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Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Digital Library Collections This is a PDF of a folder from our textual collections. Collection: Reagan, Ronald: Gubernatorial Papers, 1966-74: Press Unit Folder Title: Releases - Bills Signed and Vetoed 1972 [01/04/1972-08/10/1972] Box: P23 To see more digitized collections visit: https://reaganlibrary.gov/archives/digital-library To see all Ronald Reagan Presidential Library inventories visit: https://reaganlibrary.gov/document-collection Contact a reference archivist at: [email protected] Citation Guidelines: https://reaganlibrary.gov/citing National Archives Catalogue: https://catalog.archives.gov/ OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR MEMO TO THE PRESS Sacramento, California Contact: Paul Beck 445-4571 1-19-72 #29 Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the signing of his first bill passed by the 1972 legislative session. The bill, SB 7 (Chapter 1), authored by Senator John A. Nejedly (R-Walnut Creek), allows units in cooperative housing corporations to qualify for the homeowners' property tax exemption commencing in 1972-73. (SB 569 - Chapter 1752 - 1971, allows housing coop- eratives to qualify for the homeowners' property tax exemption commencing in 1972-73. Due to the length of the 1971 session, the effective date of SB 569 will be after the 1972 lien date. SB 7 eliminates any doubts as to the operative date of SB 569.) # # # PB OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR MEMO TO THE PRESS Sacramento, California Contact: Paul Beck 445-4571 2-18-72 #103 Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that he has signed the following bills: AB 3 - Dent Specifies that State School Building Aid and (Chapter 6) Earthquake Reconstruction and Replacement Bond Law of 1972 shall appear as Proposition No. 2 when submitted to the voters at the June primary. AB 43 - Mobley Reenacts provisions enacted at the 1971 legisla- (Chapter 3) tive session relating to the valuation of certain distilled spirits for property tax purposes in order that such provisions will be operative on the 1972 lien date. AB 59 - Wood Reenacts provisions enacted at the 1971 legisla- (Chapter 4) tive session exempting pets from property taxation in order that such provisions may be operative on the 1972 lien date. AB 63 - Z'berg Extends from January 1, 1972, to February 29, 1972, (Chapter 5) the time for filing a statement and map or plat of a newly created tax zone in a county service area, to enable a board of supervisors to levy taxes in the zone for the 1972-73 fiscal year. SB 28 - Walsh Repeals and reenacts provisions enacted at the (Chapter 2) 1971 regular session providing for the manner in which special construction equipment and special mobile equipment shall be subject to the property tax or the vehicle in-lieu tax in order that such provisions may be operative on the lien date in 1972. # # # PB OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR RELEASE: Immediate Sacramento, California Contact: Paul Beck 445-4571 3-10-72 #145 Governor Ronald Reagan announced today the following bills have been signed: AB 7 - Stull Changes the operative date of provisions relating to Chapter 10 the evaluation and assessment of public school certificated employees enacted by Chapter 361 of the Statutes of 1971. AB 25 - Pierson Extends the period which a judge may elect to be Chapter 11 covered by survivors benefits under the Judges' Retirement System. AB 56 - Gonsalves Includes within the definition of "private car" for Chapter 9 purposes of the private car tax any passenger train car, locomotive, or other equipment operated on the railroads in this state and owned, used, or leased by the National Railroad Passenger Corporation or any successor in interest, other than a railroad company. AB 64 - Johnson, R Authorizes a county to fix certain fees on all land Chapter 12 within a county service area or within the county. It provides for the revenue from such fees to be used for the acquisition, operation and maintenance of county waste disposal sites and for financing waste collection, processing, reclamation and disposal services, where such services are provided. AB 124 - Badham Exempts certain contracts for electromechanical or Chapter 13 electronic data-processing work or related services, entered into by school districts in a county with a population in excess of 1,400,000 in which no regional educational processing center is in operation from certain contractual limitations imposed by statute. It also validates such contracts entered into prior to the effective date of the bill. AB 293 - Porter Amends previsions of the Agricultural Code concerning Chapter 15 assessments collected by the Director of Agriculture to finance the Dairy Council Act. AB 326 - Cory Deletes the requirement that the signer of a Democrati Chapter 14 Party presidential primary nomination petition affix the date of his signature. AB 381 - Conrad Specifies that amendments made to the Vehicle Code by Chapter 8 legislation enacted in 1971 reducing the age of majority to 18 shall be operative on March 4, 1972. AB 404 - Burton Revises the membership of the Democratic county centra Chapter 16 committee in the City and County of San Francisco. SB 52 - Grunsky Provides for the submission of Senate Constitutional Chapter 17 Amendment No. 6 to the voters at the June primary election. SB 117 - Song Specifies that no bond or cash deposit is required of Chapter 7 holder of an inactive contractors license during the period the license is inactive. The bill further specifies that any action against the bond or cash deposit filed by an active licensee must be brought within two years after expiration of the license period or periods for which a bond or cash deposit has been provided or within two years of date that the license of an active licensee is inactivated by the Contractors' State License Board, whichever occurs first. # # # # # # # EJG OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR RELEASE: Immediate Sacramento, California Contact: Paul Beck 445-4571 3-14-72 #156 Governor Ronald Reagan today signed urgency legislation (SB 10, Marler; and AB 734, Bagley) to amend the age of majority law. The governor thanked the legislature for acting promptly on these bills and said it is an excellent example of how quickly members of the legislature can act when they really want to. ####### EJG = OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR RELEASE: Immediate Sacramento, California Contact: Ed Gray 445-4571 3-21-72 #168 Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation that appropriates $1,200,000 to the State Department of Public Health to augment services to physically handicapped children The bill (AB 79) provides for the continuation of services to the physically handicapped until they reach the age of 21. # # # WAS OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR RELEASE: Immediate Sacramento, California Contact: Ed Gray 445-4571 3-31-72 #180 Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today announced the following bills have been signed: AB 81 - Waxman Revises the period during which a city clerk Chapter 37 must publish a notice of any municipal election. AB 587 - Priolo Deletes provisions on preexisting court orders, Chapter 38 the validity of directions for accumulation expressed in settlements or dispositions made by specified instruments, and the validity of pre- existing provisions in specified instruments relating to the age of majority in the 1971 law that lowered the general age of majority from 21 to 18 years. SB 6 - Collier Defers the repayment of state school building aid Chapter 35 loans for fiscal year 1971-72 and provides for repayment in 1972-73 at 6 percent interest for those school districts the board of supervisors failed to levy a tax sufficient to make the loan payment. /SB 51 - Grunsky Provides that the increase in the maximum tax rate Chapter 39 of a community college district for any inter- district attendance agreement and any plant and equipment lease agreement will remain in effect until the end of the seventh consecutive fiscal year following the date of the first election at which a community college bond issue was passed in any community college district in which such seventh consecutive fiscal year ends in June, 1978 SB 79 - Burgener Requires that any health care service plans Chapter 40 written pursuant to the provision of the Knox- Mills Health Plan Act and currently approved by the Attorney General be in compliance with the provision preventing limitation of dependent coverage if the dependent is incapable of self- support and dependent upon the policy holder for support. SB 385 - Zenovich Exempts school employers from obligation to the Chapter 36 Unemployment Fund until after December 15, 1972. It requires such employers to choose method for financing unemployment insurance during July, 1972 The bill also makes provision for payment of benefits to classified school employees who are not returned to work after school "recess periods,' or who are laid off within 30 working days after the end of such a period. ###### EJG OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR RELEASE: Immediate Sacramento, California Contact: Ed Gray 445-4571 4-3-72 #183 Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have been signed: AB 36 - Lanterman Validates organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, Chapter 41 and bonds of counties, cities, and specific districts, agencies and entities. The First Validating Act of 1972. AB 75 - McAlister Authorizes the Director of General Services to convey Chapter 22 an easement for 1.8 acres of Agnews State Hospital property to Santa Clara County. AB 91 - Ketchum Revises quality, size, and maturity grades and Chapter 42 standards for potatoes. The bill authorizes the Director of Agriculture to establish, by regulations, quality, size, and maturity grades and standards of potatoes above the United States No. 2 grade. AB 174 - Lewis Authorizes the governing board of any school district Chapter 31 or the county superintendent of schools to conduct field trips or excursions during the school year to any foreign country, rather than to a foreign country adjoining the United States, and to the District of Columbia. AB 249 - Campbell Transfers the Intermediate Care Program from the State Chapter 32 Department of Social Welfare to the Department of Health Care Services. AB 314 - Lanterman Clarifies procedures relating to the examination of Chapter 23 criminal defendants by regional centers for the mentally retarded. AB 338 - Meade Requires that persons meeting designated qualification Chapter 28 be permitted to take the examination for a certificate of registration as an optometrist. /AB 532 - Hayden Appropriates $1,476,100 from funds in the Reserve - Chapter 29 Account of State Construction Program Fund for allocation to the West Valley Joint Junior College District for site acquisition. AB 801 - Barnes Preserves until July 1, 1973, University of California Chapter 33 and State College nonresident tuition exemptions for certain dependents of military personnel stationed in California. AB 1021 - Warren Appropriates $200,000 to Judges' Retirement Fund for Chapter 34 payment of benefits to retired judges. /SB 39 - Alquist Amends the Santa Clara County Transit District Act Chapter 30 by deleting the taxing and bonding authority of the district; also increases and raises the membership of the advisory commission to the transit district board. SB 63 - Way Appropriates $2,167,897 to the Department of the Chapter 25 Youth Authority to augment to the Budget Act of 1971 for special probation supervision programs at the local level. SB 69 - Wedworth Exempts from sales and use tax those meals furnished Chapter 19 in specified out-of-home care facilities. The bill also exempts certain family foster homes from the payment of license fees. SB 172 - Mills Specifically authorizes the governing boards of school Chapter 20 districts to conduct field trips for school bands to countries adjoining the United States. The bill also authorizes school district governing boards to conduct specified school trips to the District of Columbia as well as to other states and certain foreign countries - 1 - #183 SB 223 - Teale Authorizes the assessment, levy and collection of Chapter 21 school district taxes for a reorganized school district in Modoc County for which documents pertaining to the boundaries of the district have been filed by February 3, 1972. SB 271 - Bradley Changes the operative date of certain provisions Chapter 26 authorizing government agencies to charge fees for filing or recording documents. Governor Reagan also announced today the following bill has been vetoed. SB 228 - Alquist Enacts new provisions relating to the preparation of the impartial analyses of ballot measures, the printing of ballot pamphlets, the contents of ballot pamphlets and the preparation of ballot pamphlet appendices. The bill provides that the legislative analyst rather than legislative counsel shall prepare the impartial analysis of each ballot measure, and that the legislative counsel shall prepare ballot pamphlet appendix. REASON FOR VETO: "There appears to be no compelling justification for the changes proposed by SB 228. The bill would shift the responsibility for analyses of ballot measures from the legislative counsel to the legislative analyst. At present the analyst only prepares a financial analysis if a measure has fiscal effect. Under SB 228, the analyst would do the 'legal' analysis as well, and combine it with his financial analysis. It is essential that responsibility for the preparation of the 'legal' analysis of ballot measures rest with those with the necessary legal expertise. I believe that the legislative counsel is better equipped to prepare such analyses. The bill also repeals provisions which seem useful, such as the format for ballot pamphlet titles, analyses, and arguments. I am also concerned by the repeal of Elections Code Section 3566.3, which requires the legislative analyst to analyze a measure in great fiscal detail. Instead, he is required to treat fiscal effects in more general terms by this bill. Perhaps the 'urgency' aspects of this bill have provided too little time for debate and reflection on its merits. There is nothing in the present law to warrant such hasty action. "Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned," the governor said. ##### EJG OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR RELEASE: Immediate Sacramento, California Contact: Ed Gray 445-4571 5-4-72 # 256 Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that the following bills have been signed. AB 15 - Stacey Allows redemption of property sold to a Chapter 50 water district for delinquent assessments upon payment of a sum including the amount for which property was sold, specified recorder's fees, cost of publications of notice, and all delinquent assessments, penalties, and prescribed interest charges. The bill also establishes an installment payment plan for redemption of such property. AB 51 - Murphy Removes the prohibition against possessing in Chapter 51 any closed Fish and Game District Pismo clams taken outside the state. AB 87 - Deddeh Requires stopping prior to entering an intersec- Chapter 46 tion in response to a flashing red light if no limit line or crosswalk is present. It prohibits the following of all authorized emergency vehicles being operated rather than just police and fire vehicles. The bill also makes it unlawful to ski or toboggan on or across a roadway so as to interfere with other traffic. AB 114 - Deddeh Provides that when a school district is lapsed Chapter 47 and ordered annexed to an adjoining school district, the authorized but unsold bonds of the annexing district may be issued in the name of the annexing district as though the territory of the lapsed school district had formed a part of the annexing district on the date the bonds were authorized. AB 126 - Ketchum Augments the 1971 Budget Act by $2,063,221 for Chapter 45 additional state correctional personnel. AB 156 - Duffy Increases the mileage allowance paid to grand Chapter 52 jurors in Kings County from $.07 to $.10 a mile. AB 201 - Thomas Extends the privilege tax on sardines, Pacific Chapter 53 mackerel, jack mackerel, squid, herring, or anchovies from December 31, 1972, to December 31, 1974. Money derived from this tax is used to support programs of the Marine Research Committee. AB 236 - La Coste Revises the procedures relating to the apportion- Chapter 59 ing of assets between a fire protection district and a city when the city has withdrawn a portion of the fire district's territory by annexation to the city. AB 308 - Burke Authorizes the Department of General Services, Chapter 54 with consent of the Department of Mental Hygiene, to let not more than 5 acres of property at Fairview State Hospital for 55 years to a non- profit corporation for the purpose of conducting an educational and work program for mentally retarded persons. AB 318 - Chappie Eliminates the Fish and Game Code provisions Chapter 60 permitting the sale, purchase, tanning or manufacturing into articles for sale of the skin or hide of any bear lawfully taken and possessed. The bill permits tanning of such skins or hides for personal use only. -1- AB 418 - Meade Authorizes the use of fewer columnar headings by chapter 55 county recorders in those counties alphabetizing grantörs' and grantees' names by mechanical means in combined index rather than only in separate indices. AB 685 - Cullen Clarifies the meaning of certain exemptions Chapter 43 available to judgment debtors. AB 702 - Warren Authorizes the appointment of traffic trial Chapter 57 commissioners in municipal cou ts. Such appointments must be approved by the affected municipal court and the Judicial Council. AB 2305 - Lanterman Authorizes the Board of Governors of the State Chapter 56 Nautical School, governing boards of school districts, and county superintendents of schools to take necessary action to particpate in the federal "Intergovernmental Personnel Act of 1970" SB 13 - Grunsky Authorizes the board of directors of the San Chapter 49 Benito County Water Conservation and Flood Contro District to establish a water standby or avail- ability charge. SB 59 - Stiern Permits vehicle manufacturers, dealers and Chapter 44 dismantlers to dredit against quarterly payments of sales, use and transactions taxes to the state amounts returned to retail customers during the quarter as a result of the refund of federal excise tax on vehicles sold from August 16, 1971 to December 10, 1971. SB 111 - Bradley Changes recording fees to be paid by persons Chapter 58 appointed as notaries public from $2 to $3. SB 115 - Coombs Authorizes the formation of improvement districts Chapter 48 within the Mojave Water Agency. # # # # OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN RELEASE: Immediate Sacramento, California 95814 Ed Gray, Press Secretary 916-445-4571 5-22-72 #314 Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that the following bills have been signed: AB 61 - Dent Raises the maximum amount of regional park distric Chapter 77 contracts for furnishing materials or supplies, or for constructing any building, structure, or improvement, which are permitted to be let other than to the lowest responsible bidder, from $2,000 to $3,500. AB 106 - Moorhead Makes clarifying changes relating to amendments of Chapter 73 pleadings, and the time within which an adverse party must respond. AB 136 - H. Johnson Requires a person who conducts a mail order or Chapter 62 catalog business in this state and utilizes a post office box address to disclose the legal name under which business is done and the complete street address from which the business is actually conducted in all advertising and promotional materials, including order blanks and forms. AB 147 - Chappie Authorizes a high school district having component Chapter 72 elementary school district, none of which have increased their maximum tax rate for such purposes to increase the maximum tax rate of the district by $0.10 for support of opportunity schools, classes, and programs and continuation education programs, eliminating the distinction between such districts and unified school districts as to permissible maximum rates. AB 149 - Chappie Authorizes air pollution control districts, under Chapter 78 prescribed conditions, to permit the disposal of wood waste from trees, vines, or bushes, by open outdoor fires. The bill prohibits such authoriza- tion after July 1, 1975. The bill further provide that any person who is actively constructing a replacement facility for an open wood waste burner may be permitted, until January 1, 1973, to burn on all days for the purpose of disposing of wood waste in such a burner. AB 155 - Duffy Requires the Board of Medical Examiners to approve Chapter 85 one-year graduate programs of supervised clinical training in the general practice of medicine under the supervision of approved medical schools for certain applicants for a physician's and surgeon's certificate who graduate from medical schools located in Mexico, The bill revises the require- ments for such persons to take the physician and surgeon's examination. The bill also authorizes the State Scholarship and Loan Commission to allocate no more than $10,000 per student to medical schools with such programs that have an enrollment of 10 or more students. AB 270 - Davis Reappropriates funds previously appropriated for Chapter 74 expenditure pursuant to Chapter 52 of 1969, and makes such funds available for repair of public real property of local entities damaged by natural disasters occurring between December 1, 1971 and June 30, 1972. AB 361 - Knox Provides that the signature required to amend a Chapter 63 partnership certificate in specified instances may be made personally or by attorney in fact. AB 388 - Duffy Authorizes the governing board of a school distric Chapter 79 included in an areawide aid territory to increase the taxes of the district in 1972-73 in order to raise revenue necessary to produce the districts share of the foundation program for the prior year -1- #314 AB 395 - La Coste Prohibits U-turns upon any highway where the driver Chapter 64 of the vehicle does not have an unobstructed view for 200 feet in both directions along the highway and of any traffic thereon. AB 412 - Porter Changes the basis for determination of the number Chapter 80 of additional representatives which member public agencies may appoint to the board of directors of a metropolitan water district from one for each one billion dollars of assessed valuation to one additional representative for each full 3 percent of the assessed valuation of property taxable for district purposes within the entire district that is within such member public agency. AB 490 - Stacey Permits any balance in the bond fund of a water Chapter 81 storage district upon completion of an adopted project, or any unit thereof, to be used for the purchase, at not more than par, and cancellation of any such bonds. AB 571 - Chappie Authorizes the Amador County Water Agency to provide Chapter 82 for facilities for the collection, transmission, treatment, and disposal of sewage, waste, and storm water. AB 720 - Seeley Exempts the transportation of citrus fruit for Chapter 65 processing to byproducts within the state or to a neighboring citrus fruit growing state from desig- nated citrus fruit quality standards provisions. The bill requires that such transportation be under a permit from the Director of Agriculture. AB 771 - Fenton Amends the voluntary rehabilitation provisions of Chapter 83 the Workmen's Compensation Law to increase the advances which are to be made to the disabled employee undergoing rehabilitation from $52.50 to $70 a week to conform to the present maximum permanent disability weekly indemnity rate. AB 2008 - Arnett Makes a technical amendment to a Welfare and Chapter 84 Institutions Code provision relating to the jurisdiction of the juvenile court. SB 57 - Collier Includes the Trinity River between Lewiston Dam and Chapter 67 the confluence of the North Fork Trinity, near Helen, and designated parts of the Eel, South Fork Eel, Middle Fork Smith, South Fork Smith, Salmon, Cosumne Van Duzen, and Mad Rivers and Butte Creek among various designated salmon and steelhead spawning areas which may be managed, controlled, and protected by the Department of Fish and Game. SB 73 - Bradley Authorizes the Santa Clara County Flood Control and Chapter 68 Water District to pay to specified private education- al institutions, as well as to any city, public agency, or district, a portion of the cost of water imported by such educational institutions into, for use within, and of benefit to district. SB 81 - Grunsky Authorizes governing boards of school districts to Chapter 69 adopt an alternative method of computing salaries of teachers who serve less than a full school year specifying that the amount deducted shall not exceed the salary actually paid to a substitute employee, or, where no substitute was employed the amount which would have been paid to a substitute, according to the district salary schedule. The bill limits the use of such method to 5 days per year per employee. SB 180 - Marks Reduces the amount of bonded indebtedness authorized Chapter-70 for improvements in San Francisco harbor in 1909 and 1913. The bill permits the State Treasurer to destroy unsold bonds for such improvements. -2- #314 SB 192 - Deukmejian Exempts from prohibitions against stopping, Chapter 61 parking, or leaving standing any vehicle upon a freeway which has full control of access and no crossings at grade any person reporting a traffic accident cr other situation or incident to a peace officer or to certain other prescribed persons. SB 209 - Behr Increases the salary of the Vallejo Municipal Chapter 75 Court Marshal, effective January 1, 1972. SB 331 - Marks Permits the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Chapter 66 Control to issue temporary off-sale beer and wine licenses for a fee of $100 per license to member- supported public television stations which are non-profit charitable corporations. SB 365 - Burgener Appropriates $957,642 642 from funds in the Reserve Chapter 76 Account of the State Construction Program Fund to the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges for allocation to Grossmont Community College District for site acquisition. SB 548 - Marler Extends the time in which the statement, map or Chapter 71 plat regarding annexation to a city that was approved by its legislative body on or before September 21, 1971, may be filed with the State Board of Equalization for the annexation to be effective for assessment and tax purposes for the 1972-73 fiscal year. I # :# # Gray OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN RELEASE: Immediate Sacramento, California 95814 Ed Gray, Press Secreta'y 916-445-4571 5-26-72 #327 Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today signed the