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Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
Contact:
Paul BE
445-4571
7-1-70
#340
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement:
"The supreme law of California--the constitution requires that
a budget be passed by the legislature and signed by the governor
prior to the start of each fiscal year.
"We now have entered the new fiscal year with no budget--in
spite of this clear constitutional mandate.
"At this hour--and until we have a budget--highway patrolmen are
carrying out their duties without pay, and without the normal legal
protections they and their families need.
"Guards at our state penal institutions are, in effect, working
as volunteers.
"State employees who provide the round-the-clock care and
treatment necessary for patients in state institutions for the mentally
ill and retarded are under no legal constraints to continue to do
their jobs.
"If they continue to do so, it is out of a deep sense of service
to the public for actually, the state has legally ceased to function.
two-thirds
"Responsible Democrats and Republicans-- almost the necessary/maj-
ority-- have been blocked by an intransigent and unrepresentative few
in the Senate and Assembly who are demanding as a price for the budget
a gigantic tax increase in the neighborhood of $1/2 billion.
The budget now being blocked by these few is a balanced budget
providing a $102 million increase in local school funding with no
increase in taxes. We see no reason to increase the already heavy
tax burden on the people of California."
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Sacramento, Californ
Contact:
Paul Beck
MEMO TO THE PRESS
445-4571
7-1-70
Governor Reagan's press conference, scheduled for 11:00 a.m.
this morning, has been cancelled.
We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.
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PB
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Be
445-4571
7-2-70
#341
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills
have been signed:
AB 173 - Bagley
Increases the amount of subventions to various
(Chapter 272)
counties to compensate for revenues lost by
reason of the partial exemption for business
inventories, includes goods intended for lease in
definition of business inventory, and includes
certain metropolitan water districts and county
water authorities within the group of local
agencies compensated from state funds for revenues
lost by reason of the homeowner's property tax
exemption and the partial exemption for business
inventories. The bill also provides that the
taxable property of school districts shall be the
total taxable property of the districts prior to
reductions caused by the exemption of assessed
value of business inventories and homeowners
property tax exemption.
AB 208 - Britschoi
Provides that the third Monday in February, the
(Chapter 246)
last Monday in May and the fourth Monday in October
and that Thursday in November proclaimed by the
President as "Thanksgiving Day," are public school
and classified service employees' holidays. The
bill also provides that if a classified school
employee is required to work a workweek, other
than Monday through Friday, and as a consequence
loses a holiday to which he would otherwise be
entitled, he shall be entitled to compensation or
equivalent time off. The bill conforms the time
of certain school holidays with existing state and
federal law. The bill (as in the case of state and
federal law) becomes operative on January 1, 1971.
AB 298 - Priolo
Makes uniform the Election Code provisions for the
(Chapter 256)
preservation of declarations of candidacy, sponsor
certificates, and nomination papers, requiring
that they be held for four years after the term
of the office sought expires.
AB 488 - Chappie
Requires the filing of a financial report with the
(Chapter 250)
State Lands Commission rather than with Department
of Finance, whenever any provision now in force,
or hereafter enacted, grants or conveys state
tide or submerged lands and requires the filing of
any financial report with Department of Finance.
AB 511 - Ryan
Extends various employment protection rights and
(Chapter 271)
privileges for classified employees in school
districts which are organized, from a one-year
period to a two-year period, after the
reorganization. The bill also extends through
August 31, 1970, the period of reemployment and
bumping rights after layoff, for employees whose
layoff or bumping would have been effective as of
June 30, 1970, except for delay caused by process
of determining relative seniority and bumping right:
with respect to the separation of the unified
school district and the junior college district
including the City of Los Angeles.
AB 542 - Berryhill
Authorizes and directs the Department of General
(Chapter 291)
Services to transfer real property and
appurtenances of the Modesto State Hospital facility
to Stanislaus County and Yosemite Junior College
District on specified terms and conditions.
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AB 905 - Murphy
rovides that a person is 9 lty of a misdemeanor
(Chapter 257)
if he misrepresents himself to be parent or
guardian of minor and thereby causes the minor to
be admitted to an exhibition of harmful matter.
The bill provides that nothing in the laws relating
to harmful matter prohibits a parent or guardian
from permitting child or ward to attend exhibition
of such matter if accompanied by him.
AB 980 - Mulford
Requires the clerk of the superior court to
(Chapter 247)
publish the list of nominees for the grand jury,
including the name of the judge who selected each
person on the list, one time in a newspaper of
general circulation before such names are placed
in the "grand jury box.
AB 1032 - Hayes
Eliminates as a ground for demurrer the contention
(Chapter 258)
that the court has no jurisdiction over the
person of the defendant.
AB 1038 - Murphy
Forbids bringing or possessing any firearm (rather
(Chapter 259)
than only a loaded firearm) upon the grounds of,
or within, any public school, including the
University of California and state colleges, by
persons other than peace officers or other
specified persons.
AB 1039 - McCarthy
Provides that title to lost or saved property
(Chapter 260)
shall not vest in the person who found or saved the
property or in the successful bidder at public
auction unless the cost of publication is first
paid to the public entity or agency making such
publication.
AB 1051 - Crandall
Specifically excludes certain warrants from the
(Chapter 261)
Government Code provision requiring audit of
demands prior to approval by the legislative
body of a city when such warrants are drawn in
payment of demands certified or approved by the
city clerk as conforming to a budget approved by
ordinance or resolution of the legislative body
and are presented to the legislative body for
ratification and approval at the first meeting
after delivery of the warrants.
AB 1076 - Thomas
Amends the definition of distributor in the
(Chapter 262)
milk stabilization law as it relates to ship
chandlers. It clarifies in the definition that
a person who sells milk to documented or foreign
registry vessels is a milk distributor provided
that he assembles and delivers milk to such
vessels.
AB 1197 - Cory
Authorizes city councils to withdraw department
(Chapter 263)
heads from the civil service system without
voter approval.
AB 1254 - Crandall
Deletes requirement that a branch of a savings
(Chapter 264)
and loan association state in all advertising the lo
location of the principal office.
AB 1255 - Crandall
Provides that applications to the local board
(Chapter 265)
of equalization for an assessment reduction in
Los Angeles County shall be filed between the
third Monday in July and September 15th, rather
than between July 2nd and September 15th.
AB 1414 - Beverly
Authorizes the clerk of Los Angeles municipal
(Chapter 266)
court to charge prescribed fees for court forms.
AB 1462 - Lewis
Authorizes precinct indexes to be furnished in
(Chapter 267)
alphabetical order, rather than in numerical
order by street address, in precincts where the
majority of voters have no street address.
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AB 1518 - Badham
\uthorizes the Orange Coun'
Flood Control
(Chapter 268)
District to preserve and enhance its properties
and for such purpose to acquire, preserve, and
enhance lands contiguous to its properties, for the
protection and preservation of the scenic beauty
and natural environment of such properties.
AB 1568 - Knox
Provides for elections in territories not part
(Chapter 270)
of districts which may become district territory
as a part of a reorganization proceeding under
the District Reorganization Act of 1965.
AB 1946 - Hayes
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to certain Civil
(Chapter 269)
Code provisions relating to family law.
AB 2524 - Britschgi
Makes a loan of up to $600,000 to the Ravenswood
(Chapter 248)
School District to enable the district to pay
contracted indebtedness, due and owing, in the
1969-70 fiscal year.
SB 74 - Rodda
Allows municipal utility districts to issue bonds
(Chapter 245)
at a discount not to exceed 6 percent of par
value, as determined by the district's board of
directors. The bill also removes the 7 percent
maximum interest rate provision for municipal
utility district bonds which are issued without
an election in place of other unissued bonds.
SB 292 - Beilenson
Deletes the residence requirement for admission
(Chapter 251)
to the practice of law in California for both
general applicants and attorney applicants.
SB 359 - Grunsky
Specifies that, except for the original
(Chapter 252)
contractor, any person furnishing provisions,
provender, or other supplies, as well as certain
other specified persons, may serve a stop notice
on the public entity responsible for public work
in accordance with designated provisions. The
bill states that it is declaratory of preexisting
law.
SB 569 - Burgener
Permits boards of supervisors to authorize the
(Chapter 249)
county treasurer to make a temporary transfer of
funds in prescribed amounts, based on an
entitlement for the 1968-69 fiscal year under
Public Law 874 of the 81st Congress, to specified
school districts as assistance in meeting their
financial obligations for the remaining portion
of the 1969-70 fiscal year. The bill provides
for the repayment of such transfers.
SB 607 - Cologne
Makes a nonsubstantive amendment to the Madera
(Chapter 253)
County Flood Control and Water Conservation
Agency Act.
SB 609 - Cologne
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Water Code.
(Chapter 254)
SB 770 - Moscone
Increases the salaries of various attaches of the
(Chapter 255)
San Francisco Superior Court.
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EJG
Sacramento, Californi
Contact:
Paul Bec.
445-4571
7-2-70
#342
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today the appointment of
chief
Lewis K. Uhler as Director of the State Office of Economic Opportunity
in the Department of Human Resources Development.
Uhler, 36, a Covina attorney in the law firm of Ingram, Baker
and Uhler, Inc., will assume his new duties effective today.
He will receive an annual salary of $20,000.
"The goal of the Office of Economic Opportunity," said
Governor Reagan, "is to eliminate the paradox of poverty in the midst
of plenty in this state by opening to everyone the opportunity for
education and training, the opportunity to work and live in decency and
dignity.
"At the same time, the OEO has the duty to make certain
that funds for these programs are used wisely and for the purposes that
the taxpayers and the Congress intended," the governor said.
Uhler is a third-generation Californian, born in Alhambra where
he graduated from Alhambra High School in 1951. He won a scholarship to
Yale University, where he received his B. A. degree in 1955, majoring
in politics and economics.
He graduated from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of
California, Berkeley, in 1958, where he was a member of thephi Delta
Phi Legal Fraternity. From 1958 to 1960, he was commissioned in the
U. S. Army.
In 1968, Governor Reagan appointed Uhler as member of the
California Law Revision Commission.
He is a past vice president of the Southern California Council
of Agencies for Family Service and a past director of the Pioneer
Foundation, Pomona, an alcoholic rehabilitation center.
Uhler is a Republican.
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WAS
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californi
Contact:
Paul Bec
445-4561
7-2-70
#343
Governor Ronald Reagan today set September 15, 1970, as
the date for a special election in the 34th Senatorial District
to fill the vacancy resulting from the election of State Senator John G.
Schmitz to the House of Representatives.
Under state law, a primary election will be held in the
district, which encompasses Orange County, on August 18.
If the winner of the primary receives a majority of the
votes cast, a runoff election will not be necessary.
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WAS
Sacramento, Californ
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-3-70
#344
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that two student
leaders have joined his staff to help provide a direct link between
the young people of California and state government.
They are Thomas N. Baker, 22, of Menlo Park, a recent Stanford
University graduate, and Gary H. Hunt, 21, of Lancaster, a student at
California State College, Long Beach.
Working as special assistants to Dr. Alex Sherriffs, the
governors education secretary and John Kehoe, the governor's education
consultant, Baker and Hunt will assist in programs affecting education
and young people, open wider channels of communication between the
governor's office and students and handle other special projects
involving youth.
"Young people should have their ideas heard because what we
do affects their future. We must enlist and listen to their enthusiasm,
their idealism and their opinions.
"These two young men will help us in this extremely important
task of continuing to bring the voice of youth into the councils of
government," the governor said, "as well as providing them with a
keener insight into how government works."
Dr. Sherriffs said he expects the two student leaders "to
assist the administration in a variety of important projects and to
develop the means through which young people can contribute their
abilities to government. We will make good use of their talents."
Hunt's primary responsibilities will be to work with the
Governor's Student Advisory Council and student body officials of the
state's community college, state college and university campuses. Baker
will work with student and other youth groups on community projects.
Both will assist in developing ideas and programs affecting
education and provide liaison between all segments of the youth
population and the executive branch.
Hunt, who has served as a staff assistant to the legislature's
Joint Committee on Higher Education, majored in political science and
public administration at the University of Cincinnati.
He is a native of Inglewood, has attended Antelope Valley
College and has been active in numerous community and student
organizations, including the Association of Student Governments.
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As national vice president of the ASG, he helped establish
service programs being offered to colleges throughout the nation.
Baker was graduated from Stanford University in December
with a bachelor of arts degree. His field of study was political
science, economics, industrial relations and urban problems.
He has an extensive background in student government, college
journalism, community affairs and in campaigns effectively involving
youth in working with government.
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WAS
GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californi
Contact:
Paul Bec
445-4571
7-3-70
#345
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement urging
Californians to participate in "Honor America Day."
"There is something deep in the character of Americans that makes
us stand up for the things we believe in. Too often, I am afraid, this
strength is misunderstood by others in the world.
"They mistake debate for division and they conclude that we have
lost faith in our nation and the promise of America.
"The fact is that this strength is a living demonstration of the
love we hold for this land and the banner that flies over it.
"Perhaps, more than anything else, our flag is a symbol of this love.
It is not the property of any one group. It belongs to each of us and
it represents everything a free man can believe in.
"There are a very few strident voices in the land that are attempting
to convince us and others in the world that the promise of America is
dead and that patriotism is outmoded.
"But they are wrong. We recognize that despite all we have done,
there is much that still needs to be done.
"Tomorrow the anniversay of our Independence citizens throughout
our land will participate in "Honor America Day."
"I urge all Californians to join me tomorrow in this national salute
to demonstrate to the world that promise of America is a living spirit
that burns in the heart of every man who believes in freedom."
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WAS
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Be
445-4571
7-3-70
#346
GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
July 6, 1970
through
July 12, 1970
Monday, Jul y 6
Signing of AB 165, Beverly, (major part of the
2:00 P.m
Governor's 1970 Consumer Protection legislative
program), Governor's Office.
Overnight - Sacramento
Tuesday, July 7
1:30 p.m.
PRESS CONFERENCE
Overnight - Sacramento
Wednesday, July 8
No public appointments scheduled.
Overnight - Sacramento
Thursday, July 9
No public appointments scheduled.
Overnight - Sacramento
Friday, July 10
7:00 m.
Reception for Assemblyman Charles Conrad, 4204 Navajo
Street, North Hollywood.
Overnight - Los Angeles
Saturday, July 11
No public appointments scheduled.
Overnight - Los Angeles
Sunday, July 12
4:00 p.m.
Press party at Executive Residence,Sacramento.
Overnight - Sacramento
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNO
MEMO TO THE I
ISS
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-3-70
CORRECTION
The signing ceremony for AB 165, Beverly, scheduled for
Monday, July 6, (per memo to the press #346) will be at 2:00 p.m.
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EG
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul B
C
Budget
445-4571
7-4-70
Signing
#347
Governor Reagan today issued the following statement following
passage of the budget by the State Senate:
"Since midnight Tuesday, the State has been operating without a
budget.
"Fortunately, however, state employees have once again voluntarily
continued to meet their obligations to the public---even though, without
a budget, they have been under no legal constraints to carry out their
jobs. They have done so out of a deep sense of duty and responsibility
to the people and they deserve our gratitude.
"While I am disappointed that the budget was irresponsibly held
up beyond the constitutional deadline, I am nevertheless pleased that
we do now have the means necessary to adequately meet the state's fiscal
responsibilities during the coming year.
"This budget represents a great victory for the people
the
taxpayers of California. It is nothing short of a resounding triumph
of good sense and fiscal responsibility over the continuing, unrelenting
pressures for unrestrained government spending and the specter of a
major tax increase urged by some.
"This budget will enable the state to meet its obligations for the
coming year without any increase in taxes which the already over-
burdened taxpayers do not want and cannot afford.
"Without increasing taxes, we have been able to carve out $102
million in new money for local schools a most difficult task
considering how very tightly the budget has been drawn.
"Working with the legislative leadership on a day-to-day basis,
we have followed closely the progress of the budget and have carefully
examined even the most minor changes and alterations in it.
"Because it has been so austerely fashioned I am pleased to tell
you that for the first time in four years, I will not have to blue-pencil
a single item.
"Those few who continued to hold up the budget knew that what they
were doing was both meaningless and unnecessary and I am sure the people
of California recognize that irresponsibility and at the same time
appreciate the dedication and patience of most members of the legislature
who carried out their duties."
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PB
VIRIOD or THE GOVERNOR
Sacramento, Californ
MEMO TO T PRESS
Contact:
Paul Bec
445-4571
7-6-70
The signing ceremony for AB-165, Beverly---scheduled for today at
2 p.m. in the governor's office--has been cancelled.
However, the governor will sign the bill today, in Los Angeles,
and when he does we will send you a statement on it.
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EJG
SOVERNOR
RELEASE:
Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul B
445-4571
7-7-70
#348
Governor Ronald Reagan today strengthened the state's ability to
protect the insurance buying public by signing into law a bill he
proposed last March which will prevent property insurers from summarily
cancelling fire, homeowner and personal property insurance policies
without good cause.
He noted that under present law, insurers may arbitrarily cancel
such policies at their pleasure, without giving any reason for their
action.
The new law (AB-165, Beverly) will remedy this weakness, he said,
by requiring those companies which contract to provide such insurance
protection to abide by their contracts unless violated by the insured.
