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Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
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Collection: Reagan, Ronald: Gubernatorial Papers,
1966-74: Press Unit
Folder Title: Releases - Bills Signed and Vetoed 1970
[01/20/1970-08/20/1970]
Box: P22
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R.R. VETOES (1970)
AB 13
Deddeh
SB 186
Nejedly
182
Britschgi
194
Rodda
196 Milias
219
Dymally
197 Milias
220
Dymally
221 Campbell
242
Harmer
284 Thomas
299
Cologne
316
Chappie
374
Stiern
590
Greene, B.
378
Dymally
598 Burke
433
Bradley
758 Warren
454
Lagomarsino
778
Foran
519
Marler
782 Ralph
541
Bielenson
808 Brown
542
Bielenson
854 Burton
554
Dymally
873
Hayes
589
Moscone
909
Brathwaite
626
Stiern
957 Briggs
637
Kennick
962 Walsh
658
Mills
1028 Brown
683
Bielenson
1231 Sieroty
696
Dills
1285 Stacey
904
McCarthy
1304 Zenovich
943
Moscone
1305 Zenovich
945
Lagomarsino
1383 McCarthy
1104
Deukmejian
1538 Chappie
1183
Stiern
1560 Britschgi
1214
Burns
1579 Vasconcellos
1318
Burgener
1604 Cory
1371
Bielenson
1650 McCarthy
1402
Way
1665 Davis
1747 Murphy
1807 Vasconcellos
X
591
Moscone
1820 Powers
1836 Sieroty
1837 Sieroty
1859 Chappie
1861 Crandall
1899 Townsend
1967 Miller
1972 Vasconcellos
1995 Murphy
2007 Greene, B.
2217 Brown
2263 Burton
2323 Murphy
2333 Ketchum
2493 Fong
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
1-20-70
#42
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the
signing of his first bill passed by the 1970
legislative session.
The bill, AB 131, authored by Assemblyman
Frank D. Lanterman (R-La Canada), validates the
Pasadena Area Junior College District Maximum
tax rate election held October 21, 1969.
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office
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
2-18-70
#109
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that he has signed the
following bills:
AB 51 - Chappie
Extends until April 6, 1970, the time within
(Chapter 3)
which candidates must file a financial
disclosure statement. Present law requires
the filing of such statements within 10 days
of filing of the declaration of candidacy or
declaration of acceptance.
AB 355 - Monagan
Provides that the annual rate of interest on
(Chapter 2)
bonds authorized pursuant to the University of
California Health Science Facilities Construc-
tion Program Act of 1969 may be set by the
legislature as provided by Senate Constitutional
Amendment 26 of the 1969 legislative session.
SCA 26 is listed as Proposition #7 on the June
primary ballot. The health facilities bond
act is Proposition #1.
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PB
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
2-27-70
#124
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that he has signed the fol-
lowing bills:
AB 69 - Lanterman
Validates organization, boundaries, acts,
(Chapter 4)
proceedings, and bonds of counties, cities
and specific districts, agencies and entities.
AB 102 - Hayes
Authorizes cities which have included items in
(Chapter 5)
their annual operating budgets for the 1969-70
fiscal year which are financed by other means
to provide by ordinance either for a refund of
that portion of the first installment of tax
due on property on the secured roll which
reflects the amount on the second installment
or for a refund of such amount as paid for
both installments. The bill also establishes
procedures to adjust the rate of tax on the
unsecured roll for the following year and for
canceling a part of the interest and penalties
on tax delinquent property on the secured roll.
The bill's provisions become incperative on the
61st day following final adjournment of the
1971 regular session of the legislature.
AB 133 - MacGillivray
Specifies that property otherwise eligible for
(Chapter 6)
assessment as open-space lands to be so assessed
if the instrument reflecting the fact the
property is enforceably restricted to open-
space uses is signed or recorded on or before
May 15, 1970. The present deadline is March 1,
1970
AB 235 - Beverly
Authorizes the Savings and Loan Commissioner
(Chapter 7)
to increase the limit on gifts or premiums
which savings and loan associations may give
as inducements to make deposits to the limits
set for federally chartered associations.
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EJG
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-17-70
#156
AB 153 - Bagley
Requires that any use taxes imposed by the Santa
(Chapter 8)
Clara County Transit District, the Southern
California Rapid Transit District, or the San
Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District contain
a provision exempting a retailer from collecting
such tax where property is not shipped or
delivered into the district or where the
retailer does not participate in the district
in making the sale of the property.
AB 155 - Davis
Reappropriates funds heretofore appropriated
(Chapter 10)
for expenditure pursuant to the Emergency
Flood Relief Law and makes funds available for
repair of public real property of cities,
counties, and districts damaged by storms and
floods occurring between December 1, 1969, and
July 1, 1970.
AB 200 - Badham
Authorizes the Department of Finance to estimate
(Chapter 13)
the population of a county for purposes of
determining such county's share of the subventions
to local government from the state's vehicle
in-lieu tax revenues in the year of a federal
decennial census, as well as in other years.
AB 203 - Knox
Defines the term "new permanent employee
(Chapter 14)
positions" for purposes of the Government Code
provisions concerning what county expenditures
may be approved in the beginning of a fiscal
year before the appropriations for that year
have been finally determined and adopted.
AB 204 - Knox
Provides that county tax rates may be set on
(Chapter 15)
the next working day whenever September 1st falls
on a Saturday or holiday.
AB 205 - Knox
Repeals the Government Code provision that all
(Chapter 16)
county warrants specify the liability for which
they are drawn and when it accrued.
AB 206 - Knox
Revises dates and procedures for submission of
(Chapter 17)
budgets, determination of rates and levy of
taxes for citrus pest control districts,
mosquito abatement districts, sanitary districts,
public cemetery districts, fire protection
districts, hospital districts, soll conservation
districts, separation of grade districts, county
water districts, water storage districts,
municipal water districts, and levee districts.
AB 273 - Brown
Permits the Board of Supervisors of the City
(Chapter 9)
and County of San Francisco to hire 2 chief
adult probation officer who does not meet the
state and county residency requirements of
existing law.
AB 415 - Lewis
Provides that school districts may validate
(Chapter 12)
or approve any prior, current, or future
payments or claims resulting from insurance or
health benefits given its employees and their
dependents.
AB 471 - Duffy
Excepts private mental institutions not
(Chapter 18)
required by law or regulation to have an
organized medical staff, resident medical staff,
or nursing staff from the provisions of law
requiring approval by voluntary area planning
agencies prior to licensing by the Department
of Mental Hygiene.
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AB 483 - Duffy
Extends the termination date for the period
(Chapter 21)
during which a citrus pest control district
may pay limited compensation to the owner of
any citrus tree infected with quick decline
from March 1, 1970 to March 1, 1975.
AB 703 - Moretti
Extends the maximum term for which savings
(Chapter 19)
shares and certificates may be issued by
savings and loan associations from 5 to 10
years.
AB 728 - Davis
Authorizes boards of supervisors to provide
(Chapter 20)
for the assessment or reassessment of property
damaged or destroyed by a major misfortune
or calamity prior to March 1, 1970. To be
eligible for the reassessment, the property
must have suffered a loss of at least $1,000.
