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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNO
Sacramento, California
MEMO TO
E PRESS
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
11-1-71
Governor Reagan signed AB 543, Barnes, October 29. The Governor
will read a statement highlighting the signing of the bill at a mock
signing ceremony in his office today at 11:30 a.m.
Also scheduled to attend the ceremony will be top officials of
the California Teachers Association, California Retired Teachers
Association, California School Boards Association, California Taxpayers
Association, Association of California School Administrators, and the
State Teachers Retirement Board.
The press is invited.
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EJC
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNO
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californi
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
11-1-71
#603
Governor Reagan today issued the following statement at a ceremony
in his office:
"I have called you here to announce the enactment of a new law
one which I signed several days ago which represents a major milestone
in the 58-year history of the State Teachers' Retirement System.
"The bill---AB-543 authored by Assemblyman Dick Barnes of San Diego--
affects all 332,000 active and retired public school teachers in
California. For them, it means that for the first time, their own
retirement organization can be run on an actuarily sound and businesslike
funding basis.
"This administration, working closely with the author and the State
Teachers' Retirement System, has made enactment of the legislation a
major goal of this year's session. Our efforts serve as an eloquent
answer to those uninformed critics who continue to charge that we are
anti-education.
"Now, for the first time, our public school teachers can look
forward to the benefits of retirement with a sense of security knowing
that sound business practices in the operation and management of the
system will assure them the allowances to which they are entitled under
law.
"Not only does the legislation significantly improve the benefits of
the system, but also promises that in the years ahead the cost of the
program to California taxpayers should be reduced,
"This ceremony reflects the great pride we share in having helped
write the legislation into law."
ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS
Mrs. Helene Hobson, President
"The California Retired Teachers deeply
California Retired Teachers'
appreciates the passage of AB-543
Association.
authored by Assemblyman E. Richard
Barnes (R-San Diego). We particularly
appreciate the consistent support
given by Governor Ronald Reagan, and
also the fine cooperation given by his
staff and by the State Department of
Finance."
Mr. Julius Hammer, Chairman
"The signing of AB 543 by Governor
State Teachers Retirement Board
Reagan culminates several years'
efforts by the State Teachers' Retire-
ment Board to improve benefits for both
retired and active teachers, and of
equal importance the establishment of
a program to place the System on a
sound financial basis.
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#603
Mr. Julius Hammer, chairman
This would not have been possible
State Teachers Retirement Board
without Governor Reagan's complete
support. All active and retired
(continued)
teachers should be fully aware of
Governor Reagan's action on their
behalf, both in recognizing the
problems and the development of this
solution. Many persons have been
concerned about the funding of the
Retirement System. This action will
put an end to all such concerns.'
Mr. L. Gordon Bittle, President
"On behalf of the 45,000 members of
California Taxpayers Association
the California Retired Teachers
Teachers
Association and the 175,000 members of
the California Teachers Association,
I wish to pay tribute to Governor
Ronald Reagan and the 1971 legislature
for their foresight, courage and sense
of equity in enacting AB-543 by
Assemblyman E. Richard Barnes of
San Diego. This legislation resulted
from a cooperative effort. Throughout
the development of the bill, there was
very close communication and work
involving Governor Reagan and his staf
Assemblyman Barnes and his consultants
CTA and CRTA leaders and staff, the
State Teachers Retirement System Board
and administration, and the various
committees and supportive members of
the legislature. As AB-543 moved
through the legislature, it had the
continuing support of the governor
from the time he consented to have it
move ahead of the budget. It was his
active, personal support of the final,
amended version that helped it over it
last hurdles. Enactment of AB-543
means security to teachers, who now
have assurance that their retirement
system is finally on firm actuarial
ground, and equality because the bill
gives them the benefit adjustments
against inflation already enjoyed by
other public employees. It relieves
California of a foreseeable fiscal
nightmare by making the retirement
system self-sustaining instead of
depending on steadily increasing
payments from the state which were
projected to exceed $1 billion per
year shortly after the turn of the
century."
Mr. Joseph Brooks,
"California School Boards Association
Executive Secretary
feels that AB-543 which places the
alifornia School Boards Assoc.
state teachers retirement on a sound
actuarial basis is a constructive step
forward in solving one of the many
fiscal problems facing California's
public schools. A provision amended
into the bill, which lessens the
property tax impaction on low wealth
high tax rate districts, represents a
major improvement in the original
legislation and provides better equity
for California property taxpayers.
The legislature is commended for its
passage and the governor for its
signing.
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Mr. Donald R. McKinley, President
"The Association of California School
Association of California School
Administrators commends the governor
Administrators.
and the legislature on providing for
the realistic and sound financing of
the State Teachers Retirement System.
In signing AB-543 Governor Reagan has
taken a major step toward restoring
confidence in the retirement system.'
Mr. Robert C. Brown
"Based on current methods of funding,
Executive Vice President
the state's annual contribution to the
California Taxpayers Association.
State Teachers' Retirement System will
pass the one-half billion dollar mark
by 1989-90. AB-543 represents a major
step in providing for the actuarial
soundness of this system. In our
opinion, the long-range implications
provide definite possibilities that
there will be a direct savings to the
taxpayer with the implementation of
this law. There is no doubt that
affixing your signature to this measure
is in keeping with your stated goals."
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californi
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
11-1-71
#604
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Charles Wistos, a retired
rancher, to the Calaveras County Board of Supervisors.
Fourth District Supervisor
Wistos, 62, of P. O. Box 787, Angels Camp, will succeed/Vrle
Minto of Altaville, who has retired.
Wistos, a Republican, has been active in agricultural affairs
and has served as president of the Angels Camp Merchants Association.
He will receive an annual salary of $6,000.
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WAS
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
11-1-71
#605
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the
appointment of Mrs. Vivian H. Obern, Santa Barbara civic
leader, to a four-year term on the California Recreational
Trails Committee
She succeeds William Lucking Jr. of Ojai who has
resigned.
Mrs. Obern and her husband Earl have three children.
The family home is at 4140 Marina Drive, Santa Barbara.
She is a Republican.
Members of the committee receive necessary expenses.
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WAS
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californ:
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
11-1-71
#606
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Lloyd A. (Brad) Bailey
as deputy director of the Department of Human Resources Development,
subject to Senate confirmation.
Bailey, 48, who has served as acting deputy director of Tax
Collections and Insurance in the Payments Division of HRD for the
past four months, succeeds Sigurd I. Hansen who has been named
director of the department.
Bailey, a Republican, began his career with the department in
1946 as a testing technician in the San Bernardino office, and
advanced through various executive positions to his present assignment.
He has served as chief of the Organization and Management Section
of the Division of Public Employment Offices and Benefit Payments,
deputy chief of Benefits and in 1969 was named assistant deputy
director of the Tax Collections and Insurance in the Payments Division.
In his new post he will receive an annual salary of $25,000.
Bailey and his wife Velma have two sons. The family lives at
2270 Hooke Way, Sacramento.
The appointment is for four years at the pleasure of the governor.
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WAS
November 1, 1971
The following. attributable to Governor Reagan, vas provided
to newsmen requesting comment from the governor on the status of
tex reforms
"If tax reform 10 no longer alive, it is simply because the
Democratic leadership in the legislature will not agree to real
and lasting guaranteed property tax relief.
"Using the tax reform issue as 0 gimmick to increase government
spending
without putting a lid on property taxes at the local level
becomes nothing more than a gigantic tax increase.
What is urgently needed now is swift passage of legislation
to balance the budget and case the state's cash flow difficulties.
The state can meet its immediate fiscal responsibilities through
the enactment of legislation which adopts withholding and extends
our authority for revenue anticipation notes legislation such as
AD-185 (Bagley) which is pending before the Senate Revenue and
Taxation Committee."
EJG
OFFICE OF THE GOVERN
RELEASE: Imme
ite
Sacramento, Californ.a
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
11-2-71
#607
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed William A. Stone, a
Bakersfield attorney, to the Bakersfield Judicial District Municipal
Court.
Stone, 32, will receive an annual salary of $30,724. He succeeds
Judge John Nairn, who has been elevated to the Kern County Superior
Court.
A practicing attorney in Bakersfield since 1965, Stone is a
mack
partner in the firm of Mack, Bianco, Means, Mark and Stone.
He is a native of Porterville, a graduate of Stanford University
and earned his law degree from the Stanford Law School in 1964.
Stone is a member of the State Bar of California, the Kern
County Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the American
Judicature Society, and is active in the Child Guidance Clinic Board
of Directors in Bakersfield.
He and his wife, Diane, have one son.
Stone is a Republican.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
11-2-71
#608
Governor Ronald Reagan today named Paul R. Gore, a Napa city
councilman, and reappointed Donald H. Stoneson, a San Francisco
builder, to four year terms on the Commission on Housing and Community
Development. The appointments are subject to Senate confirmation.
Gore, an executive with the Lawyers Title Insurance Corporation
in San Francisco, succeeds the late George L. Dealey of Oakland.
Stoneson, president of Stoneson and Associates in San Francisco,
has served on the commission since 1968.
Gore lives at 601 Foster Road, Napa, and Stoneson lives
at 816 Hayne Road, Hillsborough.
Both men are Republicans.
Commissioners receive $25 per day while on official duty.
# # #
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
11-2-71
#609
Governor Ronald Reagan today reappointed Dr. Mayo R. DeLilly of
the Julian W. Ross Medical Center in Los Angeles, to a three-year-term
on the Advisory Council of the California Board of Nursing Education
and Nurse Registration.
Dr. DeLilly, 46, is a Republican and has served on the council
since 1968. He lives at 1841 Virginia Road, Los Angeles.
Council members receive necessary expenses.
######
WAS
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
11-2-71
#610
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Dr. William E. Mayer,
Roseville psychiatrist, as chief deputy director of Mental Hygiene.
Dr. Mayer, 48, who served as director of mental health services
for the counties of Del Norte and Humboldt from 1966 to 1970, will
receive an annual salary of $30,072. He will succeed Dr. Robert T.
Hewitt of Sacramento, who has resigned.
Prior to accepting his post in Del Norte and Humboldt counties,
Dr. Mayer served as program chief of Contra Costa County's Community
Mental Health Services and was chief of professional services in the
Office of the Surgeon of the United States Continental Army Command.
He also has served as chief consultant in neuropsychiatry of the
U. S. Army Communications Zone in Europe and as chief of Psychiatric
Services at the U. S. Naval Hospital in Yokosuka, Japan.
He is a graduate of the Northwestern University Medical School
in Chicago and has completed post graduate studies in neurology and
psychiatry at the U. S. Public Service Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas,
the Langley Porter Institute in San Francisco and has taken post-graduate
courses in Aviation Medicine at the School of Aerospace Medicine
and Military Medicine at the Medical Field Service School in San
Antonio, Texas.
He is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha National Medical Honor Society
and holds a National Award from the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge
in addition to numerous military decorations.
His home is at 7570 Memory Lane, Roseville.
Dr. Mayer is not affiliated with a political party.
#####
WAS
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
11-2-71
#611
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 543 - Barnes
Makes a major comprehensive revision of the benefit
Chapter 1305
and financing provisions of the State Teachers'
Retirement System.
AB 1027 - Moorhead
Permits a prisoner under the Cobey Work Furlough
Chapter 1313
Law to seek employment and education outside the
county of confinement. The bill allows release of a
prisoner in a work furlough program for a period
not exceeding 72 hours for medical care, for family
emergencies or pressing business which would result
in severe hardship if the release were not granted.
The bill also makes it permissive for the work
furlough administrator to collect the pay of a work
furlough prisoner.
AB
1345
-
Brathwaite Amends the Community Development Law to require that
Chapter 1314
the publicly owned improvement be a benefit to the
project area regardless of whether such improvement
is within another project area, or in the case of a
project area in which substantially all of the land
is publicly owned that such improvement is of benefit
to an adjacent project area of the agency. The bill
would also require, with respect to the financing,
acquisition, or construction of a transportation
collection and distribution system and related
peripheral parking facilities, in Los Angeles County,
that the agency, in order to exercise prescribed
powers, enter into an agreement with the rapid
transit district which includes such county. The
bill is intended to assist the Bunker Hill
Redevelopment project.
AB 1488 - Schabarum
Makes a technical change in the definition of "air
Chapter 1315
contaminant" contained in the Health and Safety Code.
AB 1808 - Hayes
Provides that any judge who is removed from office
Chapter 1316
by the Supreme Court shall not receive any of the
benefits provided by provisions authorizing
continuation in the Judges' Retirement Fund upon
service discontinuance and shall be repaid his
accumulated contributions. These provisions will
be applicable only to persons becoming judges after
the effective date of the bill.
AB 2134 - Campbell
Permits minors under 18 to work during any evening
Chapter 1317
followed by a nonschoolday until 12:30 a.m.
AB 2258 - Foran
Increases the minimum paid-in capital requirements
Chapter 1318
for title insurers from $250,000 to $500,000.
Authorizes title insurers operating under a
certificate of authority in effect on July 1, 1971,
to have a specified lesser minimum paid-in capital
requirements until July 1, 1976.
AB 2392 - McCarthy
Provides that "county peace officer service" shall
Chapter 1323
also include service rendered in the sheriff's
office of a city and county in positions subsequently
reclassified as positions within the definition of
"county peace officer." The bill also provides that
disability retirement under the State Teachers'
Retirement System may be upon the application of the
employer as well as the member or his guardian or
conservator.
AB 2428 - Brown
Revises the provisions relating to the acceptance of
Chapter 1319
an offer in compromise by the Department of
Alcoholic Beverage Control in lieu of the serving of
a suspension by a licensee, to provide that the
licensee is entitled to offer to pay a lesser fine
if he has had no other final decisions suspending
or revoking his license in the prior three years.
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AB 2955 - Brathwaite Renames the Division of Building and Housing
Chapter 1320
Standards the Division of Codes and Standards. The
bill also renames the Division of Housing and
Community Development the Division of Research and
Assistance. The bill also authorizes the Department
of Housing and Community Development to establish
four regional offices.
AB 2959 - Lewis
Deletes the Education Code provision requiring school
Chapter 1321
districts, when referring to a pupil's surname, to
use the name of the pupil as shown on documents used
to establish the pupil's age for purposes of
admission to school.
AB 3063 - Lewis
Removes the prohibition against payment for services
Chapter 1322
to a county or district by a person retired under a
retirement system maintained by the county under the
County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 where the
retired person is elected to a county office.
SB 423 - Zenovich
Provides that an unemployed individual, discharged
Chapter 1306
from the armed services, who is otherwise eligible
for unemployment, shall not be deemed ineligible in
any week for which he has unexpired leave time for
which he has been compensated.
SB 465 - Bradley
Requires state and local governmental bodies to pay
Chapter 1307
a fee of $6 for recording releases of liens and the
standard fee for filing or recording any document
relating to an agreement to reimburse a county for
public aid granted by the county. In addition, the
bill increases by $1.00 the fee charged by the
counties for recording various financial statements.
SB 645 Mills
States legislative intent that the Department of
Chapter 1308
Education and the office of Chancellor, California
Community Colleges, develop a policy and procedure
to divide the State School Fund into two sections,
one for the support of elementary and secondary
schools and one for support of public community
colleges.
SB 917 - Grunsky
Authorizes the Department of Justice to charge a fee
Chapter 1309
equal to the department's cost for processing non-
criminal licensing and certification applications.
The bill also increases fees for processing concealed
weapon permit applications and non-certified school
employees employment applications.
SB 1123 - Lagomarsino
Provides for uniform competitive bidding law
Chapter 1310
applicable to counties containing a population of
less than 500,000 engaging in construction of
public projects.
SB 1235 - Bradley
Authorizes the issuance of variable benefit life
Chapter 1311
insurance policies by domestic life insurers in
California.
SB 1267 - Beilenson
Requires both the notice of sale under execution
Chapter 1312
issued on a judgment and the notice of any right of
redemption to be delivered, as specified, to the
judgment debtor.
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WAS
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
11-2-71
#612
twelve
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed thirteen new members
and reappointed 16 other members to three year terms on the Areawide
Mental Retardation Program Board, which plans, coordinates and
encourages state-wide development of mental health services.
In Area 1, which includes the counties of Humboldt, Del Norte,
Mendocino and Lake, Mrs. Florence M. Lewis, a special education
instructor, of 2443 Lakeshore Boulevard, Lakeport, was named to succeed
Dr. Donald Coolahan of Nice, whose term has expired. She will represent
professionals. She is a Republican.
Humboldt County Supervisor Donald F. Peterson of 434 Bayside
Road, Bayside, was reappointed as a public member. He has served
since 1970. He is a Republican.
Appointed as board members for Area 2 which includes Siskiyou,
Modoc, Trinity, Lassen, Shasta, Tehama, Plumas, Glenn and Butte Counties
were:
Robert J. Jeffries, 1080 San Ramon Drive, Chico, District Director
for the Chico Unified School District
of Special Programs/will succeed Mrs. D. C. Swinney of Gridley, whose
term has expired. He will represent professionals. He is a Republican.
Dr. Jay Beams, 1435 Riverside Drive, Susanville, will succeed
Earl Sage of Susanville, whose term has expired. Dr. Beams will represent
professionals. He is not registered with a political party.
In Area 3, which includes Yuba, Sutter, Colusa, Yolo, Sierra,
Nevada, Placer, El Dorado, Alpine and Sacramento Counties, James W.
Granger, Route 2, Box 30-B, Placerville, will succeed Robert Anderson
of Placerville, whose term has expired. Granger, director of special
education for El Dorado Union High School and the Placer High School
District, will represent professionals. He is a Republican.
Named as board members for Area 4, which includes Sonoma, Solano
and Napa counties were:
The Reverend Milton L. Woods, 126 Marquette Avenue, Vallejo,
Assemblies of God minister, who succeeds James Spaulding of Vallejo. The
Reverend Mr. Woods, a Democrat, will represent the public.
Dr. Perry J. Bingham, 3666 Spring Creek Drive, Santa Rosa, who
succeeds Dr. James West of Petaluma. Dr. Bingham, 3 Republican, will
represent professionals.
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Reappointed for Area 5, which includes Alameda, Contra Costa,
Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo Counties were:
Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Richard E. Arnason of
Martinez, who has served since 1970. A Democrat, he will represent
the public.
Dr. Jerome P. Mednick, pediatric neurologist, 7 Locksley Lane,
San Rafael, who has served since 1970. He will represent professionals.
He is not registered with a political party.
Mrs. Doris H. Westbrook, 1127 Olive Avenue, Fremont, who has
served since 1970. She is a Republican. She will represent professionals
Dr. Richard C. Robbins, 13333 Gough Street, San Francisco,
director of special education for the San Francisco Unified School
District, and a member since 1970. He will represent professionals.
He is a Republican.
Reappointed as representatives in Area 6, which includes
Amador, San Joaquin, Calaveras, Tuolomne and Stanislaus Counties was:
Harold A. Clark, 1604 Kruger Drive, Modesto, coordinator of
special education for the Stanislaus County Department of Education.
He will represent professionals. He is a Democrat.
Reappointed in the Area 7, which includes Santa Clara, San
Benito, Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties were:
Richard G. Grey, 25044 La Loma Drive, Los Altos Hills, vice
president and general manager of VICOM, a' member since 1970. He is
a Republican. He will represent professions.
Mrs. Juanita W. Shaffer, 1215 Emerson Street, Palo Alto, a
member since 1970. She will represent parents. She is a Republican.
New members for Area 8, which includes Merced, Mariposa, Madera,
Fresno, Tulare, Kings and Kern Counties are:
Robert X. Grusenmeyer, 1720 Shirley Street, nevered Modesto, who
succeeds Harry P. Schmidt of Gustine, whose term has expired. A
Republican, Grusenmeyer will represent professionals.
Nathan D. Edwards, 2093 North Marks Avenue, Fresno, Fresno
Community Council. He succeeds Dr. A. Marino Le Count of Fresno,
who has resigned. Edwards, a Republican, will represent professionals.
Reappointed was George P. Vlos, 1921 University Avenue, Bakersfield
who has served since 1970. A Democrat, he will represent the public.
Reappointed for Area 9, which includes San Luis Obispo, Santa
Barbara and Ventura Counties, were:
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Mrs. Mary M. Lyons, 432 Staunton Street, Camarillo, Director
of Special Services for the Mesa Union Elementary School. A Democrat,
she will represent professionals.
Mrs. Blanche J. Clark, 460 Fellowship Road, Santa Barbara, who
will represent parents. She is a Republican.
Mrs. Shirley V. Hendershot, 1018 West Douglas Avenue, Oxnard,
an instructor in Ventura County Special Schools. She will represent
the public. She is a Republican.
Reappointed for Area 10, which includes Los Angeles County, were:
Mrs. Eleanor Remillard, 6320 Day Street, Tujunga, Public Health
Consultant for the Los Angeles County Health Department. A Democrat,
she will represent professionals.
Dr. David Bilovsky, 3647 Cadman Drive, Los Angeles, psychologist
for California State College at Los Angeles; a Democrat, he will represer
professionals.
New members for Area 11, which includes Orange County, are:
Edward C. Lund, 704 Orchid Avenue, Corona del Mar, Community
Relations Department of Southern California Edison. He succeeds Mrs.
Hildred Ferrell of Anaheim. He will represent the public. He is a
Republican.
Don E. McNeff, 26908 Via Grande, Mission Viejo, chairman of
special education, Orange County Department of Education, who succeeds
Davis S. Robertson of Corona del Mar. A Republican, McNeff will
represent professionals.
New members for Area 12, which includes Mono, Inyo, San
Bernardino, and Riverside Counties, are:
Dr. John P. Morris, 3855 Camellia Drive, San Bernardino,
Associate Director of Pediatrics at San Bernardino County General
Hospital, who succeeds George H. Dixon of Montclair. Dr. Morris, a
Republican, will represent the public.
Frederick C. Couglin, 1184 Le Conte Drive, Riverside, school
psychologist and principal of Casa Blanca Special School, who succeeds
John Morant of Riverside. Couglin, a Democrat, represents professionals.
Reappointed for Area 13, which includes San Diego and Imperial
Counties, were:
John R. Sorbo, 10505 Grandview Drive, La Mesa, a San Diego attorne
A Republican, he will represent the public.
Charles W. Muse, 4214 Summit Drive, La Mesa, general manager of
American General Life Insurance Company. He is a Republican. He will
represent the public. Members of the board receive necessary expenses.
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
11-2-71
#613
Governor Ronald Reagan today called "disgraceful and cynically
/the actions of
partisan" a group of so-called Democratic legislative leaders who
contrived an ad hoc committee "for the sole purpose of harrassing State
Social Welfare Director Robert Carleson and undermining the
administration's efforts to reform welfare."
/so-called
The governor said, "Because obviously this hearing was contrived
for the sole purpose of harrassing Bob Carleson and undermining the
administration's efforts to reform welfare, those in control of the
hearing chose to ignore the fact that California is the only state in
which the welfare rolls have declined for the past six months in a row.