following bill: AB 1078 - MacGillivray Defines the term "vote" for purposes of Chapter 95 the Embarcadero Municipal Improvement District Act to mean a registered elector residing within the boundaries of the District and otherwise qualified pursuant to law, rather than an owner, or the officer appointed therefor by the board of directors of a corporation owner, or the legal representative of the owner. The bill requires the directors of the District to be voters, rather than owners, or officers or legal representatives of Owners. The bill also deletes the requirement that no District bonds be of a denomination less than $100 or greater than $1,000 and increases their maximum interest rate from 6 percent to 7 percent. #### Gray OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN RELEASE: Immediate Sacramento, California Ed Gray, Press Secretary 916-445-4571 6-1-72 #338 Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have been signed. AB 109 - Biddle Makes criminally punishable the operation of a motor Chapter 92 vehicle off, as well as on, the highway while under the influence of an intoxicating liquor or a drug, or a combination of the two, rather than while only intoxicated, when the consequence is injury or death of another. The bill also transfers all provisions relating to driving while under the influence of intoxicants from the Penal Code to the Vehicle Code. AB 146 - Chappie Allows county boards of education in counties with Chapter 101 average daily attendance of less than 8,000 to establish opportunity schools in lieu of continuation schools. AB 329 - MacDonald Authorizes cities to impose standby charges for water Chapter 102 service. AB 334 - MacGillivray Changes the salary of certain municipal court Chapter 86 attaches in Santa Barbara County and revises their pay period from monthly to biweekly. AB 564 - Knox Provides that for appointment to the agency board of Chapter 93 the Bay Area Sewage Services Agency a supervisor, mayor, or city councilman must be from a county or city operating water quality control facilities. The bill revises procedures regarding the Agency board selection committees and the establishment of the first agency board. The bill further specifies that the agency, pursuant to any procedure hereafter prescribed by law, shall merge with or otherwise be included within any multifunctional regional organization encompassing substantially the entire bay area region and possessing substantially the same responsibilities. AB 1484 - Ketchum Authorizes county air pollution control districts, Chapter 94 the Bay Area Air Pollution Control District, and regional air pollution control districts to contract with other such districts to perform air pollution control functions. SB 17 - Harmer Prohibits changing of the class of vehicles permitted Chapter 97 to be operated as shown on a driver's license held by a minor, unless the parents, guardian, or person having custody of such minor gives written consent to the Department of Motor Vehicles for such a change. SB 112 - Bradley Changes the fee for filing and indexing notices of Chapter 87 liens and certificates or notices affecting tax liens from two dollars to three dollars. SB 149 - Marler Prohibits a dealer or person holding a retail seller's Chapter 99 permit from selling a new or used vehicle, rather than a new or used motor vehicle, which is not in compliance with provisions of the Vehicle Code and regulations adopted pursuant thereto by the California Highway Patrol. SB 188 - Grunsky Amends the Vehicle Code to provide that reports of Chapter 98 stolen vehicles be made to and processed by the Department of Justice rather than the California Highway Patrol. SB 197 - Burgener Makes 18-year-old blind persons eligible to be Chapter 88 licensed as vending stand operators. - 1 - #338 SB 281 - Collier Augments the 1971-72 fiscal year Emergency Fund in Chapter 96 the amount of $4,918,009. The bill provides that $718,009 of the appropriation shall be allocated in augmentation of Item 78 of the Budget Act of 1971. SB 326 - Lagomarsino Appropriates $525,000 from the General Fund to be Chapter 89 used for contractual services from other public agencies or accredited law schools for support of the Department of Social Welfare's fair hearing functions. The bill provides for reappropriation of the undisbursed balance for expenditure through December 31, 1972. SB 475 - Nejedly Amends the definition of "rates and charges", for Chapter 100 purposes of provisions relating to community sanitation and sewerage systems, to provide that the rates or charges in connection with sanitation or sewerage systems include charges for garbage and refuse collection. SB 1323 - Lagomarsino Provides that in certain counties purchasing Chapter 90 agents shall have the duty to engage independent contractors to perform services for the county where the aggregate cost does not exceed specified amounts. The bill re-enacts two sections of the Government Code which were inadvertently repealed by legislation enacted in 1971 (Chapter 1310- Lagomarsino). SB 1479 - Harmer Provides that the improved retirement benefits under Chapter 91 the State Teachers' Retirement System provided by 1971 legislation shall not automatically apply to local teacher retirement systems. # # # # # # Gray - 2 - OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN RELEASE: Immediate Sacramento, California 95814 Ed Gray, Press Secretary 916-445-4571 6-2-72 #345 Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation that provides for the use of residual funds in two Los Angeles teachers' retirement programs in the event the teachers vote to join the State Teachers' Retirement System. The programs involved are the Los Angeles Unified School District Retirement System and the Los Angeles Community College Retirement System. (SB 1053) Governor Reagan said he signed the bill only after consultation with Senator James Q. Wedworth (D-Los Angeles), who sponsored the measure; and coauthors Senator Lou Cusanovich (R-Los Angeles) and Assemblyman E. Richard Barnes (R-San Diego). They advised the governor of action taken June 1 by the Los Angeles School Board assuring that the funds made available to the school district would be used judiciously for the benefit of the educational program and the city's taxpayers. The legislation provides: --Sixty five percent of the residual funds in the retirement systems would be made available for unrestricted use by the school district. Ten percent of this amount would go toward maintenance operations at the schools. --Twenty percent would be made available to support future district teacher retirement contributions. --Fifteen percent would be used for establishing a district annuity reserve fund to be paid eligible teachers upon retirement. Governor Reagan said he hoped today's action on the bill will provide Los Angeles teachers with the information necessary to make an enlightened choice on the question of joining 'the' State Teachers' Retirement System. Assembly Bill 543, authored last year by Assemblyman Barnes, made it possible for local teacher retirement programs to join the state system. ###### Walthall OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN RELEASE: Immediate Sacramento, California 95814 Ed Gray, Press Secretary 916-445-4571 6-2-72 #344 Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have been signed: AB 29 - Priolo Changes the definition of an "educational institution Chapter 105 of collegiate grade" for purposes of the college exemption from property taxation to include an institution which confers upon its graduates at least one academic or professional degree based on a course of at least two, rather than four, years in liberal arts and sciences, commencing on the lien date of 1973 AB 97 - Ketchum Requires that county civil service ordinances allow Chapter 106 an officer or employee dismissed, suspended, or demote seven rather than five days to file his appeal. AB 365 - Biddle Authorizes specified newly formed recreation and park Chapter 107 districts to file a map or plat of boundaries required for assessment and taxation purposes after the date normally required for such filing. AB 373 - Stull Revises the statement of the proposition submitted Chapter 108 to the voters on the ballot at the election required to authorize an irrigation district to provide for sewage disposal to ask whether the district shall provide for sewage disposal or acquire existing sewage disposal facilities in accordance with a specified application to the local agency formation commission, rather than whether the district shall provide for sewage disposal within that portion of the district not then provided with adequate service. AB 443 Duffy Eliminates the requirement that service in the medical Chapter 109 corps of the armed forces must be for 23 months for designated persons to qualify to take the vocational nurse examination. The bill retains the requirements relating to service training in nursing care, and experience in rendering patient care. AB 524 - Foran Provides that members of the Metropolitan Chapter 110 Transportation Commission shall serve without compensation but may receive reimbursement for necessary and actual expenses, provided, however, that in lieu of reimbursement for attendance at meetings they shall receive a per diem of $25 and 10¢ per mile travel allowance for meetings attended not to exceed four meetings per month. AB 622 - Biddle Repeals obsolete Labor Code provisions requiring the Chapter 111 registration of factories. AB 664 - Russell Includes as purposes for which bonded debt may be Chapter 112 incurred by the Antelope Valley-East Kern Water Agency interest during construction and for one year thereafter, initial working capital, operating and maintenance costs during construction and for one year thereafter, costs of utility relocation, costs of engineering, planning, design and inspections, and costs of acquiring rights-of-way. AB 691 - Duffy Repeals the Water Code provision requiring voters in Chapter 113 the Kings County Water District to be landowners and entitling them to one vote for each acre of land. AB 827 - Badham Requires that determination of percentage of Chapter 114 delinquency regarding school district taxes be based on three consecutive years of the preceding four years rather than the last three preceding years. AB 828 - Badham Allows driveways of a mobilehome park to have security Chapter 115 gates if such gates are not an violation of prescribed local requirements. -1- #344 AB 872 - Burke Extends the time in which a street lighting district Chapter 116 may file certain documents and still have its property taxes collected for it by the county for the 1972-1973 fiscal year. SB 103 - Carrell Limits the amount of property of a person held by a Chapter 103 bank which may be ordered withheld by the state to secure a delinquent determination under the sales and use tax law to not more than two times the amount, interest and penalty due from the person. Present law has no limitation on the amount which may be withheld under these circumstances. The bill also makes similar changes with respect to other state business taxes. It will become operative on the first day of the first calendar quarter succeeding the effective date of the enactment. SB 953 - Grunsky Permits the formation of unified county air pollution Chapter 104 control districts with fewer than all supervisors from each participating county sitting as the air pollution control board. # # # -2- Gray OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN LASE: Immediate Sacramento, California 95814 Ed Gray, Press Secretary 916-445-4571 6-7-72 #349 Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have been signed. AB 346 - Ryan Eliminates the Fish and Game Code provisions which Chapter 119 presently exempt the shooting of whales from prohibitions against the shooting of any game bird or mammal from a powerboat, sailboat, motor vehicle or airplane. The bill further makes it a misdemeanor with prescribed penalties to import into this state for commercial purposes, to possess with intent to sell, or to sell within the state, the dead body, or any part of product thereof, of any dolphin or porpoise. AB 419 - Burton Permits local governments to increase the number of Chapter 120 housing authority commissioners from five to seven and, if this is done, requires that the two additional commissioners be project tenants and that one of the two tenants appointed be over 62 years of age. The bill further provides that if a tenant commissioner ceases to be a tenant of the housing authority, he shall be disqualified and another tenant appointed to fill the unexpired term. AB 603 - Bee Amends the Alameda County Flood Control and Water Chapter 121 Conservation District Act to permit the sale of revenue bonds. AB 893 - Bee Repeals a special provision requiring consolidation Chapter 122 of certain elections of the Alameda County Flood Control and Water Conservation District. SB 399 - Grunsky Codifies various provisions relating to corporations Chapter 118 and money now found in the California Constitution which would be omitted should Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 6 be enacted by the voters. Governor Ronald Reagan today also announced the following bill has been vetoed. AB 70 - Z'berg Increases the required number of grand jurors from 23 to 27 in Los Angeles County, and from 19 to 23 in counties having a population of 6 million or less and 200,000 or more. The bill authorizes the impanelment of two grand juries in any county, one to inquire int all matters subject to grand jury inquiry, except public offenses, and one to inquire into public offenses. REASON FOR VETO: "The problems of restructuring California's grand jury system has been the subject of much recent discussion. Last year I requested Attorney General Evelle Younger to conduct a comprehensive study of the state's grand jury laws. As a result of this study legislation has been introduced which would improve our present system of conducting grand jury activities. "Assembly Bill 70, by contrast, addresses only one facet of the grand jury problem and would increase rather than resolve some of the basic objections which have been made due to the current system. "AB 70 would complicate the method prescribed by statute for the selection of grand juries, would require the impanelment of new grand juries in some counties every 30 days under certain circumstances, would prevent a uniform method of administering grand jury selection throughout the state, and would divide responsibility for the utilization of the grand jury process in criminal cases. - 1 - #349 "I feel that new legislation concerning grand jury selection procedures, incorporating the principle of random selection, should be part of a comprehensive revision of the grand jury system. Such an overall approach is included in Senate Bill 813, presently pending before the legislature. "Because of the availability of comprehensive legislation, and because of the deficiencies contained in AB 70, I am returning the bill unsigned.' ###### Walthall - 2 - OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN RELEASE: Immediate Sacramento, California 95814 Ed Gray, Press Secretary 916-445-4571 6-13-72 #358 Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have been signed: AB 487 - LaCoste Changes the salary ranges of various court attaches Chapter 136 of the Modesto Municipal Court. AB 697 - MacDonald Authorizes county waterworks districts to fix a Chapter 137 sewer service standby or availability charge. AB 813 - MacDonald Authorizes county waterworks districts located Chapter 138 within Ventura County to construct, maintain, improve, and operate recreational facilities in connection with any dams, reservoirs, or other works owned or controlled by the district. AB 837 - Belotti Requires a four-fifths, rather than two-thirds, vote Chapter 139 of board of the Sonoma County Flood Control and Water Conservation District to authorize issuance of revenue bonds, and requires public hearing before authorization of such bonds. AB 856 - Chappie Extends the maximum period over which a special tax Chapter 140 levied to pay the estimated cost of proposed work costs a county road division may be spread. The bill also authorizes a tax levy against all taxable land, rather than all taxable property, within a county road division. AB 905 - Johnson, H. Authorizes the Board of Supervisors of the Los Chapter 141 Angeles County Flood Control District to negotiate contracts for the performance of emergency work which it finds necessary to protect life and property from impending damage. AB 1053 - LaCoste Changes positions and salary ranges for various Chapter 142 court attaches for the municipal court district established in southern San Joaquin County. The bill also provides that the San Joaquin County ordinances relating to civil service and salaries apply to employees of such municipal court district, other than the marshal. AB 1142 - Russell Authorizes the Palmdale Irrigation District to change Chapter 143 its name to the Palmdale Water District. AB 1646 - Russell Permits formation of an improvement district in the Chapter 144 Littlerock Creek Irrigation District by action of the district board and approval of a majority of the voters of the proposed improvement district. The bill permits the sale of bonds to finance acquisition of existing improvements within an improvement district and construction of other improvements therein by action of district board and approval of voters. SB 143 - Grunsky Provides alternative time specifications for special Chapter 123 services and activities for mentally gifted minors which will qualify a program for mentally gifted minors for one semester of pupil participation for purposes of state apportionments. SB 187 - Grunsky Limits the provisions prescribing procedures whereby Chapter 132 parents and guardians of a district included in a unified school district may take action to continue in existence an elementary school otherwise proposed to be discontinued to districts with an average daily attendance of less than 15,000 or districts unified after July 1, 1963, or to schools which are five miles or less from another elementary school. SB 239 - Song Requires licensed contractors to include their license Chapter 124 number in construction contracts, subcontracts, calls for bids, and advertising. SB 245 - Way Revises the damage standards for plums and prunes. Chapter 133 #358 SB 247 - Coombs Adds minimum penalties to the penalties now prescribe Chapter 125 for violation of certain contractor licensing and performance certification requirements. SB 249 - Coombs Allows applicants who fail the certified public Chapter 126 accountant examination, but who are already registere as public accountants, and who passed one or more subjects included in the examination, to pass if they reexamine successfully, within a period of five years the subjects not passed originally. AB 328 - Nejedly Generally prohibits any local public agency from Chapter 127 selling watershed protection lands except pursuant to ordinance subject to referendum. SB 377 - Schrade Appropriates $280,000 from the funds available for Chapter 134 park acquisition in the Bagley conservation fund for the construction of a building within the Old Town Sa Diego State Historic Park to house a collection of early California artifacts and a transportaiion musem SB 410 - Bradley Changes the numbers and salaries of various court Chapter 131 attaches in the Santa Clara municipal courts. The bi also authorizes the judges of the San Jose-Milpitas Judicial District to appoint two traffic commissioner SB 492 - Schrade Adjusts salary ranges in the San Diego County Chapter 135 Marshall's office. SB 496 - Way Provides that an unlimited number of television Chapter 128 translators and an unlimited number of television channels may be provided by county service area in Inyo and Mono counties. SB 524 - Marler Authorizes methods alternative to burning, such as Chapter 126 landfill or other methods, for the disposal of waste flammable material incident to the processing of forest products. The bill requires that such disposa to be done in compliance with regulations established by the Director of Conservation. SB 604 - Burgener Extends the time in which fire protection districts Chapter 130 may file required documents and still have county officials levy and collect the district's taxes on annexed property for the 1972-1973 Fiscal year. # # # -2- Walthall OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN RELEASE: Immediate Sacramento, California 95814 Ed Gray, Press Secretary 916-445-4571 6-16-72 #365 Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation that will remove a proposed seven mile stretch of the Pacific Coast Freeway within the city limits of Long Beach from the state freeway and expressway system. The legislation, SB 230, authored by Senator George Deukmejian (R-Long Beach), was introduced at the request of the Long Beach City regionally Council and was not opposed locally or / in the legislature. "It has been a policy of this administration that local communities will be given a voice in the planning of transportation facilities. Removal of a portion of this state highway from the freeway and expressway system provides the opportunity for a cooperative review of whether a freeway or some other transportation facility is most appropriate. This concept was incorporated in last year's announcement of our Transportation Corridor Policy. "I recognize that the deletion of Routes 1 and 22 from the freeway and expressway system does not offer a solution to the transportation problems in the City of Long Beach. But I believe that this bill contributes to the climate of cooperation between the state and local governments that will lead to a solution," the governor said. # # # Strobel OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN RELEASE: Immediate sacramento, California 95814 Ed Gray, Press Secretary 916-445-4571 6-22-72 #371 Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have been signed. AB 184 - Powers Exempts from property taxation real property owned Chapter 151 and used by veterans organizations for charitable purposes. AB 1316 - Seeley Requires information on the certificates issued by Chapter 155 public weighmasters in the case of vehicles transporting baled hay to include the gross weight at both the initial weighing and the reweighing of th. vehicle and load after corrections, if any, are made in the load, and to include the full name and address of the seller and of either the purchaser or the broker of the hay as obtained from the driver of the vehicle. SB 203 - Coombs Deletes the requirement that the form of the school Chapter 145 district governing board ballot state that it is the official ballot provided by the county superintendent of schools. SB 220 - Teale Reduces from $294,000,000, to $155,900,000, the total Chapter 152 amount of bonds authorized to be issued, conditioned upon voter approval, pursuant to the Health Science Facilities Construction Program Bond Act of 1971, and provides for the submission of a second bond issue in 1976 in a total amount not to exceed $138,100,000 for such purposes. SB 230 Deukmejian Deletes from the freeway and expressway system thai Chapter 150 portion of Route 1 from Route 22 to Route 47 and that portion of Route 22 from Route 1 near Long Beach to Studebaker Road in Long Beach. SB 260 - Cusanovich Deletes the Education Code provision authorizing a Chapter 153 school district governing board to require that a certificated employee have served a specified perio of time before the industrial accident and illness leaves of absence benefits are made available. SB 373 - Way Provides that support payments collected from the Chapter 146 absent parent of a child receiving Aid to Families With Dependent Children, may as an alternative, be transmitted to the child's family, to be used for the child's support, rather than to the county department providing aid. SB 526 - Marler Amends provisions of the Milk Stabilization Law Chapter 147 relating to determination of retail store costs and wholesale quantity discounts. It provides that the cost of milk to retail stores shall include "any quantity discounts." Further, with respect to retail store costs to be considered in store prices for flui milk, the law is changed to cover costs of all "reasonably efficient" retail stores rather than representatives of "all stores." The bill also broadens the discretion of the Director of Agriculture to establish "particular" quantity discounts which are higher or lower than those sufficient to cover distributor costs. SB 762 - Alquist Authorizes the Director of General Services to let, f Chapter 154 not to exceed 50 years, property at Agnews State Hospital to a nonprofit corporation for purposes of conducting an educational and work program for mental] retarded persons. -1- #371 SB 1053 - Wedworth Deletes the provision which requires express Chapter 117 authorization of the Legislature before the balance of funds of a discontinued district retirement plan can be expended and provides for the establishment of an annuity reserve fund to provide a supplementary annuity for specified members of a local school district retirement system. SB 1216 - Burgener Authorizes the initiation of proceedings for over- Chapter 148 head electric and communication facilities conversion to underground locations pursuant to the Improvement Act of 1911 upon a determination by the local legislative body that the local government or a public utility has voluntarily agreed to pay over 50 percent of all costs of conversion excluding costs of users' connections to underground electric or communication facilities. SB 1485 - Short Deletes the requirement that transportation of pupils, Chapter 149 instructors, and other personnel to outdoor science and conservation programs cannot be in excess of a radius of 180 miles from the school or schools of the district. Governor Ronald Reagan today also announced the following bill has been vetoed. SB 42 - Dills Restores the responsible relatives' contribution scale in the Old Age Security Program to pre-Welfare Reform Act of 1971 levels. REASON FOR VETO: "One of the fundamental goals of our welfare reform program was to strengthen the role of the family as the basic unit of our society. Much of the accelerating increase in reliance on public assistance in our society has been a direct result of the disintegration of the family unit. One of the foundations of our American way of life is that family members accept moral and financial responsibility for each other before turning to government for help. Based on this principle, children with adequate incomes are expected to reasonably contribute to the support of their aged parents. Surely it would be unfair to expect all the taxpayers to foot the entire bill where there are children who are both financially responsible and able to help. Nevertheless, after the Legislature passed the 1971 Welfare Reform Act which established a revised payment scale for responsible relatives, it was found that the levels of liability in the new scale imposed hardships on some adult children. As a result, the Director of Social Welfare, through administrative action, initiated a reduction of the scale. The tremendous success of our welfare reforms have provided the funds necessary to offset the revenue losses which a reduction in the scale otherwise would have caused. In addition, the counties have been instructed to further reduce the liability on adult children in hardship cases. These adjustments will provide an effective means of alleviating financial hardship on contributing relatives. In view of the steps which the Director of Social Welfare has taken to resolve the problem, I do not believe Senate Bill 42 is necessary, nor would it provide a sound fiscal basis for operating the OAS assistance program. Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned." # # # # Walthall OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN RELEASE: Immediate Sacramento, California 95814 Ed Gray, Press Secretary 916-445-4571 6-26-72 #379 Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have been signed. AB 112 - LaCoste Requires every person who transports a live horse to Chapter 161 a slaughterhouse to provide such animal with adequate food and water. The bill makes a violation of this requirement cruelty to animals within the meaning of the Penal Code provisions prohibiting cruelty to animals. AB 353 Pierson Authorizes a workmen's compensation insurer to deposit Chapter 162 with the Insurance Commissioner specified investment certificates or share accounts issued by specified savings and loan associations, in lieu of cash or interest-bearing securities or approved preferred stocks readily convertible into cash. AB 393 - Russell Authorizes the governing board of Los Angeles Unified Chapter 163 School District to make expenditures from the cafeteria fund for the lease or purchase of vehicles used primarily in connection with a central food processing plant. AB 409 - MacDonald Specifies the offenses to be included in "good cause, Chapter 164 for the purposes of suspension of pupils by principal The bill reduces from 10 to 5 the number of schoolday for which a principal may, for good cause, suspend any pupil. AB 438 - Gonsalves Provides for valuation of storage media for computer Chapter 165 systems on the 1972 and 1973 lien dates and with respect to any storage media for computer systems subject to an escape assessment for any year prior to the 1974 lien date as if there were no computer program on such media, except basic operational programs. The bill is operative with respect to the 1972-1973 and 1973-1974 fiscal years. AB 560 - Meade Authorizes governing boards of school districts to Chapter 166 pay the costs of replacing property stolen from a school employee by robbery or theft while on duty. AB 634 - Badham Specifies that sanitary districts, operating pursuant Chapter 167 to the Sanitary District Act of 1923, may plan, as well as construct, reconstruct, maintain, and operate various systems, including water reclamation and distribution systems, and join, through joint powers agreements or through other means, with any county, municipality, district, or governmental agency in the performance of such functions. AB 657 - Thomas Authorizes the City of Avalon to adopt rules and Chapter 168 regulations regulating the size and number of vehicle on streets under its jurisdiction, and prchibiting the operation of designated classes of vehicles on such streets, if it is determined such rules and regulations to be necessary in view of the special traffic problems existing on the island. AB 679 - Porter Permits the Metropolitan Water District to issue and Chapter 169 sell revenue bonds. District voters must approve the issuance of such bonds. AB 1059 - Beverly Provides that proper expenses of annexation proceed Chapter 170 commenced under the law relating to annexation of territory shall, unless otherwise provided by agreement between the annexing city and the proponent of the annexation, shall be paid by the annexing city AB 1125 - Stacey Extends the time for filing required documents for Chapter 171 certain airport districts to enable counties to levy and collect property taxes for such districts for the 1972-1973 fiscal year. -1- #379 AB 1535 - Meade Requires a two-thirds vote on municipal utility Chapter 172 district bond issues. AB 1591 - Lanterman Authorizes school districts maintaining high schools Chapter 173 and continuation education programs to establish and maintain evening high school programs for minors on such days and during such hours as are determined by the governing board. AB 2059 - Chappie Permits the dissolution of the Altaville Sanitary Chapter 174 District and Altaville Lighting District, the detach- ment of territory from the Altaville-Melones Fire District, and the annexation of all such territory to the City of Angels to be effective for taxation purposes during the 1972-1973 fiscal year. AB 2304 - R. Johnson Revises collection procedure for certain fees for Chapter 175 waste disposal sites and for waste collection, processing, reclamation, and disposal services. The bill authorizes cities to collect delinquent fees or charges for garbage in same fashion as counties. SB 406 - Nejedly Authorizes the governing board of a sanitary district, Chapter 158 by resolution, to appoint the health officer of the county in which the district is situated as health officer of the district, subject to the approval of the board of supervisors. The bill requires the district to reimburse the county for the service of the health officer. SB 646 - Lagomarsino Permits the election board of a county to authorize Chapter 159 the county clerk, by a single order, to appoint election officers and designate polling places for each election to be conducted in the county during the year in which the order is made. SB 933 - Burgener Authorizes each county treasurer to make a temporary Chapter 160 transfer from funds in his custody based on entitlemer for the 1970-1971 fiscal year under Public Law 874 of the 81st Congress, to specified school districts as assistance in meeting their financial obligations 54 for the remaining portion of the 1971-1972 fiscal year SB 965 - Nejedly Allows a county board of supervisors to call an Chapter 157 election on the question of the formation of a county service area. Governor Ronald Reagan also announced today that the following bill has been vetoed. AB 557 - Z'berg Conforms the procedures for the election of municipal court judges to those currently used for the election of superior court judges. Reason for veto: "This bill attempts to conform municipal court electio procedures to those used in superior court elections. As such, the relatively simple procedures used for the election of municipal court judges would result in unnecessary complications and inequity. "This bill would contribute to the log jam in our courts because of the time delay in filling vacancies which might occur during election years. Moreover, some judges would be required to face election only a few months after they have been appointed to the bench Finally, no transition period has been included in thi. bill, and, as a result many judges would now face the uncertainty of not knowing when their term in office ends. "I can see no reason for adding confusion to our judicial election procedures. While this bill may be a well-intentioned attempt to simplify these procedure: in reality it can only complicate them." -2- Strobel OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN RELEASE: Immediate Sacramento, California 95814 Ed Gray, Press Secretary 916-445-4571 6-27-72 #383 Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have been signed: AB 230 - Keysor Prohibits any person from preparing, selling, or Chapter 183 distributing any term paper, thesis, dissertation, or other written material with the knowledge that it is to be submitted for academic credit by another person. AB 307 - Ralph Adds school-community advisory councils to the Chapter 184 designated types of organizations that may be afforded the use of public school properties for civic center purposes. AB 364 - Priolo Exempts from various requirements of the Real Estate Chapter 185 Law any person licensed by the Savings and Loan Commissioner to act as an agent of savings and loan association, when acting under authority of such license. AB 430 - Cline Excepts checks drawn by members of the Veterans' Home Chapter 186 of California on their own accounts from provisions specifying that any check drawn on any trust fund of Home and not claimed or cashed for one year shall be cancelled and deposited to credit of the Post Fund. AB 480 - Powers Shorizes county recorders to destroy specified Chapter 187 understen records. The bill provides for a special notice to be given to the Secretary of State prior to dest.. ying handwritten records, and gives him 90 days to request transfer of such records. AB 565 - Stacey Adds licensed vocational nurses to the list of health Chapter 188 professionals authorized to withdraw blood for the purpose of testing for blood alcohol levels. SB 243 - Way Consolidates provisions of the Vehicle Code which Chapter 176 grant registration exemption to various farm vehicles. SB 753 - Marler Makes certain state highway contracts subject to Chapter 177 specified Civil Code provisions relating to payment bonds. SB 760 - Bradley Requires the Insurance Commissioner to collect an Chapter 178 additional fee to reimburse him for costs incurred in handling dishonored checks in payment of a tax, fee, or penalty. SB 761 - Bradley Amends the Insurance Code provision defining club Chapter 179 agent to mean a person, other than the motor club itself, who acts or aids in any manner the solicitation, delivery, or negotiation of any membership or service contract, rather than a service contract, or renewal or continuance thereof. SB 809 - Grunsky Permits state agencies to employretired dentists who Chapter 180 are under the age of 70, to render dental services without reinstatement from retirement. SB 843 - Bradley Requires a person requesting policy information or Chapter 181 facts concerning a policy of insurance to file an application and accompanying affidavit with the Insurance Commissioner in duplicate, and authorizes the Commissioner, in certain circumstances, to mail, by certified mail, to the insurer or agent for service of process an order requiring such insurer to furnish such information or facts in the affidavit. - 1 - #383 SB 844 - Bradley Requires each individual life insurance policy Chapter 182 issued or delivered on or after January 1, 1974, to contain a provision that the policy is incontestable after it has been in force two years, except for nonpayment of premium or for specified supplemental benefits. Governor Ronald Reagan also announced today the following bill has been vetoed: AB 574 - Brathwaite Deletes that portion of Route 90 from Sepulveda Boulevard in Culver City to Route 11 in Los Angeles from the California Freeway and Expressway System. REASON FOR VETO: "I am taking this action because, for more than a year, the Department of Public Works has been cooperating with local governments and meeting with local citizens groups along the Route 90 corridor to study a transportation plan through this heavily developed industrial and residential area. The study involves a consultant (the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and staffs of the City and County of Los Angeles, and is multimodal in scope. The purpose of the study, in addition to identifying which mode or combination of modes can provide the greatest service, is to develop a systematic means of citizen participation in the planning and decision-making processes. "The Southern California Association of Governments is also completing a comprehensive regional trans- portation study scheduled for adoption in 1973. "Because of the obvious impact on other elements of the transportation system, I believe no action should be taken now which would impose constraints on the conduct of these studies. "Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned." ######## Strobel - 2 - OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN RELEASE: Immediate Sacramento, California 95814 Ed Gray, Press Secretary 916-445-4571 6-28-72 #385 Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that the following bills have been signed. AB 48 - Deddeh Specifies that it shall not be unlawful for a licensed Chapter 191 insurance broker to pay a commission to an agent or broker licensed by Mexico for referring to such California licensed broker a resident of Mexico who wishes to obtain a policy of automobile liability insurance to be effective in California, and such broker negotiates and effects such a policy for such resident of Mexico. AB 137 - Foran Provides that the minimum standard for the valuation Chapter 192 of fraternal benefit certificates issued from January 1, 1972, through December 31, 1975, may be 4 percent interest. 352 AB 353 - Briggs Provides that no insurer shall pay any person given Chapter 200 discretion as to settlement of claims under any insurance policy or surety bond, rather than only automobile or automobile liability insurance policies, a compensation which in any way is contingent upon the amount of settlement of such claims. AB 753 - Dunlap Permits the governing board of any school district Chapter 193 having trustee areas from which more than one member is elected, to provide, by resolution, for the stag- gering of terms of those members elected from such a multiple-member trustee area. AB 787 - Priolo Makes technical, nonsubstantive amendments to the Chapter 194 Insurance Code. AB 803 - Arnett Amends the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 Chapter 195 to provide that provision for determination of final compensation of a person with reciprocal retirement benefits shall be retroactively applied to every active and retired member and beneficiary who left service prior to October 1, 1949 and subsequently redeposited contributions. AB 829 - Beverly Increases the limit on expenses of organization and Chapter 196 promotion of domestic insurers from 10 to 12 percent of the total amount actually paid for the stock. SB 75 - Nejedly Amends the Statutes of 1867-68 relating to the Chapter 197 disposition of surplus town land trust funds by order of the Superior Court. SB 140 -- Grunsky Grants to designated state peace officers in the Chapter 198 field of corrections powers of peace officer when performing duties under the California Emergency Services Act. The bill also grants all state peace officers in field of corrections same status as peace officer members of California Highway Patrol and California State Police Division for purpose of obtaining any group insurance benefits available to such peace officers. SB 582 - Rodda Authorizes the formation of, rather than specifically Chapter 189 creating, the Sacramento Regional Transit District. The bill requires the transit district board, prior to adopting a budget, to make an affirmative finding that the proposed level of service in any city or county is commensurate with the level of tax or financial support made to the district by such city or county. -1- #385 SB 688 - Marler Permits the election required to authorize Chapter 199 an irrigation district to provide for sewage disposal to be held, in the discretion of the board of directors, only in that portion of the district proposed to be served rather than in the entire district. It permits districts to acquire existing sewage disposal facilities if authorized by such an election. The bill requires the ballot proposition in any such election to describe the portion of the district in which sewage disposal is to be provided and requires a special statement of ballot proposition as specified, in those districts required to obtain the approval of the local agency formation commission before providing sewage disposal. SB 965 - Bradley Authorizes the Insurance Commissioner to serve Chapter 190 specified notices by registered mail, rather than by certified mail, if the insurer is outside the United States where certified mail is not available. # # # # -2- Strobel FICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN RELEASE: Immediate acramento, California 95814 Ed Gray, Press Secretary 916-445-4571 6-30-72 #393 Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation by Assemblyman E. Richard Barnes (R-San Diego) and Assemblywoman March Fong (D-Oakland) designed to reduce the incidence of venereal disease in California. Earlier this year, Governor Reagan augmented the 1971-72 state budget by $238,000 and directed the State Department of Public Health to broaden its program against the spread of VD. Assemblyman Barnes introduced the legislation, which was part of the governor's program, appropriating the needed funds. In addition, the bill mandates that part of the funds are to be used by the State Department of Education to improve teaching methods in public schools to combat VD. Mrs. Fong's bill provides that school districts may teach venereal disease education courses, and requires that parents be notified when the courses are to be offered. Under the Fong bill, parents are also given the opportunity to examine instructional material used in the classes and the right to withdraw their children by written request. "The spread of venereal disease has become one of the major health problems in California," Governor Reagan said. "I believe the legislation that I have signed today will have a major impact on the problem, and VD will eventually be reduced to a much lower level. "This will not be accomplished overnight, but with effective programs in our public schools and the Department of Health, I think the near epidemic of VD can be ended." # # # Walthall OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN RELEASE: Immediate Sacramento, California 95814 Ed Gray, Press Secretary 916-445-4571 7-3-72 #394 Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today announced the following bills have been signed: AB 94 - Barnes Appropriates $238,000 from the General Fund to the Chapter 250 Department of Public Health for venereal disease education, and casefinding and followup. AB 189 - Cline Requires payment by the Los Angeles Community College Chapter 227 District of a claim of an original contractor, otherwise valid and collectible, who failed to file a payment bond, where such failure was the result of inadvertence or excusable neglect. AB 263 - Belotti Authorizes the board of directors of a fire protection Chapter 228 district which is elected, to submit to the voters the question whether the directors shall be elected by divisions. The bill also requires such divisions to be as nearly equal in population as practicable. AB 344 - Maddy Requires the county clerk to call and set the date Chapter 229 for holding a special election for the recall of a school district governing board member if the school district governing board fails to call the special election within 30 days after receipt of notification from county clerk of the sufficiency of the recall petition. AB 417 - Johnson, R. Provides that copies of the voter registration index Chapter 230 posted at or near the polling place shall be prepared for delivery and delivered to the county clerk as soon after the polls are closed as possible. AB 440 - Dent Adds, with respect to the qualifications for a Chapter 231 driving instructor, the requirement that the driver's license of such person not be subject to revocation upon any grounds which authorize the refusal to issue a license. AB 514 - Warren Allows Los Angeles County to negotiate new lease Chapter 232 agreements with the Southern California Symphony- Hollywood Bowl Association for the operations of the Hollywood Bowl and the Pilgrimage Theater without the necessity of advertising for bids. AB 538 - Wood Extends indefinitely the Fish and Game Code provisions Chapter 233 allowing the use of trawlnets, except midwater trawlnets, in designated area of Fish and Game District 18. AB 539 - MacDonald Authorizes the board of directors of a sanitary Chapter 234 district to authorize, by resolution, the district manager or other district employees specified by the board to sign releases, receipts, and similar documents in the name of the district. AB 7.12 - Foran Makes the Vehicle Code provision prohibiting driving, Chapter 235 parking, or stopping of vehicles or animals on designated public premises, unless in accordance with the conditions and regulations established by the governing board or officer thereof, applicable to such premises of a rapid transit district. AB 825 - Dent Specifies that school districts may enter into joint Chapter 236 powers agreements to provide property insurance. AB 863 - Russell Provides that notice of fire insurance policy Chapter 237 cancellation for policies in effect 60 days must specify the specific grounds of cancellation and be sent to the last known address of the insured. - 1 - #394 AB 916 - Hayden Requires that at least one, but not more than five, Chapter 238 proponents of a recall petition of school board members file their names and addresses with the county clerk at the time the petition is filed. The Election Code presently makes the same requirement with respect to the recall of state, county, and local officials. AB 961 - McCarthy Permits teacher members of the San Francisco City and Chapter 239 County Employees' Retirement System to make an irrevocable election to be covered only by that system or only by the State Teachers' Retirement System on June 30, 1972. The bill prescribes the procedure for such election and for transfer of funds and assets and determination of benefits. AB 966 - Dunlap Extends from June 30, 1972, to June 30, 1973, the Chapter 251 date by which cities and counties must adopt, prepare, and submit open-space plans to Secretary of Resources Agency. The bill requires, by August 31, 1972, adoption and submission to the secretary of interim open-space plan effective until June 30, 1973. It requires adoption of ordinances consistent with such plans by June 30, 1973, rather than January 1, 1973. AB 1047 - Ketchum Establishes $25,000 as the maximum amount for all Chapter 240 County revolving funds. AB 1119 - Badham Permits two or more existing coterminous improvement Chapter 241 districts formed pursuant to specified provisions of the California Water District Law to be consolidated into one improvement district, and specifies the procedure for such consolidation. The bill entitles bonds of a district to certification by the State Controller if the State Treasurer finds that there is a necessity for the accomplishment of the particular project as part of a regional plan and is of the opinion that adequate funds will be available to finance bond obligations. AB 1121 - Badham Amends the Orange County Water District Act to provide Chapter 242 that any water-producing facility excluded from the district replenishment assessment pursuant to prescribed procedures would also be excluded from the basin equity assessment and the production requirements and limitations applicable to producers. AB 1282 - Arnett Eliminates requirement for county hospitals and Chapter 252 teaching hospitals operated by the University of California to present itemized or per diem billings for services rendered to Medi-Cal beneficiaries in 1971-72 fiscal year, provided they submit such bills in manner prescribed by Director of Health Care Services, on a quarterly basis. AB 1.604 - Belotti Provides that the county shall pay the cost of Chapter 243 election on formation of a resource conservation district and be reimbursed the following year by a special assessment in the district. AB 1763 - Fenton Provides that in an action to enjoin violation of Chapter 244 certain false and other advertising laws, the court may make appropriate orders or judgments to (1) prevent use of practices which violate such laws and (2) restore to any person in interest any money or property acquired by means of such practices. AB 1816 - Stull Authorizes the superintendent of any county or any Chapter 245 school district employing 10 or more teachers, to hold local day or evening institutes or teachers' inservice meetings in lieu of annual teachers' institutes. The bill authorizes such institutes or meetings to be held within or outside the school district. - 2 - #394 AB 1863 - Ketchum Provides for escheat of money in the treasury of a Chapter 246 local agency or in the official custody of local agency officer, following publication of notice, afte: three years, rather than 10 years. The bill eliminates the publication of notice requirement in the case of items less than $10. AB 1902 - Monagan Authorizes protection districts formed under Chapter Chapter 247 63 of the Statutes of 1880 to dispose of real or personal property. AB 2070 - MacGillivray Extends for two years the Fish and Game Code Chapter 248 provision authorizing the taking of abalones for commercial purposes within one mile of San Nicolas, San Clemente, and San Miguel Islands. AB 2147 - Wood Revises the area for the taking of rockfish or Chapter 249 lingcod with drift gill nets and set gill nets in designated locations of Fish and Game Districts 17, 18, 19, and 20A. AB 2269 - Crown Extends from July 1, 1972, until April 1, 1973, the Chapter 253 requirement that advertisements and descriptive matter include the name and business address of the manufacturer that produced the finished dosage of any drug. SB 126 - Grunsky Requires every motorcycle manufactured and first Chapter 201 registered on and after January 1, 1975, to be equipped with at least one and not more than two headlamps which automatically turn on when the engine of the motorcycle is started and which remain lighted as long as the engine is running. SB 183 - Marler Permits the State Board of Forestry, upon a finding Chapter 202 of an emergency, to adopt temporary forest practice rules which will be effective for a period not to exceed 180 days. SB 208 - Schrade Permits vehicles to be equipped with independent Chapter 203 supplemental turn signals mounted on the rear of such vehicles. The bill also permits side lamps which flash in conjunction with a turn signal to also flash when the turn signals are used as a hazard warning light system. SB 299 - Marks Changes positions and salary ranges of various court Chapter 204 attaches of the San Francisco Superior Court. SiB 300 - Marks Makes changes in existing positions and salary ranges Chapter 205 of various court attaches of the San Francisco Municipal Courts. The bill also provides for a court systems coordinator. SB 459 - Carpenter Changes positions, qualifications and salary ranges Chapter 206 of various municipal court attaches in Orange County. SB 478 - Carpenter Expresses the legislature's intent to provide funds Chapter 207 for establishment of a school of veterinary medicine at a campus of the University of California in southern California. SB 504 - Lagomarsino Makes the Vehicle Code provision prohibiting