The bill applies to an area or region which
the Governor has declared to be in a state of
disaster. It provides that one-half of the
taxes for the 1969-70 fiscal year be paid
based on the value of property in its damaged
or destroyed condition.
SB 247 - Dolwig
Authorizes the governing board of a school
(Chapter 11)
district to permit high school pubils and
employees to engage in school band activities
to participate in foreign cultural excursions
for a period not to exceed 15 days a year.
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EJG
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
3-27-70
#174
Acting Governor Ed Reinecke announced today that he has signed
the following bills:
AB 94 - Monagan
Authorizes a governing board of an elementary
(Chapter 24)
school district formed from four or more contig-
uous elementary school districts within a county
to increase its membership from 3 to 5. The
bill provides for the election of the additional
two members.
AB 111 - MacGillivray
Permits public accountants, in addition to
(Chapter 25)
certified public accountants, to perform audits
of regional park districts, bridge and highway
districts and certain State College funds.
AB 115 - McCarthy
Makes a technical amendment to Section 647 of the
(Chapter 26)
Penal Code, relating to disorderly conduct.
AB 130 - Z'Berg
Provides that an escrow holder licensed as an
(Chapter 27)
agent or person exempted from such licensing
requirement acting as an escrow holder is an
"entitled person" for purpose of demanding
specified statement from mortgage or trust deed
beneficiary.
AB 202 - Knox
Amends the definition of "real estate syndicate"
(Chapter 28)
to provide that an interest held by a husband
and wife be considered held by one person.
AB 635 - Beverly
Provides that owners of residential property,
(Chapter 29)
depressed in value due to the expansion or
operations of the Los Angeles International
Airport, may petition the Los Angeles Interna-
tional Airport Property Acquisition Board for
payment of additional compensation at the same
time condemnation or acquisition proceedings
are initiated. The bill further provides that
the board shall award such additional compensa-
tion within 60 days after condemnation or other
acquisition proceedings are completed.
AB 1237 - Lanterman
Authorizes the Department of Social Welfare to
(Chapter 30)
use $6,900,700 of funds appropriated under
Section 32.5 of the Budget Act of 1969, to be
allocated for the cost of homemaker or attendant
care services.
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EJG
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-30-70
#176
Acting Governor Ed Reinecke signed the following bills on Friday,
March 27:
AB 400 - Cullen
Makes it unlawful for any person to utilize, for
(Chapter 31)
personal gain, nonpublic information received
by reason of his employment by, or contractual
relationship with, the trustees of the Californi,
State Colleges, a state college, or a state
college auxiliary organization, or received by
reason of his membership on the governing
board of a state college auxiliary organization.
AB 410 - Monagan
Changes the standards, bunch designations,
(Chapter 32)
packing requirements and markings on container
requirements for asparagus.
AB 423 - Crandall
Extends from January 1, 1970, to May 15, 1970,
(Chapter 33)
the time in which the statement, map and plat,
pertaining to annexation to a fire protection
district, may be filed with the County Assessor
and the State Board of Equalization in order to
be effective for assessment and tax purposes
in 1970.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-31-70
#179
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed into law a key element in his
1970 consumer protection program which will assure that information
obtained from clients in the preparation of state and federal income
tax returns is maintained in the strictest confidence.
The urgency measure (SB-485, Marks), which received unanimous
approval in the legislature, took effect immediately.
In signing the bill, the governor said:
"I am very pleased to add my signature to this important piece
of legislation which will assure California taxpayers, from this day
forward, that the information they provide to tax consultants, in the
preparation of their state and federal income tax returns, is maintained
in the strictest confidence.
"I believe that abuse of the private and confidential client-
professional relationship in such matters constitutes an intolerable
invasion of privacy.
"The occasion is an especially happy one, not only because the
bill forms a key part of our 1970 consumer protection program, but also
because the members of the Assembly and Senate in both parties saw
fit to move it so speedily through the legislature. It has taken less
than a month to move from introduction to signature.
"As you know, the law makes it a crime for tax consulting firms to
sell or disclose information obtained from clients, without their
written consent, or as otherwise authorized by law.
"The legislation is especially timely because it will protect a
majority of California taxpayers who are now in the process of having
their income tax returns prepared prior to the April 15 deadline.' "
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EJG
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
S acramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
4-6-70
#191
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced he has signed the
following bills:
AB 39 - Murphy
Extends the last date for making law library annual
(Chapter 38)
reports from July 15 to August 15.
AB 91 - Conrad
Amends the Elections Code to provide that any
(Chapter 36)
Republican elected or appointed to fill a vacancy
in a partisan office is a member of the Republican
State Central Committee. The bill grants such
persons the same right to make additional
appointments to the committee as is conferred upon
delegates to the state convention.
AB 198 - Cory
Provides that a member of the legislative body of
(Chapter 22)
a city whose territory is encompassed, in whole
or in part, by the boundaries of a sanitary
district is not disqualified from holding office
as a member of a district board solely because of
his membership on the legislative body.
AB 622 - Stull
Authorizes the district board of the Alpine
(Chapter 39)
Sanitation District in San Diego County to call
another bond election to be held within six months
after an election which failed if prescribed
conditions occur. The bill is operative until
January 1, 1971.
AB 665 - Britschgi
Authorizes the State Board of Forestry upon a
(Chapter 37)
finding of an emergency, to adopt temporary rules
effective for a period not to exceed 120 days.
The bill provides that such rules shall become
permanent upon adoption in accordance with
procedures for amending forest practice rules.
SB 49 - Lagomarsino
Extends the last date for making law library
(Chapter 40)
annual reports from July 15 to August 15.
SB 100 - Cologne
Requires that the petition for conservatorship by
(Chapter 35)
the office providing conservatorship investigation
under the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act be filed in
the county of residence of the patient.
SB 266 - Cologne
Provides, for purposes of certain evidence of
(Chapter 41)
writings kept outside of United States that the
final statement certifying specified items may
be made by diplomatic or consular official of a
foreign country assigned or accredited to the United
States.
SB 342 - Lagomarsino
Permits the State Allocation Board in instances
(Chapter 23)
where more than two years have elapsed since approval
of an application and after having required a school
district to issue additional qualifying bonds as a
condition to making an additional apportionment, to
continue making such additional apportionments as
are needed for a period of two years from the
date the requalifying bonds were required.
SB 397 - McCarthy
Extends the time in which the statement, map or
(Chapter 42)
plat regarding annexation to a city may be filed
with the State Board of Equalization for the
annexation to be effective for assessment and tax
purposes for the 1970-71 fiscal year.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE:
Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
4-24-70
#223
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that the
following bills have been signed:
AB 57 - Chappie
Permits the levy and collection of a school district
(Chapter 44)
tax for community services purposes in excess of
regular maximum for one fiscal year if such amount wa
inadvertently not levied or collected for 1969-70
fiscal year.
AB 72 - Ketchum
Makes the punishment for littering upon highways a
(Chapter 62)
fine of not less than $25 no part of which may be
suspended. The offense in question is a misdemeanor.
The bill fixes a mandatory $25 fine if a person is
convicted of littering. The court may impose a fine
of up to $500 or a six-month jail sentence, or both,
for such offenses.