"To blatantly exploit the legislative process in this way is
thoroughly disgraceful and cynically partisan.
"The personal and public villification of any citizen, including
members of this administration, has no place in a legislative 'hearing'
of any type.
"In just two months, far less time than it took the legislature to
enact welfare reform, the Department of Social Welfare has acted
extremely quickly and effectively in implementing the new law. Under
Bob Carleson's leadership this progress has been made in spite of a
myriad of conflicting court rulings and other obstacles," the governor
said.
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EJG
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californi
Contact:
Paul Becn
445-4571
11-3-71
#614
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 76 - Chappie
Increases the membership of the Board of Funeral
Chapter 1326
Directors and Embalmers by adding another licensee
member and another public member.
AB 122 - Greene, B.
Authorizes the California Job Development Corporatio
Chapter 1340
Law Executive Board to create in the State Job
Development Corporation Loan Guarantee Fund a
revolving loan guarantee fund for use by agencies
operating under the Small Business Assistance
Program Law and under contract with the Executive
Board to guarantee interim loans for small business
enterprises.
AB 253 - MacGillivray
Designates the areas between Point Arguello and
Chapter 1341
Point Mugu, and waters less than 25 fathoms deep
adjacent to the mainland shore, as California
halibut trawl grounds. The bill also authorizes the
Director of the Department of Fish and Game to close
designated halibut trawl grounds, or portions thereo
or to further restrict the nets that may be used in
such area or portions thereof, if the halibut
resource or existing fishing operations within such
designated halibut trawl grounds are imperiled.
AB 433 - Fong
Revises the Education Code provisions requiring
Chapter 1342
appraisal of vision of pupils attending public
schools.
AB 455 - Chappie
Makes it unlawful for any person to pursue, drive,
Chapter 1343
or herd any bird or mammal with any motorized water,
land, or air vehicles, including but not limited to
a motor vehicle, airplane, power boat, or snowmobile
Exceptions are provided for prevention of damage to
private property, and in the case of agricultural
damage.
AB 510 - Cullen
Authorizes a protestant whose protest has been
Chapter 1344
rejected by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage
Control to file an accusation alleging the ground
of protest. It also revises the provisions of law
relating to places for hearings to consider such
protests.
AB 540 - Ryan
Authorizes the state to pay in excess of $65 per yea
Chapter 1345
for each new or renewal license granted for approved
city or county inspection services to licensed
institutions and other facilities for the care of
children and aged persons if the county demonstrates
excess costs are unavoidable,
AB 700 Chappie
Requires estimates of average daily attendance
Chapter 1346
reported in school district applications for state
building aid to be based upon the number of children
residing in the district and the number of dwellings
and mobilehome parks under construction or newly
constructed and never occupied.
AB 854 - LaCoste
Provides that a city or county may impose a fee upon
Chapter 1347
persons and vehicles entering city or county
property which is devoted to park, amusement or
recreational purposes.
AB 861 - Moorhead
Provides that a juvenile traffic hearing officer or
Chapter 1348
a referee of the juvenile court may make findings
which would require the Department of Motor Vehicles
to revoke the driving privileges of any person who
has been found by the juvenile court to have committ
certain prescribed offenses.
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AB 1028 - Maddy
mends the Forest Practice Act to provide for
Chapter 1349
renewal of logging licenses on an annual basis.
The bill also clarifies the terms "timber owner, "
"timberland owner" and "timber operator."
AB 1126 - Hayes
Authorizes the State Personnel Board to prescribe
Chapter 1350
conditions under which state employees may be
assigned to take out-service, rather than specialize
training to meet educational development needs rathe
than specified skills. This bill also deletes the
provision which requires appointment of the highest
person on a general reemployment list.
AB 1223 - Z'berg
Deletes the requirement that a planning area shall
Chapter 1351
consist of contiguous territory.
AB 1282 - Knox
Provides for adjustments in the retirement
Chapter 1329
allowances of Department of Justice law enforcement
members of the Public Employees' Retirement System
for periods of service prior to their termination
of social security coverage.
AB 1302 - McCarthy
Provides that the Office of Intergovernmental
Chapter 1327
Management is the clearing house for requests from
cities and counties that state agencies evaluate
the environmental impact of proposed subdivisions
on land projects.
AB 1346 - LaCoste
Increases the minimum weekly benefit for temporary
Chapter 1330
disability indemnity from $25 to $35.
AB 1584 - Schabarum
Raises the maximum ad valorem special assessment
Chapter 1352
which may be levied on taxable land and improvements
within an open-space maintenance district to pay
the costs of maintenance and operation of the
open areas.
AB 1652 - Ketchum
Includes persons in specified positions in the
Chapter 1331
Department of Youth Authority within the law
enforcement category of membership in the Public
Employees' Retirement System.
AB 1678 - McCarthy
Revises provisions relating to application for
Chapter 1353
original registration of motorcycles, installation
of engines in motor vehicles and assignment of
vehicle identification numbers. It also provides
that rebuilt or restored vehicles that were
previously reported as "junked" are to be handled
as original applications.
AB 1765 - Gonsalves
Requires the State Board of Equalization to cease
Chapter 1354
to administer and terminate its contract to
administer, rather than only to cease to administer,
local sales and use taxes of local government where
such tax does not conform to specified provisions.
AB 1785 - Knox
Increases specified legal filing fees in Contra
Chapter 1355
Costa County.
AB 1839 - Cory
Limits the tax rate in a harbor improvement district
Chapter 1356
to $0.20 per each $100 of assessed valuation. The
bill expands the membership of harbor improvement
district harbor commissions from 5 to 7. The bill
authorizes the board of supervisors to authorize a
harbor improvement district to acquire, develop,
operate, and maintain inland parks and recreation
areas.
AB 1849 - Cory
Provides that a county probation officer may, under
Chapter 1357
certain conditions, authorize the temporary removal
under custody or by temporary release without
custody of a county inmate within 30 days prior to
his release date. The bill provides that any such
removal shall not be for a period of more than
three days.
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AB 1878 - Maddy
Changes the salaries of specific classes of
Chapter 1358
employees of the Fresno Judicial District.
AB 2058 - Hayes
Provides that the court may extend the time of
Chapter 1359
attachments or garnishments of personal property
for a period not exceeding one year from the date
on which the original attachment or garnishment
would expire.
AB 2114 - Cory
Deletes the present statutory provision excluding
Chapter 1360
certain city and county owned taxable property when
computing the "Collier Factor" for the allocation
of state funds to school districts.
AB 2151 - Powers
Increases the membership of the State Board of
Chapter 1328
Registration for Professional Engineers from 9 to
11 members by providing an additional licensee
member and an additional public member.
AB 2461 - Hayes
Provides that if there is a denial of a motion to
Chapter 1332
quash service of summons, or to stay, or dismiss an
action on specified grounds in cases of summary
actions for obtaining possession of real property,
and of the written notice of an order denying the
motion is served, the defendant must plead within
five days after such service, except that the court
may extend the time to plead an additional 15 days.
SB 222 - Collier
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue
Chapter 1324
drivers' licenses in color. Increases drivers'
licenses and identification card fees by $.25.
The bill becomes operative on July 1, 1972.
SB 492 - Carpenter
Imposes a penalty assessment of $5 for every $20 or
Chapter 1333
fraction thereof imposed and collected by the courts
as a fine or forfeiture of bail for any violation
of the provisions of the Fish and Game Code or
regulation of the Fish and Game commission. The
bill requires that such moneys be deposited in the
state's Fish and Game Preservation Fund in a special
account to be used for education or training of
employees of the Department of Fish and Game.
SB 582 - Way
Extends indefinitely the provisions decreasing the
Chapter 1334
requirement for maturity of desert-produced grape-
fruit from 6½ parts to 6 parts soluble solids to
every part of acid in the juice. It extends the
authority granted to the Director of Agriculture to
establish a higher maturity standard, and authorizes
the director to lower such standards, but not below
the standards of these provisions, when he finds that
it would provide more acceptable grapefruit to the
consumer.
SB 864 - Zenovich
Revises provisions regarding employee rights and
Chapter 1335
benefits in the Fresno Metropolitan Transit District
Act of 1961.
SB 702 - Cusanovich
Appropriates $1,000,000 to the Department of
and Dymally
Education for preschool educational programs
established as a part of the children's centers
program.
SB 1032 - Behr
Raises the application and renewal fees for a
Chapter 1336
biologics production license.
SB 1492 - Moscone
Allows a jury trial in the superior court on the
Chapter 1337
question of whether a person ordered returned to the
Youth Authority following a court hearing is
physically dangerous to the public. A three-fourths
vote of the jury is required for a verdict.
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SB 1498 - Moscone
Authorizes the State Bar of California to create a
Chapter 1338
Client Security Fund and to assess their active
members to support the purposes of the fund. The
measure also authorizes an increase in membership
fees for the continued operation of the State Bar
and the funding of needed capital improvements.
SB 1533 - Behr
Replaces the member of the San Francisco Bay
Chapter 1339
Conservation and Development Commission appointed
by the U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and
Welfare with a member appointed by the Administrator
of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. It
provides that all applicants, including governmental
agencies, shall pay filing fees and reimbursement of
expenses for processing and investigating
applications.
Governor Reagan has vetoed the following bill:
AB 351 - Crown
Requires drug manufacturers to determine a suitable
expiration date of their products to assure
standards at the time of use and further requires
the State Department of Public Health to conduct
studies to determine drugs or drug classes of public
health concern in this area.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The Health and Safety Code already requires
expiration dates for drugs liable to deterioration.
Expiration dates are already being established and
added to many drug labels by manufacturers and
encouraged by the Federal Food and Drug Administration
for substances which deteriorate rapidly to insure
adequate safety and efficacy at the time of use.
The only new requirements added by Assembly Bill
No. 351 are for the Department of Public Health and
the School of Pharmacy of the University of
California to conduct studies and prepare reports.
This is a matter that can best be handled by the
Food and Drug Administration.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned,"
the governor said.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointments of
Howard c. Winslow as chief of the Bureau of Furniture and Bedding
Inspection and Richard C. DeWalt as chief of the Bureau of Employment
Agencies.
Winslow will succeed Raymond M. Reid, Jr., who has handled the
duties of Bureau of Furniture and Bedding Inspection chief in addition
to his duties as chief of the Division of Consumer Services in the
Department of Consumer Affairs.
DeWalt will succeed Robert L. Harvey of Sacramento who has
resigned to accept a new post as associate counsel on the departmental
staff of Consumer Affairs Director Don Livingston.
Reid has served as chief of the Division of Consumer Services and
chief of the Bureau of Furniture and Bedding Inspection since 1970, while
Harvey has headed the Bureau of Employment Agencies since February of
this year.
Livingston said that the staff changes will allow his department to
expand its consumer protection programs.
"Ray Reid, who has done an excellent job in his dual role, will now
concentrate all of his efforts in handling consumer complaints while
Bob Harvey, who has done an outstanding job as chief of the Bureau of
Employment Agencies, will be in charge of our consumer legislative program,
he said.
Winslow, 49, who began his state career in the Consumer Affairs
Department as laboratory technician in 1946, has served as deputy chief
of the Bureau he now heads for the past 41/2 years.
He is active in state and national organizations concerned with
research and consumer problems and in Sacramento community affairs.
Winslow and his wife, Ruth, have one daughter. The family home is
at 3728 Canna Court, Sacramento.
DeWalt, 38, joined state service in 1965 as a personnel analyst in
the Department of Water Resources and in 1966 transferred to the Department
of Consumer Affairs where he has held a number of executive posts.
He has served as deputy chief of the Bureau of Employment Agencies
since 1967.
DeWalt is married and the father of one daughter. The family lives
at 20 Dalby Court, Sacramento.
Winslow, a Republican, and DeWalt, a Democrat, will receive annual
salaries of $17,700.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Hayward attorney Alfred A.
Delucchi to the Hayward-San Leandro Judicial District Municipal Court.
Delucchi, 40, a Republican, will receive an annual salary of $30,724.
He succeeds Judge Gerald P. Connitt who has retired.
A member of the Hayward law firm of Martins, Bernhardt and Delucchi
since 1967, Delucchi previously served as an Alameda County deputy
district attorney for five years.
A native of Oakland, he is a graduate of the University of California
at Berkeley and earned his law degree from the University of Santa
Clara Law School.
He is a member of the Alameda County Bar Association, the State
Bar of California, the Southern Alameda County Bar Association, the
Lawyers Club of Alameda County, the Criminal Courts Bar Association and
the California Trial Lawyers Association.
In addition, he is active in numerous Italian-American organizations.
Delucchi and his wife, Gloria, have one son. The family home is
in Castro Valley.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of John P.
Sparrow, associate counsel of the University of California's Board of
Regents to the Alameda County Superior Court.
Sparrow, 56, a Republican, will receive an annual salary of $33,396.
He succeeds Judge Monroe Friedman who has retired.
An associate counsel for the Board of Regents since 1955, Sparrow
previously served as an assistant United States attorney for the
Northern District of California, in private practice in San Francisco
and as an Alameda County deputy district attorney.
He also has been an instructor in law at the University of San
Francisco Law School, the Golden Gate Law School and is an assistant
dean of the San Francisco Law School.
Sparrow is a graduate of Harvard and earned his law degree from
the Harvard Law School.
He and his wife, Marilyn have three children. The family home is
in Oakland.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Municipal Judge Frank Piombo
of Redwood City to the San Mateo County Superior Court.
Judge Piombo, 47, a Republican, will receive an annual salary of
$33,396. He succeeds Judge Allison Rouse who has been elevated to the
District Court of Appeal.
Appointed to the Southern Judicial District Municipal Court in 1971,
Judge Piombo previously has served as an assistant district attorney
for San Mateo County and as city attorney of Millbrae.
He also has served as a special counsel for governmental subdivision
in both San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, and has been active in
civic affairs.
Judge Picmbo, a native of San Francisco, attended the University
of California at Berkeley and Stanford University and earned his
law degree from the University of San Francisco Law School.
He and his wife, Lydia, have five children. The family lives
in Redwood City.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Palm Springs attorney
Richard H. Robinson to the Desert Judicial District Municipal Court in
Palm Springs.
Robinson, 53, a Democrat, will receive an annual salary of $30,724.
He succeeds the late Judge David M. McGahey.
A practicing attorney in California since 1965, Robinson is a former
two term attorney general of the state of New Mexico and is a former
chief counsel of the New Mexico Bureau of Revenue.
He also served as an assistant district attorney and a U. S.
Commissioner for the county of Eddy in New Mexico and as a city
judge in Carlsbad.
He is a past president of the Desert Bar Association, a member of
the American Arbitration Association and the California Trial Lawyers
Association.
Robinson attended George Washington University in Washington, D. C.
and earned his law degree from Washington College of Law of the
American University.
He lives in Palm Desert.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today reappointed Allen D. Harper of Pasadena
and Richard E. Ferraro of Los Angeles to four-year-terms on the
Teachers Retirement Board.
Harper, vice president of Securities of Pacific Mutual Life
Insurance Company in Los Angeles, is life insurance representative on
the board. His appointment is subject to Senate confirmation. He
lives at 3343 San Pasqual Street, Pasadena.
Ferraro, a member of the City of Los Angeles Board of Education
represents the retirement system on the board. He lives at 4351 Eagle
Rock Boulevard, Los Angeles.
Both men have served since 1967. Both are Republicans.
Board members are paid expenses.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Richard E. Kazen of
Arcadia, a management analyst, as chief of the Division of Housing
and Community Development.
Kazen, 36, a Republican, will receive an annual salary of $21,000.
He succeeds Norman Jachens of Alameda, who has resigned.
A staff director of the California Citizen's Committee for
Governor Reagan's Welfare Reform Program since March of this year,
Kazen previously served as a management analyst for the Corporate
Systems Division of the Southern California Edison Company at Rosemead.
He also has served as a consultant to the Governor's Survey on
Efficiency and Cost Control in state government
Kazen is married and has two children. The family lives at
2019 Terra Lane, Arcadia.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 199 - Dent
Appropriates $43,000, including a specified $25,000
Chapter 1375
item in Budget Act of 1970, for a feasibility study
regarding the rehabilitation of facilities of the
California School for the Deaf and the California
School for the Blind in Berkeley.
AB 346 - McCarthy
Permits the governor to offer a reward not exceeding
Chapter 1390
$10,000 for information leading to the arrest and
conviction of any escaped convict or a person who
has committed or is charged with the commission of
prescribed offenses. Present law limits such rewards
to a maximum of $1,000.
AB 495 - Wood
Revises the name of the Beet Leafhopper Control
Chapter 1391
Board to the Curly Top Virus Control Board.
AB 709 - Chappie
Authorizes the State Board of Education to approve,
Chapter 1376
under specified conditions, proposal for the
unification of the Northside and Georgetown Divide
Elementary School Districts if the board finds that
the specified statutory criteria for formation of a
unified district are substantilly met or that it is
not practical to apply such criteria literally.
AB 896 - Russell
Authorizes the Department of General Services, with
Chapter 1377
the approval of the State Public Works Board, to
dispose of specified parcels of surplus state
property.
AB 1157 - Wood
Provides, with respect to the provisions regulating
Chapter 1378
the transfer of alcoholic beverage licenses between
spouses, partners, fiduciaries, and corporations,
that one-half of the regular fee shall become due
upon the subsequent transfer of 25 percent of the
stock in a corporation whose entire stock is owned
by the licensee or his spouse and to which the
license has been transferred by the licensee or his
spouse, if such subsequent stock transfer is from
a parent to his child or grandchild.
AB 1220 - Mobley
Includes bankers acceptances within the list of
Chapter 1392
eligible securities for the investment of surplus
state funds.
AB 1433 - Townsend
Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to
Chapter 1393
establish rules for performance of services furnished
or supplied by household goods carriers.
AB 1439 - Moorhead
Makes infractions, rather than misdemeanors for
Chapter 1379
violations of various Agricultural Code provisions,
relating to rabies control and the regulation and
licensing of dogs, and Health and Safety Code
provisions relating to rabies control.
AB 1447 - Keysor
Includes police classifications among those for
Chapter 1394
which a school personnel commission may establish
a probationary period not to exceed one year.
AB 1732 - Moorhead
Repeals the statutory limitations on testamentary
Chapter 1395
gifts to charity.
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AB 1767 - Stacey
Appropriates $100,000 from the Resources Protection
Chapter 1380
Account in the General Fund to the Department of
Parks and Recreation for the development of
overnight recreational facilities at Red Rock Canyon
State Park.
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AB 1851 - Cory
aletes the existing option of using the current
Chapter 1381
fiscal year factor for the modification of assessed
value of property to conform to the statewide
assessment level for apportionment and State School
Building Fund purposes.
AB 1984 - Mobley
Defines "incidental expenses" for purposes of the
Chapter 1382
Improvement Act of 1911 to include a charge
established by a city as a condition to providing
sewer service for the benefit of properties within
the assessment district, and required for the
completion and utilization of the improvement
constructed.
AB 2033 - Ketchum
Requires the Director of Conservation to determine
Chapter 1383
charges for use of inmate labor utilized in fire
fighting, for purposes of computing costs chargeable
to persons made statutorily liable for fire caused
damage.
AB 2190 - Roberti
Revises provisions of the student work-experience
Chapter 1396
program with regard to school districts and their
liability under the workmen's compensation laws to
include occupational classes held in the community.
AB 2244 - Russell
Provides that a member of the security patrol of a
Chapter 1384
school district who has written authorization of the
school's chief administrative official can request
that a person who is disrupting school activities
to leave a school building or grounds. At the
present time such requests can be made only by
certain school officials.
AB 2424 - Belotti
Authorizes the Department of Parks and Recreation to
Chapter 1385
exchange certain Humboldt Redwoods State Park lands
for private land of equivalent value. The bill
specifies that no access shall be provided for, nor
any signs or billboards erected on, such exchanged
park land unless authorized by the legislature.
AB 2495 - Briggs
Makes it unlawful for any person to falsely
Chapter 1386
represent himself in any manner as an employee of
the Department of Motor Vehicles for the purpose of
obtaining records or information to which he is not
entitled.
Lanterman
AB 2659 - Roberti
Authorizes certain recipients of the degree of
Chapter 1387
doctor of optometry issued by a university located
outside the United States to take the California
Optometry examination.
AB 2845 - Greene, B.
Revises provisions relating to employment of minors.
Chapter 1388
The bill establishes procedures for permits to work
part time for minors under 18 years of age, students
enrolled in work experience courses, and continuation
education classes; and permits to work full time for
minors under 16 years of age, but over 14 years of
age, under specified conditions, and for minors over
16 years of age, but under 18 years of age.
AB 2898 - Brown
Requires the Board of Nursing Education and Nurse
Chapter 1397
Registration to attempt to contact designated persons
who have served in medical corps of armed services
to inform them of specified procedure for becoming
a licensed nurse. The bill also empowers the board
to enter into an agreement with the federal
government to obtain such names and addresses,
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SB 265 - Behr
L.acts the Bicycle Recreation and Safety Act of 1971.
Chapter 1361
The bill authorizes the establishment of bicycle p
paths and routes by local entities. It prohibits
abandonment of specified rights-of-way prior to a
determination as to whether or not they could be
developed as bicycle paths or routes. The bill
further provides for marking and placement of
appropriate signs on bicycle paths and routes. It
also specifies that provision prohibiting operation
of motor vehicles on certain levees, banks, and
rights-of-way shall not be construed to prohibit the
establishment of bicycle paths or routes thereon.
SB 342 - Harmer
Authorizes the deposit of student body organization
Chapter 1362
fee moneys and other specified moneys received by
the state colleges into trust accounts of the
centralized state treasury system. The State
Colleges Trust Fund is created for the deposit of
these moneys which may be invested by the State
Treasurer in eligible securities.
SB 496 - Short
Mandates fee reductions in Consumer Affairs' agencies
Chapter 1363
if the surplus in an agency exceeds the operating
budget for the next two fiscal years.
SB 760 - Harmer
Requires instruction in automobile driver training
Chapter 1364
be available by all school districts maintaining a
high school for all eligible students wishing to
enroll, including those students who attend a non-
public high school within the school district.
SB 781 - Coombs
Amends the Contractors License Law to include as a
Chapter 1365
contractor any person who maintains or services air
conditioning, heating, or refrigeration equipment
which is a fixed part of the structure to which it
is attached. The bill exempts employees who work
for wages as their sole compensation and employees
of persons who are signatories to collective
bargaining agreements.
SB 785 - Grunsky
Specifies that after a summons is served, the
Chapter 1366
summons must be returned with proof of service,
unless the defendant has previously made a general
appearance.
SB 825 - Beilenson
Amends the Agricultural Code to extend indefinitely
Chapter 1367
the $40 annual registration fee for each pesticide
product which would otherwise expire after the 1972
legislative session. It provides for an assessment
of eight mills per dollar of sales of pesticides by
registrants. Three eighths of this assessment is to
be available to the State Department of Agriculture
and five eighths is to be apportioned to the counties
for enforcement of pest control and pesticide
enforcement.