driving Chapter 208 parking, or stopping of vehicles or animals on designated public premises, unless in accordance with the conditions and regulations established by the governing board or officer thereof, applicable to county parks. SB 546 - Way Authorizes the board of directors of an irrigation Chapter 209 district to call a special election on a proposal for a change in the number of divisions of the method of electing directors or both. The bill also permits, rather than requires, the district collector, upon the district assessment becoming delinquent, to collect the costs of publication of the list of delinquencies and notice. - 3 - #394 SB 606 - Burgener Removes the authority of the Department of Chapter 210 Aeronautics to lease a hyperbolic navigation system for commute aircraft use. SB 625 - Beilenson Provides, in any county in which more than one Chapter 211 employee organization represents the certificated employees of either or both the county superintendent of schools and the county board of education, that such employee organizations be represented by a single certificated employee council. SB 645 - Coombs Deletes, with regard to the authority of the board of Chapter 212 directors of the Crestline-Lake Arrowhead Water Agency to have certain work necessary in order to protect life and property done by force account without advertising for bids, a limitation that such protection be from impending flood damage. The bill limits applicability of bidding requirements for contracts for any improvement or unit of work in excess of $5,000 to contracts for the construction of any such improvement or unit of work. SB 706 1 Collier Specifies that each member of the Board of Chapter 213 Commissioners of the Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation, and Conservation District shall be elected by division. The bill permits incorporated territory in Humboldt County, in addition to cities of Eureka and Arcata, to be included in the district. SB 810 - Grunsky Prevents a person who obtains a real estate license Chapter 214 by fraud from gaining a vested property right in the license for a period of 90 days. SB 888 - Cusanovich Changes the duration period of driving school and Chapter 215 instructor temporary permits from 60 to 120 days. The bill allows the Department of Motor Vehicles to cancel such temporary permits when it has determined or has reasonable cause to believe that the application is incomplete or incorrect or was issued in error. SB 904 - Gregorio Makes a clarifying amendment to the Civil Code Chapter 216 provision relating to acceleration classes in deeds of trust and mortgages. SB 906 - Gregorio Provides that if legislative body of a city in San Chapter 217 Mateo County determines that property within the city has not been exempted from county taxes for fire protection, it shall by resolution so inform the county board of supervisors. The bill requires the county, upon receipt of a resolution, to determine the amount of taxes levied for fire protection on property within the city and to pay the city such levies. The bill also authorizes the county in such case to impose an additional tax on all property on which county taxes are levied for fire protection. SB 958 - Coombs Requires the board of a municipal water district to Chapter 218 either fill a vacancy on the board by appointment or to call a special election to fill such vacancy within 60 days after the vacancy occurs, rather than requiring an appointment to fill the vacancy, but providing for a special election if the appointment is not made by the directors within 60 days. The bill also deletes the authority of board to estimate district population by reference to the register of voters used at the last general election for the purpose of reapportioning divisions from which directors are elected. SB 1045 - Grunsky Provides that justice courts shall have original Chapter 219 jurisdiction of civil cases and proceedings in forcible entry or forcible or unlawful detainer where the rental value is $300 or less per month, rather than $125 or less per month. - 4 - #394 SB 1076 - Carpenter Authorizes the Military Department to exchange Chapter 220 specified lands with the Santa Ana Unified School District. SB 1217 - Burgener Authorizes a county board of education to which Chapter 221 specified duties and functions have been transferred by county board of supervisors, to contract to acquire real property or improvements as authorized by County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937. The bill further provides that county employees assigned to functions transferred to county board of education cease to be county employees on date of transfer and thereafter are to be paid from county school service fund. SB 1243 Coombs Establishes procedures for inclusion of territory in Chapter 222 improvement districts already formed within the Mojave Water Agency. The bill also establishes a procedure for exclusion of territory from improvement districts formed within the agency for purposes other than the issuance of bonds. SB 1280 Short Authorizes an employer to deposit wages or workmen's Chapter 223 compensation disability payments in the employee's account in a California bank provided the employee has authorized such deposit. SB 1300 - Way Makes technical amendments relating to the authority Chapter 224 of the Director of Agriculture, by emergency regulation, to establish standard containers and packing requirements for fruits, nuts, and vegetables. SB 1428 - Way Changes the name of the Agricultural Code to the Chapter 225 Food and Agricultural Code. It changes the name of the Director of Agriculture to the Director of Food and Agriculture. The bill changes the name of the Department of Agriculture to the Department of Food and Agriculture. Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today also announced the following bill has been vetoed: AB 812 - Ralph Provides that the Chairman of the California State Exposition and Fair Executive Committee will be elected annually from the membership of the committee, rather than appointed by the governor each February. REASON FOR VETO: "The present method of selecting the chairman has worked effectively for many years and there does not appear to be a compelling reason to change the system at this time. "Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned." ###### Walthall - 5 - OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN RELEASE: Immediate Sacramento, California 95814 Ed Gray, Press Secretary 916-445-4571 7-5-72 #397 Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today announced the following bills have been signed: AB 71 Fong Provides that the governing board of a school Chapter 226 district may offer units of instruction in venereal disease education. The bill requires that parents be notified when such courses are to be offered. Parents are also to be given an opportunity to examine instructional materials to be used in such classes. The bill further provides that a pupil is not to attend any class in venereal disease education if the parent makes a written request to that effect. AB 362 - Ketchum Deletes the requirement that the board of supervisors Chapter 260 in each county provide for holding of sessions of a justice court in every city not included within a judicial district in which there is a municipal court. AB 485 - Deddeh Requires the California Highway Patrol scales and Chapter 261 weighing instruments to be annually inspected and certified by either the Bureau of Weights and Measures of the Department of Agriculture or by a county sealer of weights and measures, rather than only by the Bureau of Weights and Measures. AB 495 - Foran Prohibits any person from knowingly driving a motor Chapter 262 vehicle which is towing any person riding upon any bicycle, coaster, roller skates, sled, skies, or toy vehicle. AB 727 - Chappie Allows public entities to apply each year, rather thar Chapter 263 prior to January 31 of each year, to the Department of Aeronautics for allocations of funds for acquisition or development of airports. The bill revises provisions relative to the expenditure of funds for airport and aviation purposes. AB 777 - Foran Provides for an exception to the Insurance Code Chapter 264 provision prohibiting a director of an admitted life or disability insurer from receiving compensation for writing or procuring insurance, or application therefor, or for payment of renewal premium or assumption of insurance by such insurer if the compensation does not exceed one percent of the insurer's net gain from operations or one percent of commissions on premiums for the preceding calendar year. AB 799 - Thomas Requires each manager of a professional boxer to file Chapter 265 a quarterly report with the State Athletic Commission showing specified information relating to expenses and purse for each contest in which the boxer participateć in California during the period preceding the report. AB 822 - Barnes Makes several non-substantive amendments to the Public Chapter 266 Employees' Retirement Law. AB 826 - Thomas Requires that a professional boxer who intentionally Chapter 267 hits an opponent with a rabbit punch or kidney punch be penalized by the loss of a point or fraction thereof. The bill requires the State Athletic Commission to discipline referees of boxing contests who fail to enforce the Commission's rules and regulations. AB 1308 - Bee Prohibits any person, rather than any dealer, from Chapter 268 selling a new or used motor vehicle subject to the Pume Air Act of 1968 which is not in compliance with such act unless the vehicle is sold to a dealer, or sold for the purpose of being wrecked or dismantled. - 1 - #397 AB 1447 - Mobley Validates certain allocation by the Department of Chapter 269 Aeronautics from the Aeronautics Fund to the City of Chowchilla. AB 2002 - Dent Expands the authority of the board of directors of Chapter 270 the Contra Costa County Flood Control and Water Conservation District to allow assessment of charges for use of district facilities, and to allow reorganization of the district's various drainage zones into broader drainage areas. It allows the district to provide, operate and maintain recreation facilities in connection with flood control works and improvements, and to charge for public use of these facilities. The bill also authorizes the district to install and maintain landscaping and to take other necessary action to mitigate environmental damage. AB 2004 - Russell Requires a licensed farm labor contractor to file Chapter 271 notification of change of address with the office of the Labor Commissioner, and provides that such address shall be his mailing address for purposes of receiving specified notices. SB 67 - Grunsky Amends the California Restaurant Act by extending the Chapter 254 requirements for hairnets, caps, headbands or other suitable covering which confine the hair to all employees rather than just female employees. SB 96 - Alquist Excludes state and federal funds received and expended Chapter 255 by a community college for grants to or employment of community college students, from the definition of "Current expense of education." SB 155 - Lagomarsino Includes vehicle inspection specialists within the Chapter 256 term "member of the California Highway Patrol" as used in specified sections of the Government Code relating to their attendance as witnesses or deponents in civil actions. SB 266 - Gregorio Includes eels among various designated fish, mollusks, Chapter 257 and crustaceans which may be taken under a sport fishing license from the James V. Fitzgerald Marine Reserve. SB 293 - Collier Authorizes community services districts to provide Chapter 258 and maintain public airports and landing places for aerial traffic. SB 1356 - Marler Allows concessionaries at units of the State Park Chapter 259 System to collect entrance fees to those units, retain a percentage to repay their cost of collection, and turn over the remainder to the state. ####### Walthall - 2 - OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN RELEASE: Immediate Sacramento, California 95814 Ed Gray, Press Secretary 916-445-4571 7-6-72 #401 Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today announced the following bills have been signed: AB 65 - MacGillivray Eliminates the provision of the Contractors License Chapter 273 Law requiring the automatic revocation of a license which remains inactive for more than ten years. AB 226 - MacGillivray Adds San Luis Obispo County to the eight Southern Chapter 274 California Counties now authorized under provisions of law which recognize the continuance of water rights relating to ground water under specified conditions. AB 241 - Powers Amends the Land Surveyors Act to authorize the Board Chapter 275 of Registration for Professional Engineers to appoint investigation committees of not more than five licensed land surveyors to investigate and report on claims of violations of the Act and serve as expert witnesses in proceedings before the Board resulting from such investigations. AB 296 - Johnson, R. Increases the season during which shooting is Chapter 276 permitted on a licensed pheasant club in Zone A by four days. AB 460 - Fong Amends the teachers' retirement law by removing the Chapter 277 30-day waiting period before an election or change of election of an optional retirement can become effective. The option will become effective when signed and notarized. AB 528 - Brathwaite Authorizes cities to use highway users tax revenues Chapter 278 allocated to them to provide relocation advisory assistance, and to make relocation assistance payments, rather than to pay only moving expenses, to displaced persons displaced because of the construction of city highways or streets. AB 540 - Mobley Provides an exception from the requirement that when Chapter 279 a combination of vehicles will not rest on the scale platform at one time, the combination must be disconnected and weighed separately, for weighing seed cotton for purposes of ginning when weights are obtained by weighing trailers not equipped with braking systems and used for other than sale of such seed cotton. AB 553 - Chappie Permits the governing board of the Yosemite Junior Chapter 280 College District to contract with the Department of Parks and Recreation for the cooperative operation and management of hotel, resort and food service facilities at Columbia Historic State Park. AB 853 - Chappie Permits the Department of Public Works or local Chapter 281 authorities to allow a vehicle to be equipped with snowtread tires on at least two driving wheels, as an alternative to a requirement of tire chains, when the weather and surface conditions at the time are such that the stopping, tractive, and cornering abilities of the tires are adequate, rather than permitting the department or local authorities to allow a vehicle to be so aguipped but prohibiting the use of such tires on Lay surfaces. AB 991 - Moorhead Repeals the provision declaring that a 1958 statute Chapter 282 relating to insurance company fees and charges shall not be construed to increase fees or charges paid by underwritten title companies. - 1 - #401 AB 992 - Moorhead Requires every application for a production agency Chapter 283 license to act as a corporate agent or broker to contain the names and addresses of all officers, directors, and stockholders owning 10 percent or more of the corporation's stock and requires written notice to the Insurance Commissioner of any changes, except address changes, of such officers, directors, and stockholders. AB 1141 - Russell Authorizes a state bank to invest up to specified Chapter 284 amounts in shares of the stock of corporations which are engaged primarily in civic, public, or social welfare activities. AB 1185 - Stull Authorizes the district board of the Rainbow Municipal Chapter 285 Water District to modify the improvement for which bonds have been authorized or issued pursuant to specified provisions if it determines that due to a change in conditions or circumstances the improvement generally described in the resolution of intention should be significantly modified. The board can issue authorized but unissued bonds or, to the extent the rights of bondholders are not impaired, expend the proceeds of bonds issued for the purpose of paying the cost of the improvement as modified, provided that the modification does not change the purpose for which the sale of bonds was originally authorized. AB 1645 - Russell Permits a state bank to pay a time deposit before Chapter 286 maturity if and to the extent necessary to avoid hardship to the depositor. AB 2270 - Thomas Deletes the requirement of approval by the Director Chapter 287 of Finance of any purchase or sale of investments for the Public Employees' Retirement Fund, and approval of an authorized securities list for such fund. The bill increases from four to five the number of members of the Board of Administration of Public Employees' Retirement System who must approve such purchases, sales, and securities list. AB 2323 - Knox Repeals certain provisions which allow transfer of Chapter 288 territory from one city to a contiguous city without a resolution of consent to transfer under specified circumstances and repeals a provision which authorizes approval of such a transfer without notice, hearing or election. SB 1149 - Walsh Requires, with specified exception, every passenger Chapter 272 vehicle registered in this state to be equipped with a front bumper and a rear bumper. ###### Walthall - 2 - OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN RELEASE: Immediate Sacramento, California 95814 Ed Gray, Press Secretary 916-445-4571 7-10-72 #406 Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today announced the following bills have been signed: AB 426 - Seeley Makes it unlawful to sell, purchase, harm, take, Chapter 301 possess, transport, or shoot any projectile at a tortoise (Gopherus), rather than making it unlawful to sell, purchase, needlessly harm, take, or shoot any projectile at a desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii). AB 471 - Maddy Requires that farm machinery repair shops, upon Chapter 302 request, give customers an estimate of repair costs. In addition it requires that all work done by a farm machinery repair shop including all warranty work, be recorded and described on the invoice. AB 497 - Ralph Authorizes California Horse Racing Board to establish Chapter 303 renewal periods, not to exceed three years, for licenses it grants to other than track operators and to establish a fee schedule, consistent with such different periods. AB 556 - Knox Provides that designated public leasebacks of local Chapter 304 agencies be implemented only by ordinance subject to referendum and which, if subject to successful referendum, or otherwise repealed, shall not be reenacted for one year. AB 583 - Deddeh Deletes the termination date for Financial Code Chapter 290 provision permitting industrial loan companies, as an alternative to other charge limitations, to contract for and receive charges not exceeding 1-1/2 percent per month on unpaid principal balance. AB 706 - Beverly Authorizes a city attorney to issue subpoenas when Chapter 291 acting as a prosecutor in a criminal case in a like manner as the district attorney. AB 716 - Belotti Authorizes reimbursement to a member of a board of Chapter 305 directors of a resort improvement district for travel expenses actually incurred in attending board meetings, not exceeding 15 cents per mile. AB 729 - Chappie Makes it unlawful to engage in parachuting as a sport Chapter 311 while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, narcotics, or restricted dangerous drugs, and makes it unlawful to operate aircraft under the influence of restricted dangerous drugs as well as narcotics or intoxicating liquor. AB 745 - Biddle Extends the deadline for designated parks and parkways Chapter 306 maintenance districts to file certain statements and maps required before such districts may levy and collect taxes. AB 747 - MacDonald Permits a county board of supervisors to authorize Chapter 307 the county purchasing agent to solicit and accept trade-in allowances for county surplus property valued at less than $10,000. AB 920 - MacDonald Makes clarifying and technical changes in the law Chapter 308 relating to the state civil service. AB 1358 - Dent Provides that the Contra Costa County Board of Chapter 309 Supervisors may credit county employees with accumulated sick leave in addition to service credit when computing retirement benefits. Sacramento County presently has this authority. - 1 - #406 AB 1426 - Dunlap Permits certain members of the State Teachers' Chapter 313 Retirement System to elect to become members of the Public Employees' Retirement System. AB 1507 - Lanterman Requires that all bonds and securities sold by a Chapter 292 joint powers agency, a parking authority, or a non- profit "lease-back" corporation be subject to competitive bidding. AB 2001 - Dent Authorizes a special district for sewage disposal in Chapter 310 a municipal utility district to borrow money and incu: indebtedness in anticipation of the sale of bonds authorized by the voters within the district. AB 2184 - Barnes Amends the Public Employees' Retirement Law to include Chapter 293 in the definition of "public agency" any nonprofit corporation whose membership is confined to cities, counties, districts or other local authorities. SB 168 - Walsh Increases the numbers of judges in the South Gate Chapter 294 Municipal Court District (Los Angeles County) from one to two. SB 284 - Beilenson Requires each county health officer to furnish to all Chapter 312 hospitals within the county copies of specified lists regarding family planning and birth control clinics located within the county in sufficient numbers as each hospital may need for voluntary distribution to abortion and maternity patients at the hospital. SB 407 - Gregorio Exempts property taxed for structural fire protection Chapter 295 within the county service areas from county property taxes imposed for the same purpose, commencing with the 1972-1973 fiscal year. SB 438 - Whetmore Deletes the requirement that every application for Chapter 296 transfer of a vehicle purchased from any person other than a licensed vehicle manufacturer or dealer be accompanied by a certified statement from the transferee stating the name and address of the person from whom he acquired the vehicle. SB 461 - Carpenter Changes the salary range, and position for various Chapter 297 court attaches appointed by the judges of the Orange County Superior Court. SB 630 - Roberti Makes a clarifying amendment to the Probate Code Chapter 298 provision relating to the admission of an uncontested will to probate where no subscribing witness can be found. SB 885 - Deukmejian Makes changes in salary ranges and positions of Chapter 289 various officers and employees of the Los Angeles County Superior Court. SB 920 - Lagomarsino Increases the salary of official reporters and Chapter 299 reporters pro tempore for Santa Barbara Superior Court and municipal courts. SB 1276 - Short Permits the California Board of Nursing Education and Chapter 300 Nurse Registration to impose limitations on the scope of practice or impose remedial education requirements as a condition of reinstating a suspended or revoked license. # # # # # # Walthall OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN RELEASE: Immediate Sacramento, California 95814 Ed Gray, Press Secretary 407 916-445-4571 7-11-72 #407 7-11 Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today announced the following bills have been signed: AB 37 - Lanterman Validates organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, Chapter 314 and bonds of counties, cities, and specified districts agencies and entities. Second Validating Act of 1972. AB 274 - Keysor Authorizes the board of supervisors of a county acting Chapter 315 as board of directors of a sewer maintenance district to borrow funds from, or to lend funds to, another sewer maintenance district, subject to the same terms and conditions as apply to the loans of county funds. AB 275 - Keysor Requires any money loaned by a board of supervisors to Chapter 316 a highway lighting district created under the Highway Lighting District Act for the benefit of a temporary zone therein to bear interest at a rate to be fixed by the board of supervisors. The hill requires any area of such district, or such zone thereof, included in a city by annexation or incorporation after such a loan has been made to continue to be taxed for its proportionate share of the unpaid balance of the loan. AB 444 - McAllister Permits a member of State Teachers' Retirement System Chapter 317 to receive credit for a full period of sabbatical leave upon payment of contributions, and makes it applicable for all sabbatical leaves which occur after July 1, 1956. It also permits a school district to pay both the employer and employee costs. AB 1269 - Beverly Includes within the definition of "common trade or Chapter 318 business," for purposes of group workmen's compensation insurance policies, specified operations in the transportation and warehousing industry. AB 1373 - Hayden Provides a method of organizing the financing of the Chapter 319 unemployment compensation program for classified employees. AB 1597 - Maddy Revises qualifications for partisan office with regard Chapter 320 to period of registration as a voter prior to nomination or election. AB 1677 - Knox Revises provisions relating to the office of county Chapter 321 controller in conjunction with that of county auditor. The bill also changes the vote requirement to create the office of county controller from unanimous to three-fifths, AB 1839 - Maddy Permits a redevelopment agency to pay to any school Chapter 322 district with territory located within the project area any amounts of money which in the agency's determination is appropriate to alleviate any financial burden or detriment caused to the district by that redevelopment project. AB 1840 - Maddy Authorizes redevelopment agencies to borrow money or Chapter 323 accept financial or other assistance from any public agency, in addition to assistance from the state or the federal government. AB 1842 - Maddy Makes technical amendments to the Health and Safety Chapter 324 Code provision relating to reports whi ch must accompany redevelopment plans submitted by a redevelopment agency to the local governing body. AB 1996 - MacDonald Requires cities and counties to include in their Chapter 325 annual street and road report to the State Controller a breakdown of street and road construction and maintenance expenditures between the amount done by force account and by contract. -1- #407 AB 1999 - Dent Authorizes the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors Chapter 326 to appoint a clerk of the board of supervisors in the same manner as other county officers are appointed. AB 2013 - Arnett Requires the holder of a proxy for purposes of voting Chapter 327 on: resource conservation district elections or