AB. 123 - Moorhead
Repeals the Code of Civil Procedure section which
(Chapter 45)
provides that an interest in real or personal
property is vested if there is a person, or persons,
in being who could convey a fee simple title thereto,
and that an interest is not invalid merely because
its duration may exceed permissible time of its
vesting if the interest must vest, if at all, within
such time. The bill further provides that the
deletion shall not affect the validity of any
interest in property which is valid before effective
date of the bill.
AB 132 - Lanterman
Provides that school district tax override election
(Chapter 46)
ballots specify both in words and in figures the
proposed increase or decrease in maximum tax rates fo:
each $100 of assessed valuation.
AB 139 - Murphy
Provides that a search warrant, in absence of the
(Chapter 47)
magistrate's direction that it may be served at
any time of the day or night, shall be served only
between 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. Present law
provides that search warrants without such direction
from the magistrate must be served only in the
daytime.
AB 167 - Beverly
Allows destruction of certain county records, if
(Chapter 48)
permanent recordation is made by use of electronically
recorded video images on magnetic surfaces if a
duplicate video tape of such images is separately
maintained.
AB 170 - Veysey
Authorizes the formation of improvement districts
(Chapter 49)
within soil conservation districts for the purpose
of cooperating with landowners, in addition to the
federal government, in watershed protection and
flood prevention programs. The bill also authorizes
the construction of soil erosion prevention and
stabilization projects.
AB 177 - Chappie
Provides that any director of a district agricultural
(Chapter 50)
association who misses three consecutive regular
meetings of the board without the permission of the
board is deemed to have resigned as a director.
AB 226 - Chappie
Deletes the requirement that the advisory council
(Chapter 56)
appointed by the board of directors of the Placer
County Water Agency shall meet not less than twice
each month. It also changes the restriction on
payments to members for attendance at council
meetings to two meetings per month, rather than
24 meetings per year.
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AB 228 - Thomas
Revises the dates for delivery of the secured
(Chapter 63)
property tax roll to September 10th for both hand and
machine processed rolls, and revises the date for
preparation of assessed valuation statements from
July 15 to the third Monday in August. The bill
applies only to Los Angeles County.
AB 257 - Russell
Exempts specified peace officers or any person
(Chapter 57)
employed by the legislature from jury duty.
AB 290 - Karabian
Makes certain Government Code provisions relating
(Chapter 58)
to the court appearance and testimony of specified
law enforcement officers in civil cases applicable
to marshals and deputy marshals.
AB 302 - Dunlap
Permits local governmental bodies, including school
(Chapter 59)
districts, when there are two or more identical bids
for the purchase, sale, or lease of property,
services, bonds or the awarding of any contract, to
determine by lot which bid shall be accepted.
AB 324 - Ketchum
Establishes June 30, 1970, rather than December 31,
(Chapter 51)
1969, as the date after which practice as a geologist
without registration by the State Board is unlawful.
AB 362 - Belotti
Requires that in-lieu taxes on state forests be
(Chapter 60)
levied on the basis of continuing timber producing
land.
AB 381 - McGee
Permits an officer in charge of public records to
(Chapter 55)
destroy such records after five years without the
approval of the local legislative body or the city
attorney, if certain conditions are met. One of the
conditions is that such records must be microfilmed
prior to destruction.
AB 456 - Chappie
Provides that no crayfish taken from Lake Tahoe or
(Chapter 52)
the Lake Tahoe Basin may be sold or purchased.
AB 498 - Z'berg
Amends the Meyers-Milias -Brown Act to provide that
(Chapter 64)
no public agency shall unreasonably withhold
recognition of employee organizations.
AB 936 - Quimby
Permits certain agencies provided for by a joint
(Chapter 54)
powers agreement between San Bernardino County and
any city thereof to issue revenue bonds, pursuant
to the joint powers agreement, for the acquisition,
construction, maintenance or operation of sanitary
sewerage facilities if local health officers determine
an emergency exists. The bill is operative until
January 1, 1971.
SB 70 - Collier
Authorizes a county to supplement revenue from
(Chapter 53)
the special property tax for county advertising with
proceeds of the county privilege occupancy tax.
SB 287 - Lagomarsino Extends the date for filing applications for dump
(Chapter 43)
truck carrier permits from January 1, 1970, to
March 16, 1970.
SB 449 - Moorhead
Allows the public administrator to act as an
(Chapter 61)
executor without having to post an executor's bond
and oath. The bill provides that his official
bond and oath are in lieu thereof.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
5-8-70
#254
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 52 - Chappie
Appropriates $425,000 from the Harbors and
(Chapter 71)
Watercraft Revolving Fund to the Department of
Navigation and Ocean Development to acquire land
and develop recreational facilities at Kings Beach,
Lake Tahoe.
AB 62 - Chappie
Requires the state printer to print the number of
(Chapter 72)
copies of statutes deemed necessary by the Joint
Rules Committee of the legislature rather than at
least 1,200 copies. The bill also provides that
the number of bound statutes shall be only that
number determined by the Department of General
Services to be necessary to meet demand.
AB 90 - Schabarum
Eliminates the requirement that an air pollution
(Chapter 73)
control district allege inadequate remedy at law
or show irreparable damage or loss in actions to
enjoin alleged violations of air pollution laws,
rules or regulations. The bill also authorizes
nuisance actions against air polluters.
AB 117 - Deddeh
Requires vehicles loaded so as to obstruct the view
(Chapter 74)
of the driver to the rear of the vehicle to be
equipped with the prescribed side mirrors. The
bill specifies that such equipment requirements are
not to apply to a passenger vehicle when the load
obstructing the driver's view consists of passengers.
AB 127 - Hayes
Revises provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure
(Chapter 75)
relating to determination of the proper court for th
trial of prescribed actions.
AB 171 - Hayes
Provides for specified remedies relating to leases
(Chapter 89)
of real property. The changes made by the bill
become operative on July 1, 1971.
AB 225 - Chappie
Requires the designation of lode and placer claims
(Chapter 90)
and tunnel rights or locations by means of
conspicuous and substantial monuments and defines
such monuments. It provides that when a claim is
surveyed and a plat of survey is recorded, such
shall constitute valid location work. The bill
also makes it a misdemeanor to take down, remove,
alter or destroy any stake, post, monument or notice
of location upon any mining claim.
AB 233 - Berryhill
Deletes the maximum speed limit of 30 miles per hour
(Chapter 76)
for implements of husbandry which exceed 96 inches
in width when transported or moved as a load on
another vehicle over an interstate highway, or
when such implements of husbandry exceed 120 inches
in width when transported or moved over any other
highway.
AB 270 - Fenton
Authorizes the appointment of a traffic referee in
(Chapter 85)
municipal courts with more than two judges to perform
specified judicial duties.
AB 291 - Wakefield
Repeals obsolete provisions of the Education Code
(Chapter 82)
relating to the establishment and operation of
California Academies.
AB 293 - Vasconcellos Deletes the statutory termination date of the
(Chapter 83)
Elections Code provisions authorizing school
districts to provide bus transportation for students
to and from summer employment.
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AB 310 - Chappie
Extends the time local agencies can apply for
(Chapter 77)
emergency flood relief or snow removal funds in
connection with the 1968-69 floods and storms.
The bill also excludes the 1968-69 fiscal years
from the five-year period for calculating the
distribution of snow removal funds.