The governor said the bill was prompted by instances in recent
years in which property insurers summarily cancelled policies on a
broad scale in areas hit by major fires and urban riots.
The new law---a key part of the governor's 1970 consumer protection
legislative program- provides that policies may be cancelled after the
first 60 days (the initial underwriting period) for the following
reasons only:
-Non-payment of premium
-Insured's conviction of a crime
Fraud in obtaining insurance or pursuing a claim
-Grossly negligent acts or omissions increasing hazards.
-Physical changes in property rendering it uninsurable.
In addition, the bill requires that the insurer must give the
policy-holder 45 days notice of intention not to renew.
Governor Reagan said "enactment of the law is an important step
forward in the state's continuing efforts to protect California
consumers. "
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EJG
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul
ck
445-4571
7-7-70
#349
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed a bill that provides legal
and financial protection for state employees who worked while California
was without a budget.
The measure (AB 2538) by Assemblyman Frank Lanterman (R-Pasadena),
Ways and Means Committee chairman, protects the pay and benefits of
all employees who were on the job and new employees who began work
during the period between the end of the fiscal year and July 4, when
the budget was signed.
"The loyal and dedicated state employees who carried on their
duties at a time when the state ceased to function legally must be
protected. They have earned the gratitude of all Californians for
their devotion to duty and I am proud of them," the governor said
in signing the bill.
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WAS
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul E k
445-4571
7-8-70
Governor Reagan will make opening remarks and then answer
questions at Girls State at UC Davis at 11:15 a.m. Thursday, July 9.
# # #
PB
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul ck
445-4571
7-8-70
#350
The State of California today agreed to federal re-funding of the
Oakland Economic Development Council Inc., for the remainder of this
year, under an agreement with federal officials that provides for
strict controls on the expenditure of funds and the conduct of its
personnel.
The decision was announced by Edwin Meese III, executive secretary
to Governor Ronald Reagan, who said that after discussions with
officials of the Federal Office of Economic Opportunity and the City
of Oakland, it was decided that "an abrupt termination of the program
would not serve the best interests of Oakland's citizens."
But Meese said that a series of discussions with top federal
officials have concluded in an agreement providing for close monitoring
on a continuing basis of OEDCI activities by Federal and State OEO
officials.
In a letter to H. Rodger Betts, Regional Director of OEO, Meese
cited the concern of the state over a series of complaints about the
council's alleged illegal political activity, criminal acts by its
personnel, accounting procedures, staff leadership, internal controls
and improper conduct by its employees.
The letter of agreement between California and the federal
government includes the following provisions:
1. State OEO will have the full cooperation of federal
authorities in its continued audit and review of the group's
financial records.
2. Federal auditors will continue their audit of all OEDCI
programs.
3. Delegates to the OEDCI board of directors whose election
is proved to be invalid will be removed and their successors
named in accordance with the council's bylaws.
4. Both state and federal OEO will encourage that all minority
groups, living in the community, including Orientals and American
Indians, be represented on the board.
5. Staff members of the OEDCI and its delegate agencies will
be prevented from engaging in political or other activities that
violate the law or OEO regulations.
6. Federal and state OEO will cooperate fully in supplying any
evidence of illegal activity and misappropriation or illegal use of
public funds to the District Attorney and Grand Jury of Alameda County.
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7. All steps will be taken to insure compliance with OEO
regulations concerning the hiring of persons with criminal records.
8. Federal OEO will provide funds to the state OEO for a special
representative who will assist in improving the management of the OEDCI
programs and work to insure compliance with state and federal laws and
regulations.
9. A complete review of the OEDCI operations, conducted jointly
by the federal and state OEO and the City of Oakland will begin on
October 1, 1970, to examine its management and compliance with the
special grant conditions and the items contained in the agreement.
The state had withheld approval of re-funding pending completion
of an audit of OEDCI records and the conclusion of discussions with
federal OEO officials.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, Californ.
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
7-8-70
A group of faculty members from UC in
San Diego is meeting with the governor.
The professors will be available to the
press at 12 noon in the Governor's Council Room
following their meeting with the governor.
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PB
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Be
445-4571
7-8-70
#351
Governor Reagan today announced that the following bills have
been signed:
AB 26 - Duffy
Provides that security interests in farming
(Chapter 310)
operations equipment or farm products other than
crops, or accounts or contract rights arising from
or related to sale of farm products by a farmer can
be perfected by filing with the Secretary of State,
rather than in the county of the debtor's residence,
or county where goods are kept if the debtor is a
nonresident.
AB 103 - Hayes
Provides that a court may expressly retain
(Chapter 293)
jurisdiction of any part of all of certain money
paid, delivered, deposited, or invested for the
benefit of a minor until the minor reaches the age
of 21 years.
AB 104 - Hayes
Inserts certain provisions, relating to termination
(Chapter 311)
of marriage, jurisdiction, procedure, attorneys'
fees, and costs under the Family Law Act into a
separate title of the Civil Code. The bill states
that it is declaratory of existing law.
AB 105 - Priolo
Requires county clerks to provide specified
(Chapter 294)
information to the legislature or an appropriate
legislative committee to use in connection with
reapportionment of legislative districts.
AB 124 - Moorhead
Revises the definition of "quasi-community property"
(Chapter 312)
for purpose of laws relating to property rights,
succession, homesteads, and gift taxes, to include
property acquired in exchange for real or personal
property which would have been community property
if the spouse who acquired the property so exchanged
had been domiciled in this state at the time of
its acquisition. The bill also revises the
definition of "quasi-community property" for
purposes of the Family Law Act to include real
property wherever situated, rather than only real
property situated in this state, which is
acquired in prescribed ways.
AB 193 - Thomas
Provides that on and after the lien date in 1971,
(Chapter 295)
"possessory interests" for purposes of property
taxation shall not include a nonexglusive right to
use any berth, wharf, dock, pier, or similar harbor
facility owned by a city, county, or harbor or
port district, and that such nonexclusive rights
shall not be subject to property taxation. The
bill specifies that if such rights are, in fact,
exclusive, they shall be subject to property
taxation, regardless of the manner in which they
were created.
AB 199 - Wood
Makes it unlawful to capture any wild, live game
(Chapter 296)
mammal, game bird or protected non-game bird, or to
confine or possess any such animal taken from
the wild except as provided by the Fish and
Game Code or regulations made pursuant thereto.
The bill further provides that the Department of
Fish and Game shall seize any illegally held
animal.
AB 240 - Ketchum
Authorizes persons who filed a declaration of
(Chapter 314)
candidacy for judicial office prior to May 1, 1962,
and were elected thereto, to receive credit in
the Judges' Retirement System for time served in
specified public offices.
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AB 288 - Berryhill
thorizes the Director of 1 iculture
to
(Chapter 315)
maintain poultry and animal disease diagnostic
laboratories at a particular location, and if
the cost of maintaining the laboratory at such
location is in excess of providing the same
service at a central location the excess is to be
paid by fees. This bill will allow continuance
of the Petaluma and Turlock laboratories if the
additional costs are recovered by fees.
AB 329 - Quimby
Re-enacts the authority of a city to change to
(Chapter 278)
the district system of electing city councilmen.
The bill requires general law cities which elect
city councilmen by districts to adjust council
districts after each decennial federal census and
after the first census or population estimate
following annexation or consolidation so that the
districts shall be as nearly equal in population as
may be.
AB 335 - McGee
Provides an alternative definition of "final
(Chapter 316)
compensation" for use in computing benefits in a
county retirement system established under the
County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937.
AB 438 - Britschgi
Requires, rather than permits, a notice of
(Chapter 279)
execution, foreclosure, or probate sale of real
estate to give the street address or common
AB-1793
designation of such property.
AB 536 - Moorhead
Clarifies the definition of an "established place
(Chapter 289)
of business" in the Vehicle Code relating to
dismantlers to provide for a clear division between
more than one business being conducted from the
establishment to be licensed.
AB 547 - McDonald
Provides that no person may manufacture, sell or
(Chapter 317)
exchange any eyeglass C. sunglass frame made of
cellulose nitrate or similar flammable material.
The bill becomes operative on July 1, 1971.
AB 658 - Stacey
Provides, with respect to county employees
(Chapter 280)
retirement, that when it has been demonstrated to
the satisfaction of the board that the filing of
the member's application was delayed by
administrative oversight until after the date
following the day for which the member last
received regular compensation, such date will be
deemed to be the date the application was filed,
for purposes of determining the effective date of a
member's disability retirement. The bill also
provides, with respect to state teachers retirement,
that a member of the system who is qualified for
disability retirement because of mental incapacity
and who was removed from classroom teaching duties
for that reason and not assigned other full-time
duties, becomes eligible for disability retirement
benefits commencing at the time his application
is filed with the board but not earlier than the
day following the last day for which he received
regular compensation.
AB 767 - Knox
Requires the Office of Intergovernmental Management
(Chapter 318)
or any similar successor office to furnish specified
information to an agency designated by the
legislature.
AB 772 - Quimby
Allows San Bernardino County to appoint the clerk
(Chapter 281)
of the board of supervisors as any other county
officer is appointed.
AB 811 - Dent
Eliminates the requirement of prior approval by
(Chapter 282)
the county school superintendent of agreements
between school districts for services, joint use
and maintenance of facilities or structures.
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AB 833 - Chappie
ives the State Board of Ed ation broader
(Chapter 283)
discretion in approving plans for creating two
or more unified districts from one high school
district where there is an exceptional situation
and where the board finds that it is not
practical or possible to apply the criteria
prescribed by statute for the formation of
unified districts.
AB 853 - Burton
Increases the actual cash value which may be
(Chapter 319)
claimed as a homestead from $15,000 to $20,000
for heads of family and persons 65 or over, and
from $7,500 to $10,000 for any other person.
The bill provides that a declaration of
homestead filed prior to January 1, 1971, shall
be deemed amended on such date by increasing
the value of the property selected to the extent
that such increase does not impair or defeat the
right of a creditor to execute upon the property
which existed prior to such date.
AB 938 - R.Johnson
Revises the budgeting procedure for four
(Chapter 284)
agriculture industry financed inspection programs.
These programs are Livestock Identification,
Shipping Point Inspection, Canning Tomato Inspection
and Wine Grape Inspection.
AB 950 - Priolo
Establishes a procedure for challenging ballots
(Chapter 320)
during a recount.
AB 987 - Lanterman
Validates the acts and proceedings to increase
(Chapter 285)
the limit on the rate of school district
taxation prescribed by or pursuant to law.
AB 990 - Z'berg
Provides a procedure for waiving a jury trial
(Chapter 321)
when or after the trial has commenced or once
the cause has been assigned to a department
of the court for trial, where the party who had
originally demanded such jury trial subsequently
waives such trial or fails to deposit certain
required fees.
AB 1078 - Mobley
Establishes a Grape Inspection Advisory Committee
(Chapter 322)
in the Department of Agriculture.
AB 1168 - Dent
Makes it unlawful to possess certain species of
(Chapter 302)
animals which may not be imported, transported or
released alive in California.
AB 1358 - Schabarum
Authorizes the Department of Public Works to
(Chapter 286)
waive posting of labor and material bonds where
a contract is for less than $10,000 for the
emergency rental of tools or equipment for 20
days or less.
AB 1487 - Badham
Revises the provision in the Subdivision Map Act
(Chapter 297)
which permits certain signatures of persons owning
easements in the land to be left off a final map
to require the signature of the public entity or
public utility which has an easement, unless the
governing body determines certain specified
conditions exist.
AB 1504 - Dent
Provides that the exemption from taxation of
(Chapter 298)
business inventories does not apply to business
inventories assessed as escaped property under
specified Revenue and Taxation Code provisions.
AB 1505 . Dent
Provides that when any notice or communication is
(Chapter 287)
required by the Revenue and Taxation Code to
be mailed by registered mail, the mailing of such
item by certified mail shall be deemed to be
sufficient compliance with the requirements of
the law.
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AB 1510 - Cullen
Requires any person authorized to receive a deposit
(Chapter 299)
of bail to accept as bail for a nonfelony offense
a personal check of a defendant who has signed a
written notice to appear, if such defendant
furnishes satisfactory evidence of California
residence and if such check is drawn on a California
bank.
AB 1592 - Hayes
Provides that the revocation of a power of
(Chapter 323)
attorney relating to real property which has been
recorded, rather than instrument containing such
power, may only be accomplished by recording an
instrument containing the revocation in the
office in which such power is recorded.
AB 1632 - Lanterman
Requires that individuals meeting designated
(Chapter 288)
qualifications be permitted to take the examination
for a certificate of registration as an optometrist.
1665 - Bagley
Specifies priority of coverage where two or more
(Chapter 309)
policies of automobile liability insurance apply
to same motor vehicle, insured, or specified loss
situations.
AB 1792 - Moorhead
Transfers from the Insurance Commissioner to the
(Chapter 301)
Corporations Commissioner stock permit
jurisdiction over "an organization organized for
the purpose of, but not necessarily the sole
purpose of, acting as the exclusive manager of any
organization, formed or to be formed, as a domestic
insurer."
AB 1864 - Crandall
Declares that funds apportioned to Alum Rock Union
Chapter 325)
School District by county superintendent of schools
shall be treated as appropriated from the State
Treasury. The bill also requires the
Superintendent of Public Instruction to withhold,
during 1970-1971 fiscal year, from apportionments
from the State School Fund to the district, an
amount equal to the amount of specified funds
actually disbursed, to the district by county
superintendent.
AB 2311 - Monagan
Requires that all containers of cherries be marked
(Chapter 290)
to indicate the size of the cherries in the
container. Present law requires size marks only
on closed containers.
SB 26 - Nejedly
Provides that, in any open end credit account,
(Chapter 304)
until the seller delivers a required written
disclosure statement, the buyer shall be
obligated to pay only the cash price of goods or
services pur chased.
SB 196 - Rodda
Authorizes deferral of notice that a probationary
(Chapter 273)
employee will not be employed in the following
year by a school district until the 45th day of
employment where he has been employed less than
45 days on March 15. Present law requires that
such notice be given on March 15 in all cases.
SB 304 - Sherman
Authorizes state competitive scholarship award
(Chapter 305)
winners to use such scholarships at the California
Maritime Academy.
SB 357 - Beilenson
Makes a clarifying amendment to an Education
(Chapter 306)
Code provision relating to state college student
fees.
SB 389 - Sherman
Clarifies the law relating to public inspection
(Chapter 274)
of special county record of birth certificate
marked to indicate that the certificate is not to
be used by a person compiling a business contact
list. The bill makes use of a certificate so
marked by a person compiling a business list a
misdemeanor.
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SB 517 - Bradley
Increases the number of, and salaries of, court
(Chapter 275)
clerks in certain municipal courts in Santa Clara
County.
SB 590 - Moscone
Requires a public administrator to publish his
(Chapter 276)
semi-annual report of estates handled three
successive times, rather than for 10 days.
SB 665 - Collier
Permits a board of supervisors, if land being
(Chapter 277)
subdivided is a portion of a larger parcel shown
on the last preceding tax roll as a unit, to order 1
the creation of a new assessor's parcel which is to
include all the land in the subdivision.
SB 789 - Alquist
Permits local safety members credited with less
(Chapter 307)
than 20 years of service on the effective date
of adoption of increased retirement benefits by
their employers which require retirement at age
60 to continue employment, at the option of the
employer beyond age 60 until age 65 or until
completion of 20 years of service, whichever
occurs first.
SB 881 - Nejedly
Specifies that in a case where the board of directo:
(Chapter 308)
of a fire protection district is composed of
supervising authority, and board by resolution
appoints commissioners to act as its agents, that
such commissioners may be councilmen of cities
within the district. The bill also authorizes
such a board of directors to appoint 5 or 7,
rather than 5 commissioners.
SB 989 - Stevens
Requires five rather than 20, owners of
(Chapter 309)
assessable land in a proposed assessment district
to sign petitions for the initiation of
proceedings for the conversion of existing
overhead electric and communication facilities to
underground locations under the Improvement Act
of 1911.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Earl W. Proett, an Upper Lake rancher, to fill the unexpired term of
Arthur Burry as Lake County Supervisor for the Third District. Burry
has resigned. His term expires in January of 1971.
Proett, 59, who is secretary of Reclamation District 2070, has
operated a farm in Lake County for the past 23 years and is active in
the California Farm Bureau Federation, the Upper Lake Farm Bureau,
Lake County Farm Bureau and Bachelor Valley Grange.
His address is Star Route, Upper Lake. He is a Republican.
Lake County Supervisors receive an annual salary of $5,400.
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#353
Governor Ronald Reagan today pledged his support to a state-wide
voluntary program by labor and industry to train and hire minorities
in the construction field.
The plan, first of its type in the nation to involve a state-wide
action program by labor and industry, was proposed yesterday at a meeting
of labor and industry leaders, with the governor in his office.
The meeting was requested by James S. Lee, president of the State
Building and Construction Trades Council of California, who wrote the
governor stressing the need for an affirmative action program that
would place the responsibility for recruiting and training minorities
with unions and employers.
