitute a threat to the
integrity of the elective process' for the
purpose of determining eligibility to register to
vote. The Hite decision did not limit such
offenses to violations of the Elections Code.
"Any statutory guidelines developed to aid county
clerks in the uniform administration of this part
of the elcetion law should include those other
crimes that also constitute a threat to the
integrity of the elective process. e
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned,"
the governor said.
AB 2891 - Crown
Appropriates $1,200,000 for the support of services
to physically handicapped children.
REASON FOR VETO:
"Over $11.5 million has been appropriated during
the current fiscal year for the Crippled Childrens
Service program. AB 2891 seeks to augment that
appropriation. I feel that it is inappropriate to
further augment this program at this time.
"Accordingly, I am returning this bill unsigned, "
the governor said.
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#602
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation that will impose
strict controls on the use of pesticides and sets up a licensing
program for "pest control advisors."
The bill (SB 1021 by Senator John A. Nejedly, R-Walnut Creek),
will also require use permits for all pesticides which have not been
approved as safe by the State Department of Agriculture.
"This measure will provide further protection not only for the
agricultural workers and the users of pesticides but will also help us
to preserve the environment," the governor said.
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#603
Governor Reagan today issued the following statement at a ceremony
in his office:
"I have called you here to announce the enactment of a new law
one which I signed several days ago which represents a major milestone
in the 58-year history of the State Teachers' Retirement System.
"The bill---AB-543 authored by Assemblyman Dick Barnes of San Diego--
affects all 332,000 active and retired public school teachers in
California. For them, it means that for the first time, their own
retirement organization can be run on an actuarily sound and businesslike
funding basis.
"This administration, working closely with the author and the State
Teachers' Retirement System, has made enactment of the legislation a
major goal of this year's session. Our efforts serve as an eloquent
answer to those uninformed critics who continue to charge that we are
anti-education.
"Now, for the first time, our public school teachers can look
forward to the benefits of retirement with a sense of security knowing
that sound business practices in the operation and management of the
system will assure them the allowances to which they are entitled under
law.
"Not only does the legislation significantly improve the benefits of
the system, but also promises that in the years ahead the cost of the
program to California taxpayers should be reduced.
"This ceremony reflects the great pride we share in having helped
write the legislation into law."
ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS
Mrs. Helene Hobson, President
"The California Retired Teachers deeply
California Retired Teachers'
appreciates the passage of AB-543
Association.
authored by Assemblyman E. Richard
Barnes (R-San Diego). We particularly
appreciate the consistent support
given by Governor Ronald Reagan, and
also the fine cooperation given by his
staff and by the State Department of
Finance."
Mr. Julius Hammer, Chairman
"The signing of AB 543 by Governor
State Teachers Retirement Board
Reagan culminates several years'
efforts by the State Teachers' Retire-
ment Board to improve benefits for bot
retired and active teachers, and of
equal importance the establishment of
a program to place the System on a
sound financial basis.
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Mr. Julius Hammer, Chairman
"This would not have been possible
State Teachers Retirement Board
without Governor Reagan's complete
support. All active and retired
(continued)
teachers should be fully aware of
Governor Reagan's action on their
behalf, both in recognizing the
problems and the development of this
solution. Many persons have been
concerned about the funding of the
Retirement System. This action will
put an end to all such concerns."
Mr. L. Gordon Bittle, President
"On behalf of the 45,000 members of
California Taxpayers Association
the California Retired Teachers
Jeackers
Association and the 175,000 members of
the California Teachers Association,
I wish to pay tribute to Governor
Ronald Reagan and the 1971 legislature
for their foresight, courage and sense
of equity in enacting AB-543 by
Assemblyman E. Richard Barnes of
San Diego. This legislation resulted
from a cooperative effort. Throughout
the development of the bill, there was
very close communication and work
involving Governor Reagan and his staf
Assemblyman Barnes and his consultants
CTA and CRTA leaders and staff, the
State Teachers Retirement System Board
and administration, and the various
committees and supportive members of
the legislature. As AB-543 moved
through the legislature, it had the
continuing support of the governor
from the time he consented to have it
move ahead of the budget. It was his
active, personal support of the final,
amended version that helped it over it
last hurdles. Enactment of AB-543
means security to teachers, who now
have assurance that their retirement
system is finally on firm actuarial
ground, and equality because the bill
gives them the benefit adjustments
against inflation already enjoyed by
other public employees. It relieves
California of a foreseeable fiscal
nightmare by making the retirement
system self-sustaining instead of
depending on steadily increasing
payments from the state which were
projected to exceed $1 billion per
year shortly after the turn of the
century."
Mr. Joseph Brooks,
"California School Boards Association
Executive Secretary
feels that AB--543 which places the
alifornia School Boards Assoc.
state teachers retirement on a sound
actuarial basis is a constructive step
forward in solving one of the many
fiscal problems facing California's
public schools. A provision amended
into the bill, which lessens the
property tax impaction on low wealth
high tax rate districts, represents a
major improvement in the original
legislation and provides better equity
for California property taxpayers.
The legislature is commended for its
passage and the governor for its
signing.'
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Mr. Donald R. McKinley, President
"The Association of California School
Association of California School
Administrators commends the governor
Administrators.
and the legislature on providing for
the realistic and sound financing of
the State Teachers Retirement System.
In signing AB-543 Governor Reagan has
taken a major step toward restoring
confidence in the retirement system."
Mr. Robert C. Brown
"Based on current methods of funding,
Executive Vice President
the state's annual contribution to the
California Taxpayers Association.
State Teachers' Retirement System will
pass the one-half billion dollar mark
by 1989-90. AB-543 represents a major
step in providing for the actuarial
soundness of this system. In our
opinion, the long-range implications
provide definite possibilities that
there will be a direct savings to the
taxpayer with the implementation of
this law. There is no doubt that
affixing your signature to this measure
is in keeping with your stated goals."
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#611
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 543 - Barnes
Makes a major comprehensive revision of the benefit
Chapter 1305
and financing provisions of the State Teachers'
Retirement System.
AB 1027 - Moorhead
Permits a prisoner under the Cobey Work Furlough
Chapter 1313
Law to seek employment and education outside the
county of confinement. The bill allows release of a
prisoner in a work furlough program for a period
not exceeding 72 hours for medical care, for family
emergencies or pressing business which would result
in severe hardship if the release were not granted.
The bill also makes it permissive for the work
furlough administrator to collect the pay of a work
furlough prisoner.
AB
1345
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Brathwaite Amends the Community Development Law to require that
Chapter 1314
the publicly owned improvement be a benefit to the
project area regardless of whether such improvement
is within another project area, or in the case of a
project area in which substantially all of the land
is publicly owned that such improvement is of benefit
to an adjacent project area of the agency. The bill
would also require, with respect to the financing,
acquisition, or construction of a transportation
collection and distribution system and related
peripheral parking facilities, in Los Angeles County,
that the agency, in order to exercise prescribed
powers, enter into an agreement with the rapid
transit district which includes such county. The
bill is intended to assist the Bunker Hill
Redevelopment project.
AB 1488 - Schabarum
Makes a technical change in the definition of "air
Chapter 1315
contaminant" contained in the Health and Safety Code.
AB 1808 - Hayes
Provides that any judge who is removed from office
Chapter 1316
by the Supreme Court shall not receive any of the
benefits provided by provisions authorizing
continuation in the Judges' Retirement Fund upon
service discontinuance and shall be repaid his
accumulated contributions. These provisions will
be applicable only to persons becoming judges after
the effective date of the bill.
AB 2134 - Campbell
Permits minors under 18 to work during any evening
Chapter 1317
followed by a nonschoolday until 12:30 a.m.
AB 2258 - Foran
Increases the minimum paid-in capital requirements
Chapter 1318
for title insurers from $250,000 to $500,000.
Authorizes title insurers operating under a
certificate of authority in effect on July 1, 1971,
to have a specified lesser minimum paid-in capital
requirements until July 1, 1976.
AB 2392 - McCarthy
Provides that "county peace officer service" shall
Chapter 1323
also include service rendered in the sheriff's
office of a city and county in positions subsequently
reclassified as positions within the definition of
"county peace officer." The bill also provides that
disability retirement under the State Teachers'
Retirement System may be upon the application of the
employer as well as the member or his guardian or
conservator.
AB 2428 - Brown
Revises the provisions relating to the acceptance of
Chapter 1319
an offer in compromise by the Department of
Alcoholic Beverage Control in lieu of the serving of
a suspension by a licensee, to provide that the
licensee is entitled to offer to pay a lesser fine
if he has had no other final decisions suspending
or revoking his license in the prior three years.
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AB 2955 - Brathwaite Renames the Division of Building and Housing
Chapter 1320
Standards the Division of Codes and Standards. The
bill also renames the Division of Housing and
Community Development the Division of Research and
Assistance. The bill also authorizes the Department
of Housing and Community Development to establish
four regional offices.
AB 2959 - Lewis
Deletes the Education Code provision requiring school
Chapter 1321
districts, when referring to a pupil's surname, to
use the name of the pupil as shown on documents used
to establish the pupil's age for purposes of
admission to school.
AB 3063 - Lewis
Removes the prohibition against payment for services
Chapter 1322
to a county or district by a person retired under a
retirement system maintained by the county under the
County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 where the
retired person is elected to a county office.
SB 423 - Zenovich
Provides that an unemployed individual, discharged
Chapter 1306
from the armed services, who is otherwise eligible
for unemployment, shall not be deemed ineligible in
any week for which he has unexpired leave time for
which he has been compensated.
SB 465 - Bradley
Requires state and local governmental bodies to pay
Chapter 1307
a fee of $6 for recording releases of liens and the
standard fee for filing or recording any document
relating to an agreement to reimburse a county for
public aid granted by the county. In addition, the
bill increases by $1.00 the fee charged by the
counties for recording various financial statements.
SB 645 Mills
States legislative intent that the Department of
Chapter 1308
Education and the office of Chancellor, California
Community Colleges, develop a policy and procedure
to divide the State School Fund into two sections,
one for the support of elementary and secondary
schools and one for support of public community
colleges.
SB 917 - Grunsky
Authorizes the Department of Justice to charge a fee
Chapter 1309
equal to the department's cost for processing non-
criminal licensing and certification applications.
The bill also increases fees for processing concealed
weapon permit applications and non-certified school
employees employment applications.
SB 1123 - Lagomarsino
Provides for uniform competitive bidding law
Chapter 1310
applicable to counties containing a population of
less than 500,000 engaging in construction of
public projects.
SB 1235 - Bradley
Authorizes the issuance of variable benefit life
Chapter 1311
insurance policies by domestic life insurers in
California.
SB 1267 - Beilenson
Requires both the notice of sale under execution
Chapter 1312
issued on a judgment and the notice of any right of
redemption to be delivered, as specified, to the
judgment debtor.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 76 - Chappie
Increases the membership of the Board of Funeral
Chapter 1326
Directors and Embalmers by adding another licensee
member and another public member.
AB 122 - Greene, B.
Authorizes the California Job Development Corporatio:
Chapter 1340
Law Executive Board to create in the State Job
Development Corporation Loan Guarantee Fund a
revolving loan guarantee fund for use by agencies
operating under the Small Business Assistance
Program Law and under contract with the Executive
Board to guarantee interim loans for small business
enterprises.
AB 253 - MacGillivray
Designates the areas between Point Arguello and
Chapter 1341
Point Mugu, and waters less than 25 fathoms deep
adjacent to the mainland shore, as California
halibut trawl grounds. The bill also authorizes the
Director of the Department of Fish and Game to close
designated halibut trawl grounds, or portions thereo
or to further restrict the nets that may be used in
such area or portions thereof, if the halibut
resource or existing fishing operations within such
designated halibut trawl grounds are imperiled.
AB 433 - Fong
Revises the Education Code provisions requiring
Chapter 1342
appraisal of vision of pupils attending public
schools.
AB 455 - Chappie
Makes it unlawful for any person to pursue, drive,
Chapter 1343
or herd any bird or mammal with any motorized water,
land, or air vehicles, including but not limited to
a motor vehicle, airplane, power boat, or snowmobile
Exceptions are provided for prevention of damage to
private property, and in the case of agricultural
damage.
AB 510 Cullen
Authorizes a protestant whose protest has been
Chapter 1344
rejected by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage
Control to file an accusation alleging the ground
of protest. It also revises the provisions of law
relating to places for hearings to consider such
protests.
AB 540 - Ryan
Authorizes the state to pay in excess of $65 per yea
Chapter 1345
for each new or renewal license granted for approved
city or county inspection services to licensed
institutions and other facilities for the care of
children and aged persons if the county demonstrates
excess costs are unavoidable,
AB 700 - Chappie
Requires estimates of average daily attendance
Chapter 1346
reported in school district applications for state
building aid to be based upon the number of children
residing in the district and the number of dwellings
and mobilehome parks under construction or newly
constructed and never occupied.
AB 854 - LaCoste
Provides that a city or county may impose a fee upon
Chapter 1347
persons and vehicles entering city or county
property which is devoted to park, amusement or
recreational purposes.
AB 861 - Moorhead
Provides that a juvenile traffic hearing officer or
Chapter 1348
a referee of the juvenile court may make findings
which would require the Department of Motor Vehicles
to revoke the driving privileges of any person who
has been found by the juvenile court to have committ
certain prescribed offenses.
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AB 1028 - Maddy
Amends the Forest Practice Act to provide for
Chapter 1349
renewal of logging licenses on an annual basis.
The bill also clarifies the terms "timber owner, "
"timberland owner" and "timber operator.
AB 1126 - Hayes
Authorizes the State Personnel Board to prescribe
Chapter 1350
conditions under which state employees may be
assigned to take out-service, rather than specialize
training to meet educational development needs rathe
than specified skills. This bill also deletes the
provision which requires appointment of the highest
person on a general reemployment list.
AB 1223 - Z'berg
Deletes the requirement that a planning area shall
Chapter `1351
consist of contiguous territory.
AB 1282 - Knox
Provides for adjustments in the retirement
Chapter, 1329
allowances of Department of Justice law enforcement
members of the Public Employees' Retirement System
for periods of service prior to their termination
of social security coverage.