signing resource conservation district petitions to be an individual 18 years of age or over or a corporation, partnership, or other legal entity. AB 2039 - Pierson Provides for the staffing and salaries for the Los Chapter 328 Angeles County municipal courts. AB 2146 - Townsend Provides that when two or more county sanitation Chapter 329 districts join together and hold joint meetings, they may, by joint resolution, limit the compensation of district directors who serve on the joint board to $50 for each meeting, not to exceed $100 a month. AB 2300 - Stull Specifically authorizes irrigation districts, county Chapter 330 water districts, and California water districts to disseminate information concerning the rights, properties, and activities of the district. The bill also authorizes the Helix Irrigation District to change its name to the Helix Water District. Acting Governor Ed Reicnecke today also announced that the following bill has been vetoed: AB 688 - Deddeh Authorizes any publicly owned vehicle operated by a marshal or deputy marshal of the municipal courts to display flashing amber warning lights to the rear while the vehicle is necessarily stopped or stopping upon a roadway for the performance of his duties, or is at the scene of a traffic hazard. Reason for veto: "The present practice of restricting the use of amber Warning lights to those types of vehicles, which by their construction or necessary operation would, themselves constitute a traffic hazard, has maintained the integrity of this type of warning device. In light of recent studies which have shown that indiscriminate use of flashing lights adds to congestion and confusion, and in con ideration of the duties performed by municipal court marshals, the need for such devices does not appear justified. "Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned." # # # # -2- Walthall OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN RELEASE: Immediate Sacramento, California 95814 Ed Gray, Press Secretary 916-445-4571 7-12-72 #412 Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today announced the following bills have been signed: AB 38 - Lanterman Validates organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, Chapter 337 and bonds of counties, cities, and specified districts agencies, and entities. The Third Validating Act of 1972. AB 225 - Lewis Permits county superintendents of schools, high school Chapter 338 districts, and unified school districts to establish and operate sheltered workshops or training centers for handicapped individuals and students with certain restrictions. AB 250 - Dunlap Permits kindergarten to be combined in one class with Chapter 339 a preschool program where, because of the small number of pupils, the establishment of kindergarten would otherwise be excused. The bill also provides that average daily attendance may be counted only for the kindergarten pupils. AB 1377 - Knox Makes several technical amendments to the District Chapter 340 Reorganization Act of 1965. SB 453 - Song Revises salary ranges and positions for various Chapter 331 officers and attaches in the Los Angeles municipal courts. SB 522 - Song Repeals two obsolete provisions of the Penal Code Chapter 341 relating to the oriental exclusion laws. SB 689 - Alquist Makes clarifying changes in the Education Code Chapter 332 provision requiring geological and engineering investigations of school sites. The bill also revises causes of possible earthquake damage to which specified engineering studies must be directed. SBI 935 - Deukmejian Renames the State Human Relations Agency as the State Chapter 333 Health and Welfare Agency. The bill makes money appropriated for support of the Department of Human Resources Development in the Budget Act of 1972 available for expenditure pursuant to the most recent amendments of the applicable federal law rather than pursuant to a prior amendment to such law. SB 1119 - Gregorio Allows a governing board of a school district to Chapter 334 transport a student or pupil in an emergency arising from illness or injury. SIB 1126 - Schrade Exempts from property taxation personal property of Clhapter 335 a nonprofit zoological society which satisfies the requirements of the welfare property tax exemption if such personal property is used exclusively for operating a ZOO or for purposes of horticultural display on publicly owned property. SEI 1408 - Stiern Repeals various obsolete provisions relating to late Chapter 336 filings of a statement and map or plat reflecting boundary changes by cities and taxing districts. It also repeals property tax exemption for nonprofit corporations for fiscal years 1970-1971 and 1971-1972. # # # # # Walthall OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN RELEASE: Immediate Sacramento, California 95814 Ed Gray, Press Secretary 916-445-4571 7-14-72 #417 Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today announced the following bills have been signed: AB 93 - Thomas Prohibits any air pollution district from adopting Chapter 359 regulations applicable to islands located 15 or more miles from the mainland coast which are more stringent than those provided for in specified Health and Safety Code provisions relating to open outdoor burning. The bill will permit the continued burning of waste material in single chamber incinerators on Catalina Island. AB 108 - Davis Requires the State Water Resources Control Board to Chapter 360 notify the Department of Fish and Game of any application for a permit to appropriate water, and requires the department to recommend the amounts of water, if any, required for the preservation and enhancement of fish and wildlife resources and to report its findings to the board. AB 123 - Dent Provides that the state Teachers' Retirement Law may Chapter 361 be known and cited as the E. Richard Barnes Act. The bill clarifies the funding language regarding the foundation support programs through school apportion- ment to provide that state assistance will be available to all employers to pay the employers' portion of the contributions for teachers' retirement. The bill also clarifies the relationships between the state Teachers' Retirement System and the Los Angeles Unified School District Retirement System on July 1, 1972. AB 181 Townsend Requires contractors on construction projects, Chapter 362 including public works, to maintain adequate emergency first aid treatment for employees. The bill defines the term "adequate" to be construed to mean sufficient to comply with the federal Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. AB 242 - Powers Provides for the issuance of temporary hearing aid Chapter 363 dispenser licenses to persons proving they were engaged in certain activities on July 15, 1972, rather than on the effective date of the present licensing provisions. AB 641 - Chappie Changes the expiration date of the California-Nevada Chapter 364 Interstate Compact Commission from the earlier date of the effective date of the compact or 61 days after final adjournment of the 1972 Regular Session of the legislature to the earlier of the effective date or 61 days after final adjournment of the 1974 Regular Session. AB 670 - Murphy Extends to firms in all branches of professional Chapter 365 engineering certain provisions of the Professional Engineers Act now limited to civil engineering firms which permit successor firms to use the firm names of their predecessors and continue to use the names of retired or deceased members in their firms names. AB 687 - Deddeh Eliminates the requirement of specified dwelling unit Chapter 366 minimums from provision of the Subdivision Map Act requiring dedication of school sites in subdivisions. The bill requires site dedication as necessary according to needs of public school service but provides for specified limitations on the amount of land to be dedicated. The bill also gives school districts 30 days from the date the requirement of dedication is imposed to accept dedication. It allows dedication at any time up to 60 days after filing of final map. - 1 - #417 AB 755 - Belotti Permits a housing authority commissioner to be an Chapter 367 officer or employee of the county or city for which the authority is created only if such officer or employee does not exercise powers or duties that may conflict with the exercise of the independent judgment required to carry out the purposes of an authority. AB 922 - MacDonald Removes obsolete language and out-dated restrictions Chapter 368 on the establishment and operation by the state Personnel Board of a pool of clerical employees to provide temporary clerical assistance to other state departments on a reimbursable basis. AB 957 - Johnson, R. Validates technical or procedural errors or omissions Chapter 369 in functions of local and state taxing agencies. AB 973 - Sieroty Makes it a misdemeanor to buy or receive general Chapter 370 relief vouchers without furnishing the service or merchandise for which such vouchers are issued. AB 1331 - Deddeh Requires that custodial or janitorial labor not Chapter 371 performed by employees of a public utility be performed under contract by lowest responsible bidder, provided prevailing wages be paid. The bill excepts employment of of janitorial or custodial service for 90 days or less. AB 1344 - Johnson, R. Provides for the declaration of 15 or 20 mile per Chapter 372 hour speed limits in public parks except on state highways. SB 5 - Nejedly Creates the State Solid Waste Management Board within Chapter 342 the Resources Agency. The bill requires the board to adopt by January 1, 1975, the state policy for solid waste management and the State Solid Waste Resource Recovery Program consisting of specified elements. SB 61 - Coombs Permits the hearing board of any air pollution control Chapter 343 district to require a performance bond to insure that any work required of a permittee to obtain a variance from air pollution control regulations be satisfactorily performed. If it is not accomplished, either the entire bond may be forfeited to the district, or the surety for the bond may have the option of (1) completing the work required, or (2) forfeiting to the district the amount necessary to complete the work, up to the face value of the bond. SB 389 - Gregorio Authorizes counties to require persons applying to Chapter 344 the tax collector for the separate valuation of an interest in property to notify the owner of the property. If the property is subject to the lien of improvement bonds, the county could require the filing with the bonding agency of a request for a division of the land and bond as a prerequisite to a separate valuation for tax purposes. The bill also requires the tax collector to notify the local planning commission of all applications for separate valuation and would authorize the county to prohibit such applications during the ten-day period preceding each tax installment delinquent date and during the ten-day period prior to June 30 of each year. SB 390 - Gregorio Specifies the time by which a person may elect to Chapter 345 pay delinquent taxes in installments. SB 423 - Carpenter Authorizes any school district to secure services of Chapter 346 an administrative adviser, eliminating provisions presently limiting such authority to specified large school districts. The bill also authorizes the governing board of any school district, including the governing board of a junior college district, to enter into contracts for a fee with the office of county counsel or district attorney, or both, to render additional services to supplement those that are customarily being rendered. -2- #417 SB 576 - Grunsky Includes community college districts in the Chapter 347 distribution of vehicle license fees. SB 591 - Behr Revises the seismic safety element of the general Chapter 348 plan required to be adopted by cities and counties to include an appraisal of mudslides, landslides, and slope stability. SB 911 - Lagomarsino Amends the funding provision of the 1971 Egg Chapter 349 Standards and Inspection Law. SB 1121 - Zenovich Provides, with respect to filing certain boundary Chapter 350 statements with the State Board of Equalization, that the city or district forwarding such statements to the tax or assessment levying authority for filing with the board shall accompany the statements with the necessary filing fees. SB 1188 - Nejedly Raises the cost of construction or repair that may be Chapter 351 done on a county birdge on a noncontractual basis from $500 to $2,000. Authorizes the board of supervisors or the county purchasing agent to let a contract covering both work and material, or purchase material and have work done on a county bridge by contract, without calling for bids, if the board estimates the work to be done is $10,000 or less. SB 1190 - Nejedly Permits sanitary districts to sell or otherwise Chapter 352 dispose of effluents or by-products from its treatment or disposal operations. The bill also authorizes sanitary districts to construct and operate pipelines for that purpose or for putting effluents to beneficial uses. SB 1205 - Bradley Requires that specified moneys held as fiduciary Chapter 353 funds by insurance agent, broker, or other specified licensees held in a bank account shall be kept in a trustee account or depository, rather than merely in a separate account. The bill also removes the authority of such licensees to commingle such fiduciary funds with their own even when the principal waives the segregation requirements. SB 1329 - Lagomarsino Requires fingerprinting of all applicants for a Chapter 354 real estate license. The bill also clarifies the definition of a "military licensee." It permits a licensee entering the military service to retain his license rights for a period of seven years, without paying additional fees. SB 1401 - Bradley Subjects fraternal benefit societies to specified Chapter 355 provisions of Insurance Code relating to policies of disability insurance. SB 1402 - Bradley Requires insurers issuing policies of motor vehicle Chapter 356 liability insurance to provide certificates of proof of ability to respond in damages described in the Vehicle Code. SB 1404 - Bradley Requires an insurer, which has, as a regular course Chapter 357 of conduct, sent renewal premium notices to an insured, to notify the insured of its intention not to send such notices in the future. SB 1488 - Marler Permits the maximum rate of the school district tax Chapter 358 in the Oroville Union High School District to be increased in the 1972-1973 fiscal year only by an amount required to recover losses suffered and not recouped in the 1971-1972 fiscal year due to failure to levy the full amount of a specified voted tax rate. ##### Walthall - 3 - OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN RELEASE: Immediate Sacramento, California 95814 Ed Gray, Press Secretary 916-445-4571 7-18-72 #424 Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today announced the following bills have been signed: AB 238 - Knox Provides that no tidelands or submerged lands of the Chapter 389 state or its grantees in trust may be incorporated into a new city except upon prior approval of state lands commission. AB 519 - Hayden Exempts from jury duty any mayor, member of a city Chapter 390 council, or person holding a position equivalent to a president or member of a legislative body of a city. AB 605 - Warren Provides that where a bond or undertaking is given Chapter 391 in an action or proceedings, other than a bond or undertaking of a public officer or fiduciary, the surety submits to jurisdiction of court. The bill authorizes and specifies the procedure for notice to and recover against a surety without an independent action. AB 653 - Cory Prohibits the sale or offering for sale of specified Chapter 392 new and used recreational vehicles and campers which are equipped with cooking and heating equipment unless the camper or vehicle is equipped with at least one portable fire extinguisher. AB 925 - Beverly Makes the Penal Code provisions regarding court Chapter 393 attendance as a witness outside his county of residence inapplicable where the subpoena is for the production of business records only and the personal attendance of the custodian of the records is not required. It also authorizes a person who is subpoenaed to appear in court to agree with the party at whose request the subpoena was issued to appear at another time or upon such notice as may be agreed upon AB 942 - Johnson, R. Requires notice to creditors relating to a bulk Chapter 394 transfer that is about to be made be published at least 10 rather than 5 days before the bulk transfer is consummated or sale by auction commended. The bill also requires notice by mail be given the county tax collector in the county where bulk property is located at least 10 days before transfer is consummated or sale by auction is commenced. AB 954 - MacDonald Revises the method of allocating the $88 million Chapter 395 inflationary cost increase included in the 1971 Budget Act and the $166 million included in the 1972 Budget Act for the same purpose. AB 1049 - Warren Provides for a $12 fee for compliance with a subpoena Chapter 396 duces tecum for designated medical records. The bill also authorizes mileage and per diem for the custodian of such records or other qualified witness when personal attendance is required. AB 1054 - LaCoste Specifies that records of notices and orders to Chapter 400 building owners of violations of housing or building laws which are violations of specified standards, and records of subsequent actions are public records. AB 1208 - Mobley Requires that refund payments be deposited into a Chapter 397 special fund administered by the city treasurer under the Municipal Improvement Act of 1913 if such payments are made pursuant to an agreement between the city and any other public agency or utility for works, appliances, or improvements financed by special assessments. The bill also provides that such payments be applied as a credit upon the assessment, as prescribed, and requires that such credits be applied only to the assessments levied for the particular improvements for which such refund is made. - 1 - #424 AB 1652 - Russell Confers second preference for Cal-Vet farm and home Chapter 398 loans, after wounded or disabled veterans, to those having been discharged within 10 years of date of application. AB 1923 - Knox Authorizes the board of supervisors of a county to Chapter 399 cause the lines separating a side path from a county highway to be located and marked by curbs, dikes, trees, or other physical delineations, as well as by stakes or posts. SB 34 - Nejedly Provides that the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Chapter 373 Development Commission may determine the boundaries of priority land-use areas within the 100-foot shoreline band around San Francisco Bay without the necessity of obtaining ratification for each change by the legislature. Such boundary changes must be approved by a two thirds vote of BCDC members. SB 156 - Lagomarsino Authorizes additional securities for use as security Chapter 374 for demand and time deposits of state money, including obligations of the United States, bonds, notes, and obligations of the Tennessee Valley Authority, revenue of tax anticipation notes, or revenue bonds, of the state or local agencies. SB 198 - Carpenter Authorizes a governing board of any school district Chapter 375 to establish and maintain a scholarship and loan fund. SB 441 - Bradley Excludes from the definition of a school building, for Chapter 376 purposes of construction of alteration in relation to earthquake safety requirements of the Education Code, an off-campus building not owned or being purchased by a community college district, when the predominate use of such building is by other than a school district or community college district, and the building is not reconstructed, altered, or added to at a cost exceeding $10,000. The bill also requires such buildings to be posted with a notice stating that the building was not constructed in accordance with prescribed earthquake safety standards for school buildings. SB 450 - Way Authorizes members of the Canning Tomato Advisory Chapter 377 Committee to be paid necessary expenses incurred in attending meetings of the committee. SB 486 - Coombs Authorizes municipal water districts to use the Chapter 378 Municipal Improvement Act of 1913 and the Improvement Bond Act of 1915, as well as the Improvement Act of 1911, for the construction of district facilities. SB 525 - Marler Extends from 45 to 62 days the time period for the Chapter 379 Director of Agriculture to make findings and place into effect Milk Stabilization and Marketing Plans and minimum wholesale and retail price orders for milk following the required public hearing or hearings. SB 593 - Zenovich Provides for setting aside an adoption where an Chapter 380 adopted child is mentally deficient or mentally ill rather than feebleminded, epileptic or insane, as a result of a preadoption condition. SB 599 - Alquist Amends the Physical Therapy Act by adding physical Chapter 381 therapy evaluation, treatment planning, instruction, consultative services, and the use of sound to the activities designated as within the definition of physical therapy. SB 670 - Zenovich Permits the parent or guardian of a pupil being Chapter 382 evaluated for placement in program for the mentally retarded or any category of the physically handicapped to be represented in the admission committee, if one exists, and to have such representative present additional material and assist the committee in its determination. - 2 - #424 SB 746 - Way Allows virus-free Meyer lemon plants to be tested, Chapter 383 produced, and sold and planted anywhere in the state. SB 1186 - Nejedly Provides, with respect to a proposed zoning ordinance Chapter 384 or an amendment to a zoning ordinance, that upon failure of the planning commission to act within a reasonable time, the legislative body of a city or county may require by written notice the planning commission to hold a public hearing and to render its report within 40 days. The bill provides that a failure to report shall be considered approval of the ordinance or amendment. SB 1327 - Lagomarsino Requires an application to lease public lands to be Chapter 386 approved or rejected by the State Lands Commission either within 180 days after receipt thereof or within 90 days after completion of the commission's environmental impact report, whichever shall occur later. The bill provides that in no event shall an application be held more than 270 days after receipt without approval or rejection by the commission. SB 1385 - Grunsky Changes the number and compensation of various Chapter 387 personnel of the Monterey, Carmel, and Salinas Municipal Court. SB 1403 - Bradley Prohibits any hospital service contract from being Chapter 388 entered into if it contains coverage for sterilization operations or procedures, and contains any disclaimer, restriction on, or limitation of, coverage relative to insured's reason for sterilization. SB 1325 - Lagomarsino Authorizes a recreation and park district to call Chapter 385 for a district election upon the issuance of bonds to refund any indebtedness, or portion thereof, incurred for the acquisition of lands and facilities. ###### Walthall - 3 - OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN RELEASE: Immediate Sacramento, California 95814 Ed Gray, Press Secretary 916-445-4571 7-20-72 #427 Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today announced the following bills have been signed: AB 191 - Barnes Authorizes a board of supervisors to provide a two Chapter 425 percent at age 57 retirement program for members of retirement systems established pursuant to the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937. The bill provides for mandatory retirement age of 67 for members receiving such benefit. AB 199 - Cline Increases limitation upon the period of time which a Chapter 401 school district may extend the privilege of using its buildings or grounds for public purposes from one to five years in the case of school districts maintaining a community college. AB 324 - Vasconcellos Increases the exemption from attachment and Chapter 418 execution for a housetrailer from $5,000 to $9,500 over and above all liens and encumbrances. The bill specifically includes mobilehomes in this exemption. AB 394 - Russell Extends the exemption from sales and use taxes of Chapter 402 water delivered to consumers through mains, lines, or pipes to water sold to an individual in bulk quantities of 50 gallons or more for general household use in a residence located in an area not serviced by mains, lines, or pipes. AB 578 - Johnson, R. Amends the Fish and Game Code to add "motor vehicle Chapter 403 or parts thereof" to those articles which may not be abandoned, disposed of or thrown away within 150 feet of the high water mark of the waters of this state. The bill exempts vehicles placed for purpose of preventing stream bank erosion by the property owner or tenant, or vehicles placed at an authorized refuse disposal site. Vehicles abandoned in violation of such provisions would constitute a rebuttable presumption that the last registered owner is responsible for abandonment and thereby liable for costs of removal and disposition of the vehicle. AB 677 - Badham Requires counties to furnish necessary quarters, Chapter 419 equipment, and supplies for airport land use commissions. It makes usual and necessary operating expenses of such commissions a county charge. The bill also requires approval of the board of supervisors before an airport land commission employs any personnel. AB 693 - Maddy Provides specifically that officers, managers, and Chapter 420 employees of a public agency who receive no compensation may be insured under a group insurance policy. AB 836 - Ryan Specifies that designated reports in connection with Chapter 421 the suspected abuse of minors be reported to local police and juvenile probation departments within 36 hours. The bill includes podiatrists and administrators of public or private day care centers and summer day camps among persons who are required to so report. AB 921 - MacDonald Eliminates State Personnel Board approval in the Chapter 411 granting of leaves of absence and also eliminates service in a foreign country as a requirement for leave. - 1 - #427 AB 982 - Fenton Provides that savings and loan associations may make Chapter 422 loans secured by any improved real property for a term of 30 years, rather than 30 years for certain residential property and 25 years for other residential property. The bill makes a number of other related changes affecting savings and loan associations. AB 1133 - Priolo Exempts from property taxation certain personal Chapter 412 property used by student governments at any campus of the University of California. AB 1802 - Knox States that the state, its agencies, and local Chapter 423 governmental agencies, and school districts, shall not negotiate any life or disability insurance, or certain annuities, through particular