In endorsing the concept, and directing all state resources to
assist, the governor paid tribute to both labor and industry for
"their willingness to lend their hands and their resources unselfishly
on behalf of their disadvantaged fellow citizens.
"This is another example of how citizens, working together, can
find creative solutions to problems that affect us all, " the governor
said. "I have directed the Fair Employment Practices Commission to
provide technical assistance and I have pledged the support of the
administration to this program."
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#354
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that County
Agricultural Industry Committees are operating in more than 35
California counties to enforce safety and sanitation regulations and
improve working conditions for farm laborers.
Organized by state and county agencies in cooperation with
farmers and agribusiness leaders, the committees are providing
information and educational programs on laws and regulations to
promote the safety and needs of farm workers. They also are initiating
local action programs to solve workers' problems and are assisting local
authorities in the enforcement of laws and regulations.
The State Departments of Agriculture, Public Health, Industrial
Relations, Human Resources Development and the Agricultural Extension
Service initiated the program several months ago and enlisted the
cooperation of local officials.
The governor said that the Council of California Growers, the
California Farm Bureau Federation and other industry leaders have given
substantial support to the program.
State Director of Agriculture Jerry W. Fielder said that
California Department of Agriculture personnel, whose work brings them
into frequent contact with farms and farmers, are working with the
county committees to locate areas of concern.
Pointing out that the program has--in a short span of time--
expanded throughout the state, Fielder said "with local enforcement
action and cooperation at the state level, we anticipate that it will
make rural California a cleaner and safer place in which to live and
work."
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#355
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
John L. Flynn, Jr., La Habra attorney, to the newly created Central
Orange County Judicial District Municipal Court bench.
Flynn, 43, will receive an annual salary of $29,270.
A partner in the firm of Lawton, Christensen, Flynn, Fazio and
McDonnell since 1963, Flynn is a former Deputy City Attorney of
Los Angeles.
A native of Los Angeles, he holds degrees from Long Beach
State College, the University of California at Los Angeles and Southwester
University Law School.
Flynn is a member of the State Bar of California, the Los Angeles
County Bar Association, the Orange County Bar Association and the
American Board of Trial Advocates.
He and his wife, Patricia, have three sons.
Flynn is a Republican.
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#356
The Reagan administration
in its continuing efforts to hold down
the skyrocketing cost of welfare. today clamped a ceiling on state
welfare spending for homemaker and attendant care services which will
save California taxpayers $10 million during fiscal 1970-71.
Governor Reagan, in a letter to chairmen of the county boards of
supervisors, said the action "is specifically geared to assure an overall
reduction in the welfare burden shouldered by the counties."
To put the savings into effect, he ordered that budgeted state
expenditures for homemaker and attendant care services be immediately
reduced from $24.5 million to $14.5 million during the current fiscal
year.
The governor also directed State Social Welfare Director Robert
Martin to immediately sign emergency regulations requiring that the
$14.5 million in state funds for the program be allocated to the counties
on a monthly, rather than yearly basis, "to insure that no county
expends more state money for the program than that provided to them."
The new regulations strongly recommend that the counties not use
general relief money to supplement the program when the state allocation
is exhausted.
"Any attempt to do so---by spending tax monies raised locally from
the county tax base would contravene the clear intent of the
administration's action which is to cut the cost of welfare at both
the state and local levels," the governor said.
"The regulations will enable counties to operate the (homemaker and
attendant care services) program within the reduced state allocation
without forcing any recipient into out-of-home care.
"In sum," he said, "the action the administration is taking will
assure that persons in the greatest need of homemaker and attendant care
allowances receive the assistance they require while, at the same time,
lessening the heavy welfare burden on the taxpayer."
The governor called the action "part of our continuing efforts to
hold down the skyrocketing cost of welfare" and said the administration
will be announcing additional administrative cutbacks, proposed
regulation changes and other reforms in the days and weeks ahead.
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"In doing so," he said, "we will be scrupulously careful not to
transfer the cost and program burden of welfare programs from the state
to the county level."
Governor Reagan's letter to the supervisors also said:
"The fact is, California taxpayers are looking to their elected
representatives in government at every level to make the kinds of
tough decisions necessary for bringing runaway welfare costs back in
check.
"Changes in our laws, and in the multitudinous regulations which
govern the administration of welfare, are imperative if we are to restore
the balance between the legitimate interests of the taxpayer, and those
of the truly needy welfare recipient.
"Over the past three and one half years, this administration has
sought repeatedly to halt unchecked welfare spending.
"We have proposed and supported numerous bills in the legislature
to reform the system and ease the staggering burden it places on the
taxpayer.
"Unfortunately, the myriad of legislative initiatives we have
taken---to enable state and local government to get a firmer handle on
welfare have thus far met with only limited success.
"Despite the pressing need to bring these soaring costs under
control, we are still awaiting legislative approval of administration-
sponsored legislation which stands to cut welfare and save the taxpayers
approximately $87 million.
"Earlier this year, I pledged to the people of California that this
administration would continue to work diligently to achieve modification
of overly restrictive and unnecessarily costly federal welfare
regulations. We, of course, recognize that the task will not be easy.
"And, in the event we are unsuccessful, we will not hesitate to
join with the counties in partnership efforts to secure the relief
taxpayers are demanding through the courts."
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Following is the text of a letter, sent today from Governor Reagan
to chairmen of the county boards of supervisors in California:
"Over the past three and one half years, this administration has
sought repeatedly to halt unchecked welfare spending.
"We have proposed and supported numerous bills in the legislature
to reform the system and ease the staggering burden it places on the
taxpayer.
"Unfortunately, the myriad of legislative initiatives we have
taken to enable state and local government to get a firmer handle on
welfare have thus far met with only limited success.
"Despite the pressing need to bring these soaring costs under
control, we are still awaiting legislative approval of administration-
sponsored legislation which stands to cut welfare and save the taxpayers
approximately $87 million.
"The fact is, California taxpayers are looking to their elected
representatives in government at every level to make the kinds of
tough decisions necessary for bringing runaway welfare costs back in check
"Changes in our laws, and in the multitudinous regulations which
govern the administration of welfare, are imperative if we are to restore
the balance between the legitimate interests of the taxpayer, and those
of the truly needy welfare recipient.
"Earlier this year, I pledged to the people of California that this
administration would continue to work diligently to achieve modification
of overly restrictive and unnecessarily costly federal welfare regulations
We, of course, recognize that the task will not be easy.
"And, in the event we are unsuccessful, we will not hestiate to join
with the counties in partnership efforts to secure the relief taxpayers
are demanding through the courts.
"I also have directed State Social Welfare Director Robert Martin
to make whatever changes in state regulations are legally possible and
appropriate to tighten the administration of welfare.
"In so doing, we will be scrupulously careful not to transfer the
cost and program burden of welfare programs from the state to the county
level.
"As you know, the state is currently experiencing an extremely tight
fiscal situation. In line with the austerity measures we have taken, some
welfare programs are now in the process of being curtailed or completely
eliminated.
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"One of the programs affected is for homemaker and attendant care
services.
"I have, today, ordered that budgeted state expenditures for this
program during fiscal 1970-71 be reduced from $24.5 million to $14.5
million. This administrative action will not only save California
taxpayers $10 million, but is specifically geared to assure an overall
reduction in the welfare burden shouldered by the counties,
"I have further directed Bob Martin to immediately sign emergency
regulations requiring that the state's program expenditure be allocated
to the counties on a monthly, rather than yearly, basis.
"The new regulations strongly recommend that the counties not use
general relief money to supplement this program when the state
allocation is exhausted. Any attempt to do so---by spending tax monies
raised locally from the county tax base--would contravene the clear
intent of the administration's action which is to cut the cost of
welfare at both the state and local levels.
"The regulations, which are now being mailed to county welfare
directors, also will enable counties to operate the program within the
reduced allocation without forcing any recipient into out-of-home care.
"In sum, the action the administration is taking will assure that
persons in the greatest need of homemaker and attendant care allowances
receive the assistance they require while, at the same time, lessening
the heavy welfare burden on the taxpayer.
"We will be announcing additional administrative cutbacks, proposed
regulations changes and other reforms in the days and weeks ahead as part
of our continuing efforts to hold down the skyrocketing cost of welfare.
"I seek your cooperation and support."
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GENERAL BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Attendant Care/Homemaker Services
Attendant Care and Homemaker Services are separate programs for
meeting similar needs of those aged, blind and disabled welfare
recipients the require special assistance in their own homes. Neither
involves rursing care.
Allowances for these programs are over and above basic aid payments.
Attendant Care is arranged via a special need allowance with which the
recipient buys for himself the services of an attendant. The Homemaker
Services program entails direct service being provided to the recipient
by a county employee or someone under contract with the county.
Counties have until the end of 1972, under state and federal
regulations, to convert from Attendant Care to Homemaker Services.
At the present time, most counties have not converted and the $14.5
million total state allocation to the counties for these programs leaves
them the options of any combination of the two programs within the funds
made available to them by the state. Nine counties have so far received
approval for a total Homemaker Services plan, 15 have submitted partial
plans to cover Attendant Care in Aid to the Disabled by responsible
relatives, and six counties have total Homemaker Services plans pending
approval.
Attached is a county-by-county list of allocations from the $14.5
million.
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State Department of Social Welfare Allocation to Counties of State Budget Appropriations
for Homemaker or Attendant Care Services 1970-71
County Allocation
Subsequent
of State
Monthly
COUNTIES
Appropriation
1st Quarter
Allocation
AI
eda
$ 544,000
136,000
45,333
Alpine
200
50
17
Amador
2,000
500
167
Butte
106,500
26,625
8,875
Calaveras
3,900
975
325
Colusa
2,000
500
167
Contra Costa
587,000
146,750
48,917
Del Norte
3,113
778
259
E1 Dorado
3,113
778
259
Fresno
397,500
99,375
33,125
Glenn
14,100
3,525
1,175
Humboldt
122,700
30,675
10,225
Imperial
50,300
12,575
4,192
Inyo
2,000
500
167
Kern
125,200
31,300
10,433
Kings
3,113
778
259
Lake
29,100
7,275
2,425
Lassen
13,600
3,400
1,133
Los Angeles
5,256,700
1,314,175
438,058
Madera
52,700
13,175
4,392
Marin
87,000
21,750
7,250
Mariposa
2,000
500
167
Mendocino
37,200
9,300
3,100
Merced
50,400
12,600
4,200
Modoc
1,000
250
83
Mc
1,727
432
144
Mo. erey
84,500
21,125
7,042
Napa
63,000
15,750
5,250
Nevada
16,000
4,000
1,333
Orange
276,700
69,175
23,058
Placer
21,000
5,250
1,750
Plumas
10,905
2,726
909
Riverside
137,658
34,415
11,472
Sacramento
1,076,200
269,050
89,683
San Benito
2,000
500
167
San Bernardino
344,500
86,125
28,708
San Diego
667,600
166,900
55,633
San Francisco
1,641,600
410,400
136,800
San Joaquin
159,100
39,775
13,258
San Luis Obispo
57,200
14,300
4,767
San Mateo
502,000
125,500
41,833
Santa Barbara
152,500
38,125
12,708
Santa Clara
731,700
182,925
60,975
Santa Cruz
47,900
11,975
3,992
Shasta
135,300
33,825
11,275
Sierra
1,000
250
83
Siskiyou
15,700
3,925
1,308
Solano
162,500
40,625
13,542
Sonoma
65,600
16,400
5,467
Stanislaus
198,700
49,675
16,558
Su*ter
10,000
2,500
833
T. ma
37,200
9,300
3,100
Trinity
3,871
968
323
Tulare
174,000
43,500
14,500
Tuolumne
15,400
3,550
1,283
Ventura
95,000
28,750
7,917
Yolo
35,900
8,975
2,992
Yuba
25,300
6,325
2,108
TOTAL
$14,465,700
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#357
Governor Ronald Reagan today took issue with statements by
officials of the federal Department of Health, Education & Welfare that
California must conform with certain federally interpreted welfare
payment laws and regulations.
"It is regrettable and more than a little curious that a
federal bureaucracy seeks to impose its interpretation about laws and
regulations now to change a California practice that has gone on since
1951. This action is certain to cost the taxpayers of this state more
money.
"California already leads the nation in the size and scope of
its total social services, health care and welfare programs.
"But the federal bureaucracy now is seeking to impose its views
to increase that already too expensive program even more."
The governor pointed out that the state legislature in 1951
established the procedures for the welfare payments now being questioned
by the federal government and said:
"The state is in the best position to know how to meet the needs
of welfare recipients and its own elected representatives have decided
this issue. It therefore is inconceivable that federal bureaucrats
even consider overruling the state.
"Rather than attempt to impose their interpretations from 3,000
miles away, I would suggest HEW encourage California and other states to
adopt welfare programs that fit the needs of their individual citizens.
The tremendously expensive costs of welfare are skyrocketing because the
federal government already imposes its will too often on the states."
Governor Reagan noted that legislation carried by Assemblyman
Gordon Duffy (R-Hanford) is now pending which would substantially improve
both the administrative and grant aspects of California's present welfare
system. He added that the state is proceeding with administrative
revisions which will help reduce costs and save the taxpayers' money.
"If California is forced to adopt these bureaucratic interpre-
tations in this one program," the governor said, "it will either cost
the taxpayers a minimum of $70 million a year more or will result in
lower benefits for a greater number of recipients and thereby destroy
what we have been trying to achieve: Proper assistance levels for those
who are truly needy and elimination from welfare of those who are able
to support themselves.
"Unfortunately, the federal bureaucracy has failed to look at
the entire welfare program in California. There is great danger if one
program is singled out now with a piecemeal approach. We cannot solve
the problems of welfare by using paper formulas.
"In view of this, I would hope HEW bureaucrats will reconsider
their action and recognize that regulations must be kept flexible
enough to meet the needs of individual states."
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GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
July 13, 1970
through
July 19, 1970
Monday, July 13
No public appointments scheduled.
Overnight - Sacramento
Tuesday, July 14
Noon
Trustees Meeting - Los Angeles Headquarters.
Overnight - Sacramento
Wednesday, July 15
1:30 p.m.
PRESS CONFERENCE
Overnight - Sacramento
Thursday, July 16
No public appointments scheduled.
Overnight - San Francisco
Friday, July 17
a.m.
Regents Meeting, University of California Extension
Center, 55 Laguna Street, San Francisco.
Overnight - Sacramento
Saturday, July 18
No public appointments scheduled.
Overnight - Sacramento
Sunday, July 19
No public appointments scheduled.
Overnight - Los Angeles
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#359
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointments of
Guilford J. Whitehead of Oakhurst and Donald L. Howard of Madera to
four-year-terms on the board of the 21a District Agricultural Association
(Madera County District Fair)
Whitehead, a super market owner and breeder of Arabian horses,
succeeds John C. Dozier of North Fork, who has resigned. He lives in
Oakhurst, and his address is P. O. Box 185. He is a Democrat.
Howard, president of the Pacific Division of American Agronomics
Corporation, succeeds Robert U. Loquaci of Madera, who has also resigned.
Howard lives at 11214 Road 38, Madera. He is a Republican.
Board members receive necessary expenses.
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#360
Governor Ronald Reagan today expressed increasing concern over
recent developments relating to the farm labor situation in California.
In a statement the governor said:
"I have watched with great interest and increasing concern the
developments in the past few days and hours having to do with the
agricultural labor situation in California.
"As you know, more than a week ago I offered the services of
the State Conciliation Service for supervising any election requested
by the workers, or their representative, and the employer. In doing
so, I said this would provide a means for settling voluntarily the
current fresh grape controversy by providing for free elections, using
secret ballots, which would enable farm workers to choose which, if any,
union they might wish to join.
"I am reliably informed that a substantial number of growers in
the San Joaquin Valley have petitioned the State Conciliation Service
to conduct such an election by secret ballot for their workers
regarding their possible unionization. I am also informed that as
of this time the leadership in the Union Farm Workers Organizing
Committee has refused to enter into negotiations with the growers for
the conduct of such an election.
"It is hard to believe that any individual having responsibility
for union leadership should be unwilling to grasp this opportunity for
bringing about the solution to the chaotic situation that now exists.
I would hope that not only the labor leaders but the clergy who have been
involved in this labor problem would use their full influence in
directing their efforts to a solution of the problem rather than a
continuation of it.
"I have no authority from a legal standpoint to force anyone to
negotiate. But I can acquaint the public with the facts and hope that
if good judgment does not prevail, then the pressure of public opinion
will develop immediately to such an extent that the so-called leaders
in this movement will find no alternative but to negotiate in good faith.
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#361
Governor Ronald Reagan has signed legislation that will make
it possible for an additional 3,000 high school students to receive
state scholarships.
The bill, (AB 31) authored by Assembly Speaker Bob Monagan
(R-Tracy) increases the number of available state scholarships from
two percent to three percent beginning with the 1971-72 fiscal year.
"This legislation will make it possible for more than 9,000
high school students, who lack the funds, to continue their education
at colleges and universities of their choice in California," the governor
said.
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#362
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills
have been signed:
AB 399 - Cullen
Makes it a misdemeanor to knowingly sell, fabricate,
(Chapter 329)
install, glazing materials other than safety glazing
materials in, or for use in, hazardous locations,
unless such glazing material satisfies prescribed
standards.
