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1966-74: Press Unit
Folder Title: Releases - Bills Signed and Vetoed 1973
[01/01/1973-08/31/1973]
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-17-73
#22
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that he has signed the
following bill:
AB 25 - Alatorre
Revises the Elections Code provision for
Chapter 1
appointment of additional members of the
Democratic State Central Committee to give
newly elected officeholders the same number of
appointments as are now provided for other
incumbent officeholders.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-23-73
#33
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bill has been
signed.
SB 67 - Behr
Requires the Department of Fish and Game to submit
Chapter 2
to the Fish and Game Commission a management plan
for the conservation of the herring resource on long-
term basis, and provides that, on and after the date
of the submission of such a plan, herring and herring
eggs may only be taken in the San Francisco Bay and
Tomales Bay only under a revocable, nontransferable
permit subject to such regulations as the commission
shall prescribe. The bill permits the Director of
Fish and Game to regulate the taking of herring and
herring eggs during the period between the effective
date of this bill and the date that such a management
plan is submitted to the commission.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
2-27-73
#103
Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today announced the following bills
have been signed:
SB 162 - Holmdahl
Repeals and adds provisions that boats with a
Chapter 3
market value of $400 or less are free from property
taxation under specified circumstances,
commencing on the lien date in 1973. The bill
limits the exemption to one vessel in the hands
of an assessee on the lien date. The bill further
declares that such provisions clarify and restate
existing law.
SB 177 - Schrade
Repeals and adds provisions exempting personal
Chapter 4
property of a nonprofit zoological society used
exclusively for operating a ZOO or for purposes
of horticultural display on publicly owned
property from property taxation, if such
organization satisfies various requirements for
the welfare exemption from property taxation.
The bill declares that such provisions clarify
and restate existing law.
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Gray
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
3-2-73
#109
Acting Governor Ed Reinecke on March 1, 1973 signed the following
bill:
AB 365 - Powers
Repeals and reenacts sections making operative on the
Chapter 5
1973 property tax lien date provisions exempting from
property taxation buildings and real property
necessary for their use whi ch are owned and used by
certain veterans' organizations.
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Garcia
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
3-9-73
#124
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that the following bill
has been signed:
AB 187 - Dixon Arnett
Reenacts a provision relating to filing fees in
Chapter 6
the municipal courts of San Mateo County which
was inadvertently repealed in 1972.
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Garcia
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
3-14-73
#140
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 248 - Warren
Makes technical amendments to the Government
Chapter 7
Code to reflect the two-year legislative session.
SB 216 - Deukmejian
Provides that a hearing on application for
Chapter 8
attachment shall be not less than 10 days nor
more than 30 days from the issuance of the
notice of hearing, rather than no sooner than
seven days from service of the notice of hearing
or first regular law and motion date, thereafter.
The bill requires that the notice of hearing shall
be served not less than 10 days before the hearing
date except as otherwise ordered by the court for
good cause shown. The bill further substitutes
the word "court" for the word "judge" in
provision relating to claim and delivery actions.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571 3-26-73
#170
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation to replace the
possible loss of federal funds to support child care programs in
California during the remainder of the state's 1972-73 fiscal year.
The bill, AB 387, introduced by Assembly Speaker Bob Moretti,
appropriates $8,806,500 to the state Department of Education. The funds
are to be used only in the event that federal social service matching
funds become unavailable under new federal regulations.
"Although I am pleased to sign this bill," Governor Reagan said,
"I am hopeful that it will not be necessary. We are presently working
with Department of Health, Education and Welfare officials in Washington
to clarify the new regulations. If those talks are successful this
legislation will not be needed."
The purpose of the bill is to continue child care programs in
California at the support levels which existed on February 15, 1973,
the date that new federal social service regulations were announced.
The measure, which contains an urgency clause, became law with
the governor's signature.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-2-73
#184
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that the following bills have
been signed:
AB 131 - Burton
Chapter 10
Provides that a previously enacted law that is
repealed as of a prescribed date is revived if a
later enacted statute that deletes or extends the
date of repeal is chaptered before such date.
AB
206 - Vasconcellos Provides that an apportionment may be made under
Chapter 14
the State School Building Aid Law of 1952 for the
rental of temporary school buildings necessary to
house pupils temporarily displaced by the rehabilita-
tion or replacement of the only school of a district.
AB 317 - Priolo
Appropriates $200,000 from the Bagley Conservation
Chapter 15
Fund to the Department of Parks and Recreation for
the acquisition of certain lands in the city limits
of the City of Los Angeles near the community of
Pacific Palisades for the State Park System.
AB 387 - Noretti
Appropriates $8,806,500 to the Department of Education
Chapter 11
to replace the possible loss of certain federal social
See Release #170
service funds for child care programs in the 1972-73
fiscal year.
AB 651 - Lewis
Broadens the definition of revenue bonds to include
Chapter 12
obligations of redevelopment agencies. The bill also
provides that interest on refunding end refunded
bonds may be paid from the proceeds of the refunding
bonds or the investment of such proceeds.
SB 77 - Way
Appropriates $689,880 to the Department of Food and
Chapter 13
Agriculture in augmentation of the 1972-73 support
budget for continuation of the State Meat Inspection
Program.
SB 301 - Bradley
Deletes certain posting requirements relating to
Chapter 9
earthquake safety standards in buildings leased or
rented by community college districts.
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Garcia
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-13-73
#215
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 115 - Karabian
Provides special personal income and inheritance tax
Chapter 19
benefits for POW's, MIA's and those who died as a
result of service in Vietnam.
AB 208 - Greene, L. Increases from $30 million to $45 million the amount
Chapter 22
of funds available to the State Allocation Board for
the purpose of making supplemental loans to those
school districts which do not have sufficient local
funds to meet the matching requirements of the State
School Building Aid Law as it pertains to the replace-
ment of structurally inadequate facilities.
AB 224 - Keene
Makes January 25, 1973, a day to be deemed regularly
Chapter 25
attended by pupils in the public schools for average
daily attendance purposes, except with respect to
schools where the day had previously been set aside
by the district governing board or county superintend-
ent as a holiday or part of a vacation period or other
regular school closure period, or with respect to a
school which was scheduled to be in session less than
176 days for the 1972-73 school year.
AB 498 - Meade
Allows a registered voter to vote in his precinct even
Chapter 23
if he moves from that precinct within 30 days before
an election.
SB 50 - Holmdahl
Permits the Education Code provision relating to the
Chapter 24
advance of funds to school districts to replace loss
of specified federal "impact aid" to be operative
before commencement of the 1973-1974 fiscal year.
SB 81 - Song
Repeals provisions of law that permit civil arrest
Chapter 20
and imprisonment in those cases which the court has
granted a judgment for money and issued a writ of
execution for its collection where the defendant does
not comply with the court order.
SB 86 - Kennick
Authorizes the Director of the Youth Authority with
Chapter 18
the approval of the Director of Finance, to contract
with a county to furnish temporary detention facilities
and related services for juveniles in the custody of
the county probation officer.
SB 117 - Bradley
Increases the exemption from property taxation for a
Chapter 16
blind veteran on his home owned by a corporation of
which he is a shareholder from $5,000 to $10,000.
SB 136 - Grunsky
Makes technical amendments to legislation enacted in
Chapter 21
1972 relating to the payment of workmen's compensation
benefits by employers to the state.
SB 190 - Grunsky
Extends from 120 days to 180 days the time preceding
Chapter 17
the annual meeting of the State Bar within which the
Board of Governors shall elect its officers for the
next ensuing year.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-18-73
#220
Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today announced he has signed
legislation eliminating some of the inequities resulting from the
passage of Proposition 20, the California Coastal Zone Conservation Act
of 1972.
The measure, SB 256, introduced by Senator James R. Mills (D-San
Diego), specifically exempts any person from having to get a permit
under the coastal zone act if they had already received a permit from a
city or county and had started construction prior to November 8, 1972,
when Proposition 20 was approved by the voters.
Under Proposition 20, permits on developments from the Coastal Zone
Commission were required after April 1, 1972.
"I am extremely pleased to sign this measure into law because it
removes many of the inequities and uncertainties hanging over permit
requirements of coastal developments that were already under way prior
to the approval of Proposition 20," Reinecke said.
"It was unfair to those individuals who had received building
permits after April 1 of last year and prior to the approval of
Proposition 20 on November 8, who had substantial investments and had
begun construction, to require them to stop their projects and apply for
another permit.
"The uncertainties of the permit requirements are eliminated by this
new law, and I am confident that the objectives of the coastal zone act
will be better served."
The bipartisan measure also clarifies the law to state that filing
fees collected by the various coastal zone commissions will be used to
offset their operating costs.
The bill, containing an urgency clause, became effective with
Reinecke's signature.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-20-73
#221
Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today announced the following bills
have been signed:
AB 146 - Burke
Revises the exemption from certain constractual
Chapter 27
limitations of contracts for electronic data-
processing work entered into by any school dis-
trict in a county with a population in excess of
1,400,000 to apply where no regional educational
processing center was in operation on July 1, 1972
SB 256 - Mills
Specifically exempts any person from a permit
Chapter 28
requirement of the California Coastal Zone
See Rel. # #220 220
Conservation Act of 1972 for any development,
if such person, prior to November 8, 1972, rather
dated 4-18-73
than April 1, 1972, relying on a city or county
permit, commenced construction and performed
substantial work on the development and incurred
substantial liabilities for work and materials
necessary therefor.
The bill specifies that all permit application
filing fees and reimbursements for expenses shall
be credited and appropriated to the California
Coastal Zone Conservation Commission for
expenditure to support the operation of the
commission and regional coastal zone conservation
commissions.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-11-73
#261
Acting Governor Reinecke today announced the following bills have been
signed:
AB 41 - Lanterman
Enacts the First Validating Act of 1973 which validate
Chapter 38
organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bond
of counties, cities, and specific districts, agencies
and entities.
AB 59 - Davis
Permits the taking of crabs in Districts 6, 7, 8,
Chapter 39
and 9, between December 1st and August 31st,
rather than December 1st and July 15th.
AB 197 - Brown
Eliminates a conflict with provisions of the
Chapter 40
Administrative Procedure Act concerning the
effective date of regulations promulgated by agencies
in the Department of Consumer Affairs.
AB 201 - Russell
Makes non-substantive amendments to the Military
Chapter 41
and Veterans Code.
AB 299 - Ingalls
Includes within the definition of an authorized
Chapter 35
emergency vehicle, any publicly owned vehicle operate
by peace officer personnel of the state park system
or by the peace officer personnel employed and
compensated as members of a security patrol of a
school district while carrying out the duties of
their employment. The bill also deletes the re-
quirement of special permits from the Commissioner
of Highway Patrol for operation of emergency vehicles
by peace officers of the stateppark system who use
such vehicles for law enforcement work.
AB 351 - Lewis
Includes the collection, treatment, and disposal
Chapter 42
of sewage, waste, and storm water, and the fixing and
collecting of rates and charges therefor within the
express powers of the Mojave Water. Agency. The bill
also ratifies, confirms, and validates all proceeding
taken for authorization of bonds of an improvement
district of the agency, including for the collection,
treatment, and disposal of sewage, waste, and storm
water, and authorizes the issuance of such bonds.
SB 30 - Biddle
Permits use of any allocation to the City of Redlands
Chapter 33
from the Aeronautics Account in the State Transporta-
tion Fund in the 1973-74 fiscal year and subsequent
fiscal years, up to $33,562, for that portion of such
obligations incurred in prior fiscal years which would
have been eligible for an allocation from the fund
during such prior fiscal years.
SB 78 - Mills
Permits owners of land within the Canebrake County
Chapter 36
Water District and the Johnsville Public Utility
District, as well as registered voters of the dis-
tricts, to be members of the board of directors of
the districts.
SB 82 - Collier
Extends the date by which documents relating to
Chapter 37
certain boundary changes of specified local agencies
must be filed with government agencies for assessment
and tax purposes during the 1973-74 fiscal year. It
further requires a local agency filing documents under this act to reim-
burse any other local agency for costs incurred by the agency by reason
of this enactment.
SB 361-Rodda
Revises the procedure for establishing separete
Chapter 34
governing boards for a community college district
and a unified district haveing an a.d.a. of 100,000
or more as of October, 1971, heretofore having a
common governing board, by requiring members, after
an election to establish separate boards, to choose
by June 1, 1973, rather than December 31, 1972,
which of the two boards they will serve.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-18-73
#279
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have been signe
AB 44 .Greene
Provides that the Director of the Department of Health
Chapter 31
Care Services may by regulation provide for fixed
artificial dentures for conditions which preculde use
of removable dental prostheses.
AB 293-Antonovich
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to
Chapter 32
allow, for the 1972-73 school year, use of a divisor
of 174 in computing average daily attendance for
apportionment purposes for school districts maintaining
schools for 174 days because of the declaration of
January 25, 1973, as a day of mourning relating to
the death of President Lyndon B. Johnson.
AB 297 - Berman
Deletes the requirement that a vehicle overtaking and
Chapter 50
passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direc-
tion, return to the right-hand side of the roadway be-
fore coming within 100 feet of any vehicle approaching
from the opposite direction.
AB 385 - Keene
Shortens the silver salmon commercial fishing season
Chapter 26
from a period between April 15th and September 30th
to a period between May 15th and September 30th until
October 1, 1974, and to a period between June 1st and
September 30th for the succeeding two years, and lowers
the minimum length of silver salmon which may be taken
during such periods to 22 inches in length. The bill
specifies that such season shall revert to a period
between April 15th and September 30th and that the
minimum length shall revert to 25 inches during the
season next following a finding by the Director of
Fish and Game that such evaluation indicates that as
a result of this act there has been substantial harm
to the silver salmon resource.
SB 29 - Grunsky
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to
Chapter 29
continue authorization of a specified pilot program
for education of severely mentally retarded pupils
between the ages of three and five years. The present
program will terminate on June 30, 1973. The bill
limits expenditures to $155,000 during the 1973-74
fiscal year and provides for reports on the efficacy
of the pilot program. The program will terminate on
June 30, 1974.
SB 33 - Gregorio
Clarifies the law with respect to the authority of the
Chapter 43
Mayor of San Francisco to make appointments which in
other jurisdictions are made by city selection commit-
tees. The bill changes the term of office for the
chairman and vice chairman of a city selection commit-
tee from two years to a period set by rules and
regulations of the committee, but not less than one
year nor more than four years.
SB 34 - Harmer
Extends the increase in maximum tax rate for community
Chapter 44
college districts for lease agreements until June 30,
1978.
SB 38 - Whetmore
Provides that with respect to city councils any refer-
Chapter 30
ence to "councilman" or "councilmen" shall also include
"councilwoman" or "councilwomen." The bill provides
that a female member of a city council may designate
herself "councilwoman."
SB 154-Lagomarsino
Requires a three-fourths vote of all members of the
Chapter 45
State Building Standards Commission, present and
voting, but not less than six affirmative votes, to
adopt and publish amendments to the State Building
Standards Code on an emergency basis. The bill require:
the commission to make a specified finding in order to
adopt and publish such amendments on an emergency basis.
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SB 221 - Grunsky
Requires the county of residence to reimburse the
Chapter 46
county spperintendent of schools wherein education
is being provided by that office for costs of
educating pupils residing in licensed children's
institutions or family homes.