SB 939 - Burgener
Requires new elevators in public buildings to have
Chapter 1368
control buttons and door casings labeled in Braille
and marked arabic numerals for the purpose of
identifying the controls and floors for use by
blind persons.
SB 1051 - Behr
Adds a fourth judge to the Central Judicial District
Chapter 1369
in Marin County.
SB 1094 - Gregorio
Makes various changes in procedures relating to minor
Chapter 1389
under the juvenile court law as well as minors taken
out of school by peace officers.
SB 1200 - Zenovich
Requires school districts and county superintendents
Chapter 1370
of schools to each make an annual report to the
Department of Education regarding the number of minor
eligible for which no special education is provided
and the reason therefor. The bill provides a hearing
procedure if a parent or guardian is not satisfied
with decision regarding withdrawal of a pupil from a
class or program for mentally retarded minors.
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SB 1312 - Crunsky
Establishes a procedure for moving to vacate or set
Chapter 1371
aside a prior conviction of drunk driving upon the
trial of a second or subsequent prosecution for the
same offense.
SB 1340 - Wedworth
Requires the State Air Resources Board to establish
Chapter 1372
criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of motor
vehicle pollution control devices and fuel additives,
and requires the board, after establishing such
criteria, to evaluate motor vehicle pollution control
devices and fuel additives submitted to it for
testing.
SB 1356 - Behr
Prohibits a person or corporation, whether or not
Chapter 1373
organized under laws of this state, from hereafter
acquiring or owning any public utility, directly
or indirectly without prior authorization of Public
Utilities Commission,
SB 1477 - Rodda
Authorizes the establishment of the Sacramento
Chapter 1374
Regional Transit District.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation
which gives local governments the power to determine
their own community public transportation priorities.
In signing the bill (SB 325, Mills) into law,
the governor said "the concept of local control has
been a cornerstone of this administration's policy.
This bill reaffirms that policy and emphasizes local
control by placing directly in the hands of locally
elected officials the responsibility for assessing
the overall public transportation needs of the
communities they know and represent.
"I believe that by helping to enable local offi-
cials to accelerate their efforts in developing
comprehensive and balanced transportation systems--
including the construction of local streets and roads
and other related transportation services--this bill
can serve the long range best interests of the people
of California," the governor said.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named Stanford Law Professor Howard R.
Williams and Los Angeles attorney John J. Balluff, to the California
Law Revision Commission and reappointed three other members.
They are attorneys Marc Sandstrom of San Diego, John N. McLaurin
of Los Angeles and Noble K. Gregory of San Francisco.
Professor Williams, 56, a Democrat, will fill the unexpired term
of Stanford Law Professor Joseph T. Sneed, who has resigned. The term
ends in October, 1973. Williams lives at 811 Mayfield Avenue, Stanford.
Balluff, 61, general attorney for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe Railway Company in Los Angeles, succeeds G. Bruce Gourley of Santa
Maria, whose term has expired. Balluff, who lives at 925 Via Panorama,
Palos Verdes Estates, is a Republican.
Sandstrom, 36, general counsel and secretary of the board of the
San Diego Federal Savings and Loan Association and a former assistant
secretary of the state Business and Transportation Agency, has served on
the commission since 1970. He is a Republican. He lives at 6675 Avenid
Andorra, La Jolla.
McLaurin, 56, a Democrat, is a partner in the Los Angeles law
firm of Hill, Farrer and Burrill. He has served on the commission
since 1970. He lives at 825 Flintridge Avenue, Pasadena.
Gregory, 53, a Democrat, is a member of the San Francisco firm
of Pillsbury, Madison and Sutro. He has been a commissioner since
1970. He lives at 225 Maywood Drive, San Francisco.
All the appointments are subject to Senate confirmation.
Commission members receive $20 per day and necessary expenses.
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Governor Reagan's schedule for next week includes office appointment
and attendance Tuesday evening at the reception and Salute to President
Nixon at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the retirement of Dr. Louis
F. Saylor, director of the California Department of Public Health,
effective December 1.
The governor, who appointed Saylor to the post in 1968, praised him
"for the outstanding job he has done in directing the many facets of the
Department of Public Health.
"Dr. Saylor has been a valued member of this administration, and I
want to publicly express my appreciation for the dedicated service he has
rendered to the people of California over the past three years."
William J. "Joe" Kurtz, Chief Deputy Director of Public Health, was
named acting director by the governor.
James M. Hall, Secretary of the Human Relations Agency, also
commended Dr. Saylor. Public Health is one of the departments within the
Human Relations Agency.
"Dr. Saylor is a nationally recognized expert in the field of public
health," Hall said, "and we are going to miss the expertise he has brough
to the department. Working with Dr. Saylor has been one of the pleasures
of my professional life."
Governor Reagan appointed Dr. Saylor to head the Department of Publi
Health in June of 1968. He had been assistant chief of the department's
division of research since 1960.
"After 38 years of state and federal service, I am looking forward
to a long rest, Dr. Saylor said. "I know that I am going to miss the
daily contact with my colleagues in the department. They are a dedicated
and talented group of professionals who will continue to serve the people
of this state in an exemplary manner.
"I would also like to express my appreciation to Governor Reagan for
giving me the opportunity to direct what I consider to be one of the most
important departments in our state government. I could always count on
his support and encouragement."
Dr. Saylor is a 1937 graduate of the University of Nebraska School
of Medicine. He received a master's degree in public health, magna cum
laude, from the Harvard University School of Public Health in 1957.
Prior to joining the Department of Public Health, Dr. Saylor served
with the U.S. Army Medical Corps from 1939 to 1960. He was chief of the
preventive medicine division and deputy surgeon at the 6th Army
Headquarters in San Francisco when he retired from the service.
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Dr. Saylor is the holder of the American Campaign Medal, the
American Defense Medal, the Army Commendation Ribbon with two Oak Leaf
Clusters, and the Bronze Star.
He and his wife Cecilia "Ceil" plan to make their home at Pacific
Grove on the Monterey Peninsula for the immediate future. Their son,
Richard, is an architect living in Monterey.
Kurtz, who joined the department in 1956, was named chief deputy
director in July of this year. He had been an assistant director and
chief of the department's office of fiscal and management services since
1968.
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445-4571
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#627
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation that will
allow cities and counties to exercise greater control on subdivisions
that do not provide proper environmental safeguards or ignore local
planning needs.
In signing the legislation (AB 1301) by Assemblyman Leo T. McCarthy
(D-San Francisco), Governor Reagan said, "we cannot afford the luxury
of allowing real estate developments to be constructed which
do not meet the requirements that communities have established for the
protection of their own citizens and the environment itself.
"This bill, I believe, will allow cities and counties to take the
necessary steps to provide environmental protection at the local level.
It will also enable local governments to consider many aspects of
proposed subdivisions to determine whether the projects are consistent
with local planning. And it will clarify the authority of the local
government to deal with poorly planned projects." "
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Governor Ronald Reagan, in a move aimed at cracking down on employers
who intentionally undercut California's depressed labor market, today
signed the first legislation of its type in the nation making it illegal
for any employer to knowingly hire an alien who is not entitled to legal
residence in the United States.
The legislation, AB-528, Arnett, subjects any employer who knowingly
hires an illegal alien where it can be proven that such employment has
an adverse effect on lawful residence workers to criminal penalties.
"By cracking down on those employers who knowingly engage in the
hiring of illegal aliens, this legislation can help to improve job
opportunities for thousands of legitimate California residents who
earnestly seek employment in our temporarily depressed labor market, #
the governor said.
"Moreover the legislation is fully consistent with provisions of the
state's new welfare reform law which limits welfare benefits to only those
aliens who reside in California legally.
"This
bill which makes California the first state to adopt a law
aimed at coming to grips with the intentional employment of illegal
aliens is a direct result of the federal government's failure to meet
its own obligations in this regard.
"The control of illegal aliens is and should be a federal
responsibility. But, in view of the fact that an illegal work force now
displaces hundreds of thousands of Californians many in search of
jobs it has become increasingly clear that we can no longer wait for
Congress to enact legislation to effectively cope with the problem."
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#629
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 40 - Wood
Changes the amount of fish privilege tax on squid
(Chapter 1440)
from $.005 per pound when used for bait or human
consumption and $.0005 per pound when canned to
$.0001 per pound, irrespective of how the squid will
be used.
AB 517 - Knox
Provides that the maximum tax rate for the Bay
(Chapter 1441)
Area Air Pollution Control District shall remain
at $.02 per $100 of assessed valuation following
the 1972-73 fiscal year.
AB 671 - Arnett
Revises the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act to include
(Chapter 1443)
persons impaired by chronic alcoholism. The bill
provides that such services shall be subject to
Short-Doyle financing and shall not be included as
priority funding, but may be considered new and
expanded services for the purpose of funding. The
bill also requires that each county Short-Doyle plan
shall designate a specific facility for treatment
of alcoholism and inebriates.
AB 1044 - Schabarum
Revises noise limits applicable to new motor
(Chapter 1444)
vehicles which are sold or offered for sale.
AB 1172 - Powers
Prohibits a person licensed as an insurance
(Chapter 1445)
adjuster under the Private Investigator and Adjuster
Act from engaging in designated activities. The
bill also prohibits licensees under such act from
conducting business under a ficititious or other
business name, rather than a fictitious business
name without written authorization.
AB 1300 McCarthy
Prohibits the Real Estate Commissioner from
(Chapter 1399)
issuing a public report on any "land project"
unless he makes a specific finding that the improveme
will be adequate to serve the projected population
of the entire offering. The bill also provides for
a 14-day right of rescission of the contract in
case the purchaser changes his mind.
AB 1420 - LaCoste
Permits elective disability compensation coverage
(Chapter 1447)
for individuals in the employ of specified relatives.
AB 1461 - Chappie
Subjects vehicles of historic value, not used in
(Chapter 1448)
trade, profession, or business to an $11 registration
fee and imposes a $2 annual vehicle in-lieu tax,
commencing with fees paid for the 1972 calendar
year. The bill specifies that such taxes are in
lieu of other ad valorem taxes. The bill provides
that fees paid for special identification plates for
such vehicles shall be deposited in the California
Environmental Protection Program Fund.
AB 1482 - Warren
Allows expenditures for equipment determined to be
(Chapter 1449)
necessary by the Superintendent of Public Instruction
to be considered as current expense for a special
class or program offered by school districts or
county superintendents. The bill sets a limit on
equipment expenditure of one percent of the current
expense of operating the districts physically
handicapped program.
AB 1528 - Hayden
Sets forth the costs for which a county is
(Chapter 1450)
chargeable when a criminal case is transfered to
another county before trial. The bill requires
the Judicial Council to adopt rules governing such
case transfers, to prescribe approved forms for
claiming costs, and to adopt rules under which
particular counties are not required to make
reimbursements where, over a given period of time,
there is even exchange of cases between counties.
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AB 1613 - Chacon
Requires the officer who is designated by the board
(Chapter 1451)
of supervisors of a county to collect specified
charges and costs relating to juvenile wards, to
promptly notify any person liable for such costs
or charges in writing that if such person believes
that he is unable to pay the costs or charges the
law permits him to claim in writing such inability.
The bill requires the officer to furnish appropriate
forms on which to claim such inability.
AB 1949 - Quimby
Changes the retirement allowance formula for
(Chapter 1452)
California State Police Division Employees who are
police officers.
AB 2029 - Monagan
Eliminates the period of residency required to
(Chapter 1453)
receive a new resident's ballot for voting for
presidential electors. The bill eliminates the
literacy requirement as a precondition to
receiving a new resident's ballot. The bill also
changes the registration period for new residents
from the 90th to 54th day prior to the presidential
election to the 90th to 7th day prior thereto.
AB 2166 - Vasconcellos Allows persons incarcerated in a jail or other
(Chapter 1454)
place of confinement to continue methadone
treatment up to the point of conviction at the
discretion of the methadone program director.
AB 2399 - Arnett
Requires the Department of Public Health to provide
(Chapter 1455)
local health officers with necessary staff and
assistance to conduct an epidemiologic investigation
of any pesticide poisoning disease or condition.
The bill further provides that the local agricultural
commissioner or Director of Agriculture be
consulted before requesting such assistance.
AB 2491 - Briggs
Makes several clarifying amendments to the Health
(Chapter 1456)
and Safety Code provisions relating to the control
of atomic energy and radiation.
AB 2522 - Townsend
Specifies the standards for the issuance of an
(Chapter 1457)
out-of-state beer manufacturer's certificate.
AB 2764 - Chappie
Requires existing publicly owned buildings or
(Chapter 1458)
facilities which undergo structural repairs,
additions or alterations to conform to the access
requirements contained in the Physically Handicapped
Law.
AB 2774 - Lanterman
Amends the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act to terminate
(Chapter 1459)
the indefinite commitment of mentally ill persons
who were committed by a court prior to July 1, 1969,
under the old law, to an institution other than a
state hospital. The bill also makes minor technical
non-substantive changes in the Lanterman-Petris-Short
Act.
AB 2921 - Chacon
Makes amendments to the Government Code provisions
(Chapter 1460)
relating to the oath and bond requiremmnts when
a notary public moves his principal place of
business to another county.
AB 3018 - Meade
Allows dogs used by uniformed employees of private
(Chapter 1461)
patrol services to be kept or allowed in food
establishments.
AB 3055 - Wilson
Provides for state participation in the federal Model
(Chapter 1462)
Cities program.
AB 3093 - McAlister
Prohibits the sale on or after August 1, 1972, of
(Chapter 1463)
charcoal intended for use in the cooking and
preparation of food unless the package containing suci
charcoal has a warning label affixed thereto.
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AB 3099 - MacGillivray
Appropriates $60,000 to the Department of
(Chapter 1464)
Water Resources to prepare for possible flooding
and mudslides in the area of the City of Carpenteria.
SB 791 - Stiern
Imposes an annual $5.00 vehicle license fee on
(Chapter 1437)
horseless carriages not used in a trade, profession,
or business.
SB 1446 - Teale
Requires nonprofit corporations to file with the
(Chapter 1438)
Secretary of State a statement of the names and
addresses of specified officers and the location and
address of the principal office every five years
rather than every year. The bill requires such
statement to be filed whenever there is any change
in a nonprofit corporation's officers. The bill
also exempts nonprofit corporations from paying a
filing fee.
SB 1481 - Way
Establishes procedures by which a person may
(Chapter 1439)
examine his record folder in the Bureau of Criminal
Identification and Investigation. The bill allows
a person to request correction of any information
in his record which he believes to be in error.
SB 1623 - Beilenson Deletes that portion of State Highway Route 170
(Chapter 1398)
from Route 90 to Route 2 from the State Highway
system. The bill will eliminate the middle portion
of Fairfax Section of the planned Laurel Canyon
Freeway.
Governor Reagan has announced the veto of the following bill:
AB 2020 - Dunlap
Permits certain members of the State Teachers'
Retirement System to elect to become members of
the Public Employees' Retirement System.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The bill, in giving less than full retroactivity
to the 1961 legislation, results in inequitable
treatment of employees and serves as a precedent
for future efforts to change membership between
the two retirement systems as benefits in the
systems or circumstances of the member change.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned," the
governor said.
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#630
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 78 - Chappie
Appropriates $50,000 for completion of the Tahoe
Chapter 1409
Regional Plan.
AB 255 - MacGillivray
Requires that, when 2 percent or more of the
Chapter 1410
assessed valuation of a public water district is
removed by reason of state highway acquisitions in
any one fiscal year, compensation be paid to the
taxing authority on a descending scale over a
five-year period.
AB 332 - Cory
Includes within the definition of "construction" for
Chapter 1411
purposes of provisions relating to state sharing in
the cost of construction of specified juvenile
facilities by counties, payments for the necessary
repair or improvements of property leased from the
federal government or other public entity without
cost to the county for a term of not less than
10 years.
AB 355 - Briggs
Includes educable mentally retarded minors attending
Chapter 1412
public secondary schools within the groups for whom
increased allowances for driver training instruction
are authorized. The bill reduces the maximum for
such allowances from $360 to $200.
AB 799 - Meade
Appropriates $30,596 to be allocated in specified
Chapter 1414
manner to defray part of police costs caused by
disturbances at or near university and college
campuses.
AB 910 - Brown
Permits a peace officer, without a warrant, to take
Chapter 1415
a minor under 18 into custody as a person who has
violated the law whenever: (1) the officer has
reasonable cause to believe such minor has committed
a public offense in his presence; (2) the minor has
committed a felony; (3) the officer has reasonable
cause to believe the minor has committed a felony,
whether or not the felony has been committed; (4)
the minor is in a traffic accident and the officer
has reasonable cause to suspect drunk driving or
drunk driving combined with drugs.
AB 981 - Brown
Provides that, in hearings before Workmen's
Chapter 1416
Compensation Appeals Board, where the employer or
insurance carrier requests a deposition to be taken
of the injured employee, the employee is entitled to
reasonable expenses for transportation, meals and
lodging, and reimbursement for any loss of wages.
AB 1225 - Z'berg
Provides that the transfer fee for the transfer of
Chapter 1417
an on-sale or off-sale retail license to designated
relatives, when no consideration is given for the
transfer, shall be one-half of the regular fee.
AB 1336 - Meade
Authorizes the California School for the Deaf,
Chapter 1418
California School for the Blind, and the Diagnostic
Schools for Neurologically Handicapped Children to
enter into agreements with teacher training
institutions to provide the practice teaching
necessary for a credential for the teaching of deaf,
blind, or neurologically handicapped children.
AB 1682 - Dunlap
Requires county superintendents of schools to prepare
Chapter 1419
with the approval of the State Department of
Education, statements of information and statistics
relative to unification proposals, for distribution
to the voters. The Department of Education is
presently required to prepare such statements.
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AB 1731 - Moorhead
Includes life insurance proceeds paid into a
Chapter 1420
testamentary trust in certain cases within the
$50,000 exemption from inheritance tax, as well as
those paid into existing inter vivos trusts.
AB 1872 - Hayden
Provides a procedure for the readjustment of city
Chapter 1421
and county apportionments of gas tax revenues
whenever there is a newly incorporated city or an
annexation by a city.
AB 1902 - Wakefield
Authorizes the Board of Administration of the Public
Chapter 1422
Employees' Retirement System to invest not exceeding
10 percent of the assets of the system in real
estate and leases thereof and improvements thereon
for business or residential purposes.
AB 1924 - Greene, L. Provides for an adjustment of the required annual
Chapter 1423
repayment under the State School Building Aid Law
for those districts which elect to operate year-
around classes sufficient in number to house the
pupils for which the district would otherwise be
eligible to receive an apportionment for new
construction.
AB 1925 - Keysor
Authorizes the State Allocation Board to grant funds
Chapter 1424
for the remodeling or conversion (up to 200 square
feet) of school buildings constructed between 1933
and 1968 for speech therapy facilities, and to allow
school districts the option of purchasing mobile
speech therapy facilities in lieu of construction
of facilities in permanent buildings built after 1968
AB 1968 - Greene, L. Permits school districts to include the cost of
Chapter 1425
obtaining a rating on their bonds and the cost of
purchasing insurance insuring prompt payment of
interest and principal among the list of legal
charges against the funds of a school district
issuing bonds.
AB 1989 - Mobley
Specifies that funds loaned to the City of Madera
Chapter 1426
for sewage treatment facilities shall be repaid to
the state when the facilities are completed.
AB 2175 - Brathwaite Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color,
Chapter 1427
religion, national origin or ancestry by an
insurance company as a reason for canceling or not
issuing a contractor's performance bond. The bill
prohibits any such condition from constituting a
condition of risk and the charging of a higher
premium.
AB 2227 - Duffy
Requires the state fire marshal to adopt regulations
Chapter 1428
establishing minimum standards for fire and life
safety in facilities where mentally retarded persons
are placed or referred. The bill also provides for
fire alarm and fire sprinkler equipment in certain
instances.
AB 2348 - Ketchum
Specifically includes hospital wherein more than six
Chapter 1429
guests or patients are housed or cared for on a
24-hour-per-day basis among those facilities required
to install and maintain an approved automatic
sprinkler system in specified buildings or portions
thereof. The bill allows designated hospitals,
homes, nurseries, institutions, or sanitariums under
construction or in existence and operating on
effective date of the bill which do not meet
requirements relating to installation of automatic
sprinkler systems to operate or continue to operate
without complying with such requirements until
June 30, 1976.
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AB 2520 - Greene, L. makes it a misdemeanor knowingly to deliver to any
Chapter 1430
residence razor blades unsolicited by any person
residing therein. The bill declares that it is
defense to violation of act that donee of such
articles or products is personally known to donor
or that the donee knowingly and willingly accepts
the razor blades.
AB 2765 - Chappie
Requires public works contracts exceeding $25,000
Chapter 1431
to contain a clause requiring the contractor to
submit a detailed plan of protection for trenching
work.
AB 2766 - Chappie
Permits the Department of Aeronautics to allocate
Chapter 1432
aeronautics funds to counties for the construction
of recreational and reliever training airstrips
when counties own the land and agree to operate the
airports as public airports.
AB 2808 - McAlister
Makes technical changes in the requirements as to
Chapter 1433
documentation when a foreign corporation wishes to
become qualified with the Secretary of State's
office in order to engage in business in California.
AB 2885 - Wood
Provides that a seashore can be the subject of
Chapter 1434
redevelopment if the area is in danger of causing
a decline in the coastal environment.
AB 2935 - Cory
Provides for the preparation by county assessors of
Chapter 1435
an annual list of government-owned property for
transmittal to the State Lands Commission.
AB 3098 - Fenton
Authorizes a city or county to offer reward not
Chapter 1436
exceeding $5,000 for information leading to arrest
and conviction of person or persons killing or
assaulting with a deadly weapon or inflicting
serious bodily harm upon a police officer of the
city or county while he is acting in the line of duty
495
SB 496 - Short
Specifies that $150 fee may be charged for initial
Chapter 1401
issuance of a nurses' registry license. The bill
also sets forth additional disciplinary grounds
for nurses' registry licensees.
SB 615 - Song
Provides that only two expert witnesses shall be
Chapter 1402
permitted to testify for any party in eminent
domain proceedings. The bill permits the court,
for good cause, to permit additional experts to
testify.
SB 658 - Moscone
Requires, rather than authorizes, a hearing board
Chapter 1403
of a county or a regional air pollution control
district, including the Bay Area Air Pollution
Control District, to hold a hearing with respect
to granting a variance, and requires the hearing
board to allow interested members of the public a
reasonable opportunity to testify and to consider
such testimony in making its decision. The bill also
allows the State Air Resources Board to revoke any
variance granted by a county or a regional district,
including the Bay Area Air Pollution Control District.