AB 467 - Assembly
Declares legislative intent of encouraging counties
Committee on Health
to contract with community organizations to provide
and Welfare
innovative, non-inpatient treatment services for
(Chapter 330)
persons under the County Short-Doyle Plan. The bill
provides funding for such contracts of 85 percent
state funds which shall not exceed 5 percent of
the plan's total General Fund Appropriation, 5 percen
county funds and 10 percent contracting organization
funds which shall not include state or federal
funds. State funding is limited to 3 years for
any one contract.
AB 612 - Schabarum
Prohibits anyone from selling or advertising any
(Chapter 331)
device for use in a required motor pollution control
system which modifies the original performance of
the system as installed. It exempts devices which
the Air Resources Board finds do not reduce the
effectiveness of such systems.
AB 634 - Beverly
Appropriates $39,000 from the Motor Vehicle Fund
(Chapter 335)
to the Automobile Accident Study Commission for the
completion of the activities of the commission.
AB 769 - Stull
Exempts certain honorably discharged disabled World
(Chapter 336)
War II veterans, and veterans who served during
specified times from payment of described state and
local peddlers' license taxes and fees. Veterans of
earlier wars are presently exempt from the payment
of such taxes and fees.
AB
863
- R. Johnson Authorizes the Department of Parks and Recreation,
(Chapter 337)
in connection with the development of the Bidwell
Canyon-Kelly Ridge Area of Oroville Reservoir State
Recreation Area, to develop utilities and access
roads located outside the boundaries of state-owned
lands.
AB 884 - Roberti
Deletes the provision declaring that the acquisition
( Chapter 332)
of property for airports to be park purposes and
declaring that any land acquired for park purposes
may be used for airport purposes. The bill provides
that land acquired by a governmental agency for
airport purposes may be used for park or recreation
purposes until actually needed for airport
development.
AB 898 - Chappie
Deletes duplicate authorization for the Department of
(Chapter 338)
Rehabilitation to extablish rehabilitation facilities
The bill deletes the requirement of monthly meeting
of the Vocational Rehabilitation Appeals Board.
The bill also specifies that the Department of
Rehabilitation is to cooperate with the federal
government or its agencise in administering rules
or regulations adopted under any act of Congress
relating to the disabled.
AB 977 - Biddle
Repeals provisions for the commitment of mentally
(Chapter 339)
abnormal sex offenders and provides for the continued
commitment until discharge of persons committed under
those provisions. The repealed provisions do not
affect the law relating to mentally disordered sex
offenders.
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AB 998 - Knox &
Authorizes a court, upon its own motion or petition o:
Dent
probationer or district attorney of county in which
(Chapter 333)
probationer is supervised, to modify, revoke, or
terminate probation. The bill requires that the
clerk of the court submit a copy of the probation
order and any subsequent changes in probationary
status to the law enforcement agency which
arrested person or investigated matter for violation
which supports the probation order. This bill also
permits the court to revoke probation if it believes
among other things, that the person has subsequently
committed other offenses, regardless whether he has
been prosecuted for such offenses, rather than is
engaging in criminal practices.
AB 1021 - H. Johnson
Extends the application and scope of the Contractor
(Chapter 340)
License Law as it applies to the installation of
mobilehomes and the installation and erection of
mobile home buildings and structures.
AB 1043 - Deddeh
Requires county clerks to keep a copy of the index
(Chapter 341)
of voter registration on file as a public record
for five years after printing.
AB 1044 - Deddeh
Allows voter registration affidavits to be
(Chapter 342)
reproduced in any manner approved by the National
Bureau of Standards rather than only by film.
AB 1045 - Deddeh
Deletes the statutory limit on the fee which a
(Chapter 343)
county clerk may charge a city for signature
verification on municipal nomination petitions.
AB 1060 - Moorhead
Makes discretionary, rather than mandatory, the
(Chapter 344)
filing of post-conviction statements of views by
the judge and the district attorney where the
probation officer has filed a report with respect to
the defendant and the crime committed.
AB 1094 - Dunlap
Provides that upon the death of a surviving spouse,
(Chapter 345)
former community property or any other property
acquired by or through the predeceased spouse upon
the death of the surviving spouse shall be distributed
to the family of the predeceased spouse rather than
escheat to the State.
AB 1183 - Zenovich
Provides that bonds issued under the Parking Law
(Chapter 357)
of 1949 may be sold at not more than a 6 percent
discount with a maximum interest rate of 7 percent.
AB
1230 - Britschgi Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Government
(Chapter 346)
Code.
AB 1272 - Badham
Prohibits a partnership, firm or corporation name
(Chapter 347)
from including the name of a geologist who is not
registered under the Geologist Act.
AB 1292 - Ketchum
Exempts surplus water of a privately owned water
(Chapter 348)
supply used for industrial, as well as domestic and
irrigation purposes from regulation by the Public
Utilities Commission when such surplus is sold or
delivered for specified purposes.
AB 1370 - Powers
Repeals an obsolete provision of the Labor Code.
(Chapter 349)
AB 1375 - Greene, B. Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Unemployment
(Chapter 350)
Insurance Code.
AB
1384
- Lanterman Continues the present definition of "mentally
(Chapter 351)
retarded persons" as persons requiring supervision,
control, and care, for their own welfare or the
welfare of others or community welfare, rather than
as persons requiring such care because they are a
danger to themselves or others, and also provides no
mentally retarded person may be judicially committed
unless a danger to himself or others.
The bill also limits home visits from state hospital for the mentally
retarded to a period not exceeding 60 days and requires parent or guardian
approval prior to placement of such persons by a regional center for out-
of-home prehospital and posthospital care
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AB 1389 - Beverly
Makes a person eligible to be a municipal court
(Chapter 352)
judge in any Los Angeles County judicial district
if he is a resident eligible to vote in the county
for at least 54 days prior to election or appointment.
Present law limits such eligibility to judicial
districts in Los Angeles County with a population
over 1,000,000.
AB 1428 - MacDonald Includes force or threat of force within the Penal
(Chapter 353)
Code provision which provides that a person is
guilty of a felony if he attempts by any means
other than a bribe, fraudulently to induce any
person to give false or withhold true testimony.
AB 1539 - Chappie
Permits filing for the immature forest trees
(Chapter 354)
exemption from property taxation to continue in
effect until a change in the exterior boundary of the
property originally claimed as exempt, rather than
requiring each owner or new owner to file when making
his original claim for the exemption.
AB 1641 - Moorhead
Provides capital notes and debentures shall be
(Chapter 358)
considered paid-up capital when computing the
maximum sum a local agency can deposit in a
depositary.
AB 1997 - Murphy
Permits a person who has purchased wine from a
(Chapter 355)
licensed wine-grower, has taken delivery in this
state for delivery or use outside the state, and
has removed the wine from this state, to return
Gil or any portion thereof to the licensed premises
of the wine-grower from whom the wine was purchased.
AB 2051 - Badham
Permits the Board of Administration of the Public
(Chapter 356)
Employees' Retirement System, in administration of
the program for health benefits for State employees,
to provide comprehensive plans as an alternative to
basic health benefit plans.
SB 312 - Marks
Requires specified rigid coupling structure for
(Chapter 334)
freeway towing except for towing disabled motor
vehicles from point of disablement to the nearest
and most accessible freeway exit.
SB 403 - Collier
Establishes a uniform salary schedule for employees
(Chapter 326)
of the Central Sonoma County and Southern Sonoma
County municipal court districts. The bill also
increases the salary of official reporters of the
Sonoma County Superior Court.
SB 404 - Collier
Permits municipal court judges in Humboldt County
(Chapter 327)
to reside in the county rather than in the judicial
district only.
SB 782 - Mills
Provides that the board of supervisors of one or
(Chapter 328)
more counties may authorize studies of the
feasibility of a high-speed transit system to
operate in one or more counties.
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#363
Governor Ronald Reagan in another major move to "cut the
staggering welfare burden borne by California taxpayers today ordered
the complete abolition of state regulations which require the counties
to maintair. specified staffing and caseload ratios in the administration
of welfare.
The County Supervisors' Association of California (CSAC) estimated
that the overnor's action could save California taxpayers as much as
$75 million a year divided about equally between county and federal
welfare cost reductions,
The governor said his directive-- the second in a series of
administrative cutbacks, proposed regulation changes and welfare reforms
which the administration will be announcing in the days and weeks
ahead
will "untie the hands of the counties and give them the
flexibility they need in meeting welfare requirements at the local level.'
He emphasized that "the action is not aimed at reducing welfare
benefits, but rather, at improving the welfare delivery system and
cutting through the maze of paperwork which characterizes the present
welfare bureaucracy."
CSAC President Sig Sanchez hailed the governor's decision as "a
milestone in our long, uphill battle to secure the flexibility which is
essential to the efficient administration of welfare.
"I am delighted to join with Governor Reagan in the announcement of
the achievement of this long sought goal of county government," he said.
To implement the necessary changes, Governor Reagan ordered State
Social Welfare Director Robert Martin to immediately sign emergency
regulations eliminating current state requirements which compel the
following average ratios on the counties:
--One social work supervisor for no more than five social workers.
--One social worker for no more than 60 continuous service welfare
recipients.
The new regulations which become effective August 1 simply
require that there be "adequate numbers and suitable qualifications for
personnel drawn from social work and other appropriate disciplines to
plan, develop and supervise public social services" in compliance with
present federal standards.
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"The new regulations will permit the counties the flexibility needed
by them to perform the public social services required by the Social
Security Act and the State Welfare and Institutions Code," Martin said.
He noted that the governor's action was made possible, in part,
by parallel modifications of caseload and staffing ratios published
recently in the Federal Register for Old Age Security, Aid to the Blind
and Aid to Needy Disabled programs. Similar modifications have also
been made in federal regulations governing the Aid to Families with
Dependent Children Program.
Martin said the new state regulations also eliminate all previous
differential caseload standards for foster care, protective services
and adoption services.
Sanchez noted that this year "County Welfare Directors joined with
CSAC in suggesting that allowing counties to determine their own
welfare staffing needs, with due regard for program requirements,
efficiency and welfare recipient protection, was an essential step to
be taken to welfare reform.
"Such flexibility, he said, "will at long last permit the
assignment of social welfare staff to the programs and problems of
greatest need.
"The underlying reason for this necessity is the diversity of
conditions for program administrations found in counties ranging in size
from Alpine to Los Angeles.
"I am confident, Sanchez said, "that counties will meet this
challenge to provide high quality welfare services at substantially less
cost than has been required under the old regulations.
"The counties can fully support the administration in this effort
to reduce the costs of welfare and still contain the high levels of
service to welfare recipients for which California is noted, If he added.
Governor Reagan called the administration's action "a significant
forward step in our continuing efforts to cut the staggering welfare
burden borne by California taxpayers.
"In addition, it reaffirms our commitment to the philosophy of local
control by those who know local needs and problems best and how to
deal with them in the most efficient and economical way possible.
"If the elected representatives of the people fail to make the tough
decisions which must be made to halt the skyrocketing costs of welfare,
then it is only a matter of time before such uncontrolled spending
bankrupts our entire governmental system," the governor said.
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"The stakes are truly great!
"We simply cannot continue to afford the cost of unrestrained
welfare spending without reaping the confiscatory consequences of such
actions at the expense of the already overburdened taxpayer.
"It is time that we exercise the responsibilities which the
people the taxpayers have vested in us: to balance their interests
with those of the truly needy on public assistance.
"It will take courage and a steadfast resolve by every public
servant to withstand the unrelenting pressures for ever-greater welfare
spending. But, this is what the people expect, it is what they deserve,
and it is what this administration will continue to strive for in their
behalf during the months to come," the governor said.
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#364
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Sherman F. Wagenseller,
Santa Monica businessman, to a four-year-term as a public member of
the State Hospital Advisory Board.
He succeeds Dr. Paul F. Wehrle of San Marino, whose term has
expired.
Wagenseller, a Republican, is a vice president and director of
Wagenseller and Durst Securities Corporation and has other business
interests in Santa Monica.
He is a native of Los Angeles and a graduate of the University
of California at Los Angeles.
He and his wife, Janet, have six children. The family home
is at 1767 Old Ranch Road, Los Angeles.
Board members are paid necessary expenses.
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#365
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Nathan Axel, Los Angeles Judicial District Court Commissioner, as
judge of the Los Angeles Judicial District Municipal Court.
Axel, 53, succeeds Judge Julius Title who has been elevated to
the Los Angeles County Superior Court bench. He will receive an annual
salary of $29,270.
A graduate of the University of Kansas and the Southwestern
University Law School, Axel has served as a Judge Pro Tem in the
Los Angeles Judicial District Municipal Court, as a Superior Court
Referee in Juvenile Hall, and as Court Commissioner since December, 1969.
He is a member of the State Bar of California, the Los Angeles
County Bar Association, the Burbank Bar Association, the Criminal
Courts Bar Association and the National Association of Defense Lawyers
in Criminal Cases.
He is a Republican.
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#366
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Mrs. Toshiko Yamamoto
of Los Angeles as a paid member of the State Board of Barber Examiners
in the Department of Professional and Vocational Standards.
Mrs. Yamamoto became the first woman to serve on the board when
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she was appointed by Governor Reagan as a public member in 1968. She
has resigned that post to accept the paid position at an annual salary
of $8,820. She succeeds Alfred Nachtigall of Fresno, whose term has
expired.
Active in several civic organizations and Japanese-American groups
Mrs. Yamamoto operates the Toshi Barber Shop in Los Angeles with
her husband, George.
They live at 253 South Gerhart Avenue, Los Angeles.
Mrs. Yamamoto is a Republican.
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CORRECTION
On press release No. 366, paragraph two, line two should read
as follows:
"she was appointed by Governor Reagan as a journeyman member in 1968."
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#367
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed King E. Durkee, Director
of Education for the Copley Press, to a four-year-term on the Board
of Governors of California Community Colleges, subject to confirmation
by a two-thirds vote of the Senate.
He will succeed Philip V. Sanchez of Fresno, who has resigned.
Durkee, who has a distinguished background in journalism and
education, is also active in San Diego civic and cultural affairs.
He has served as executive editor, managing editor and
executive news editor of the San Diego Union and has held educational
posts with the Innovations Advisory Commission to the California
State Board of Education and the United States, California and
San Diego Chambers of Commerce.
He has also been active in the American Newspaper Publishers
Association, the Graduate Department of Journalism at the University
of Californ: ia at Los Angeles, the Pacific Forum, the Bayside Settlement
House, Sigma Delta Chi, the Association for Education in Journalism and
the San Diego Symphony.
Durkee was also a member of the San Diego Catholic Diocese
School Board and has been a journalism instructor at San Diego State
College and the University of Utah.
He is a Republican
Board members are paid necessary expenses.
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445-4571
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The Soil Conservation Society of America, through its California
chapter, will present its 25th Anniversary Medallion to Governor Reagan
this afternoon at 3 p.m. in the governor's office. The silver medallion
will be presented by Chapter President George E. Goodall of Santa Barbara
in recognition of Governor Reagan's "abiding concern for this state and
the maintenance of its priceless environment".
At 3:10 p.m. the governor will greet the new Miss California,
18-year-old Karin Kascher of Castro Valley.
She won the title at the Miss California Pageant in Santa Cruz
which she entered as Miss Hayward.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hermann Kascher of Castro Valley, she
is a June graduate of Castro Valley Highschool and plans a career as
a concert violinist.
As a result of her musical talents she has won a scholarship to
the Juilliard School of Music.
Her parents were both born in Europe and Mrs. Kascher is a former
Miss Austria and was in the theatre.
Governor Reagan sent the following message of congratulations to
Miss Kascher:
"I want to offer my personal congratulations to you. California is
indeed fortunate to have an outstanding and talented young woman
representing us in the Miss America Pageant.
"You are to be congratulated for your determination to fill the
world with music and for the intelligence you have demonstrated in your
interviews.
"None of us need have any fear for the future when the youth of our
nation are represented by people like you.
"By every measure you are a winner and I wish you success in the
Atlantic City competition."
Press coverage is invited for both of the above.
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#368
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills
have been signed:
AB 68 - Mobley
Authorizes the issuance of permits to students
(Chapter 364)
regularly enrolled in commercial fishing classes
under the jurisdiction of the State Board of
Education or in such classes in a community
college and faculty members to take fish under
specified conditions and to sell only to a licensed
fish dealer or donate all fish taken to a charitable
institution. Any money received from sale of fish
is to be used solely for the support of the commercia
fishing classes.
AB 70 - Lanterman
Validates organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings,
(Chapter 365)
and bonds of counties, cities, and specified
districts, agencies and entities. The Second
Validating Act of 1970.
AB 101 - Warren
Increases the number of public members on the State
(Chapter 366)
Board of Forestry from one to two. The bill also
increases the size of the Board from seven to eight
members.
AB 169 - Veysey
Increases the number of credentials which may be
(Chapter 367)
issued under the Licensing of Certificated Personnel
Law of 1968 from 100 to 200. This law authorizes the
issuance of probationary credentials to college
graduates who have satisfactorily passed an
examination approved by the State Board of
Education.