AB 354 - Murphy
Allows publication of city ordinances in a
(Chapter 91)
newspaper of general circulation printed and
published in the county and circulated in the
city as an alternative to posting where there
is no newspaper of general circulation published
and circulated in the city.
AB 361 - Belotti
Authorizes the Director of General Services, with
(Chapter 78)
the consent of the Director of Conservation, to
lease certain property known as the Mendocino
Woodlands for a period not to exceed 30 years
to a nonprofit corporation for recreational
purposes.
AB 386 - Russell
Authorizes any regularly employed and salaried
(Chapter 66)
employee, who is engaged in the direction of
traffic or enforcement of parking regulations,
when designated by the sheriff of any county or
the chief of police of any city, to remove a
vehicle from a highway, except a freeway, when
such vehicle is left parked or standing on a
highway so as to obstruct normal movement of
traffic.
AB 422 - Ketchum
Makes it a felony or misdemeanor, rather than a
(Chapter 79)
misdemeanor only, to wilfully assist in the
escape of a judicially committed or remanded
state hospital patient or to assist him in
resisting return from leave. The bill makes
escape or attempted escape by a person committed
to a state hospital as unable to stand trial
because of mental illness a felony or misdemeanor
if the escape or attempt occurs after the patient
is certified sane by the hospital director. The
bill also makes it a felony or misdemeanor,
instead of a misdemeanor only, to furnish deadly
weapons to a mental patient.
AB 466 - Hayes
(Chapter 93)
Specifies that the suspension, expiration, or
cancellation of a vehicle salesman's license shall
not prevent the filing of accusation for
revocation or suspension of the suspended,
expired, or cancelled license and the Department
of Motor Vehicle's decision that such license be
suspended or revoked.
AB 441 - Beverly
Authorizes the use of a facsimile signature of the
(Chapter 92)
chairman of the county board of supervisors on
copies of
contracts and minutes of the board.
AB 502 - Stacey
Provides that the Board of Medical Examiners
(Chapter 94)
may delegate to its executive secretary or other
board officer or employee its authority to
process applications for medical corporation
certificates of registration and specified
permits, and to issue such certificates of
registration and permits.
AB 653 - Fenton
Permits a declaration of homestead by the head
(Chapter 80)
of a family or by any person 65 years of age or
older to include a statement that the present
declaration is an augmentation of a former claim
of homestead and is within the statutory limit
for value of such homestead.
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AB 677 - Milias
Corrects a reference contained in Section 3507 of
(Chapter 81)
the Elections Code.
SB 21 - Nejedly
Requires the general plans of counties and
(Chapter 65)
cities to identify areas which are to be
designated as solid and liquid waste disposal
facilities.
SB 28 - Nejedly
Specifies that if a local health officer
(Chapter 67)
establishes strict or modified isolation (rather
than isolation only) all persons shall obey
his rules, orders, and regulations. The bill
also authorizes local health officers to issue
a strict isolation order where there has been
noncompliance with a prior modified isolation
order.
SB 51 - Alquist
Changes the date for newspaper publication of
(Chapter 86)
school district budgets from the first week
in June to last week in July of each year and
sets the time for the accompanying public
hearing from a period between June 10 and
June 25 to a period during the first week in
August.
SB 96 - Lagomarsino
Declares the policy of the state to encourage
(Chapter 88)
conservation, maintenance, and utilization of
living resources of oceans and other waters under
the jurisdiction and influence of the state to
benefit citizens of the state and to promote
development of local and distant water fisheries.
The bill includes specified objectives of such
policy.
SB 99 - Cologne
Deletes the reference to guardianship under the
(Chapter 68)
Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, and provides for
appointment of an existing guardian or
conservator or another person as conservator
of a gravely disabled person under the Act.
SB 129 - Song
Provides that the judicial doctrine of res ipsa
(Chapter 69)
loquitur is a presumption affecting the burden
of producing evidence. The bill specifies
when the jury is to be instructed concerning
the presumption and the contents of such
instruction.
SB 140 - Stiern
Requires licenses for dogs once every two
(Chapter 70)
years, rather than annually.
SB 159 - Marler
Changes the boundary of Fish and Game District
(Chapter 87)
2A in Glenn, Lake and Mendocino counties.
SB 255 - Bradley
Includes in the pooled collateral law bank deposits
(Chapter 84)
received from a county advanced or apportioned
pursuant to Agriculture Code Section 4481. The
bill allows agents of a depository to place
securities for safekeeping with California
trust companies (as well as federal reserve
banks or branches, or banks located in a city
designated as a reserve city by the Federal
Reserve Board of Governors); and exempts from
the pooled collateral law deposits belonging to
a local agency and under the control of its
officers or employees other than treasurers which
are less than the amount insured under federal
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 44 - Davis
Specifies, with respect to the mutilation or
(Chapter 113)
destruction of obsolete textbooks 30 days after a
specified notice is given to the Department of
Education that such action may be taken unless the
Department provides for other disposition of such
books within 30 days of the date of notice.
AB 60 - Chappie
Removes the requirement of board of supervisor
(Chapter 103)
approval of travel by county officers to meetings
called by any civil executive officer of the state
pursuant to state law, and instead authorizes such
travel if funds have been appropriated by the board
of supervisors.
AB 89 - Subcommittee
Amends the Penal Code to provide that the term
on Air Pollution
"ordinance" authorizing public officers and
(Chapter 114)
employees to make arrests for misdemeanors shall
include an order, rule or regulation of an air
pollution control district.
AB 118 - Duffy
Authorizes drainage districts to construct, maintain,
(Chapter 115)
and operate recreational facilities in connection
with any dam, reservoir, or other work owned or
controlled by the district.
AB 126 - Moorhead
Requires that public entities give a prescribed
(Chapter 104)
notice to claimants whose claims have been denied
or rejected that they have only six months to file
court actions on their claims. A similar bill
(SB 100) was vetoed last year because it also made
provision for late filing of claims. AB 126 does
not contain any provisions relating to late filing
of claims.
AB 157 - Ketchum
Appropriates the net proceeds from the sale of
(Chapter 116)
certain state-owned lands to the Capital Outlay Fund
for Higher Education in turn to be expended for
relocatable faculty office buildings at California
State Polytechnic College at San Luis Obispo.
AB 213 - MacGillivray Requires the State Oil and Gas Supervisor to
(Chapter 117)
supervise the drilling and operations of geothermal
wells so as to prevent damage to life, health,
property and natural resources.
AB 300 - Veysey
Validates certain final apportionments of state
(Chapter 118)
school building aid based on conditional apportion-
ments made prior to the 61st day after final
adjournment of the 1970 Regular Session.
AB 308 - Mobley
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to Government Code
(Chapter 119)
provisions relating to annexations by cities.
AB 475 - Ketchum
Requires all containers of potatoes holding less than
(Chapter 120)
50 pounds to be marked with one of the grade markings
established by the United States Department of
Agriculture. The bill also provides that open
containers need not be so marked when they are part of
an open display which is. marked with one of the grade
markings.
AB 616 - Knox
Declares that the state has no financial interest
(Chapter 121)
in an annuity purchased for an employee where the
premium is paid from a deduction or reduction in
the employee's salary. It prohibits negotiation or
requiring the placement of such annuity through a
particular agent, broker, or company.