agents, brokers, or companies, rather than through a particular agent, broker, or company. AB 1845 - Maddy Provides that any pay increase that may be authorized Chapter 424 by a provision authorizing salary adjustments for court attaches in the Fresno Judicial District shall be effective only until the 60th day after final adjournment of the next succeeding Regular Session of the legislature following the effective date of such pay increase rather than that the section shall only remain in effect until the 60th day after final adjournment of the 1972 Regular Session of the legislature. SB 153 - Dymally Provides that if the members of the governing body of Chapter 404 a chartered city are nominated or elected "by" or "from" districts such districts shall be of equal population according to the latest federal census. SB 225 - Short Authorizes a county superintendent of schools, with Chapter 414 approval of the county board of education, to enter into an agreement to provide for the use of audiovisual curriculum materials, including equipment and apparatus, by nonpublic institutions of higher education and nonpublic schools when such materials are not needed by the public schools or county superintendent of schools. SB 339 - Gregorio Authorizes a mayor or chairman of a city council to Chapter 415 designate an alternate, who must be a member of the city's elected governing body, to serve on a city selection committee for a local agency formation commission, planning district or Bay Area Air Pollution Control District, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, or for a city selection committee in each county of a regional planning district, when he cannot attend a meeting of such committee. SB 635 - Dills Lowers the age requirement for taking the examination Chapter 405 and obtaining a license as a cosmetologist, electrologist, or manicurist from 18 to 17 years. The bill prohibits, on or after the effective date of the bill, a school of cosmetology to enroll a student who is not at least 16 years old. SB 690 - Alquist Permits any vehicle owned by a cable television Chapter 406 company and operated by employees of such company, when actually engaged in specified activities, to display flashing amber warning lights when necessarily parked on a highway or when moving at a speed slower than the normal flow of traffic. SB 886 - Deukmej ian Permits a testator to designate in his will a person Chapter 407 or persons having the power to designate an executor or co-executor, or successor executor or co-executor. The bill also deletes the Probate Code provision declaring void the authority of an executor to appoint an executor. - 2 - #427 SB 927 - Burgener Extends to all school districts the power to sell Chapter 408 at private sale property not exceeding $500 in value. The bill also authorizes disposition of property in a public dump if the board, by a unanimous vote, finds that the property is of insufficient value to defray the costs of arranging a sale. SB 955 - Lagomarsino Authorizes the Ventura County Flood Control Chapter 416 District to acquire, install, construct and maintain recreational facilities on property owned by the district immediately adjacent to a flood control project. A limit of 10 percent is set as the total expenditure for such purposes. SB 967 - Bradley Provides that the governing body of a city shall call Chapter 409 an election for charter commissioners not less than 75 nor more than 90 days from the date of its vote verifying the petition. It also provides the petitions for amendment must be filed not less than 90 days prior to a statewide general election and further provides that the petition may not be filed more than one year prior to the date in which the first signature was affixed. SB 1199 - Bradley Declares that, when a building or structure is used Chapter 410 to house either ambulatory or nonambulatory persons, or both, and an automatic fire sprinkler system, approved by the State Fire Marshal, has been installed an automatic fire alarm system need not also be installed in the same building or structure. SB 1379 - Grunsky Permits nonprofit educational institutions, including Chapter 417 the University of California, the California State Universities and Colleges and local community colleges, to become members of nonprofit corporations which maintain a common trust fund. SB 1409 - Stiern Provides that community services districts and public Chapter 413 utility districts may annex noncontiguous unincorporated territory. # # # # # # Walthall - 3 - OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN RELEASE: Immediate Sacramento, California 95814 Ed Gray, Press Secretary 916-445-4571 7-20-72 #428 Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today announced that he has intentionally allowed a bill to become law without his signature. The bill, SB 1452 (Moscone D-SF), puts Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 72 on the November ballot which would permit school distric bonds to be issued on approval of a simple majority, rather than two- thirds, of all votes cast for bonds to repair, reconstruct or replace school buildings in compliance with the Field Act. Without this bill, the Amendment would not go on the ballot until June of 1974. "I decided not to sign this bill because my signature could be interpreted as approving something to which I am definitely opposed. However, I am in favor of allowing the people to decide this issue as soon as possible," Reinecke said. "A veto would delay a decision on the critical issue of bonds to finance repairs for schools that may be damaged in earthquakes until 1974.' The Field Act sets minimum earthquake safety standards for schools which must be met by school districts by 1975. Reinecke said that waiting until 1974 to resolve this issue would seriously hamper attempts to meet the requirements of the act six months later making it impossible to bring them up to specification and causing them to be abandoned. Reinecke doubted that the amendment would pass. "Any reduction of the two-thirds voting requirement can perpetuate the problem of rising property taxes" Reinecke said. "The two thirds vote requirement should not be modified for any type of bond issue at a time when increasing property taxes are a serious problem. In all probability, any decrease in the vote requirement will result in more bonds being voted, and the resulting lien upon property can only mean higher taxes." Article 4, Section 10 (a) of the California Constitution provide that a bill presented to the governor that is not returned after 12 days becomes a statute. Midnight Wednesday, July 20, was the last day. # # # # # Vorpahl OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN RELEASE: Immediate Sacramento, California 95814 Ed Gray, Press Secretary 916-445-4571 7-21-72 #430 Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today announced the following bills have been signed: AB 429 - Lewis Prohibits driving of any vehicle upon which is Chapter 432 mounted a camper, which contains passengers, unless there is at least one unobstructed exit capable of being opened from both the interior and exterior of such camper. AB 439 - LaCoste Authorizes the Department of General Services to Chapter 433 lease approximately 30 acres of property, at the former Modesto State Hospital, to the Yosemite Junior College District for a period not to exceed 66 years. AB 602 - Bee Provides that the load upon the front of a vehicle ma Chapter 434 extend four rather than three feet if the load is composed solely of vehicles. AB 690 - Russell Repeals various obsolete and superseded provisions Chapter 435 of the Education Code. AB 901 - Powers Deletes provisions requiring location work to be Chapter 436 performed on lode and placer mining claims and authorizing the sinking of shafts, digging, or drilling by the relocator of a lode claim as a means of establishing relocation. The bill requires the affidavit of labor performed or improvements made upon a mining claim to set forth prescribed information concerning the location of the claim. The bill also makes it a misdemeanor to willfully make a false statement with respect to any mining claim document. AB 913 - Hayden Allows the Department of Public Works to charge for Chapter 437 the movement of dangerous articles across toll bridges under permit. AB 915 - Hayden Establishes a rebuttable presumption that the first Chapter 438 person to file either a fictitious business name statement or articles of incorporation, or to qualify as a foreign corporation, has, under specified conditions, the exclusive right to use the corporate or fictitious business name as a trade name, or to use any confusingly similar trade name, in the state or in a county, as case may be. AB 1023 - Johnson, H. Provides procedure whereby a testator may make Chapter 439 bequests of money, securities, life or endowment policies, and annuity contracts to minors and have such requests held subject to the provisions of the California Uniform Gifts to Minors Act. AB 1026 - Johnson, H. Specifies venue for court proceedings where Chapter 440 petitions are filed under the California Uniform Gifts to Minors Act. AB 1033 - Townsend Establishes the residence requirement now provided Chapter 441 for radial and contract carriers for highway common carriers, petroleum contract carriers, cement contract carriers, and household goods carriers. AB 1074 - Briggs Requires a list specifying ingredients, in order of Chapter 443 predominance by weight, on wrapped loaves of bread sold through retail outlets. The bill exempts bread sold on the premises where it is baked from such requirement. The bill also exempts from such requirements ingredients constituting less than 1 percent the weight of the bread. AB 1088 - Biddle Raises the limits of the joint and several liability Chapter 442 of a minor and the persons having custody and control of him for any act of willful misconduct of the minor which results in injury or death to another person or in injury to property of anther from $1,000 to $2,00 - 1 - #430 AB 1137 - Z'berg Permits any person interested in a probate estate, Chapter 444 as well as the executor or administrator, to petition for a determination that two or more persons died simultaneously. AB 1339 - Deddeh Permits the governing board of the San Diego Unified Chapter 445 School District which maintains a community college to call an election to determine whether the members shall continue to serve on a coterminous unified school district governing board. AB 1351 - Powers Permits the Public Utilities Commission to suspend Chapter 446 the permit of a highway permit carrier, at its request for no longer than one year, rather than for a definite time, and prohibits granting such suspensions consecutively. AB 1380 - Knox Deletes the reference to investment contract with Chapter 447 respect to the exemption of the offering and sale of undivided interests in land for which a permit has been issued as prescribed from the definition of "subdivided lands" or "subdivisions" in the Subdivision Map Act. AB 1826 - McAlister Authorizes a traffic hearing officer of the juvenile Chapter 448 court to hear and dispose of cases where a minor is charged with failing to observe a notification that a state highway is closed or its use restricted or rules or regulations of a bridge and highway districts for the control of traffic and parking. AB 1905 - Beverly Renumbers a Penal Code provision relating to the Chapter 449 forgery of letters. AB 2099 - Meade Adds a provision to the Penal Code to permit the Chapter 450 court to order a new trial when a phonographic record of the trial is not available. The bill makes the same remedy available to the defendant in criminal matters as is presently available in civil matters. AB 2355 - Murphy Authorizes local public entities who were self- Chapter 451 insured employers under Workmen's Compensation Act of 1913 to provide specified medical and related treatment and supplies to injured former employees of such entities who were covered by such act. SB 98 - Grunsky Adds pupils enrolled in development centers for the Chapter 427 handicapped to those exceptional children for which facilities may be constructed under the provisions of the State School Building Aid Law of 1952. The bill limits eligible districts to those which receive state funds for the operation of such centers. The bill further provides that the State Allocation Board establish guidelines and procedures to be utilized in determining allowances with respect to facilities and equipment. SB 137 - Carrell Requires the trustees of the California State Chapter 428 University and Colleges to authorize a maximum of no less than 24 semester units in extension course credit to be applied toward a baccalaureate degree, provided that the number of credit units accepted from an accredited institution does not exceed the maximum number accepted at such institution. SB 539 - Alquist Requires school districts to give 30 days' notice to Chapter 429 classified school employees when subject to layoff for lack of work or lack of funds. SB 878 - Deukmeji Defines "basic work station" in industrial education. Chapter 452 - 2 - #430 SB 1046 - Moscone Changes the salary of various official phonographic Chapter 430 reporters, official reporters, and the per diem rate of official phonographic reporters pro tempore in Marin, Sacramento, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, San Bernardino, Ventura, and San Diego Counties. SB 1282 - Rodda Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Education, Chapter 431 Government, Penal and Vehicle Codes. Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today also announced the following bill has been vetoed: SB 499 - Alquist Permits academic and nonacademic employees of state colleges to inspect their personnel file. The employee is also given the right to review and comment upon any derogatory information entered in his file. REASON FOR VETO: "I àm vetoing this bill at the request of the State College Trustees and the Chancellor. They do not argue against the intent of SB 499 which requires open personnel files; but have very serious problems with the approach which this legislation would impose. "This bill touches on a particularly sensitive area with respect to the records for academic personnel because of the traditional peer judgment process and the widespread use of faculty committees in the appointment, retention and tenure process. I share the Trustees' concern that the willingness of faculty members to render objective and meaningful evaluations of their fellows could be impaired by the requirement that personnel files be open on each campus. "The Trustees currently have authority in this area, and I believe these provisions should not be mandated upon them. The Trustees employ about 25,000 people, and I think these types of changes should be part of a positive, total, personnel management program adopted by the Trustees. Each state University or college campus has changing needs as they mature. This bill would deprive the system of the flexibility required for effective personnel practices. "Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned." ##### Walthall - 3 - OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN RELEASE: Immediate Sacramento, California 95814 Ed Gray, Press Secretary 916-445-4571 7-31-72 #441 Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have been signed: AB 92 - Greene, L. Specifies that the $30 million on revenue from income Chapter 500 tax withholding allocated to the School Building Safety Fund may be used for supplemental building aid loans to districts which cannot generate enough tax revenue needed to meet Field Act requirements. The bill also provides that in the event that less than $30 million is used for the above purpose, the State Allocation Board may apportion the remainder as grants to other districts which the board determines have the greatest need. AB 312 - MacGillivray Prohibits the sale of any synthetic fiber rope or Chapter 466 webbing strap material that has been marked to indicate certification of the California Highway Patrol, when, in fact, such synthetic material has not been certified by the department. The bill also provides that the California Highway Patrol shall adopt and enforce regulations governing the transportation of baled straw, and that it is unlawful to violate such regulations. AB 442 - Biddle Deletes the requirement that each director of a Chapter 467 memorial district must be a veteran. AB 513 - MacGillivray Authorizes the Fish and Game Commission to regulate Chapter 468 the taking, collecting, harvesting, gathering, or possession of kelp for purposes other than profit. AB 520 - Hayden Authorizes county superintendents of schools, with Chapter 469 the approval of county boards of education, to establish revolving cash funds. AB 589 - Priolo Reduces the amount of the Health Science Facilities Chapter 470 Construction Program Bond Act of 1971, which will appear on the November ballot, from $294 million to $155.9 million. AB 600 - McAlister Makes various technical amendments to the Education Chapter 471 Code. AB 616 - Brown Adds a provision to the Contractors License Law Chapter 472 requiring contractors to include in all written contracts with respect to which they are a prime contractor a statement that contractors must be licensed and are regulated by the Contractors License Board and that any questions concerning a contractor may be referred to the Registrar of Contractors at his Sacramento office. AB 623 - Biddle Increases the salary ranges of various court attaches Chapter 473 in the Riverside, Corona and Desert Judicial Districts of the Riverside County Municipal Court. AB 642 - Chappie Repeals the Downed Aircraft Search and Location Act. Chapter 474 AB 692 - Maddy Gives the Department of Motor Vehicles authority to Chapter 475 refuse, suspend, or revoke a vehicle salesman's license for the same defined acts involving misleading advertising relating to vehicle dealers. AB 718 - Porter Provides that, subject to rules and regulations of the Chapter 476 Savings and Loan Commissioner, savings and loan associations may make amortized loans on security of improved commercial real property in an amount not in excess of 90 percent of appraised value of such property if association takes as additional security the assignment of long-term lease. The bill provides that such loans may be made for term of not to exceed 31 years. - 1 - #441 AB 782 - Warren Requires the Division of Industrial Safety to Chapter 477 promulgate safety orders directing owners and operators of aerial passenger tramways to report to the division, known incidents of personal injury resulting from the maintenance, operation or use of such tramway where such injury requires medical service beyond ordinary first aid treatment. AB 784 - Warren Requires the Division of Industrial Safety to inspect Chapter 478 aerial passenger tramways (ski lifts) at least two times each year rather than the single annual inspection currently required. The bill also authorizes the Division to fix and collect fees to recover the actual cost of conducting the inspections, AB 785 - Warren Extends the Division of Industrial Safety's Chapter 479 jurisdiction to cover all aerial passenger tramways (ski lifts) whether in places of employment or not. AB 786 - Warren Requires the Division of Industrial Safety to Chapter 519 establish standards for the qualification of persons engaged in the operation of aerial passenger tramways (ski lifts). AB 895 - Bee Extends to all counties maintaining a retirement Chapter 520 system under the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 the provision authorizing transfer of excess interest earnings, within specified limits, to the county advance reserve. The advance reserve is available for liability for retirement benefits and may be made available by the retirement board for payment of premiums for health benefit plans, medicare, payment of accrued sick leave at retirement. AB 943 - Arnett Makes clarifying amendments to the Penal Code Chapter 501 provisions relating to the licensing of dealers who sell concealable firearms. AB 983 - Brathwaite Permits an alternative method of computing minimum Chapter 480 schoolday for junior high schools and high schools, utilizing an averaging scheme based on 10 consecutive schooldays, the use of which may not result in any increase of state apportionments. AB 1228 - Meade Authorizes county boards of supervisors, by ordinance, Chapter 502 to provide for the spread of tax payments on property tax increases caused by errors and on newly discovered property that escaped assessment due to no fault of the assessee under certain circumstances for a period not to exceed three years. AB 1330 - Deddeh Permits policies of disability insurance, contract Chapter 522 for a nonprofit hospital service plan, self-insured employee benefit plans, and hospital service plans to provide, where feasible, that benefits for confinement in extended care facilities may be provided on such terms and conditions as the parties agree on. AB 1374 - Hayden Makes it a misdemeanor for any person to install, Chapter 503 sell, offer for sale, or advertise, or to represent any device as a motor vehicle pollution control device unless that device has been certified or accredited by the Board of Air Resources. The bill also makes it a misdemeanor to offer for sale, rather than to display, a motor vehicle air pollution control device as a certified or accredited device that is not certified or accredited by the Board. AB 1378 - Knox Changes the judicial districts and the number of Chapter 504 judges in the Contra Costa County municipal courts. The bill also changes the salary ranges and positions of various court attaches in such municipal court districts. - 2 - #441 AB 1409 - Foran Amends provisions of the Revenue and Taxation Code Chapter 481 and the Streets and Highways Code to require the transfer of funds from the Motor Vehicle Fuel Account and the Highway Users Tax Account by the 12th of each month rather than by the 10th of each month. AB 1415 - Arnett Authorizes the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors Chapter 505 to appoint two additional housing authority commissioners, one of whom shall be a project tenant and the other who shall be a senior citizen over 62 years of age who may be a tenant. AB 1502 - Duffy Provides for the State Fire Marshal to adopt such Chapter 482 regulations and standards as he may determine to be necessary to control the quality of installation of automatic fire sprinkler systems and fire alarm systems. The bill also prohibits the sale or distribution of such systems unless the system or device has been approved and listed by the State Fire Marshal. AB 1589 - Lanterman Specifically includes summer sessions, as well as Chapter 506 summer terms and quarters, within the academic year for which state competitive scholarships may be awarded. AB 1766 - Ryan Makes portions of investigations of original and Chapter 507 supplemental allegations which constitute the basis for allegations of misconduct of a teaching credential applicant or ceredential holder open to inspection and copying by such employee and his attorney, rather than open to inspection by such employee. AB 1787 - MacGillivray Increases the minimum size limit for black abalone Chapter 483 taken for commercial purposes and for lobster bait in the Channel Islands area from 5 to 5½ inches. AB 1843 - Maddy Specifies that the California dog-face butterfly Chapter 521 (Zerene eurydice) is the official state insect. AB 1898 - Dent Validates certain final apportionments of state school Chapter 484 building aid based on conditional apportionments made prior to the 61st day after final adjournment of the 1972 Regular Session of the legislature. AB 1910 - Barnes Provides, with respect to specified local safety and Chapter 485 law enforcement members, of the Public Employees' Retirement System that provision for reduction of percentage of final compensation based on service under Social Security shall cease to be effective when Social Security coverage is terminated. AB 1928 - Knox Reduces the minimum number of persons required to Chapter 486 execute articles of incorporation and the number of directors for very closely held corporations. The bill also provides for the appointment of provisional directors of all corporations by the superior court upon petition of another director. AB 1960 - Ketchum Defers retirement under a county retirement system Chapter 487 for disability retirement until expiration of compensated sick leave, unless the member consents to earlier retirement. The bill also provides that where an application has been delayed by inability to determine the permanency of a member's incapacity that the filing date shall be deemed to be the date following the day for which the member last received regular compensation. AB 2016 - Sieroty Includes hospitals, as defined, within the provisions Chapter 488 requiring certain buildings and other structures constructed in this state with private funds to adhere to specified requirements regarding access to buildings by physically handicapped persons. - 3 - #441 AB 2036 - Maddy Includes involuntary commitment as a narcotics addict Chapter 489 as basis for enrollment of an attorney as an inactive member of the State Bar. The bill further provides that an attorney shall be enrolled as inactive member because of mental infirmity or illness or addiction to intoxicants or drugs, if he is either unable or fails to perform his duties competently or is unable to practice law without danger to the interests of his clients and the public, rather than both. AB 2043 - Pierson Provides that a deed of trust is not to be accepted Chapter 508 for recording unless it contains a request by the trustor that a copy of any notice of default and a copy of any notice of sale be mailed to the trustor at an address specified in the deed of trust. The bill also applies to a mortgage with power of sale. AB 2048 - Maddy Makes a technical correction in the procedures which Chapter 509 redevelopment agencies must follow in submitting redevelopment plans to the local governing body for approval. AB 2096 - Foran Authorizes local authorities to adopt rules and Chapter 490 regulations by ordinance or resolution regarding the operation of bicycles and, under prescribed conditions electric carts by persons who are physically disabled or 50 years of age or older, on the public sidewalks. AB 2097 - Foran Prohibits private towing of vehicles on toll bridges, Chapter 510 or at toll highway crossings, or approaches thereto where such service is maintained by Department of Public Works unless authorized to do so. The bill requires the California Toll Bridge Authority to establish and enforce maximum towing fee requirements. AB 2180 - Cline Provides that the governing board of a community Chapter 491 college may change the name of the district or of any of the community colleges maintained by the district. AB 2320 - Knox Authorizes a community redevelopment agency to Chapter 511 recommend a change in the boundaries of the project area to add land to such area. SB 104 - Richardson Appropriates $5,000,000 for salary increases for Chapter 512 specified classes of employees in Departments of Corrections and the Youth Authority. SB 108 - Nejedly Authorizes the board of directors of the San Francisco Chapter 513 Bay Area Rapid Transit District to declare, by resolution, that land within the county of San Mateo of which the district is the sole owner, and upon which is located works and facilities of the district, is within the district. The bill is intended to remove San Mateo County power to tax BART property located in that county. BART is presently paying $31,000 a year in property taxes to San Mateo County. SB 127 - Collier Provides that property shall be assessed as open-space Chapter 493 lands for the 1972-73 fiscal year if such property satisfies the requirements therefor by May 25, 1972, rather than March 1, 1972; provided that prior to March 1, 1972, either the land was included in a submitted proposal to establish an agricultural preserve or the matter of accepting an open-space easement or scenic restriction had been referred to the planning commission or planning department. 