AB 189 - Thomas
Amends the Cosmetology Act to permit persons to
(Chapter 367)
qualify for a cosmetology instructor's license on
the basis of out-of-state training and experience.
AB 351 - Barnes
Defines "regular interest," "interest," and
(Chapter 369)
"interest at the current rate" for purposes of the
retirement systems established pursuant to the
County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 and
prescribes the method of computation of interest on
deposits and re-deposits of member contributions.
AB 353 - Deddeh
Provides that the remainder of accumulated
(Chapter 370)
contributions of a deceased member of a retirement
system established pursuant to County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937 who was retired for service
or non-service-connected disability shall be paid
to his designated beneficiary if there is no
surviving spouse or children eligible for survivors
benefits.
AB 452 - Chappie
Provides that persons committed to the Youth Authority
(Chapter 371)
who are convicted of the crimes of escape or
attempted escape may have their period of committment
extended for prescribed periods.
483 - Dills &
Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to
Collier
issue identification plates and cards to manufacturers
(Chapter 405)
and dealers in special construction equipment,
special mobile equipment, cemetery equipment and
implements of husbandry for purposes of demonstration
or delivery, provided permits have been obtained for
movement thereof if maximums for size, weight or
load are exceeded. The bill also prohibits moving
from a lane until such movement can be made with
reasonable safety, rather than until the driver
has first ascertained that such movement can be made
with safety.
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AB 646 - Mulford
Makes the California State Police a division of
(Chapter 372)
the Department of General Services. The bill defines
the terms "members" and "employees" as they relate
to the California State Police Division. It also
clarifies the respective powers of members and
employees of the Division.
AB 717 - MacDonald
Specifies that a magistrate may receive a nolo
(Chapter 373)
contendere plea in a felony case not punishable by
death.
AB 725 - MacDonald
Provides that if the officer of a joint powers
(Chapter 374)
entity performing the functions of auditor or
controller is the county auditor or controller he
shall establish such funds and accounts to accomplish
the purposes of the agreement in accordance with the
uniform accounting procedures prescribed by the
State Controller for counties.
AB 753 - Conrad
Permits combination of housecar and trailer coupled
(Chapter 375)
together or housecar and semitrailer coupled
together that meet specified requirements, to exceed
a total length of 60 feet but not to exceed a total
length of 65 feet.
AB 885 - Moorhead
Provides that any sale or purchase of property not
(Chapter 376)
previously approved or disapproved during
administration of the guardianship or conservatorship
estate shall be subject to review by the court upon
the next succeeding accounting of the guardian or
conservator after the sale or purchase is made.
The bill authorizes the court, upon such accounting
and review, to hold the guardian or conservator
liable for violation of duties with respect to such
sale or purchase.
AB 963 - Gonsalves
Permits a qualified social and religious club holding
(Chapter 377)
a "club license" under the Alcoholic Beverage Control
Act to hold a caterer's permit.
AB 1142 - Greene, L.
Permits any person who has lost use of one or more
(Chapter 378)
limbs, rather than one or both legs, to park for
unlimited periods in specified parking zones.
AB 1149 - Cory
Requires the proponents to file, with the city or
(Chapter 379)
county clerk, a statement of campaign expenditures
incurred in any unsuccessful effort to initiate a
local recall, referendum or initiative election.
The bill adds to the list of those expenditures
which must be reported, the costs of circulating
and securing signatures on recall petitions.
AB 1161 - Ketchum
Provides for a water district board to permit
(Chapter 380)
installment payments of assessments, and provides
that the present law shall apply to installments in
the same way it does to full assessments.
AB 1163 - Ketchum
Eliminates the requirement that the State Personnel
(Chapter 381)
Board submit a biennial report in addition to its
annual report to the governor and the legislature.
It also permits, for research and statistical
purposes, the obtaining and maintaining of records
pertaining to race, color, or religion on state civil
service employees.
AB 1223 - Barnes
Repeals obsolete Education Code provisions relating
(Chapter 382)
to hearings before the Board of the State Teachers'
Retirement System.
AB 1319 - Bagley
Prohibits state or local agencies, from conducting
(Chapter 383)
meetings, conferences, or other functions in a
facility that prohibits the admittance of any
person or persons on the basis of race, religious
creed, color, national origin, ancestry, or sex.
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AB 1325 - Briggs
Repeals the provision of the soil conservation
(Chapter 408)
district law which requires the county in which
the greatest portion of the land of a soil
conservation district is situated to pay the cost
of district election.
AB 1337 - Ketchum
Revises Agricultural Code provision prohibiting
(Chapter 384)
the sale or offer to sell, or giving of any article
in any transaction involving the sale of dairy
products for less than the invoice or replacement
cost, to prohibit the selling or giving of the
article at less than cost.
AB 1372 - Greene,B
Makes a nonsubstantive amendment to the Harbors
(Chapter 385)
and Navigation Code.
AB 1422 - Badham
Limits use by the Public Utilities Commission of
(Chapter 386)
fees deposited in the Transportation Rate Fund for
purpose of administering and enforcing rates,
charges and classification to such administrative
activities as are related to intrastate motor
carriers of property instead of all carriers of
property. The bill becomes operative on July 1, 1971
AB 1441 - Dent
Expressly authorizes improvement districts in
(Chapter 387)
community services districts to acquire, construct,
operate and maintain designated improvements and
provides for use of the ad valorem tax in
improvement districts in lieu of assessments.
AB 1503 - Dent
Authorizes a city council by resolution of intention
(Chapter 388)
to order territory of a subdivider, without notice
and hearing, to be formed into or annexed to a
street lighting district, if such resolution states
that such territory comes under the term of an
ordinance requiring installation of street lighting
system by a subdivider.
AB 1536 - Chappie
Gives county service areas permanent authority to
(Chapter 409)
fix water standby charges.
AB 1552 - Veysey
Requires the governor to consider students in the
(Chapter 410)
performing or visual arts, or persons having
capability of communicating with such students or
young artists, when making appointments to the
California Arts Commission. The bill also removes
the prohibition against reappointment of a former
member to the Commission within one year of expiratio
of previous term.
AB 1614 - Z'berg
Provides the computation of time for filing an
(Chapter 411)
application to file a late claim against a public
entity shall not include the time a claimant
was mentally incapacitated and did not have a
guardian or conservator of his person but shall
include the time the claimant was a minor.
AB 1703 - MacGillivray
Provides that abalone may be taken for drying
(Chapter 412)
purposes, but that black abalone may not be
used for canning or drying purposes. This
bill also changes the minimum size limits on
green abalone from 7½ to 7 inches and on pink
and white abalone from 6 to 6½1/4 inches.
AB 1704 - MacGillivray
Changes the closed commercial abalone season
(Chapter 413)
from January 14th through March 16th to the month
of
February and August.
AB 1810 - Stull
Prohibits dealers from selling any mobilehome whose
(Chapter 414)
width necessitates a moving permit, unless they
deliver a written and signed statement that a
permit is required to move such a mobilehome on the
highways of this state and that there are certain
highways for which moving permits may not be issued.
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AB 2177 - Joint
Revises the Government Code provisions with respect
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to the admission of evidence on locating a public
Open Space Lands
improvement in an agricultural preserve. The bill
(Chapter 415)
also provides procedures under the Williamson Act for
the acquisition, by a public agency, of land within
an agricultural preserve for the location of water
transmission facilities which will extend into
more than one county.
AB 2179 - Joint
Amends the Williamson Act to require that a mailed
Committee on
notice of hearing on a contract cancellation be
Open Space Lands
mailed to each landowner in the preserve in which
(Chapter 416)
any portion of the cancellation is situated and to
the landowners within one mile of the exterior
boundaries of proposed cancellation.
SB 137 - Nejedly
Requires the law enforcement agency investigating
(Chapter 389)
the crime, rather than the county district attorney,
to provide forms to victims of crimes who may be
eligible for indemnification from the state.
SB 156 - Bradley
Provides that a governing board of a district
(Chapter 401)
maintaining a community college may levy a fee for
the use of health services of not more than $7.50
per year upon students, and may charge students
and employees a fee for parking facilities of not
more than $20 per semester.
SB 183 - Najedly
Provides that no person shall operate any motorboat
(Chapter 402)
or vessel or manipulate any water skis, aquaplane or
similar device while under the influence of any
restricted dangerous drug.
SB 206 - Lagomarsino
Makes a nonsubstantive amendment to the Public
(Chapter 403)
Resources Code.
SB 208 - Lagomarsino
Authorizes soil conservation districts to conduct
(Chapter 390)
surveys, investigations and research relating to
the conservation of resources and requires the
districts to seek cooperation of local, state and
federal agencies. The bill also requires that
districtwide comprehensive soil and water
conservation plans shall conform to county
general plans.
SB 210 - Lagomarsino
Provides that cooperation with landowners or any
(Chapter 391)
other agency for constructing improvements for
prevention or stabilization of soil erosion is one
of the purposes for which lands in a soil
conservation district may be formed into an im-
provement district.
SB 229 - Dymally
Appropriates $10,000 from an unexpended appropriation
(Chapter 404)
made in 1969, to the California Museum of Science
and Industry for development and operation of a
Higher Horizon Summer Program. The appropriation
in question was reverted to the General Fund by the
1970 Budget Act. The bill also authorizes the
California Museum of Science and Industry to contract
with, and to receive and expend funds with, any
public or private non-profit agency, foundation or
corporation for purposes of the bill.
SB 253 - Carrell
Specifies that any route in the state highway
(Chapter 392)
system included in select system of county roads
or city streets for purpose of contributions and
processing of projects pursuant to cooperative
agreement with the Department of Public works, shall
remain in the select system upon relinquishment
as a state highway.
SB 347 - Kennick
Adds combinations of two-axle trucks and pole,
(Chapter 359)
pipe or logging dollies which exceed 40 feet to
vehicles regulated by the California Highway Patrol.
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SB 362 - Cologne
Limits the time in which a lawsuit may be filed
(Chapter 360)
against doctors, dentists, registered nurses,
dispensing opticians, optometrists, registered
physical therapists, podiatrists, licensed
psychologists, osteopaths, chiropractors, clinical
laboratory bioanalysts, clinical laboratory
technologists, veterinarians, or licensed hospitals
as employers of any such person, based upon
alleged professional negligence, or for rendering
professional services without consent, or for
error or omission in such person's practice, to
four years after date of injury, or one year
after plaintiff discovers, or through use of
reasonable diligence should have discovered, the
injury, whichever first occurs. The bill provides
that such time limitation shall be tolled for any
period during which such person has failed to
disclose any act, error, or omission upon which
such action based and which is known or through
use of reasonable diligence should have been known
to him.
SB 407 - Bradley
Provides that supervisorial districts shall be as
(Chapter 361)
nearly equal in population as possible. It makes
the district attorney chairman of the supervisorial
redistricting commission instead of the county
clerk, superintendent of schools, or sheriff.
The bill allows use of population estimates
prepared by the State Department of Finance or
county planning department or commission and
deletes authorization of use of such estimates
based on the tdal number of registered voters.
SB 514 - Coombs
Revises the basis for voting on revenue bonds
(Chapter 406)
issued under the Sewer Revenue Law of 1933. The
bill provides that registered voters (rather than
only property owners) in the district may vote in
sewer bond election.
SB 581 - Carrell
Deletes special weight with load limitations with
(Chapter 394)
respect to prescribed vehicles operated on
specified state highways.
SB 524 - Marks
Authorizes persons age 18 to 21 who would qualify
(Chapter 393)
as electors except for their age to solicit
signatures to an initiative petition to lower the
voting age to 18.
SB 599 - Moscone
Revises the Vehicle Code provision relating to
(Chapter 395)
misleading advertising by manufacturers, dealers
and transporters to make it conform with a
Business and Professions Code Section on the same
subject.
SB 620 - Sherman
Provides an option of safety membership to
(Chapter 396)
persons over age 35 and employed as juvenile hall
group counselors and supervisors when a county
adopts provisions making such employees safety
members.
SB 709 - Sherman
Increases the fee for the examination for
(Chapter 397)
registered sanitarians from $15 to $25.
SB 936 - Dolwig
Provides that a period of more than 90 days
(Chapter 398)
between active memberships shall not affect the
computation of final compensation of a member of
more than one system established pursuant to the
County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937, if he
is precluded by law from becoming a member of the
second system. The bill makes such 90 day
restriction inapplicable to members who left
county or district service prior to October 1, 1949.
SB 983 - Petris
Corrects references in the Revenue and Taxation
(Chapter 362)
Code relating to the Franchise Tax Board.
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1081 - Lagomarsino Amends the Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit
(Chapter 363)
District Act. It eliminates the need for the
District to publish a financial report each year.
The District is to make copies of its annual audit
available to the public at cost. The bill increases
the authorized compensation of the directors of the
District from $15 to $30 per meeting, and also
increases the monthly maximum from $60 to $90. The
bill also includes the District treasurer among
those officers who may sign warrants.
SB 1205 - Moscone
Provides an additional death benefit for a safety
(Chapter 399)
member under a retirement system established under
the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 if the
member is killed in performance of duty. The
additional death benefit is a lump sum equal to
annual compensation based on the monthly compensation
at the time of death.
SB 1297 - Dills
Permits the use of trawlnets, except midwater
(Chapter 407)
trawlnets, not less than one nautical mile from
shore in District 18 between Point Lobos and Point
Sur rather than between Point Sur and Cape San
Martin. The bill is effective until the 61st day
after adjournment of the 1972 Regular Session of the
legislature.
SB 1409 - Kennick
Provides that whenever an override tax is continued
(Chapter 400)
as the maximum combined tax rate of a unified or
high school district and a junior college district
with coterminous boundaries governed by the same
governing board, the governing board may divide the
maximum combined tax rate between the two districts,
provided that the resulting tax rate in either
district will not be lower than the maximum tax
rate prescribed for that type of district.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement:
"I would like to open today's press conference by calling to the
attention of all California taxpayers the real opportunity they have for
substantial, meaningful and lasting reduction of their much too high
property taxes.
"I am referring, of course, to this administration's tax reform
program which will modernize and make more equitable this state's archaic
tax structure. This program has already received bipartisan approval by
the Assembly, has passed two Senate committees and now is up for approval
by the entire Senate.
"I want the people of California to have all the facts about this
program because some have tried to confuse them with hurriedly-dreamed-up
alternatives which are political expediencies designed to obstruct true
tax reform.
"The proposals now before the Senate guarantee continuing tax relief
for all California homeowners ranging from as much as 40 percent on the
more modest homes down to an average of about 25 percent on homes of
higher value.
"Alternatives have been offered on the pretense that this tax reform
benefits those with higher incomes. Not only is this untrue but the
alternatives in truth would actually increase taxes for those in the
lower income brackets. Their ill-conceived program would offer a limited
measure of property tax relief and finance it by increases in income
taxes for the lower and middle income earners. Our's, on the other hand,
only increases the income tax for those above $32,000 of adjusted gross
income.
"I could cite other major inadequacies in the alternative proposal.
But the primary point I think the taxpayers of California should know is
this: it is nothing more than a last-minute political maneuver designed
to confuse the issue and destroy any hope for relieving the tremendously
heavy burden on the homeowner. And it would be used by some as a guise
to increase the cost of government.
"It is imperative that the taxpayers of California know this and
insist that their representatives in the legislature act in their best
interests.
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"The two bills that I am supporting which give meaningful and
lasting property tax relief to California's homeowners will be voted
on by the full Senate within the next week or SO.
"I am therefore urging all Californians to let their Senators know
that property tax relief can be accomplished now.
"The taxpayers of this state must make it unmistakably clear that
they will not tolerate political obstruction of what they have
repeatedly said is vital to them guaranteed and lasting property tax
relief."
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following
bills have been signed:
AB 56 - Chappie
Includes the portion of State Highway Route 88
(Chapter 432)
from Route 89 near Woodfords to the Nevada state
line within the state scenic highway system.
AB 106 - Wood
Defines "nonnative shellfish" for the purposes
(Chapter 433)
of establishing a shellfish bed.
AB 125 - Moorhead
Permits public entities to enter into agreements
(Chapter 417)
to arbitrate any controversy concerning the
compensation to be paid in connection with the
acquisition of real property. It provides that
the public entity acquiring the property shall
pay all costs except the other party's attorney
or expert witness fees.
AB 358 - Britschgi
Includes all of State Highway Route 280 from
(Chapter 434)
Route 17 in Santa Clara County to Route 80 near
First Street in San Francisco within the state
scenic highway system.
AB 618 - Barnes
Allows the Board of Administration of the Public
(Chapter 435)
Employees' Retirement System to assess an
interest charge against contracting agencies who
are late in forwarding employee and employer
contributions.
AB 826 - Johnson, R.
Changes the present boundaries between Zone A and
(Chapter 436)
Zone B licensed pheasant clubs, increasing the
area included in Zone B.
AB 1009 - MacGillivray
Authorizes the Hope Elementary School District
(Chapter 437)
governing board to transfer an amount not to
exceed $10,000 from its Mentally Retarded
Minors Fund to its general fund, with a
corresponding reduction in the tax rate in the
district for the current fiscal year.