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AB 617 - Knox
Includes spouses and dependents of students, teachers
(Chapter 98)
and employees of educational institutions within the
benefit coverage of a policy of blanket insurance
issued to such educational institutions.
AB 630 - Z'berg
Removes the requirement that the affidavit stating
(Chapter 105)
that an application for a default judgment was
mailed to the defendant be made only by the
plaintiff or his attorney.
AB 708 - Wilson
Deletes the requirement that the secretary of the
(Chapter 122)
Board of Dental Examiners give written notice of
the suspension of revocation of a license to the
county clerk of each county in which the license is
registered.
AB 864 - Duffy
Authorizes the Director of General Services to
(Chapter 106)
exchange, with the concurrence of the commanding
general of the state military forces, a specified
armory site and facilities in the City of Visalia
with the City of Visalia for equal facilities.
AB 877 - Thomas
Authorizes county boards of supervisors in an area
(Chapter 99)
or region declared by the governor to be in a state
of disaster by reason of cleavages opening in the
earth and damaging property between the lien dates
in 1969 and 1970 to provide for the reassessment of
such property and to base part of the taxes on such
property for the 1969-70 fiscal year on the assessed
value of property in its damaged or destroyed
condition.
AB 901 - Knox
Provides that winegrowers and brandy manufacturers
(Chapter 100)
may hold and obtain off-sale beer and wine licenses
for their licensed premises.
AB 956 - Briggs
Provides that the six-month period in which to file
(Chapter 101)
claims with the Insurance Commissioner against an
insurer ordered to liquidate its business shall not
apply to the California Insurance Guarantee
Association under specified conditions.
AB 1277 - Ryan
Authorizes the governing board of any school district
(Chapter 123)
to provide for a field trip during the school year
to Washington, D.C., for pupils enrolled in any of
grades 1 through 8, inclusive, and employees
essential to activities of such pupils. The bill
provides that no travel or maintenance expenses of
pupils or school district employees making the field
trip shall be paid with school district funds and
prohibits governing board from charging any fee of
persons making the trip. The bill was sponsored by
the South San Francisco School District.
AB 1654 - Wilson
Increases the maximum rate of interest payable on
(Chapter 107)
bonds issued by a housing authority from 6 percent
to 7 percent. A 7 percent bond ceiling was authorized
for redevelopment agencies in 1969.
EB 117 - Collier
Revises the information required to appear on the
(Chapter 95)
tax bill for property sold for delinquent taxes.
SB 164 - Coombs
Authorizes any agency which institutes an action or
(Chapter 96)
proceeding to enforce zoning regulations to file a
notice of pendency of the action or proceeding in
the county recorder's office.
SB 171 - Grunsky
Redesignates all public junior colleges in California
(Chapter 102)
as community colleges, and junior college districts
as community college districts. The bill does not
mandate name changes on existing junior colleges or
junior college districts.
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SB 211 - Lagomarsino
Provides that a soil conservation district shall
(Chapter 108)
be declared to be organized when the board of
directors of such district select the date, time,
and place of regular monthly meetings of such
directors.
SB 212 - Lagomarsino
Deletes the requirement for submitting copies to
(Chapter 109)
the Chief, Division of Soil Conservation, of
proposals for, and filing copies of reports and
resolutions on formation of soil conservation
districts. The bill specifically provides that
inclusions of land, transfers of land,
consolidations, partitions, and dissolution of
such districts are to be pursuant to District
Reorganization Act of 1965.
SB 213 - Lagomarsino
Makes soil conservation districts subject to the
(Chapter 110)
District Reorganization Act of 1965.
SB 215 Marler
Removes the requirement that deer hunters must
(Chapter 111)
retain deer hides and increases the period hunters
must retain deer antlers or that portion of the
head normally bearing antlers from ten days to
fifteen days following the close of the deer season.
SB 216 - Mills
Clarifies the Education Code provisions regarding
(Chapter 112)
the maximum rate of school district tax for certain
districts having expiring voted overrides to specify
that the maximum tax rate shall, upon expiration of
the period of such voted increase, revert to
applicable rates fixed under present law, rather
than pre-1964 law.
SB 309 - Marler
Excludes the value of any motor vehicle in
(Chapter 97)
determining the $3, 000 limit under which a probate
proceeding is not required.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have been
signed:
AB 141 - Milias
Extends from 1972 to 1975 permit conditions for the
(Chapter 136)
release and recapture of domestically reared
anadromous fish in Waddell Creek, Santa Cruz County.
At the same time it extends the date for the Fish
and Game Commission report and recommendations to
the legislature regarding such permits from 1971 to
1972.
AB 195 - Thomas
Defines a midwater trawl as a trawl net and makes
(Chapter 137)
provisions for the Fish and Game Commission to
regulate its use.
AB 303 - Barnes
Increases retirement benefits for Division of
(Chapter 131)
Forestry members of the Public Employees' Retirement
System.
AB 305 - Barnes &
Provides that the maximum age of a candidate for any
Belotti
examination for firefighting positions with the
(Chapter 138)
State Division of Forestry shall be 31 years. The
bill becomes operative September 1, 1970.
AB 420 - Greene, L.
Broadens the authority of a county board of
(Chapter 125)
education to require reporting of severance of attend-
ance by public or private school pupils who are
subject to the compulsory education law.
AB 459 - Chappie
Exempts from the prohibition against signs of
(Chapter 139)
specified size and content at on-sale licensed
premises buildings located within state parks on
which signs depicting or reproducing historical
conditions and usage may be placed. The bill also
allows the use of the word "saloon" on on-sale
premises in areas registered by the Department of
Parks and Recreation as historical landmarks.
AB 519 - Milias
Authorizes the State Commission on Voting Machines
(Chapter 147)
and Vote Tabulating Devices to study and adopt
regulations governing the use of voting machines
and vote tabulating devices and to investigate any
alleged violation of its regulations.
AB 595 - Greene, L.
Specifically authorizes the governing board of a
(Chapter 126)
school district to delegate the power to contract
to persons, rather than a person, designated by
the district superintendent. The bill also gives
governing boards power to delegate to a designated
employee the authority to make certain purchases of
less than $10,000. Such authority has been limited
in application to the Los Angeles City School District
AB 628 - Belotti
Revises applicability of certain provisions relating
(Chapter 140)
to sales of petroleum products. The bill also exempts
portable dispensing devices for aircraft fuels from
the requirements relating to price indications on
petroleum dispensing apparatus.
AB 645 - Badham
Includes among the various specified powers of the
(Chapter 141)
Orange County Water District, the power to protect
the quality of common water supplies, to inject and
extract ground water, to improve and protect the
quality of ground water supplies, to provide for
protection and enhancement of the environment in
connection with the district's water activities, and
to make agreements for recreational use of the
district's facilities.
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AP 870 - Ketchum
Repeals the Agricultural Code provision that permits
(Chapter 142)
any registered manufacturer of ant poison to
manufacture and sell, and any dealer in ant poison
to sell ant poison which contains not more than a
specified percentage of thallium prepared, packaged,
and sold in accordance with regulations of the
Director of Agriculture.
AB 896 - Chappie
Makes clarifying amendments to the Health and
(Chapter 127)
Safety Code provisions relating to mobilehomes.
AB 1023 - McCarthy
Permits correction of the assessment role for errors
(Chapter 143)
with respect to taxable tangible property rather
than only personal property.