AB 1302 - McCarthy
Provides that the Office of Intergovernmental
Chapter 1327
Management is the clearing house for requests from
cities and counties that state agencies evaluate
the environmental impact of proposed subdivisions
on land projects.
AB 1346 - LaCoste
Increases the minimum weekly benefit for temporary
Chapter 1330
disability indemnity from $25 to $35.
AB 1584 - Schabarum
Raises the maximum ad valorem special assessment
Chapter 1352
which may be levied on taxable land and improvements
within an open-space maintenance district to pay
the costs of maintenance and operation of the
open areas.
AB 1652 - Ketchum
Includes persons in specified positions in the
Chapter 1331
Department of Youth Authority within the law
enforcement category of membership in the Public
Employees' , Retirement System.
AB 1678 - McCarthy
Revises provisions relating to application for
Chapter 1353
original registration of motorcycles, installation
of engines in motor vehicles and assignment of
vehicle identification numbers. It also provides
that rebuilt or restored vehicles that were
previously reported as "junked" are to be handled
as original applications.
AB 1765 - Gonsalves
Requires the State Board of Equalization to cease
Chapter 1354
to administer and terminate its contract to
administer, rather than only to cease to administer,
local sales and use taxes of local government where
such tax does not conform to specified provisions.
AB 1785 - Knox
Increases specified legal filing fees in Contra
Chapter 1355
Costa County.
AB 1839 - Cory
Limits the tax rate in a harbor improvement district
Chapter 1356
to $0.20 per each $100 of assessed valuation. The
bill expands the membership of harbor improvement
district harbor commissions from 5 to 7. The bill
authorizes the board of supervisors to authorize a
harbor improvement district to acquire, develop,
operate, and maintain inland parks and recreation
areas.
AB 1849 - Cory
Provides that a county probation officer may, under
Chapter 1357
certain conditions, authorize the temporary removal
under custody or by temporary release without
custody of a county inmate within 30 days prior to
his release date. The bill provides that any such
removal shall not be for a period of more than
three days.
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AB 1878 - Maddy
Changes the salaries of specific classes of
Chapter 1358
employees of the Fresno Judicial District.
AB 2058 - Hayes
Provides that the court may extend the time of
Chapter 1359
attachments or garnishments of personal property
for a period not exceeding one year from the date
on which the original attachment or garnishment
would expire.
AB 2114 - Cory
Deletes the present statutory provision excluding
Chapter 1360
certain city and county owned taxable property when
computing the "Collier Factor" for the allocation
of state funds to school districts.
AB 2151 - Powers
Increases the membership of the State Board of
Chapter 1328
Registration for Professional Engineers from 9 to
11 members by providing an additional licensee
member and an additional public member.
AB 2461 - Hayes
Provides that if there is a denial of a motion to
Chapter 1332
quash service of summons, or to stay, or dismiss an
action on specified grounds in cases of summary
actions for obtaining possession of real property,
and of the written notice of an order denying the
motion is served, the defendant must plead within
five days after such service, except that the court
may extend the time to plead an additional 15 days.
SB 222 - Collier
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue
Chapter 1324
drivers' licenses in color. Increases drivers'
licenses and identification card fees by $.25.
The bill becomes operative on July 1, 1972.
SB 492 - Carpenter
Imposes a penalty assessment of $5 for every $20 or
Chapter 1333
fraction thereof imposed and collected by the courts
as a fine or forfeiture of bail for any violation
of the provisions of the Fish and Game Code or
regulation of the Fish and Game commission. The
bill requires that such moneys be deposited in the
state's Fish and Game Preservation Fund in a special
account to be used for education or training of
employees of the Department of Fish and Game.
SB. 582 - Way
Extends indefinitely the provisions decreasing the
Chapter 1334
requirement for maturity of desert-produced grape-
fruit from 6½ parts to 6 parts soluble solids to
every part of acid in the juice. It extends the
authority granted to the Director of Agriculture to
establish a higher maturity standard, and authorizes
the director to lower such standards, but not below
the standards of these provisions, when he finds that
it would provide more acceptable grapefruit to the
consumer.
SB 864 - Zenovich
Revises provisions regarding employee rights and
Chapter 1335
benefits in the Fresno Metropolitan Transit District
Act of 1961.
SB 702 - Cusanovich
Appropriates $1,000,000 to the Department of
and Dymally
Education for preschool educational programs
established as a part of the children's centers
program.
SB 1032 - Behr
Raises the application and renewal fees for a
Chapter 1336
biologics production license.
SB 1492 - Moscone
Allows a jury trial in the superior court on the
Chapter 1337
question of whether a person ordered returned to the
Youth Authority following a court hearing is
physically dangerous to the public. A three-fourths
vote of the jury is required for a verdict.
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SB 1498 - Moscone
Authorizes the State Bar of California to create a
Chapter 1338
Client Security Fund and to assess their active
members to support the purposes of the fund. The
measure also authorizes an increase in membership
fees for the continued operation of the State Bar
and the funding of needed capital improvements.
SB 1533 - Behr
Replaces the member of the San Francisco Bay
Chapter 1339
Conservation and Development Commission appointed
by the U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and
Welfare with a member appointed by the Administrator
of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. It
provides that all applicants, including governmental
agencies, shall pay filing fees and reimbursement of
expenses for processing and investigating
applications.
Governor Reagan has vetoed the following bill:
AB 351 - Crown
Requires drug manufacturers to determine a suitable
expiration date of their products to assure
standards at the time of use and further requires
the State Department of Public Health to conduct
studies to determine drugs or drug classes of public
health concern in this area.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The Health and Safety Code already requires
expiration dates for drugs liable to deterioration.
Expiration dates are already being established and
added to many drug labels by manufacturers and
encouraged by the Federal Food and Drug Administratio
for substances which deteriorate rapidly to insure
adequate safety and efficacy at the time of use.
The only new requirements added by Assembly Bill
No. 351 are for the Department of Public Health and
the School of Pharmacy of the University of
California to conduct studies and prepare reports.
This is a matter that can best be handled by the
Food and Drug Administration.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned, "
the governor said.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 199 - Dent
Appropriates $43,000, including a specified $25,000
Chapter 1375
item in Budget Act of 1970, for a feasibility study
regarding the rehabilitation of facilities of the
California School for the Deaf and the California
School for the Blind in Berkeley.
AB 346 - McCarthy
Permits the governor to offer a reward not exceeding
Chapter 1390
$10,000 for information leading to the arrest and
conviction of any escaped convict or a person who
has committed or is charged with the commission of
prescribed offenses. Present law limits such rewards
to a maximum of $1,000.
AB 495 - Wood
Revises the name of the Beet Leafhopper Control
Chapter 1391
Board to the Curly Top Virus Control Board.
AB 709 - Chappie
Authorizes the State Board of Education to approve,
Chapter 1376
under specified conditions, proposal for the
unification of the Northside and Georgetown Divide
Elementary School Districts if the board finds that
the specified statutory criteria for formation of a
unified district are substantilly met or that it is
not practical to apply such criteria literally.
AB 896 - Russell
Authorizes the Department of General Services, with
Chapter 1377
the approval of the State Public Works Board, to
dispose of specified parcels of surplus state
property.
AB 1157 - Wood
Provides, with respect to the provisions regulating
Chapter 1378
the transfer of alcoholic beverage licenses between
spouses, partners, fiduciaries, and corporations,
that one-half of the regular fee shall become due
upon the subsequent transfer of 25 percent of the
stock in a corporation whose entire stock is owned
by the licensee or his spouse and to which the
license has been transferred by the licensee or his
spouse, if such subsequent stock transfer is from
a parent to his child or grandchild.
AB 1220 - Mobley
Includes bankers acceptances within the list of
Chapter 1392
eligible securities for the investment of surplus
state funds.
AB 1433 - Townsend
Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to
Chapter 1393
establish rules for performance of services furnished
or supplied by household goods carriers.
AB 1439 - Moorhead
Makes infractions, rather than misdemeanors for
Chapter 1379
violations of various Agricultural Code provisions,
relating to rabies control and the regulation and
licensing of dogs, and Health and Safety Code
provisions relating to rabies control.
AB 1447 - Keysor
Includes police classifications among those for
Chapter 1394
which a school personnel commission may establish
a probationary period not to exceed one year.
AB 1732 - Moorhead
Repeals the statutory limitations on testamentary
Chapter 1395
gifts to charity.
AB 1767 - Stacey
Appropriates $100,000 from the Resources Protection
Chapter 1380
Account in the General Fund to the Department of
Parks and Recreation for the development of
overnight recreational facilities at Red Rock Canyon
State Park.
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AB 1851 - Cory
Deletes the existing option of using the current
Chapter 1381
fiscal year factor for the modification of assessed
value of property to conform to the statewide
assessment level for apportionment and State School
Building Fund purposes.
AB 1984 - Mobley
Defines "incidental expenses" for purposes of the
Chapter 1382
Improvement Act of 1911 to include a charge
established by a city as a condition to providing
sewer service for the benefit of properties within
the assessment district, and required for the
completion and utilization of the improvement
constructed.
AB 2033 - Ketchum
Requires the Director of Conservation to determine
Chapter 1383
charges for use of inmate labor utilized in fire
fighting, for purposes of computing costs chargeable
to persons made statutorily liable for fire caused
damage.
AB 2190 - Roberti
Revises provisions of the student work-experience
Chapter 1396
program with regard to school districts and their
liability under the workmen's compensation laws to
include occupational classes held in the community.
AB 2244 - Russell
Provides that a member of the security patrol of a
Chapter 1384
school district who has written authorization of the
school's chief administrative official can request
that a person who is disrupting school activities
to leave a school building or grounds. At the
present time such requests can be made only by
certain school officials.
AB 2424 - Belotti
Authorizes the Department of Parks and Recreation to
Chapter 1385
exchange certain Humboldt Redwoods State Park lands
for private land of equivalent value. The bill
specifies that no access shall be provided for, nor
any signs or billboards erected on, such exchanged
park land unless authorized by the legislature.
AB 2495 - Briggs
Makes it unlawful for any person to falsely
Chapter 1386
represent himself in any manner as an employee of
the Department of Motor Vehicles for the purpose of
obtaining records or information to which he is not
entitled.
2569
AB 2659 - Roberti
Authorizes certain recipients of the degree of
Chapter 1387
doctor of optometry issued by a university located
outside the United States to take the California
Optometry examination.
AB 2845 - Greene, B.
Revises provisions relating to employment of minors.
Chapter 1388
The bill establishes procedures for permits to work
part time for minors under 18 years of age, students
enrolled in work experience courses, and continuation
education classes; and permits to work full time for
minors under 16 years of age, but over 14 years of
age, under specified conditions, and for minors over
16 years of age, but under 18 years of age.
AB 2898 - Brown
Requires the Board of Nursing Education and Nurse
Chapter 1397
Registration to attempt to contact designated persons
who have served in medical corps of armed services
to inform them of specified procedure for becoming
a licensed nurse. The bill also empowers the board
to enter into an agreement with the federal
government to obtain such names and addresses,
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SB 265 - Behr
Enacts the Bicycle Recreation and Safety Act of 1971.
Chapter 1361
The bill authorizes the establishment of bicycle P
paths and routes by local entities. It prohibits
abandonment of specified rights-of-way prior to a
determination as to whether or not they could be
developed as bicycle paths or routes. The bill
further provides for marking and placement of
appropriate signs on bicycle paths and routes. It
also specifies that provision prohibiting operation
of motor vehicles on certain levees, banks, and
rights-of-way shall not be construed to prohibit the
establishment of bicycle paths or routes thereon.
SB 342 - Harmer
Authorizes the deposit of student body organization
Chapter 1362
fee moneys and other specified moneys received by
the state colleges into trust accounts of the
centralized state treasury system. The State
Colleges Trust Fund is created for the deposit of
these moneys which may be invested by the State
Treasurer in eligible securities.
SB 496 - Short
Mandates fee reductions in Consumer Affairs' agencies
Chapter 1363
if the surplus in an agency exceeds the operating
budget for the next two fiscal years.
SB 760 - Harmer
Requires instruction in automobile driver training
Chapter 1364
be available by all school districts maintaining a
high school for all eligible students wishing to
enroll, including those students who attend a non-
public high school within the school district.
SB 781 - Coombs
Amends the Contractors License Law to include as a
Chapter 1365
contractor any person who maintains or services air
conditioning, heating, or refrigeration equipment
which is a fixed part of the structure to which it
is attached. The bill exempts employees who work
for wages as their sole compensation and employees
of persons who are signatories to collective
bargaining agreements.
SB 785 - Grunsky
Specifies that after a summons is served, the
Chapter 1366
summons must be returned with proof of service,
unless the defendant has previously made a general
appearance.
SB 825 - Beilenson
Amends the Agricultural Code to extend indefinitely
Chapter 1367
the $40 annual registration fee for each pesticide
product which would otherwise expire after the 1972
legislative session. It provides for an assessment
of eight mills per dollar of sales of pesticides by
registrants. Three eighths of this assessment is to
be available to the State Department of Agriculture
and five eighths is to be apportioned to the counties
for enforcement of pest control and pesticide
enforcement.
SB 939 - Burgener
Requires new elevators in public buildings to have
Chapter 1368
control buttons and door casings labeled in Braille
and marked arabic numerals for the purpose of
identifying the controls and floors for use by
blind persons.
SB 1051 - Behr
Adds a fourth judge to the Central Judicial District
Chapter 1369
in Marin County.
SB 1094 - Gregorio
Makes various changes in procedures relating to minory
Chapter 1389
under the juvenile court law as well as minors taken
out of school by peace officers.
SB 1200 - Zenovich
Requires school districts and county superintendents
Chapter 1370
of schools to each make an annual report to the
Department of Education regarding the number of minor
eligible for which no special education is provided
and the reason therefor. The bill provides a hearing
procedure if a parent or guardian is not satisfied
with decision regarding withdrawal of a pupil from a
class or program for mentally retarded minors.
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SB 1312 - Grunsky
Establishes a procedure for moving to vacate or set
Chapter 1371
aside a prior conviction of drunk driving upon the
trial of a second or subsequent prosecution for the
same offense.
SB 1340 - Wedworth
Requires the State Air Resources Board to establish
Chapter 1372
criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of motor
vehicle pollution control devices and fuel additives,
and requires the board, after establishing such
criteria, to evaluate motor vehicle pollution control
devices and fuel additives submitted to it for
testing.