SB 243 - Beilenson Sets forth procedures for an application for an
Chapter 47
alcoholic beverage license other than retail license
by a limited partnership which is required by law
to file periodic reports with the Securities and
Exchange Commission.
SB 270-Lagomarsino
Permits the Santa Maria Airport District to employ
Chapter 48
airport policemen, with the approval of the Santa
Maria City Council. The bill requires such policemen
to be approved by the Santa Maria Chief of Police and
certified, pursuant to specified provisions of law,
by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and
Training before assuming their duties.
SB 300 - Collier
Transfers the administration and operation of the
Chapter 49
Abandoned Vehicle Trust Fund from the Department of
Public Works to the Department of the California
Highway Patrol.
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Walthall
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-24-73
#286
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed;
AB 129 L.Greene
Deletes the requirement that the State Board of
Chapter 60
Registration for Professional Engineers transmit to
each county recorder lists of all land surveyor
licenses issued, suspended, or revoked by this board.
The bill also deletes the requirement that the board
file a copy of the roster and supplemental roster of
registered professional engineers with clerk of each
county in the state.
AB 176 - Townsend
Permits any county conducting a "mobile intensive care
Chapter 61
paramedic" pilot program to provide training to person
other than county employees or employees of a fire
protection district within the county, either at the
full cost or at a reduced fee to the extent that
federal funds are made available to reimburse the
county for such training costs.
AB 216 - Townsend
Authorizes the governing board of a school district
Chapter 51
or the county superintendent of schools that operates
or jointly operates a regional occupational center or
program to establish and maintain classes outside of
their respective jurisdictions for such center or
program.
AB 238 -MacDonald
Deletes obsolete Education Code provisions relating
Chapter 62
to the district retirement salary plan.
AB 277 -McAlister
Permits the governing boards of school districts to
Chapter 63
schedule junior high and high school classes so that
pupils may attend school for less than regular number
of schooldays in a week as long as total attendance
in a five schoolday period is at least 1,200 minutes.
AB 281 - Cline
Permits a flashing amber lamp on a vehicle transporting
Chapter 64
an extra legal load being operated under a permit
issued by the Department of Public Works and on
vehicles transporting integral loads.
AB 305 - Chappie
Requires the State Controller to disburse the fees
Chapter 65
collected for off-highway vehicles semi-annualy
instead of monthly.
AB 416 - MacGillivray Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to
Chapter 66
suspend or revoke the license issued to a dealer,
transporter, or manufacturer of motor vehicles if
the department determines that such person has been
convicted, rather than has committed and been convic-
ted, of a felony or of a crime involving moral.
turpitude.
AB 21 - Grunsky
Provides that an innocent spouse filing a joint
Chapter 52
return may be relieved from taxes, interest and
penalties from omitted income in certain designated
cases of omissions by the other spouse and declares
such provision shall apply to all taxable years subject
to the provisions of the Personal Income Tax Law not
closed by the statute of limitations, res judicata or
otherwise. California law presently exempts the
innocent spouse.
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#286
SB 40 - Way
Requires private school employees to be tested and
Chapter 54
found free of active tuberculosis within sixty days
of their initial employment. Thereafter, tests every
four years will be required for both volunteers and
employees of private schools. Employees transferring
from one school to another are exempted from this
requirement if they can certify a successful examina-
tion within the last four years. Private schools can
also require more frequent tests upon the recoomenda-
tion of the local health officer.
SB 79 - Mills
Amends a retirement allowance formula added to the
Chapter 55
County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 by 1972
legislation. The formula is optional to the county.
The amendment would remove a provision excusing a
member from further contribution after 30 years of
service and also remove the 75. percent of final
compensation maximum allowance which could be paid
under it.
SB 84 - Rodda
Appropriates $4,038,000 from the Motor Vehicle Account
Chapter 53
in the State Transportation Fund to the Department of
Motor Vehicles to provide for the repair of the
department's fire-damaged headquarters.
SB 87 - Bradley
Changes the names of the Santa Clara County Flood
Chapter 56
Control and Water District Act and the Santa Clara
County Flood Control and Water District to the Santa
Clara Valley Water District Act and the Santa Clara
Valley Water District, respectively. The bill also
authorizes the district board to adopt regulations
to provide that in excusable or justifiable
circumstances the penalty for failure to register
a water-producing facility or file the required water
production statements may be reduced or waived.
SB 132 - Beilenson Revises the Automotive Repair Act to reduce from 60
Chapter 57
to 30 the days available for an automotive repair dealer
to request a hearing before Bureau of Automotive
Repair after denial of an application for registration.
The bill also specifies that an automotive repair
dealer may not commence work, nor shall charges
accrue before the customer's consent to commence
work has been obtained.
SB 287 - Biddle
Allows physicians and surgeons to be appointed to
Chapter 58
hospital medical staffs either annually or biennially.
SB 356 - Biddle
Deletes the prohibition against any person employed
Chapter 59
by a school district as a specialist teacher from
engaging in supplementary nonschool employment during
the regular academic year established in the district.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immedia te
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-30-73
#289
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bill has
been signed:
AB 137 - Gonsalves
Delays the scheduled increase in the rates of
Chapter 67
the state's sales and use taxes from June 1,
1973 to July 1, 1973. Legislation enacted
in 1972 provided for an increase in the sales
and use tax rate from 3-3/4 percent to 4-3/4
percent effective June 1, 1973.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
6-1-73
#295
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 81 - Duffy
Requires the Department of Mental Hygiene to
Chapter 70
participate with the City of Porterville in the
construction of interceptor sewer facilities for
Porterville State Hospital and provides for the
state to expend from any available funds 20 percent
of the construction bid or $60,000 whichever is less
for such purposes.
AB 151 - Lancaster
Authorizes the Director of General Services, with
Chapter 68
the approval of the Department of Mental Hygiene and
the State Public Works Board, to convey approximately
6.8 acres of land at Pacific State Hospital to the
City of Pomona for use as a fire station.
AB 249 - Warren
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Food and
Chapter 71
Agricultural, Public Resources, and Water Codes.
AB 455 - Lanterman
Revises the requirements regarding advertisements,
Chapter 73
brochures, and manuals for 1974 or later model year
gasoline-powered motor vehicles which contain any
reference to the vehicle's horsepower.
AB 562 - Warren
Clarifies legislative intent that allowances for a
Chapter 74
specified dropout prevention program based upon a
furlough plan be made from the State School Fund.
SB 207 - Schrade
Exempts from property taxation the possessory interest
Chapter 72
which a nonprofit zoological society has in publicly
owned land while operating a ZOO or horticultural
display.
SB 251 - Nejedly
Makes technicalamendments to legislation enacted in
Chapter 69
1972 which increased the membership of retirement
boards in counties included under the County
Employees' Retirement Law of 1937.
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
6-1-73
#300
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced he has vetoed the following
bill:
AB 368 - Brown
Would generally prohibit school districts from
administering tests, or using individual scores
from tests, which measure or attempt to measure
the scholastic aptitude of pupils.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I would be sympathetic to legislation aimed at
eliminating possibilities for misinterpretation
of the meaning of aptitude test scores. This
should be done by requiring that administration and
interpretation of tests group or individual be
done by or under the close supervision of
appropriately qualified persons. Qualified persons
do not make final judgments regarding a child's
ability on one test alone. They are aware of the
margin of error for any specific test. They know
the degree of appropriateness of a specific test
for use with individuals of varying backgrounds.
"The language of AB 368 kills aptitude testing
rather than preventing its misuse. It provides
that, 'No school district may administer in
connection with the statewide testing program, or
otherwise, any group standardized test, or any other
test, which measures or attempts to measure the
scholastic aptitude of a pupil to any pupil or
group of pupils in the district.' This restriction
is too broad and removes from local school boards
the right to utilize a valuable testing procedue.
"I note that AB 368 accepts aptitude tests as part
of psychological evaluation. They are accepted
for placement in postsecondary education and to
determine scholarship eligibility. Tests useful
for these purposes are too valuable whether used
in a group or individual setting to eliminate.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
Governor Reagan today also announced he has signed the following
bill:
SB 112 - Rodda
Prohibits experimentation on live vertebrate
Chapter 76
animals in the state's public elementary and
high schools.
Upon signing the bill the governor made the following statement:
"It is with some uneasiness that I sign SB 112.
I was surprised to find only one letter of opposi-
tion from educators in the State of California
only one letter in a state with 1100 school
districts and 221 accredited postsecondary
institutions. I was surprised because of the
possible loss of valueable laboratory experience
for students who will go on to study biology and
medical and veterinary science in college. If
educational damage should result, I will propose
corrective legislation.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
6-6-73
#301
Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today announced that the following
bills have been signed:
AB 520 - Warren
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Business
Chapter 77
and Professions, Financial, Insurance, Labor,
Unemployment Insurance, and Welfare and Institutions
Codes.
AB 561 - Warren
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Public
Chapter 78
Utilities, Revenue and Taxation, and Vehicle Codes.
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
6-8-73
#311
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 89 - Bagley
Continues the increase from $80 to $120 per month
Chapter 75
after June 1, 1973, in the maximum amount payable
for each child under foster care programs. The
bill also eliminates the requirement that counties
be reimbursed on a quarterly basis in arrears on
certain increases in aid grants made by the 1972
legislature.
AB 413 - Lewis
Specifies that a candidate for a nonpartisan offic
Chapter 79
at a primary election who receives a majority vote
is elected, and that where two or more candidates
are to be elected to a nonpartisan office and a
greater number of candidates receive a majority
than the number to be elected, those candidates
shall be elected who secure the highest votes of
those receiving such majority, and equal in number
to the number to be elected. The bill restores
language formerly found in Article II, Section
2-3/4 of the Constitution. That section was
repealed by Proposition 7.
AB 915 - MacDonald
Provides that the children's treatment center
Chapter 80
at Camarillo State Hospital shall be known as the
Norbert I. Rieger Children's Treatment Center.
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
6-13-73
#315
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 190 - Papan
Prohibits any person, except law enforcement personnel
Chapter 87
when on duty, operating any motor vehicle from wearing
any headset covering, or any earplugs in, both ears.
AB 323 - Townsend
Prohibits rental of any vehicle, rather than small
Chapter 88
trailers or trailer coaches, for 30 days or less unles
all equipment required by the Vehicle Code has been
provided or offered to the lessee for his use.
AB
399
- Gonsalves Prohibits any person from operating any privately
Chapter 89
owned armored car, rather than any armored car, unless
a license to operate such car has first been obtained
from the Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol
AB 716 - Powers
Corrects an erroneous cross-reference in a Public
Chapter 90
Utilitites Code provision relating to highway carriers.
SB 114 - Berryhill Corrects an erroneous cross-reference in a Health
Chapter 81
and Safety Code provision relating to community
facilities.
SB 244 - Walsh
Limits the application of decreased speed limits for
Chapter 82
trucks on downgrades to vehicles having a manufacturert
gross vehicle weight rating in excess of 10,000 pounds
SB 280 - Grunsky
Authorizes cities, counties and districts to provide,
Chapter 83
in contracts for public projects, penalty clauses for
late completion and also bonus clauses for early
completion.
SB 318 - Dills
Permits certain garbage disposal districts with
Chapter 84
multiyear contracts, under specified conditions,
to levy a property tax rate in excess of the base
maximum permissible rate.
SB 329 - Way
Authorizes the Director of Food and Agriculture to
Chapter 85
permit for one year, by regulation, an alternative
sampling procedure, and maturity and quality standards
for canning tomatoes.
SB 478 - Marks
Removes the provision that unemployment disability
Chapter 86
compensation benefits may be reduced by payments
received under the maritime doctrine of maintenance
and cure, and that payments received under the
maritime doctrine of maintenance and cure can be used
in computing wages for the purposes of qualifying
for unemployment.
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
6-15-73
#318
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that the following bills have
been signed:
AB
627
- L.Greene Requires, unless exempted by the State Allocation Board,
Chapter 96
each school district applying, after July 1, 1973, for
state aid for the rehabilitation or replacement of
structurally inadequate school facilities to either,
(1) submit a long-range master plan justifying the
application, or (2) certify that replacement facili-
ties will be located on an existing site containing
a school building, or (3) certify that the applicant
district maintains only one school.
AB 383 - MacDonald Permits a county superintendent of schools to contract
Chapter 95
with a school district or another county superintendent
to provide education for physically handicapped pupils
residing anywhere within the county, rather than only
for those physically handicapped pupils residing in
school districts having an average daily attendance
of less than 8,000.
SB 37 - Dills
Permits all persons, rather than males, who were
Chapter 91
assigned to identification and communication duties
on August 4, 1972, to elect to be local safety members
if their employing contracting agency so elects.
SB 101 - Rodda
Eliminates authorization for the office of the
Chapter 92
California Educational Facilities Authority to be
maintained in any city other than Sacramento.
SB 363 - Grunsky
Increases the maximum tax rate in any zone created
Chapter 93
for flood control purposes within the San Benito
County Water Conservation and Flood Control District
from 25¢ to 40c per $100 of assessed valuation of
land and improvements if the voters of the zone
approve such an increase at a special election called
by the board of directors.
SB 467 - Collier
Appropriates $7.5 million in augmentation of the
Chapter 94
Emergency Fund of the Budget Act of 1972.
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
6-21-73
#342
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have been signed:
AB
147
- Burke Makes changes in the law relating to legal services
Chapter 105
provided to county committees on school district
reorganization.
AB 274 - Murphy Sets the fee for a permit to operate a temporary trailer
Chapter 98
park at $25, with no additional fee for the lots. The
bill also authorizes the appropriate enforcement agency
to determine the fees for construction, mechanical and
electrical installations in temporary trailer parks, for
each project, the determination to be based on the cost O
administration and enforcement, including the cost of
determining the amount of fees to be charged.
AB 463 -Hayden
Amends the Vocational Nursing Practice Act by providing
Chapter 106
for renewal of licenses every two years in accordance with
licensees' birth dates rather than requiring renewal of
all licenses on July 31 of each even-numbered year.
AB 479 - Wood
Permits exclusion of part-time employees of public
Chapter 107
agencies, other than school districts, from the federal
social security system and requires member contributions
to be paid for prior service included under the federal
system.
AB 675 - Dixon
Reduces from more than five years to more than three years
Chapter 108
the length of time a coroner must retain the official fil
for each deceased person before photocopying the contents
of the file.
AB 880 - Thurman
Validates the sale of certain surplus school sites by
Chapter 109
the Ripon Unified School District.
SB 161-Nejedly
Amends the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 to
Chapter 99
restrict application of a single rate of contribution
established by the county retirement board to persons
becoming members after the rate is made operative in the county.
SB 248 - Mills
Authorizes the Director of Finance to enter into an agree
Chapter 97
ment with the State Race Track Leasing Commission and the
22nd District Agricultural Association to advance moneys,
as a loan, for the construction of improvements at Del
Mar Race Track. The bill appropriates $1,300,000 for the construction of
such improvements.
SB 282 -Alquist Permits the Superintendent of Public Instruction to exempt
Chapter 100
a limited number of school districts from kindergarten
class size and reporting requirements.
SB 303 -Grunsky Establishes specified criteria to be considered by the
Chapter 101
court in determining reasonable compensation and neces-
sary expenses to be paid court-appointed counsel.
SB
320-Lagomarsino Requires the Board of Administration of the Public
Chapter 110
Employees' Retirement System upon request of any
public agency, other than school districts, after an
affirmative, secret vote of the majority of employees affected, to execute
a modification excluding coverage of part-time positions under social security.