AB 1024 - McCarthy
Requires an assessor to assess all property subject
(Chapter 144)
property taxation according to its value on the
lien date.
AB 1346 - Wood
Repeals an obsolete section of the Milk Stabilization
(Chapter 145)
Law relating to stabilization and marketing plans
for fluid cream.
AB 2518 - MacDonald Requires the Director of Health Care Services to
(Chapter 132)
bring payment within the total amount scheduled
for the 1969-70 fiscal year for any category of
service budgeted for less than 100 million dollars
when the amounts paid exceed by 15 percent, rather
than 10 percent, the amount scheduled.
AB 2521 - Greene, L. Provides that any presently employed secondary
(Chapter 124)
level teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School
District may be permitted to teach in grades 4 to
8, inclusive, for a period to be determined by the
governing school board, but not to exceed two years.
SB 33 - Nejedly
Provides that all meetings conducted by a board of
(Chapter 146)
supervisors pertaining to salaries of county
employees shall be open and public except those
held with the board's designated bargaining
representatives on such matters. The bill also
provides for notice of such meetings.
SB 60 - Grunsky
Authorizes boards of commissioners of harbor districts
(Chapter 128)
to pass ordinances for the protection and safety of
persons and property. The bill makes the violation
of such ordinances a misdemeanor.
SB 232 - Lagomarsino
Provides that when property is acquired after
(Chapter 129)
the lien date by a public entity and becomes tax
exempt, unpaid taxes on the property shall be paid
through escrow at the close of escrow or if unpaid,
collected like any other taxes on the unsecured roll.
The bill also provides for the transfer of tax-
delinquent property from the secured to the unsecured
roll in certain cases and for the manner of
correcting errors with respect to additional taxes
due on delinquent property.
SB 317 - Schrade
Permits boards of supervisors in counties having an
(Chapter 133)
industrial farm, road camp or honor camp to authorize
by ordinance, the person in charge of such facility
to permit the removal of persons confined therein for
private medical, vision, dental, psychobgical care,
vocational and educational services and funerals
without a court order. The bill also authorizes the
board of supervisors to designate a facility other
than the county Jail for work furlough programs.
SB 354 - Short
Provides that the period of more than 90 days
(Chapter 134)
between active memberships shall not affect the
computation of final compensation of a member of
more than one system established pursuant to the
County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937, if he
is precluded by law from becoming a member of the
second system.
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SB 406 - Lagomarsino
Authorizes the board of supervisors of any county
(Chapter 135)
to establish reasonable fees to cover the costs
incurred by county agricultural commissioners in
the enforcement of the Agricultural Code provisions
relating to lettuce used for chopping or shredding.
SB 448 - McCarthy
Allows board of supervisors to dispose of county
(Chapter 130)
property not required for public use by leasing,
in addition to selling outright, pursuant to the
same procedures and requirements which now govern
the sale of such property.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have been
signed:
AB 61 - Chappie
Authorizes a board of supervisors to compel by
(Chapter 154)
ordinance the owner, lessee, or occupant of specified
property in the county to remove dirt, rubbish, weeds
or other rank growth from such property and adjacent
sidewalks. The bill also allows the board to
prescribe, by ordinance, the procedure for such
removal or destruction.
AB 76 - Schabarum
Prohibits the sale and registration in California
(Chapter 155)
of any new motor vehicle required to meet emission
standards unless the manufacturer has securely
affixed thereto a decal showing the applicable
exhaust emission standards and the exhaust emissions
of the engine and transmission combination
determined by tests or certification fleet tests.
New car dealers selling an automobile without the
decal will be subject to a civil penalty not to
exceed $1,000.
AB 77 - Schabarum
Authorizes the Air Resources Board to revise its
(Chapter 156)
test procedures for new motor vehicles when
warranted by scientific developments, to establish
new revised standards for emissions from motor
vehicles tested under these new procedures and to
express these new standards in different terms
and numerical values than those in existing law
or regulation. In no case may the new standards
be less stringent than existing standards.
AB 107 - Wood
Includes reuse or reclamation of water sought to
(Chapter 157)
be appropriated as a specifically mentioned relative
benefit to be derived from appropriated water, which
the State Water Resources Control Board is required
to consider in acting upon applications to appropriat
water.
AB 116 - Veysey
Provides that the city council shall be the
(Chapter 158)
supervisory authority of a recreation and park
district if the district is a subsidiary district
of any city, pursuant to the District Reorganization
Act of 1965.
AB 142 - Foran
Requires the California Highway Patrol to adopt
(Chapter 159)
reasonable regulations establishing specifications
and standards for safety helmets offered for sale,
or sold, for use by motorcycle operators and
passengers. The bill prohibits the sale, or offer fo
sale, for use by motorcycle operators and passengers,
any safety helmet which is not of the type approved
by the Department.
AB 192 - Thomas
Adds flour and protein concentrate and animal food
(Chapter 160)
to the list of fish products for which specified
information, such as origin block of catch and
type of gear used, is required. The bill also
requires that the master of any vessel operating
with a trawl net must complete a trawler log
furnished by the Depatment of Fish and Game and
submit it by the tenth day of each month rather than
by the fifteenth.
AB 214 - Dunlap
Declares a portion of the Napa-Vallejo Highway
(Chapter 161)
between Rio Del Mar and Kelly Road to be a county
road for purpose of being eligible for grade
separation funds.
AB 237 - Barnes
Authorizes a school district governing board to
(Chapter 162)
invest reserve funds in investments authorized for
the investment of county employees' retirement funds.
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AB 271 - Mulford
Adds one member of the Senate, appointed by the
(Chapter 163)
Senate Rules Committee, and one member of the
Assembly, appointed by the Speaker of the
Assembly, as members of the State Environmental
Quality Study Council. The bill provides that
such members shall constitute a joint investigating
committee on the subject of the Council.
AB 297 - Priolo
Revises the deadline for withdrawal of ballot
(Chapter 1(4)
arguments from the date of printing to the final
date for filing such arguments.
AB 313 - Sieroty
Changes the affidavit of registration to state
(Chapter 118)
that a voter is not disqualified from voting by
reason of a felony conviction, rather than
requiring all felons to disclose the fact they
were convicted.
AB 320 - Greene, L.
Allows a city to annex territory owned by the
(Chapter 165)
State of California, if the state consents and
if the territory is contiguous, in the same county,
and not a part of any other city.
AB 436 - Deddeh
Provides that a nonresident entitled to exemptions
(Chapter 166)
may operate a motor vehicle in California for a
period not to exceed 10 days from the date he
established residence in this state, except if he
is employed for compensation for the purpose of
driving. The bill also provides that a nonresident
from a foreign jurisdiction, holding a valid
license issued by a jurisdiction having licensing
standards deemed equivalent to those in this state,
may drive without obtaining a California driver's
license, except if he accepts employment to drive
for compensation.
AB 472 - Biddle
Eliminates the six months minimum confinement
(Chapter 167)
period prior to release in outpatient status of
persons confined in the California Rehabilitation
Center.
AB 473 - Biddle
Permits discharge of narcotic addicts from the
(Chapter 168)
outpatient program of the California Rehabilitation
Center after two years (rather than three years)
abstention from narcotics while an outpatient.