AB 1160 - Ketchum
Permits California water district tax collectors
(Chapter 438)
to accept negotiable paper in payment of taxes
rather than requiring the taxpayer to pay cash.
AB 1264 - Schabarum
Allows the California Highway Patrol to inspect
(Chapter 439)
records relating to the dispatch of vehicles or
drivers, and the pay of drivers, within
maintenance facilities or terminals, rather than
inspect vehicles in maintenance facilities or
terminals only, to assure compliance with Vehicle
Code provisions and certain regulations.
AB 1294 - Chappie
Authorizes the Calaveras County Water District to
(Chapter 440)
finance construction and operation of garbage and
trash collection, treatment and disposal
facilities.
AB 1392 - Karabian
Would allow any captain in the San Diego Marshals
(Chapter 418)
office, whose primary duties are administrative,
to retire at age 65 rather than the present
mandatory retirement age of 60.
AB 1470 - Johnson, H.
Authorizes county waterworks districts to acquire
(Chapter 441)
property by exchange, and vests title to property
acquired by a waterworks district in the district
rather than the county.
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AB 1777 - Wood
Authorizes the Monterey County Flood Control
(Chapter 442)
and Water Conservation District to buy, provide,
sell and deliver water; to exchange water, to
distribute water to persons in exchange for
ceasing or reducing ground water extractions, and
to transport, reclaim, purify, treat or otherwise
manage and control water for the beneficial use of
persons or property within the district.
AB 1781 - Russell
Changes the name of the Upper Santa Clara Valley
(Chapter 443)
Water Agency to the Castaic Lake Water Agency.
AB 1809 - Stull
Extends the time within which the Director of
(Chapter 444)
the State Department of Social Welfare must act
on a request for a rehearing from 15 calendar
days to 15 working days.
AB 1866 - Crandall
Permits the licensing examination under the
(Chapter 445)
Medical Practice Act to be conducted in other
states as well as in California.
AB 1880 - Berryhill
Changes the title of the Municipal Sewer and
(Chapter 420)
Water Facilities Law of 1911 to the "Community
Facilities Law of 1911.' The bill permits a
district formed pursuant to such law in Stanislaus
County to acquire, construct, maintain and
operate any public buildings which would serve as
a community center facility and permits the
acquisition of land, other property rights needed
for such improvements or offstreet parking
facilities related to such improvements.
AB 1884 - MacGillivray Provides that abalone may be taken for commercial
(Chapter 446)
purposes in waters less than twenty feet deep
within one mile of the shores of San Nicolas and
San Miquel Islands.
AB 2331 - Porter
Repeals the specific conflict of interest
(Chapter 447)
provisions of the various water district acts.
Such districts will be governed by the general
conflict of interest provisions of the Government
Code.
AB 2383 - Wood
Requires a farm labor contractor to immediately
(Chapter 448)
surrender his license to the Labor Commissioner
if his license is suspended or revoked.
AB 2537 - Veysey
Declares the tax override election held in the
(Chapter 419)
Meadows Union School District on June 2, 1970, to
be null and void. The bill permits the Meadows
Union School District to order another tax
override election on July 21, 1970.
SB 162 - Sherman
Revises the vehicle code provisions relating to
(Chapter 422)
beam indicators, reflectors, sidemarker lamps,
side, cowl, or fender lamps, flashing lights,
identification lamps, area reflectorizing material
displayed on vehicles, and the color of lamps and
reflectors.
713
SB 173 - Sherman
Includes a plant and facilities for the collection,
(Chapter 430)
treatment, and disposal of sanitary sewage within
the criminal trespass provisions of the Penal Code.
SB 420 - Stevens
Permits the Director of Motor Vehicles to designate
(Chapter 423)
an employee at or above the level of assistant
division chief to act on his behalf, following
a formal hearing, in driver's license cases.
SB 467 - Collier
Provides that when specified vehicles are
(Chapter 424)
required by local authorities to be equipped
with tire chains, such chains must be placed
on at least two drive wheels, and authorizes such
local authorities to provide alternative equipment
requirements.
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SB 508 - Rodda
Revises the Vehicle Code prescribing the manner
(Chapter 425)
in which right turns are to be made at
intersections.
SB 606 - Cologne
Codifies certain provisions previously contained
(Chapter 426)
in Article XVI of the Constitution which were
repealed and continued as statutes. The bill
makes no substantive change in the law.
SB 643 - McCarthy
Revises the requirements for ordinances of local
(Chapter 427)
agencies prescribing procedures for abatement
and removal as public nuisances of abandoned,
wrecked, dismantled, or inoperative vehicles.
SB 700 - Collier
Revises and reenacts assent of the state to
(Chapter 428)
designated federal acts relating to highways.
SB 701 - Collier
Requires the Department of Public Works to
(Chapter 429)
submit reports on the California freeway and
expressway system and state highway system to
the legislature at or prior to the 1972 and 1975
Regular Sessions of the legislature and each 4
years thereafter, rather than at or prior to the
1971 Regular Session and each 4 years thereafter.
SB 958 - Wedworth
Permits Los Angeles County to conduct a pilot
(Chapter 421)
program using mobile intensive care paramedics for
emergency medical care.
SB 1004 - Cusanovich
Permits the governing board of any school
(Chapter 431)
district which has children holding work permits
in the entertainment field who are exempt from full
time school provisions, or a county superintendent
of schools, to contract with persons responsible
for the education of such children, to provide
eligibility lists and placement services for
teaching and allied personnel for tutoring of
such children.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
William G. Black, deputy superintendent of the Correctional Training
Facility at Soledad, as superintendent of the California Conservation
Center at Susanville. The appointment is subject to Senate confirmation.
Black, 60, a veteran corrections officer who began his career
with the state in 1943, succeeds Merle R. Schneckloth of Susanville,
who has resigned. He will receive an annual salary of $23,712.
Black previously has served as a correctional officer at
San Quentin and has held executive posts at Folsom State Prison and
Soledad. He has served as deputy superintendent of the Soledad
facility since 1965. He is a Republican.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today signed into law a bill he proposed
last January (AB 318) which will provide $6 million in state funds to
help pay for free and reduced-cost meals for hundreds of thousands of
needy California school children.
He said the State Department of Education expects to receive an
additional $14 million in federal (U.S.D.A.) funds to supplement the
program during the coming school year.
The governor said that these $20 million are above and beyond
another $6 million in federal monies which already have been allocated
for basic school lunches during the year ahead.
Under AB 318-a key part of the governor's 1970 legislative
program- the State Department of Education will administer the program,
in cooperation with the State Department of Social Welfare.
The first priority on the $6 million in state funds will go to
current recipients in the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)
program. The second priority will go to children designated as potential
or former AFDC recipients.
In proposing the legislation early this year, Governor Reagan
said its passage "will enable California to go a long way toward meeting
the nutritional needs of many more needy California school children."
The governor also said his bill corrects inequities contained in
legislation previously offered, by spreading the $6 million throughout
not just some, but all school districts in California.
"I am very pleased to sign this bill into law," he said, "because
it will now assure that hundreds of thousands of needy children--in
literally every school district in the state--can receive nutritious
school meals, at either free or greatly reduced cost."
"It is an important step forward---one in which this administra-
tion took the lead, and one for which we are all very proud," he added.
AB 318 was introduced and carried by the Assembly Committee on
Health and Welfare chaired by Gordon Duffy (R-Hanford).
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Governor Ronald Reagan today called upon Dr. Louis F. Saylor,
Director of Public Health, and G. Ray Arnett, Director of the Department
of Fish and Game, to spearhead an interagency committee to determine
the extent of mercury contamination in fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin
Delta.
Governor Reagan asked the two agencies to join with the Department
of Agriculture, the State Water Resources Control Board, the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration, and the Federal Water Quality Control
Administration in the action program.
Samplings of striped bass taken in the western delta have indicated
the presence of mercury in the fish, but laboratory analysis has not
yet determined the extent of the contamination.
The Department of Fish and Game has already initiated monitoring
procedures of live striped bass, white catfish, and sturgeon in the
Antioch area and in a second area near Rio Vista. Enough sample material
is being collected for analysis in quadruplicate.
"We are not sure of the public health hazard from eating fish such
as those already sampled,' Dr. Saylor said, "but mercury contamination
does have serious public health implications at certain levels, and
this is what we are trying to determine."
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GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
July 20, 1970
through
July 26, 1970
Monday, July 20
10:00 a.m.
Dedication of new Lockheed Facilities at Palmdale.
Overnight - Sacramento
Tuesday, July 21
1:30 p.m.
PRESS CONFERENCE
Overnight - Sacramento
Wednesday, July 22
No public appointments scheduled.
Overnight - Sacramento
Thursday, July 23
11:00 a.m.
Roll-Out ceremonies for DC-10, Long Beach Airport.
Overnight - Sacramento
Friday, July 24
No public appointments scheduled.
Overnight - Sacramento
Saturday, July 25
No public appointments scheduled.
Overnight - Sacramento
Sunday, July 26
Evening
Governor's Reception, International Water Pollution
Conference, Palace of the Legion of Honor, San
Francisco.
Overnight - San Francisco
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 78 - Subcommittee
Requires the State Air Resources Board to study the
on Air
benefits and costs of a program for periodic motor
Pollution
vehicle emission inspections and to report its
(Chapter 451)
findings and recommendations to the legislature by
July 1, 1971. The bill appropriates $65,000 from
the Motor Vehicle Fund for such purposes.
AB 216 - Zenovich
Provides that psychological assistants may be
(Chapter 470)
employed by clinics providing mental health services
under a Short-Doyle contract or by psychological
corporations.
AB 264 - Hayes
Provides that the board of supervisors in any
(Chapter 471)
county in which the assets of the retirement
system exceed $800,000,000 may by resolution
establish a board of investments.
AB 266 - Z'berg
Provides that an action may be brought under
(Chapter 472)
uninsured motorist coverage of an automobile
insurance policy, where the accident occurred in
any other state or foreign jurisdiction to which
coverage is extended under the policy and the insurer
of the tortfeasor becomes insolvent, within three
months of insolvency of the tortfeasor's insurer,
but in no event later than the pertinent period of
limitation of the jurisdiction in which the
accident occurred.
AB 276 - Brown
Eliminates citizenship requirements for vocational
(Chapter 473)
nurse and pharmacist licenses.
AB 370 - Barnes
Provides for the payment of $500 upon the death of
(Chapter 453)
any member after retirement under a system
established under the County Employees Retirement
Law of 1937 in those counties in which the board
of retirement determines that the benefit may be
financed from surplus earnings of the retirement
fund.
AB 398 - Cullen
Provides that no licensed dentist who upon the
(Chapter 454)
request of another dentist renders emergency care
to a person for a dental complication arising from
prior care by another dentist, shall be liable for
any civil damages as a result of any acts or
omissions by him in rendering such emergency care.
AB 402 - Hayes
Provides that persons under the age of 18 may marry
(Chapter 474)
upon the written consent of their parents and a
court order granting permission to marry. Where
the couple, or one of them, is under 18 years of age,
they both must obtain such premarital counseling as
the court deems necessary concerning the social,
economic, and personal responsibilities incident to
marriage.
.B 414 - Mobley
Makes Army National Guard and Air National Guard
(Chapter 455)
officer and non-commissioned officer clubs eligible
for club licenses issued by the Department of
Alcoholic Beverage Control.
AB 418 - Schabarum
Provides that no agency within the Department of
(Chapter 475)
Professional and Vocational Standards, except the
State Board of Registration for Professional
Engineers, will be required to compile, publish,
sell, or otherwise distribute a directory. The bill
states that
an agency shall cooperate with the
Director of Professional and Vocational Standards in
determining under what conditions it shall be compile
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AB 421 - Ketchum
Excludes from the property tax seed potatoes held by
(Chapter 456)
a grower as personal property on the lien date for
subsequent planting in field form if planted during
the assessment year. It denies the exemption to
plant nurseries. The bill is effective only for
the 1971-72 and 1972-73 fiscal years.
AB 480 - Knox
Provides that security for insurance premiums held
(Chapter 476)
by an industrial loan company under a premium
finance agreement may be provided by a corporate
surety bond deposited with the Commissioner of
Corporations. The bill authorizes the Commissioner
to demand payment of unpaid claims on behalf of
claimants and sue the surety therefor.
AB 509 - Murphy
Provides that the Youth Authority Board may
(Chapter 477)
modify an order of discharge if conditions indicate
that such modification is desirable and when such
modification is to benefit of the person committed
to the Youth Authority.
AB 527 - Barnes
Provides for uniform application to contracting
(Chapter 457)
agencies and the state of certain provisions of the
Public Employees' Retirement Law relating to
prior service credit and minimum service
retirement allowance.
AB 528 - Barnes
Makes applicable to all members of the Public
(Chapter 458)
Employees' Retirement System rather than state
miscellaneous and local miscellaneous members only,
the provision generally limiting the new pension
of a member who reinstates after retirement to the
same amount as his prior pension if the period of
reinstatement is less than one year.
AB 583 - Russell
Repeals various provisions relative to ownership
(Chapter 478)
by a director of stock or savings accounts in the
savings and loan association of which he is
director. The bill empowers the Savings and Loan
Commissioner to require specified reports from
association directors and officers under specified
conditions.
AB 714 - Burke
Provides that no person elected or appointed to the
(Chapter 459)
governing body of any city, county, or district
having an elected governing body, shall be appointed
to fill any vacancy on such governing body during
the term for which he was elected or appointed.
AB 727 - Dunlap
Provides that in an action against a surety on a
(Chapter 479)
payment bond for public works projects the court
shall award to the prevailing party a reasonable
attorney's fee. This bill would permit the
prevailing party to recover attorney's fees on
appeal. The courts have construed the existing law
to limit payment of attorney fees to the prevailing
party only at the trial level.
AB 744 - Stull
Provides that a school district superintendent may
(Chapter 460)
assign teachers from one school to another school
within the district, subject to approval of the
governing board.
AB 754 - Badham
Increases court filing fees in Orange County.
(Chapter 480)
AB 774 - Schabarum
Allows the Real Estate Commissioner to prescribe
(Chapter 461)
fees relating to subdivided lands lower than those
fees now specified, when he determines lower fees
are sufficient to offset the costs and expenses of
administration, and provides that fees now
prescribed are maximum fees. The bill requires
the commissioner to hold at least one regulation
hearing each calendar year, to determine if lower
fees should be prescribed.
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AB 821 - Chappie
Renames the Folsom Lake Toll Bridge Authority as
(Chapter 462)
the Gold Rush Parkway Authority and increases
the membership of governing board to include
two members from the Board of Supervisors of
Sacramento County and includes Sacramento County
along with Placer and El Dorado Counties within the
coverage of the act. The bill also authorizes the
Authority to study the feasibility of, plan, design,
finance, construct and maintain a system of
parkways within the three counties.
AB 869 - Duffy
Provides that the exception from the application of
(Chapter 481)
provisions relating to voluntary area planning
programs involving health facilities, is only
applicable to those prior applicants who commence
construction of facilities prior to July 1, 1971,
and that such exception only applies to original
applicants and not to their transferees.
AB 880 - Arklin
Provides that the former site of the proposed San
(Chapter 463)
Fernando State Hospital may be quitclaimed to a
public body for one-third of its market value
until November 10, 1974.
AB 959 - Bagley
Changes from 80 percent to 70 percent the area of
(Chapter 464)
taxable or assessable land of a district of
limited powers which must be inside the boundaries
of a city so that the district may be established
as a subsidiary district.
AB 967 - Mobley
Declares a public office to be vacant upon an
(Chapter 465)
adjudication pursuant to a quo warranto proceeding
declaring the incumbent is physically or mentally
incapacitated due to disease, illness or accident
and will not be able to perform the duties of his
office for the remainder of his term of office,
rather than upon determination by the court that
the incumbent is insane, The bill does not apply
to offices created by the Constitution and state
and federal legislators.
AB 1222 - Barnes
Authorizes audits of records of public agencies
(Chapter 466)
by the State Teachers' Retirement Board. The bill
also makes other technical changes to clarify and
update the Teachers' Retirement Law.
AB 1554 - Britschgi
Changes the types of military service for which
(Chapter 467)
public employees are provided temporary military
leaves of absence with pay. The bill states that
such a leave of absence with pay is not authorized
for periods of inactive military duty.
AB 1867 - Priolo
Places Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 50 of
(Chapter 482)
the 1970 Regular Session on the November 1970
general election ballot.
SB 326 - Teale
Extends the "schedule of charges" to cover loans
(Chapter 469)
made by pawnbrokers in amounts in excess of $150.00.
SB 315 - Danielson
Authorizes the governing board of a community college
(Chapter 468)
district to establish a community college police
department, the members of which are peace officers
only upon the campus of the community college.
SB 419 - Marks
Requires that 50 percent of the fines and
(Chapter 449)
forfeitures collected for Vehicle Code or local
ordinance violations, relating to stopping, standing,
or parking of vehicles, that have occurred on
premises physically located in one county, but owned
by another county, which other county furnishes
law enforcement for the premises, be transmitted to
the county which owns the facilities. The bill
further provides that these provisions are not
applicable when the county in which such
facilities are located performs all law enforcement
functions with respect to such facilities.