SB 1356 - Behr
Prohibits a person or corporation, whether or not
Chapter 1373
organized under laws of this state, from hereafter
acquiring or owning any public utility, directly
or indirectly without prior authorization of Public
Utilities Commission.
SB 1477 - Rodda
Authorizes the establishment of the Sacramento
Chapter 1374
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Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation
which gives local governments the power to determine
their own community public transportation priorities.
In signing the bill (SB 325, Mills) into law,
the governor said "the concept of local control has
been a cornerstone of this administration's policy.
This bill reaffirms that policy and emphasizes local
control by placing directly in the hands of locally
elected officials the responsibility for assessing
the overall public transportation needs of the
communities they know and represent.
"I believe that by helping to enable local offi-
cials to accelerate their efforts in developing
comprehensive and balanced transportation systems--
including the construction of local streets and roads
and other related transportation services--this bill
can serve the long range best interests of the people
of California,' the governor said.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation that will
allow cities and counties to exercise greater control on subdivisions
that do not provide proper environmental safeguards or ignore local
planning needs.
In signing the legislation (AB 1301) by Assemblyman Leo T. McCarthy
(D-San Francisco), Governor Reagan said, "we cannot afford the luxury
of allowing real estate developments to be constructed which
do not meet the requirements that communities have established for the
protection of their own citizens and the environment itself.
"This bill, I believe, will allow cities and counties to take the
necessary steps to provide environmental protection at the local level.
It will also enable local governments to consider many aspects of
proposed subdivisions to determine whether the projects are consistent
with local planning. And it will clarify the authority of the local
government to deal with poorly planned projects."
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Governor Ronald Reagan, in a move aimed at cracking down on employers
who intentionally undercut California's depressed labor market, today
signed the first legislation of its type in the nation making it illegal
for any employer to knowingly hire an alien who is not entitled to legal
residence in the United States.
The legislation, AB-528, Arnett, subjects any employer who knowingly
hires an illegal alien--where it can be proven that such employment has
an adverse effect on lawful residence workers to criminal penalties.
"By cracking down on those employers who knowingly engage in the
hiring of illegal aliens, this legislation can help to improve job
opportunities for thousands of legitimate California residents who
earnestly seek employment in our temporarily depressed labor market, "
the governor said.
"Moreover the legislation is fully consistent with provisions of the
state's new welfare reform law which limits welfare benefits to only those
aliens who reside in California legally.
"This bill which makes California the first state to adopt a law
aimed at coming to grips with the intentional employment of illegal
aliens is a direct result of the federal government's failure to meet
its own obligations in this regard.
"The control of illegal aliens is and should be a federal
responsibility. But, in view of the fact that an illegal work force now
displaces hundreds of thousands of Californians many in search of
jobs---it has become increasingly clear that we can no longer wait for
Congress to enact legislation to effectively cope with the problem."
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 40 - Wood
Changes the amount of fish privilege tax on squid
(Chapter 1440)
from $.005 per pound when used for bait or human
consumption and $.0005 per pound when canned to
$.0001 per pound, irrespective of how the squid will
be used.
AB 517 - Knox
Provides that the maximum tax rate for the Bay
(Chapter 1441)
Area Air Pollution Control District shall remain
at $.02 per $100 of assessed valuation following
the 1972-73 fiscal year.
AB 671 - Arnett
Revises the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act to include
(Chapter 1443)
persons impaired by chronic alcoholism. The bill
provides that such services shall be subject to
Short-Doyle financing and shall not be included as
priority funding, but may be considered new and
expanded services for the purpose of funding. The
bill also requires that each county Short-Doyle plan
shall designate a specific facility for treatment
of alcoholism and inebriates.
AB 1044 - Schabarum
Revises noise limits applicable to new motor
(Chapter 1444)
vehicles which are sold or offered for sale.
AB 1172 - Powers
Prohibits a person licensed as an insurance
(Chapter 1445)
adjuster under the Private Investigator and Adjuster
Act from engaging in designated activities. The
bill also prohibits licensees under such act from
conducting business under a ficititious or other
business name, rather than a fictitious business
name without written authorization.
AB 1300 McCarthy
Prohibits the Real Estate Commissioner from
(Chapter 1399)
issuing a public report on any "land project"
unless he makes a specific finding that the improveme
will be adequate to serve the projected population
of the entire offering. The bill also provides for
a 14-day right of rescission of the contract in
case the purchaser changes his mind.
AB 1420 - LaCoste
Permits elective disability compensation coverage
(Chapter 1447)
for individuals in the employ of specified relatives.
AB 1461 - Chappie
Subjects vehicles of historic value, not used in
(Chapter 1448)
trade, profession, or business to an $11 registration
fee and imposes a $2 annual vehicle in-lieu tax,
commencing with fees paid for the 1972 calendar
year. The bill specifies that such taxes are in
lieu of other ad valorem taxes. The bill provides
that fees paid for special identification plates for
such vehicles shall be deposited in the California
Environmental Protection Program Fund.
AB 1482 - Warren
Allows expenditures for equipment determined to be
(Chapter 1449)
necessary by the Superintendent of Public Instruction
to be considered as current expense for a special
class or program offered by school districts or
county superintendents. The bill sets a limit on
equipment expenditure of one percent of the current
expense of operating the districts physically
handicapped program.
AB 1528 - Hayden
Sets forth the costs for which a county is
(Chapter 1450)
chargeable when a criminal case is transfered to
another county before trial. The bill requires
the Judicial Council to adopt rules governing such
case transfers, to prescribe approved forms for
claiming costs, and to adopt rules under which
particular counties are not required to make
reimbursements where, over a given pesiod of time,
there is even exchange of cases between counties.
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AB 1613 - Chacon
Requires the officer who is designated by the board
(Chapter 1451)
of supervisors of a county to collect specified
charges and costs relating to juvenile wards, to
promptly notify any person liable for such costs
or charges in writing that if such person believes
that he is unable to pay the costs or charges the
law permits him to claim in writing such inability.
The bill requires the officer to furnish appropriate
forms on which to claim such inability.
AB 1949 - Quimby
Changes the retirement allowance formula for
(Chapter 1452)
California State Police Division Employees who are
police officers.
AB 2029 - Monagan
Eliminates the period of residency required to
(Chapter 1453)
receive a new resident's ballot for voting for
presidential electors. The bill eliminates the
literacy requirement as a precondition to
receiving a new resident's ballot. The bill also
changes the registration period for new residents
from the 90th to 54th day prior to the presidential
election to the 90th to 7th day prior thereto.
AB 2166 - Vasconcellos Allows persons incarcerated in a jail or other
(Chapter 1454)
place of confinement to continue methadone
treatment up to the point of conviction at the
discretion of the methadone program director.
AB 2399 - Arnett
Requires the Department of Public Health to provide
(Chapter 1455)
local health officers with necessary staff and
assistance to conduct an epidemiologic investigation
of any pesticide poisoning disease or condition.
The bill further provides that the local agricultural
commissioner or Director of Agriculture be
consulted before requesting such assistance.
AB 2491 - Briggs
Makes several clarifying amendments to the Health
(Chapter 1456)
and Safety Code provisions relating to the control
of atomic energy and radiation.
AB 2522 - Townsend
Specifies the standards for the issuance of an
(Chapter 1457)
out-of-state beer manufacturer's certificate.
AB 2764 - Chappie
Requires existing publicly owned buildings or
(Chapter 1458)
facilities which undergo structural repairs,
additions or alterations to conform to the access
requirements contained in the Physically Handicapped
Law.
AB 2774 - Lanterman
Amends the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act to terminate
(Chapter 1459)
the indefinite commitment of mentally ill persons
who were committed by a court prior to July 1, 1969,
under the old law, to an institution other than a
state hospital. The bill also makes minor technical
non-substantive changes in the Lanterman-Petris-Short
Act.
AB 2921 - Chacon
Makes amendments to the Government Code provisions
(Chapter 1460)
relating to the oath and bond requiremmnts when
a notary public moves his principal place of
business to another county.
AB 3018 - Meade
Allows dogs used by uniformed employees of private
(Chapter 1461)
patrol services to be kept or allowed in food
establishments.
AB 3055 - Wilson
Provides for state participation in the federal Model
(Cha pter 1462)
Cities program.
AB 3093 - McAlister
Prohibits the sale on or after August 1, 1972, of
(Chapter 1463)
charcoal intended for use in the cooking and
preparation of food unless the package containing suc.
charcoal has a warning label affixed thereto.
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AB
3099
I
MacGillivray
Appropriates $60,000 to the Department of
(Chapter 1464)
Water Resources to prepare for possible flooding
and mudslides in the area of the City of Carpenteria.
SB 791 - Stiern
Imposes an annual $5.00 vehicle license fee on
(Chapter 1437)
horseless carriages not used in a trade, profession,
or business.
SB 1446 - Teale
Requires nonprofit corporations to file with the
(Chapter 1438)
Secretary of State a statement of the names and
addresses of specified officers and the location and
address of the principal office every five years
rather than every year. The bill requires such
statement to be filed whenever there is any change
in a nonprofit corporation's officers. The bill
also exempts nonprofit corporations from paying a
filing fee.
SB 1481 - Way
Establishes procedures by which a person may
(Chapter 1439)
examine his record folder in the Bureau of Criminal
Identification and Investigation. The bill allows
a person to request correction of any information
in his record which he believes to be in error.
SB
1623 - Beilenson Deletes that portion of State Highway Route 170
(Chapter 1398)
from Route 90 to Route 2 from the State Highway
system. The bill will eliminate the middle portion
of Fairfax Section of the planned Laurel Canyon
Freeway.
Governor Reagan has announced the veto of the following bill:
AB 2020 - Dunlap
Permits certain members of the State Teachers'
Retirement System to elect to become members of
the Public Employees' Retirement System.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The bill, in giving less than full retroactivity
to the 1961 legislation, results in inequitable
treatment of employees and serves as a precedent
for future efforts to change membership between
the two retirement systems as benefits in the
systems or circumstances of the member change.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned," the
governor said.
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445-4571
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#630
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 78 - Chappie
Appropriates $50,000 for completion of the Tahoe
Chapter 1409
Regional Plan.
AB 255 - MacGillivray Requires that, when 2 percent or more of the
Chapter 1410
assessed valuation of a public water district is
removed by reason of state highway acquisitions in
any one fiscal year, compensation be paid to the
taxing authority on a descending scale over a
five-year period.
AB 332 - Cory
Includes within the definition of "construction" for
Chapter 1411
purposes of provisions relating to state sharing in
the cost of construction of specified juvenile
facilities by counties, payments for the necessary
repair or improvements of property leased from the
federal government or other public entity without
cost to the county for a term of not less than
10 years,
AB 355 - Briggs
Includes educable mentally retarded minors attending
Chapter 1412
public secondary schools within the groups for whom
increased allowances for driver training instruction
are authorized. The bill reduces the maximum for
such allowances from $360 to $200.
AB 799 - Meade
Appropriates $30,596 to be allocated in specified
Chapter 1414
manner to defray part of police costs caused by
disturbances at or near university and college
campuses.
AB 910 - Brown
Permits a peace officer, without a warrant, to take
Chapter 1415
a minor under 18 into custody as a person who has
violated the law whenever: (1) the officer has
reasonable cause to believe such minor has committed
a public offense in his presence; (2) the minor has
committed a felony; (3) the officer has reasonable
cause to believe the minor has committed a felony,
whether or not the felony has been committed; (4)
the minor is in a traffic accident and the officer
has reasonable cause to suspect drunk driving or
drunk driving combined with drugs.
AB 981 - Brown
Provides that, in hearings before Workmen's
Chapter 1416
Compensation Appeals Board, where the employer or
insurance carrier requests a deposition to be taken
of the injured employee, the employee is entitled to
reasonable expenses for transportation, meals and
lodging, and reimbursement for any loss of wages.
AB 1225 - Z'berg
Provides that the transfer fee for the transfer of
Chapter 1417
an on-sale or off-sale retail license to designated
relatives, when no consideration is given for the
transfer, shall be one-half of the regular fee.
AB 1336 - Meade
Authorizes the California School for the Deaf,
Chapter 1418
California School for the Blind, and the Diagnostic
Schools for Neurologically Handicapped Children to
enter into agreements with teacher training
institutions to provide the practice teaching
necessary for a credential for the teaching of deaf,
blind, or neurologically handicapped children.
AB 1682 - Dunlap
Requires county superintendents of schools to prepare
Chapter 1419
with the approval of the State Department of
Education, statements of information and statistics
relative to unification proposals, for distribution
to the voters. The Department of Education is
presently required to prepare such statements.
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AB 1731 - Moorhead
Includes life insurance proceeds paid into a
Chapter 1420
testamentary trust in certain cases within the
$50,000 exemption from inheritance tax, as well as
those paid into existing inter vivos trusts.
AB 1872 - Hayden
Provides a procedure for the readjustment of city
Chapter 1421
and county apportionments of gas tax revenues
whenever there is a newly incorporated city or an
annexation by a city.
AB 1902 - Wakefield
Authorizes the Board of Administration of the Public
Chapter 1422
Employees' Retirement System to invest not exceeding
10 percent of the assets of the system in real
estate and leases thereof and improvements thereon
for business or residential purposes.
AB 1924 - Greene, L. Provides for an adjustment of the required annual
Chapter 1423
repayment under the State School Building Aid Law
for those districts which elect to operate year-
around classes sufficient in number to house the
pupils for which the district would otherwise be
eligible to receive an apportionment for new
construction.
AB 1925 - Keysor
Authorizes the State Allocation Board to grant funds
Chapter 1424
for the remodeling or conversion (up to 200 square
feet) of school buildings constructed between 1933
and 1968 for speech therapy facilities, and to allow
school districts the option of purchasing mobile
speech therapy facilities in lieu of construction
of facilities in permanent buildings built after 1968
AB 1968 - Greene, L. Permits school districts to include the cost of
Chapter 1425
obtaining a rating on their bonds and the cost of
purchasing insurance insuring prompt payment of
interest and principal among the list of legal
charges against the funds of a school district
issuing bonds.
AB 1989 - Mobley
Specifies that funds loaned to the City of Madera
Chapter 1426
for sewage treatment facilities shall be repaid to
the state when the facilities are completed.