AB 521 - Milias
Changes the requirement for noting continuation
(Chapter 169)
of a list of candidates on a punchcard ballot
from a single ballot page to a pair of facing
ballot-pages, except that where there are too
many candidates for one pair of facing pages, a
series of overlaying pages printed only on the same,
single side must be used.
AB 539 - Milias
Provides that the transfer of a county park or
(Chapter 170)
any part thereof by the county to any city or
district of the county, shall not be deemed to be
an abandonment of park purposes under the County
Park Abandonment Law of 1959, if such transfer is
expressly made subject to the condition that such
property be used only for park purposes.
AB 584 - Russell
Authorizes savings and loan associations to make
(Chapter 149)
amortized loans on security of dwelling units subject
to federal leased housing program.
AB 594 - Johnson, H. Increases the maximum limit of the Los Angeles
(Chapter 171)
County Flood Control District revolving fund from
$500 to $1,000.
AB 611 - Briggs
Prohibits the Orange County Board of Supervisors
(Chapter 187)
from closing the Fullerton branch of the Orange
County Superior Court.
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AB 624 - Schabarum
Makes statutory changes necessary to conform
(Chapter 172)
the statutes to the Governor's Reorganization
Plan #1 of 1969.
AB 667 - Briggs
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to
(Chapter 173)
issue an identification card to a person without a
California driver's license upon furnishing such
bona fide documentary evidence of age and
identity as the department may require rather than
requiring a birth certificate, a draft card, a
social security number or naturalization papers.
AB 673 - Lewis
Revises the Vehicle Code provisions limiting the
(Chapter 174)
number of lamps which may be lighted on the front
of vehicles at any one time.
AB 674 - Lewis
Revises the requirements to be met before a
(Chapter 175)
motortruck and semi-trailer, in combination, may
be between 60 feet and 65 feet in length.
AB 785 - Moorhead
Provides for the filing of a petition for
(Chapter 176)
determination of heirship any time after first
publication of notice to creditors and prior to the
time a petition for final distribution has been
filed.
AB 795 - Johnson, H. Repeals the Water Code provision requiring a
(Chapter 177)
county water district to include the entire
corporate area of a city in the district if the
district annexes an uninhabited incorporated
area lying inside the boundaries of the city.
AB 837 - Priolo
Deletes the requirement that a savings and loan
(Chapter 178)
association pay an assessment for support of the
Department of Savings and Loan prior to issuance
of a license. The bill also changes the procedure
for payment of such assessment from an annual to
biannual basis.
AB 866 - Deddeh
Provides that in state civil service examinations
(Chapter 179)
held on an open, nonpromotional basis, three
credits, known as career credits, shall be added
to the earned score of competitors who have
permanent civil service status. The bill also
eliminates veterans' preference points in open,
nonpromotional examinations.
AB 897 - Chappie
Makes a loan of up to $160,000 to the Grass Valley
(Chapter 180)
Elementary School District to pay contracted
indebtedness during the 1969-70 fiscal year.
AB 945 - Hayes
Provides for an increased retirement allowance
(Chapter 181)
formula for employees retiring after age 60 in
certain counties under the County Employees'
Retirement Law of 1937.
AB 965 - Lewis
Deletes the prohibition against payment by savings
(Chapter 182)
and loan associations of any commissions,
emolument, gratuity or reward to an employee,
other than appraiser, based on the volume or
number of loans made or based on interest or fees
collected on loans.
AB 1005 - Dent
Increases from two to four meetings per month for
(Chapter 183)
which directors may be compensated for attending
in the case of a county water district having
75,000 or more registered voters or a total
assessed valuation in excess of $40,000,000.
AB 1013 - Berryhill
Authorizes the Canning Tomato Advisory Committee
(Chapter 184)
to advise the Director of Agriculture on the
annual budget and revenue necessary to carry out
the canning tomato inspection program. The bill
also provides the Director of Agriculture shall
name an alternate for each member of the
Committee who shall attend the committee meeting
only in the absence of the member for whom they
are an alternate
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AB 1079 - Schabarum
Directs the Department of Mental Hygiene to
(Chapter 185)
quitclaim specified portion of Pacific State
Hospital property to the Trustees of the California
State Colleges.
AB 1269 - Karabian
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Elections
(Chapter 186)
Code.
SB 67 - Sherman
Provides for continuation of a part of the
(Chapter 150)
retirement allowance of a local miscellaneous
member of the Public Employees' Retirement
System to his spouse, child or parents after his
death after retirement for service or for
disability if the contracting agency elects to
be subject to such provision.
SB 283 - Stiern
Specifies procedures for the adjustment of the
(Chapter 151)
assessment roll where specified property tax
exemptions are granted after the lien date.
SB 431 - Dills
Revises the qualifications for membership
(Chapter 152)
on the Marine Research Committee in the Department
of Fish and Game, and changes the term of
appointment to four years, or until a successor
is appointed.
SB 532 - Cologne
Revises the maturity standards for desert
(Chapter 153)
grapefruit.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have been
signed:
AB 43 - Belotti
Redefines "reduction plant," "packer, If and
(Chapter 189)
"fish offal" for the purposes of the Fish and
Game Code provisions relating to commercial fishing
AB 121 - Dent
Requires the governing board of every school
(Chapter 199)
district, or personnel commission, insofar as
possible, to determine the practices relating to
morning- and night-shift differentials in private
employment in which it must compete for employees
for its classified staff. The bill further
provides that the governing board of any school
district may provide differential compensation
for employees performing duties which are
distasteful, dangerous or unique in nature.
AB 365 - Davis
Provides that the Board of Supervisors of Tehama
(Chapter 190)
County shall serve ex officio as the Board of
Directors of the Tehama County Flood Control and
Water Conservation District. The bill also
authorizes the directors to appoint county
officers and employees as officers and employees
of the District.
AB - 433 - Monagan
Prohibits obligee who fails to give a responsive
(Chapter 191)
answer within 60 days to an obligor's written
inquiry concerning a debit or credit on the
obligation from imposing any interest or finance
or service charges from date inquiry is mailed
to date responsive answer is given. The bill is
limited in application to retail installment
accounts and credit card transaction.
AB 537 - Milias
Specifies that organized camps are subject to
(Chapter 200)
regulation by water quality control boards and
the State Water Resources Control Board.
AB 540 - Ketchum
Provides that articles, materials, and supplies
(Chapter 192)
made in state prisons may, rather than shall, be
purchased by agencies of local government.
AB 660 - Hom
Allows a board of supervisors to authorize the
(Chaper 193)
county auditor to act in lieu of and with same
authority as the board relating to refunds of
moneys, other than taxes, erroneously paid into
the county treasury. The bill also provides that
a board of supervisors may, upon recommendation
of the county auditor, provide by ordinance that
the three-day waiting period after claim, before
warrants are issued in payment, shall not apply
to any claims or specified classes of claims.
AB 1119 - Beverly
Authorizes judicial review by writ of mandate of
(Chapter 194)
the decisions of hearing boards of county air
pollution control districts.
AB 1211 - Fenton
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Insurance
(Chapter 195)
Code.
AB 1213 - Fenton
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Business
(Chapter 196)
and Professions Code.