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SB 1314 - Stiern
L its replacement revenue pa-d by the state to
(Chapter 450)
local governments in lieu of property taxes
formerly collected on assessments of intangible
value of motion picture films to amounts of $100
or more.
Governor Reagan also announced he has vetoed the following bill:
SB 591 - Moscone
Provides that in a hearing of a motion to supress
evidence, an investigating peace officer may be
called by the defendant and examined as if under
cross-examination. The peace officer may then
be examined by the district attorney as if on
redirect examination.
REASON FOR VETO: Governor Reagan said, "This bill
provides that in a hearing of
a motion to suppress evidence, an investigating
peace officer may be called by the defendant and
examined as if under cross-examination, without
any showing that he is a hostile witness. The
peace officer may then be examined by the district
attorney as if on redirect examination. Such a
provision would treat a peace officer differently
than any other witness. There is no demonstrated
need for such legislation since the Evidence Code
now permits defense counsel to ask the peace
officer leading questions upon a proper showing.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNO
RELEASE: Im liate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-23-70
#376
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
William C. He::n, acting director, as Director of the Department of
Industrial Relations.
Hern, 55, of 265 Vallejo Drive, Millbrae, has served as acting
director since the death of Peter Weinberger in September. His
appointment to the $30,000 per year post is subject to Senate confirmation
Hern joined the Department of Industrial Relations in 1967,
after a career in business management. He was serving as chief of
the Division of Labor Law Enforcement, headquartered in San Francisco,
when he was named to succeed Mr. Weinberger.
Active in civic affairs, he was San Mateo County's "Industry
Man of the Year" for 1965, and has served as president of the
Peninsula Manufacturers Association and as chairman of the San Mateo
County Human Resources Commission.
Hern holds degrees from San Jose State College and the University
of Chicago.
He is not affiliated with a political party.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERN
RELEASE:
ediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-23-70
#377
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills
have been signed:
AB 435 - Deddeh
Provides that a member of a county retirement system
(Chapter 491)
operating under the County Employees Retirement Law
of 1937 who subsequently becomes entitled to
receive a persion or retirement allowance for the
service for which he was granted public service
credit, whether or not the member elects to
exercise such entitlement, shall be refunded the
amount deposited by him plus interest and shall
receive no credit in the system for such service.
AB 448 - Ketchum
Revises the priority of claims to be paid under
(Chapter 492)
required escrow upon transfer of an alcoholic
beverage license and specifies that claims for
services rendered, performed or supplied with the
licensed business are in the sixth category of
priorities.
AB 544 - Veysey
Requires the Board of Governors of the California
(Chapter 493)
Community Colleges, rather than the State Board
of Education, to set nonresident tuition. It
requires each junior college district to report
the number of nonresident students to the Board
of Governors of the California Community Colleges,
rather than the State Department of Education. The
bill also excepts any junior college district which
had out-of-state student enrollment in 1962-63
of more than 15 percent, instead of 25 percent,
from charging tuition, and extends the time for
such exception to school year 1975-76 rather than
1970-71.
AB 724 - Ketchum
Specifies that a vacancy on school district
(Chapter 494)
governing board occurs on the date specified in the
written resignation filed, rather than when such
resignation is filed. The bill directs the
county superintendent to call immediately, within
120 days after a written resignation is filed, a
special election to fill such a vacancy.
AB 776 - Brown
Reduces the period from 34 to 24 months of active
(Chapter 495)
duty service as a corpsman in the armed services,
with no less than an aggregate of 12 months
rendering patient care, in order to qualify for a
vocational nurse's license.
AB 797 - Berryhill
Provides that marketing orders and agreements may
(Chapter 496)
contain provisions designed to detect, control
and prevent damage of agricultural pests and
diseases. The bill also authorizes the Director of
Agriculture to issue and make multiple commodity
marketing orders.
AB 904 - Murphy
Authorizes the court, in any action or proceeding
(Chapter 497)
based upon defamation, upon a showing of good
cause to order any records sealed under specified
provisions of the Penal Code to be opened and
admitted into evidence. The bill provides that
such records are confidential and shall be
available for inspection only by court, jury,
parties, counsel for parties, and any other
persons who are authorized by court to inspect them.
The records are to be resealed when the judgement
becomes final.
AB 1083 - Deddeh
Makes permanent the increase in maximum compensation
(Chapter 498)
of members of boards of fire prevention districts
enacted in 1969.
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AB 1207 - Schabarum
Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to
(Chapter 499)
cancel, suspend, or revoke, or refuse to renew
the license of a driving school operator or an
instructor for a driving school whenever the
licensee is convicted of specified violations
relating to permitting an unlicensed person
to drive a motor vehicle, duty to report accidents,
or reckless driving.
AB 1239 - Bagley
Revises exclusions from the Subdivision Map Act
(Chapter 500)
to grant, in addition to the exclusion for lots
divided into 40 acres or more or each of which is
a quarter-quarter section or larger, an exclusion
for such other amount up to 60 acres as may be
specified by local ordinances.
AB 1376 - Crown
Deletes the requirement that, with regard to the
(Chapter 501)
state plan for the construction of public and
other non profit hospitals, special consideration
be given to hospitals serving rural communities.
AB 1396 - Cory
Amends the Structural Pest Control Act to provide
(Chapter 502)
for distribution of copies of inspection reports to
the owner of the property inspected.
AB 1649 - Priolo
Provides that an "amortized loan" under the
(Chapter 503)
Savings and Loan Association Law includes a
loan to finance the construction of real property
if the loan provides for payment in full on or
before 18 months from date of the loan. The bill
also deletes certain limitations on a savings and
loan association's power to make amortized loans
secured by real property, including residential
real property.
AB 1945 - Hayes
Provides that any public school employee
(Chapter 504)
organization shall have standing to sue in any
action or proceeding heretofore or hereafter
instituted by it as representative and on behalf
of one or more of its members with respect to
any matter within the scope of its representation.
AB 2520 - Johnson, R. Permits the names of licensed land surveyors to
(Chapter 505)
be used in the name under which engineering
partnerships, firms and corporations do business.
SB 412 - Rodda
Makes technical amendments to the Education Code.
(Chapter 483)
SB 523 - Beilenson
Amends the Code of Civil Procedure to clarify the
(Chapter 484)
manner in which complaints in intervention and
cross-complaints are to be served, and the time
periods within which response thereto shall be
made.
SB 570 - Burgener
Specifically provides that connections to the
(Chapter 485)
owner's premises may be financed as part of
assessment proceedings to finance conversion of
existing overhead electric and communication
facilities to underground locations.
SB 613 - Beilenson
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Health
(Chapter 486)
and Safety Code.
SB 679 - Stiern
Changes the method of State distribution of
(Chapter 487)
reimbursement to local government for revenue
loss resulting from the homeowners' property tax
exemption. This legislation will be operative
for the 1970-71 fiscal years.
SB 862 - Cologne
Extends on the showingof good cause, the time within
(Chapter 488)
which the order to show cause must be returned after
the issuance of a temporary restraining order.
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SB 1009 - Schmitz
Requires electronic or electromechanical voting tapes
(Chapter 489)
and punchcard counting device and counting tapes to
be kept under lock and seal as provided for voting
machines with counting or recording devices and
requires the officer entrusted with the tapes to
submit his affidavit that they are the true tapes
and are unaltered if there is a recanvass.
SB 1088 - Way
Revises provisions establishing standard containers
(Chapter 490)
for grapes. The bill also establishes standard
grape lug container 38R.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
MEMO TO THE PR
S
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
7-24-70
Governor Reagan will hold a press conference
today at 11:15 a.m. in News Conference Room 1190.
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PB
OFFICE OF THE GOVERI
RELEASE: Imm iate
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
7-24-70
#378
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement:
"In an effort to curb costly abuses in the attendant care program
for the elderly and physically handicapped we proposed a regulation
change.
"At no time did we propose cancellation of the program; indeed we
called for maintaining it at virtually the level of the past year.
At the same time it was made perfectly clear we were aiming only at
abuses and that no needy person would have to leave his or her home
and enter an institution because of the proposed changes. We sought
only the elimination of unnecessary services and no handicapped
person was to be denied essential care.
"An emergency clause was invoked to make the changed regulation
apply immediately. Those entrusted with carrying out this program,
however, have deliberately violated the intent of the regulation and
have moved almost immediately to cut off essential services to those
most in need; at the same time they made no effort to cooperate in
eliminating fraud and extravagance. In a shocking display of callous
inhumanity, some of those entrusted with administering the care of
the handicapped moved immediately to reduce or eliminate services to
the most helpless. This is a clear subversion of our intent and can
only be interpreted as an attempt to sabotage our efforts toward
responsible administration of the program. Apparently the regulation
was worded in such a way they could claim they were adhering to the
letter while they violated the spirit.
"I will not join them in cruelly using these helpless people as
pawns. I am therefore rescinding the emergency implementation of this
regulation. I am not wavering in my determination to carry out admin-
istrative changes that will establish some ratio of fairness between
the needs of welfare and the burden borne by the taxpayer.
"We will go to work immediately to determine the exact need in
the attendant care program and the extent of abuse and we will find
an approach which cannot be sabotaged by arrogant social workers who
seem determined to use the poor as basis for creating a bureaucratic
empire. One plan we are considering is the use of audit teams and a
statewide appeals system so those dependent on us for care can notify
us if welfare workers harass them and deprive them of the care they
need.
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"The people of California have been most generous in their support
of all forms of welfare. This state is No. 1 in the nation in its
grants to the aged and handicapped. We are also No. 1 in the overhead
costs of distributing this welfare. The people deserve better than
the self-serving exhibition we have just witnessed.
The plain truth is that we are fast approaching a point where our
ability to help those most in need will be handicapped because our
resources have been wasted on some who are fully employed but who take
advantage of legal loopholes to augment their earnings at the taxpayers'
expense.
"We ask the help of the people in our efforts to bring reason
and responsibility to the entire welfare system. County supervisors
and legislators need the people's support as they face the carefully
organized, shrill attacks of special interest groups who are
determined to prevent any interference with their use of the needy
to further their own purposes."
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OFFICE OF THE GOVER
R
MEMO TO THE
ESS
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
7-24-70
C-O-R-R-E-C-T-I-O-N - Press Release #378
dated today:
Please insert the following sentence at the end
of paragraph 4:
violated the spirit. To the handicapped
who have been terrorized, I say now you will not lose
the attendant care you require.
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PB
OFFICE OF THE GOVERN
MEMO TO THE
ESS
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-24-70
#379
GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
July 27, 1970
through
August 2, 1970
Monday, July 27
No public appointments scheduled.
Overnight - Sacramento
Tuesday, July 28
10:00 a.m.
PRESS CONFERENCE
Overnight - Sacramento
Wednesday, July 29
No public appointments scheduled.
Overnight - Sacramento
Thursday, July 30
No public appointments scheduled.
Overnight - Sacramento
Friday, July 31
No public appointments scheduled.
Overnight - Sacramento
Saturday, August 1
a.m.
Remarks to GOP Platform Committee, State Capitol.
Overnight - Los Angeles
Sunday, August 2
Afternoon
Return to Sacramento.
Overnight - Sacramento
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERN
Sacramento, California
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-28-70
At 1:30 p.m. today in his office, Governor Reagan will sign the
Clean Water Bond Act (AB 1456-Porter) which puts a $250 million bond
issue on the November ballot to help local communities in California
upgrade municipal sewage treatment plants in the fight to end water
pollution.
The program, if approved by the voters, could generate a total of
$1 billion over the next five years for this purpose---including
$550 million in federal matching funds and another $200 million raised
at the local level.
Governor Reagan proposed the program to the legislature last
March.
We will have a news release on the signing at 1:30 p.m.
Press coverage is invited.
.......
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Sacramento, California
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-28-70
The following telephone response was made available to the press:
The Governor said,"I am very pleased that the Senate has approved the
first part of our legislation on the tax reform program to give California's
meowners real and lasting property tax relief."
(The Governor will gave further comment upon action on the second bill).
PB
OFFICE OF THE GOVER
1
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-28-70
#380
Governor Ronald Reagan in a further escalation of his
administration's fight against water pollution today placed on the
November ballot a $250 million bond issue which, if approved by the
voters, will enable communities throughout California to build bigger
and better sewage treatment plants to conform with the state's tougher-
than-ever water quality regulations.
The program could generate a total of $1 billion over the next five
years to upgrade local sewer systems including $550 million in federal
matching funds and another $200 million raised at the local level.
The governor proposed the program to the legislature last March
(3-20-70) as part of his administration's continuing commitment to make
California's waters clean and clear.
The bill to put the plan before the voters (AB-1456) was carried for
the administration by Carley V. Porter (D-Compton), chairman of the
Assembly Water Committee.
In signing the legislation known as the Clean Water Bond Act
Governor Reagan said:
"Under this administration, California has enacted the strictest
water pollution control laws in the nation. This new measure escalates
even further our fight against water pollution a fight which can and
must be won by all of us
for the sake of this and future generations.
"Last year, I strongly supported and signed into law the tough
Porter-Cologne Act which, for the first time, gave the courts in California
the power to impose stringent penalties up to $6,000 per day on
violators. The Clean Water Bond Act is the logical counterpart to last
year's law.
"If the voters approve this bond issue in November and I am
confident they will then communities throughout the state will be able
to significantly speed up their efforts to end water pollution by
upgrading municipal sewage treatment systems so that they conform with
our stringent water quality laws."
The provisions of AB 1456 drastically alter a local-federal funding
formula which now requires California cities to raise 67 percent of the
monies necessary for sewage treatment facilities in order to qualify for
the remaining 33 percent of federal funds.
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If the voters approve the Clean Water Bond Act, the cities will
be required to put up only 20 percent of the money necessary to build
and improve sewage treatment plants.
The federal government will provide 55 percent and the state will
add another 25 percent of the funds.
To make the new funding formula work, the voters must agree that
the state will provide its 25 percent of the funds. The $250 million
in general obligation bonds would be sold over the next five years at
the rate of about $50 million a year.
Governor Reagan also took the opportunity to urge the legislature
to pass a companion measure (AB 1799-Porter) which would enable the
State Water Resources Control Board to issue revenue bonds---to assist
local agencies experiencing extreme financial hardship in financing
waste treatment facilities---to come up with their 20 percent share of
the new funding formula. The issuance of revenue bonds requires
legislative approval only.
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RELEASE:
Ate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Be
445-4571
7-29-70
#381
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 417 - Schabarum
Eliminates requirements concerning issuance and
(Chapter 524)
display of renewal licenses under the Nursing
Practice Act and the Contractors License Law.
AB 613 - Campbell
Provides for the appointment of a member of a
(Chapter 525)
school district merit system personnel commission
recommended by the school district's classified
employees and appointed by the district governing
board, rather than appointment by the Superintendent
of Public Instruction.
AB 710 - Beverly
Provides a penalty for unjustified underpayment of
(Chapter 506)
personal income taxes. The penalty is a flat
5 percent of the amount unpaid plus 1/2 of 1 percent
per month for each month of continued delinquency,
up to 36 months. The bill passed both the Senate
and Assembly unanimously. It was introduced at
the request of the Franchise Tax Board. The bill
is in substantial conformity with the federal
penalty for underpayment of income taxes which is
contained in the Federal Tax Reform Act of 1969.
It is similar to the provisions in existing state
law which impose a penalty on underpayment of
corporate taxpayers.
AB 1012 - Schabarum
Provides that the presiding judge of the Los
(Chapter 526)
Angeles County Superior Court, upon application by
either the Attorney General or the district
attorney and after finding by the court that the
existing grand jury is unable for any reason to
inquire into matters which are subject to grand
jury inquiry, except public offenses, may impanel
one additional grand jury to inquire into matters
subject to grand jury inquiry. The bill specifies
that there can be no more than two grand juries
impaneled in any one year.
AB 1048 - Stacey
Provides that domesticated game mammals must be
(Chapter 527)
held in escapeproof cages or enclosures. The bill
further provides that the owner of such mammals
shall attempt to recapture any that may escape.
If the owner is unable to recapture such animals,
the Department of Fish and Game may capture them
with the owner being responsible for costs incurred
and for any damage by the animals to public or
private property.
AB 1144 - Bagley
Exempts land in Marin County from prohibition against
(Chapter 528)
inclusion within a fire protection district of
commercial forest lands which are timbered lands
declared by law to be the responsibility of the
state for fire protection.
AB 1204 - Berryhill
Updates the Commercial Feed Law to conform with
(Chapter 529)
manufacturing practices for special feed mixes.
AB 1405 - Brown
Provides that the Department of the Youth Authority
(Chapter 530)
shall adopt minimum standards for the operation and
maintenance of juvenile halls, jails and lockups
that detain minors under 18 years of age in excess
of 24 hours.
AB 1545 - Chappie
Revises provisions of the Revenue and Taxation Code
(Chapter 531)
relating to the taxpayer's statement of taxable
property to provide that the statement show all
such property required to be reported or
requested by the assessor pursuant to specified
provisions and to delete the requirement that a
legal description of real estate be given.