AB
2175 - Brathwaite Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color,
Chapter 1427
religion, national origin or ancestry by an
insurance company as a reason for canceling or not
issuing a contractor's performance bond. The bill
prohibits any such condition from constituting a
condition of risk and the charging of a higher
premium.
AB 2227 - Duffy
Requires the state fire marshal to adopt regulations
Chapter 1428
establishing minimum standards for fire and life
safety in facilities where mentally retarded persons
are placed or referred. The bill also provides for
fire alarm and fire sprinkler equipment in certain
instances.
AB 2348 - Ketchum
Specifically includes hospital wherein more than six
Chapter 1429
guests or patients are housed or cared for on a
24-hour-per-day basis among those facilities required
to install and maintain an approved automatic
sprinkler system in specified buildings or portions
thereof. The bill allows designated hospitals,
homes, nurseries, institutions, or sanitariums under
construction or in existence and operating on
effective date of the bill which do not meet
requirements relating to installation of automatic
sprinkler systems to operate or continue to operate
without complying with such requirements until
June 30, 1976.
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AB 2520 - Greene, L. Makes it a misdemeanor knowingly to deliver to any
Chapter 1430
residence razor blades unsolicited by any person
residing therein. The bill declares that it is
defense to violation of act that donee of such
articles or products is personally known to donor
or that the donee knowingly and willingly accepts
the razor blades.
AB 2765 - Chappie
Requires public works contracts exceeding $25,000
Chapter 1431
to contain a clause requiring the contractor to
submit a detailed plan of protection for trenching
work.
AB 2766 - Chappie
Permits the Department of Aeronautics to allocate
Chapter 1432
aeronautics funds to counties for the construction
of recreational and reliever training airstrips
when counties own the land and agree to operate the
airports as public airports.
AB 2808 - McAlister
Makes technical changes in the requirements as to
Chapter 1433
documentation when a foreign corporation wishes to
become qualified with the Secretary of State's
office in order to engage in business in California.
AB 2885 - Wood
Provides that a seashore can be the subject of
Chapter 1434
redevelopment if the area is in danger of causing
a decline in the coastal environment.
AB 2935 - Cory
Provides for the preparation by county assessors of
Chapter 1435
an annual list of government-owned property for
transmittal to the State Lands Commission.
AB 3098 - Fenton
Authorizes a city or county to offer reward not
Chapter 1436
exceeding $5,000 for information leading to arrest
and conviction of person or persons killing or
assaulting with a deadly weapon or inflicting
serious bodily harm upon a police officer of the
city or county while he is acting in the line of duty
495
SB 496 - Short
Specifies that $150 fee may be charged for initial
Chapter 1401
issuance of a nurses' registry license. The bill
also sets forth additional disciplinary grounds
for nurses' registry licensees.
SB 615 - Song
Provides that only two expert witnesses shall be
Chapter 1402
permitted to testify for any party in eminent
domain proceedings. The bill permits the court,
for good cause, to permit additional experts to
testify.
SB 658 - Moscone
Requires, rather than authorizes, a hearing board
Chapter 1403
of a county or a regional air pollution control
district, including the Bay Area Air Pollution
Control District, to hold a hearing with respect
to granting a variance, and requires the hearing
board to allow interested members of the public a
reasonable opportunity to testify and to consider
such testimony in making its decision. The bill also
allows the State Air Resources Board to revoke any
variance granted by a county or a regional district,
including the Bay Area Air Pollution Control District.
SB 1089 - Holmdahl
Requires reasonable expenses of transportation
Chapter 1404
payment to injured employee, when required to take
an examination by a physician, to include specified
mileage and bridge tolls payable at the time he is
notified of the time and place of examination.
SB 1215 - Marler
Requires that the State Lands Commission determine
Chapter 1405
ownership of designated salmon and steelhead spawning
areas in the state shall be leased or disposed of
except under specified conditions. The bill allows
the Director of the Department of Fish and Game to
disapprove any alteration of designated prime salmon
and steelhead spawning areas if it is felt such
alteration would prove deleterious to fish life
until the owndership of the lands has been legally
determined.
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SB 1279 - Rodda
Authorizes the continuation of the College
Chapter 1406
Opportunity Grant Program and increases the number
of grants from 1,000 to 2,000.
SB 1428 - Zenovich
Requires the state fire marshal to adopt regulations
Chapter 1407
establishing minimum standards for fire and and life
safety in facilities where mentally retarded
persons are placed or referred. The bill also
requires the installation of automatic fire
sprinklers in various care facilities for fire and
life safety purposes.
SB 1526 - Burgener
Requires the Department of Education to use
Chapter 1408
specified available state and federal funds to study
and evaluate structure of special education and all
categories of its financing. The bill also makes a
series of amendments to AB 2800 (Chapter 1188).
AB 2800 made major organizational changes in the
Department of Education.
The following bill was also signed with specified deletions:
AB 758 - Priolo
Permits members of the University of California
Chapter 1413
police department to transfer from the Public
Employees' Retirement System to the University of
California Retirement System.
REASON FOR
"I am deleting the $240 000 appropriation contained
DELETION:
in Assembly Bill No. 758. The funds needed to
provide the increased retirement benefits for
University police officers authorized by AB 758
should come from the fiscal resources currently
available to the University."
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Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
11-11-71
#633
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation that will
bring rental housing up to state fire safety standards.
"Last year more than 100 persons died in fires in hotels,
apartment houses and other multiple story rental units because of
inadequate safety facilities that would allow them to escape from upper
floors," the governor pointed out.
"This measure, which was introduced at the request of the
California State Firemen's Association and the California Fire Chiefs
and Fire Prevention Engineers Associations, will allow the cities and
counties to bring their local ordinances up to the safety standards
required by the state."
The legislation (AB 3036) was authored by Assemblyman Ken
Meade, (D-Oakland).
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RELEASE: Immediate
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Contact:
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445-4571
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#632
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 12 - Ryan
Transfers certain functions relating to teacher
(Chapter 1465)
certification from the Department of Education to
the Commission for Teacher Preparation and Licensing.
The bill also revises certain credentialing provision
AB 518 - Knox
Revises the number of court attaches in the Contra
(Chapter 1466)
Costa County Municipal Courts.
AB 697 - Bagley
Specifies that the offering and operation by a
(Chapter 1467)
medical corporation of designated health care service
plan is an authorized practice of medicine by such
corporation.
AB 1119 - Briggs
Exempts cattle from designated brand inspection if
(Chapter 1468)
a release agreement is approved by the Director of
Agriculture and prescribed requirements are complied
with. The bill requires a person who slaughters
cattle at a slaughter plant without a designated
brand inspection and who is not exempt from such
requirement to pay a penalty fee of $25 per each
head of cattle so slaughtered. The bill further
requires a California brand inspector to inspect
all such cattle which are alive and on the premises
at the time he performs his regular daily inspection
or any spot check inspections.
AB 1457 - Wood
Adds pets to personal property exempt from property
(Chapter 1473)
taxation. The bill also exempts up to three bovine
and 25 ovine animals owned and raised for regular
purposes of certain nonprofit youth organizations fro
livestock taxation.
AB 1932 - Powers
Provides that State Police have police powers for
(Chapter 1469)
all purposes during state of emergency under the
California Emergency Services Act or when acting unde
mutual assistance agreements.
AB 2168 - Vasconcellos Declares legislative policy to improve
(Chapter 1471)
environmental quality by recycling paper products
and requires the Department of General Services
to establish procedures and specifications to
require that all paper and woodpulp products
purchased contain a minimum of 10 to 50 percent
recycled paper content wherever feasible. Requires
the Department to establish a paper recycling plan
for state wastepaper.
AB 2408 - Ketchum
Authorizes the Fish and Game Commission to regulate
(Chapter 1470)
the taking of all birds and mammals, including those
formerly classified as nonprotected. It also pro-
hibits the taking of any bird or mammal at night,
except when authorized by the Commission, or the
Fish and Game Code, and requires a hunting license
for taking of any bird or mammal, except in case of
Landowners or tenants experiencing crop or property
damage.
SB 1269 - Beilenson
Requires state and local agencies to purchase
(Chapter 1472)
recycled paper and paper products if available at
no more than the total cost of unrecycled paper and
paper products, and if fitness and quality are
equal.
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Governor Reagan has vetoed the following bills:
AB 226 - MacGillivray Extends to members of the University of California
Fire Department the disputable presumptions with
respect to heart trouble, hernia, and pneumonia.
The bill also provides that such members be entitled
to leaves of absence at full salary up to one year
in lieu of temporary disability compensation benefits
for disabling injuries.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I have declined to sign this bill because the
addition of all University firemen, including
volunteers and part-time employees, would substantial-
ly increase the cost of adequate fire protection to
the University. It would, without any evidence of
greater need, provide greater benefits than those
recently accorded the University police. And, finally
it would provide these benefits without providing
for the same strict requirements which the campus
police must satisfy (full-time employees only,
graduation from a certified academy, and a 5-year
waiting period for inclusion of heart trouble).
"Accordingly, I am returning Assembly Bill No. 226
without my approval," the governor said.
SB 75 - Grunsky
Permits trainable mentally retarded minors between
18 and 21 years of age to attend home skill and
occupational training classes.
REASON FOR VETO:
"At the present time, school districts are offering
"home living and occupational skills' classes to
the severely retarded under age 18.
"Given no outcome of demonstration or pilot projects
on which to base an evaluation as to any possible
additional benefits extending the age limits to
21 for home living and occupational skills would
be both arbitrary and costly.
"Educational experts in the field of mental retarda-
tion indicate there are higher priorities for
offering special education classes for the mentally
retarded.
"I believe, therefore, that those limited state
fiscal resources which are available should be
employed to test what can be done to improve the
development of skills at the earliest possible age
so that these members of our society can be
afforded the best possible opportunity for developing
their talents.
"Accordingly, I am returning Senate Bill No. 75
without my approval," the governor said.
SB 936 - Burgener
The bill would establish a program for certain
handicapped persons of normal mentality.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The legislation does not provide adequate criteria
for determining who should be eligible for the program
Nor does it appear to place any practical control
over caseload growth. For this reason it is very
difficult to predict how large a caseload the program
would generate.
"The legislation not only fails to detail the specific
fiscal impact of the program, but also fails to make
it clear how it would be funded.
"Given these factors, I believe SB 936 does not contai
a sufficiently sound fiscal basis upon which to estabe
lish a program of indeterminate growth.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned," the
governor said.
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445-4571
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#637
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation that
triggers an all-out educational campaign against drug abuse.
The measure "The Drug Education Act of 1971," proposed
by the governor in a 1970 message to the Legislature, marshals
educational and community groups for a comprehensive drug education
program to reach school children in kindergarten through high school.
In addition to establishing the program in kindergarten
through 12th grade, it provides for special training and instructional
materials for teachers; establishes an informational clearinghouse for
identification and reporting of successful instructional and counselling
programs, and promotes liaison between school officials and the community
on drug abuse programs.
"Drug abuse is a cancer that is eating at the very fiber
of our society and it requires a personal commitment from every segment
of our society if we are to eradicate it," the governor said.
"This act provides us with two of the most powerful weapons
available against drug abuse--truth and reason. It will give our
teachers the training and facts they must have if they are to successfully
instruct our young on the dangers of drug and narcotic addiction."
The legislation, (AB 2544) by Assemblyman John F. Dunlap,
(D-Napa), was co-authored by six Democrats and seven Republicans.
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Contact:
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445-457
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#638
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills
have been vetoed:
AB 589 - Thomas
Authorizes the state college trustees to establish
an office of special field counselor at one state
college as a pilot program, funded from salary
savings, to increase the aspirations of, and
assistance available to, disadvantaged high school
students in connection with higher education
opportunities.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The Trustees of the California State Colleges
already have the authority to establish and conduct
programs of the type this bill proposes, if
additional funds become available.
"The Trustees have informed me that the use of
salary savings is not a viable means of funding
in this case and have urgently requested, therefore,
that the bill be vetoed.
"Given the responsibility and authority of the
Trustees to make such determinations, I believe
their request is appropriate and justified.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned," the
governor said.
AB 1443 - Briggs
Makes several changes in the Agricultural Code
relating to the classification of dairy products
for producer payment purposes. The bill redefines
the definitions of cultured buttermilk, fluid cream,
Class 1 fluid milk and Class 2 fluid milk. The bill
defines cultured buttermilk as Class 1 milk for
payment purposes and to change the classification
of whipping cream, pastry cream, table cream and
yogurt from Class 1 to Class 2.
REASON FOR VETO:
"Although this bill makes minor changes in the prices
of certain dairy products, its principal effect would
be to increase the cost of buttermilk to the
consumer.
"In these times when inflation is the nation's most
crucial economic problem, I believe it would be
irresponsible for government, at any level, to
mandate an increase in the price of any commodity
without compelling evidence to show that such an
increase is juctified and necessary.
"The proponents of AB 1443 have not presented to me
sufficient or compelling evidence to show that an
increase in the price of buttermilk is justified.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned, the
governor said.
SB 101 - Rodda
Appropriates $17,872,518 from the General Fund for
salary increases for faculty members of the
University of California and the California State
Colleges.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I am convinced that the kind of funding this
legislation would mandate could only be provided by
asking the already overburdened wage earners of
California to dig yet deeper into their pockets
and assume an even greater tax burden than they now
bear. In view of the severe economic stringencies
we are now experiencing as a nation, I do not
believe it would be appropriate to impose on our
citizens ony greater financial burden than that
which is absolutely essential for meeting the
state's current level of expenditures.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned, "the
governor
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SB 1574 - Rodda
This bill would establish a Council on Private
Postsecondary Educational Institutions composed
of the Director of Education (Superintendent of
Public Instruction), the Director of the
Coordinating Council for Higher Education and 13
additional members appointed by the Director of
Education. The council is charged with the
responsibility of general review and director of
the approval of private postsecondary schools.