SB
348
-Rodda
Authorizes the Superintendent of Public Instruction to
Chapter 102
increase from one to not more than five, the number of
school district pilot programs to determine the feasibilit
of extending greater flexibility to students in outside class experience.
SB
441
Rodda
Appropriates $110,000 from the General Fund to the
Chapter 103
Department of Parks and Recreation for purposes of
See Rel. 344
archaeological exploration of the proposed site of the
new Governor's mansion. The bill further provides that
dtd. 6-21-73
human skeletal remains found by the archaeological
exploration shall be reburied in a proper location but
not under presently planned future structures.
SB 471 - Alquist Appropriates $300,000 to the Department of Justice to
Chapter 104
settle the claim of David Anderson against the State of
California.
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
6-21-73
#344
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation (SB 441-Rodda)
appropriating $110,000 for the archaeological exploration of the
proposed site of the new governor's mansion in Carmichael and to
provide for the reburial of any skeletal remains found on the property.
"I am happy to sign this measure, " Governor Reagan said, "because
it provides money not only for the exploration of the site but for
the landscaping of a suitable area to rebury any human skeletal remains
found. This will include proper marking of graves and, I believe, will
uphold the dignity of the Indians who may be buried there."
The area is designated in a University of California Archaeological
Survey as the site of a prehistoric Indian village.
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
6-27-73
#349
Governor Ronald Reagan today vetoed SB 195, legislation which
lumps assembly, senate, and congressional reapportionment plans together
in one bill.
Here is the text of the governor's veto message to the legislature:
"I am returning without my signature Senate Bill No. 195 of the
1973 regular session entitled 'An Act to Repeal and Add Chapter 1
(Commencing with Section 300000), Chapter 2 (Commencing with Section
30100), and Chapter 3 (Commencing with Section 30200) of Division 16
of the Elections Code, relating to Reapportionment."
"The legitimate goals of reapportionment should be to achieve
fair and equal representation in the legislature and in congress for
all the people of California and to improve the capacity of our legisla-
tors to represent their constituents. So called 'gerrymandering' based
on political or racial considerations is inconsistent with those goals.
Instead of allowing such motives to distort the districting process,
I believe the legislature should adhere consistently to such criteria as
relative equality of population, compactness, preservation of local
boundaries and communities of interest, and other factors which would
result in districts which preserve and enhance the quality of legislative
representation.
"My vetoes of the redistricting plans in December, 1971, were
based on lack of regard for these principles. Because the proposed
Congressional and Assembly districting measures contain no substantial
improvements over the 1971 proposals (indeed, many districts are even
less defensible), I am once again impelled, in the interests of equal
and effective representation, to veto the legislature's attempts at
reapportionment.
"The Senate districts set forth in Senate Bill 195, however, have
been improved since 1971. They are not subject in the same degree to
the criticisms of the Congressional and Assembly districts and, if I
had received a separate bill proposing establishment of these Senate
districts, I would have signed it because of the Senate's honest effort
during recent months to improve the districts. This effort was an
enlightened one in that it utilized population variations permitted in
the recent Virginia decision to reach its goal. On the contrary, the
Assembly district portions of the bill took no cognizance of this
decision.
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DISCUSSION OF "CRITERIA" FOR REDISTRICTING
"The principle that the legislature should be guided by standards
or criteria in reapportioning itself and the State's Congressional
districts has a long history. Article IV, Section .6 of the California
Constitution, adopted in 1926, provided in part as follows:
Such districts shall be composed of contiguous territory,
and assembly districts shall be as nearly equal in population
as may be
In the formation of assembly districts no county,
or city and county, shall be divided, unless it contains
sufficient population within itself to form two or more districts,
nor shall a part of any county, or of any city and county,
be united with any other county, or city and county, in forming
any assembly or senatorial district.'
Article IV, Section 27 of the California Constitution contains similar
provisions for Congressional districts.
"During the mid-1960's, the United States Supreme Court adopted
the rule that the paramount consideration which should govern State
Legislatures in redistricting themselves was the achievement of
population equality between districts. Now, in the case of Mahan V.
Howell, 410 U.S. 315, 1973, the United States Supreme Court has relaxed
this cold mathematical rule where state legislative, as distinguished
from congressional, districting is concerned. Specifically, it held that
the Virginia Legislature, in drawing a redistricting plan for the lower
house which respected the boundaries of local governmental subdivisions,
was permitted greater flexibility in population deviation between the
districts. Other decisionsof the United States Supreme Court have struck
down racial gerrymanders.
"The California Legislature has set forth in Government Code
Section 25001 the criteria which should be followed in reapportioning
county supervisorial districts. That section provides that the boards
may consider, in addition to equality of population, the following:
(a) topography, (b) geography, (c) cohesiveness, contiguity,
integrity, and compactness of territory, and (d) community of
interest of the districts.'
"With the recent Mahan decision further confirming the language of
the California Constitution and of my veto messages of January, 1972, I
wish to reemphasize criteria which should be considered as a basis for
a fair and equal redistricting. These are as follows:
"1. Districts should be as nearly equal in population as possible.
"2. Districts should be as compact as possible and provide easy
accessibility between different areas in the districts.
"3. Districts should be composed of contiguous territory.
"4. District lines should follow existing county and city
boundaries where possible.
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"5. Districts should be composed of communities which share
common historical, geographical, topographic, cultural, and other
interests.
"6. District lines should be drawn solely with regard to the
above criteria and without regard to race or ethnic background. District
boundaries should not attempt to exclude or include particular ethnic
or racial minorities in one constituency to dilute the voting strength
of such minorities, and when such minorities exist in large communities,
those communities should not be carved up among several districts in
order to proctect incumbents of another race or ethnic background.
"These principles improve citizen access and identification with
their elected representatives, facilitate communications of representa-
tives with their constituents, and reduce the costs of campaigns. More-
over, these criteria preclude meandering lines which reach out in order
to attach portions of other communities which may be many miles away and
separated from the heart of the district by mountain ranges or large
expanses of unpopulated territory, In summary, such criteria,
consistently applied, will produce districts which are fair to all
Californians and which enhance rather than impair the representative
process.
EXAMPLES OF FAILURE OF PLANS CONTAINED IN S.B. 195 TO MEET CRITERIA.
LACK OF EQUALITY OF POPULATION
"Despite some minor changes in the lines in some of the districts
in the Congressional plan, presumably to achieve greater equality than
the Assembly Bill 16 plan, 22 of the districts are unchanged by S.B.
195, and several of these still deviate from the equality of population
a good-faith effort could easily have achieved. Indeed, the difference
between the smallest unchanged district and the largest exceeds 3,000
persons.
Even some of the altered districts are still deficient in this
respect. In the case of the 21st district, territory was added even
though the district was already overpopulated. In enother instance,
several counties were combined to form three districts (the 1st, 5th and
6th districts), but the combined populations of these counties are more
than 2,000 short of the number of persons required for three full district
Such deviations from equality diminish equal representation for the
citizens in overpopulated districts.
LACK OF COMPACTNESS AND DIFFICULTY OF ACCESS
Examples of flagrant disregard for the interests of compactness
and ease of access are legion.
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"/Congressional
District 17 begins at Hillsborough in the central part of San Mateo
County and runs a long and narrow corridor deep into Santa Clara County,
through the city of San Jose, to the hills on the far side. Congressional
district 36, located in Kern and Kings Counties, is notable for its long,
thin arm which reaches through sparsely populated and unpopulated
stretches of San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties to attach the
population around the campus of the University of California at Santa
Barbara. Congressional District 42, based in central San Diego County
and including parts of the City of San Diego, runs in an irregular pattern
north to pick up part of the community of Newport Beach in Orange County,
80 miles away. Congressional District 43, a district based in Riverside
and Imperial Counties, unnecessarily includes citizens from distant
coastal areas near the City of San Diego, and part of the City itself.
Finally, Congressional Districts 28 and 37 in Los Angeles both include
grotesque appendages and meandering lines which cannot have resulted
from any acceptable rationale.
"The changes which SB 195 made in the 1971 AB 16 plan failed to
improve a single one of these deficiencies. Indeed, changes to the 17th,
28th, and 37th districts make them even less compact and more absurd than
they were in the 1972 versions.
"In the Assembly Plan, Assembly District 2 runs a long corridor up
the California coast, passing up nearer population along the way.
Assembly District 29 extends all the way from the community of Taft in
Kern County to the City of San Jose in Santa Clara County, truly a
remarkable feat of cartography. Assembly District 23 runs from the San
Luis Obispo-Kern County line to the western San Bernardino County
communities of Upland and Ontario. Assembly District 69, which has
probably elicited more adverse public comment than any other district,
runs in narrow, irregular corridors along the borders of Orange and Los
Angeles Counties. San Diego County Assembly districts 76, 78, 79, and 80
wander through the county in jigsaw fashion, dividing the urban areas of
the county in an irrational manner which is bound to confuse the electorate.
"I cannot in good conscience conclude that these districts are fair
in any way to the citizens placed at their extreme ends, for such
configurations of districts as found in these plans are a mockery of good
government and cannot fail to impair the responsiveness and effectiveness
of representation accorded to the citizens of the state.
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"UNNECESSARY DIVISION OF CITIES, COUNTIES AND COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST
"My comments in my veto message of AB 12, 1971 Extraordinary
Session, apply with at least equal vigor to these plans also: as in
that plan, another major flaw in these plans 'is the blatant failure to
pay due respect to the needs and interests of the different communities
and the political divisions in the state. The districts provided for
cut across county and city lines, fragment other established political
divisions of the state, and violate the identity of innumerable
communities. Again, the sole purpose seems to have been to achieve
partisan gains. #
"Numerous examples of divisions of local political subdivisions
could be cited. Congressional District 17 divides almost every city it
touches (revisions in this district since the AB 16 plan of 1972 have
resulted in the division of yet another city). Congressional Districts
23 and 34 wind tortuously through Los Angeles and Orange Counties,
crossing city boundaries with utter abandon and creating districts
composed of widely separated fragments of cities and communities of
interest. Congressional District 38 substantially divides 6 of the 7
largest cities within its borders including Riverside, San Bernardino,
and Pomona.
"Assembly District 9 reaches into the central parts of Sacramento,
Stockton and even the tiny community of Woodland. Assembly District 27
runs a long and narrow appendage in grotesque fashion down El Camino
Real, dividing the cities of Burlingame, San Mateo, Belmont, San Carlos
and Redwood City. Assembly districts in the eastern part of Los Angeles
County seemingly pay no attention at all to community lines as they
wander in random fashion throughout this area, Assembly District 69, of
course, notorious for its absurd, contorted corridors, is also notable
for its division of virtually every community it touches, since few
incorporated communities are small enough to fit within such narrow
confines.
"Again, I cannot say in good conscience that these plans pay due
regard for the value of preserving our communities intact within the
representative structure or provide the citizens within these communities
and immediately surrounding areas with the fair and equitable
representation to which they are entitled. Accordingly, I cannot sign
the bill and it is returned herewith."
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
6-29-73
#352
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have been
signed:
AB
244-MacDonald Eliminates a duplicate Education Code provision
Chapter 116
relating to classified school employees.
AB 670-Lancaster
Requires the undersheriff, rather than the assistant
Chapter 117
sheriff, to assume the duties of sheriff when the
office of sheriff is vacant. The bill requires the
assistant sheriff to assume the duties of sheriff when
both the offices of sheriff and undersheriff are vacant.
SB 52 -Gregorie
Provides that proficiency standards established by the
Chapter 111
Department of Education for school districts to measure
eligibility of individuals for exemption from compulsory
continuation education may be declared operative by the
department prior to the current statutory date of
September 1, 1975.
SB 376 - Biddle
Authorizes the Beaumont Irrigation District to change
Chapter 113
its name to the Beaumont Water District.
SB 507 - Way
Permits bonding requirements for county agricultural
Chapter 112
commissioners, county librarians, and county road
commissioners to be satisfied by a master bond covering
more than one county officer, employee, or agent.
SB 778 - Collier
Transfers duties relating to the state accounting
Chapter 114
systems from the Department of General Services to
the Department of Finance.
SB 906 - Coombs
Amends the Contractors License Law by granting exemp-
Chapter 115
tions from registration as home improvement salesmen to
(a) sales persons whose sales are all made pursuant to
prior negotiations between the parties at a business
establishment at a fixed location where goods or
services are offered or exhibited for sale and (b)
sales persons whose sales are all made pursuant to
negotiations between the parties initiated by the
prospective buyer at or to such a business establishment
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
6-30-73
#361
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that the following bills
have been signed:
AB 346 - Mobley
Exempts nectarines shipped out of state for processing
Chapter 127
from the packing and marking requirements of the Food
and Agricultural Code otherwise required for nectarines
shipped as fresh fruit. The fruit shipped under this
exemption must meet the basic quality requirements
established for nectarines and may only be shipped
under a permit issued by the county agricultural
commissioners. The bill also authorizes establishment
of a charge to cover the cost of issuing the permit.
AB 423 - Bagley
Provides that the provisions transferring boards
Chapter 122
relating to the healing arts from the Department of
Consumer Affairs to the Department of Health, operative
July 1, 1973, shall not become operative until July 1,
1977.
AB 432 - Seeley
Extends from January 1, to June 30, 1973, the date by
Chapter 123
which documents relating to certain boundary changes
in a school district must be filed with government
agencies for assessment and tax purposes during the
1973-74 fiscal year.
AB 893 -MacDonald Provides for a maximum authorized property tax rate in
Chapter 128
zone 1 of the Ventura County Flood Control District of
38 cents per $100 of assessed valuation until July 1,
1975, at which time such maximum rate reverts to 20 cents
AB 897 - Arnett
Updates existing laws to provide for a general
Chapter 124
validation of apportionments that had become final
under the State Building Aid Law prior to January 1,
1974.
AB 2533 - Briggs
Increases, for the purpose of specified policies of
Chapter 125
group life insurance, the age limit for covered
dependent children from 20 years through 22 years of
age in certain circumstances.
SB 180 - Marler
Includes within the definition of "common trade or
Chapter 118
business," for purposes of group workmen's compensation
insurance policies, specified operations in logging,
sawmills, and related wood products operations and
manufacturing operations.
SB 316 - Song
Allows proceedings to incorporate an area to be started
Chapter 119
by a petition of 25 percent of the registered voters
of such area rather than by landowners only.
SB 451 -Gregorio
Specifies that, notwithstanding any other provisions of
Chapter 126
law, cities in San Mateo County incorporated after
April 1, 1971, but before May 31, 1971, shall not be
subject to specified planning provisions until June 30,
1974.
SB 594 - Marler
Extends the date for adoption of the conservation ele-
Chapter 120
ment and the open space element of city and county
general plans from June 30, 1973, to December 31, 1973.
It also requires that zoning be consistent with the
general plans by January 1, 1974. It would provide
further that beginning on January 1, 1974, no mandatory
element of a general plan may be amended more than three
times per year, that hearings on zoning changes to
bring the zoning into conformity with changes in general
plans could not be held within two weeks of the change
in the general plan, and that a zoning ordinance must
be amended within a reasonable time after it becomes
inconsistent with a general plan by reason of a change
in the general plan.
SB 1351-Lagomarsino Continues the existence of the Commission for
Chapter 121
Economic Development until January 1, 1976.