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AB 1546 - Chappie
Revises the definition of "dwelling", for
(Chapter 532)
purposes of the homeowners' property tax
exemption, to provide that a two-dwelling unit
would be considered as two separate single-family
dwellings.
AB 1652 - Johnson, R. Provides for a specified additional filing fee
(Chapter 533)
in the Butte County Superior Court to be used to
help defray costs of reporting services.
AB 1693 - Bee
Adds spirit whiskey to the list of whiskeys which
(Chapter 534)
are exempt from specific alcohol percentage content
and aging requirements if the spirit is 5 percent
or more straight whiskey and 4 years old or older.
AB 1746 - Murphy
Provides that the expenses incurred by a county
(Chapter 535)
in returning a fugitive or escaped prisoner
to another county for trial or detention in a
county facility are to be paid by the county
where the fugitive or escaped prisoner is to be
tried or detained.
AB 1828 - Mobley
Deletes authorization for a local legislative
(Chapter 536)
body, upon its own motion, to direct that
assessments of less than $50 under the Improvement
Act of 1911 be collected upon the tax roll upon
which general taxes are collected.
AB 1829 - Mobley
Requires the city clerk, rather than superintendent
(Chapter 537)
of streets or city tax collector, to record a
notice of assessment under the Municipal Improvement
Act of 1913.
AB 1830 - Mobley
Authorizes construction or reconstruction of
(Chapter 538)
recreation areas, including structures, buildings
and other facilities necessary to make parkways
and recreation areas useful under the Improvement
Act of 1911.
AB 1872 - Moorhead
Provides that a defendant who has completed
(Chapter 539)
probation shall be permitted to withdraw plea
of guilty or nolo contendere at any time
thereafter, if he is not serving sentence for
any offense, rather than without any specified
conditions. The bill exempts Vehicle Code
special misdemeanors and infractions from its
provisions.
AB 1893 - McCarthy
Allows an offset within a tax year for overpayments
(Chapter 540)
to the extent of assessment of property taxes.
The bill also extends the statute of limitations
for refund claims from 3 to 4 years.
AB 1894 - McCarthy
Makes various technical, clarifiying and
(Chapter 547)
conforming changes in the sales and use tax, the
cigarette tax, and the alcoholic beverage tax
laws.
AB 1896 - McCarthy
Changes the time for assessor's application for
(Chapter 541)
review on intercounty equalization appraisals.
AB 2046 - Badham
Permits highway common carriers, under certain
(Chapter 542)
conditions, to enter into contracts for vehicle
unit rate service, at the rates provided in their
tariffs, notwithstanding that the service
involves operations as a highway permit carrier
beyond scope of its authority as a highway common
carrier.
AB 2147 - Fenton
Specifies that the governing body of a city or
(Chapter 543)
county may erect a suitable memorial upon an
abandoned cemetery dedicated as a pioneer memorial
park, rather than making such erection mandatory
upon the governing body. The bill also requires
the resolution of dedication to contain a legal
description of the abandoned cemetery, and vests
fee title to such cemetery, in the city or county,
as the case may be, upon recordation of the
resolution.
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AB 2370 - Moorhead
Requires automobile insure
admitted to do
(Chapter 544)
business in California after January 1, 1970, or
who did not have a valid bona fide application
pending before the Insurance Commissioner on or
before August 1, 1970, to issue such automobile
insurance, to have an additional surplus of
$200,000.
AB 2374 - Duffy
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction
(Chapter 507)
to allocate $75,000 from State School Fund to the
Lakeside Elementary School District by July 26, 1970
The bill requires the amount of such allocation,
plus interest, to be withheld from subsequent
1970-71 apportionments.
AB 2434 - Milias
Decreases noise limits applicable to the operation
(Chapter 545)
of specified motor vehicles and motorcycles other
than motor-driven cycles.
AB 2443 - Moretti
Amends the Unruh Act relating to retail installment
(Chapter 546)
sales to conform California law with regulations
promulgated pursuant to the Federal Truth-in-Lending
Act.
SB 127 - Cologne
Extends from 30 to 60 days the length of time
(Chapter 509)
which a facility may hold an alledged "gravely
disabled" person, pending a conservatorship
hearing under the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act.
SB 263 - Cologne
Extends from 10 days to 120 days the period prior
(Chapter 510)
to the annual meeting of the Board of Governors
of the State Bar during which the officers of the
State Bar are to be elected. The bill also deletes
the provision stating that the treasurer of the
State Bar need not be a member thereof.
SB 267 - Cologne
Provides that where a decedent dies without spouse
(Chapter 511)
or issue, the portion of the estate created by
gift, descent, devise, or bequest from the
separate property of a parent or grandparent shall
go to the parent or grandparent who made such gift,
devise, or bequest or from whom the property
descended. If the parent or grandparent is dead,
such property shall go in equal shares to the
heirs of such deceased parent or grandparent.
SB 414 - Rodda
Makes technical amendments to the Education Code.
(Chapter 512)
SB 477 - Coombs
Specifies that the value of property held by a
(Chapter 513)
decedent as a joint tenant at the time of death,
or in which the decedent had an interest which
terminated at his death, is not to be considered
in determining the value of the estate for purposes
of eligibility for distribution without probate
or by summary probate.
SB 513 - Coombs
Declares that a transfer of property to a trustee,
(Chapter 514)
with the power to make discretionary payments to
the trust beneficiaries, is a transfer to the
trust beneficiaries for purposes of computing
inheritance tax.
SB 518 - Marler
Makes it a prima facie violation of basic speed
(Chapter 515)
law for any person to operate a vehicle in excess
of the posted speed limit, rather than at a speed
greater than 25 miles per hour, upon a specified
portion of a highway. The bill also revises the
authority of the Department of Public Works or
local authorities to determine and declare prima
facie speed limit on highways when snow or ice
conditions are present.
SB 614 - Beilenson
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Welfare and
(Chapter 516)
Institutions Code.
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SB 650 - Cologne
Makes clarifying and technical changes relating
(Chapter 517)
to community property held in specified inter
vivos trusts.
SB 678 - Walsh
Excludes air pressure tanks from jurisdiction of
(Chapter 518)
the Division of Industrial Safety if supplied
with air by the same air compressor which supplies
air for the brakes of any motor vehicle or
streetcar operated by any agency subject to the
jurisdiction of the United States Department of
Transportation or the California Highway Patrol,
rather than such tanks installed on transportation
units operated by any agency under the
jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission
or the Public Utilities Commission.
SB 838 - Dills
Amends the Public Utilities Code to eliminate the
(Chapter 519)
funding requirement for depreciation and eliminates
a mandatory hearing whenever the Public Utilities
Commission desires to change the form or rates
used for the purpose of computing depreciation.
It deletes a separate provision for fees for the
issuance of stock and makes such fees similar to
those required for the issuance of bonds, notes
or other evidence of indebtedness. The bill
further provides that where modification is made
by the commission in the amount of the issue
requested a refund may be paid to the utility
when it elects not to avail itself of such
authorimation.
SB 839 - Dills
Permits the Public Utilities Commission to
(Chapter 520)
compromise penalties for violation of any rules
or regulations involving safety standards for
pipeline facilities for the transportation of
gas within this State.
SB 864 - Grunsky
Extends the sales tax to food sold at schools
(Chapter 548)
when it is sold at a place where an admission
charge is made.
SB 883 - Burgener
Deletes full-time day students regularly
(Chapter 521)
attending in the school district of employment
from specified Education Code sections relating
to tuberculosis exams, physical exams, sex or
narcotic offenses, and identification cards as
they relate to personnel exempt from the classified
service.
SB 1078 - Lagomarsino
Excepts from the prohibition against dealers
(Chapter 522)
advertising or offering for sale or exchange
any vehicle not actually for sale at the premises
of such dealer, specified used mobilehomes and
used commercial coaches, other than recreational
vehicles, which are in a mobilehome park or
located pursuant to local zoning ordinance or
permit or other authorization.
SB 1100 - Burgener
Authorizes improvement of easements under the
(Chapter 523)
Improvement Act of 1911. The bill also authorizes
construction or reconstruction of recreation areas,
including structures, buildings, and other
facilities necessary to make parkways and
recreation areas useful, under the 1911 Act.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California
Re: Unionization
Contact: Paul Beck
of farm laborers
445-4571
7-29-70
The following statement by Governor Reagan was made
available to the press on inquiry:
"It is tragic that the workers who are most affected
by this have had no choice in determining whether or not they
want to join the union.
"I would now hope that the workers would be given the
right to determine- by secret ballot--whether they want to
join or be represented by this union.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Sacramento, Californi
MEMO TO THE 1 ESS
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-30-70
Governor Reagan will sign AB-122, Ryan, which reforms California's
teacher licensing standards, at a ceremony in his office today at
3:25 p.m.
Press coverage is invited.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERN
RELEASE: In diate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-30-70
#382
Governor Ronald Reagan today wrote into the state's lawbooks "one
of the most fundamental and far-reaching breakthroughs in the history
of California's public school system"---a bill to let local school
boards choose the person they want to run their schools, solely on the
basis of managerial and administrative competence, even though the person
does not hold a school credential.
The new law (AB-122, Ryan) also creates a 15-member Commission for
Teacher Preparation and Licensing, to be appointed by the governor,
consisting of ten professional educators, two school board members and
three private citizens. Regulations adopted by the Commission will be
subject to the approval of the State Board of Education.
The governor, at a special signing ceremony in his office said
"the bill represents one of the most fundamental and far-reaching
breakthroughs in the history of California's public school system.
"It is nothing less than a giant stride forward in this
administration's efforts to reform California's archaic teacher cre-
dentialing system- through streamlining and modernizing the state's
administrative machinery in this area.
"By insuring a continuing flow of new ideas from the teaching
profession and the public, and bringing together the leadership of the
higher educational institutions responsible for teacher preparation, it
will give our state college and university education departments a better
closer feel for the changing needs in curriculum development as they
affect our young people studying to become teachers."
Governor Reagan emphasized that the new law "will, for the first
time in a century, untie the hands of local school boards so that they
will no longer be forced to limit their search for a district
superintendent to only those members of the educational establishment
who possess a credential.
"On the contrary," he said, "the new law opens wide the doors throug
which local school officials can look for professional managers of
proven administrative ability to direct the operations of their district.
No longer will it be necessary to exclude from consideration men of
widely recognized managerial talents from such fields as business,
industry and the professions---simply because they never have sought a
teaching license.
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The governor said that while he is "pleased that the legislation
did exempt chief administrative officers (district school superintendents)
from the credential requirement, I am nonetheless disappointed that
provisions to extend the exemption to all other school district
administrative personnel were killed in committee.
"We will continue, however, to push vigorously in future sessions
of the legislature to extend the exemption so that ultimately no school
administrator will be required to possess a credential, he said.
"I am convinced that only in this way will our schools ever really
be able to achieve the prudent and careful management they require to
insure that public funds are used for the maximum benefit of our children
in extending and improving the quality of classroom instruction," he added
Governor Reagan said the new law also dramatically simplifies both
the standards and processing of teaching credentials. It eliminates the
present cumbersome, lengthy and costly process of reviewing individual
transcripts of candidates for school credentials by requiring only that
an applicant:
--Hold a B.A. or equivalent degree---which includes at least nine
units of professional preparation from an approved college or university
as a determinant of area of competence for teaching,
--Or, that he or she passes an examination in those subjects to be
taught.
He noted that a fifth year of study must be completed within seven
years of the first employment as a teacher.
The bill will further cut down on a maze of paperwork and red tape
by reducing from some 350 to about 2 dozen the number of teacher
credential categories and subcategories.
The bill also streamlines the processing of credentials. Instead
of having to wait as long as nine months, an applicant will now be able
to expect a decision from the state in only a matter of several weeks.
In addition, the legislation enables a teacher to conduct classes
in his approved field at any grade level---both elementary and secondary.
At present, unless a teacher holds specific credentials for both levels,
he is confined to one or the other.
Governor Reagan, recalling that he vetoed a teacher credentialing
bill last year by Assemblyman Ryan, said AB-122 corrects the flaws
contained in the previous legislation.
The governor subsequently formed a Governor's Commission on
Educational Reform to study all aspects of elementary and secondary
education in California---including teacher preparation and licensing.
"Many of the recommendations submitted to me by the commission are
incorporated in this bill, he said.
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"I want to express my deep thanks to all of those on the commission
who worked so long and hard to help make today's signing possible,' he
added.
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Max Rafferty, commenting
on the bill today, said:
"I join with the governor in the hope that the new emphasis on
teacher professional development will be of great benefit to the dedicate
men and women who are devoting their lives to the education of our
children.
"While I have had concern about the legislation in the past, I feel
that the bill in its final form overcomes my most serious reservation
by assuring that the historic prerogative of the State Board of Education
is maintained through the veto power which the bill has vested in the
board, Rafferty said.
The law in no way diminishes the basic overall role of the State
Department of Education in helping to upgrade the quality of education
in California's public schools.
The legislation also drew strong support from the California
Teachers' Association (CTA) and the California School Boards Association
(CSBA).
Cal Rossi, acting executive secretary of the CTA said:
"This legislation represents a departure from the traditional
certification statutes enacted in the past. We feel that it is a very
positive move in the right direction and that, when fully implemented,
it could lead to improved teacher preparation, resulting in better
education for the children of California. It is our conviction that the
establishment of a professional standards commission will result in the
development and maintenance of sound certification standards and will
facilitate updating and improving them when necessary."
Joseph M. Brooks, CSBA executive director, said:
"The California School Boards Association has supported AB-122
during its passage through the legislature and has worked constructively
with the authors of the bill and with representatives of the governor's
office.
"We feel that this legislation is a significant forward step toward
improvement of the teacher credentialing process."
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Dr. James D. Koerner, a widely known and highly respected
authority in this field who is now a fellow at the Sloan Foundation,
New York, as well as a senior research fellow at the Education Development
Center, Newton, Massachusetts, said:
"The establishment of this commission will, indeed, be a contribution
to the advancement of education. It is the best bet for the general
reform of education, and licensing of school personnel."
Seymour Gang, presidential fellow at the Metropolitan Applied
Research Center, New York City, and also widely recognized in public
school education, said:
"With this measure, California is once again in the forefront of
educational reform. The new law will serve as a model for other states
anxious to bring about the fundamental reform of teacher training."
Legislative Analyst A. Alan Post said (on July 2, 1970) the
legislation could save the taxpayers $600,000 per year.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-31-70
#383
GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
August 3, 1970
through
August 9, 1970
Monday, August 3
No public appointments scheduled.
Overnight - Sacramento
Tuesday, August 4
1:30 p.m.
PRESS CONFERENCE
Overnight - Sacramento
Wednesday, August 5
No public appointments scheduled.
Overnight - Sacramento
Thursday, August 6
No public appointments scheduled.
Overnight - Los Angeles
Friday, August 7
No public appointments scheduled.
Overnight - Los Angeles
Saturday, August 8
No public appointments scheduled.
Overnight - Los Angeles
Sunday, August 9
No public appointments scheduled.
Overnight - Los Angeles
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OFFICE OF THE GOVE OR
RELEASE: MC AY A.M.'s
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
7-31-70
#384
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced a far-reaching seven-point
policy to develop the state's recreational facilities while simultan-
eously preserving its natural scenic landscape and its cultural,
historical and archaeological values.
"This action constitutes a pledge to the people of California
that the state will improve and protect the quality of life for future
generations through the enhancement and protection of our environment,"
the governor said.
"It also pledges that our citizens will have the opportunity to
make full use of the recreational opportunities offered by our
mountains, shorelines, deserts and valleys,"
The policy, which will guide both private and public plans and
actions for the years ahead, calls for:
(1) The resources of the state will be employed to stimulate the
active, progressive and coordinated participation of appropriate
federal and local government agencies and of the private sector in
providing areas, facilities and services to meet present and future
recreation needs and deficiencies. The state will cooperate in
identifying deficiencies and will assist in alleviating those
deficiencies according to a system of priorities.
(2) Recreational use of lands currently in public ownership will
be encouraged. The people of California, acting through their elected
representatives, will seek use of suitable lands currently held by all
government agencies. Highest priority will be given to seeking prime
access to beach and coastal lands near urban areas.
(3) Local government entities most closely related to the recrea-
tion resources and to the sources of recreation demand will be
encouraged to provide recreational opportunities.
(4) The private sector will be encouraged to develop and operate
appropriate recreation resources and recreational opportunities on both
public and private lands, while giving full consideration to the quality
of the environment.
(5) All state public development and public works programs will
be conducted in such a way as to preserve, and wherever possible to
enhance, environmental quality of California for the people.
(6) The state will encourage at all levels of government and
within the private sector the utilization of natural, historical and
archaeological for outdoor educational interpretation so that the
citizens of this state may be able to more adequately enjoy, appreciate
and understand the ecology of this state.
(7) The state recognizes the Pacific Ocean and its estuaries as
a resource that has heretofore not been thoroughly understood and
therefore not fully utilized for its total multiple purposes, including
underwater recreational opportunities. Working with the private
sector, the state will encourage preservation, enhancement and develop-
ment of these important coastal and estuarine areas.
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