REASON FOR VETO:
"This administration has consistently resisted adding
new boards and commissions unless there is an
overwhelming requirement of public protection or
public participation. Assembly Bill 2800 (Chapter
1188) clearly recognized that principle within the
Department of Education and reduced the number of
commissions within that Department. Senate Bill 1574
on the other hand, creates another board without
changing the substance of the laws to be administered
Equally critically, it would allow that board the
power to override the veto of the Superintendent of
Public Instruction by a two-thirds vote. New
standards for the regulation of private post-
secondary schools may be necessary but I do not
think it is wise to give an appointed commission the
authority to override the decision of an elected
official.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned," the
governor said.
SB 698 - Marks
Appropriates amounts up to $2,472,546 for the
state colleges and $1,150,000 for the community
colleges to maintain their educational and extended
opportunity programs at specified dollar levels.
REASON FOR VETO:
"Educational opportunity programs for the state
colleges and the community colleges were funded
with the anticipation that additional federal
financial support for student aid programs would
become available.
"California has received significant additional
federal assistance for the current school year. The
combined total of state and federal student financial
aid programs increased by $675,242 for the state
colleges and by $1,821,961 for the community
colleges over that available in 1970-71. In addition
a substantial amount of Federal National Defense
Student Loan money has been made available. The
state colleges will recieve an additional $3.6
million while the community colleges will receive
an additional $1.2 million for student loans.
"College level financial administrators should be
able to utilize these additional funds to provide
increased educational opportunities for deserving
students. Generally state E.O.P. students have
priority status and will therefore share to a
greater extent in the increased financial assistance
available.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned, "the
governor said.
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AB 705 - Dunlap
This bill would transfer jurisdiction over the
California Maritime Academy to the Board of
Trustees of the California State Colleges and
requires that it be administered as part of the
State Colleges with academic quality equivalent to
other state colleges.
REASON FOR VETO:
"While the idea of turning the California Maritime
Academy over to the Board of Trustees is not without
merit, I believe other possible alternatives should
be thoroughly considered before taking the final
step contained in this bill.
"For this reason, I am convening, immediately, a
study group to consider the future of the Maritime
Academy.
"Among the alternatives I am asking the group to
consider are:
1. Continuing the Maritime Academy as it is
presently structured,
2. Phasing out the existence of the Maritime
Academy in such a manner as to protect the
vested interests of the students and,
3. Turning the Maritime Academy over to the Boar
of Trustees as proposed in this bill.
"I am asking the study group to work with all
interested parties so that a maximum of information
can be assimilated and considered before reaching
any final conclusion as to which alternative course
of action is most appropriate.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned," the
governor said.
AB 1706 - Deddeh
Requires that the administration and maintenance
portions of the annual State Highway Budget be
subject to Department of Finance and legislative
approval and that the remaining portions of the
budget be subject to the approval of the California
Highway Commission. It also removes the monetary
limitations relating to the funds which may be
spent for administration, maintenance and landscape
maintenance.
REASON FOR VETO:
"AB 1706 is identical to SB 469 which I vetoed on
July 14, 1971. In returning SB 469 unsigned I
stated that it did not resolve serious timing
problems with regard to essential progress of work
and that a multidisciplinary task force had been
studying this and other problems and would be in
a position to report its recommendations prior to
January 1, 1972. The work of the task force is
proceeding on schedule.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned," the
governor said.
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AB 2062 - Karabian
Adds two members to the Correctional Industries
Commission qualified in the field of employment
training and placement or economic development,
one, who shall be a representative of organized
labor, to be appointed by the Speaker of the
Assembly and the other by the Senate Rules
Committee.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The present membership of the Correctional
Industries provides balanced representation for
labor, industry, agriculture and the general
public. There is nothing to be gained by add-
ing two more members to the Commission.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned,"
the governor said.
AB 2179 - Brathwaite
Provides that the authority of the Director of
Health Care Services to modify payments for
services under Medi-Cal to stay within avail-
able funds shall not apply to nursing homes
which are providers of Medi-Cal services.
REASON FOR VETO:
"AB 2179 extends preferred status to nursing
homes over all other providers of health care
services participating in Medi-Cal (except for
hospitals providing inpatient care for which
federal law mandates payment of reasonable
costs). It would exempt nursing homes from
being subject to adjustments in reimbursements,
and, when overexpenditures are anticipated or
have accrued in nursing home care under the
program, necessary adjustments would have to be
made at the expense of other providers of
services.
"The Director's ability to control program
expenditures would be severely limited, and the
program could be placed in a perilous position,
if payment obligations were exceeding available
funds and he were unable to respond quickly
and effectively to the emergency.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
the governor said.
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Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that he has vetoed the
following bill:
AB 1303 - McCarthy
Requires the Council on Intergovernmental
Relations to adopt criteria and guidelines by
January 1, 1973, for preparation and content
of city and county general plans. The bill
requires cities and counties beginning
October 1, 1973, to indicate degree of compli-
ance in an annual report to the council. The
bill also requires the Council to compile and
publish list of cities and counties whose plans
do not comply.
REASON FOR VETO:
"Current law requires that certain local govern-
ments in Càlifornia each adopt a general plan.
The law also contains broad guidelines relating
to the elements to be included.
"This bill goes far beyond the intent of the
provisions of existing statutes. In my opinion,
it has the practical effect of imposing on local
governments unduly restrictive policy decisions
made at the state level. By intruding on the
prerogatives which I believe are and should be
reserved to locally elected officials--who can be
held directly accountable to the citizens of
the communities they represent--I believe AB 1303
not only does violence to, but also is an
unjustified infringement upon, the doctrine of
home rule a cornerstone of this administration's
policy.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned,"
the governor said.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills
have been signed:
AB 67 - Garcia
Creates a "club" license to sell alcoholic
(Chapter 1482)
beverages for an organization called the American
G. I. Forum of the United States, if such club has
owned or leased and uses a clubroom, and has been
in existence for at least two years.
AB 191 - Powers
Appropriates $5,000 from the State Construction
(Chapter 1483)
Program Fund to the Board of Control to pay the
claim of the Refines Construction Company.
AB 331 - Fong
Provides for the establishment of a five-year
(Chapter 1484)
experimental program in the year-around school
operation by two or more school districts, selected
by the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
AB 368 - Ryan
Provides that property meeting specified conditions
(Chapter 1485)
is exempt from property taxation for the 1970-71
and 1971-72 fiscal years.
AB 563 - Vasconcellos Authorizes a person released from the California
(Chapter 1486)
Rehabilitation Center in an outpatient status to
participate in an approved methadone maintenance
project with the approval of the Department of
Corrections and the Narcotic Addict Evaluation
Authority.
AB 600 - Schabarum
Makes it permissive ratherthan mandatory that the
(Chapter 1487)
Department of Motor Vehicles revoke the driver's
license of a juvenile found by the juvenile court
to have committed manslaughter while driving a
vehicle but without gross negligence. The Department
of Motor Vehicles has such discretion with respect
to adults.
AB 607 - MacGillivray Authorizes automobile dealers, effective
(Chapter 1488)
February 1, 1973, to transmit to the Department of
Motor Vehicles, with respect to new vehicles having
a gross vehicle weight of 6,001 pounds or less,
a statement signed by the dealer indicating that he
has made no alteration or modification of the
exhaust emission control device or system of
the vehicle, in lieu of the certificates of
compliance.
AB 679 - Townsend
Provides for issuance by the Department of Motor
(Chapter 1489)
Vehicles of a temporary operation permit on a
three consecutive calendar month basis, in lieu
of registration, for specified privately owned
schoolbuses when such vehicles are temporarily used
in such manner as to become subject to registration.
AB 756 - MacGillivray Authorizes provisions for or exclusion of physical
(Chapter 1490)
therapy services in disability insurance policies.
The bill specifies an alternative to total exclusion
of such services from policy coverage. The bill
also includes services and supplies by a physical
therapist within the definition of medical, surgical,
and hospital treatment for purposes of the Workmen's
Compensation Law.
AB 779 - Foran
Provides provisions relating to explosives are
(Chapter 1508)
specifically inapplicable to special-effects
pyrotechnics regulated by the State Fire Marshal.
AB 921 - Roberti
Provides that governing boards of any district
(Chapter 1509)
maintaining a community college may authorize faculty
members and students to participate in cocurricular
activities within or without the state held in con-
junction with the educational program of the college.
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AB 955 - Z'berg
Provides that the weight fees for commercial vehicle
(Chapter 1491)
shall be subject to the same late penalty provision
as other types of vehicle registration fees if paid
within 30 days.
AB 1158 - Murphy
Provides for warranties on all mobilehomes sold by
(Chapter 1492)
dealers licensed by the Department of Motor Vehicles
The bill applies to both dealers and manufacturers.
AB 1239 - Karabian
Specifically authorizes investment by banks in the
(Chapter 1510)
bonds and other evidences of indebtedness of the
State of Israel or certain public corporations
thereof.
AB 1274 - Quimby
Authorizes a general description of real property
(Chapter 1493)
with this accompanying map in notices made pursuant
to the District Reorganization Act.
AB 1291 - Briggs
Requires every public agency, its insurance carrier,
(Chapter 1506)
and the State Department of Rehabilitation to
jointly formulate selection and referral procedure
(Signed with
for injured full-time public employee who may be
appropriation
benefited by retraining for other positions in
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public service. The bill requires the employer
or insurance carrier to notify an injured employee
of the availability of services where there is
continuing disability over 28 days. The bill also
appropriates from the General Fund an amount equal
to 1/4 of any federal funds allocated to the State
Department of Rehabilitation for purposes of the
bill.
AB 1359 - Deddeh
Requires that state-adopted textbooks, guides and
(Chapter 1511)
manuals include material on drug education. The
bill expresses legislative intent that the State
Board of Education give high priority to the
adoption of instructional materials which will
provide teachers and school districts with drug
information which is accurate, objective and
current. The bill also requires the Department
of Education to establish an information center
for drug instruction consisting of materials from
school districts, federal and state sources, reports
of school policies, and other materials related
to drug education.
AB 1863 - Pierson
Amends the Physical Therapy Act to establish a
(Chapter 1494)
program for the qualification and regulation of
assistant physical therapists by the Board of
Medical Examiners and the Physical Therapy Examining
Committee.
AB 1923 - Keysor
Permits Trustees of the California State Colleges
(Chapter 1495)
to establish facilities for training deaf persons
at the State College they designate.
AB 1966 - Greene, L. Provides that a school district may levy an addition
(Chapter 1496)
al permissive tax override up to $0.10 per $100
assessed valuation beyond the $0.10 now authorized
for repair, reconstruction or replacement of school
buildings to meet earthquake safety standards,
provided the district has budgeted 80 percent or
more of the proceeds of the presently authorized
tax override for earthquake safety purposes. The
bill also requires a school district to apply for,
accept and repay school building aid funds for
earthquake safety construction whenever a district
does not have sufficient funds available for this
purpose. In cases where funds raised by the
additional tax go toward repayment of the state loan,
such repayment may be made without the necessity
of a vote of the electorate.
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AB 2226 - Duffy
Repeals provisions requiring counties to pay up
(Chapter 1497)
to $20 per month per patient for mental retardation
services provided residents of the county. The
bill provides that parents of children under the
age of 18 who were admitted to a state hospital
prior to July 1, 1971, may be required to contribute
to the cost of such services in specified amounts.
AB 2427 - Duffy
Revises the provisions of the Medical Practice Act
(Chapter 1498)
relating to the circumstances under which graduates
of foreign medical schools may teach medicine in
California, candidates for licensure examinations,
and required courses, subject matter and hours of
instruction.
AB 2521 - Townsend
Makes the provision permitting only one club
(Chapter 1512)
license to be issued to any club eligible for such
license under provisions of the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Act inapplicable to a defined club operated
by a common carrier by air at an airport terminal.
AB 2524 - Porter
Requires payments in lieu of taxes to metropolitan
(Chapter 1499)
water districts or a county water authority by member
public agencies to be paid out of funds other than
funds derived from ad valorem property taxes.
AB 2646 - Lanterman
Amends the Lanterman Mental Retardation Services Act
(Chapter 1501)
of 1969, to provide a court hearing by writ of
habeas corpus for the release of any adult mentally
retarded patient in a state hospital, when such
patient or anyone on his behalf, makes a request
for release. The bill also assures the right of
the parent, guardian or conservator to remove the
patient from a state hospital at any time without
court hearing. It also prohibits the admission
of an adult mentally retarded person to a state
hospital on recommendation of a regional center
unless the center certifies that neither the
retarded adult nor anyone on his behalf has objected
to the admission.
AB 2659 - Lanterman
Transfers the rule making authority of the
(Chapter 1502)
Secretary of the Human Relations Agency under
the Lanterman Mental Retardation Services Act of
1969, to the Director of the Department of Public
Health and under the out-of-home care facilities
provisions of the public assistance programs to
the Director of the Department of Social Welfare.
AB 2797 - LaCoste
Establishes enrollment priorities in the two state
(Chapter 1503)
schools for the deaf. The bill provides that ad-
mission priority in these schools be given to
elementary deaf minors residing in sparsely populated
areas and to secondary age deaf minors who
require a high school program specifically
designed for deaf learners.
AB 2886 - Priolo
Provides that statutory minimum qualifications for
(Chapter 1504)
peace officers shall apply to all classes of
peace officers, rather than only to those classes
receiving peace officer status after September 15,
1961. The bill requires peace officers to take
courses of training in exercising of arrest powers
and in use of firearms unless the employing agency
prohibits use of firearms, meeting minimum standards
prescribed by the Commission on Peace Officer Stand-
ards and Training.
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AB 2768 - Chappie
Amends the Education Code provisions relating to
(Chapter 1513)
higher education disciplinary actions. Under
existing law, when any student, member of the
faculty, member of the support staff, or member
of the administration of a community college, state
college, or state university has been found to have
willfully disrupted the orderly operation of
the campus after a hearing by a campus body, the
chief administrative officer is required to hold
another hearing of the facts before he may take
appropriate disciplinary actions. This bill
eliminates the requirement that the second hearing
be held.
AB 3084 - Townsend
Requires each insurer licensed to issue automobile
(Chapter 1514)
liability insurance and each insurer licensed to
issue common carrier liability insurance and offerin
such insurance for sale to the Southern California
Rapid Transit District to make available to the
District uninsured motorist coverage.
AB 3094 - Knox
Prohibits the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and
(Chapter 1505)
Transportation District from operating any charter
or sightseeing service, but authorizes the district
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to lease its boats, employees, or equipment to
private interests providing under franchise boat
charter or sightseeing services on San Francisco
Bay.