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
6-30-73
#363
Budget 1973- BRown perof
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement:
"Well, here we are again, on the late, late show.
"I was hoping that, for once, I might be able to sign a budget
around the constitutional deadline -- which for the legislature was
and
June 15, but the legislature was late again.
"In reporting on the budget I am about to sign there has been a
great deal of comment about that being the biggest in the state's
history. Actually, only one-third of it is required to run state
government. The reaminder is what the state merely collects and turns
back to local government and the public schools.
"But the principal reason this budget is so large is because ap-
proximately $1 billion of it does not represent an increase in government
spending but a transfer of cost from local government to the state. This
billion dollars is being returned directly to the people in the form of
property tax relief -- relief which millions of California homeowners
already are seeing reflected in their property tax bills. Only several
years ago, the cynics were saying such tax relief would never become a
reality.
"This budget reflects the greatest one-year increase in state
support for local schools ever achieved by any state in any year. The
critics also said that could never happen, but it has.
"In fact, nearly one-half of our general fund budget for the coming
year is devoted to the support of education in California.
"You'll be interested to know that state support for local schools
is up 31 percent over last year and has increased 50 percent over the
last three years.
"Under this budget, state funding for assistance to economically
disadvantaged students at the California State University and Colleges
will more than triple (254%) what it was only three years ago.
"The budget also sets aside more than $85 million to beef up our
growing state park system, an increasing source of pride to all Californ-
ians.
"Now, I know my mentioning these things must seem somewhat out of
character for me, but be assured -- I have not forgotten to bring my
big blue pencil and, let there be no mistake, I am going to use it in
vetoing some $80 million out of the budget.
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"Nearly one-half of that is in welfare and Medi-Cal expenditures--
money which is not needed because of the vastly reduced welfare caseload
in California. In fact, because of this administration's successful
efforts to drastically overhaul and reform welfare, there are now 318,000
fewer persons drawing welfare in the state than when we began implementing
the reforms in March of 1971. Yet the truly needy on welfare are
receiving considerably higher grants to meet their needs than ever before.
"There are many other specific items in this budget which might
be mentioned but time does not permit.
"I would, however, like to put the budget in a broader and very
serious perspective. If you think $9.4 billion is large, I invite you to
look down the road just 15 years when the state's budget will be five
times this big. But even worse, the statewill have increased its tax
take from the average Californ ia wage earner's dollar by 40 percent.
"Our projections show that this will indeed happen unless something
is done soon to halt this trend.
"The people of California will have just such an opportunity this
November at the ballot box -- to assure that the trend toward bigger and
more expensive government is reversed and the tax burden they bear is
actually reduced, by order of the Supreme law of our state, the California
Constitution.
"No amount of realistic cut-squeeze-and-trin can do it. I know
because we've made that a hallmark of this administration. The
tremendous special interest pressures on the legislature to spend more
and more of the people's money have convinced me that even the most frugal
administration cannot halt the trend toward a heavier and higher tax
burden without the mandatory restraint of a tax limit.
"The size of this and future state budgets should put every citizen
on notice that unless they vote to limit and control government's
appetite for the people's earnings -- by constitutional decree -- it
is only a matter of time before government will be taking most of their
wages in taxes, if our free economic system doesn't collapse first.
"These are sobering thoughts. But, they are surely true."
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
6-30-73
#364
Governor Ronald Reagan today made the following statement per-
taining to the veto of SB 425:
"Last winter, when the dimensions of our tax surplus became
apparent, I proposed that we simply give the money back as nearly as
possible to those who paid it in. This could best be done by a
six-month delay of the scheduled sales tax increase, and a 20 percent
across-the-board income tax rebate. The remainder should be spent on
parks and beaches and to restore the Capitol building.'
"Although the democrat leaders said they did not favor returning
the surplus taxes to those who paid, Assemblyman Bagley introduced such
a bill in the Assembly, and Senator Lagomarsino introduced a similar
bill in the Senate.
"Stating to us that his pending plans would require that we keep
the excess income taxes and begin collecting an un-needed sales tax on
July 1, the Assembly Speaker killed the Bagley bill almost immediately.
It was then apparent that Senator Lagomarsino's bill to delay the sales
tax and return the excess income taxes would meet the same fate at
the hands of the Speaker.
"Therefore, we included the 20 percent rebate in our tax
initiative for next fall, and put the parks and Capitol money in the
upcoming 1973-74 budget. But there was nothing we could do about the
sales tax delay without a specific bill, which the Speaker had already
said he would not give us, and had confirmed this fact by killing the
Bagley bill. Still showing his constant opposition, he recently in
effect killed the Lagomarsino bill after it had passed the Senate by
having it amended, over the author's objections, to prevent the rebate
from going to those who paid it.
"Despite all I could do publicly and privately to get him to let
through a bill which would delay the sales tax increase, he remained
adamant. A third attempt to delay the un-needed tax was then made by
Senator Dills. The Speaker killed that, too, by refusing to let it be
fair, though Senator Dills was willing to do SO.
"Finally, on the last day, loudly professing to favor a sales tax
delay which he alone had prevented, the Speaker allowed a deferral bill
to pass. However, fearful that it might actually become law, and he
would thus be deprived of all that excess spending power, he without
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any hearings or analysis, attached to the bill, a grossly unfair and
unequitable provision to distribute the excess income taxes to those
who hadn't paid them. By thus bypassing all the legislative processes
he professes to revere (presumably because such a proposal could not
have survived public hearings), he effectively killed, for the fourth
time in as many months, a sales tax delay. I cannot sign this bill
because in his haste to present something he could pretend was a
legitimate compromise attempt the bill is out of balance by $50 million.
"Throughout that last day, I made every attempt possible to get
the majority leadership of both houses to give me a simple, six-month
sales tax delay bill. I even offered a fair and substantially more
generous income tax rebate proposal which I promised would be in
writing and fully aired in time for 1973 tax returns.
"Responsible leaders of both parties, in both houses, agreed with
me, and in the final hour of the session, reconvened the conference
committee on SB 90 so that a simple amendment delaying the sales tax
increase could be passed. They accepted my promise that the income
tax rebate problem would be dealt with later this year in a fair,
responsible, timely and open manner. Three members of the conference
committee voted to delay the sales tax increase: two senators and one
assemblyman. One more assemblyman was needed. The Speaker was a
member of that conference and was that vote. He refused. Thus, for
the fifth and last time, he personally killed the sales tax increase
delay measure, just as he had vowed for many months he would do.
"The Speaker's original purpose of imposing the un-needed sales
tax prevailed. He knew that a fair bill, or a simple delay bill, would
be signed immediately, and he would be deprived of all that extra
spending power.
"He has confirmed beyond doubt that much needed tax relief can
only be achieved by the taxpayers themselves.
"Therefore I must return this bill unsigned."
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
7-3-73
#375
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 141 -MacGillivray Authorizes the Chief of the California State Police
Chapter 132
to advance initial uniform costs to entering
members of the State Police.
AB 156 - Mobley
Provides that, with respect to the annexation by a
Chapter 133
city of certain noncontiguous city-owned territory,
the city employees and their families living in
housing furnished by the city within the territory
shall not be deemed to be registered voters residing
within the territory.
AB 481 - McCarthy
Increases the maximum amount of insurance on any
Chapter 134
one borrower or purchaser from $10,000 to $15,000
under a group life insurance policy issued to a
credit union, financial institution, creditor or
vendor and increases the term of such covered
credit union loan from 20 to 30 years.
AB 573-MacGillivray
Requires motorcycles manufactured and first
Chapter 135
registered on or after January 1, 1973, to be
equipped with a lamp-type turn signal system
meeting the requirements of specified provisions of
the Vehicle Code relating to lighting equipment.
AB 574-MacGillivray
Provides for a method of measuring the length of
Chapter 136
meshes for knotless commercial fishing nets, by
measuring the meshes inside the points at which the
meshes are joined while they are simultaneously drawn
closely together.
AB 575-MacGillivray Amends the County Emplyees' Retirement Law of 1937
Chapter 137
to specifically provide that safety members, as
well as general members, are entitled to receive
deferred retirement.
AB 592 - Miller
Provides that farm loan bonds and other obligations
Chapter 138
issued under the Farm Credit Act of 1971 are lawful
investments for nondepartmental banks, savings banks,
public agencies, and insurance companies.
AB 663 -Greene, L.
Makes membership in the California Cadet Corps
Chapter 139
available to female students.
AB 825 - Russell
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to provisions of the
Chapter 140
Government Code.
AB 932 - Mobley
Raises from $65,000 to $100,000 the estimated cost of
Chapter 141
a project which a state agency may carry out directly
if in the opinion of the Department of General Services
the Department of Water Resources, the Department of
Navigation and Ocean Development and the Department of Public Works as to
projects under their respective jurisdiction that its services are not
required.
SB
322- Beilensen Provides that the law requiring a physician's certifi-
Chapter 130
cate, indicating a female applicant's immunological
response to rubella, as prerequisite to obtaining
marriage license, be suspended until January 1, 1974, for particular
counties, if the Department of Public Health makes determination on or
before the effective date of this bill, based on specified standards, that
a county lacks adequate laboratory facilities.
AB 99-Vasconcellos Makes several changes relating to the operation of
Chapter 131
year-round schools.
AB 110 - Brown
Budget Act of 1973.
Chapter 129
See Release # 363, dated 6-37-73
AB 437 - Hayden
Makes changes necessary to conform statutes to
Chapter 142
Governor's Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1970.
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE:
Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
7-6-73
#384
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 188 - Cullen
Requires the medical director of a state hospital
Chapter 161
or his designee to transmit a copy of the request
for release and give specified notice by registered
or certified mail to the parent, guardian, or
conservator of any adult admitted to a state hospital
as a mentally retarded patient who requests release,
or for whom release is requested.
AB 226 - Knox
Provides that when a party to an action or proceeding
Chapter 162
before the Public Utilities Commission applies for a
rehearing of the commission's decision or oder 10
days or more before the effective date of the decision
or order, the order shall in the absence of a further
order of the commission, not stand suspended for more
than 60 days, at which time the suspension shall
lapse, the order shall become effective, and the
application for rehearing considered to be denied.
The bill also provides, where the application for
rehearing is within less than 10 days before the
effective date of the decision or order, the party
may consider the application denied when a rehearing
is not granted within 60 days, rather than within
20 days.
AB 233 - Cullen
Includes certified common carriers operating defined
Chapter 163
vessels in transit in the Pacific Ocean from points
on California shore to points in California off the
California shore in provisions permitting sale and
delivery of distilled spirits in packages of less
than one-half pint to described carriers for use and
consumption on trains, boats, or airplanes.
AB 242 - MacDonald
Repeals inoperative provisions of the Education Code.
Chapter 164
AB 243 - MacDonald
Repeals an outdated provision of the Education Code.
Chapter 165
AE 246 - MacDonald
Repeals outdated provisions of the Education Code.
Chapter 166
AB 519 - Warren
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Civil Code,
Chapter 167
Code of Civil Procedure, Elections Code, Penal Code
and Probate Code.
AB 524 - MacDonald
Authorizes rather than requires the governing board
Chapter 168
of a school district to employ a principal for each
school under its control. The bill also deletes
obsolete and unnecessary language in the Education
Code.
AB 526 - MacDonald
Deletes obsolete provisions of the Education Code
Chapter 169
relating to community colleges.
AB 563 - Duffy
Appropriates $60,000 from the Department of
Chapter 170
Agriculture Fund for research for pink bollworm
control on cotton. The funds are provided by an
industry Cotton Bale assessment and the appropriation
may be expended by the director of Food and
Agriculture upon the recommendation of the Cotton
Pest Control Board.
AB 643 - MacDonald
Deletes cross references to outdated and repealed
Chapter 171
sections of the Education Code.
AB 672 - Antonovich
Revises minimum net worth requirements for savings
Chapter 172
and loan associations.
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AB 685 - Johnson, R. Amends the Home Furnishings Act with respect to
Chapter 173
custom upholsterers. It requires them to give their
customers written estimates of the price of labor
and materials for a particular job, prohibits them
from commencing work before receiving authorization
from the customer or charging for work or materials
different from or in excess of the estimate without
the customer's consent, and requires that all work to
be performed be recorded on a work order in the
detail required by the regulations of the Bureau of
Home Furnishings.
AB 718 - Powers
Changes the definition of "temporary military leave
Chapter 174
of absence, a period during which public employees
continue receiving their salaries, to "active
military training, and excludes "drills."
AB 722 - Boatwright
Provides for transfer, by the county auditor of
Chapter 175
employer contributions to the retirement system from
appropriations to the retirement fund, and for
certification by the county auditor to the retirement
board of the amount of compensation subject to
contribution.
AB 780 - Powers
Makes a conforming change to a provision of the
Chapter 176
Military and Veterans Code provisions relating to
military leave for public employees.
AB 792 - Lewis
Deletes provisions requiring on-sale general
Chapter 177
licensees to destroy distilled spirits bottles
immediately after emptying them, and deletes other
provisions relating to empty distilled spirits
bottles. The bill adds a new section of law to
prohibit on-sale general licensee or his employees
from selling, offering to sell, or keeping for sale
any empty distilled spirits bottles.
AP 805 - Boatwright
Authorizes outdoor science education and conservation
Chapter 143
education programs and classes to be conducted on
the July 4 holiday.
AB 942 - Thomas
Authorizes the taking of sea urchins with rakes,
Chapter 178
airlifts, or other handheld appliances, subject to
such regulations as may be prescribed by the Fish
and Game Commission, rather than requiring a special
permit for such taking.
AB 1039 - Chappie
Permits owners of land within the Canebrake County
Chapter 179
Water District, as well as registered voters of the
district, to be members of the board of directors of
the district.
AB 1059 - Thomas
Removes opacity standard for fires set on islands
Chapter 180
15 or more miles from the mainland coast.
AB 1092 - Russell
Provides that the Los Angeles County Board of
Chapter 181
Supervisors may designate any county officer as
responsibile for any or all functions pertaining to
acquisition, construction, leasing, managing or
maintaining of public facilities which may be
consolidated into single organizational units.
AB 1338 - Wood
Permits the board of administration of the Public
Chapter 182
Employees' Retirement System to credit interest
earnings in excess of that regularly credited to
contributions to employer reserves rather than
residual reserve.
AB
1616 - Johnson, R. Appropriates $241,818 to the Reclamation Board for
Chapter 183
purchase of land in the vicinity of the Colusa Weir
for the purposes of the Sacramento River Flood
Control Project in the settlement of litigation.
SB 44 - Berryhill
Authorizes a school district to hold classes outside
Chapter 144
of the district because of a lack of facilities or an
inability to secure teachers. Approval by the county
superintendent of schools and the Superintendent of
Public Instruction is required, except in the case of
driver training classes.
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SB 59 - Carpenter
Specifies that, under certain conditions, persons
Chapter 145
regularly employed as airport security officers by
any airport operated by the City and County of San
Francisco or Orange County, are peace officers. The
bill also makes specific provision for training
programs for various airport security officers.
AB 209 - Deukmejian
Repeals the provision requiring the court clerk to
Chapter 146
transcribe testimony where a court reporter is
required but not in attendance.
SB 416 - Gregorio
Eliminates provisions regarding specified supervision
Chapter 147
and consultative personnel in the Department of
Education, and requires the Director of Education
to employ persons as necessary re programs for hard-
of-hearing children, educationally handicapped
pupils, mentally gifted pupils, multihandicapped
pupils, and development centers for handicapped
pupils.