3B 169 - Lagomarsino Provides that board members of the Montalvo Chapter 494 Municipal Improvement District shall receive the same compensation as board members of sanitary districts. - 4 - #441 SB 176 - Carpenter Authorizes school districts to increase the general Chapter 495 limitation on total amount of bonds issued from 5 percentto 7 percent of the taxable property of the district. The increase must be approved by a two- thirds vote. SB 201 - Coombs Prohibits a candidate for a district office under the Chapter 453 Uniform District Election Law from withdrawing his nomination papers filed with the county clerk after 5 p.m. on the 54th day prior to the general district election. SB 232 - Coombs Requires the County Clerk or County Registrar of Chapter 514 Voters to publish the notice of school district elections and the notice to file declarations of candidacy and nominations of candidates for election to school district governing boards. SB 236 - Carpenter Requires a boat operator to stop and lie to when Chapter 454 lawfully ordered to do so by a peace officer or harbor policeman who is either uniformed or in a vessel distinctly marked as belonging to a law enforcement agency or to the harbor police. The bill provides that a failure to do so constitutes a misdemeanor subject to a fine not to exceed $100. SB 244 - Way Increases the number of judges in the Tulare County Chapter 515 Superior Court from three to four. SB 256 - Petris Provides that the appropriation or acquisition of Chapter 455 property for public use as a regional park establishes a rebuttable presumption of its having been appropriated or acquired for the best and most necessary public use and authorizes a regional park district, when such property is sought to be acquired for city or county read, street, or highway purposes, to bring an action for declaratory relief to determine the question of which public use is the best and most necessary public use for such property. SB 311 - Marks Requires that adult category assistance checks be Chapter 456 made payable on the day received by recipients in cases where checks are received prior to the first of the month. 83 315 - Harmer Specifies that state employees may have an employee Chapter 516 organization represent them in grievance proceedings. SB 439 - Collier Provides that the city or county of residence of a Chapter 496 person subject to emergency search or rescue by the shariff of another county is liable for all search and rescue costs over $100 rather than two-thirds of the costs over $500. SB 468 - Burgener Amendo provisions of the San Diego County Flood Chapter 517 Control Destrict Act relating to the maximum size of citizen zone roards. The bill also authorizes special assessment proceedings for areas which receive special benefits from drainage projects. SB 507 - Deukmej ian Makes in & crime to bring, send, or assist in Chapter 497 bringing or sending any marcotic, restricted dangerous drug, alcoholic beverage, firearm, weapon or explosive of any kind into a Youth Authority facility for delingments excapt when legally authorized. SB 594 - Alquist Authorizes any transit district whose formation was Chapter 518 approved in an election held in June 1972 to include in its claim for funds from a local transportation fund for the financial support of its public transportation system, an amount to reimburse any city in the district for financial support the city has provided to a regularly scheduled transportation service available to the public from July 1, 1972, through December 31, 1972. - 5 - #441 SB 755 - Bradley Repeals an obsolete provision of the Labor Code Chapter 457 relating to Workmen's Compensation. SB 805 - Rodda Permits county superintendents of schools to charge Chapter 458 all school districts participating in programs for handicapped and mentally retarded minors equally rather than as a function of the number of students attending from each district. SB 832 - Nejedly Provides that the prohibition against walking on Chapter 498 freeways does not apply to pedestrians walking from a disabled vehicle to the nearest exit on the same side of the freeway to seek aid. SB 857 - Coombs Authorizes the Parker Dam Recreation and Park District Chapter 459 to purchase or lease electric power to acquire water and water rights and to sell the water and electric power for use within the district. SB 964 - Bradley Codifies the rule that benefits payable on account of Chapter 460 an injury shall not be affected by a subsequent statutory change in the amount of benefits payable under the Workmen's Compensation law. SB 1014 - Holmdahl Authorizes construction of Dumbarton Bridge and the Chapter 492 widening of the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge trestle. The bill provides for review by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission of the widening of the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge trestle. The bill precludes the Department of Public Works from constructing (1) the Marsh Road connection without the approval of the City Council of Menlo Park and the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission and (2) the Embarcadero Road connection without the approval of the City Councils of Menlo Park and Palo Alto, the Board of Supervisors of San Mateo County, and the commission. The bill also forbids the department from undertaking any construction, except the construction of temporary transition lanes of less than 4,500 feet in length and of the above connections until the precise location of the replacement of the existing westerly approach has been approved by the City Council of Menlo Park and the Board of Supervisors of San Mateo County. SB 1051 - Nejedly Increases compensation of grand jurors in Contra Costa Chapter 461 County for attendance as a member of a committee and mileage of grand jurors and trial jurors. SB 1083 - Carpenter Extends the provisions of the permissive tax levied by Chapter 462 community college districts to four years following the effective annexation by a community college of the territory of a unified school district. SB 1175 - Behr Authorizes the legislative body of a city which has Chapter 499 formed a municipal park improvement district to divide the principal amount of a bond issue into two or more series with different dates and maturity dates. SB 1183 - Short Revises provisions of the Nursing Practice Act Chapter 463 relating to the qualifications required of applicants for registered nurse licenses. SB 1196 - Nejedly Requires that a municipal referendum petition Chapter 464 protesting the adoption of a city ordinance shall be circulated only by a qualified registered voter of the city, SB 1204 - Bradley Requires school districts having a merit system to post Chapter 465 notices concerning tests, vacancies, and transfer opportunities in the classified service, in addition to normal use of newspapers and bulletins. It requires such notices to be mailed to probationary or permanent employees who may be affected by changes and who will not be reporting to work during periods when such employees are not normally required to work and who have requested such notifications. The bill exempts from such requirements all school districts which publish and distribute examination bulletins to all work locations at least once each month. # # # # # Walthall - 6 - OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN RELEASE: Immediate Sacramento, California 95814 Ed Gray, Press Secretary 916-445-4571 7-28-72 #440 Human Relations Agency Secretary Dr. Earl W. Brian today announced Governor Reagan has signed a bill to provide funds so that the State Personnel Board can adjust the salaries of state correctional officers to reflect updated salary inequity data. The bill, SB 104, by Senator H. L. Richardson (R-Arcadia) augments the salary increase fund up to $5 million for officers and employees working in correctional institutions throughout the state. "This correction of inequity of pay for similar jobs has been long needed," statedDr. Brian. "The governor approved the augmentation because a recent study by the State Personnel Board staff indicated that a larger inequity increase was justified to reach closer balance with comparable employees," Dr. Brian said. Senator Richardson, who spearheaded the bill through the legislature indicated that the pay raise would be effective as soon as it is approved by the Federal Pay Board in Washington. The amount of the raise is designed so that it will be effective July 1, 1972, providing federal concurrence is received. ###### Garcia OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN RELEASE: Immediate Sacramento, California 95814 Ed Gray, Press Secretary 916-445-4571 8-4-72 #453 Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have been signed: AB 561 - Meade Deletes from the California freeway and expressway Chapter 524 system that portion of Route 77 from Route 580 in Oakland to Route 93 westerly of Moraga. SB 1392 - Alquist Specifies that, in computing foundation program Chapter 525 increases due to inflation for small school districts the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall compute the amount as if it were for the maximum number of pupils allowed for the applicable range in which the district falls. SB 1395 - Alquist Specifies that provisions of law extending certain Chapter 523 disputable presumptions under the workmen's compensation law concerning hernia, heart trouble, pneumonia, and tuberculosis to district attorneys' staffs of inspectors and investigators shall apply to any appeal of such inspector or investigator pending on January 1, 1972. Governor Ronald Reagan today also announced that the following bills have been vetoed. SB 162 - Gregorio Revises provisions providing for filling of vacancies on school boards to authorize the board within 30 days of a vacancy or filling or a resignation to make provisional appointment or to call a special election. The bill also makes identical changes for filling vacancies on city councils. Reason for veto: "I am returning without my signature Senate Bill No. 162 entitled, "An act to amend Sections 1162, 1163, 1164, and 1165 of, and to add Section 1162.5 to, the Education Code, to amend Sections 10202.5, 10210, and 10219.2 of, and to add Section 10202.4 to, the Elections Code, and to amend Section 36512 of, and to add Sections 36512.5 and 36512.6 to, the Government Code, relating to special elections." "This bill would remove the present requirement that vacancies occurring on school boards be filled by election. "While there is no question that such elections can incur additional costs, I am convinced that the overriding issue is whether or not the people themselves should have the right to select directly-- -at the ballot box--who will represent them in formulating the educational policies of their schools. "In 1970 I signed legislation which gave the people a direct voice in the selection of their own school board representatives. In my opinion, no compelling reason exists to change that procedure. "Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned." SB 369 - Wedworth Permits individual contracting agencies under the Public Employees' Retirement System to elect the highest year of compensation as the basis for payment of benefits for local safety members. Reason for veto: "I am returning without my signature Senate Bill No. 369 entitled, "An act to add Section 20025.5 to the Government Code, relating to retirement. -1- #453 "This bill would permit individual contracting agencies under the Public Employees' Retirement System to elect the highest single year of compensation rather than the highest three year average as the basis for payment of retirement benefits for local safety members. "Final compensation computations in a multiple employer, multi-membership classisication system, such as the Public Employees' Retirement System, must be uniform. Variations within the system can only create excessive administrative burdens and further aggravate the already complex problem of estimating and funding future benefits. "The present three year basis for computing retiremen benefits already is a very liberal provision and I find no compelling evidence to support the need for a different method of computing benefits for a single category of employees. " Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned." #### Walthall OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN RELEASE: Immediate Sacramento, California Ed Gray, Press Secretary 916-445-4571 8-7-72 #455 Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have been signed: AB 243 - Powers Authorizes State Board of Registration for Professiona Chapter 558 Engineers to establish professional engineers review committees to hear all matters assigned to them by th board. AB 284 - Duffy Provides that cities and counties shall not discrimi- Chapter 559 nate in the administration of their zoning laws between the use of property for general hospital or nursing home patients and the use of property for the psychiatric care and treatment of patients. AB 596 - Barnes Amends the Public Employees' Retirement Law to Chapter 560 exclude employees assigned to identification and communication duties from the definition of "local policeman" and "county peace officer" and permits members presently in such employment to elect to be local safety members. AB 614 - Brown Permits one member of Board of Dental Examiners to Chapter 561 be member of faculty of dental college or dental department of medical school. AB 701 - Warren Provides that in any civil action in which the demand, Chapter 562 exclusive of interest, or the value of property in controversy does not exceed $750, the defendant, at his option, in lieu of demurrer or other answer, may file a general verified written denial and a brief statement of any new matter constituting a defense. The present limit is $500. AB 705 - Townsend Repeals the Motor Vehicle Transportation Tax effective Chapter 563 July 1, 1973. AB 739 - Porter Requires the payment of expenses of members of the Chapter 564 Western States Water Council to be from the budget of the California Advisory Committee. AB 741 - Porter Revises the required qualifications of the member of Chapter 565 the State Water Resources Control Board who must be an engineer experienced in sanitary engineering and qualified in the field of water quality from being a registered civil engineer to being a registered professional engineer. AB 802 - Bagley Authorizes a county to destroy welfare case narratives Chapter 566 in any case file after three years. The bill also requires written notification to the absent parent of A.F.D.C. applicants by certified, rather than registered mail. AB 907 - Ryan Includes bonds issued for specified water and sewage Chapter 567 facilities and bonds to be issued for such purposes within provisions authorizing the board of directors of the Estero Municipal Improvement District to limit the levy of taxes servicing the bonds to taxable land within benefited zones. AB 1041 - Brathwaite Provides that the area included within a Chapter 568 redevelopment project and a project area may be either contiguous or noncontiguous. AB 1048 - Warren Extends to all adult children who are physically or Chapter 569 mentally incapacitated from earning a living and were actually dependent in whole or in part upon the decedent for support, rather than just to those who have been declared incompetent by court order, the right to receive a family allowance out of the probate estate. -1- #455 AB 1144--Russell Permits elections in component school dis tricts to Chapter 570 be consolidated with those of a high school, unified, or community college district which have been consolidated with elections of a chartered city. AB 1473 - Fong Makes adjustments in the classifications, salaries, Chapter 571 and numbers of municipal court personnel in Alameda County. AB 1692 - Porter Increases from the number of monthly meetings for Chapter 572 which directors of municipal water districts may be compensated from two to four. AB 1693 - Porter Permits all county water district directors to be Chapter 573 compensated for four monthly meetings, rather than two AB 1872 - Lanterman Authorizes a conservator under the Lanterman-Petris- Chapter 574 Short Act or a peace officer at the request of such conservator to take a conservatee who leaves a facility without approval into custody and return him to such facility. The bill exempts the conservator or other specified public officer from civil or criminal liability for any action of the conservatee. The bill also makes the list of patient rights, under the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, applicable to state hospital patients who are mentally disordered sex offenders. AB 1915 - Warren Provides that the citation required in proceedings Chapter 575 to declare a minor free from parental custody and control advise specified persons that they may appear, instead of directing that they appear. AB 1936 - Knox Provides that in considering a city annexation or Chapter 576 incorporation which will result in the dissolution of, or the detachment from, the territory of a fire district or a county service area, the local agency formation commission may apply specific conditions to the annexation or incorporation which deal with the district tax liability and other financial matters The bill also authorizes all fire protection districts organized under the Fire Protection District Law of 1961, rather than just those districts located in Yolo County, to purchase necessary equipment by means of a plan to borrow money or by purchase on contract. AB 2122 - Hayden Provides that air pollution control officers of all Chapter 577 air pollution control districts have the authority to enforce the open burning ban contained in the Mulford-Carrell Act, and all other provisions of that Act relating to nonvehicular sources. AB 2222 - Brophy Requires that a title insurer, whenever it terminates Chapter 578 an underwriting agreement with an underwritten title company, to give : notice thereof to the Insurance Commissioner. 8B 55 - Nejedly Requires that when specified property from which Chapter 526 manufacturer's serial number or identification mark has been unlawfully removed, or which has been altered comes into custody of a peace officer, such property must be disposed of in same manner as stolen or embezzled property and requires that prior to being disposed of, it shall have an identification mark imbedded or engraved or permanently affixed. SB 119 - Harmer Substitutes a "claim under oath" for an "affidavit" Chapter 527 in the small claims court. The bill also requires the form of claim to indicate that the plaintiff has no right of appeal from an adverse judgment. SB 329 - Nejedly Prohibits, with specified exceptions, any person from Chapter 528 driving a motor vehicle with any object or material displayed, installed, affixed, or applied, in addition to placed, upon the windshield, which would obstruct or reduce a driver's clear view through the windshield or side windows. -2- #455 SB 414 - Beilenson Prohibits the Department of Public Works from granting Chapter 530 or leasing to the City of Los Angeles any interest in the right of way of Route 405 for the operation' of tracked air cushion vehicles in connection with the Los Angeles Airport Access Project unless specified conditions are met. SB 420 - Carpenter Includes solid waste recycling plants within the Chapter 531 meaning of "enterprise" for purposes of the Revenue Bond Law of 1941. The bill also provides for refunding bonds for revenue bonds of local agencies. SB 428 - Richardson Requires the presence of a quorum at meetings of the Chapter 532 Adult Authority, Women's Board of Terms and Parole, Youth Authority, and the Narcotic Addict Evaluation Authority, when these groups perform their functions by meeting in banc in either public or executive sessions to decide matters of general policy. It also provides that no action taken at such meetings shall be valid unless concurred in by a majority vote of those present. SB 446 - Bradley Increases the exemption from property tax given Chapter 533 to veterans who are blind due to service-connected disabilities from $5,000 to $10,000 if the voters aprrove Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 23. SB 491 - Schrade Provides for distribition of fines, forfeitures and Chapter 534 assessments by a procedure prescribed by the county auditor and approved by the board of supervisors and a majority of cities within a county. SB 517 - Nejedly Exempts certificated personnel employed on an hourly Chapter 535 basis in adult education classes from provision regarding evaluation of certificated personnel of school districts. SB 557 - Behr Permits a person employed by a public health Chapter 536 department as a venereal disease case investigator to perform venipuncture or skin puncture for purpose of withdrawing blood for test purposes upon specific authorization from licensed physician and surgeon. SB 615 - Schrade Increases the fee charged by court reporters for Chapter 537 transcribing the original ribbon copy. SB 679 - Harmer Declares legislative intent that the Judges Retiremen Chapter 538 Law shall be fully funded and actuarially sound after January 1, 2002. SB 681 - Harmer Declares legislative intent that after January 1, Chapter 539 2002, the Legislators' Retirement System shall be fully funded and actuarially sound. SB 682 - Behr Deletes provisions requiring the lease or buildings Chapter 540 in an area of Tamalpais State Park and requiring the renewal of such leases. The bill provides that leases in existence prior to the effective date of the bill shall remain in effect until the expiration of their present terms, without renewal. SB 730 - Beilenson Authorizes the disposition of cremated remains in Chapter 541 places other than cemeteries or by burial at sea if the local registrar of births and deaths issues a permit to the person with the right to control disposition which suffi ciently identifies the place of disposition. The bill requires the State Registra of Vital Statistics to approve the conditions under which cremated remains may be removed from the place of cremation or interment for disposition elsewhere, and provides that such condition shall include, but not be limited to, conditions in keeping with the public sensibilities, applicable laws, and reasonable assurances that the disposition will be carried out in accordance with the prescribed conditions and will not constitute a private or public nuisance. -3- #455 SB 734 - Nejedly Provides that differential payments made in lieu of Chapter 542 disability retirement allowance, shall be the difference between the salary of a new position held by a member who would otherwise have been retired for disability and that of the incumbent of his former position, under the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937. SB 773 - Harmer Authorizes a defense counsel to compel attendance of Chapter 543 a witness by issuance of a subpoena. Present law authorizes district attorneys and public defenders to issue subpoenas. SB 712 - Grunsky Deletes the requirement that one free copy of a Chapter 544 preliminary hearing transcript be furnished by the court reporter to the county. SB 833 - Nejedly Permits the retirement board of a County Employees' Chapter 545 Retirement Act System of 1937 to assess each district for administrative costs and for late reports and contributions. SB 908 - Lagomarsino Revises provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure Chapter 546 relating to staying of enforcement of judgments or orders pending an appeal. SB 913 - Lagomarsino Amends the Public Employees' Retirement Law to Chapter 547 provide that the reduction in the fraction of final compensation under the 2% at age 60 formula for a miscellaneous member covered under Social Security by coverage action on or after July 1, 1971, shall apply only to the allowance based on service rendered after the effective date of the member's Social Security coverage. The provision would apply to all such members retired on or after July 1, 1971. SB 979 - Song Provides that a bank shall disregard a notice of an Chapter 548 adverse claim to a deposit with a bank or personal property held by a bank, except if a specified affidavit or court order is delivered to or served on bank by an adverse claimant. SB 998 - Beilenson Deletes specified limitations on provision of Chapter 549 professional and health services zes by local hospital districts to contract author with such physicians and surgeons, health care provider groups, and nonprofit corporations for the rendering of professional health services under specified conditions. The bill also authorizes local hospital districts to establish, maintain, and operate, or provide assistance in the operation of free clinics, diagnostic and testing centers, health education programs, and such other health care provider groups and organizations as are necessary for the maintenance of good physical and mental health in the communities served by such districts. SB 1048 - Zenovich Provides for prejudgment attachment for specified Chapter 550 defendants and property. The bill is limited in its application to debts incurred between two business organizations. SB 1056 - Rodda Places all constitutional amendments adopted by the Chapter 551 Legislature on or before July 28, 1972, on the November ballot. SB 1085 - Carpenter Establishes a procedure for cities, counties or Chapter 552 districts to issue temporary notes against specified accounts receivable from the state or federal government. SB 1158 - Roberti Provides that a court may order a deposit of Chapter 553 interpleader funds to be invested in an insured interest bearing account, and directs that interest on the amount so invested shall be allocated to the