SB 578 - Cologne
Requires the State Air Resources Board to set
(Chapter 1507)
standards which reduce oxides of nitrogen
emissions from the exhaust of 1966 through 1970
model year vehicles. It also requires these
vehicles, upon transfer of ownership and registratio
and upon 1973 registration renewal, to be equipped
with an accredited exhaust emission control device.
Such device may not cost more than $35 and not
require maintenance more than once each 13,000 miles
SB 649 - Lagomarsino Requires rather than permits a court to allow an
(Chapter 1475)
answer to be filed when a demurrer is overruled,
except as otherwise provided by rule of the Judicial
Council. The bill makes other changes relating to
pleadings in proceedings involving writs of review,
mandate and prohibition.
SB 787 - Grunsky
Revises procedures with respect to transferring
(Chapter 1476)
criminal cases from one court to another on specifie
grounds. The bill makes certain grounds for transfe
that are applicable to superior court or justice
court cases also applicable to municipal court
cases. It requires the Judicial Council to adopt
rules of practice and prodedure for change of
venue in criminal actions. The bill also specifies
costs for which the transferring county is liable
and provides for manner of payment of such costs.
It authorizes reimbursement by state of designated
portion of such costs.
SB 927 - Alquist
Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to
(Chapter 1477)
apportion the expense for improvements of grade
crossing protection between political jurisdictions
involved and the affected railroads only in those
cases where the Commission finds that there has
been an express or implied dedication to public use.
If neither situation is found, the Commission must
order the crossing closed. The bill would also
prohibit the Commission from requiring the railroads
to particiapte in the cost of protecting private
crossings in excess of what it would normally require
in cases involving protection of public street or
highway coossings.
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SB 933 - Burgener
Provides for civil penalties not to exceed
(Chapter 1478)
$2,500 for willful violation of specified provisions
relating to the regulation of subdivided lands
transactions.
SB 1119 - Marler
Provides for conformance of a community college
(Chapter 1479)
trustee election ward boundaries with the boundaries
of an election precinct which has been changed, under
specified conditions. The bill also increases
from 60 and 75 days to 74 and 89 days, respectively,
the time following the call of a special election
for the recall of a school district governing board
member, within which such election must be held.
SB 1139 - Moscone
Specifies that the court which renders a judgement
(Chapter 1480)
against an employee of a public agency is the
levying officer for the purpose of filing and
determining a claim for exemption in any case in
which an abstract of judgement has been filed.
The measure also requires that notice of execution
is to be given to the creditor of a public
agency if moneys owing by such agency represent
wages or salary.
SB 1581 - Gregorio
Declares legislative intent that state college
(Chapter 1481)
personnel engaged in teacher education be permitted
to participate in classroom teaching in the public
schools and that school district personnel
participate in teacher education on the same basis.
The bill authorizes the State College Trustees and
school districts to agree to exchange college
employees engaged in teacher training and classroom
teachers for a specified period of time.
Governor Ronald Reagan also has vetoed the following bill:
AB 452 - Campbell
Deletes marijuana from the statutory definition of
"narcotics" and places it under definition of
"restricted dangerous drugs," The bill specifies
that marijuana is to continue to be subject to all
laws relating to narcotics, and not subject to
the laws relating to restricted dangerous drugs,
unless otherwise provided.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The 'change' proposed by this bill is not sub-
stantive. It is a name change measure only. And,
I believe it would merely compound the uncertainty
and confusion which already exists on the subject of
marijuana.
"Because all the facts are not yet in, any change in
the law relating to marijuana, should occur only
after the results of extensive research programs
and studies become known--including those of
the President's Commission on Marijuana and Dangerous
Drugs.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned," the
governor said.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation that will
strengthen the attorney general's powers to bring legal action against
polluters of the environment and intervene on behalf of the public in
cases where there is a potential threat to the environment.
The landmark legislation (SB 678) by Senator Robert J.
Lagomarsino (R-Ojai) also requires that the attorney general be notified
of lawsuits which could have an adverse environmental effect on the
public at large.
"This bill, which has the support of local governments,
agriculture, business and conservationist groups, will provide a
responsible and balanced answer to the need for greater legal safeguards
against environmental abuse," the governor said. "It will allow the
attorney general to move swiftly against anyone who attempts to
destroy our natural resources or endanger the health of our citizens
through irresponsible actions."
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills
have been signed:
AB 303 - Brathwaite
Requires the Southern California Rapid Transit
(Chapter 1515)
District to budget 3 percent or more of its gross
revenue to fund demonstrations and research and
development programs in the field of public mass
transportation.
AB 449 - Duffy
Establishes a five-member Council on Continuing
(Chapter 1516)
Education for Health Occupations. The bill requires
the Council to adopt regulations establishing
standards of continuing education for registered
nurses and vocational nurses. This bill further
provides that after January 1, 1975, the boards
with jurisdiction over these license categories
shall require as a condition of license renewal that
their respective licensees have informed themselves
of developments in their respective fields during
the prior two-year period by means of approved
courses of study, other means the boards deem
equivalent, or by passing an examination.
AB 2946 - Brathwaite Provides that cities and counties shall not take
(Chapter 1517)
any action pursuant to the Planning and Zoning Law
which denies any individual or group the ownership,
tenancy, use, or development of land on the basis
of method of financing race, sex, color, religion,
national origin, ancestry, or age.
SB 1632 - Marler
Increases the number of judges in the Sutter
(Chapter 1520)
County Superior Court to two.
Governor Reagan has vetoed the following bills:
A8 1432 - MacDonald
Changes the formula by which state allocations are
made to assist qualifying county health departments.
REASON FOR VETO:
"This bill would change the formula by which state
allocations are made to assist county health
departments. To require the state to contribute to
the counties' public health programs on a percentage
basis of the counties' expenditures is unfair to the
state and will create unnecessary friction between
the two levels of government.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned," the
governor said.
AB 1501 - Murphy
Authorizes the Merced Stream Group Flood Control
Project in Merced County for financial assistance
by the state.
REASON FOR VETO:
"In 1969, I advised the legislature that approval of
further flood control authorization projects would
be deferred until legislation was enacted to provide
for local participation in the cost of land,
easements and rights of way. This administration
sponsored SB 495 in 1970 to provide for local cost
sharing. That measure was refused passage.
Legislation introduced during the current session
to resolve this matter has not been enacted. It is
inequitable for the taxpayers of this state to bear
the cost of flood control projects without requiring
greater local participation in the cost of such
projects.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned, the
governor said.
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AB 1718 - Arnett
Requires the state to reimburse counties for the
cost of general relief granted to successful
applicants for Aid to the Disabled (ATD) while their
eligibility is being determined.
REASON FOR VETO:
"An important aspect of the recently enacted Welfare
Reform Act of 1971 was the revised provision for
state and county sharing of public assistance costs.
A delicate balance was established whereby the state
would assume one-half of the present county costs of
welfare administration for all aids, the state would
assume all of the non-federal share of grants under
the Aid to the Blind and Old Age Security Programs,
and the costs of the Aid to the Disabled Program woul
be shared on an equal basis. These provisions become
effective July 1, 1972. In view of the recent
legislative reassessment of the county/state
relationship, with respect to the Aid to the
Disabled Program, I do not believe that the change
proposed by AB 1718 is appropriate.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned, the
governor said.
AB 2019 - Dunlap
Requires the period of community college enrollment
to be kept open until the end of the first week of
instruction. The bill permits the period of
enrollment to be kept open for a longer period of
time,
REASON FOR VETO:
"This measure would cause community college classes
to be disrupted into the second week and beyond,
making it difficult for instructors to organize their
courses and to get them under way. A week or more
of delay in a quarter-system classroom would reduce
the amount of time for students to be exposed to the
course to far too great a degree. The delay in
determining who is enrolled in classes would make
difficult the course reporting responsibilities
required of community college administrators.
Colleges need time to plan in relation to students'
academic desires. An instructor needs to know ahead
of time the probable size of his classes and the
number of sections needed, It is also important
to have time to work with the student to be sure he
has the requirements for a particular course. In
urban area community colleges with large enrollments,
enrollment through the first week could lead to total
confusion. Most community colleges already provide
for admitting students who enter late under
extenuating circumstances. Usually hardship cases
are cared for. To make for blanket late admissions
until the end of the first week of instruction would
intensify administrative problems and exceptions
would still be required for the now legitimately
"even later' student.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned," "
the governor said.
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AB 561 - Vasconcellos Transfers from the Research Advisory Panel to the
Department of Public Health the responsibility for
studying, evaluating, assisting, advising and
supervising all methadone maintenance and treatment
programs in the state.
REASON FOR VETO:
"Because the use of methadone in research and
treatment programs extends into such diverse fields
as health, law enforcement, rehabilitation,
corrections and mental hygiene, a Research Advisory
Panel was established by this administration with
authority to evaluate and approve methadone
maintenance, treatment and research projects in
this state. AB 561 proposes to transfer this
authority to the Department of Public Health. No
compelling evidence has been produced to show that
such a transfer would improve the efforts being made
in this field or that it would serve any useful
purpose. To interfere with the progress being made
by the Research Advisory Panel and to lose the
expertise represented by this group would be
detrimental to our efforts to develop methadone
treatment programs to combat the problem of drug
abuse.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned,"
the governor said.
AB 562 - Vasconcellos
Appropriates $5,020,000 from the General Fund for
methadone maintenance programs.
REASON FOR VETO:
"During the brief period since 1968, numerous
methadone maintenance treatment and research project
have been established in communities throughout the
state. Two and one-half years ago less than $300,00
was allocated to support experimental methadone
treatment programs in California. Today that
expenditure has increased to more than $5 million.
This rapid expansion has resulted from the
comprehensive methadone treatment program instituted
under the direction of the Research Advisory Panel,
which has assisted in the careful development of
these projects to insure success. AB 562 would
appropriate $5 million for a new and separate progra
before the results of existing projects have been
fully determined, I believe we should learn how
effectively current programs are meeting their goals
and incorporate the best features of these projects
into an overall program which could be applied, as
needed, throughout the state. To assure that this
is done, I have directed the Human Relations Agency
to undertake a comprehensive review of methadone
projects now in existence and, on the basis of those
findings, recommend how the overall program can be
improved from the standpoint of organization and
financing. This review can provide the information
necessary to determine what new funds may be require
to augment Short-Doyle monies allocated to the
counties for such purposes as methadone treatment
and research. Without this approach, it would be
impossible to determine the level of funding which
would be the most appropriate for the future of our
methadone programs. It is my hope that this
continuous progress toward a successful methadone
treatment program will provide an effective means
of controlling the terrible problem of heroin
addiction.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned,"
the governor said,
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AB 801 - Monagan
Requires the state to pay the total cost of the
monthly health plan premium for a state employee
and his family members, or $20 per month, whiehever
is less.
REASON FOR VETO:
"AB 801 is being returned unsigned because its cost
would worsen the already critical deficit facing the
state this fiscal year. I believe that the state
should pay a larger share of the cost of basic
health care benefits for its employees, and I will
include funds for this purpose in my 1972-73 budget
recommendations. Fully state-paid basic health care
benefits for employees, with employee-paid
dependent coverage optional, would be desirable and
would more fairly meet the individual needs of
employees. This would assure employees some
protection against rising costs in the future. This
benefit improvement will be just one element of a
total package of salary and benefit improvements
that I will recommend this next fiscal year. The
other elements of the package are not definite at
this time, but among those we are considering are
state-sponsored group life insurance for all
employees and uniform allowances for certain
employee groups.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned,"
the governor said.
SB 1020 - Stiern
Provides for the establishment of state funded
bilingual-bicultural programs in all courses of
instruction, and appropriates $1,800,000 for purposes
of the act.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I believe it is imperative that our children obtain
proficiency in the use of the English language---the
primary communication tool of our society. A person':
failure to become proficient in English is a serious
handicap to both educational and financial achieve-
ment. Before embarking upon the kind of program this
legislation would mandate, I believe we must first
have the full benefit of the studies currently under
way by various groups aimed at finding the best
solution to bilingual problems. One such effort,
AB 116, which I have signed today, appropriates
$500,000 for development, norming and implementation
of bilingual scholastic aptitude tests, as well as a
test program to determine the best methods of
providing pupils, whose lack of proficiency in
English is an obstacle to learning, with instruction
in the English language through the use of another
language more understandable to them. In addition,
a Department of Education task force study into the
degree of effectiveness of efforts currently being
made by school districts to solve bilingual problems
has not yet been completed. Without the latest and
best methodology available in this area, I believe
the adoption of a definitive program, such as that
which SB 1020 would impose, is clearly premature.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned," "
the governor said.
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SB 1216 - Zenovich
Appropriates $1,500,000 annually, or as much thereof
as necessary, from the Fair and Exposition Fund to
the Department of Education to match specified
federal funds, to be expended for vocational
education programs in agriculture.
REASON FOR VETO:
"Vocational training in agriculture is desirable
and important as a part of our educational system
and should be encouraged. However, state support
for specific educational programs is a matter which
should be considered in light of the state's overall
educational needs and should not be approached on a
piecemeal basis as provided in this bill. At the
present time in California over $35 million in
public funds are being expended for identifiable
vocational educational programs. The Advisory
Council on Vocational Education is responsible for
updating the California Master Plan for Vocational
Education. I would hope if the proponents of
SB 1216 feel there is an additional area of need in
agricultural programs that these needs would be
brought to the attention of the Council so that the
focus on occupational fields in rural and urban
areas can be properly met.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned,"
the governor said.
SB 1491 Moscone
Authorizes the Director of Parks and Recreation to
sell, lease, or transfer specified properties
comprising the San Francisco Maritime State Historic
Park.
REASON FOR VETO:
"In my opinion, the language and effect of this
legislation are imprecise in that its provisions
do not offer the state the ability to sell or lease
the property in question if negotiations are not
satisfactorily completed. The best solution would
be achieved by providing the state the flexibility
to sell or negotiate a long-term lease while safe-
guarding the state's interests. The bill fails to
accomplish this essential objective.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned,"
the governor said.
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#644
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation to alleviate the
shortage of doctors through establishment of a medical contract program
between the state and private colleges and universities.