SB 480 - Biddle
Provides that Eighth Street in the City of Banning,
Chapter 148
which is a part of Route 243, is a city street for
purposes of being eligible for grade separation fund
SB 490 - Schrade
Provides that any public agency providing water for
Chapter 149
fire protection purposes may fix and collect a charge
for installing and maintaining firehydrants,
SB 500 - Gregorio
Allows the San Mateo County Flood Control District
Chapter 150
to waive the statutory property tax maximum
limitation in order to finance a flood control
project.
SB 527 - Grunsky
Permits school districts to employ persons holding a
Chapter 151
designated subject teaching credential in a vocations
field to teach physically handicapped and mentally
retarded pupils in a sheltered workshop or
occupational training program.
SB 559 - Behr
Makes several changes in the law relative to
Chapter 152
procedures for tax collection and duties of tax
collectors.
SB 609 - Stull
Amends the provision of the Contractors License Law
Chapter 153
that requires a licensee to include his license
number on all advertising.
SB 616 - Berryhill
Eliminates an outdated restriction on the packaging
Chapter 154
of pasteurized process cheese food, pasteurized
cheese spreads, and coldpack cheese foods.
SB 619 - Lagomarsino Requires that the State Lands Commission take steps
Chapter 155
necessary to accomplish the removal or conversion of
the shipwrecked vessel the La Jenelle. It further
provides that the County of Ventura is to maintain
and operate the jetty in perpetuity. The bill also
authorizes the Commission to contract directly with
any agency of the federal government for the removal
or conversion of the shipwreck.
SB 658 - Song
Provides for a $5.00 fee for filing a late or
Chapter 156
incorrect campaign statement or a claim for campaign
expenses with the Superior Court.
SB 711 - Rodda
Requires that the tax rate for elementary school
Chapter 157
districts for the 1972-73 fiscal year be deemed to
be at rate required in order to receive supplemental
support, if the correct rate had been approved by the
governing board but was not levied because of
administrative error.
SB 739 - Holmdahl
Permits a special district or county service area
Chapter 158
assuming a program or service previously performed
by a city, county or other special district to levy
a property tax rate sufficient to finance the
transferred program or service. The bill requires a
city, county or special district transferring a
service or program to reduce its maximum property
tax rate otherwise permitted by such rate which
produces the amount which was necessary to finance
the transferred service or program.
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SB 833 - Whetmore
Extends the time for a person to engage in the
Chapter 159
practice of speech pathology or audiology without
a license to July 1, 1974, rather than July 1, 1973.
SB 1150 - Lagomarsino
Permits cities and counties to appropriate funds
Chapter 160
and do all acts necessary to continue operation
of federal grant programs for a period exceeding two
years from termination date of such grant.
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bill has been
vetoed
SB 900 - Bradley
Excludes community college facilities leased for
two years or less from the provisions regarding
earthquake safety, provided that the level of safety
for the leased facility is equivalent to that
required for existing school buildings.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The author has requested that I return SB 900
unsigned so that he can introduce a new bill.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned." "
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
7-9-73
#385
Governor Ronald Reagan today vetoed legislation that would have
repealed part of California's relatives' responsibility law, and directed
the state Department of Social Welfare to revise its regulations to
eliminate inequities in administering the statute.
The bill, AB 57, introduced by Assemblyman Joe A. Gonsalves
(D-La Mirada), would have repealed the responsible relatives' provisions
existing under the state's Old Age Security program.
"During past months numerous complaints have been lodged against the
relatives' responsibility law," Governor Reagan said, "However, they have
not been directed against the concept of adult children contributing to
the support of their aged needy parents but at specific sections of the
law as it is administered.
"Included in the complaints are charges that amounts levied against
adult children are too high; the law has been applied inconsistently by
counties; and, costs of administration are too high.
"The measure I am vetoing today does not address these pressing
problems. It offers no solutions and proposes the extreme action of
outright repeal.'
Governor Reagan said adult children who are financially able should
contribute to the support of their needy parents "but on a fair and
equitable basis.
"Consequently," Governor Reagan said, "I am instructing the state
Department of Social Welfare to immediately revise its regulations to:
"1. Change the effective date of liability to the first of the month
in which responsible relatives are first billed." (Some relatives have
received their first bill for more than one month resulting in a large
first payment).
"2. Expand hardship exemptions to include full cost of medical and
dental care, funeral expenses, educational expenses of responsible
relatives and their children, and other similar financial hardships as
determined by the director of Social Welfare." (Under present regulations,
medical expenses must exceed three percent of the responsible relatives'
monthly income to qualify as an exemption. Payments to meet court ordered
judgments, garnishments, child support or alimony are now exemptions).
"3. Limit the responsible child's liability to his prorated share
based on the ability of all children in the family to pay. (If two of
three children fail to pay now, the third is billed the full amount).
"In addition, I will seek legislation to limit the responsible child's
liability to no more than the parent's assistance grant divided by the
total number of children in the family. This will create a true fair
share determination of liability.
"The integrity of our welfare program demands that responsible
relatives help support their parents. The general taxpaying public should
not be asked to assume the burden of supporting parents whose children
have the ability and legitimate responsibility to assist in meeting their
needs."
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
7-10-73
#386
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 174 - Beverly
Adds to the list of drugs that mobile intensive
Chapter 194
care paramedics are allowed to use under direction
of a physician or a mobile intensive care nurse.
AB 241 - MacDonald
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Education
Chapter 195
Code.
AB 309 - Gonsalves
Amends provisions of both the Bradley-Burns Uniform
Chapter 196
Local Sales and Use Tax Law and the Transactions and
Use Tax Law as amended by Chapter 1406 of the
Statutes of 1972. The bill also amends provisions
of Chapter 1406 relating to state reimbursement of
local government revenue losses resulting from sales
and use tax exemptions.
AB 415 - Keysor
Provides that the county department designated by
Chapter 205
the board of supervisors to administer the public
social services program, as well as the juvenile
probation officer, may be designated by a court to
conduct investigation with regard to a petition to
declare a minor free from parental custody and
control.
AB 441 - Deddeh
Permits, in the case of community college district
Chapter 197
and unified school district governed by common
governing board, that separate classified service
be established for each of the two districts in
accordance with specified provision where the people
have voted in favor of separate community college
district and unified district governing boards.
AB 525 - MacDonald
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Education
Chapter 198
Code.
AB 628 - Greene, L.
Makes technical change in provisions regarding
Chapter 199
alternative petitioning procedure to initiate
proceedings to transfer inhabited territory from one
school district to another.
AB 696 - Greene, B.
Provides that grandparents may apply for visitation
Chapter 200
rights for a grandchild when the grandchild is
adopted by a grandparent.
AB 1068 - Badham
Provides that a private school which receives
Chapter 201
tuition from a school district for providing special
educational facilities and services for certain
exceptional children because of unavailability of
public school facilities therefor, which employs a
teacher with a specified credential from a foreign
country, a specified diploma from a foreign country,
and specified minimum special teaching experience
shall be determined to meet the minimum state
educational standard re appropriate credentialing.
The bill is effective until June 30, 1974, at which
date it is repealed.
AB 1186 - Russell
Adds clarifying language to the Subdivided Lands Act
Chapter 202
relating to desist and refrain orders which expressly
provides for compliance with the order. The bill
also provides that service of the order may be made
in the same manner as the service of summons and
reduces the time to complete the administrative
hearing and for issuance of a final decision. In
addition, an unrelated obsolete section of the
Subdivided Lands Act is repealed.
AB 1230 - Fenton
Makes a clarifying change to the Vehicle Code
Chapter 203
provision which defines a speed trap.
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AB 2501 - Duffy
Authorizes registered nurses under specified
Chapter 204
conditions to administer tuberculin skin tests,
coccidioidin skin tests, histoplasmin skin tests,
and immunizing agents. The bill will cease to be
effective after December 31, 1975.
SB 146 - Nejedly
Requires the clerk of the municipal court to
Chapter 185
maintain a judgement book rather than a minute book.
SB 156 - Biddle
Amends the Public Records Act so that all air
Chapter 186
pollution emission data, including trade secrets,
are public records. Data used to calculate emission
data are not "emission data, and are not public
records if trade secrets.
SB 164 - Biddle
Authorizes the Director of Corrections to contract
Chapter 187
with the federal government for confinement, care
and treatment of state prisoners in federal
institutions.
SB 194 - Marler
Excepts from requirement of classification as an
Chapter 188
unnecessary small high school whenever a school
district maintaining a specified type of small high
school undertakes any building construction or
alteration thereof for the purpose of complying with
the law relating to fitness of school buildings for
occupancy and earthquake safety. The bill also
authorizes an exemption from such classification by
the Superintendent of Public Instruction on the
basis of hardship.
SB 308 - Alquist
Corrects an erroneous cross-reference relating to
Chapter 189
establishments and institutions for mentally
disordered or incompetent persons.
SB 315 - Song
Permits school district governing boards to adopt
Chapter 190
interim salary schedules for classified employees
providing for a proposed salary increase to be
effective and payable from date of adoption of such
interim schedule, or later specified date, if such
proposed increase is subsequently approved by federal
Cost of Living Council.
SB 455 - Song
Adds chiropractic organizations to the list of
Chapter 191
professional societies whose committee members are
not liable for acts or proceedings undertaken or
performed to maintain its professional standards.
SB 646 - Gregorio
Provides that specified compulsory attendance in
Chapter 192
continuation classes may be for not less than 15
hours per week, rather than not less than 3 hours
per day.
SB 656 - Stull
Permits the person authorized by a local school
Chapter 184
district governing board to make payments from its
revolving cash fund to issue a signed check payable
to a vendor and allow the vendor to fill in the
amount to be paid upon shipment of purchases. The
check is not to be valid for more than $100.
SB 1440 - Stevens
Amends and supplements the Budget Act of 1973 to
Chapter 193
appropriate $95,000, payable from the state Beach,
Park, Recreational and Historical Facilities Fund,
for acquisition at Temescal Canyon Park, City of
Los Angeles.
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
7-11-73
#390
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced California has received
$24,057,700 in federal funds to support Summer Neighborhood Youth Corps
programs and, as a result, he has vetoed legislation that would have
provided state money for the projects.
The legislation, Senate Bill 700, introduced by Senator Milton Marks
(R-San Francisco), would have appropriated $24,600,000 in state funds
for the programs.
In his veto message, Governor Reagan said:
"This bill would appropriate $24,600,000 to support existing
programs in the Summer Neighborhood Youth Corps. Federal funds had been
impounded and it appeared California would have no federal support for
this summer's youth opportunities programs. However, a federal district
court in New Jersey ordered federal officials to release money to the
states and on July 11, 1973, the U.S. Department of Labor released
$24,057,700 to California for summer youth programs. Thus, the problem
to which SB 700 is addressed no longer exists.
"Moreover, Section 1 of SB 700 refers to the proposed 1973-74
federal budget, rather than the 1972-73 federal budget. Under this
language, there is doubt as to whether the bill is directed to the
financing problem for this summer, or instead could provide an additional
$24,600,000 on top of the federal funds just released. This could occur
if federal funding under the 1973-74 federal budget is not forthcoming
to finance summer youth programs for the summer of 1974.
"I have met and conferred with numerous California mayors on the
youth employment programs and agree with them that they are in the best
interests of all Californians. I support funding for this year's program.
In the event federal funding is affected by any further litigation, I
would reconsider any later bill for supplementary state funding.
"At this time, SB 700 is not needed. Federal funds have been
provided to support the program this summer. Accordingly, I am returning
the bill unsigned."
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
7-12-73
#391
Governor Ronald Reagan, making good on a pledge he made last
December, today signed legislation granting an additional $65 million
in state support for California's community colleges. It is the largest
single increase in state funds ever granted the community college system.
The legislation, SB 6, introduced by Senator Alfred E. Alquist
(D-San Jose) and supported by the Reagan administration, boosts state
support of the 96 two-year schools from $201 million to $266 million
during the 1973-74 fiscal year. It increases the state's share of
support from approximately 34 percent to 41 percent.
Since 1967, Governor Reagan has signed legislation which had the
combined effect of increasing state support by $43 per ADA (Average
Daily Attendance). This latest legislation increases ADA support by
approximately $107 for an average of $940 per ADA, including state and
local monies. Regular, full-time student aid will go to $1020 per ADA,
while the ADA support for part-time students over 21 years of age will
be $556, for an average of $940.
Average Daily Attendance in the community colleges has increased by
81 percent since 1966-67 fiscal year while state support has increased
more than 195 percent during the same period.
In December of last year, Governor Reagan vetoed SB 95, introduced
by Senator Alquist, which would have raised the level of state support
by more than $100 million. In his veto message, the governor promised
to help eliminate technical difficulties in the Alquist measure and to
review the complex problems of community college financing.
His veto message said, in part
"SB 95 as it was enacted by the
legislature was expected to cost approximately $60 million. As a
consequence of some chaptering problems with Senate Bill 90, (the 1972
Reagan-Moretti property tax relif measure) the estimated cost as it was
delivered to my desk was approximately $111 million. I think it is
appropriate that this bill be returned to the legislature so that they
may again fully review the issue of community college financial aid during
the 1973 legislative session
"
Governor Reagan said the new legislation includes provisions to
increase the state contribution for community college education by an
annual inflation factor. The amount as stated in the bill will increase
program support for community colleges by $60 per student in 1974-75, $63
per student in 1975-76 and $66 per student thereafter.
In addition, the legislation includes the revenue controls found in
SB 90, which place a limitation on local tax rates and lower property
taxes in 50 of the state's 68 community college districts. (see attached
list).
Provisions are also included to eliminate basic aid for out-of-state
students, and for the reexamination of the schools' attendance accounting
procedures. The governor said the latter provision is an essential
element in the bill since the measure authorized "the expenditure of
additional state funds of this magnitude."
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#391.
COMMUNITY COLLEGES WITH LIMITATION ON TAX
RATES AND LOWER PROPERTY TAXES
District Name
1972-73
1973-74
Allan Hancock Joint
$0.4809
$0.2920
Barstow
$0.9335
$0.8974
Butte
$0.5160
$0.4972
Cabrillo Joint
$0.5260
$0.4538
Cerritos
$0.5680
$0.4779
Chaffey
$0.5443
$0.5138
Citrus
$0.6758
$0.5253
Coast
$0.6306
$0.5931
Compton Junior College
$0.4868
$0.3846
Contra Costa Junior College
$0.5210
$0.4889
El Camino
$0.6341
$0.6015
Foothill Joint
$0.6940
$0.6076
Gavilan Joint
$0.5810
$0.5495
Glendale
$0.4693
$0.4265
Grossmont
$0.7920
$0.6573
Hartnell Joint Junior College
$0.7060
$0.6940
Imperial
$0.9369
$0.8187
Kern
$0.5172
$0.4886
Lassen
$0.5633
$0.1988
Long Beach
$0.5972
$0.5459
Los Rios Joint
$0.5400
$0.4670
Marin Junior College
$0.7100
$0.6709
Merced Junior College
$0.7600
$0.6348
Monterey Peninsula
$0.5300
$0.4482
Mt. San Antonio
$0.6474
$0.6190
Napa
$0.5500
$0.4838
North Orange County Joint
$0.4951
$0.4703
Oceanside-Carlsbad
$0.6730
$0.6138
Palo Verde
$0.6010
$0.4543
Pasadena Area
$1.0215
$0.8825
Peralta
$0.5910
$0.5337
Rio Hondo
$0.4492
$0.3940
Riverside
$0.4870
$0.4007
San Bernardino
$0.6798
$0.6544
San Diego
$0.4820
$0.4510
San Francisco
$0.6496
$0.5795
San Joaquin Delta Joint
$0.4512
$0.3890
Santa Barbara
$0.5158
$0.5029
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District Name
1972-73
1973-74
Sequoias Joint
$0.5582
$0.4879
Sha-Te-Tr Joint
$0.4900
$0.4683
Sierra Joint
$0.6500
$0.6120
Siskiyou Joint
$0.5100
$0.4830
Sonoma County Joint
$0.4600
$0.4302
State Center Junior College
$0.4856
$0.4360
Sweetwater
$0.6460
$0.4899
Ventura County
$0.5391
$0.5130
Victor Valley
$0.7500
$0.7415
West Valley Joint
$0.5040
$0.4671
Yosemite Joint
$0.8500
$0.7572
Yuba
$0.6070
$0.5378
**All figures are Maximum tax rate (exluding allowable overrides)
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sa cramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
7-12-73
#393
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 30 - Z'berg
Prohibits, with certain exceptions, an insurance
Chapter 221
agent, broker or solicitor from requiring an insured
to purchase or maintain auto collision coverage as a
condition to the insurance and maintenance of auto
comprehensive coverage.