parties in the same proportion as the original funds are allocated. #455 SB 1318 - Lagomarsino Modifies the Code of Civil Procedure provisions Chapter 554 relating to the selection of jury panels in Santa Barbara County. SB 1319 - Lagomarsino Increases from $3,000 to $5,000 the value of an Chapter 555 estate consisting entirely of personal property which may be distributed through summary probate procedures. The bill also permits summary administra- tion of small estates not exceeding $5,000 in value even though the surviving spouse or minor children have other estate of value in excess of the homestead exemption allowed the head of family. SB 1353 - Deukmejian Deletes provisions requiring reports regarding Chapter 556 placement of persons in detoxification facilities by peace officers. SB 1361 - Beilenson Prohibits a funeral director from charging a fee for Chapter 557 filing a certificate of death or for providing copies thereof in excess of fees set by statute for filing and providing certified copies of such certificates. The bill also prohibits any fees other than those provided for in existing provisions regarding vital statistics from being charged for registration of births and deaths and permits for dispostion of human remains and provides for additional fees and payment thereof. Governor Ronald Reagan also announced today that the following bill has been vetoed: SB 370 - Wedworth Permits individual contracting agencies under the Public Employees' Retirement System to provide for automatic adjustment of allowances of local safety members on the basis of changes in the Consumer Price Index without limitation. Reason for veto: "This bill would allow individual contracting agencies under the Public Employees' Retirement System to remove the statutory limitation on the amount of the automatic annual retirement adjustment for the single class of local safety members. "In 1968 I signed legislation which for the first time provided for an automatic annual cost-of-living retirement allowance adjustment for all members of the Public Employees' Retirement System. "In 1970 I signed additional legislation further liberalizing the amount of the annual adjustment. Because the law already provides for significant cost-of-living adjustments, I can find no justificatic for signing a measure which would unfairly provide a single class of retirees with special treatment in the computation of their retirement allowances-- especially when changes in the cost of living affect all retired members without regard to their profession "In addition, this measure could only create an ever greater demand for increases in local property taxes at a time when our taxpayers are already severely overburdened. "Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned." # # # # # -5- Walthall OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN RELEASE: Immediate Sacramento, California 95814 Ed Gray, Press Secretary 916-445-4571 8-10-72 #463 Governor Ronald Reagan today took action to protect nearly 70 miles of coastline and several southern California communities from the proposed route of a state freeway. Governor Reagan signed legislation (SB 1087), authored by Senator Dennis E. Carpenter (R-Newport Beach), which deletes Route 1 from the state freeway system between Torrance and San Juan Capistrano. At the same time, Governor Reagan signed three other measures eliminating additional portions of Route 1 from the freeway system. One bill (AB 704) by Assemblyman Frank Murphy (R-Santa Cruz) removes the proposed route between the city of Santa Cruz north to the Santa Cruz-San Mateo County line near Ano Nuevo State Reserve. The other two (AB 58) by Assemblyman James A. Hayes (R-Long Beach) and bills, (AB 1322) by Assemblyman Robert E. Badham (R-Newport Beach), deletes the freeway routes within their respective cities. The deletions of Route 1 encompass a major implementation of Governor Reagan's policy to move major north-south transportation corridors inland where there are existing freeways to handle the increasing traffic. In signing the legislation, Governor Reagan commented: "It is the policy of this administration that local communities will be given a voice in the planning of transportation modes. The removal of portions of this state highway from the freeway system provides the opportunity for a cooperative review of whether a freeway or some other transportation facility would be more appropriate. "I recognize that the deletions of Route 1 from the freeway system does not offer a solution to the transportation problems in the areas effected by the legislation I have just signed. However, I believe this action contributes to the improving climate of cooperation between the state and local governments that will lead to a satisfactory solution." "As a result of Governor Reagan's action, the only portion of Route 1 in southern California still in the freeway system is a one mile segment connecting Route 105 to serve Los Angeles International Airport. With the above exception, Route 1 has now been deleted from the state freeway system from Half Moon Bay south to San Juan Capistrano. Route 1, interacting with Highway 101, is still in effect from Half Moon Bay north to the California-Oregon border. #### Walthall OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN RELEASE: Immediate Sacramento, California 95814 Ed Gray, Press Secretary 916-445-4571- 8-10-72 #464 Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have been signed: AB 317 - Chappie Provides that where nondistrict sutdents are enrolled Chapter 622 in a vocational program which is not offered by or available from the community college in their district of residence and where all districts are part of a regional vocational area and approve these provisions through a regional or bilateral agreement, then separate attendance records and reporting procedures would be required. The amount apportioned from the State School Fund for these separately reported students would be adjusted to equal the average of all state ADA apportionments among the districts which are parties to the agreement. a AB 530 Ryan Provides a new salary schedule for councilmen in Chapter 591 cities of up to and including 5,000 in population in same salary schedule as city councilmen in cities of between 5,000 and 35,000. The bill also provides that coucilmat ic salaries can be increased in an amount not to exceed 5% per calendar year. 643 AB 634 - Chappie Provides that an application for the original regis- Chapter 624 tration of a motorcycle be accompanied by a tracing, tape lift, or photograph of the motor and frame numbers rather than a tracing of the motor number, or where such facsimile of the motor or frame number cannot be obtained, a verification of such number. AB 661 - Biddle Reduces the Old Age Security responsible relatives' Chapter 625 liability for adult children over the age of 60 and clarifies the method for prorating liability. AB 821 - Barnes Provides optional membership in the Public Employees' Chapter 626 Retirement System to an officer or employee directly appointed by the Lieutenant Governor, Controller, Secretary of State, Treasurer, or Superintendent of Public Instruction, who is exempt from civil service. The bill also sets aside the mandatory retirement provisions for employees exempt from civil service appointed by the Governor, Attorney General, Lieutenant Governor, Controller, Secretary of State, Treasurer, and Superintendent of Public Instruction serving under such appointment on the effective date of the bill. AB 851 - MacGillivray Adopts and authorizes a federally approved flood Chapter 627 control project in the Santa Barbara area for such state financial assistance, pursuant to specified local cost sharing criteria, as may be appropriated by the Legislature upon recommendation by the Department of Water Resources. AB 876 - Chacon Provides that a ward of a juvenile court engaged in Chapter 628 rehabilitative work without pay may receive workmen's compensation benefits on adoption or specified resolution by county board of supervisors regardless of the governmental entity having jurisdiction over the property in which he is injured. AB 1207 - Mobley Specifies that publicly owned property against which Chapter 629 a bond is issued to represent assessments under the Improvement Act of 1911 or Municipal Improvement Act of 1913 be owned by a city or county. The bill also authorizes a prepayment redemption premium not to exceed 5% of the principal amount of the bond. -1- #464 AB 1268 - Beverly Enacts the Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972. The Chapter 630 bill provides for the formation by local agencies of special assessment districts to pay the costs of any expenses of installing or planting of landscaping, statuary, fountains and other ornamental structures and lighting and other facilities. AB 1372 - Hayden Repeals the provision which specifies that any act Chapter 631 enacted at a regular or special session of the Legislature adding, amending, or repealing any portion of the Vehicle Code shall become operative on the 121st day after adjoumment of the session at which the bill was enacted, unless a different date is specified in such act. AB 1408 - Foran Prescribes a summary procedure for disposition of Chapter 632 personal property up to value of $5,000 of an "absentee" who is a prisoner of war or missing in action. AB 1455 - Beverly Defines "fireman" for purposes of coverage of public Chapter 633 employees under Social Security to include any officer or employee of Los Angeles County who works in the forestry division of the county fire department and whose principal duties consist of active fire suppression. The bill also defines "policeman" for some purposes as including certain life guards classified as safety members under a county retirement system. The bill is operative only upon federal acceptance of the definition. AB 1469 - Fong Defines "first period," "second period, and Chapter 634 "academic year" for cummunity colleges for purposes of computing average daily attendance thereof. The bill also specifies the method for computing a.d.a. for community college summer sessions and in classes for adults and other special schools and classes. AB 1483 - Ketchum Declares that the commercial production of farm- Chapter 635 cultivated catfish shall be considered a branch of the agricultural industry of the state for the pur- pose of any law which provides for the benefit or protection of the agricultural industry. AB 1520 - Monagan Revises sampling procedures for the testing of Chapter 636 fertilizers. The bill also clarifies the penalty provisions for the late filing of reports of fertilizer sales by requiring a penalty for late filings of reports, in addition to the present penalty for late payment of the tonnage tax. AB 1625 - Miller Repeals obsolete Penal Code provisions relating to Chapter 637 the importing of Chinese or Japanese persons into California. AB 1644 - Russell Provides for the establishment of an abstract Chapter 638 conceptually oriented mathematics program in elementary schools in not more than four school districts. This program is commonly known as SEED (Special Elementary Education for the Disadvantaged). AB 1725 - McCarthy Defines the term "consistent" for purposes of the Chapter 639 provision providing that local zoning be consistent with general plans by January 1, 1973. The bill requires planning commissions to make specified findings regarding general plans after hearings to adopt or amend zoning. The bill also permits governing bodies to grant an additional extension of time for preparation of final maps by subdividers in certain cases if there is no general plan for an area. AB 1812 - Moorhead Authorizes the probate court having jurisdiction Chapter 641 over the administration of the estate of a decedent to determine title to real or personal property, title or possession of which is held by another, to which the decedent had a disputed claim. #464 AB 1815 - Stull Provides that change orders made pursuant to the Chapter 642 Improvement Act of 1911 without notice or hearing must cost $1,000 or less for a contract not exceeding $20,000, or 5 percent or less of the amount of the contract in a contract exceeding $20,000 and must not exceed $10,000. AB 1832 - Cory Requires all institutions of public higher education Chapter 643 to require all applications for any financial aid to students to disclose all taxable income and all nontaxable income. The bill also requires community colleges and state universities and colleges, and requests the University of California, when determining eligibility for respective educational opportunity programs, to consider nontaxable income. AB 1931 - Seeley Changes the licensing period for trading stamp Chapter 644 companies, check sellers and cashers, escrow agents, personal property brokers, and small loan companies from one to two years. AB 1953 - Duffy Creates the Advisory Committee on the Utilization and Chapter 645 Education of Dental Auxiliaries. The bill directs the committee to make specified studies and reports regarding dental auxiliaries on or before January 30, 1973. AB 1989 - Powers Eliminates the re uirement that an applicant for Chapter 646 registration as a professional engineer or for a certificate of authority as a structural engineer must pay an initial registration or certificate of authority fee in addition to the application fee as a condition of obtaining registration or certification AB 2130 - Dunlap Authorizes the Director of the Department of General Chapter 647 Services, with the approval of the Director of Mental Hygiene, to lease up to 10 acres of land at the Napa State Hospital to a public governmental agency for a mentally retarded training program. AB 2164 - Burton Clarifies language in provisions which extend Medi-Cal Chapter 648 coverage to person not on public assistance and not linked to a categorical aid program. AB 2354 - Warren Eliminates the 10-day time limit for the filing of a Chapter 649 claim of exemption for earnings which may be exempt from levy of execution and allows the claim to be filed at any time. The bill also provides that the date the earnings are withheld shall be the effective date of the levy. AB 2374 - Chappie Repeals the 1870 act incorporating the Town of Chapter 650 Hornitos. The Town of Hornitos was created by act of the Legislature in 1870. All town property will go to the County of Mariposa. SB 181 - Behr Provides that each of the nine county supervisor Chapter 651 members of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission may appoint as his alternate a public official of his county deemed qualified by the county's board of supervisors. SB 189 - Grunsky Revises provisions for recall of municipal officers Chapter 592 to provide for a separate election or appointment of a successor if the recall is successful, rather than election of the successor at the recall election. SB 199 - Carpenter Raises the required number of signatures on nomination Chapter 593 papers for candidates for city offices in cities of 1,000 or more from no less than 5 nor more than 10, to no less than 20 nor more than 30. The bill also requires filing fee to be submitted with such nomination papers in an amount proportionate to the costs of processing such nomination papers, as the city council may set, but not to exceed $25. -3- #464 SB 205 - Grunsky Requires the Commission of Housing and Community Chapter 580 Development to adopt regulations for travel trailer parks, recreational trailer parks, temporary trailer parks, incidental camping areas and tent camps. SB 224 - Deukmejian Authorizes a court to order, for good cause shown Chapter 594 upon written application, a 20-day time period after summons is served for the defendant to respond to complaint in certain actions for libel or slander. The bill requires the application tc be supported by an affidavit showing that defamatory matter has been continuously published and that there is reasonable likelihood that such publication will continue. SB 242 - Way Clarifies the authority of the Director of Agriculture Chapter 595 to contract with the United States Department of Agriculture and the counties to provide inspection and certification service for eggs and egg products and poultry meat inspection pursuant to federal standards. SB 251 - Marler Authorizes the Department of Navigation and Ocean Chapter 581 Development to grant funds, subject to legislative approval, to public agencies, in addition to counties, cities, or districts, for the construction and development of small craft launching facilities. SB 275 - Beilenson Eliminates deferred judges' retirement benefits for Chapter 582 a judge who after the effective date of the bill leaves a state court to accept a lucrative office with the United States. SB 375 - Marks Extends the authorization for programs for intensive Chapter 596 instruction in reading and mathematics for 7th, 8th and 9th grade pupils in disadvantaged areas to the 91st day after the final adjournment of the 1975 Regular Session of the Legislature. SB 380 - Carrell Permits local agencies with a population of 1,100,000 Chapter 597 or more to inspect and post weight limitations on bridges under their jurisdiction. SB 487 - Coombs Requires vehicle dealers to give written notice of Chapter 598 transfers of vehicles, to the Department of Motor Vehicles, not later than the fifth day after sale rather than by the third business day after sale. SB 506 - Lagomarsino Increases the number of judges in the Ventura Chapter 599 County Municipal Court from 7 to 8. SB 534 - Lagomarsino Authorizes the payment of a claim of original Chapter 600 contractors awarded certain contracts by municipal water districts which failed to file a payment bond, where such fai lure is the result of inadvertende or excusable neglect. The bill is to be operative until the 62nd day after the 1972 Regular Session. SB 573 - Grunsky Provides that a defendant who has made a general Chapter 601 appearance and who makes a motion to stay or dismiss o on the ground of inconvenient forum is not subject to specified provisions relating to such motions or motions to quash service of summons. The bill modifies the date on which service by publication of S summons is complete. The bill aslo requires papers served by mail either to bear a notation of the date and place of mailing accompanied by an unsigned copy of the affidavit or certificate of mailing. SB 574 - Grunsky Provides that a $5 fee shall be charged for each Chapter 602 individual being adopted whenever a petition in an adoption proceeding is filed. The bill further provides that whenever a person born in this state has his name changed by order of a court, he may have an amendment filed with the original copy of his birth record which notes his name change. A $5 will be charged offset the costs involved #464 SB 638 - Dills Provides that safety members under County Employees' Chapter 583 Retirement Law who receive credit for prior public service, the principal duties of which were active law enforcement or active fire suppression, shall have their retirement allowance for such service calculated on the same basis as the calculation of the retirement allowance such member would receive pursuant to one-fiftieth formula. SB 716 - Marks Permits a person paying property taxes pursuant to Chapter 584 a statutory installment plan to make such payments under protest and to bring an action in specified circumstances against a county or a city to recover the taxes paid under protest, notwithstanding the fact that such taxes have not been paid in full. SB 729 - Beilenson Makes money appropriated in the Budget Act of 1972 Chapter 603 for acquisition at Sonoma Coast State Beach available for Sonoma State Historic Park The bill corrects an error in the Budget Act of 1972. SB 732 - Gregorio Authorizes a court to transfer a probation case only Chapter 604 if the court of the receiving county has first had an opportunity to investigate and determine whether the probationer resides in, or has moved to such county. The bill authorizes refusal of transfer if the court finds that the person does not reside in or has not moved to such county. SB 735 - Burgener Changes basis for the determination of the number of Chapter 605 additional representatives which member public agencie may appoint to the board of directors of a county wa- ter authority. SB 743 - Zenovich Authorizes an applicant for a vehicle salesman's Chapter 585 license whose license is refused to demand a hearing within five days of receipt of notice of refusal and statement of issues, and stays the effective day of the invalidation of his temporary permit pending a hearing and a determination of the issues. The bill provides for the immediate cancellation of such temporary permit if the Department of Motor Vehicles determines that the permit was issued upon a fraudulent application. SB 748 - Behr Changes references to a $2 filing fee in the Revenue Chapter 586 and Taxation Code provisions relati ng to delinquent property taxes to refer to a $6 recording fee. SB 754 - Marler Permits a petition opposing recall of a district Chapter 652 officer under the Uniform District Election Law to be filed within 50 days of order calling recall election, canceling the recall election. The bill also extends the earliest date for holding such election by 20 days if a notice of intention to circulate a petition opposing a recall is filed with the governing body. SB 781 - Collier Changes positions and salaries of various court Chapter 606 attaches in the municipal courts in Sonoma County and the Eureka Judicial District. 783 SB 738 Dills Authorizes district and county fairs to operate in Chapter 587 one or more seasonal divisions with the approval of the Department of Agriculture. SB 793 - Behr Adds the lower portion of Corte Madera Creek in Marin Chapter 607 County to the list of waterways under the jurisdiction of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission. SB 865 - Carpenter Extends the Pacific mackerel moratorium, which Chapter 608 presently will expire sixty-one days after adjounment of the 1972 Regular Session of the Legislature, un til such time as the Pacific mackerel population exceeds 20,000 tons. -5- #464 SB 928 - Burgener Increases the number of judges of the San Diego Chapter 588 Superior Court from 28 to 29. SB 941 - Song Permits a defendant in a medical malpractice case Chapter 653 wherein exemplary damages are sought to obtain an ex-parte order requiring the plaintiff to post a bond of not less than $2500. The bill requires the bond or cash deposit to be conditioned upon payment by the plaintiff of all costs and reasonable attorney fees incurred by the defendant in defending against the request for award of exemplary damages as determined by the court if no exemplary damages are awarded. SB 957 - Coombs Requires a fringe benefit trust fund established Chapter 609 pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement to give a subcontractor a statement on his demand giving specified information on the subcontractor's payments to such fund. The bill further provides such statement shall be sufficient to satisfy any creditors of the subcontractor as to such information without further release from the trust fund. SB 1020 - Mills Authorizes the San Diego municipal court to appoint Chapter 610 2 traffic referees. SB 1027 - Z enovich Authorizes Fresno County to provide by charter for Chapter 611 consolidation of the offices of constable with that of sheriff. SB 1034 - Marks Revises the Vehicle Code provisions relating to the Chapter 612 requirements for the issuance of a certificate of self-insurance by the Department of Motor Vehicles by specifying the limits of liability of applicants for a certificate of self-insurance. SB 1108 - Gregorio Provides for submission of Assembly Constitutional Chapter 613 Amendment No. 81 to the voters at the November General Election. ACA 81 was added to the November ballot when SB 1056 was signed by the Governor. SB 1173 - Marks Requires that redevelopment plans contain an element Chapter 614 describing the impact of the project on the surroundin area. It would require a project area committee where a substantial number of low or moderate income families are to be displaced. The bill also requires redevelopment plans to provide for the relocation of community institutions, such as churches. SB 1178 - Behr Increases the compensation of various employees of Chapter 615 the Marin County Municipal Court. The bill authorizes the appointment of a commissioner-referee by Marin County Superior Court. SB 1224 - Burgener Encourages county superintendent of schools to Chapter 654 sponsor workshops or similar activities for certifi- cated personnel to gain or increase understanding of the nature and range of physical, mental, and emotional disabilities of children and youth, and the major implications of such disabilities. SB 1225 - Burgener Prohibits any merit system school district from Chapter 589 adopting or maintaining any rule requiring a classified employee, or a candidate for a position in the classified service, from being a resident of the district, or to grant preferential points to examination scores to employees or candidates who are residents of the district. SB 1270 - Rodda Requires the State Printer to print a sufficient Chapter 616 number of copies of each state publication as determined by the State Librarian pursuant to provisions of the library distribution law. The bill provides that such copies shall not exceed 350, unless a greater number is determined : necessary by the Department of General Services with the advice of the State Librarian. -6- #464 SB 1285 - Beilenson Exempts practicing registered pharmacists from jury Chapter 617 duty. The bill eliminates the present exemption for druggists. SB 1308 - Dymally Amends, adds, renumbers and repeals various sections Chapter 590 of various codes to maintain them on a current basis. The bill makes no substantive changes. SB 1309 - Dymally Amends, adds, renumbers and repeals various sections Chapter 618 of various codes to maintain them on a current basis. The bill makes no substantive changes. SB 1429 - Holmdahl Provides that the spouse of a judgment debtor cannot Chapter 619 be compelled to appear and testify against the judgment debtor in a proceeding supplemental to execution to the extent provided in specified provisions, if there has not been a waiver of such provisions in the action giving rise to the judgment. SB 1471 - Teale Revises the description of places in which it is Chapter 620 unlawful to buy or sell or possess striped bass taken under a sport fishing license. The bill requires that each can or jar containing striped bass canned for a licensed sport fisherman to have embossed or permanently imprinted on the top the words "not to be sold." SB 1492 - Beilenson Amends the Funeral Directors and Embalmers Law to Chapter 621 spell out in greater detail the requirements governin the use of preneed funds paid to persons who are licensed both as funeral directors and cemetery authorities. ##### -7- Walthall