The measure (SB 1284 by Senator Donald L. Grunsky, R-Watsonville)
authorizes the State Scholarship and Loan Commission to enter into
private contracts with private colleges and universities to provide
$12,000 annually per student to increase enrollment of medical students.
"By 1980, California will require 2,000 new doctors every year, "
the governor said. "This legislation will provide fellowship grants to
qualified students who do not have the financial resources to attend
accredited private medical schools in California. It will also encourage
these institutions to use their medical school facilities to the fullest
extent to meet the shortage of doctors without additional cost to the
state's taxpayers."
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#645
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation establishing
bi-lingual study programs for students with a limited knowledge of
English in the San Diego City Unified School District and the San
Francisco Unified School District.
The measure (AB 116) by Assemblyman Wadie P. Deddeh, (D-Chula
Vista), also requires the Department of Education to use all available
state and federal funds to develop and implement bi-lingual scholastic
aptitude tests to determine the eligibility of youngsters with limited
knowledge of English to participate in special classes for the mentally
retarded.
The bill appropriates $500,000 to the Superintendent of Public
Instruction with $425,000 earmarked for the study program from fiscal
year 1972 through fiscal year 1975 and $75,000 to go for development of
the bi-lingual aptitude tests.
"This legislation will open the doorway to educational
opportunity to youngsters, who, through no fault of their own, have not
the advantages that allow them to keep pace with their English-speaking
companions," the governor said.
"It is imperative that our children obtain proficiency in the
use of the English language--the primary communication tool of our societ
If youngsters are not allowed this opportunity they will suffer a
serious handicap to both educational and financial achievement."
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#647
Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today announced the following
bills have been signed:
AB 886 - McAlister
Authorizes county boards of supervisors to
(Chapter 1527)
establish a fee not in excess of $2 for issuance
of a marriage license outside of normal business
hours.
AB 918 - Russell
Authorizes a peace officer a reasonable length of
(Chapter 1528)
time not to exceed one hour to detain a person
arrested for a moving traffic violation who does not
have his driver's license or other satisfactory
evidence of his identity for the purpose of
verifying his identity.
AB
1059 - Johnson, H. Permits a court to allow the filing of a venue
(Chapter 1529)
affidavit by the plaintiff after the filing of
a complainton a contract or installment account
under the Unruh Act or Rees-Levering Motor Vehicle
Sales and Finance Act. It requires the service of
the affidavit on the defendant, whose time to plead
does not commence to run until he is served. The
bill also requires an attachment affidavit in an
action on a contract under the Rees-Levering Motor
Vehicle Sales and Finance Act to state facts showing
the action was commenced in the proper court, and
makes the plaintiff liable for the defendant's
attorney's fees resulting from his failure to do SO.
AB 1069 - Biddle
Consolidates the Vehicle Code provision dealing
(Chapter 1530)
with driving a motor vehicle while under the influence
of a drug. It makes the penalties for driving under
the influence of a drug identical to driving under
the influence of alcohol.
AB 1379 - Arnett
Provides that a local agency must coordinate with
(Chapter 1531)
and receive approval from the appropriate planning
agency before it may locate a facility within a
scenic highway corridor.
AB 1414 - Warren
Revises the procedure relative to notification of
(Chapter 1532)
the Department of Motor Vehicles when a person violate:
his promise to appear in court and revises provisions
regarding payment of fines. The bill revises provision
prohibiting issuance or renewal of driver's license
when the department has been notified by a court that
the licensee has failed to make a timely payment of
a fine. The bill also makes willful violation of an
order to appear in court upon failure to make timely
payment of a fine, or installment thereof, punishable
as contempt, rather than a misdemeanor.
AB 1416 - Warren
Provides that transcript of grand jury proceedings
(Chapter 1533)
leading to an indictment or accusation shall not be
open to public inspection until 10 days after its
delivery to the defendant or his attorney, unless
the court orders otherwise on motion of a party or on
its own motion pending its determination as to whether
all or part of the transcript should be sealed.
AB 1418 - Warren
Authorizes a court to dismiss a civil action without
(Chapter 1534)
prejudice when no party appears for the trial
following 30 days notice of time and place of trial.
AB 1431 - MacGillivray Specifies that the authority of counties to contrac
(Chapter 1535)
for special services and advice extends to
maintenance. security, or custodial services.
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AB 1462 - Chappie
Defines camp trailers for purposes of the Vehicle
(Chapter 1536)
Code and provides that a camp trailer shall not be
deemed to be a trailer coach. The bill provides
that statutory restrictions regarding use of
reflectorizing material do not apply to license
plate stickers or tabs affixed to license plates
as authorized by the Department of Motor Vehicles.
AB 1487 - Wilson
Provides that a board of supervisors may authorize
(Chapter 1537)
the county treasurer to issue bond anticipation notes
when they deem it in county's best interests.
AB 1566 - Johnson, H. Permits suits enforcing stop notice to be filed
(Chapter 1538)
within a period commencing ten days after service
of the stop notice and ending 90 days after
expiration of the period for recording liens. The
bill prohibits bringing such suit to trial until
the expiration of lien recording period.
AB 1578 - Ralph
Permits issuance of a real estate broker's license
(Chapter 1539)
to legally registered aliens who are in the process
of applying for citizenship. The bill also specifies
that designated private vocational schools and
supervised courses of study are equivalent courses
of study for purpose of the provisions dealing
with educational requirements of real estate
licensees.
AB 1588 - Schabarum Permits the presiding judge of the Superior Court
(Chapter 1540)
in Los Angeles County, either upon application by the
Attorney General or district attorney and after
specified findings, or upon motion of the court, to
order the drawing and impaneling of one additional
grand jury which, upon impanelment, shall have
exclusive jurisdiction to inquire into public
offenses. The bill also changes the per diem of all
grand jurors from $5 to $10 per day.
AB 1952 - Z'berg
Permits a county to impose a reasonable charge
(Chapter 1541)
against real property benefited for garbage services
provided by the county to property owner at his
request when charges remain delinquent for 60 days.
AB 2249 - Russell
Defines the terms "full cash value", "market value"
(Chapter 1542)
and "value" for purposes of law relating to property
taxation. The act will become operative on
March 1, 1972.
AB 2310 - Murphy
Provides that in any case in which a minor is
(Chapter 1543)
detained by the probation officer for more than 6 hou
and subsequently released and no petiton filed, the
probation officer shall prepare a written notice to
the parent, guardian or person having care and
custody of minor explaining why the minor was held
for more than 6 hours. The bill also provides
that in any case in which a minor is detained for
more than 15 days pending execution of an order of
commitment or any other disposition, the court is
required to review the case at least every 15 days
to determine whether the delay is reasonable and what
effect the delay has upon the minor.
AB 2340 - Chappie
Requires courses in automobile driver education
(Chapter 1544)
given in secondary schools to include education in
the safe operation of motorcycles.
AB 2396 - Murphy
Requires a public agency proposing to acquire propert
(Chapter 1545)
to notify the various local taxing agencies, when
such property will become exempt from property
taxation by reason of such acquisition, and to
provide various other information.
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AB 2406 - Hayden
Requires a county counsel or district attorney to
(Chapter 1546)
provide legal services to county committee on
school district organization. The bill requires a
board of supervisors to provide a committee with
private legal services if the county counsel or
district attorney is unable to provide such services.
AB 2618 - Arnett
Increases fees for the licensing of private
(Chapter 1547)
postsecondary schools.
AB 2769 - Keysor
Increases the total amount of the cost of certain
(Chapter 1548)
school building contracts from $5,000 to $7,500
before building plans must be submitted to the
Department of Education. The bill also raises
the maximum amount of school district contracts exemp
from the lowest responsible bidder requirement.
AB 2884 - Foran
Permits appointed and elected city attorneys to
(Chapter 1549)
become members of the Public Employees' Retirement
System under certain conditions and upon paying
specified contributions and interest.
SB 120 - Harmer
Requires state or local public agencies to take
(Chapter 1522)
appropriate action to recover civil damages for the
negligent, willful or unlawful damaging or taking
of property belonging to, or under the jurisdiction
of the agency.
SB 742 - Song
Makes several clarifying amendments to the Consumer
(Chapter 1523)
Warranty Act of 1970.
SB 976 - Marks
Requires that the California Highway Commission
(Chapter 1524)
publish in a newspaper of general circulation
notices of intent to acquire park property for
highway purposes.
SB 1019 - Stiern
Provides statutory authorization for the Board of
(Chapter 1525)
Governors and the Chancellor's Office of the
California Community Colleges to administer and
govern various activities related to the Community
colleges.
SB 1053 - Behr
Provides that a public agency, or a person, having
(Chapter 1526)
a liquidated claim against a public agency, shall
be entitled to interest commencing the 61st day
following the filing of the claim known or agreed
to be valid when filed pursuant to statute or
contract and such claim is due and payable.
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#649
Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today announced the following bills
have been signed:
AB 505 - Deddeh
Creates the Highway Users Tax Study Commission to
(Chapter 1557)
study the allocation of highway funds and to report
to the legislature by February 1, 1974.
AB 885 - Ralph
Authorizes the Workmen's Compensation Appeals Board
(Chapter 1558)
to determine the amount of attorneys' fee incurred
by an applicant in resisting a petition or
proceeding to reduce or terminate permanent or
temporary disability benefits, which is subsequently
denied wholly by the board and to assess that amount
as costs against the petitioner or person who
instituted the proceeding.
AB 1404 - Crown
Amends the Sherman Food, Drug and Cosmetic Law to
(Chapter 1559)
provide that certain drugs manufactured in finished
form after June 30, 1972, are misbranded unless the
manufacturer, packer, or distributor of the drug
states in all advertisements and other descriptive
matter he issues or causes to be issued with respect
to the drug the name and place of business of the
manufacturer who produces the finished dosage form
of the drug, as prescribed by regulations of the
State Department of Public Health.
AB 1749 - Chappie
Provides for the organization of the Tahoe-Truckee
(Chapter 1560)
Sanitation Agency for the collection, treatment and
disposal of sewage, industrial waste, and storm
water. The bill also repeals North Lake Tahoe-Trucke
River Sanitation Agency Act.
AB 1810 - Hayes
Makes the Education Code provision, which authorizes
(Chapter 1561)
an alternative procedure for informing school
classified employees of certain rules and laws
relating to the classified service, applicable to
the personnel commissions of school districts having
more than 1,000 rather than 5,000 classified
employees. The bill will affect the Los Angeles
Community College District, the Long Beach Unified
District and the Garden Grove Unified District.
AB 2283 - Collier
Requires that the statement of official statistics
(Chapter 1562)
and information distributed to the registered
voters in a school district unification election
contain a statement of how much the maximum tax
rate shown in the ballot proposal would have to
be increased to produce revenue equal to that pro-
duced by the statutory override taxes in effect in th
component school districts,
AB 2472 - Cline
Provides for the use of federally granted funds to
(Chapter 1563)
administer manpower services by the Department of
Human Resources Development for economically
displaced persons who are involuntarily unemployed.
AB 2499 - Briggs
Amends the Insurance Code to provide that if an
(Chapter 1564)
insured elects to delete uninsured motorist coverage
from his policy completely, or only with respect to
a natural person or persons designated by name
then, such deletions shall be binding upon every
insured to whom such policy or endorsement provisions
apply. The bill also specifies that an agreement
between the insured and the insurer excluding a named
person from bodily injury and property damage coverag
shall remain in force so long as the policy remains
in force and shall apply to any continuation, renewal
or replacement of such policy or reinstatement of
such policy within 30 days of any lapse thereof.
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AB 2502 - Briggs
Authorizes the issuance in California of an
(Chapter 1565)
additional form of group life insurance, meeting
specified requirements, written under a policy
against loss in value of redeemable securities of
an insured investor issued by certain investment
companies.
AB 2503 - Briggs
Allows any life insurance company authorized to do
(Chapter 1566)
business in California to issue investment return
assurance policies.
AB 2610 - Wakefield
Extends the termination date of the Research
(Chapter 1567)
Advisory Panel on Drug Abuse to the 91st day
after final adjournment of the 1975 Regular Session.
AB 2666 - Wilson
Provides that it is unlawful for a healing arts
(Chapter 1568)
licentiate to offer, deliver, receive, or accept
any, (rather than any unearned) rebate or other
consideration in compensation or inducement for
referring patients, clients or customers irrespective
of the described relationship to the person to whom
the reference is made.
AB 2742 - Hayes
Prohibits any action from being brought to recover
(Chapter 1569)
damages arising out of latent defects from any person
who develops real property or performs or furnishes
the design, specifications, surveying, planning,
supervision, testing or observation of construction
or construction of an improvement to real property
more than 10 years after the substantial completion
of the development or improvement.
AB 2777 - Cullen
Requires the Office of Planning and Research to
(Chapter 1570)
cooperate with the Department of Aeronautics and
other federal, state and local agencies in the
development of an air transportation program for
California.
AB 2807 - McAlister
Authorizes juries in civil cases to take copies of
(Chapter 1571)
written instructions given into the jury room for
deliberation. The bill is effective until
December 31, 1974.
SB 4 - Cologne
Revises the procedures governing the administration
(Chapter 1550)
of justice by courts during specified emergency
situations.
SB 503 - Nejedly
Increases sport fishing license and hunting
(Chapter 1551)
license fees.
SB 686 - Wedworth
Allows school boards to excuse 10th, 11th, and
(Chapter 1552)
12th grade pupils from physical education classes if
they attend regional occupational centers or programs.
The bill reduces the minimum day from 240 minutes
to 180 minutes for those students. The bill also
requires the State Board of Education to include
regional occupational centers and programs in the
allocation of federal funds.
SB 1100 - Gregorio
Requires the Department of Public Works to hold
(Chapter 1553)
public hearings regarding the incorporation of
pedestrian and bicycle facilities on freeways which
are part of the state highway system, The bill
authorizes the department to expend highway funds on
such facilities, under specified circumstances in
connection with state highways. The bill also author
izes the department to exercise the power of eminent
domain for construction and maintenance of bicycle
lanes and paths.
SB 1294 - Cologne
Provides that a person injured while riding on a
(Chapter 1554)
moving railroad car may not recover damages from the
owner or operator of the railroad unless the injuries
were proximately caused by the intentional act of
the owner or operator with knowledge that the injury
would probably result, or the act was done with wantor
and reckless disregard of probable results.