AB 34 - Chappie
Provides a procedure whereby the board of supervisors
Chapter 222
may direct the county treasurer to solicit and receive
bids for loans without advertising for them upon the
request of a local political subdivision which
periodically requires advances of current operating
requirements prior to receipt of tax revenues.
AB 68 - Chappie
Authorizes the proposed Kirkwood Meadows Public
Chapter 223
Utility District to provide snow removal and road
maintenance services in addition to other powers
provided by Public Utility District Act. The bill
also extends from January 1, to July 15, 1973, the
date by which documents relating to the formation of
certain recreation and park districts must be filed
with government agencies for assessment and taxation
purposes during the 1973-74 fiscal year.
AB 79 -Lancaster
Excepts from the 1½-mile prohibition against the sale
Chapter 224
of intoxicating liguor, sale or offering for sale any
beer or wine or both sold under a retail package off-
sale beer and wine license outside 2,000 feet of the
closest buildi ng of the Claremont Colleges.
AB 97 - Thurman
Allows districts organized under the Drainage District
Chapter 225
Act of 1903 for the principal purpose of lowering
water tables on district lands by means of subsurface
drainage systems to change the method of district
operations from a tax based on assessed value to a
uniform assessment based on the area of land,
regardless of assessed value.
AB 163 - Bee
Authorizes special school district governing board
Chapter 226
elections to be held at same time as regularly
scheduled elections, whenever a special election is
to be conducted within 90 days of the regularly
scheduled election, and then requires consolidation
of such special election with regularly scheduled
governing board election rather than requiring
consolidation within four months of the occurence
of a vacancy.
AB 240 -MacDonald
Makes technical amendments to the Education Code.
Chapter 227
AB 260-Lanterman
Provides that U-turns are permitted at traffic
Chapter 228
signals except where prohibited by signs, rather
than prohibited except where permitted by signs.
AB 271 - Chappie
Specifies that a court reporter shall, within 10
Chapter 229
days after the close of a preliminary hearing, if the
defendant is held to answer the charge only in a
superior court, or in other cases if the defendant
or prosecution orders the transcript, transcribe his
notes, and certify and deliver the original and
specified copies of the transcript.
AB 335 -L., Greene
Makes clarifying amendments to legislation enacted
Chapter 206
in 1972 relating to student residency in public
institutions of higher learning.
AB 379 -Boatwright
Provides that insurers shall not increase the premiums
Chapter 230
nor fail to renew an auto insurance policy based upon
accident involvement if the insured or applicant is a
peace officer or fireman and the accident occured while operating an
authorized emergency vehicle in response to a call to duty.
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AB 397 - Z'berg
Provides that after the commencement of an administra-
Chapter 231
tive hearing conducted by an agency itself with a
hearing officer presiding, the hearing officer shall
complete the hearing and render a proposed decision
when a quorum no longer exists.
AB 452 - Lancaster
Eliminates the requirement for a real estate salesman
Chapter 232
to submit a $4.00 fee to the Department of Real
Estate to record a change of business address, when
such change is caused by his employing broker.
AB 482 - McCarthy
Permits a guardian to invest his ward's assets in
Chapter 233
a federally-insured credit union.
AB 527 -MacDonald
Makes technical amendments to the Education Code.
Chapter 234
AB 551 - Maddy
Makes changes in the Civil Code provision relating
Chapter 235
to written estimates by farm machinery repair shops
on repairs to be made on farm machinery.
AB 787 - Dunlap
Authorizes changing the date of the organizational
Chapter 236
meetings of the Democratic county central committees
from the second Monday after the first day in January
following the direct primary election to the second
Monday after the first day in July following the
direct primary election, beginning in 1974.
AB 788 - Keysor
Authorizes a staff member of a county welfare depart-
Chapter 237
ment to witness certain stepparent adoption signatures
AB 824 - Russell
Authorizes governing boards of school districts to
Chapter 238
pay in advance for maintenance of equipment under
agreements not exceeding one year when such action
will result in a decrease in cost or which cannot
be secured without advance payments.
AB 883 - Warren
Provides that the salaries and expenses of a traffic
Chapter 239
trial commissioner and his staff shall be paid or
reimbursed to the extent funds are available, instead
of from federal funds. The bill also repeals the
provision that provides that the act authorizing
traffic trial commissioners shall remain in effect
only until December 31, 1973.
AB 890 - Seeley
Amends the Desert Water Agency Act to increase the
Chapter 240
allowable compensation for directors both for travel
and number of meetings; to authorize the Agency to
disseminate information concerning its activities;
to authorize the Agency to use 1913 and 1915 Improve-
ment Acts for financing construction of facilities;
to provide for collecting unpaid water charges through
special assessments and to permit the Agency to con-
demn property outside of its boundaries within River-
side and adjacent counties without the consent of the
boards of supervisors of those counties.
AB 1004 - Seeley
Authorizes the board of any county water district to
Chapter 241
permit the execution of district contracts by other
district officers without requiring the president of
the district to sign and the secretary of the district
to countersign the contract. The bill also provides
that delinquent and unpaid charges for water and other
services shall be added to the annual taxes next
levied by the district upon the property incurring the
charges, in accordance with specified provisions, only
if determined by the board to be so included.
AB 1005 - Knox
Increases the permissable compensation for directors
Chapter 242
of municipal utility districts to $50 for each meeting
attended. Compensation can be received for up to two
meetings per month.
SB 1364 -Lagomarsino Revises the method of computing amounts to be paid
Chapter 207
pursuant to interdistrict attendance agreements,
keying the amount to the revenue limit of the district
of attendance; and requires, effective July 1, 1973, crediting of average
daily attendance resulting from interdistrict attendance agreement to
the district in which the pupil lives.
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AB 1015 - Warren
Authorizes the Industrial Welfare Commission to issue
Chapter 243
shop permits to nonprofit sheltered workshops and
rehabilitation facilities setting special minimum
wage rates for all handicapped employees.
AB 1046 - Badham
Authorizes emergency work, found by the board of
Chapter 244
supervisors to be necessary in order to protect life
and property from immediately impending flood damage,
to be done by the Orange County Flood Control District
by negotiated contract without advertising for bids
therefor.
AB 1055--R.Johnson
Updates and revises definitions and labeling standards
Chapter 245
in the Food and Agricultural Code for flavored milk,
flavored low-fat milk, and flavored nonfat milk. The
bill also extends authorization for milk resale price
control in the same manner as is now provided for the
"unflavored" products.
AB 1065 - Thurman
Declares that certain provisions prohibiting making
Chapter 246
up or running any train with freight cars coupled to
the rear of passenger cars shall not apply to inter-
city rail passenger service operated by the National
Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) or any person
or corporation contracting with such corporation
except that cars so operated should be provided with
specified exits. The bill will permit Amtrak to pro-
vide autotrain service within the State for a test
period from the effective date of the bill until 1/1/76.
AB
1161
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Gonsalves Provides that property owned by certain charitable
Chapter 247
organizations which is leased to the U.S. Navy shall
be exempt from property taxation within the meaning
of the welfare exemption, applicable to property
tax assessments for 1974-75 and 1975-76 fiscal years
only.
AB 1215 - Ingalls
Provides that services of summons on a corporation in
Chapter 248
an accusatory proceeding may be on an agent of the
corporation degignated for service of civil process
in addition to designated corporate officers.
AB 1216 - Ingalls
Changes the language permitting a grand jury to pro-
Chapter 249
ceed against a corporation by deleting a cross-
reference to an obsolete Penal Code section.
AB 1267 - Gonsalves
Makes numerous changes to the State school finance
Chapter 208
system as modified by SB 90 (Chapter 1406, Statutes
394
of 1972)
AB 1354 - Powers
Revises membership of State Board of Registration
Chapter 250
for Professional Engineers to substitute for the
petroleum engineer and engineer in the most populous
branch of engineering at the time of appointment,
excluding the branches of civil engineering, mechan-
ical engineering and electrical engineering.
AB 1518 - Foran
Postpones to June 30, 1974, the date by which the
Chapter 251
Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation Distric
must submit to the Legislature its plan for transit
service.
AB 2562 - Murphy
Authorizes the governing board of a school district,
Chapter 252
which has a lack of facilities and has the approval
of the county superintendent of schools and the
Superintendent of Public Instruction, to maintain a
school or schools elsewhere than within district or
contract for the education of pupils with the
governing board of another district.
SB 1057 - Stull
Requires the parent or guardian of a pupil to be
Chapter 219
notified whenever the pupil is suspended from school.
SB 1286 - Mills
Authorizes the governing boards of school districts
Chapter 220
to exclude certain hourly and temporary hourly certi-
ficated employees and substitute teachers from pro-
visions requiring evaluation and assessment of
certificated employees.
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SB 6 - Alquist
Increases state support for the 96 public community
Chapter 209
colleges in California. The major features of this
See Ril, 391
bill are an increased foundation program coupled
with revenue controls which would provide for both
increased program support and local property tax
rollback---similar to that provided in Chapter 1406
of the Statutes of 1972 (SB 90) for elementary and
secondary school districts.
SB 139 - Dymally
Exempts the holder or agent of a holder of an off-
Chapter 210
sale general or off-sale beer and wine license from
the provisions of the Penal Code which prohibit the
sale of intoxicating liquors within specified
distances of various instutions. (To be operative
January 1, 1979). The bill also exempts specified
licensees who have conducted a retail grocery busines
and held an off-sale license at the same location
for at least 15 years from specified provisions of
law, if such licensees are located more than 2,000
feet from the specified grounds of the University
of California at Los Angeles.
SB 259 - Marler
Permits a member of a local agency formation
Chapter 211
commission in a county of not more than two cities
to vote on a city annexation proposal where such
member is also an officer of the city.
SB 288 - Deukmej
Provides that written consent of the Department of
Chapter 212
Veterans Affairs is not required where veteran,
alone or with his spouse, transfers his interest in
home or farm into a revocable trust established for
his benefit or for the benefit of himself and his
spouse.
SB 408 - Carpenter
Authorizes the governing board of a unified or high
Chapter 213
school district to hire a person requiring
certification qualifications and designate him a
temporary employee, when such employment is for the
first semester only and the district expects reduced
student enrollment due to graduation of students at
midyear.
SB 448 - Way
Specifically authorizes every water agency to
Chapter 214
construct, maintain, improve, and operate
recreational facilities. It authorizes water agencie
to fix and assess reasonable charges for public use
and to adopt regulations governing such use. The
bill also deletes the prohibition on county water
district exercising the power of eminent domain to
acquire land solely for recreational purposes, but
limits the exercise of such power for recreational
purposes to land within the district or contiguous
to the district.
SB 511 - Lagomarsino Authorizes the City Council of the City of Thousand
Chapter 215
Oaks to exclude from tax liability for payment of the
bonds of a county waterworks district formerly merged
by statute with the city, territory which receives
no benefit from the bonds, subject to specified
terms and conditions.
SB 516 - Biddle
Replaces the 3,000 foot elevation below which
Chapter 216
automobiles sold after January 1, 1971, must meet
prescribed smoke standards with a new 4,000 foot
minimum.
SB 585 - Marks
Authorizes the governing board of any school
Chapter 217
district in a city and county to conduct classes at
an airport and county jail located outside the
district.
SB 1005 - Bradley
Makes a technical, nonsubstantive change in the
Chapter 218
Education Code provision relating to compensating
time off when a classified employee is required to
work on a holiday.
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
7-12-73
#394
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that he has signed major
legislation to eliminate technical problems resulting from last year's
school finance and property tax relief (SB 90) measure.
The bill, AB 1267, is a compromise worked out among its authors,
Assemblyman Joe A. Gonsalves and Assembly Speaker Bob Moretti, the State
Department of Finance, the Department of Education, California Teachers
Association, California School Boards, Association and the California
School Administrators Association.
Governor Reagan said the bill was necesary to make workable the school
finance sections of SB 90, approved by the legislature in 1972. The new
law provides additional monies for educating California school students
while still providing major property tax relief.
Under the provisions of SB 90, funded by a penny increase in the sales
tax, the state's school districts, kindergarten through the 12th grade,
were to receive approximately $225 million in new state funds. In addition,
the districts' property tax school rates were to be rolled back $229
million.
However, after computing recent data on enrollments, assessed valuation
and the districts' tax rates, it was found that state funding of schools
would fall short of the $225 million by approximately $43 million, and the
property tax rollback would exceed the $229 million agreed to in SB 90 by
nearly $111 million.
The new statute provides readjustment of the formulas in SB 90, and
gives $235 million in new state support for the schools and reduces
property taxes in the school districts by $280 million.
This was accomplished in large part by permitting school districts to
increase their expenditures by $5 per student (average daily attendance)
from $65 to $70 in the additional state support provided by SB 90.
Thenew law permits school districts with declining enrollments, such
as Los Angeles, to increase their property tax rates for a one year
period to offset a proportion of the loss in state support if their
enrollments decrease by more than one percent a year.
In addition, it allows school districts the option to receive credit
for reserve funds spent in 1972-73 or to spend up to the maximum tax
rates previously approved by the voters.
The new law puts California in the position of meeting the objectives
of the Serrano decision by the California Supreme Court. The court ruled
in 1971 that varying expenditures for public school students violated the
equal protection guarantees of the U.S. Constitution.
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
7-13-73
#396
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced he has signed legislation,
AB 2530, authored by Assemblyman Robert E. Badham (R-Newport Beach), to
provide an adjustment in the property tax rates of Tustin, Saddleback
Valley and Irvine Unified School Districts in Orange County.
The three districts held a unification election in June 1972, and
voted tax rates of $3.90 for Tustin, $4.20 for Saddleback Valley and
$4.40 for Irvine. It was explained during the campaign that it was the
intention of the local school boards to also impose additional rates that
were then allowed by the state on a permissive basis.
In December of last year, when Governor Reagan signed SB 90, the
school finance and property tax relief measure, most of the permissive
overrides the boards had intended to impose were eliminated. As a result.
the districts faced serious fiscal problems.