SB 1089 - Holmdahl
Requires reasonable expenses of transportation
Chapter 1404
payment to injured employee, when required to take
an examination by a physician, to include specified
mileage and bridge tolls payable at the time he is
notified of the time and place of examination.
SB 1215 - Marler
Requires that the State Lands Commission determine
Chapter 1405
ownership of designated salmon and steelhead spawning
areas in the state shall be leased or disposed of
except under specified conditions. The bill allows
the Director of the Department of Fish and Game to
disapprove any alteration of designated prime salmon
and steelhead spawning areas if it is felt such
alteration would prove deleterious to fish life
until the owndership of the lands has been legally
determined.
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SB 1279 - Rodda
thorizes the continuation Lf the College
Chapter 1406
Opportunity Grant Program and increases the number
of grants from 1,000 to 2,000.
SB 1428 - Zenovich
Requires the state fire marshal to adopt regulations
Chapter 1407
establishing minimum standards for fire and and life
safety in facilities where mentally retarded
persons are placed or referred. The bill also
requires the installation of automatic fire
sprinklers in various care facilities for fire and
life safety purposes.
SB 1526 - Burgener
Requires the Department of Education to use
Chapter 1408
specified available state and federal funds to study
and evaluate structure of special education and all
categories of its financing. The bill also makes a
series of amendments to AB 2800 (Chapter 1188).
AB 2800 made major organizational changes in the
Department of Education.
The following bill was also signed with specified deletions:
AB 758 - Priolo
Permits members of the University of California
Chapter 1413
police department to transfer from the Public
Employees' Retirement System to the University of
California Retirement System.
REASON FOR
"I am deleting the $240 000 appropriation contained
DELETION:
in Assembly Bill No. 758. The funds needed to
provide the increased retirement benefits for
University police officers authorized by AB 758
should come from the fiscal resources currently
available to the University."
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#631
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Gordon L. Ogden,
director of the Associate Degree Nursing Program at Cabrillo College,
Aptos, to the Board of Nursing Education and Nurse Registration in
the Department of Consumer Affairs.
Ogden, 44, who lives at 126 Seaborg Place, Santa Cruz, succeeds
Virginia Sue Yee of El Centro, whose term has expired.
Members of the board serve for four-year-terms and are paid
$25 per diem while on official duty.
Ogden is a Republican.
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November 10, 1971
Lt. Governor Reinecke works harder, is more involved and
more effective in helping conduct the state's business and
solve our problems than any other lieutenant governor in history.
His performance is outstanding and the governor has every
confidence that the job he is doing will continue to be so.
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNO
RELEASE:
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diate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
11-11-71
#632
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 12 - Ryan
Transfers certain functions relating to teacher
(Chapter 1465)
certification from the Department of Education to
the Commission for Teacher Preparation and Licensing.
The bill also revises certain credentialing provisions
AB 518 - Knox
Revises the number of court attaches in the Contra
(Chapter 1466)
Costa County Municipal Courts.
AB 697 - Bagley
Specifies that the offering and operation by a
(Chapter 1467)
medical corporation of designated health care service
plan is an authorized practice of medicine by such
corporation.
AB 1119 - Briggs
Exempts cattle from designated brand inspection if
(Chapter 1468)
a release agreement is approved by the Director of
Agriculture and prescribed requirements are complied
with. The bill requires a person who slaughters
cattle at a slaughter plant without a designated
brand inspection and who is not exempt from such
requirement to pay a penalty fee of $25 per each
head of cattle so slaughtered. The bill further
requires a California brand inspector to inspect
all such cattle which are alive and on the premises
at the time he performs his regular daily inspection
or any spot check inspections.
AB 1457 - Wood
Adds pets to personal property exempt from property
(Chapter 1473)
taxation. The bill also exempts up to three bovine
and 25 ovine animals owned and raised for regular
purposes of certain nonprofit youth organizations from
livestock taxation.
AB 1932 - Powers
Provides that State Police have police powers for
(Chapter 1469)
all purposes during state of emergency under the
California Emergency Services Act or when acting unde:
mutual assistance agreements.
AB
2168
- Vasconcellos Declares legislative policy to improve
(Chapter 1471)
environmental quality by recycling paper products
and requires the Department of General Services
to establish procedures and specifications to
require that all paper and woodpulp products
purchased contain a minimum of 10 to 50 percent
recycled paper content wherever feasible. Requires
the Department to establish a paper recycling plan
for state wastepaper.
AB 2408 - Ketchum
Authorizes the Fish and Game Commission to regulate
(Chapter 1470)
the taking of all birds and mammals, including those
formerly classified as nonprotected. It also pro-
hibits the taking of any bird or mammal at night,
except when authorized by the Commission, or the
Fish and Game Code, and requires a hunting license
for taking of any bird or mammal, except in case of
landowners or tenants experiencing crop or property
damage.
SB 1269 - Beilenson
Requires state and local agencies to purchase
(Chapter 1472)
recycled paper and paper products if available at
no more than the total cost of unrecycled paper and
paper products, and if fitness and quality are
equal.
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Governor Reagan has vetoed the following bills:
AB 226 - MacGillivray Extends to members of the University of California
Fire Department the disputable presumptions with
respect to heart trouble, hernia, and pneumonia.
The bill also provides that such members be entitled
to leaves of absence at full salary up to one year
in lieu of temporary disability compensation benefits
for disabling injuries.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I have declined to sign this bill because the
addition of all University firemen, including
volunteers and part-time employees, would substantial-
ly increase the cost of adequate fire protection to
the University. It would, without any evidence of
greater need, provide greater benefits than those
recently accorded the University police. And, finally
it would provide these benefits without providing
for the same strict requirements which the campus
police must satisfy (full-time employees only,
graduation from a certified academy, and a 5-year
waiting period for inclusion of heart trouble).
"Accordingly, I am returning Assembly Bill No. 226
without my approval," the governor said.
SB 75 - Grunsky
Permits trainable mentally retarded minors between
18 and 21 years of age to attend home skill and
occupational training classes.
REASON FOR VETO:
"At the present time, school districts are offering
'home living and occupational skills' classes to
the severely retarded under age 18.
"Given no outcome of demonstration or pilot projects
on which to base an evaluation as to any possible
additional benefits extending the age limits to
21 for home living and occupational skills would
be both arbitrary and costly.
"Educational experts in the field of mental retarda-
tion indicate there are higher priorities for
offering special education classes for the mentally
retarded.
"I believe, therefore, that those limited state
fiscal resources which are available should be
employed to test what can be done to improve the
development of skills at the earliest possible age
SO that these members of our society can be
afforded the best possible opportunity for developing
their talents.
"Accordingly, I am returning Senate Bill No. 75
without my approval," the governor said.
SB 936 - Burgener
The bill would establish a program for certain
handicapped persons of normal mentality.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The legislation does not provide adequate criteria
for determining who should be eligible for the program
Nor does it appear to place any practical control
over caseload growth. For this reason it is very
difficult to predict how large a caseload the program
would generate.
"The legislation not only fails to detail the specific
fiscal impact of the program, but also fails to make
it clear how it would be funded.
"Given these factors, I believe SB 936 does not contai
a sufficiently sound fiscal basis upon which to estab
lish a program of indeterminate growth.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned," the
governor said.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Imm diate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
11-11-71
#633
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation that will
bring rental housing up to state fire safety standards.
"Last year more than 100 persons died in fires in hotels,
apartment houses and other multiple story rental units because of
inadequate safety facilities that would allow them to escape from upper
floors," the governor pointed out.
"This measure, which was introduced at the request of the
California State Firemen's Association and the California Fire Chiefs
and Fire Prevention Engineers Associations, will allow the cities and
counties to bring their local ordinances up to the safety standards
required by the state."
The legislation (AB 3036) was authored by Assemblyman Ken
Meade, (D-Oakland).
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californi
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
11-12-71
#634
Governor Ronald Reagan---in an effort which will further increase
California's national lead in the number of disabled welfare recipients
rehabilitated into employment---today announced he has directed the State
Department of Finance to increase this year's budget for the program by
an additional $3,386,498.
Noting that "for three consecutive years California has led the
nation in training and placing disabled welfare recipients into jobs,"
the governor said "the additional funds will enable the Department of
Rehabilitation to improve and expand its services so that many more
disabled welfare recipients can find gainful employment and get off the
welfare rolls."
Governor Reagan called the program "one of our finest investments,
not only because it gives human beings a renewed sense of personal pride
and purpose, but also because the average disabled recipient who is
rehabilitated into a job will repay the costs of his rehabilitation in
less than one year."
The program expansion is expected to help place an additional
2,910 disabled welfare recipients in jobs annually, removing them from
the welfare rolls or substantially reducing---by at least 75 percent
basic welfare grants. This will mean a savings in state welfare and
Medi-Cal funds of $2,281,440 annually. Total federal, state and county
welfare and Medi-Cal costs will be reduced by $5,464,710 per year.
The rehabilitants will pay taxes on their earnings amounting to an
estimated $1,516,110 per year. In all, the total annual savings in
welfare and Medi-Cal expenditures, and revenue from taxes ($6,980,820),
will exceed annual program costs ($6,772,996) by $207,824.
The new funds ordered by the governor will augment the roughly $10
million in this year's budget for the program.
As a result of the governor's action, the total number of
rehabilitants is expected to increase to 6,570 over the coming 12-month
period.
During fiscal 1970-71, a total of 3,660 disabled welfare recipients
in California were rehabilitated into competitive employment as a result
of the Department of Rehabilitation's training and placement efforts.
This was the third straight year that California led the nation in such
rehabilitation.
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of the $3,386,498 in additional support for the program, $2,913,849
e
federal funds. The remaining $472,649 will come from state agency
imbursements, including $24,673 from the Department of Social Welfare,
a $447,976 from the State Personnel Board.
(If you have technical questions or need additional information on
the above, please call James A. Walker, deputy director of the
Department of Rehabilitation, at 445-3971, Sacramento).
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californi
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
11-12-71
#635
Governor Ronald Reagan today named Lee F. Persico, Willits
businessman and president of Willits Frontier Days celebration, to
the board of the 12th District Agricultural Association (Redwood
Empire Fair).
Persico, whose address is Route 1, Box 80D, Willits, will
fill the unexpired term of the late William G. Crawford of Potter
Valley which ends in January, 1975.
Persico is a Republican
Board members receive necessary expenses.
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MEMO TO THE
ESS
Sacramento, Californi
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
11-12-71
#636
GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
November 15, 1971
through
November 21, 1971
Monday, November 15
Office appointments.
Overnight - Sacramento
Tuesday, November 16
10:00 AM
American Petroleum Institute, Fairmont Hotel,
San Francisco. Speech.
PM
Depart for Washington, D. C.
Overnight - Washington, D. C.
Wednesday, November 17
Afternoon
Depart for French Lick, Indiana for Republican
Governors' Conference.
Overnight - French Lick
Thursday, November 18 -
Friday, November 19
Republican Governors' Conference.
Overnight - French Lick
Saturday, November 20
Return to Los Angeles.
Overnight - Los Angeles
Sunday, November 21
Return to Sacramento.
Overnight - Sacramento
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
11-12-71
#637
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation that
triggers an all-out educational campaign against drug abuse.
The measure "The Drug Education Act of 1971," proposed
by the governor in a 1970 message to the Legislature, marshals
educational and community groups for a comprehensive drug education
program to reach school children in kindergarten through high school.
In addition to establishing the program in kindergarten
through 12th grade, it provides for special training and instructional
materials for teachers; establishes an informational clearinghouse for
identification and reporting of successful instructional and counselling
programs, and promotes liaison between school officials and the community
on drug abuse programs.
"Drug abuse is a cancer that is eating at the very fiber
of our society and it requires a personal commitment from every segment
of our society if we are to eradicate it," the governor said.
"This act provides us with two of the most powerful weapons
available against drug abuse--truth and reason. It will give our
teachers the training and facts they must have if they are to successfully
instruct our young on the dangers of drug and narcotic addiction."
The legislation, (AB 2544) by Assemblyman John F. Dunlap,
(D-Napa), was co-authored by six Democrats and seven Republicans.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Be
445-4571
11-12-71
#638
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills
have been vetoed:
AB 589 - Thomas
Authorizes the state college trustees to establish
an office of special field counselor at one state
college as a pilot program, funded from salary
savings, to increase the aspirations of, and
assistance available to, disadvantaged high school
students in connection with higher education
opportunities.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The Trustees of the California State Colleges
already have the authority to establish and conduct
programs of the type this bill proposes, if
additional funds become available.
"The Trustees have informed me that the use of
salary savings is not a viable means of funding
in this case and have urgently requested, therefore,
that the bill be vetoed.
"Given the responsibility and authority of the
Trustees to make such determinations, I believe
their request is appropriate and justified.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned," the
governor said.
AB 1443 - Briggs
Makes several changes in the Agricultural Code
relating to the classification of dairy products
for producer payment purposes. The bill redefines
the definitions of cultured buttermilk, fluid cream,
Class 1 fluid milk and Class 2 fluid milk. The bill
defines cultured buttermilk as Class 1 milk for
payment purposes and to change the classification
of whipping cream, pastry cream, table cream and
yogurt from Class 1 to Class 2.
REASON FOR VETO:
"Although this bill makes minor changes in the prices
of certain dairy products, its principal effect would
be to increase the cost of buttermilk to the
consumer.
"In these times when inflation is the nation's most
crucial economic problem, I believe it would be
irresponsible for government, at any level, to
mandate an increase in the price of any commodity
without compelling evidence to show that such an
increase is juotified and necessary.
"The proponents of AB 1443 have not presented to me
sufficient or compelling evidence to show that an
increase in the price of buttermilk is justified.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned, the
governor said.
SB 101 - Rodda
Appropriates $17,872,518 from the General Fund for
salary increases for faculty members of the
University of California and the California State
Colleges.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I am convinced that the kind of funding this
legislation would mandate could only be provided by
asking the already overburdened wage earners of
California to dig yet deeper into their pockets
and assume an even greater tax burden than they now
bear. In view of the severe economic stringencies
we are now experiencing as a nation, I do not
believe it would be appropriate to impose on our
citizens ony greater financial burden than that
which is absolutely essential for meeting the
state's current level of expenditures.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned, "the
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SB 1574 - Rodda
his bill would establish a Council on Private
Postsecondary Educational Institutions composed
of the Director of Education (Superintendent of
Public Instruction), the Director of the
Coordinating Council for Higher Education and 13
additional members appointed by the Director of
Education. The council is charged with the
responsibility of general review and director of
the approval of private postsecondary schools.
REASON FOR VETO:
"This administration has consistently resisted adding
new boards and commissions unless there is an
overwhelming requirement of public protection or
public participation. Assembly Bill 2800 (Chapter
1188) clearly recognized that principle within the
Department of Education and reduced the number of
commissions within that Department. Senate Bill 1574
on the other hand, creates another board without
changing the substance of the laws to be administered
Equally critically, it would allow that board the
power to override the veto of the Superintendent of
Public Instruction by a two-thirds vote. New
standards for the regulation of private post-
secondary schools may be necessary but I do not
think it is wise to give an appointed commission the
authority to override the decision of an elected
official.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned, the
governor said.
SB 698 - Marks
Appropriates amounts up to $2,472,546 for the
state colleges and $1,150,000 for the community
colleges to maintain their educational and extended
opportunity programs at specified dollar levels.
REASON FOR VETO:
"Educational opportunity programs for the state
colleges and the community colleges were funded
with the anticipation that additional federal
financial support for student aid programs would
become available.
"California has received significant additional
federal assistance for the current school year. The
combined total of state and federal student financial
aid programs increased by $675,242 for the state
colleges and by $1,821,961 for the community
colleges over that available in 1970-71. In addition
a substantial amount of Federal National Defense
Student Loan money has been made available. The
state colleges will recieve an additional $3.6
million while the community colleges will receive
an additional $1.2 million for student loans.
"College level financial administrators should be
able to utilize these additional funds to provide
increased educational opportunities for deserving
students. Generally state E.O.P. students have
priority status and will therefore share to a
greater extent in the increased financial assistance
available.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned, "the
governor said.
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AB 705 - Dunlap
This bill would transfer jurisdiction over the
California Maritime Academy to the Board of
Trustees of the California State Colleges and
requires that it be administered as part of the
State Colleges with academic quality equivalent to
other state colleges.
REASON FOR VETO:
"While the idea of turning the California Maritime
Academy over to the Board of Trustees is not without
merit, I believe other possible alternatives should
be thoroughly considered before taking the final
step contained in this bill.
"For this reason, I am convening, immediately, a
study group to consider the future of the Maritime
Academy.
"Among the alternatives I am asking the group to
consider are:
1. Continuing the Maritime Academy as it is
presently structured,
2. Phasing out the existence of the Maritime
Academy in such a manner as to protect the
vested interests of the students and,
3. Turning the Maritime Academy over to the Boar
of Trustees as proposed in this bill.
"I am asking the study group to work with all
interested parties so that a maximum of information
can be assimilated and considered before reaching
any final conclusion as to which alternative course
of action is most appropriate.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned," the
governor said.
AB 1706 - Deddeh
Requires that the administration and maintenance
portions of the annual State Highway Budget be
subject to Department of Finance and legislative
approval and that the remaining portions of the
budget be subject to the approval of the California
Highway Commission. It also removes the monetary
limitations relating to the funds which may be
spent for administration, maintenance and landscape
maintenance.
REASON FOR VETO:
"AB 1706 is identical to SB 469 which I vetoed on
July 14, 1971. In returning SB 469 unsigned I
stated that it did not resolve serious timing
problems with regard to essential progress of work
and that a multidisciplinary task force had been
studying this and other problems and would be in
a position to report its recommendations prior to
January 1, 1972. The work of the task force is
proceeding on schedule.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned," the
governor said.
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AB 2062 - Karabian
Adds two members to the Correctional Industries
Commission qualified in the field of employment
training and placement or economic development,
one, who shall be a representative of organized
labor, to be appointed by the Speaker of the
Assembly and the other by the Senate Rules
Committee.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The present membership of the Correctional
Industries provides balanced representation for
labor, industry, agriculture and the general
public. There is nothing to be gained by add-
ing two more members to the Commission.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned,"
the governor said.
AB 2179 - Brathwaite
Provides that the authority of the Director of
Health Care Services to modify payments for
services under Medi-Cal to stay within avail-
able funds shall not apply to nursing homes
which are providers of Medi-Cal services.
REASON FOR VETO:
"AB 2179 extends preferred status to nursing
homes over all other providers of health care
services participating in Medi-Cal (except for
hospitals providing inpatient care for which
federal law mandates payment of reasonable
costs). It would exempt nursing homes from
being subject to adjustments in reimbursements,
and, when overexpenditures are anticipated or
have accrued in nursing home care under the
program, necessary adjustments would have to be
made at the expense of other providers of
services.
"The Director's ability to control program
expenditures would be severely limited, and the
program could be placed in a perilous position,
if payment obligations were exceeding available
funds and he were unable to respond quickly
and effectively to the emergency.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned,'
the governor said.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
11-12-71
#639
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that he has vetoed the
following bill:
AB 1303 - McCarthy
Requires the Council on Intergovernmental
Relations to adopt criteria and guidelines by
January 1, 1973, for preparation and content
of city and county general plans. The bill
requires cities and counties beginning
October 1, 1973, to indicate degree of compli-
ance in an annual report to the council. The
bill also requires the Council to compile and
publish list of cities and counties whose plans
do not comply.
REASON FOR VETO:
"Current law requires that certain local govern-
ments in Càlifornia each adopt a general plan.
The law also contains broad guidelines relating
to the elements to be included.
"This bill goes far beyond the intent of the
provisions of existing statutes. In my opinion,
it has the practical effect of imposing on local
governments unduly restrictive policy decisions
made at the state level. By intruding on the
prerogatives which I believe are and should be
reserved to locally elected officials-- who can be
held directly accountable to the citizens of
the communities they represent--I believe AB 1303
not only does violence to, but also is an
unjustified infringement upon, the doctrine of
home rule---a cornerstone of this administration's
policy.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned,"
the governor said.
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liate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
11-12-71
#640
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills
have been signed:
AB 67 - Garcia
Creates a "club" license to sell alcoholic
(Chapter 1482)
beverages for an organization called the American
G. I. Forum of the United States, if such club has
owned or leased and uses a clubroom, and has been
in existence for at least two years.
AB 191 - Powers
Appropriates $5,000 from the State Construction
(Chapter 1483)
Program Fund to the Board of Control to pay the
claim of the Refines Construction Company.
AB 331 - Fong
Provides for the establishment of a five-year
(Chapter 1484)
experimental program in the year-around school
operation by two or more school districts, selected
by the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
AB 368 - Ryan
Provides that property meeting specified conditions
(Chapter 1485)
is exempt from property taxation for the 1970-71
and 1971-72 fiscal years.
AB 563 - Vasconcellos Authorizes a person released from the California
(Chapter 1486)
Rehabilitation Center in an outpatient status to
participate in an approved methadone maintenance
project with the approval of the Department of
Corrections and the Narcotic Addict Evaluation
Authority.
AB 600 - Schabarum
Makes it permissive ratherthan mandatory that the
(Chapter 1487)
Department of Motor Vehicles revoke the driver's
license of a juvenile found by the juvenile court
to have committed manslaughter while driving a
vehicle but without gross negligence. The Department
of Motor Vehicles has such discretion with respect
to adults.
AB 607 - MacGillivray Authorizes automobile dealers, effective
(Chapter 1488)
February 1, 1973, to transmit to the Department of
Motor Vehicles, with respect to new vehicles having
a gross vehicle weight of 6,001 pounds or less,
a statement signed by the dealer indicating that he
has made no alteration or modification of the
exhaust emission control device or system of
the vehicle, in lieu of the certificates of
compliance.
AB 679 - Townsend
Provides for issuance by the Department of Motor
(Chapter 1489)
Vehicles of a temporary operation permit on a
three consecutive calendar month basis, in lieu
of registration, for specified privately owned
schoolbuses when such vehicles are temporarily used
in such manner as to become subject to registration.
AB 756 - MacGillivray Authorizes provisions for or exclusion of physical
(Chapter 1490)
therapy services in disability insurance policies.
The bill specifies an alternative to total exclusion
of such services from policy coverage. The bill
also includes services and supplies by a physical
therapist within the definition of medical, surgical,
and hospital treatment for purposes of the Workmen's
Compensation Law.
AB 779 - Foran
Provides provisions relating to explosives are
(Chapter 1508)
specifically inapplicable to special-effects
pyrotechnics regulated by the State Fire Marshal.
AB 921 - Roberti
Provides that governing boards of any district
(Chapter 1509)
maintaining a community college may authorize faculty
members and students to participate in cocurricular
activities within or without the state held in con-
junction with the educational program of the college.
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AB 955 - Z'berg
Provides that the weight fees for commercial vehicle
(Chapter 1491)
shall be subject to the same late penalty provision
as other types of vehicle registration fees if paid
within 30 days.