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SB 1461 - Stevens
Frees from public trust for navigation, commerce
(Chapter 1555)
and fisheries certain described parcels of tide
and submerged lands conveyed in trust to the City of
Redondo Beach.
SB 1508 - Moscone
Makes the Penal Code provisions requiring a speedy
(Chapter 1556)
trial of persons in confinement because of
conviction on another offense applicable to
sentencing as well as trial.
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#651
Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today announced the following
bills have been signed:
AB 390 - Hayes
Provides that a coroner's inquest shall determine
(Chapter 1573)
among other things, whether a death was at the hands
of another person other than by accident, rather
than only at the hands of another person. The bill
provides that such findings shall not include nor
make any reference to civil or criminal responsibilit
of any other person as well as that of deceased.
AB 533 - Brathwaite
Provides for uniform treatment of persons who are
(Chapter 1574)
displaced or have their real property taken for
public use. It brings the State law into
conformance with the Federal Uniform Relocation
Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies
Act of 1970.
AB 1339 - Cullen
Authorizes local public agencies to adopt rules and
(Chapter 1575)
regulations providing for exclusive representation of
employees, subject to the employees right to
represent themselves, by an employee organization
formally recognized pursuant to a vote of the
employees of the agency or appropriate unit thereof.
The bill provides that exclusive representation
by employee organizations so recognized may be
revoked by a majority vote of the employees only
after 12 months from formal recognition.
AB 1936 - Quimby
Prohibits a city from imposing a license fee or tax,
(Chapter 1576)
other than a fee or tax based on the taxpayer's
entire gross receipts which are directly
attributable to the business activities conducted
within the city, for the privilege of renting,
leasing, or operating coin-operated vending machines
dispensing tangible personal property upon any
individual or firm whose business is limited
exclusively to renting, leasing or operating such
machines.
AB 2489 - Briggs
Deletes the option presently available to counties
(Chapter 1577)
that certain information relating to tax rates or
the dollar amounts of taxes may be combined on
property tax bills. The bill is applicable with
respect to taxes and assessments levied for the
1972-73 fiscal year and the years thereafter.
SB 730 - Richardson
Modifies the prohibition against certain candidates
(Chapter 1572)
using an office or occupational ballot designation
at the general election.
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#654
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed administration-sponsored
legislation "aimed at cracking down on a certain irresponsible segment of
the auto repair industry which persists in using dishonest and unethical
operating methods."
He called the measure (SB-51, Beilenson) "the toughest and most
significant consumer protection legislation of the year in California."
The governor also said "last year, in my consumer protection message
to the legislature, I called attention to the increasing number of
complaints we were receiving about fraudulent practices in the auto
repair field---far more than in any other line of business. I noted that
such practices not only were harmful to consumers but also were giving
many in the industry a name and reputation they did not deserve.
"I called on the responsible members of the industry to join with
us in finding a way to give consumers the kind of protection they want
and need. The Independent Garage Owners' Association and other reputable
organizations came to us and offered to help in the drafting of the
legislation. Working closely with our new Department of Consumer Affairs
and the author of the bill, the new law they helped us write is designed
to bring the irresponsible members of the industry into line or put them
out of business.
"I believe the legislation contains the necessary enforcement
provisions to do SO. It requires automotive repair dealers to be
registered with a new bureau in the State Department of Consumer Affairs
and empowers the director of the department to suspend or revoke any
license as necessary. In addition, any dealer who fails to comply with
the new law is subject to a fine of up to $1,000, or up to six months in
jail, or both.
"Last year, with the establishment of the Department of Consumer
Affairs, this administration again reaffirmed its strong commitment to
protecting the interests of California's consumers. The law I have just
signed is a special source of pride to all of us because it is a direct
result of our commitment to keep consumer protection 3 top priority,"
the governor said.
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#657
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 209, - Roberti
Adds a new waiver section to the Personal Income Tax
(Chapter 1588)
Law which provides that interest will be waived
with respect to underpayments of estimated personal
income tax if the taxpayer files an amended
declaration and pays the underpayment within 15 days
after the close of the taxable year, and the original
declaration was filed in good faith but unanticipated
additional income was generated thereafter.
AB 273 - Ryan
Deletes the Education Code provision allowing a
(Chapter 1589)
school district governing board to designate the
position of business manager as one requiring
certification requirements. The bill also provides
that a credential may be required by small school
districts for the position of business manager.
AB 304 - Brathwaite
Permits changes under the Improvement Act of 1911
(Chapter 1590)
to exceed 20 percent of the total estimated cost
when ordered by the local legislative body. The bill
provides that such portion of the added cost which
exceeds the 20 percent limitation shall be paid by
the public entity.
AB 511 - Cullen
Changes the procedure by which the Legislature may
(Chapter 1612)
reject an executive reorganization plan submitted
by the governor.
AB 587 - Knox
Eliminates special procedures for investigating
(Chapter 1591)
and charging crimes with respect to corporations.
AB 698 - Schabarum
Makes statutory changes necessary to conform the
(Chapter 1593)
statutes to Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1970.
AB 804 - Greene, L.
Revises the process by which maps or plats of
(Chapter 1594)
cemeteries are to be drawn, printed or reproduced.
The bill requires the county recorder to file, rather
than record, surveys and subdivisions, made by
the State Lands Commission, of lands belonging
to the state to be sold, leased, or to have the
boundary established.
AB 826 - Vasconcellos
Provides for an action for damages for the
(Chapter 1595)
intentional use of another's name, photograph, or
likeness for commercial purposes without prior
permission.
AB 1154 - Lanterman
Modifies the State Fellowship program for graduate
(Chapter 1597)
study by eliminating the requirement which limits
awards only to those planning to pursue college
teaching. The bill authorizes fellowships to any
eligible graduate student with academic ability and
financial need.
AB 1191 - Brathwaite
Authorizes an employee whose employer has failed
(Chapter 1598)
to secure payment of compensation to file
application with Workmen's Compensation Appeals
Board for compensation. The bill creates an
Uninsured Employer's Fund from which the claimant's
award shall be paid when the employer is uninsured
and fails to pay it. The bill creates a liquidated
claim for damages against the employer when the award
is paid from the fund. The Director of Industrial
Relations is authorized to bring a civil action to
recover such damages.
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AB 1199 - Wilson
Includes in the state scenic highway system State
(Chapter 1599)
Highway Routes 52 and 109 in their entirety, and
Route 163 from Ash Street in San Diego to Route 8.
AB 1483 - Cory
Enacts the Guaranteed Learning Achievement Act of
(Chapter 1600)
1971. The bill will allow five school districts
with approval of the Superintendent of Public
Instruction, to contract with private concerns
to provide experimental special programs in fields
of reading and mathematics for primary and elementary
level pupils based on performance guarantees.
AB 1556 - McAlister
Provides that specified records of air pollution
(Chapter 1601)
districts or any other state or local agency or
district relating to air or other pollution are
public records.
AB 1587 - Schabarum
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to provide
(Chapter 1602)
a list to the Department of Public Works of proposed,
as well as existing, crossings at grade and
existing grade separations most urgently in need
of separation or alteration. The bill authorizes
allocations to eliminate proposed crossings at
grade to be made from the $5,000,000 allocated
annually by the department for grade separation
projects.
AB 660 - Dunlap
Prohibits the capture, possession, or confinement
(Chapter 1592)
of any live mountain lion taken from the wild,
with specified exceptions. It authorizes the Fish
and Game Commission to promulgate regulations for
temporary confinement of mountain lions for
treatment of injury or disease. It revises pro-
visions concerning depredating mountain lions, to
provide for a limited term permit to take
depredating animals within a limited area of
incurred damage. The bill further provides that
provisions concerning the taking of lions and
depredation are to be operative only until 61st
day of adjournment of the 1975 Regular Session.
AB 1686 - Briggs
Permits any authorized joint powers agency, board,
(Chapter 1603)
or commission created by agreement between an
irrigation district and a city to issue revenue
bonds to finance acquisition, construction, or
improvement of a water supply system,
AB 1754 - Sieroty
Changes the final day for filing personal property
(Chapter 1604)
statements from the last Monday in May to the last
Friday in May. Memorial Day is now celebrated on
the last Monday in May.
AB 1802 - Burton
Revises the bar pilotage rate required to be paid
(Chapter 1605)
by vessels inward or outward bound through the
Golden Gate and into or out of the Bays of San
Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun. The bill also
revises the factors which the Pilotage Rate Committee
for San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun Bays is
required to consider in preparing its recommendation
to the Legislature with respect to pilotage rates.
AB 2112 - Badham
Requires that specified evidence, which under
(Chapter 1606)
existing law would, when submitted to the Board of
Vocational Nurse and Psychiatric Technician
Examiners, permit a person to be licensed as a
psychiatric technician without examination, be
submitted to the board prior to July 1, 1972.
AB 2324 - McAlister
Prohibits an employer from discharging an employee
(Chapter 1580)
on account of garnishment of wages for any one
indebtedness.
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AB 2579 - Waxman
Amends the Nursing Home Administrators' Licensing
(Chapter 1608)
Act to meet the requirements of the federal Social
Security Act. The bill also increases license
fees and provides for payment of per diem compensa-
tion to members of the Board of Examiners of
Nursing Home Administrators.
AB 2649 - Lanterman
Revises county planning requirements and financing
(Chapter 1609)
provisions under the Short-Doyle Act.
AB 2821 - Maddy
Provides that petition to set aside an estate under
(Chapter 1610)
$5,000 may be presented, without filing a petition
for probate of a will or letters of administration,
by a person named in the will as an executor,
surviving spouse, or guardian of a minor child
or children of the decedent.
AB 2922 - Chacon
Provides that commissioners of deeds shall not be
(Chapter 1611)
appointed or reappointed after effective date of the
bill. The bill provides that commissioners of deeds
shall hold office for a term of four years from the
date of their commissions.
SB 594 - Song
Prohibits an employer from discharging any employee
(Chapter 1607)
because garnishment of his wages have been threatened
or because his wages have been subjected to
garnishment for one judgement rather than
prohibiting such discharge for one garnishment of
wages prior to a final order or judgement of a
court.
SB 819 - Deukmejian
Establishes procedures for civil protective custody
(Chapter 1581)
in evaluation and detoxification facilities
designated pursuant to Lanterman-Petris-Short Act,
for persons violating the Penal Code Provision
making persons under the influence of intoxicating
liquor guilty of disorderly conduct. The bill
exempts persons placed in civil protective custody
from any criminal prosecution or juvenile court
proceeding.
SB 889 - Dymally
Authorizes the governing board of the State
(Chapter 1582)
Nautical School, governing boards of school districts
and county superintendents of schools to perform all
acts necessary to receive the benefits and expend
the funds provided by the Federal Emergency Employment
Act of 1971, The bill also authorizes county
superintendents of schools to perform all acts
necessary to receive benefits and expend funds
provided by other specified federal programs.
SB 1006 - Holmdahl
Allows county boards of supervisors to grant the
(Chapter 1583)
homeowners' exemption (80% of the value) to
claimants who fail to file timely claims due to
reasonable cause and not due to willful neglect if
such claim is filed prior to June 15. The bill also
requires assessors to mail claim forms to persons who
have had the homeowners' exemption in prior year or
who purchase an eligible dwelling after the prior
lien date and before January 1, of the succeeding
year.
SB 1040 - Collier
Creates the California Council of Product Design
(Chapter 1579)
and Marketing in the Department of Commerce, to
encourage and promote California business.
SB 1170 - Walsh
Applies the relief of bidders provisions similar
(Chapter 1584)
to those found in the State Contract Act to
construction contracts awarded by all public
agencies. In addition, the bill will disqualify
contractors who claim such relief from rebidding the
same contract.
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SB 1178 - Holmdahl
Authorizes, subject to prescribed limitations, a
(Chapter 1585)
subsequent Cal-Vet farm or home acquisition when
the veteran is forced to sell because of inability
to pay property taxes resulting from increased
assessments.
SB 1327 - Deukmejian Establishes a procedure by which surface rights may
(Chapter 1586)
be returned to the landowner by terminating all or
part of the right of entry from certain mineral or
oil and gas leases.
SB 1397 - Way
Provides that when a court has made a final
(Chapter 1587)
adjudication that a person is the father of a minor
child, that person shall provide for the food,
clothing, shelter, and medical care of the minor
child or be subject to a fine of up to $1,000 and/or
one year in jail. The bill also authorizes the
court, in an order granting probation which includes
a support order upon conviction of criminal
nonsupport, to require the assignment of wages as a
condition of probation.
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Sacramento, California
Contact:
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445-4571
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Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation that
increases the maximum weekly unemployment benefit from $65 to $75
per week.
In signing the measure (AB 1088) by Assemblyman Jack Fenton
(D-Montebello), Governor Reagan pointed out that the last raise
in the weekly unemployment benefit, from $55 to $65, was in 1965.
The new law will mean a boost in unemployment benefits for
approximately 500,000 workers now covered by the program, who will
file new claims in the following 12 months. Approximately 35 percent
of the eligible claimants will get the full $10 increase to $75 in
weekly benefits, while another 12 percent will receive smaller
increases depending on their earnings.
The bill also increases the earnings required by a worker
to be eligible for minimum benefits from $720 to $750 per year.
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Contact:
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445-4571
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Governor Ronald Reagan announced today he has vetoed SB 138
regarding solid waste management because it duplicates existing
legislation and cannot be managed effectively without the
reorganization the administration currently is seeking.
The bill, by Senator John Nejedly and Assemblyman Edwin Z'berg,
provided for the establishment of a comprehensive solid waste management
and resource recovery policy.
In his veto message, Governor Reagan noted that earlier this
year he had requested legislative approval of a reorganization plan
designed to more effectively protect the environment. That plan
included the management of solid waste problems.
"I understand that all the relevant provisions of SB 138
dealing with solid waste management have been amended into SB 187, the
reorganization bill, so that the reorganization proposal and its
substantive elements can be considered together," the governor said,
adding:
"I am vetoing SB 138 to insure that solid waste is considered
as a part of reorganization. I hope that the reorganization-solid
waste bill will be on my desk in the near future."
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