The Badham bill provides that the school districts may impose, in
addition to the rates approved by the voters, a $1.50 levy for permissive
overrides. They may also impose, with the approval of the state
Superintendent of Public Instruction, an additional levy for inflation
that has occurred since June 30, 1971.
Governor Reagan said provisions of the Badham bill were unacceptable
because they would impose excessive rates. But after considerable
discussion with officials of the three school districts they have agreed
to impose general purpose property tax rates no greater than $4.75 per
$100 of assessed valuation for Tustin, $5.72 for Saddleback Valley, and
$5.84 for Irvine. The governor said letters have been received from the
superintendents of the districts stating that the maximum general purpose
rates will not exceed the above levels.
In addition, the superintendents of the districts have agreed that
legislation will be introduced this year placing the three school
districts under the provisions of SB 90 and AB 1267, the bill signed by
the governor earlier this week that eliminates technical problems in the
school finance and property tax statute.
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4371
7-13-73
#399
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 278 - Lewis
Authorizes school districts to pay expenses of
Chapter 253
instructors, chaperones, and other personnel
participating in a field trip or excursion, as well
as paying any incidental expenses for the use of
school district equipment.
AB 205 - Badham
Changes the name of "personalized license plates"
Chapter 265
to "environmental license plates." The bill
authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to
cancel, and require the return of, any environmental
license plates heretofore or hereafter issued,
containing any combination of letters, or numbers,
or both, that may carry connotations offensive to
good taste and decency.
AB 209 - Briggs
Deletes provisions authorizing county boards and
Chapter 266
supervisors and county officers designated by them t[
adjust or compromise county hospital charges
according to the financial condition of the patient,
his estate, or legally responsible relatives, and,
instead, permits adjustment or compromise of such
charges if: (1) the patient, his estate, or legally
responsible relatives, are unable to pay the charges
(2) collection of the charges is barred by the
statute of limitations or is otherwise legally
uncollectible; (3) the cost of collection would
exceed the amount reasonably anticipated to be
recovered; or (4) neither the patient nor his legally
responsible relative can be located.
AB 275 - Fenton
Repeals the specific Labor Code misdemeanor penalty
Chapter 267
for an employer who causes the death of an employee
through gross negligence in failing to provide a saf
employment and place of employment. The repeal of
the Labor Code misdemeanor provision will make
employers liable under the involuntary manslaughter
provision of the Penal Code.
AB 345 - Cullen
Provides that state moneys available to the
Chapter 268
Department of Veterans Affairs for paying a portion
of the costs of compensation and expenses of county
veteran service officers shall not include any funds
of the Veterans' Farm and Home Building Fund of 1943.
AB 470 - Bond
Amends the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937
Chapter 269
to permit personnel appointments by boards of
retirement and boards of investment and provides that
the expense of administration of the retirement
system up to a specified amount shall be charged
against the earnings of the retirement fund if such
appointments are made.
AB 506 - Holoman
Provides that a member of the Public Employees'
Chapter 270
Retirement System who concurrently renders service
in two or more positions one of which is full time
may designate which position shall be deemed overtime
AB 617 - Murphy
Establishes uniform criteria for suspension or
Chapter 257
revocation of the driving privilege, applicable to
both adult and juvenile offenders.
AB 633 - Davis
Requires the state Water Resources Control Board,
Chapter 258
notwithstanding the provisions of any existing
agreements, to pay under any contract for a construc-
tion grant entered into pursuant to the Clean Water
Bond Law of 1970 for a project for which the federal
grant offer was made on or after October 18, 1972,
an amount which equals 12½½ percent of the eligibile
project cost.
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AB 644 - MacDonald
Creates the California Information Systems
Chapter 259
Implementation Committee to review electronic data
processing policies, develop electronic date
processing procedures to protect privacy and con-
fidentiality of records and rights and privacy of the
individual. It permits program conversion and
training to be conducted off state premises. The
bill also deletes provisions relating to specified
model contract for lease of electronic data pro-
cessing systems.
AB 777 - Fenton
Requires the governor to issue a special election
Chapter 271
proclamation within 14 calendar days after vacancy
has occurred in the legislature or the house of
representatives. The bill also revises the dates
within which such elections must be held.
AB 812 - Dixon
Provides that retirement system membership of a city
Chapter 272
employee who has become a county employee upon
assumption by county of city function in which he was
employed shall commence with the first day of the
month in which credit in the county system is granted
AB 1097 - Greene, B. Deletes the Government Code provisions defining the
Chapter 273
word "contiguous" asused with respect to certain
annexations by cities,
AB 1368 - Quimby
Provides that the compulsory retirement age for
Chapter 260
certain municipal court clerks shall be 67 rather
than 65.
AB 2530 - Badham
Revises, for the 1973-74 fiscal year, the method of
Chapter 254
computing the maximum general purpose tax rate of a
See Release #396
unified school district, the formation of which was
dated 7-13-73
approved at an election on June 6, 1972, and which
became effective for all purposes on July 1, 1973.
AB 1057 - Beverly
Permits deputy sheriffs otherwise qualified to
Chapter 274
practice law to give legal advice to their employers
if it is within the course and scope of their
employment.
SB 362 - Collier
Forbids sale of timber from state forests to any
Chapter 261
primary manufacturer for use at a plant located
outside the United States unless it is sawn on four
sides to specified dimensions. Provides that any
purchaser of timber from state forests who makes use
of such timber in violation of such provisions shall
be prohibited from purchasing state forest timber for
a period of five years. The bill authorizes the
Department of Conservation to adopt appropriate
regulations to prevent the substitution of timber
from state forests for timber exported from private
timberlands.
SB 475 - Berryhill
Includes community services districts within the
Chapter 262
provisions relating to eminent domain which establish
conclusive and rebuttable presumptions as to the use
of property taken.
SB 545 - Short
Authorizes employers in certain circumstances to
Chapter 263
deposit an employee's wages or an advance on wages or
temporary disability payments in savings and loan
associations or credit unions, as well as in banks.
SB 1018 - Berryhill
Exempts specified community colleges from provision
Chapter 255
requiring sites for new institutions of public higher
education to be recommended by the Coordinating
Council for Higher Education. The bill affects
Feather River College.
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SB 1166 - Moscone
Clarifies the Education Code provision permitting
Chapter 264
school district bonds to be issued upon approval of
a simple majority of votes cast in a bond election
if bond proceeds are for repairing, reconstructing,
or replacing school buildings determined to be unsafe
pursuant to any provision of law, rather than one
specified provision, in order to conform to the
California Constitution.
SB 1318 - Lagomarsino
Authorizes the legislative body of the public
Chapter 256
district which ordered issuance of bonds to refund
such indebtedness, and authorizes and specifies
procedures for the refunding by the legislative body
of local agencies of ad valorem tax or assessmentbond
The bill also authorizes redemption of outstanding
revenue bonds by joint powers agency which issued
revenue bonds for the purpose of acquiring and
constructing sanitary sewer facilities.
Governor Ronald Reagan today also announced the following bills
have been vetoed:
SB 588 - Marks
Permits the organizational meeting of the governing
board of a community college district, the boundaries
of which are coterminous with those of a city and
county, to be held between January 8 and January 31,
rather than between July 1 and July 15. The bill
also provides that for purpose of state apportionment
and computing community college district revenue
limit, foreign students enrolled in a community
college class in English and citizenship for
foreigners shall be counted as resident students.
REASON FOR VETO:
"This bill appears to be technically deficient,
particularly with respect to the definition of
foreign students. There is a question as to whether
the bill would permit foreign students now classi-
fied as nonresidents to be counted in their school's
average daily attendance for the purpose of state
support. Questions arise also in this context as
to the effect of the bill on AB 666 (Chapter 1100)
of the 1972 Session.
"I am also concerned over the fact that this bill
apparently did not receive full legislative review
concerning its policy implications. The bill, as
introduced, related only to a technical organization-
al problem and was on the Senate Consent Calendar.
It was amended into its present form in the Assembly
during the closing moments prior to the recess of
the legislature.
"It should also be noted that community college
districts have received $65 million in additional
state aid through my approval of SB 6 (Chapter 209)
of the 1973 Session. The June 28 amendment to SB
588 raises problems in connection with the revenue
limitations included in SB 6, the implication of
which cannot be developed at this time.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned with
the commitment that the staff of the Department of
Finance will work with the author in an attempt to
mitigate this problem through legislation consistent
with the principles embodied in AB 666 and SB 6,
Governor Reagan said.
AB 29 - Thurman
Permits 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 and local
miscellaneous members.
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REASON FOR VETO:
"Final compensation computations in a multiple
employer, multi-membership classification system,
such as the Public Employees' Retirement System,
must be uniform. Variations within the system
can only create excessive administrative burdens
and further aggravate the already complex problem
of estimating and funding future benefits.
"The present three year basis for computing retire-
ment benefits already is a very liberal provision
and I find no compelling evidence to support the need
for a different method of computing benefits for
classes of local government employees.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned," "
Governor Reagan said.
AB 433 - Townsend
Provides increased industrial disability allowance
for totally disabled local safety members of the
Public Employees' Retirement System. The contracting
agency must elect to provide the increased allowance.
REAON FOR VETO:
"This bill would provide that a totally disabled
local safety member of the Public Employees'
Retirement System would receive an increase in his
industrial disability retirement allowance from 50
percent to 75 percent of final compensation. This
improved benefit would be optional to contracting
agencies, and the agency would bear the higher costs
"At the present time, the industrial disability
retirement program for "local safety members' in
cities which contract with the Public Employees'
Retirement System provides 50 percent of their
compensation as a retirement benefit. For other
employees who may be similarly injured on the job,
the retirement benefits are computed under a formula
which provides, in most cases, for a much lower
benefit.
"This bill further increases the growing disparity
in disability benefits between safety employees and
other categories of public employees who may suffer
the same or similar job-connected disabilities.
There has been no evidence that government is not
now meeting the disability needs of its safety
employees.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned,"
Governor Reagan said.
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
8-21-73
#444
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced he has signed the following
bills:
AB 119 - Arnett
Permits certain persons performing the duties of
Chapter 275
clinical laboratory technologists, permanently
employed by the University of California since
November 30, 1970, and exempt from licensing
requirements under former provisions of law, to be
eligible for examination and licensure as clinical
laboratory technologists.
AB 126 - Davis
Makes substantial revisions in the law relating to
Chap 276
the financial operation of fairs. The bill also
establishes the 53rd District Agricultural Associatio
to be known as the Desert Empire Fair with a fair
site near Ridgecrest.
AB 542 - Knox
Declares that the California Pollution Control
Chapter 277
Financing Authority is a political subdivision of
the state. The bill specifies that the authority
is not required to pay any property taxes or
assessments on projects of the authority or income
therefrom. It further provides that the exemption
of the authority from taxation on any project ceases
when title thereto is transfereed to any participating
party.
AB 665 - Duffy
Permits a nonprofit hospital service corporation to
Chapter 282
provide comprehensive health care services, as well
as to pay for such services provided by others.
AB 1008 - Z'berg
Establishes a North Delta Water Agency for the pur-
Chapter 283
pose of negotiating, entering into and performing
one or more agreements with the United States and
the State of California to protect the water supply
of the lands within the Agency against the intrusion
of ocean salinity and to assure the lands within the
agency a dependable supply of water of suitable
quality sufficient to meet present and future needs.
AB 1141 - Sieroty
Prohibits an industrial loan company which issues
Chapter 284
thrift certificates from advertising its affiliation
with other entities unless the advertising also
discloses whether or not those other entities
guarantee the thrife certificates sold by the
industrial loan company.
S8 211 -Deukmejiar
Codifies a provision relating to the age of
Chapter 278
majority.
SB 368 - Dymally
Makes applicable to all school certificated employees
Chapter 279
rather than only teachers, the provision which accords
probationary status for a specified period of service
as a substitute employee. The bill makes such provi-
sion applicable to service as a temporary employee,
limits applicability to persons employed as proba-
tioners in the following school year, and excludes
from such provision those persons employed to serve
in an on-call status to replace absent regular
employees on a day-to-day basis. The bill requires
that such employees be reemployed the following
school year, on a prescribed preference basis, to
fill defined vacant positions in the school district.
SB 627 - Way
Permits public agencies contracting with the Public
Chapter 280
Employees' Retirement System to employ retired
official court reporters who have attained age 67
until age 70. The bill further provides that such
persons shall not receive an allowance nor acquire
additional retirement rights because of such employment.
SB 849 - Grunsky
Provides that a lien arising under an agreement,
Chapter 281
covenant, or restriction between or binding upon
owners of a title, interest or estate in an condomin-
ium, planned development, stock cooperative or community apartment project
which is homesteaded may be enforced as if no homestead were declared.
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
8-23-73
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced he has signed the following
bills:
AB 231 - Powers
Requires that applicants for a real estate broker's
Chapter 294
license show evidence of successful completion of two
additional college level real estate courses. The
new education requirement will become effective July
1, 1975.
January
AB 314 - Murphy
Provides that a motortruck weighing at least 3500
Chapter 293
pounds unladen and 4200 pounds gross may tow two almond
trailers from a farm to an almond huller and back.
The bill requires the Department of Transportation
in cooperation with the California Highway Patrol to
undertake a study to determine the safety of such
movements and report back to the Legislature by July
1, 1976.
AB 534 - Dunlap
Requires every motor vehicle upon which a camper is
Chapter 292
mounted to be equipped with an audible or visual
signaling device which can be activated from inside
the camper and which is constructed so as to allow
any person inside the camper to gain the attention of
the driver of the motor vehicle. The bill excludes
from the above provisions any motor vehicle upon which
a camper is mounted if a person is able to move
between the cab portion of the motor vehicle and the
camper and any such vehicle which is equipped with a
sliding or removable rear window which can be opened
or removed by a person inside the camper. Provisions
become operative on July 1, 1975.
AB 556 - Berman
Authorizes the governing board of a school district to
Chapter 291
mail by certified mail, as an alternative to making
personal service, a request to a permanent certificated
employee to give notice of whether such employee
intends to remain or not to remain in the service of
the district during the ensuing school year. The bill
also requires that the request to give such notice be
sent prior to May 30 rather than June 10.
AB 840 - MacDonald
Includes dependents of certain employees of the
Chapter 290
Department of Corrections and Department of Youth
Authority who are killed or totally disabled in the
performance of their duties by the direct action of an
inmate within the class of dependents eligible for
specified scholarship benefits.
AB 875 - Berman
Deletes an obsolete Education Code provision relating
Chapter 289
to special school-parent institutes.
AB 899 - Briggs
Authorizes school district governing boards to rent or
Chapter 287
lease caps and gowns for seniors who participate in
high school graduation ceremonies.
AB 1391 .Johnson
Provides that local agencies may use funds derived
Chapter 288
from any federal program instead of just the TOPICS
program to match state funds for grade separation
projects.
AB 1444 - Keene
Authorizes territory to be annexed to an improvement
Chapter 286
district of the Mendocino County Flood Control and
Water Conservation District pursuant to the provisions
of the District Reorganization Act of 1965.
AB 1520 - Warren
Corrects a Civil Code section cross reference relating
Chapter 285
to the definition of optional bank holidays.