AB 1158 - Murphy
Provides for warranties on all mobilehomes sold by
(Chapter 1492)
dealers licensed by the Department of Motor Vehicles
The bill applies to both dealers and manufacturers.
AB 1239 - Karabian
Specifically authorizes investment by banks in the
(Chapter 1510)
bonds and other evidences of indebtedness of the
State of Israel or certain public corporations
thereof.
AB 1274 - Quimby
Authorizes a general description of real property
(Chapter 1493)
with this accompanying map in notices made pursuant
to the District Reorganization Act.
AB 1291 - Briggs
Requires every public agency, its insurance carrier,
(Chapter 1506)
and the State Department of Rehabilitation to
jointly formulate selection and referral procedure
(Signed with
for injured full-time public employee who may be
appropriation
benefited by retraining for other positions in
deleted)
public service. The bill requires the employer
or insurance carrier to notify an injured employee
of the availability of services where there is
continuing disability over 28 days. The bill also
appropriates from the General Fund an amount equal
to 1/4 of any federal funds allocated to the State
Department of Rehabilitation for purposes of the
bill.
AB 1359 - Deddeh
Requires that state-adopted textbooks, guides and
(Chapter 1511)
manuals include material on drug education. The
bill expresses legislative intent that the State
Board of Education give high priority to the
adoption of instructional materials which will
provide teachers and school districts with drug
information which is accurate, objective and
current. The bill also requires the Department
of Education to establish an information center
for drug instruction consisting of materials from
school districts, federal and state scurces, reports
of school policies, and other materials related
to drug education.
AB 1863 - Pierson
Amends the Physical Therapy Act to establish a
(Chapter 1494)
program for the qualification and regulation of
assistant physical therapists by the Board of
Medical Examiners and the Physical Therapy Examining
Committee.
AB 1923 - Keysor
Permits Trustees of the California State Colleges
(Chapter 1495)
to establish facilities for training deaf persons
at the State College they designate.
AB 1966 - Greene, L. Provides that a school district may levy an addition
(Chapter 1496)
al permissive tax override up to $0.10 per $100
assessed valuation beyond the $0.10 now authorized
for repair, reconstruction or replacement of school
buildings to meet earthquake safety standards,
provided the district has budgeted 80 percent or
more of the proceeds of the presently authorized
tax override for earthquake safety purposes. The
bill also requires a school district to apply for,
accept and repay school building aid funds for
earthquake safety construction whenever a district
does not have sufficient funds available for this
purpose. In cases where funds raised by the
additional tax go toward repayment of the state loan,
such repayment may be made without the necessity
of a vote of the electorate.
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AB 2226 - Duffy
Repeals provisions requiring counties to pay up
(Chapter 1497)
to $20 per month per patient for mental retardation
services provided residents of the county. The
bill provides that parents of children under the
age of 18 who were admitted to a state hospital
prior to July 1, 1971, may be required to contribute
to the cost of such services in specified amounts.
AB 2427 - Duffy
Revises the provisions of the Medical Practice Act
(Chapter 1498)
relating to the circumstances under which graduates
of foreign medical schools may teach medicine in
California, candidates for licensure examinations,
and required courses, subject matter and hours of
instruction.
AB 2521 - Townsend
Makes the provision permitting only one club
(Chapter 1512)
license to be issued to any club eligible for such
license under provisions of the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Act inapplicable to a defined club operated
by a common carrier by air at an airport terminal.
AB 2524 - Porter
Requires payments in lieu of taxes to metropolitan
(Chapter 1499)
water districts or a county water authority by member
public agencies to be paid out of funds other than
funds derived from ad valorem property taxes.
AB 2646 - Lanterman
Amends the Lanterman Mental Retardation Services Act
(Chapter 1501)
of 1969, to provide a court hearing by writ of
habeas corpus for the release of any adult mentally
retarded patient in a state hospital, when such
patient or anyone on his behalf, makes a request
for release. The bill also assures the right of
the parent, guardian or conservator to remove the
patient from a state hospital at any time without
court hearing. It also prohibits the admission
of an adult mentally retarded person to a state
hospital on recommendation of a regional center
unless the center certifies that neither the
retarded adult nor anyone on his behalf has objected
to the admission.
AB 2659 - Lanterman
Transfers the rule making authority of the
(Chapter 1502)
Secretary of the Human Relations Agency under
the Lanterman Mental Retardation Services Act of
1969, to the Director of the Department of Public
Health and under the out-of-home care facilities
provisions of the public assistance programs to
the Director of the Department of Social Welfare.
AB 2797 - LaCoste
Establishes enrollment priorities in the two state
(Chapter 1503)
schools for the deaf. The bill provides that ad-
mission priority in these schools be given to
elementary deaf minors residing in sparsely populated
areas and to secondary age deaf minors who
require a high school program specifically
designed for deaf learners.
AB 2886 - Priolo
Provides that statutory minimum qualifications for
(Chapter 1504)
peace officers shall apply to all classes of
peace officers, rather than only to those classes
receiving peace officer status after September 15,
1961. The bill requires peace officers to take
courses of training in exercising of arrest powers
and in use of firearms unless the employing agency
prohibits use of firearms, meeting minimum standards
prescribed by the Commission on Peace Officer Stand-
ards and Training.
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AB 2768 - Chappie
Amends the Education Code provisions relating to
(Chapter 1513)
higher education disciplinary actions. Under
existing law, when any student, member of the
faculty, member of the support staff, or member
of the administration of a community college, state
college, or state university has been found to have
willfully disrupted the orderly operation of
the campus after a hearing by a campus body, the
chief administrative officer is required to hold
another hearing of the facts before he may take
appropriate disciplinary actions. This bill
eliminates the requirement that the second hearing
be held.
AB 3084 - Townsend
Requires each insurer licensed to issue automobile
(Chapter 1514)
liability insurance and each insurer licensed to
issue common carrier liability insurance and offerin
such insurance for sale to the Southern California
Rapid Transit District to make available to the
District uninsured motorist coverage.
AB 3094 - Knox
Prohibits the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and
(Chapter 1505)
Transportation District from operating any charter
or sightseeing service, but authorizes the district
to lease its boats, employees, or equipment to
private interests providing under franchise boat
charter or sightseeing services on San Francisco
Bay.
SB 578 - Cologne
Requires the State Air Resources Board to set
(Chapter 1507)
standards which reduce oxides of nitrogen
emissions from the exhaust of 1966 through 1970
model year vehicles. It also requires these
vehicles, upon transfer of ownership and registratio
and upon 1973 registration renewal, to be equipped
with an accredited exhaust emission control device.
Such device may not cost more than $35 and not
require maintenance more than once each 13,000 miles
SB 649 - Lagomarsino
Requires rather than permits a court to allow an
(Chapter 1475)
answer to be filed when a demurrer is overruled,
except as otherwise provided by rule of the Judicial
Council. The bill makes other changes relating to
pleadings in proceedings involving writs of review,
mandate and prohibition.
SB 787 - Grunsky
Revises procedures with respect to transferring
(Chapter 1476)
criminal cases from one court to another on specifie
grounds. The bill makes certain grounds for transfe
that are applicable to superior court or justice
court cases also applicable to municipal court
cases. It requires the Judicial Council to adopt
rules of practice and prodedure for change of
venue in criminal actions. The bill also specifies
costs for which the transferring county is liable
and provides for manner of payment of such costs.
It authorizes reimbursement by state of designated
portion of such costs.
SB 927 - Alquist
Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to
(Chapter 1477)
apportion the expense for improvements of grade
crossing protection between political jurisdictions
involved and the affected railroads only in those
cases where the Commission finds that there has
been an express or implied dedication to public use.
If neither situation is found, the Commission must
order the crossing closed. The bill would also
prohibit the Commission from requiring the railroads
to particiapte in the cost of protecting private
crossings in excess of what it would normally require
in cases involving protection of public street or
highway crossings.
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SB 933 - Burgener
Provides for civil penalties not to exceed
(Chapter 1478)
$2,500 for willful violation of specified provisions
relating to the regulation of subdivided lands
transactions.
SB 1119 - Marler
Provides for conformance of a community college
(Chapter 1479)
trustee election ward boundaries with the boundaries
of an election precinct which has been changed, under
specified conditions. The bill also increases
from 60 and 75 days to 74 and 89 days, respectively,
the time following the call of a special election
for the recall of a school district governing board
member, within which such election must be held.
SB 1139 - Moscone
Specifies that the court which renders a judgement
(Chapter 1480)
against an employee of a public agency is the
levying officer for the purpose of filing and
determining a claim for exemption in any case in
which an abstract of judgement has been filed.
The measure also requires that notice of execution
is to be given to the creditor of a public
agency if moneys owing by such agency represent
wages or salary.
SB 1581 - Gregorio
Declares legislative intent that state college
(Chapter 1481)
personnel engaged in teacher education be permitted
to participate in classroom teaching in the public
schools and that school district personnel
participate in teacher education on the same basis.
The bill authorizes the State College Trustees and
school districts to agree to exchange college
employees engaged in teacher training and classroom
teachers for a specified period of time.
Governor Ronald Reagan also has vetoed the following bill:
AB 452 - Campbell
Deletes marijuana from the statutory definition of
"narcotics" and places it under definition of
"restricted dangerous drugs," The bill specifies
that marijuana is to continue to be subject to all
laws relating to narcotics, and not subject to
the laws relating to restricted dangerous drugs,
unless otherwise provided.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The 'change' proposed by this bill is not sub-
stantive. It is a name change measure only. And,
I believe it would merely compound the uncertainty
and confusion which already exists on the subject of
marijuana.
"Because all the facts are not yet in, any change in
the law relating to marijuana, should occur only
after the results of extensive research programs
and studies become known--including those of
the President's Commission on Marijuana and Dangerous
Drugs.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned," the
governor said.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today urged Senators Cranston and Tunney to
oppose a move by Senator Percy which would further handicap the states in
reforming welfare,
Senator Percy has introduced a so-called "hold harmless" amendment
regarding state expenditures for welfare. The amendment, to be attached
to the tax bill now before the Senate, would require the federal
government to pay a larger share of welfare costs which exceed the fiscal
1971-72 level.
In a telegram to Senators Cranston and Tunney, Governor Reagan said:
"I sincerely hope you will join with me in opposing Senator Percy's so-
called 'hold harmless' amendment to the tax bill for the following reasons
"1. The amendment will provide fiscal relief only to those states
which have consistently refused to reform their welfare programs and
tighten up their administration so as to prevent expensive abuse. Fiscal
necessity, which is one of the few real inducements for states to curb
growth and abuse, would be removed by this amendment.
"2. Federal assumption of a greatershare of the costs will almost
certainly lead to increased federal control the main cause of abuse in
the first place.
"3. Federal relief from cost burdens will undoubtedly reduce the
pressures for true long-term reform as has already been accomplished in
California. The amendment, therefore, is nothing more than a thinly-
veiled effort to buy off the states' opposition to the status quo.
"4. California has reformed welfare and saved its taxpayers millions
of dollars so we might not benefit from this amendment. As a matter of
fact, if the amendment is adopted, California's savings will be eaten up
because California's taxpayers will be forced to increasingly subsidize
those states which have failed to reform their own welfare programs.
"5. Finally, the people will not be fooled into thinking that
shifting the cost from local and state taxes to federal taxes will result
in lower taxes. To the contrary, especially in California, the cost to
every individual taxpayer for welfare payments is certain to increase if
this amendment is approved."
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Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation that will
strengthen the attorney general's powers to bring legal action against
polluters of the environment and intervene on behalf of the public in
cases where there is a potential threat to the environment.
The landmark legislation (SB 678) by Senator Robert J.
Lagomarsino (R-Ojai) also requires that the attorney general be notified
of lawsuits which could have an adverse environmental effect on the
public at large.
"This bill, which has the support of local governments,
agriculture, business and conservationist groups, will provide a
responsible and balanced answer to the need for greater legal safeguards
against environmental abuse," the governor said. "It will allow the
attorney general to move swiftly against anyone who attempts to
destroy our natural resources or endanger the health of our citizens
through irresponsible actions."
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills
have been signed:
AB 303 - Brathwaite
Requires the Southern California Rapid Transit
(Chapter 1515)
District to budget 3 percent or more of its gross
revenue to fund demonstrations and research and
development programs in the field of public mass
transportation.
AB 449 - Duffy
Establishes a five-member Council on Continuing
(Chapter 1516)
Education for Health Occupations. The bill requires
the Council to adopt regulations establishing
standards of continuing education for registered
nurses and vocational nurses. This bill further
provides that after January 1, 1975, the boards
with jurisdiction over these license categories
shall require as a condition of license renewal that
their respective licensees have informed themselves
of developments in their respective fields during
the prior two-year period by means of approved
courses of study, other means the boards deem
equivalent, or by passing an examination.
AB 2946 - Brathwaite Provides that cities and counties shall not take
(Chapter 1517)
any action pursuant to the Planning and Zoning Law
which denies any individual or group the ownership,
tenancy, use, or development of land on the basis
of method of financing race, sex, color, religion,
national origin, ancestry, or age.
SB 1632 - Marler
Increases the number of judges in the Sutter
(Chapter 1520)
County Superior Court to two.
Governor Reagan has vetoed the following bills:
AB
1432
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MacDonald
Changes the formula by which state allocations are
made to assist qualifying county health departments.
REASON FOR VETO:
"This bill would change the formula by which state
allocations are made to assist county health
departments. To require the state to contribute to
the counties' public health programs on a percentage
basis of the counties' expenditures is unfair to the
state and will create unnecessary friction between
the two levels of government.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned," the
governor said.
AB 1501 Murphy
Authorizes the Merced Stream Group Flood Control
Project in Merced County for financial assistance
by the state.
REASON FOR VETO.
"In 1969, I advised the legislature that approval of
further flood control authorization projects would
be deferred until legislation was enacted to provide
for local participation in the cost of land,
easements and rights of way. This administration
sponsored SB 495 in 1970 to provide for local cost
sharing. That measure was refused passage.
Legislation introduced during the current session
to resolve this matter has not been enacted, It is
inequitable for the taxpayers of this state to bear
the cost of flood control projects without requiring
greater local participation in the cost of such
projects.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned, " the
governor said.
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AB 1718 Arnett
Requires the state to reimburse counties for the
cost of general relief granted to successful
applicants for Aid to the Disabled (ATD) while their
eligibility is being determined.
REASON FOR VETO:
"An important aspect of the recently enacted Welfare
Reform Act of 1971 was the revised provision for
state and county sharing of public assistance costs.
A delicate balance was established whereby the state
would assume one-half of the present county costs of
welfare administration for all aids, the state would
assume all of the non-federal share of grants under
the Aid to the Blind and Old Age Security Programs,
and the costs of the Aid to the Disabled Program wou
be shared on an equal basis. These provisions becom
effective July 1, 1972. In view of the recent
legislative reassessment of the county/state
relationship, with respect to the Aid to the
Disabled Program, I do not believe that the change
proposed by AB 1718 is appropriate.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned, the
governor said.
AB 2019 Dunlap
Requires the period of community college enrollment
to be kept open until the end of the first week of
instruction. The bill permits the period of
enrollment to be kept open for a longer period of
time.
REASON FOR VETO:
"This measure would cause community college classes
to be disrupted into the second week and beyond,
making it difficult for instructors to organize their
courses and to get them under way. A week or more
of delay in a quarter-system classroom would reduce
the amount of time for students to be exposed to the
course to far too great a degree. The delay in
determining who is enrolled in classes would make
difficult the course reporting responsibilities
required of community college administrators.
Colleges need time to plan in relation to students'
academic desires. An instructor needs to know ahead
of time the probable size of his classes and the
number of sections needed. It is also important
to have time to work with the student to be sure he
has the requirements for a particular course. In
urban area community colleges with large enrollments,
enrollment through the first week could lead to total
confusion. Most community colleges already provide
for admitting students who enter late under
extenuating circumstances. Usually hardship cases
are cared for. To make for blanket late admissions
until the end of the first week of instruction would
intensify administrative problems and exceptions
would still be required for the now legitimately
"even later' student.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned,"
the governor said.
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AB 561 - Vasconcellos Transfers from the Research Advisory Panel to the
Department of Public Health the responsibility for
studying, evaluating, assisting, advising and
supervising all methadone maintenance and treatment
programs in the state.
REASON FOR VETO:
"Because the use of methadone in research and
treatment programs extends into such diverse fields
as health, law enforcement, rehabilitation,
corrections and mental hygiene, a Research Advisory
Panel was established by this administration with
authority to evaluate and approve methadone
maintenance, treatment and research projects in
this state. AB 561 proposes to transfer this
authority to the Department of Public Health. No
compelling evidence has been produced to show that
such a transfer would improve the efforts being made
in this field or that it would serve any useful
purpose. To interfere with the progress being made
by the Research Advisory Panel and to lose the
expertise represented by this group would be
detrimental to our efforts to develop methadone
treatment programs to combat the problem of drug
abuse.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned," "
the governor said.
AB 562 - Vasconcellos
Appropriates $5,020,000 from the General Fund for
methadone maintenance programs.
REASON FOR VETO:
"During the brief period since 1968, numerous
methadone maintenance treatment and research project
have been established in communities throughout the
state. Two and one-half years ago less than $300,00
was allocated to support experimental methadone
treatment programs in California. Today that
expenditure has increased to more than $5 million.
This rapid expansion has resulted from the
comprehensive methadone treatment program instituted
under the direction of the Research Advisory Panel,
which has assisted in the careful development of
these projects to insure success. AB 562 would
appropriate $5 million for a new and separate progra
before the results of existing projects have been
fully determined, I believe we should learn how
effectively current programs are meeting their goals
and incorporate the best features of these projects
into an overall program which could be applied, as
needed, throughout the state. To assure that this
is done, I have directed the Human Relations Agency
to undertake a comprehensive review of methadone
projects now in existence and, on the basis of those
findings, recommend how the overall program can be
improved from the standpoint of organization and
financing. This review can provide the information
necessary to determine what new funds may be require
to augment Short-Doyle monies allocated to the
counties for such purposes as methadone treatment
and research. Without this approach, it would be
impossible to determine the level of funding which
would be the most appropriate for the future of our
methadone programs. It is my hope that this
continuous progress toward a successful methadone
treatment program will provide an effective means
of controlling the terrible problem of heroin
addiction.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned,"
the governor said.
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AB 801 - Monagan
Requires the state to pay the total cost of the
monthly health plan premium for a state employee
and his family members, or $20 per month, whichever
is less.
REASON FOR VETO:
"AB 801 is being returned unsigned because its cost
would worsen the already critical deficit facing the
state this fiscal year. I believe that the state
should pay a larger share of the cost of basic
health care benefits for its employees, and I will
include funds for this purpose in my 1972-73 budget
recommendations. Fully state-paid basic health care
benefits for employees, with employee-paid
dependent coverage optional, would be desirable and
would more fairly meet the individual needs of
employees. This would assure employees some
protection against rising costs in the future. This
benefit improvement will be just one element of a
total package of salary and benefit improvements
that I will recommend this next fiscal year. The
other elements of the package are not definite at
this time, but among those we are considering are
state-sponsored group life insurance for all
employees and uniform allowances for certain
employee groups.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned,"
the governor said.
SB 1020 - Stiern
Provides for the establishment of state funded
bilingual-bicultural programs in all courses of
instruction, and appropriates $1,800,000 for purposes
of the act.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I believe it is imperative that our children obtain
proficiency in the use of the English language---the
primary communication tool of our society. A person':
failure to become proficient in English is a serious
handicap to both educational and financial achieve-
ment. Before embarking upon the kind of program this
legislation would mandate, I believe we must first
have the full benefit of the studies currently under
way by various groups aimed at finding the best
solution to bilingual problems. One such effort,
AB 116, which I have signed today, appropriates
$500,000 for development, norming and implementation
of bilingual scholastic aptitude tests, as well as a
test program to determine the best methods of
providing pupils, whose lack of proficiency in
English is an obstacle to learning, with instruction
in the English language through the use of another
language more understandable to them. In addition,
a Department of Education task force study into the
degree of effectiveness of efforts currently being
made by school districts to solve bilingual problems
has not yet been completed. Without the latest and
best methodology available in this area, I believe
the adoption of a definitive program, such as that
which SB 1020 would impose, is clearly premature.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned,"
the governor said.
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SB 1216 - Zenovich
Appropriates $1,500,000 annually, or as much thereof
as necessary, from the Fair and Exposition Fund to
the Department of Education to match specified
federal funds, to be expended for vocational
education programs in agriculture.
REASON FOR VETO:
"Vocational training in agriculture is desirable
and important as a part of our educational system
and should be encouraged. However, state support
for specific educational programs is a matter which
should be considered in light of the state's overall
educational needs and should not be approached on a
piecemeal basis as provided in this bill. At the
present time in California over $35 million in
public funds are being expended for identifiable
vocational educational programs. The Advisory
Council on Vocational Education is responsible for
updating the California Master Plan for Vocational
Education. I would hope if the proponents of
SB 1216 feel there is an additional area of need in
agricultural programs that these needs would be
brought to the attention of the Council so that the
focus on occupational fields in rural and urban
areas can be properly met.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned, "
the governor said.
SB 1491 - Moscone
Authorizes the Director of Parks and Recreation to
sell, lease, or transfer specified properties
comprising the San Francisco Maritime State Historic
Park.
REASON FOR VETO:
"In my opinion, the language and effect of this
legislation are imprecise in that its provisions
do not offer the state the ability to sell or lease
the property in question if negotiations are not
satisfactorily completed. The best solution would
be achieved by providing the state the flexibility
to sell or negotiate a long-term lease while safe-
guarding the state's interests. The bill fails to
accomplish this essential objective,
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned "
the governor said.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation to alleviate the
shortage of doctors through establishment of a medical contract program
between the state and private colleges and universities.
The measure (SB 1284 by Senator Donald L. Grunsky, R-Watsonville)
authorizes the State Scholarship and Loan Commission to enter into
private contracts with private colleges and universities to provide
$12,000 annually per student to increase enrollment of medical students.
"By 1980, California will require 2,000 new doctors every year, "
the governor said. "This legislation will provide fellowship grants to
qualified students who do not have the financial resources to attend
accredited private medical schools in California. It will also encourage
these institutions to use their medical school facilities to the fullest
extent to meet the shortage of doctors without additional cost to the
state's taxpayers."
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Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation establishing
bi-lingual study programs for students with a limited knowledge of
English in the San Diego City Unified School District and the San
Francisco Unified School District.
The measure (AB 116) by Assemblyman Wadie P. Deddeh, (D-Chula
Vista), also requires the Department of Education to use all available
state and federal funds to develop and implement bi-lingual scholastic
aptitude tests to determine the eligibility of youngsters with limited
knowledge of English to participate in special classes for the mentally
retarded.
The bill appropriates $500,000 to the Superintendent of Public
Instruction with $425,000 earmarked for the study program from fiscal
year 1972 through fiscal year 1975 and $75,000 to go for development of
the bi-lingual aptitude tests.
"This legislation will open the doorway to educational
opportunity to youngsters, who, through no fault of their own, have not
the advantages that allow them to keep pace with their English-speaking
companions," the governor said.
"It is imperative that our children obtain proficiency in the
use of the English language--the primary communication tool of our societ
If youngsters are not allowed this opportunity they will suffer a
serious handicap to both educational and financial achievement."
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named Neil C. Anderson, Birds
Landing rancher and agriculture leader, to the 36th District Agricultural
Association (Dixon May Fair).
Anderson, whose address is P. O. Box 48, Birds Landing,
will fill the unexpired term of Maney L. German of Suisun, who has
resigned. The term ends in January, 1972.
Anderson is a Republican.
Board members receive necessary expenses.
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Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today announced the following
bills have been signed:
AB 886 - McAlister
Authorizes county boards of supervisors to
(Chapter 1527)
establish a fee not in excess of $2 for issuance
of a marriage license outside of normal business
hours.
AB 918 - Russell
Authorizes a peace officer a reasonable length of
(Chapter 1528)
time not to exceed one hour to detain a person
arrested for a moving traffic violation who does not
have his driver's license or other satisfactory
evidence of his identity for the purpose of
verifying his identity.
AB
1059
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H. Permits a court to allow the filing of a venue
(Chapter 1529)
affidavit by the plaintiff after the filing of
a complainton a contract or installment account
under the Unruh Act or Rees-Levering Motor Vehicle
Sales and Finance Act. It requires the service of
the affidavit on the defendant, whose time to plead
does not commence to run until he is served. The
bill also requires an attachment affidavit in an
action on a contract under the Rees-Levering Motor
Vehicle Sales and Finance Act to state facts showing
the action was commenced in the proper court, and
makes the plaintiff liable for the defendant's
attorney's fees resulting from his failure to do SO.
AB 1069 - Biddle
Consolidates the Vehicle Code provision dealing
(Chapter 1530)
with driving a motor vehicle while under the influence
of a drug. It makes the penalties for driving under
the influence of a drug identical to driving under
the influence of alcohol.
AB 1379 - Arnett
Provides that a local agency must coordinate with
(Chapter 1531)
and receive approval from the appropriate planning
agency before it may locate a facility within a
scenic highway corridor.
AB 1414 - Warren
Revises the procedure relative to notification of
(Chapter 1532)
the Department of Motor Vehicles when a person violate:
his promise to appear in court and revises provisions
regarding payment of fines. The bill revises provision
prohibiting issuance or renewal of driver's license
when the department has been notified by a court that
the licensee has failed to make a timely payment of
a fine. The bill also makes willful violation of an
order to appear in court upon failure to make timely
payment of a fine, or installment thereof, punishable
as contempt, rather than a misdemeanor.
AB 1416 - Warren
Provides that transcript of grand jury proceedings
(Chapter 1533)
leading to an indictment or accusation shall not be
open to public inspection until 10 days after its
delivery to the defendant or his attorney, unless
the court orders otherwise on motion of a party or on
its own motion pending its determination as to whether
all or part of the transcript should be sealed.
AB 1418 - Warren
Authorizes a court to dismiss a civil action without
(Chapter 1534)
prejudice when no party appears for the trial
following 30 days notice of time and place of trial.
AB 1431 - MacGillivray Specifies that the authority of counties to contract
(Chapter 1535)
for special services and advice extends to
maintenance. security, or custodial services.
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AB 1462 - Chappie
Defines camp trailers for purposes of the Vehicle
(Chapter 1536)
Code and provides that a camp trailer shall not be
deemed to be a trailer coach. The bill provides
that statutory restrictions regarding use of
reflectorizing material do not apply to license
plate stickers or tabs affixed to license plates
as authorized by the Department of Motor Vehicles.
AB 1487 - Wilson
Provides that a board of supervisors may authorize
(Chapter 1537)
the county treasurer to issue bond anticipation notes
when they deem it in county's best interests.
AB 1566 - Johnson, H. Permits suits enforcing stop notice to be filed
(Chapter 1538)
within a period commencing ten days after service
of the stop notice and ending 90 days after
expiration of the period for recording liens. The
bill prohibits bringing such suit to trial until
the expiration of lien recording period.
AB 1578 - Ralph
Permits issuance of a real estate broker's license
(Chapter 1539)
to legally registered aliens who are in the process
of applying for citizenship. The bill also specifies
that designated private vocational schools and
supervised courses of study are equivalent courses
of study for purpose of the provisions dealing
with educational requirements of real estate
licensees.
AB
1588 - Schabarum Permits the presiding judge of the Superior Court
(Chapter 1540)
in Los Angeles County, either upon application by the
Attorney General or district attorney and after
specified findings, or upon motion of the court, to
order the drawing and impaneling of one additional
grand jury which, upon impanelment, shall have
exclusive jurisdiction to inquire into public
offenses. The bill also changes the per diem of all
grand jurors from $5 to $10 per day.
AB 1952 - Z'berg
Permits a county to impose a reasonable charge
(Chapter 1541)
against real property benefited for garbage services
provided by the county to property owner at his
request when charges remain delinquent for 60 days.
AB 2249 - Russell
Defines the terms "full cash value", "market value"
(Chapter 1542)
and "value" for purposes of law relating to property
taxation. The act will become operative on
March 1, 1972.
AB 2310 - Murphy
Provides that in any case in which a minor is
(Chapter 1543)
detained by the probation officer for more than 6 hou
and subsequently released and no petiton filed, the
probation officer shall prepare a written notice to
the parent, guardian or person having care and
custody of minor explaining why the minor was held
for more than 6 hours. The bill also provides
that in any case in which a minor is detained for
more than 15 days pending execution of an order of
commitment or any other disposition, the court is
required to review the case at least every 15 days
to determine whether the delay is reasonable and what
effect the delay has upon the minor.
AB 2340 - Chappie
Requires courses in automobile driver education
(Chapter 1544)
given in secondary schools to include education in
the safe operation of motorcycles.
AB 2396 - Murphy
Requires a public agency proposing to acquire propert
(Chapter 1545)
to notify the various local taxing agencies, when
such property will become exempt from property
taxation by reason of such acquisition, and to
provide various other information.
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AB 2406 - Hayden
Requires a county counsel or district attorney to
(Chapter 1546)
provide legal services to county committee on
school district organization. The bill requires a
board of supervisors to provide a committee with
private legal services if the county counsel or
district attorney is unable to provide such services.
AB 2618 - Arnett
Increases fees for the licensing of private
(Chapter 1547)
postsecondary schools.
AB 2769 - Keysor
Increases the total amount of the cost of certain
(Chapter 1548)
school building contracts from $5,000 to $7,500
before building plans must be submitted to the
Department of Education. The bill also raises
the maximum amount of school district contracts exem]
from the lowest responsible bidder requirement.
AB 2884 - Foran
Permits appointed and elected city attorneys to
(Chapter 1549)
become members of the Public Employees' Retirement
System under certain conditions and upon paying
specified contributions and interest.
SB 120 - Harmer
Requires state or local public agencies to take
(Chapter 1522)
appropriate action to recover civil damages for the
negligent, willful or unlawful damaging or taking
of property belonging to, or under the jurisdiction
of the agency.
SB 742 - Song
Makes several clarifying amendments to the Consumer
(Chapter 1523)
Warranty Act of 1970.
SB 976 - Marks
Requires that the California Highway Commission
(Chapter 1524)
publish in a newspaper of general circulation
notices of intent to acquire park property for
highway purposes.
SB 1019 - Stiern
Provides statutory authorization for the Board of
(Chapter 1525)
Governors and the Chancellor's Office of the
California Community Colleges to administer and
govern various activities related to the Community
colleges.
SB 1053 - Behr
Provides that a public agency, or a person, having
(Chapter 1526)
a liquidated claim against a public agency, shall
be entitled to interest commencing the 61st day
following the filing of the claim known or agreed
to be valid when filed pursuant to statute or
contract and such claim is due and payable.
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Governor Ronald Reagan read the following statement to newsmen
this morning at the Republican Governors' Conference being held in
French Lick, Indiana:
"Last March, I sent to the California legislature the most
comprehensive and far reaching plan to reform the state's welfare system
in history.
"The system had gotten so far out of hand it was allowing ludicrous
abuses at the expense not only of those who needed its help the most, but
also at a staggering cost to the hard working men and women who made its
benefits available in the first place.
"California's welfare caseload was increasing at the fantastic rate
/that
of 50,000 a month. Barring a drastic overhaul, the monster welfare had
become threatened to bankrupt the state in a matter of only a few years.
"The plan we presented included both administrative and legislative
reforms. I already had ordered my new director of social welfare to
immediately begin implementing a lengthy series of administrative changes,
while we pressed the legislature to adopt the remaining reform provisions
of the program. Three months ago I was able to sign into law many of the
proposals we had fought for---in the face of strong opposition from the
welfare establishment and in spite of the dire predictions of others
that it could not be done.
"Today I am very pleased to announce to you that California's
welfare rolls have now declined for the seventh month in a row---an
accomplishment no other state can match.
"During the month of October, there were some 24,000 fewer
Californians on welfare than the previous month, and 137,000 less than
we had on the rolls in March. Of the 137,000, some 92,000 were in the
AFDC category.
"Had we not pressed vigorously for welfare reform at the state level-
had we not instituted the administrative changes we did whenever and
wherever possible our projections show that there would now be a third
of a million more persons on welfare in California, or 13 percent more
than there actually are.
"And, the increased federal, state and local taxes this would have
imposed on the people of California during these seven months would have
amounted to an additional $80 million burden.
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"There were those who in spite of our assurances it would not
happen insisted that our state reforms would push thousands of persons
onto county relief rolls. But, just the opposite has happened. During
the same seven months, county general relief rolls in California have
declined by more than 38,000 persons.
"Just two days ago Los Angeles County Welfare Director Ellis Murphy
announced he was reassigning 1300 county welfare workers because of
declining welfare rolls.
"What we are accomplishing in California to bring welfare back under
control constitutes a dramatic answer to those who claim that a massive
and costly federally controlled program is the only solution to the
welfare problem. Handing over the welfare dilemma to the federal
government is not the answer.
"The states can and must do the job. We know it can be done, and
we are proving it in California."
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State of California
Department of Social Welfare
Human Relations Agency
Management Information Systems
November 16, 1971
PUBLIC ASSISTANCE CASELOADS AND EXPENDITURES
October 1971
Aid Recipients
Payments
Program
Oct.
Sept.
Oct.
Oct.
Sept.
Oct.
1971
1971
1970
1971
1971
1970
Grand total.
2,132,246
2,156,660
2,088,214
$159,858,320
$160,769,721
$146,955,061
Cash grant recipients
2,076,448
2,098,050
1,991,689
155,962,113
156,693,797
142,710,444
General home relief
55,798
58,610
96,525
3,896,207
4,075,924
4,244,617
Averagea/
AGED PERSONS
Cash grant recipients
317,442
317,722
319,557
104.49
106.50
107.10
BLIND PERSONS (AB/APSB)
Cash grant recipients
14,022
14,037
13,928
148.90
151.08
154.18
DISABLED PERSONS
Cash grant recipients
191,656
190,951
181,962
126.91
128.47
125.27
FAMILIES WITH
DEPENDENT CHILDREN
Cash grant recipients:
Family groups:
children
918,635
930,042
859,370
84.38
82.59
76.50
cases
389,241
392,266
350,655
199.15
195.82
187.47
total persons
1,282,234
1,293,327
1,200,027
60.45
59.39
54.78
Unemployed cases:
children
143,672
150,401
146,564
85.93
84.10
75.46
cases
51,594
53,789
50,517
239.29
235.16
218.94
total persons
238,016
249,000
242,357
51.87
50.80
45.64
Boarding Homes and
Institutions:
children
33,078
33,013
33,858
161.41
166.31
152.58
GENERAL HOME RELIEF
Total persons
55,798
58,610
96,525
69.83
69.54
43.97
Family cases
2,040
2,193
11,393
86.43
85.11
54.94
Persons in family cases
6,095
6,561
50,296
28.93
28.45
12.45
One-person cases
49,703
52,049
46,229
74.84
74.72
78.28
Unemployed in labor force (%)
5.7
5.9
5.9
XXX
XXX
XXX
(Seasonally adjusted)
(7.0)
(7.1)
(7.2)
XXX
XXX
XXX
Civilian population (excluding
military)
20,066,700
20,041,500
19,789,300
XXX
XXX
XXX
a/ Cash grant averages for adult aids computed from "net" person counts.
Excludes U cases.
Preliminary.
OFFICE OF THE GOVER
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RELEASE: Immed.
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Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
11-18-71
#649
Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today announced the following bills
have been signed:
AB 505 - Deddeh
Creates the Highway Users Tax Study Commission to
(Chapter 1557)
study the allocation of highway funds and to report
to the legislature by February 1, 1974.
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Authorizes the Workmenla Compenaation Memeale Deard
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AB 2502 - Briggs
Authorizes the issuance in California of an
(Chapter 1565)
additional form of group life insurance, meeting
specified requirements, written under a policy
against loss in value of redeemable securities of
an insured investor issued by certain investment
companies.
AB 2503 - Briggs
Allows any life insurance company authorized to do
(Chapter 1566)
business in California to issue investment return
assurance policies.
AB
2610
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Wakefield
Extends the termination date of the Research
(Chapter 1567)
Advisory Panel on Drug Abuse to the 91st day
after final adjournment of the 1975 Regular Session.
AB 2666 - Wilson
Provides that it is unlawful for a healing arts
(Chapter 1568)
licentiate to offer, deliver, receive, or accept
any, (rather than any unearned) rebate or other
consideration in compensation or inducement for
referring patients, clients or customers irrespective
of the described relationship to the person to whom
the reference is made.
AB 2742 - Hayes
Prohibits any action from being brought to recover
(Chapter 1569)
damages arising out of latent defects from any person
who develops real property or performs or furnishes
the design, specifications, surveying, planning,
supervision, testing or observation of construction
or construction of an improvement to real property
more than 10 years after the substantial completion
of the development or improvement.
AB 2777 - Cullen
Requires the Office of Planning and Research to
(Chapter 1570)
cooperate with the Department of Aeronautics and
other federal, state and local agencies in the
development of an air transportation program for
California.
AB 2807 - McAlister
Authorizes juries in civil cases to take copies of
(Chapter 1571)
written instructions given into the jury room for
deliberation. The bill is effective until
December 31, 1974.
SB 4 - Cologne
Revises the procedures governing the administration
(Chapter 1550)
of justice by courts during specified emergency
situations.
SB 503 - Nejedly
Increases sport fishing license and hunting
(Chapter 1551)
license fees.
SB 686 - Wedworth
Allows school boards to excuse 10th, 11th, and
(Chapter 1552)
12th grade pupils from physical education classes if
they attend regional occupational centers or programs.
The bill reduces the minimum day from 240 minutes
to 180 minutes for those students. The bill also
requires the State Board of Education to include
regional occupational centers and programs in the
allocation of federal funds.
SB 1100 - Gregorio
Requires the Department of Public Works to hold
(Chapter 1553)
public hearings regarding the incorporation of
pedestrian and bicycle facilities on freeways which
are part of the state highway system, The bill
authorizes the department to expend highway funds on
such facilities, under specified circumstances in
connection with state highways. The bill also author
izes the department to exercise the power of eminent
domain for construction and maintenance of bicycle
lanes and paths.
SB 1294 - Cologne
Provides that a person injured while riding on a
(Chapter 1554)
moving railroad car may not recover damages from the
owner or operator of the railroad unless the injuries
were proximately caused by the intentional act of
the owner or operator with knowledge that the injury
would probably result, or the act was done with wantor
and reckless disregard of probable results.
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SB 1461 - Stevens
Frees from public trust for navigation, commerce
(Chapter 1555)
and fisheries certain described parcels of tide
and submerged lands conveyed in trust to the City of
Redondo Beach.
SB 1508 - Moscone
Makes the Penal Code provisions requiring a speedy
(Chapter 1556)
trial of persons in confinement because of
conviction on another offense applicable to
sentencing as well as trial.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
11-19-71
#650
A decision by the California Toll Bridge Authority to
establish the first toll-free priority lanes for car pools using the
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was lauded today by Governor Ronald
Reagan as a "clear incentive to break the one-man, one-car habit" and
contribution to smog reduction.
The Authority, meeting in Sacramento, approved the program
recommended by James A. Moe, director of Public Works and the Authority'
administrative officer.
In lauding the action, the governor said, "the Toll Bridge
Authority's initiative is a clear incentive to break the one-man, one-
car habit on the nation's third busiest toll bridge.
"In addition to contributing to cleaner air by reducing smog-
causing traffic congestion, bridge users who travel three or more to
a car can save $10 and more than three hours travelling time per month,"
he said.
The program, approved at the meeting presided over by Frank
J. Walton, secretary of Business and Transportation in Governor Reagan's
cabinet and chairman of the Authority, calls for:
1. TOLL-FREE CAR-POOL PRIORITY LANES to provide a 1½-mile-
long bypass through the toll plaza for commute buses and cars with
three or more occupants from 6 to 9 a.m. Monday through Friday.
2. A COMPUTER CAR-POOL INFORMATION SERVICE to help commuters
break the "one-man, one-car" habit.
3. TRUCKS OFF the bridge westbound from 7 to 8:30 a.m.
Voluntary cooperation is being sought, and the trucking industry is
expected to cooperate by avoiding the most congested period.
In presenting the plan to the Authority, Moe made a strong
appeal for public cooperation:
"We are determined to do everything possible to reduce congestion
on the Bay Bridge during the months that remain before the Bay Area
Rapid Transit District begins its transbay service.
"We want to work cooperatively with those who use the bridge
to cut down not only on the buildup of air pollution that accompanies
congestion, but also the losses in time and money to the individuals
caught in the jam, and to reduce the difficulties of reaching
accidents with the proper emergency help.
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"Comments
d suggestions are invited d should be sent to the
Division of Bay Toll Crossings at 151 Fremont Street, San Francisco."
Moe said the success of the plan depends upon the formation of
at least 500 new car pools by drivers who are now alone or with only
one other person in the car.
In addition to crossing the bridge toll-free, they will cut
an estimated 10 minutes from their trips, compared to those using
non-priority lanes.
Here is how the plan will work:
PRIORITY LANES--From 6 - 9 a.m. on the seven-lane westbound
approach to the toll plaza, signs will direct commuter buses and
car pools to the center lane 3100 feet east of the toll booths. (Just
before going under the West Grand Avenue viaduct).
At the curve entering the 17-lane toll plaza, buses will go
into Lane 10, while car pools will use Lanes 8 and 9. (Lanes are
numbered from left to right for westbound traffic).
There will be no stop to pay toll, but drivers will be asked
to observe a 15-miles-an-hour speed limit through the toll booths in
the interest of safety.
West of the toll booths, auto traffic in Lanes 8 and 9 will
merge first and then the autos will merge with the buses before going
onto the bridge in the center lane of the five-lane upper deck.
For their entire length, the priority lanes will clearly be
separated from regular traffic by bright yellow stanchions. At the
end of the bridge bottleneck, about 700 feet up the incline of the
bridge, the stanchions will end and all traffic will be able to
mix and make normal lane changes.
The car-pool priority lanes are scheduled to be opened during
the second week in December.
Next week, University of California students, hired for one
morning, will hand each person coming through between 6 and 9 a.m. an
information sheet on the toll-free priority lanes and a return postcard
Commuters interested in the car-pool information service will be asked t.
fill out and mail in the postage-paid card.
Names and telephone numbers will be listed by computer
according to trip information, bringing together on short lists those
who are compatible for car pooling.
Each list will be mailed only to the persons whose names are
on it. It will be up to the people on each list to make mutually
satisfactory car pooling arrangements.
Since April of 1970, buses have used an exclusive lane west-
bound from 6 to 9 a.m. AC Transit says the bypass of morning congestion
has cut 5 to 15 minutes from schedule, times.
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Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Be
445-4571
11-19-71
#651
Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today announced the following
bills have been signed:
AB 390 - Hayes
Provides that a coroner's inquest shall determine
(Chapter 1573)
among other things, whether a death was at the hands
of another person other than by accident, rather
than only at the hands of another person. The bill
provides that such findings shall not include nor
make any reference to civil or criminal responsibilit
of any other person as well as that of deceased.
AB 533 - Brathwaite
Provides for uniform treatment of persons who are
(Chapter 1574)
displaced or have their real property taken for
public use. It brings the State law into
conformance with the Federal Uniform Relocation
Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies
Act of 1970.
AB 1339 - Cullen
Authorizes local public agencies to adopt rules and
(Chapter 1575)
regulations providing for exclusive representation of
employees, subject to the employees right to
represent themselves, by an employee organization
formally recognized pursuant to a vote of the
employees of the agency or appropriate unit thereof.
The bill provides that exclusive representation
by employee organizations SO recognized may be
revoked by a majority vote of the employees only
after 12 months from formal recognition.
AB 1936 - Quimby
Prohibits a city from imposing a license fee or tax,
(Chapter 1576)
other than a fee or tax based on the taxpayer's
entire gross receipts which are directly
attributable to the business activities conducted
within the city, for the privilege of renting,
leasing, or operating coin-operated vending machines
dispensing tangible personal property upon any
individual or firm whose business is limited
exclusively to renting, leasing or operating such
machines.
AB 2489 - Briggs
Deletes the option presently available to counties
(Chapter 1577)
that certain information relating to tax rates or
the dollar amounts of taxes may be combined on
property tax bills. The bill is applicable with
respect to taxes and assessments levied for the
1972-73 fiscal year and the years thereafter.
SB
730
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Richardson Modifies the prohibition against certain candidates
(Chapter 1572)
using an office or occupational ballot designation
at the general election.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNO
RELEASE: Imi liate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
11-19-71
#652
Governor Ronald Reagan today expressed deep disappointment that an
administration-backed bill (AB 150, Ryan) to set up an experimental
voucher plan in several California school districts was killed in
committee
In a statement, the governor said:
"I am deeply disappointed that this legislation apparently is now
dead. It was designed to test the voucher concept over a seven-year
period to find out whether it could work, and, if so, what sort of
problems it might cause, if any.
"The bill was filled with reasonable safeguards and the school
districts which were scheduled to participate in the program (Alum Rock
and San Francisco) wanted to do SO.
"Without the opportunity to observe the voucher concept in action-
on an experimental, pilot basis within a limited geographical area, as
this legislation provides no one will be able to determine intelligently
its feasibility and whether it will accomplish its objective of improving
educational quality.
"Because it is vital that answers to these kinds of questions be
found, I will make this matter a first order of business when the 1972
legislative session opens in January.