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
8-24-73
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Governor Ronald Reagan has sent the following letter to the
Speaker of the Assembly, and the President Pro Tem of the Senate:
"I have this date signed SB 90 (1973) Chapter No. 296. Upon
transmitting the signed bill to the Secretary of State, I asked him
to include the following comments in the printing of the statute:
In my opinion, this Act provides for the timely and proper
use of the fiscal year 1972-73 surplus in the state's General Fund
as a rebate of 1973 state personal income taxes and as a substitute
for a portion of the state retail sales tax which would otherwise
have been collected during six months of the fiscal year 1973-74.
This act depends upon the use of a portion of the current 1972-73
General Fund surplus as a one-time replacement for a portion of
1973-74 state retail sales tax revenues, and as a rebate of 1973
state personal income taxes. Therefore, I am convinced that the
amount of the surplus used to replace state retail sales tax revenues,
or as a rebate of state personal income taxes, is, in fact, a part of
1973-74 State Tax Revenues.
"Please make this letter a part of the permanent records of
the legislature."
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
8-24-73
#450
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced he has signed the following
bills:
AB 1042 - Chappie
Authorizes the Board of Directors of the Tahoe City
Chapter 301
Public Utility District and the North Tahoe Public
Utility District to fix an annual standby charge, not
to exceed specified amounts, for sewage service on
all lands within the district.
AB 1588 -Gonsalves
Establishes procedures for cities in Los Angeles
Chapter 295
County to impose property taxes to pay special
districts for fire and library services, rather
than having the districts directly impose such
taxes on property within the cities to support
such services.
SB 90 - Dills
Provides for a one cent sales reduction from October
Chapter 296
1, 1973, through March 31, 1974. The bill also
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which ranges from 20 percent to 100 percent depending
on the adjusted gross income of the taxpayer. The
bill also provides for an ongoing 100 percent income
tax credit for taxpayers with adjusted gross incomes
of less than $8,000 for married persons filing joint
returns, heads of households and surviving spouses,
and less than $4,000 for single persons and married
persons filing separate returns.
SB 247 - Bradley
Permits a county which on January 1, 1973 had a
Chapter 297
charter provision requiring the board of supervisors
to establish a special fund to be used only for the
acquisition and development of park land and to
transfer a specified amount annually from the
general fund to the special fund, to levy a property
tax rate sufficient to make such transfers, in addi-
tion to the maximum base rate otherwise permitted.
SB 374 - Stiern
Amends the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937,
Chapter 298
to authorize specified increases in allowances for
members retired for service and disability to be
operative upon adoption by board of supervisors.
SB 615 - Holmdahl
Authorizes the equalization of tax rates by special
Chapter 299
districts operating in more than one county.
SB 775 - Stiern
Revises the dates by which county superintendents'
Chapter 300
of schools and school districts must arrange for
the annual audits of funds under their control and
the dates that the reports are to be completed. The
bill also provides that an extension of time may
be granted to the auditor for justifiable cause
upon approval of the county superintendent of schools
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
8-28-73
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced he has signed the following bills:
AB 366 - Stull
Authorizes county board of supervisors acting as the
Chapter 317
board of a county service area or a county sanitation
district to authorize bond anticipation notes.
AB 528 -MacDonald
Authorizes the Ventura Port District to lease a portion
Chapter 318
of its land and water area for the development of
apartments and townhouses and boatslips.
715 - Powers
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to provisions of the
Chapter 319
Food and Agriculture and Business and Professions Code,
AB 1125 - Fenton
Authorizes the judge or clerk of each justice court and
Chapter 320
the clerk of each municipal court to maintain a docket
of actions by means of photographing, microphotograph-
ing, photocopying, or mechanically or electronically
storing the whole content, or any portion thereof as
will constitute a memorandum, of all papers and records
necessary to the keeping of docket of actions so long
as completeness and chronological sequence are not
disturbed.
AB 1185 - Russell Modifies the competitive bidding requirement for
Chapter 321
school districts.
AB 2109 -Lancaster Permits the Department of Veterans Affairs to use
Chapter 322
Federal Housing Administration or Veteran's Administra-
tion appraisals in making Cal-Vet farm and home loans.
SB 85 - Grunksy
Reuuires that papers served by mail either bear a
Chapter 302
notation of the date and place of mailing or be
accompanied by an unsigned copy of the affidavit or
certificate of mailing.
141 - Grunsky
Requires animal euthanasic devices to be inspected and
Chapter 303
sealed by the State Sealer. The bill prohibits use of
such devices which do not meet prescribed standards.
The bill also allows a county sealer to assume the
duty and authority of the State Sealer with respect to
devices located in his county.
SB 142 - Grunsky
Repeals provisions which require county sealers to
Chapter 304
inspect euthanasia devices.
a
SB 285-Zenovich
Authorizes the governing body of/city to have the city
Chapter 305
attorney prepare an impartial analysis of any city
ballot measure to appear in the ballot pamphlet.
SB 380 - Way
Permits a delay by a local governing body in an action
Chapter 306
on a tentative land project map where there is no
advisory agency, or where such maps are required to be
submitted to the Office of Intergovernmental Management
by the governing body or advisory agency.
SB 418 - Biddle
Increases the additional filing fee in San Bernardino
Chapter 307
County from $10 to $12.
SB 485 -Cusanovich
Clarifies the applicability of existing statutes
Chapter 308
relative to installment payments to contractors for
special assessment district work under the Improvement
Act of 1911.
SB
505 -Deukmejia Deletes the requirement that each employment agency
Chapter 309
submit to the Bureau of Employment Agencies within 30
days of employment of a new counselor a copy of his
employment application. The bill also changes the
language of the Employment Agency Act that the applicant
"secures", "procures", or "obtains" employment to
uniform terminology that an applicant "accepts"
employment.
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SB 506 -Deukmejian Amends the Employment Agency Act by expressly including
Chapter 310
within the definition of an employment agency for
licensing purposes a resume service or employment
counseling service which offers as one of its main
objectives to procure employment for persons who will
pay for its service and whose main objective is to
secure employment for such persons.
SB 553 - Rodda
Increases from $3,000 to $4,500 the cost of work which
Chapter 311
may be done or the cost of supplies which may be pur-
chased under a contract entered into by a river port
district without letting the contract to the lowest
responsible bidder. The bill also increases from less
than $1,500 to less than $3,000 the amount involved
in river port district contracts which may be executed
by officers of such district under delegation of
authority by the district board.
SB 932 - Holmdahl
Provides that a plaintiff is entitled to attorney's
Chapter 312
fee in a clerk's default judgment where such fees are
authorized by statute and have been fixed by a schedule
adopted by the court.
SB 1034 - Dymally
Specifies functions of social workers, who serve as
Chapter 313
counselors in schools and in the homes of pupils, that
are authorized to be contracted for by small school
districts as well as credentialed school social workers
in districts other than small school districts.
SB 1036 - Gregorio Makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to clarify
Chapter 314
existing law regarding benefits for part-time school
classified employees.
SB 1151 - Lagomarsino
Requires the boat registration statement filed
Chapter 315
with the Department of Fish and Game by commercial
fishing vessels to include the amount of time spent in
commercial fishing.
SB 1329 - Behr
Makes specified Education Code provisions regarding
Chapter 316
the education of prisoners applicable to Marin County
as well as Santa Clara and Monterey Counties.
SB 1444-Gregorio
Requires the Director of General Services to recompute
Chapter 323
required school district payments to the School
Building Aid Fund when those payments do not reflect
new bond payment obligations which have been incurred
since the original computation.
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
8-29-73
#457
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced he has signed the following bills:
AB 619 - Fong
Designates April 6 each year as California Poppy Day.
Chapter 324
AB 864 Johnson
Redefines the term "counselor" for purposes of the
Chapter 329
Employment Agency Act.
AB 935 - Powers
Requires licensees of the Bureau of Private Investiga-
Chapter 330
tors and Adjusters to disclose their license number in
every advertisement. The bill provides that the
Director of Consumer Affairs may adopt regulations
defining "advertisement."
AB 1077 - Cullen
Would allow overwidth mobilehomes to be displayed
Chapter 331
within mobilehome developments for a period of up to
one year without a dealer's branch license.
AB 1388 - Russell
Renames variable annuity agents variable contract
Chapter 332
agents.
AB 1420 - Chappie
Permits the board of directors of an irrigation dis-
Chapter 333
trict to call a special election to fill a vacancy on
the board if the board of supervisors fails to fill
such vacancy by appointment within 60 days after it
occurs.
AB 1924 - Dunlap
Provides for two series of bill chapte r numbers, one
Chapter 334
for bills passed before December 31 of the first year
of the biennial session of the Legislature and one for
those passed after such date.
SB 580 =Berryhill
Changes the name of the State Board of Agriculture to
Chapter 325
the State Board of Food and Agriculture. The bill
also permits the board to hold its monthly required
meetings at any location determined by the president
of the board to be appropriate, as an alternate to the
requirement that such meetings be held in the office of
the Director of Food and Agriculture in Sacramento.
SB 731 - Mills
Enables counties to enforce ordinances regulating
Chapter 326
legislative advocates within the incorporated as well
as unincorporated areas of the county.
SB 782 - Song
Prohibits school districts from adopting or maintaining
Chapter 327
any rule or regulation which requires a certificated
employee to be a resident of the district. It further
prohibits school districts from granting preferential
treatment to employees or candidates for employment on
account of residency in the district.
SB 814 - Holmdahl
Extends the authorization for school districts to enter
Chapter 328
into leases for the joint occupancy of buildings or
property with private persons or firms from June 1,
1975 to June 1, 1980.
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RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
8-30-73
#458
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have been
signed:
AB 388 - Seeley
Increases the annual fee for the Colorado River
Chapter 343
special use fishing stamp from $2 to $3.
AB 612 -Kapiloff
Deletes provisions requiring the president and secretary
Chapter 344
of the board of directors of a resource conservation
district to give a performance bond.
AB 653 - Bond
Specifically authorizes counties and cities to adopt
Chapter 345
restrictions concerning the navigation and operation
of vessels and water skis, aquaplanes, or similar
devices in accordance with specified provisions. The
bill also revises provisions authorizing counties and
cities to grant permits for motorboat races to include
water ski races, races by vessels other than motorboats
and other marine events.
AB 833 - Briggs
Prohibits the release of a dangerous mentally
Chapter 346
disordered sex offender upon return to the court by a
state hospital until probation is granted or other
disposition is made of the case.
AB 834 - Briggs
Amends the definition and the standard in the Food
Chapter 347
and Agricultural Code for Buttermilk. It also revises
the labeling requirements for the product.
AB 904 - Briggs
Revises the exemption requirement pertaining to posting
Chapter 348
or menu declaration of ingredients of imitation
hamburger sold from restaurants to provide that no
listing is required for imitation hamburger that
contains not more than 10 percent added protein and
water and no other binders or extenders. The bill
also prohibits all restaurants from using terms
hamburger, burger, or any cognate thereof in any
advertisement or menu where imitation hamburger is sold.
AB 1029 - Mobley
Revises the unfair practice provisions of the Milk
Chapter 349
Stabilization Act relating to the Leasing of
refrigeration facilities by milk distributor to a
wholsesale customer. The present law prohibits such
leasing except for refrigeration facilities necessary
for the storage and preservation of any frozen dairy
product distributed by the distributor. This bill
broadens this provision to authorize the rental of
milk dispensing devices.
AB 1030 - Mobley
Modifies requirements relating to conditional sales
Chapter 350
contracts for equipment sold by milk distributors to
wholesale customers. The present law requires one-
third down and installment payments not to exceed 18
months. The bill changes this to one-fifth and a 36-
month period for payment.
SB 349 -Beilenson
Specifically authorizes the disposal of cremated human
Chapter 349
remains outside a cemetery within the corporate limits
of any city in accordance with specified provisions.
SB 360 -Beilenson
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Health and
Chapter 336
Safety Code.
SB 379 - Nejedly
Increases the membership of the board of directors of
Chapter 337
the East Bay Municipal utility District from five to
seven.
SB 644 - Cusanovich
Permits school districts to waive the requirement
Chapter 338
that an injured employee endorse to the district
temporary disability checke received by the employee.
The bill provides, instead, that the district may
deduct the amount of such checks from the employee's
regular wage or salary.
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SB 661 -Beilenson
Amends provisions of the Health and Safety Code
Chapter 339
relating to disposition of cremated ramains at sea by
eliminating the requirement that disposition be at
least three miles from the nearest shoreline and that
it occur within 50 days after cremation unless delayed
by inclement weather.
SB 866 - Collier
Authorizes a board of supervisors, by ordinance, to
Chapter 340
require veterinarians to report to the county the
shooting or poisoning of any dog. It also provides
that a veterinarian may be required to report the name
of the owner, if known, or the person requesting
treatment of the dog.
SB 903 - Bradley
Clarifies provisions in the Food and Agricultural
Chapter 341
Code which places restrictions on the sale of
"imitation cheese" or "substitutes" for cheese. The
bill eliminates imitation cheese from various
provisions which regulate the labeling or designation
of non-dairy products and also repeals provisions
regulating the sale and service of substitute or
imitation cheese and includes such products with a
group of products known as "products resembling milk
products.
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SB 1251 - Behr
Authorizes the Board of Supervisors of Marin County,
Chapter 342
by resolution, to change the name of that county's
newly formed regional park district to the "Marin
County Open Space District."
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
8 30-73
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that he has signed the
following bills:
AB 901 - Briggs
Increases the indemnity payments forthe destruction
Chapter 356
of livestock infected with tuberculosis or brucellosis
AB 1133 - Z'berg
Permits a coroner to become the donee of gifts of
hapter 357
bodies or parts thereof, for use in medical or dental
education, research, advancement of medical or dental
science, therapy or transplantation. The bill also
authorizes a coroner, under specified conditions to
retain pituitary glands solely for transmission to a
university for use in research or advancement of medica
science. The bill provides that a coroner can remove
the pituitary glands during a 48 hour period after an
autopsy, if the body has not been claimed and the
coroner has not been informed of any relatives of
the deceased.
SB 548 - Moscone
Includes residents in the mobilehome park, and
Chapter 351
occupants of a mobilehome in a mobilehome park in
existing Civil Code provision that declares that
tenant meetings, in specified areas, relating to
mobilehome living and affairs may not be prohibited
by management, except in specified cases.
SB 591 - Dymally
Provides that the election board of any county, in
Chapter 352
appointing members of the several precinct boards to
serve in the direct primary and general elections,
shall permit the county central committee of each
qualified political party with at least 10 percent of
the registered voters in any such precinct in the
county to nominate a member of that party who is
registered and resident in that precinct for
appointment to the precinct election board of that
precinct.
SB 657 - Song
Authorizes a county to provide that prior to sale or
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exchange of a residential building situated outside
the boundaries of any incorporated city the owner or
his authorized agent shall obtain from the county a
report of the residential building record showing its
regularly authorized use, occupancy, and zoning
classification.
SB 935 - Stiern
Permits a public cemetery district to change its
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name in the manner and by the method specified for
resource conservation districts.
SB 1207 - Stiern
Inc: eases the value of property not required for publi
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use which may be sold by a board of supervisors or
leased at private sale without advertising from $75 to
$500.
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
8-31-73
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Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation that will give
California cities an additional 14 days to set property tax rates.
The bill, AB 2008 by Assemblyman John Knox (D-Richmond) is a
"clean-up" bill for last year's SB 90, the school aid and property tax
relief measure.
Under the new legislation, cities, counties and special districts
will now have until September 14, 1973, to set new property tax rates.
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