"In order to improve the quality of education our children receive,
we must be willing to give innovative new ideas such as the voucher
concept a fair try."
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERN &
MEMO TO THE RESS
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
11-19-71
#653
GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
November 22, 1971
through
November 28, 1971
Monday, November 22
10:30 a.m.
PRESS CONFERENCE
Overnight -- Los Angeles
Tuesday, November 23
10:00 a.m.
Dedication of the Los Angeles Area Freeway
Surveillance and Control Project, Le Sage Building,
6th and Vermont Streets, Los Angeles.
11:00 a.m.
Trustees Meeting, State Colleges Headquarters, Los
Angeles.
Overnight ore Los Angeles
Wednesday, November 24
No appointments scheduled.
Overnight - Los Angeles
Thursday, November 25
THANKSGIVING DAY
Fridav, November 26
No appointments scheduled.
Overnight - Palm Springs
Saturday, November 27
a.m.
Eisenhower Hospital Dedication, Palm Springs.
Overnight - Palm Springs
Sunday, November 28
No appointments scheduled.
Overnight - Sacramento
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Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Bec
445-4571
11-22-7_
#654
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed administration-sponsored
legislation "aimed at cracking down on a certain irresponsible segment of
the auto repair industry which persists in using dishonest and unethical
operating methods. If
He called the measure (SB-51, Beilenson) "the toughest and most
significant consumer protection legislation of the year in California."
The governor also said "last year, in my consumer protection message
to the legislature, I called attention to the increasing number of
complaints we were receiving about fraudulent practices in the auto
repair field---far more than in any other line of business. I noted that
such practices not only were harmful to consumers but also were giving
many in the industry a name and reputation they did not deserve.
"I called on the responsible members of the industry to join with
us in finding a way to give consumers the kind of protection they want
and need. The Independent Garage Owners' Association and other reputable
organizations came to us and offered to help in the drafting of the
legislation. Working closely with our new Department of Consumer Affairs
and the author of the bill, the new law they helped us write is designed
to bring the irresponsible members of the industry into line or put them
out of business.
"I believe the legislation contains the necessary enforcement
provisions to do so. It requires automotive repair dealers to be
registered with a new bureau in the State Department of Consumer Affairs
and empowers the director of the department to suspend or revoke any
license as necessary. In addition, any dealer who fails to comply with
the new law is subject to a fine of up to $1,000, or up to six months in
jail, or both.
"Last year, with the establishment of the Department of Consumer
Affairs, this administration again reaffirmed its strong commitment to
protecting the interests of California's consumers. The law I have just
signed is a special source of pride to all of us because it is a direct
result of our commitment to keep consumer protection a top priority,"
the governor said.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNO.
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
11-23-71
Governor Reagan will make a very important
announcement at 11:30 a.m. in Los Angeles today
at the meeting of the State College Trustees.
The meeting is being held at State College
Headquarters, 5670 Wilshire Boulevard.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNO
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
11-23-71
#655
Governor Ronald Reagan made the following remarks at the official
opening of the Los Angeles Area Freeway Surveillance and Control Project.
"I am especially proud to officially open the Los Angeles Area
Freeway Surveillance and Control Project today for a number of reasons.
"One of them, of course, is that once again California is pointing
to the direction the nation must travel if we are to reduce traffic
injuries and fatalities.
"This 'eye in the sky' project is probably the most ambitious effort
being made anywhere in the world to determine how modern science and
electronics can be used to reduce accidents, relieve highway congestion
and ease the frustration of motorists on overcrowded freeways.
"If it proves successful here on segments of three of the most
heavily travelled freeways in the world--the Santa Monica, the San Diego
and
Harbor it will be expanded throughout our freeway system.
"But aside from the fact that this project constitutes a giant step
toward what may prove to be a fully automated freeway system, there is
another factor here that needs to be stressed.
"It points out what government both federal and state and private
industry can accomplish when they cooperate to use the tools of modern
technology to concentrate on solving one of the problems that face us
in this complex age.
"I think too that I might point out that while some of our California
Division of Highways people were designing the hardware for this
futuristic project, others in the same department were redesigning highway
routes to protect the homes of desert tortoises and a breeding pond for a
a rare breed of salamander. And others were even working with federal
wildlife officials to provide a safe nesting area for Canadian geese.
"I mention this because I believe it demonstrates that it is possible
to plan for the future needs of people and, at the same time, provide for
proper ecological and environmental safeguards.
"This free surveillance and control project, as you know is part of
our California Traffic Safety Program.
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"I am happy to report that during the past 10 months, motor vehicle
fatalities are down 8 percent over the figures for this same time last
year. Some 336 fewer people were killed and some 1200 fewer people were
injured in traffic accidents in California this year. And this at a
time when motor vehicle registrations and the number of licensed drivers
are increasing.
"I am hopeful that if this trend continues we will set a new traffic
safety record for 1971.
"Traffic safety records are not accomplished through magic. They
are achieved through effective law enforcement, the construction of
better and safer highways, state and local highway safety projects, bette
control in the issuing of driver's licenses and driver education programs
and by the dedicated efforts of creative men who work together to find
creative solutions to the problems that face us.
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(NOTE: Since Governor Reagan speaks from notes, there may be changes in,
or additions to, the above quotes. However, the governor will
stand by the above quotes.)
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERN
RELEASE: In. diate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
11-23-71
#656
Governor Ronald Reagan today read the following statement to members
of the press during a meeting of the trustees of the California State
Colleges in Los Angeles:
"I have chosen this meeting of the State College Board of Trustees
to make what I consider to be an extremely important and far-reaching
announcement.
"Next Monday at a special ceremony in my office in Sacramento, I
will sign into law an historic bill aimed at enabling California's well
known and highly respected state colleges to take their rightful place
among academic institutions across the nation and become know as
'state universities.
"I say 'take their rightful place' not in the sense that this
legislation will change their function or responsibilities as teaching
institutions. The fact is, the greatness they have achieved and the
prestige they have earned is due in large part to the continued emphasis
they have placed on their vital classroom teaching role.
"This bill is not intended to change that basic role, nor does it
imply any change in function.
"What this legislation does represent is a dramatic acknowledgement
of the excellence in teaching which the men and women of the state
colleges have achieved over the years.
"During the past decade alone---so often characterized by turmoil
and confusion at our institutions of higher learning the leadership of
the state colleges has never lost sight of its primary purpose: to
provide the best possible education to its students, particularly at
the undergraduate level.
"The responsible sometimes courageous behavior of a vast majority
of the faculty within the system also is deserving of great credit.
"If there is anything lacking in this legislation, it is that under
its provisions some campuses in the system could be designated 'state
universities' considerably earlier than others. Because I am convinced
that all of them are engaged in quality teaching, I am requesting that
Chancellor Dumke, the Board of Trustees and the Coordinating Council for
Higher Education move to bestow on each campus the distinction of
'state university' as soon as possible.
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"To call some c uses 'state colleges' and thers 'state
universities' would imply differences in teaching standards which, in
reality, do not exist within the system.
"Finally, I would like to pay special tribute to some of the people
who have helped make today's announcement possible:
"To Chancellor Glenn Dumke whose eloquence and power of persuasion
make him an extremely able and effective advocate for the state college
system.
"To Guy Warren who as chairman of a responsible, forward-looking
board of trustees is providing the kind of leadership which inspires
confidence in the future.
"And, to Assemblyman Richard Barnes of San Diego for his consistent
and unstinting efforts to make this legislation possible. He deserves
the gratitude of not only the state college system but of all the people
of California who have long shared a deep sense of pride in our public
system of higher education."
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNO
RELEASE:
ediate
Sacramento, Californ.
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
11-23-71
#657
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 209 - Roberti
Adds a new waiver section to the Personal Income Tax
(Chapter 1588)
Law which provides that interest will be waived
with respect to underpayments of estimated personal
income tax if the taxpayer files an amended
declaration and pays the underpayment within 15 days
after the close of the taxable year, and the original
declaration was filed in good faith but unanticipated
additional income was generated thereafter.
AB 273 - Ryan
Deletes the Education Code provision allowing a
(Chapter 1589)
school district governing board to designate the
position of business manager as one requiring
certification requirements. The bill also provides
that a credential may be required by small school
districts for the position of business manager.
AB 304 - Brathwaite
Permits changes under the Improvement Act of 1911
(Chapter 1590)
to exceed 20 percent of the total estimated cost
when ordered by the local legislative body. The bill
provides that such portion of the added cost which
exceeds the 20 percent limitation shall be paid by
the public entity.
AB 511 - Cullen
Changes the procedure by which the Legislature may
(Chapter 1612)
reject an executive reorganization plan submitted
by the governor.
AB 587 - Knox
Eliminates special procedures for investigating
(Chapter 1591)
and charging crimes with respect to corporations.
AB 698 - Schabarum
Makes statutory changes necessary to conform the
(Chapter 1593)
statutes to Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1970.
AB 804 - Greene, L.
Revises the process by which maps or plats of
(Chapter 1594)
cemeteries are to be drawn, printed or reproduced.
The bill requires the county recorder to file, rather
than record, surveys and subdivisions, made by
the State Lands Commission, of lands belonging
to the state to be sold, leased, or to have the
boundary established.
AB 826 - Vasconcellos
Provides for an action for damages for the
(Chapter 1595)
intentional use of another's name, photograph, or
likeness for commercial purposes without prior
permission.
AB 1154 - Lanterman
Modifies the State Fellowship program for graduate
(Chapter 1597)
study by eliminating the requirement which limits
awards only to those planning to pursue college
teaching. The bill authorizes fellowships to any
eligible graduate student with academic ability and
financial need.
AB 1191 - Brathwaite
Authorizes an employee whose employer has failed
(Chapter 1598)
to secure payment of compensation to file
application with Workmen's Compensation Appeals
Board for compensation. The bill creates an
Uninsured Employer's Fund from which the claimant's
award shall be paid when the employer is uninsured
and fails to pay it. The bill creates a liquidated
claim for damages against the employer when the award
is paid from the fund. The Director of Industrial
Relations is authorized to bring a civil action to
recover such damages.
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AB 1199 - Wilson
Includes in the state scenic highway system State
(Chapter 1599)
Highway Routes 52 and 109 in their entirety, and
Route 163 from Ash Street in San Diego to Route 8.
AB 1483 - Cory
Enacts the Guaranteed Learning Achievement Act of
(Chapter 1600)
1971. The bill will allow five school districts
with approval of the Superintendent of Public
Instruction, to contract with private concerns
to provide experimental special programs in fields
of reading and mathematics for primary and elementary
level pupils based on performance guarantees.
AB 1556 - McAlister
Provides that specified records of air pollution
(Chapter 1601)
districts or any other state or local agency or
district relating to air or other pollution are
public records.
AB 1587 - Schabarum
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to provide
(Chapter 1602)
a list to the Department of Public Works of proposed,
as well as existing, crossings at grade and
existing grade separations most urgently in need
of separation or alteration. The bill authorizes
allocations to eliminate proposed crossings at
grade to be made from the $5,000,000 allocated
annually by the department for grade separation
projects.
AB 660 - Dunlap
Prohibits the capture, possession, or confinement
(Chapter 1592)
of any live mountain lion taken from the wild,
with specified exceptions. It authorizes the Fish
and Game Commission to promulgate regulations for
temporary confinement of mountain lions for
treatment of injury or disease. It revises pro-
visions concerning depredating mountain lions, to
provide for a limited term permit to take
depredating animals within a limited area of
incurred damage. The bill further provides that
provisions concerning the taking of lions and
depredation are to be operative only until 61st
day of adjournment of the 1975 Regular Session.
AB 1686 - Briggs
Permits any authorized joint powers agency, board,
(Chapter 1603)
or commission created by agreement between an
irrigation district and a city to issue revenue
bonds to finance acquisition, construction, or
improvement of a water supply system,
AB 1754 - Sieroty
Changes the final day for filing personal property
(Chapter 1604)
statements from the last Monday in May to the last
Friday in May. Memorial Day is now celebrated on
the last Monday in May.
AB 1802 - Burton
Revises the bar pilotage rate required to be paid
(Chapter 1605)
by vessels inward or outward bound through the
Golden Gate and into or out of the Bays of San
Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun. The bill also
revises the factors which the Pilotage Rate Committee
for San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun Bays is
required to consider in preparing its recommendation
to the Legislature with respect to pilotage rates.
AB 2112 - Badham
Requires that specified evidence, which under
(Chapter 1606)
existing law would, when submitted to the Board of
Vocational Nurse and Psychiatric Technician
Examiners, permit a person to be licensed as a
psychiatric technician without examination, be
submitted to the board prior to July 1, 1972.
AB 2324 - McAlister
Prohibits an employer from discharging an employee
(Chapter 1580)
on account of garnishment of wages for any one
indebtedness.
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AB 2579 - Waxman
Amends the Nursing Home Administrators' Licensing
(Chapter 1608)
Act to meet the requirements of the federal Social
Security Act. The bill also increases license
fees and provides for payment of per diem compensa-
tion to members of the Board of Examiners of
Nursing Home Administrators.
AB 2649 - Lanterman
Revises county planning requirements and financing
(Chapter 1609)
provisions under the Short-Doyle Act.
AB 2821 - Maddy
Provides that petition to set aside an estate under
(Chapter 1610)
$5,000 may be presented, without filing a petition
for probate of a will or letters of administration,
by a person named in the will as an executor,
surviving spouse, or guardian of a minor child
or children of the decedent.
AB 2922 - Chacon
Provides that commissioners of deeds shall not be
(Chapter 1611)
appointed or reappointed after effective date of the
bill. The bill provides that commissioners of deeds
shall hold office for a term of four years from the
date of their commissions.
SB 594 - Song
Prohibits an employer from discharging any employee
(Chapter 1607)
because garnishment of his wages have been threatened
or because his wages have been subjected to
garnishment for one judgement rather than
prohibiting such discharge for one garnishment of
wages prior to a final order or judgement of a
court.
SB 819 - Deukmejian
Establishes procedures for civil protective custody
(Chapter 1581)
in evaluation and detoxification facilities
designated pursuant to Lanterman-Petris-Short Act,
for persons violating the Penal Code Provision
making persons under the influence of intoxicating
liquor guilty of disorderly conduct. The bill
exempts persons placed in civil protective custody
from any criminal prosecution or juvenile court
proceeding.
SB 889 - Dymally
Authorizes the governing board of the State
(Chapter 1582)
Nautical School, governing boards of school districts
and county superintendents of schools to perform all
acts necessary to receive the benefits and expend
the funds provided by the Federal Emergency Employment
Act of 1971, The bill also authorizes county
superintendents of schools to perform all acts
necessary to receive benefits and expend funds
provided by other specified federal programs.
SB 1006 - Holmdahl
Allows county boards of supervisors to grant the
(Chapter 1583)
homeowners' exemption (80% of the value) to
claimants who fail to file timely claims due to
reasonable cause and not due to willful neglect if
such claim is filed prior to June 15. The bill also
requires assessors to mail claim forms to persons who
have had the homeowners' exemption in prior year or
who purchase an eligible dwelling after the prior
lien date and before January 1, of the succeeding
year.
SB 1040 - Collier
Creates the California Council of Product Design
(Chapter 1579)
and Marketing in the Department of Commerce, to
encourage and promote California business.
SB 1170 - Walsh
Applies the relief of bidders provisions similar
(Chapter 1584)
to those found in the State Contract Act to
construction contracts awarded by all public
agencies. In addition, the bill will disqualify
contractors who claim such relief from rebidding the
same contract.
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SB 1178 - Holmdahl
Authorizes, subject to prescribed limitations, a
(Chapter 1585)
subsequent Cal-Vet farm or home acquisition when
the veteran is forced to sell because of inability
to pay property taxes resulting from increased
assessments.
SB 1327 - Deukmejian Establishes a procedure by which surface rights may
(Chapter 1586)
be returned to the landowner by terminating all or
part of the right of entry from certain mineral or
oil and gas leases.
SB 1397 - Way
Provides that when a court has made a final
(Chapter 1587)
adjudication that a person is the father of a minor
child, that person shall provide for the food,
clothing, shelter, and medical care of the minor
child or be subject to a fine of up to $1,000 and/or
one year in jail. The bill also authorizes the
court, in an order granting probation which includes
a support order upon conviction of criminal
nonsupport, to require the assignment of wages as a
condition of probation.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation that
increases the maximum weekly unemployment benefit from $65 to $75
per week.
In signing the measure (AB 1088) by Assemblyman Jack Fenton
(D-Montebello), Governor Reagan pointed out that the last raise
in the weekly unemployment benefit, from $55 to $65, was in 1965.
The new law will mean a boost in unemployment benefits for
approximately 500,000 workers now covered by the program, who will
file new claims in the following 12 months. Approximately 35 percent
of the eligible claimants will get the full $10 increase to $75 in
weekly benefits, while another 12 percent will receive smaller
increases depending on their earnings.
The bill also increases the earnings required by a worker
to be eligible for minimum benefits from $720 to $750 per year.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today reappointed four members to
the State Board of Dry Cleaners in the Department of Consumer
Affairs.
They are Gordon N. Johnson, 536 Tahos Road, Orinda; Frank S.
Shank, 1624 Patio Drive, San Jose; Walter L. Palmer, 5183 Cassandra
Lane, San Diego and Norman C. Higgins, 1851 Lincoln Road, Stockton.
All are Republicans.
Board members receive $25 per diem while on official duty.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named Wayne L. Scott, a Culver
City industrial arts instructor, to an unexpired term on the Teachers'
Retirement System.
Scott, a Democrat, will fill the term of the late Miss Catherine
Hanrahan of San Luis Obispo, which ends in July, 1974.
An instructor at Culver City Junior High School, Scott lives
at 4137 Huron Avenue, Culver City.
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Governor Ronald Reagan announced today he has vetoed SB 138
regarding solid waste management because it duplicates existing
legislation and cannot be managed effectively without the
reorganization the administration currently is seeking.
The bill, by Senator John Nejedly and Assemblyman Edwin Z'berg,
provided for the establishment of a comprehensive solid waste management
and resource recovery policy.
In his veto message, Governor Reagan noted that earlier this
year he had requested legislative approval of a reorganization plan
designed to more effectively protect the environment. That plan
included the management of solid waste problems.
"I understand that all the relevant provisions of SB 138
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dealing with solid waste management have been amended into SB 187, the
reorganization bill, so that the reorganization proposal and its
substantive elements can be considered together," the governor said,
adding:
"I am vetoing SB 138 to insure that solid waste is considered
as a part of reorganization. I hope that the reorganization-solid
waste bill will be on my desk in the near future."
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named San Francisco Fire Chief
Keith P. Calden to a four year term on the State Fire Advisory
Board, subject to Senate confirmation.
Calden, 53, a Democrat succeeds retired San Francisco Fire
Chief William Murray.
Calden lives at 714 Duncan Street, San Francisco.
Board members receive necessary expenses.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Vernon L. Grose,
a Canoga Park design engineer and technical consultant, to the
California Council on Criminal Justice.
Grose, 43, a political independent, will represent systems
technology on the council. He succeeds Dr. William W. Herrmann of
Santa Monica, who has resigned.
Grose lives at 22556 Gilmore Street, Canoga Park.
Board members receive necessary expenses.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named Robert W. Stuart of
891 Las Ovejas Avenue, San Rafael, to the California Advisory Board to
the Bureau of Employment Agencies in the Department of Consumer Affairs.
Stuart, assistant director of security for a San Francisco
department store, will fill the unexpired term of Mary A. La Cava
of Encino, who has resigned, as a public member of the board. The
term ends in January, 1973.
Stuart is not affiliated with a political party.
Board members receive per diem and necessary expenses.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named Mrs. Jean Smith, Southern
California leader and art patron, to the California Arts Commission
and reappointed four other members to three year terms.
Mrs. Smith, wife of University of California Regent William
French Smith, will fill the unexpired term of Mrs. Charlotte Hamilton
of La Jolla, who has resigned. The term ends in July, 1974.
Mrs. Smith, a Republican, lives at 1256 Oak Grove Avenue,
San Marino.
Reappointed were:
F. Herbert Hoover, 2108 Broadway, San Francisco, owner of the
Hoover Gallery; Thomas C. Howe, 2709 Larkin Street, San Francisco,
director emeritus of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor;
James R. Silke, 18200 Gresham Street, Northridge, a free-lance writer
and film producer, and Mervyn Leroy, 400 St. Cloud Road, Los Angeles,
movie producer and director.
All are Republicans. Their appointments are subject to Senate
confirmation. Appointees receive necessary expenses.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Mrs. Roberta L. Del
Guidice, Calabasas civic leader and Wayne E. Long, Los Robles
conservationist, to the State Soil Conservation Commission.
Mrs. Del Guidice, a Republican, is an associate director for
Zoning and Land Use Planning of the Topanga-Las Virgenes Soil Conserva-
tion District. She succeeds James M. Bucher of Imperial, who has
resigned.
Long, a Democrat, is a wildlife and recreation consultant and
a vice president of Resource Ecology Associates. He succeeds Peter N.
Belcastro of Weed, who has resigned.
Mrs. Del Guidice lives at 847 Malibu Meadows Drive, Calabasas
and Long's address is Route 1, Box 831 Los Robles.
Both appointments are subject to Senate confirmation.
Commissioners are appointed for four-year-terms and
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills
have been signed:
AB 183 - Thomas
Defines for purposes of exemptions from property
(Chapter 1613)
taxation a "non-exclusive right" to use specified
harbor facilities owned by various entities of
local government.
AB 28 - Ryan
Provides for issuance by the Board of Barber Exam-
(Chapter 1614)
iners of a special certificate to persons certified
by a Lanterman Mental Retardation Services Act
regional center as mentally retarded but educable,
which certificate authorizes practice only in
facilities located on property owned by this state
or the United States.
The governor also announced the veto of the following bills:
AB 1265 - Dunlap
This bill would authorize the Reclamation Board
to participate in the Fairfield Streams Flood
Control Project. The State would be required to
contribute approximately $2.5 million from the
General Fund for the costs of land, easements, and
rights of way.
REASON FOR VETO:
"In 1969, I advised the Legislature that approval of
further flood control authorization projects would
be deferred until legislation was enacted to provide
for local participation in the cost of land, ease-
ments and rights of way. This administration
sponsored SB 495 in 1970 to provide for local cost
sharing. That measure was refused passage.
Legislation introduced during the current session to
resolve this matter has not been enacted.
"It is inequitable for the taxpayers of this state
to bear the cost of flood control projects without
requiring greater local participation in the cost of
such projects.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned," the
governor said.
AB 1307 - Brown
Would have the effect of invalidating ordinances in
Los Angeles and Ventura Counties which require
pawn-brokers to take a fingerprint from customers
pawning property.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I have been advised by the law enforcement
community that the fingerprint requirement has
proven very successful in identifying professional
thieves and burglars who would have otherwise gone
undetected. No substantial reason has been advanced
to support elimination of this useful aid to law
enforcement.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned," the
governor said.
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AB 2178 - Brathwaite
This bill proposes that the Medi-Cal program be
precluded from denying payment to nursing homes for
providing nursing home care if such denial is
based only on the late receipt of an authorization
or reauthorization request, provided those requests
are received within five days of admission or
expiration of a previously authorized period.
REASON FOR VETO:
"AB 2178 would have the effect of circumventing
existing Medi-Cal regulatory control on prior
authorization and reauthorization for nursing home
care. It would permit the inappropriate admission
of patients to nursing homes when such level of
care is not medically necessary. With respect
to reauthorization requests, sufficient time is
present in the current stay of the patient to
permit a timely submission of a request for continued
nursing home care on or before the expiration of
the existing authorization period. Authorized
periods generally cover three calendar months.
"Approval of AB 2178 would seriously impair the
degree of flexibility required by the Director of
Health Care Services in his administration of the
Medi-Cal program. Furthermore, its enactment
could result in additional Med-Cal program expenditure
of approximately $2.9 million per year.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned," the
governor said.
SB 499 - Short
The bill would include licensed psychiatric tech-
nicians within the definition of "professional
employees" for the purposes of giving them the
right to be represented separately in public
employer-employee relations.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I have expressed concern in the past when I vetoed
similar proposals that the creation of additional
bargaining units could have an adverse effect on the
employer-employee programs of local government. My
concern is shared by authorities in the field of
public employee relations, at all levels of
government, who caution against the proliferation
of representation units.
"If SB 499 were approved, its enactment would create
immediate pressures from other occupational groups
for the same special treatment. The further
fragmentation of employee bargaining groups is
not consistent with sound public personnel management
practice.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned," the
governor said.
SB 1459 - Stevens
This bill would appropriate $25,000 from the
General Fund to the Ventura-Los Angeles Mountain
and Coastal Study Commission for its support with
repayment from the Environmental Protection Program
Fund.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I am vetoing SB 1459 because there is no immediate
need for a General Fund loan. The bill is designed
to provide additional funds to complete the final
report of the Commission as required by Chapter 1556
of the Statutes of 1970. In June of this year, the
Commission received an allocation of $13,500 from
personalized license plate revenues to accomplish
this task. The preliminary draft of this report
has been completed, and there are sufficient funds
available from the original allocation to cover its
costs. If the Commission needs additional funds next
year, its needs will be considered when funds are
allocated again from the personalized license plate
revenues under existing law.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned," the
governor said.
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AB 869 - Ralph
Requires the Department of Public Health to
establish a regional mental health center in
the south-central Los Angeles area, effective
upon completion of the regional centers estab-
lished by Chapter 1594, Statutes of 1969.
REASON FOR VETO:
"Funds for a new regional mental retardation
center for the east Los Angeles area are being
included in the 1972-73 budget. The Human
Relations Agency is recommending that funds
be included in the 1973-74 budget to establish
a regional center in south-central Los Angeles.
"The funding schedule for the two additional
regional centers in Los Angeles reflects estab-
lished priority criteria. Nothing has been
brought to my attention that would compel a
change in existing priorities.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned,"
the governor said.
AB 2085 - Greene, B.
Provides that before any apprentice or trainee
at the Office of State Printing is evaluated
on his job performance, he shall be given the
opportunity to consult and confer with the
person making the evaluation. It also would
permit the apprentice or trainee, if he does
not agree with his supervisor's evaluation, to
prepare a brief written statement which shall
become part of his permanent employment record.
REASON FOR VETO:
"AB 2085 would put into law what is already
authorized by existing Government Code pro-
visions, State Personnel Board Rule, and manage-
ment practices of the Office of State Printing.
"The Office of State Printing provides for
quarterly reports on the performance of each
apprentice by the immediate supervisor, and
includes a "face-to-face evaluation" with the
employee, and review by the general foreman with
the supervisor. If an employee does not agree
with the conclusions of the rater he may discuss
the report with the reviewing officer.
"I question whether special legislation to meet
the needs of a dissatisfied employee is in the
best interest of the state.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned,"
the governor said.
SB 713 - Rodda
Adjusts the maximum State Scholarship award
upward from $2,000 to $2,500 beginning in 1972-
73.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The State competitive scholarship program has
experienced marked expansion during the past
five years. The state's contribution to the
program has increased from $4.4 million to $16 million,
while the number of scholarship recipients has increased
from 6,042 to 20,201 over the same period. Although the
state is not in a position to increase the amount of the
maximum scholarship grant at this time, active consideration
is now being given to a greatly expanded loan program to
provide further assistance to scholarship recipients.
"In addition, I want to emphasize again that I am firmly
committed to the principle that a state scholarship student
should be able to pursue his education at the school of his
choice.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned," the governor
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SB 1435 - Zenovich
Appropriates an additional $300,000 from the
General Fund to the Department of Social Welfare
for workshop services for mentally retarded aid
to needy disabled recipients.
REASON. FOR VETO:
"Over a million dollars is being made available
during the current fiscal year in workshop
services for mentally retarded aid to needy
disabled recipients. This is more than double
the amount which was budgeted for such services
last year.
"I have been advised by the Department of Public
Health that current resources are more than
adequate to meet workshop needs for the remainder
of the fiscal year. Moreover, I have received
no compelling evidence that there would be
sufficient capacity in existing workshops to
effectively utilize the supplemental appropria-
tion proposed by this measure.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned,"
the governor said.
SB 789 - Petris
Establishes 1975 and 1980 emission standards for
light-duty motor vehicles.
REASON FOR VETO:
"This administration has made the fight against
smog a top priority. The realistic approach we
have taken in waging this battle and our strong
commitment to the enactment of tough air pollu-
tion control laws have made California nationally
recognized leader in the fight.
"We always have taken the position that any
legislation in this area must be workable and
practical if it is to be effective.
"The strong motor vehicle emission standards we
have adopted have first been carefully considered
on the basis of their technical feasibility.
And, because our program has been technically
sound, we always have been able to obtain waivers
from the federal government to enforce our
tougher requirements.
"Dr. A. J. Haagen-Smit, Chairman of the Cali-
fornia Air Resources Board, and a world-renowned
authority on smog control, has urged me to veto
SB 789 because he says the legislation is ill-
conceived and simply will not work. He says
this bill makes the emission standards set by
Congress for 1975 and '76 model cars mandatory
in California by advancing the date for oxides
of nitrogen control to 1975. But, the bill does
not permit an extension of one year if the
standards cannot be shown to be feasible. He
also notes that SB 789 sets stronger standards for 1980-again without
considering the practicality or feasibility of the standards.
"If this bill became law, it would engage us in a numbers game with the
federal government, with no real benefit to our citizens. Dr. Haagen-
Smit points out that the feasibility of the emission standards adopted
last year by Congress for 1975 and '76 model vehicles are themselves the
subject of great debate among engineers and scientists in government,
industry, and other organizations. Congress foresaw the problem and
provided that if the federal Environmental Protection Agency could not
show that the standards were feasible, an investigation would be under-
taken by the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. That investiga-
tion is now under way. Dr. Haagen-Smit, who is a member of the Academy,
is participating in the study and he has assured me that California's
interests are being forcefully advanced.
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SB 789 - Petris (continued)
REASON FOR VETO:
"It is clear to both Dr. Haagen-Smit and me
that California would be ill advised to adopt the
provisions of SB 789 so long as the controversy
on the standards exists, especially in the light
of the careful review now being made by the
Academy. Should the Academy find that the
standards could be technically feasible, there
would be no need for California to adopt essen-
tially the same ones. Conversely, should the
Academy find that the standards are not tech-
nically feasible, we would be unable to obtain
a waiver from the federal government to enforce
the provisions of this bill.
"Without substantive answers to the serious
questions this bill raises as to technical
feasibility, and in view of the fact that the
Academy is now studying this very problem, the
enactment of SB 789 would be clearly premature
and unwise.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned,"
the governor said.
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GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
November 29, 1971
through
December 5, 1971
Monday, November 29
10:45 a.m.
Signing of AB 123, Governor's Office.
Office appointments.
Overnight - Sacramento
Tuesday, November 30
Office appointments.
2:30 p.m.
Taping of "Thirty Minutes with..." Interview
by Elizabeth Drew for Public Broadcasting System,
KCRA Studios, 310 Tenth Street, Sacramento.
Overnight - - Sacramento
Wednesday, December 1
2:30 p.m.
Taping of KNBC's "Inquiry" Interview by Maury
Green, KCRA Studios, 310 Tenth Street, Sacramento.
Overnight - - Sacramento
Thursday, December 2
10:00 a.m.
Lighting of Torch for American River College's Rat
Decathelon, West Steps of Capitol.
Overnight - Sacramento
Friday, December 3
Evening
Testimonial Dinner for Assemblyman Ray Seely,
Mediterranean Room of the Riviera Hotel, Palm Springs
Overnight - Los Angeles
Saturday, December 4
No appointments scheduled.
Overnight - Los Angeles
Sunday, December 5
No appointments scheduled.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 474 - Miller
Requires commercial outdoor advertising signs located
(Chapter 1618)
on property of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid
Transit District to be in conformance with the
zoning regulations and ordinances of the city or
county in which the signs are located.
AB 1626 - Bee
Provides for allocation by the Superintendent of
(Chapter 1619)
Public Instruction, from money appropriated to the
State School Fund, to provide services for
handicapped adult community college students
demonstrating financial need.
SB 95 - Deukmejian
Increases the number of superior court judges in
(Chapter 1615)
Los Angeles County from 149 to 161.
SB 973 - Harmer
Provides that a person who has previously been
(Chapter 1616)
convicted of a felony, other than a felony punishable
by death, may be employed as a parole officer by
the Department of Corrections or by the Department
of the Youth Authority, if he has been granted a
full and unconditional pardon.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation that will
increase survivor benefits for Public Employees' Retirement System
members who are not protected by Social Security.
The measure (AB 207) by Assemblyman Robert E. Badham, (R-Newport
Beach) will increase benefits from $90 to $180 for a widow or a
surviving child, from $180 to $360 for a widow with one child, or two
surviving children, and from $250 to $430 for a widow with two or more
children, or three surviving children.
"I am particularly pleased to sign this legislation because
it corrects a serious deficiency in survivor benefits for widows and
children of the 71,000 members of the Public Employees' Retirement
System who do not have the protection of Social Security," Governor
Reagan said.
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In response to a telegram from Idaho's Governor Cecil D.
Andrus, Governor Ronald Reagan has sent the following reply:
"While I regret the necessity for taming Broncos with
Wildcats, I accept your wager.
"On December 11, after Chico State College has given a
football lesson to Boise State College in the Camellia Bowl, I know
that the people of Sacramento will apply the warm salve of California
hospitality to the wounded Broncos and their supporters.
"Needless to say, I am looking forward to sampling Idaho's
equally warm hospitality at Sun Valley."
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Sacramento, Californi
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
11-30-71
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills
have been signed:
AB 123 - Barnes
Directs the State College Trustees and the Coordinatin
(Chapter 1620)
Council for Higher Education to jointly develop
criteria for including state university in the name
of any state college.
AB
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- Brathwaite Extends the licensing provisions applicable to
(Chapter 1626)
institutions and boarding homes for aged persons
to persons aged 16 and above.
AB 581 - Russell
Permits indemnification by cities and counties of
(Chapter 1627)
innocent needy residents of California whose
property is injured or destroyed as a result of
specified criminal acts.
AB 643 - Brathwaite Requires medical insurance policies to include
(Chapter 1628)
immediate coverage for newborn infants of the insured
AB 870 - Barnes
Permits funds held by state and local agencies as
(Chapter 1629)
deferred compensation to be invested in a
specified manner.
AB 883 - Monagan
Requires the California Industries for the Blind to
(Chapter 1630)
contribute the same amount per month for health in-
surance for non-civil-service employees, as is
contributed for civil service employees of such
industries.
AB 1316 - Townsend
Provides that the provisions of a 1970 statute
(Chapter 1631)
which make sewer system corporations subject
to the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities
Commission shall become operative on July 1, 1972,
rather than July 1, 1971.
AB 1378 - Arnett
Requires general plans of counties and cities to
(Chapter 1632)
include a scenic highway element.
AB 1679 - McCarthy
Makes a number of technical amendments to provisions
(Chapter 1633)
dealing with property taxes.
AB 1680 - McCarthy
Makes conforming and clarifying changes relating
(Chapter 1634)
to sales and use taxes, cigarette tax, and
alcoholic beverage tax notices of delinquency to
creditors and insurance tax prepayments. The bill also
permits the Franchise Tax Board, State Board of
Equalization, Controller, and Department of
Human Resources Development to release tax liens
which are legally unenforceable.
AB 1720 - Moorhead
Amends the Subdivision Map Act to provide that
(Chapter 1635)
tentative and parcel maps and dedication of street
rights-of-way will not be requried in the case of
a division of land which is zoned for commercial or
industrial land development when the land is on an
operating right-of-way of a railroad, and the
division into parcels is made solely by short-term
leases terminable by either party on a 30-day
written notice. The bill further provides that any
regulations adopted to control divisions of land
other than subdivisions shall not apply unless a
showing is made in individual cases upon substantial
evidence that public policy necessitates the
application of such regulations to short-term leases
in such cases.
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AB 1755 - Sieroty
..equires county auditors, rather than county
(Chapter 1636)
assessors, to report to the Controller on
incorrectly allowed property tax exemptions for
which the state has reimbursed local taxing
agencies, commencing January 1, 1972.
AB 1759 - Gonsalves
Provides that, in any year where all assessments on
(Chapter 1637)
the local secured roll are raised or lowered,
information on the property tax bill shall include
information explanatory of such changes.
AB 1815 - Hayes
Allows suits for personal injury or wrongful death
(Chapter 1638)
to be continued in the name of the decedent who
dies after commencement of an action without
appointment of a personal representative or
successor in interest in specified cases in which
the defendant had liability insurance applicable to
the cause of action.
AB 1860 - Knox
Makes it a misdemeanor for any person to place fill,
(Chapter 1639)
extract materials, or make any substantial change
in the use of any water, land, or structure
within the area of jurisdiction of the San Francisco
Bay Conservation and Development Commission without
securing a permit from the commission.
AB 1905 - Warren
Provides that trials in actions to collect money
(Chapter 1640)
due on goods, services, loans, or extensions of
credit intended primarily for personal, family,
or household use, other than obligations subject
to the Unruh Act or the Rees-Levering Act, must
be brought either in the county in which the defend-
ant signed the contract, or the county in which he
resided at that time, or the county in which he
resides at the commencement of the action.
AB 1957 - Z'berg
Specifically authorizes specified fire protection
(Chapter 1641)
districts to purchase necessary equipment on a
contract, or to borrow money to make such
purchases, under specified conditions. The bill also
authorizes fire protection districts to establish
special fire protection zones which have been
annexed to a city for purpose of payment by taxpayers
of the zone of costs of fire protection services
rendered by the Division of Forestry, pursuant to
contracts with the city, for grass, brush, and
forest-covered lands in the zone.
AB 1981 - Sieroty
Prohibits the acquisition of public park lands
(Chapter 1642)
by a city, county or state agency unless it is
replaced by substantially equivalent park space
and facilities which are accessible to the same
general persons who used the original park. The
acquiring agency is to provide the payment for
the cost of the new park space and facilities. The
bill specifically states that it does not authorize
condemnation other than presently authorized by law
or affect the determination of a more necessary public
use.
AB 2060 - Karabian
Authorizes the service of interrogatories on any
(Chapter 1643)
party instead of only on adverse party.
AB 2131 - Campbell
Provides for the establishment and maintenance of
(Chapter 1644)
a dental program within the State Department of
Public Health.
AB 2172 - Cullen
Amends the Code of Civil Procedure provision
(Chapter 1645)
relating to exemption of certain earnings from
levy of execution.
AB 2326 - Russell
Requires the assessor, upon notifying a property
(Chapter 1646)
owner as to what value will be placed on his property,
to also inform him concerning the procedure whereby
the tax-payer and the county assessor, with
approval of the county legal officer, may stipulate
a value of the property rather than having a
contested equalization hearing.
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AB 2336 - Priolo
\mends and supplements the udget Act of 1971
(Chapter 1647)
to appropriate $400,000 from State Beach, Park,
Recreational and Historical Facilities Fund for a
grant to the City of Los Angeles for land acquisition
for the Rustic Sullivan Regional Park.
AB 2416 - Moorhead
Establishes a procedure under which the personal
(Chapter 1648)
representative of a deceased partner, under specified
circumstances, may continue the partnership business
as a partner.
AB 2453 - Hayes
Directs the party required to show "good cause" to
(Chapter 1649)
obtain discovery under specified provisions of the
Code of Civil Procedure to show specific facts
justifying discovery and that the matter is
relevant to the subject matter of the action or
reasonably calculated to lead to discovery of
admissible evidence.
AB 2653 - Lanterman Permits the Citizens Advisory Council on Mental
(Chapter 1650)
Health to employ staff and accept federal funds and
gifts.
AB 2717 - Quimby
Amends the Private Investigators and Adjusters Act
(Chapter 1651)
to permit licensed private investigators and patrol
operators and uniformed patrolmen employees of patrol
operators to purchase, possess, and transport tear
gas weapons if they are used solely for defensive
purposes in the course of the activity for which
the license was issued and if the person using them
has completed a course of instruction in the use of
tear gas approved by the Commission on Peace Officer
Standards and Training.
AB 2871 - Foran
Specifies that the Metropolitan Transportation
(Chapter 1652)
Commission is a local area planning agency and not
a part of the executive branch of the state
government.
AB 2994 - Miller
Increases the maximum liability of certain common
(Chapter 1653)
carriers from $100 to $500 for loss or damage of
a trunk and from $50 to $250 for loss or damage of
other luggage, as defined. The bill requires all
baggage checked with the carrier to be tagged
inside and out with the name and address of the
owner.
SB 385 - Harmer
Requires the State Department of Public Health to
(Chapter 1621)
keep specific records pertaining to therapeutic
abortions and to report the findings to the
Legislature every other year.
SB 424 - Zenovich
Provides unemployment insurance coverage for class-
(Chapter 1622)
ified employees of school districts to be operative
for service perfomed after December 31, 1971. School
districts would reimburse the cost of unemployment
benefits paid to their former employees, rather than
pay tax. Benefits costs are funded from existing
school district taxes levied for fringe benefits.
Instructional personnel, temporary and intermittent
employees, and students, are not covered by the bill.
SB 1210 - Marks
Establishes rules for the regulation of negative
(Chapter 1623)
option merchandising plans, such as those used by
book and record clubs.
SB 1308 - Collier
Assesses, on a one-time-only basis, a $1 fee, to be
(Chapter 1624)
collected at the time of vehicle registration for
1973, to be used for the purpose of removing
abandoned vehicles from the State's streets and
highways. The bill authorizes the Department of
Public Works to administer the program.
SB 1520 - Grunsky
Provides that if a justice court judge is assigned
(Chapter 1625)
to another justice court, he will receive, in addition
to his regular salary, extra compensation equal to
the portion of the regular salary of the judge
of the justice court to which he was assigned for
a comparable period of time, providing the aggregate
compensation does not exceed that of a municipal
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Governor Pagan also announced the Vt.0 of the following
bills:
SB 331 - Marks
This bill would require a court to issue a certificat
of detention to any person formally charged with a
crime, when the charge is dismissed before jeopardy
attaches.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The California Peace Officers' and District
Attorneys' Associations have urged me to veto this
legislation. They point out that a certificate of
detention is now issued to a person arrested and
released by a peace officer because there were
insufficient grounds to sustain the filing of a
complaint, or because the person arrested was under
the influence of drugs or narcotics and was released
to a medical facility after a determination that no
further proceedings were desirable.
"SB 331 would give every defendant, whether charged
with a serious crime or not, the right to a
certificate of detention if the case was dismissed fo
any reason. The reasons for dismissal could include
the unavailability of a key witness or the tender age
of a victim-witness. The issuance of a certificate
of detention, even if the certificate reflects the
reasons for dismissal, is not appropriate in these
cases.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned," the
governor said.
SB 737 - Moscone
Provides for an employee's recovery of specified
treble damages in addition to the amount of unpaid
wages and other penalties in a case where the Labor
Commissioner has determined the validity of the claim
and the amount of such claim and other applicable
penalties remains unpaid over 10 days after receipt
of notice by the employer that such wages are due
where employer is able to pay but willfully fails
to do SO.
REASON FOR VETO:
"California is one of the few states that provides
stiff criminal and civil penalties for a failure
to pay wages when the employer has the ability to
make such payments.
"The imposition of the penalty proposed by SB 737 is
not required to adequately protect the employee whose
wages have been willfully withheld by his employer.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned," the
governor said.
SB 920 - Collier
This bill would authorize the creation of the North
Coast Area Planning Organization.
REASON FOR VETO:
"What SB 920 proposes can already be done under the
provisions of the Joint Exercise of Powers Act,
making this legislation unnecessary. If local
governmental entities in the North Coast area wished
to use their existing authority to accomplish what
is intended by SB 920, they could do SO. But, it is
a decision they should make, not one which should be
imposed on them by the State.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned, "the
governor said.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californi
Contact:
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Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that five surplus
California tule elk will be shipped to west central Mexico where they
will go on public display near Guadalajara, capital of the state of
Jalisco.
The animals two males and three females--will roam a 100-acre
reserve in the lush, mile-high country.
Under the agreement, the elk will not be hunted and can be
withdrawn by the state at any time.
Governor
/ Reagan said the site has been inspected and found suitable for
the animals, natives of California's Central Valley.
"I am confident that all Californians, especially conservation-
ists, will endorse this plan as the wisest possible use of this
valuable resource in circumstances where reduction of herds is essential
"In addition to the good will this move will generate
between California and Mexico, this plan will also help stimulate the
growing interest in wildlife conservation among our good neighbors to
the south," he said.
The transplant was arranged with officials of the state of Jalis
by Ray Nesbit, executive officer of the California Wildlife Conservation
Board, and a member of the Commission of the Californias, an internationa
agency.
The California Department of Fish and Game, which manages the
tule elk in the state, has approved the transplant. The DFG is seeking
suitable sites for transplanting surplus animals.
According to DFG Director Ray Arnett, the transplant is part of
a continuing department program to maintain viable populations of the
animal that was rescued from the brink of extinction before the turn of
the century.
The population was believed to have been down to a single pair
in 1874. Stocking the animals on refuges led to the gradual increase
in their numbers.
There are approximately 500 tule elk in the state, a minimum 300
in the five herds in the Owens Valley of Inyo County, 140 in the Cache
Creek area of Lake and Colusa counties and 32 in the Tupman Elk Reserve
State Park in Kern County.
Tule Elk have been distributed by the DFG to ZOOS in San Diego,
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Fresno, Oakland, Phoenix, Tacoma and West
Germany.
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