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AB 1345 - Wood
Provides for a separate definition of low-fat
(Chapter 197)
cottage cheese, which has the same standards as
partially creamed cottage cheese. The bill also
increases the moisture content permitted in
partially creamed cottage cheese and low-fat
cottage cheese from 80 percent to 82.5 percent.
AB 1461 - Lewis
Provides that a savings and loan association
(Chapter 198)
which provides safety deposit box services is
entitled to specified remedies available to banks.
SB 195 - Burgener
Revises the procedure for calling an election,
(Chapter 188)
upon petition of voters, to withdraw a school
district from a junior high school or system
of junior high schools maintained by the
governing board of a county, union, or joint
union high school district.
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Contact:
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445-4571
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#312
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed into law a bill he proposed
last January which immediately channels $16.5 million in state funds
for classroom construction in a dozen school districts throughout the
state.
At a special ceremony in his office, the governor said:
"The additional classrooms this money will help to build will go a
long way toward relieving the need for double and triple sessions in
school districts most critically affected those experiencing the most
rapid growth in the state."
(AB-74, Crandall)
The bill/puts the $16.5 million in the form of a loan to the State
Local Allocations Board which will be repaid out of the proceeds of
yesterday's favorable school bond sale conducted by State Treasurer
Ivy Baker Priest.
The bond funds are expected to be available to the state in July.
As a result, the $16.5 million repayment will be used to build
additional classrooms on a number of community college campuses. These
projects will be selected by the Board of Governors of the California
Community Colleges.
"The double effectiveness of this plan insures absolute maximum
utilization of state funds currently on hand for school construction
purposes," the governor said.
"Certainly, the additional facilities required to meet the
mushrooming enrollment needs of the community colleges are of equal
importance to the continued progress of our overall system of public
higher education in California."
Governor Reagan listed the following school districts as those
designated by the Local Allocations Board for the $16.5 million in
construction aid:
Napa Valley Unified, Napa County
$7,761,483.22
Geyserville Unified, Sonoma County
861,565.04
Igo-Ono Platina, Shasta County
60,000.00
Shaffer Union, Lassen County
276,780.00
Oak Grove, Santa Clara County
1,709,590.54
Hollister, San Benito County
855,895.66
Herlong, Lassen County
289,402.00
Tustin Union High, Orange County
2,119,494.70
Washington Union, Monterey County
47,629.79
Murray, Alameda County
124,074.00
San Ysidro, San Diego County
239,524.31
Ceres Unified, Stanislaus County
1,540,440.37
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#318
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed into law a key element in his
1970 consumer protection legislative program---a bill to permit the
adoption of high safety standards for all tires used on motor vehicles
in the state.
He noted that California law does not now prescribe such standards
for vehicle tires after they have been sold or installed for the first
time.
"This legislation (AB-733, Lewis) will better protect tire users
throughout the state by filling this void and prohibiting the sale of
used and recap tires which fail to meet high safety standards set by
the California Highway Patrol,' he said.
"In addition, it will define the minimum amount of tire tread and
durability necessary for a vehicle to operate safely on our streets and
highways.
"This is an important step forward- not only in our administration's
efforts to protect consumers, but also in strengthening the state's
overall highway safety program.
"In the final analysis, the law will help to save lives, and that
is the most compelling reason of all for its enactment," the governor
said.
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#319
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation (AB 356,
Monagan) to increase the state's share of the cost of employee health
insurance from the present level of $8 per month to a maximum of
$10 per month.
The governor said the bill has received strong backing from
the administration and "demonstrates our continuing commitment to
improve the health benefits of the many thousands of state employees
who, day in and day out, serve the people of California with
dedication and skill."
He also noted that similar benefits are provided by many
businesses.
The bill will increase the amount of the state's contribution
by $2 each succeeding year, up to a maximum of $16 per year in 1973-74.
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#327
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 230 - Thomas
Provides that the Fish and Game Commission shall
(Chapter 234)
encourage the development of new types of
commercial fishing gear and new methods using
existing gear by issuing permits for their use
subject to such conditions as the commission deems
necessary to insure the proper utilization of the
marine resource.
AB 442 - Wood
Permits the assessor to grant an extension of time
(Chapter 203)
for filing a claim for the homeowners' property tax
exemption where a timely claim is filed, but the
claim is otherwise defective because it lacks all
required information or signature of the claimant.
AB 504 - Greene, L.
Specifies that funeral and last illness expenses
( Chapter 213)
shall be deemed debts payable out of the estate of
the deceased spouse, and shall not be charged to
the community share of the surviving spouse, rather
than being primarily payable out of the estate.
AB 567 - Lewis
Requires school personnel commissions (except in
(Chapter 204)
Los Angeles) to give each school district permanent
classified employee copies of the rules of the
commission and information on the merit system
rather than make such rules and information
available to employees. In Los Angeles a summary
of rules and working conditions is to be provided
each classified employee. Copies of commission
rules for loan to employees are to be available at
each school office and worksite.
AB 576 - MacDonald
Includes among the purposes for which harbor
(Chapter 205)
districts may borrow money, the acquisition of land
for harbor works, projects, or facilities. The
bill also raises the maximum rate of interest on
harbor district indebtedness from 6 to 7 percent.
AB 585 - Berryhill
Amends the Commercial Feed Law to authorize the
(Chapter 235)
Director of Agriculture to suspend or revoke the
license of a commercial feed dealer for noncompliance
with the law or regulations issued thereunder.
AB 662 - Belotti
Requires that brake fluid dispensers bear the brand
(Chapter 214)
name and duty type classification of the brake
fluid contained therein.
AB 676 - Milias
Requires fenders, covers or devices to be installed
(Chapter 215)
so as to minimize the spray or splash of water to
rear of a vehicle on any motor vehicle having three
or more wheels and any trailer or semitrailer with
certain exemptions provided.
AB 687 - Crandall
Permits the State Commission on Voting Machines to
(Chapter 236)
study and adopt regulations governing the use of
voting machines and vote tabulating devices and to
investigate any alleged violation of regulations.
The bill requires the filing of a copy of each
election computer program with the Secretary of
State at least one week before the election. The
bill also requires submission of ballot arguments on
county measures to the author of the contrary
argument for preparation of a rebuttal argument, to
be filed not more than 10 days after the final date
for filing direct arguments. The bill incorporates
the provisions of AB 519 (Chapter 147) and adds
an urgency clause. The bill also conforms county
ballot argument procedures with those now permitted
in state elections.
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AB 736 - Chappie
Prohibits domestic brandy from being included with
(Chapter 237)
other distilled spirits when making quantity
discounts.
AB 756 - Badham
Authorizes release of a county jail prisoner who
(Chapter 238)
is on a work furlough program for the purpose of
any continuing medical treatment for injury
incurred during period of employment or education.
AB 881 - Briggs
Authorizes the clerk of the superior court to
(Chapter 239)
maintain a register of actions by means of
photographing, microphotographing, photocopying, or
mechanically or electronically storing the whole
content, or any portion thereof as will constitute
a memorandum, of all papers and records necessary
to the keeping of a register of actions.
AB 899 - Brathwaite
Permits a local ordinance to require payment of a
(Chapter 206)
fee as a condition of approval of a parcel map for
a division of land not defined as a subdivision, as
well as for a final subdivision map, for purposes
of defraying costs of constructing specified
public improvements relating to water drainage.
AB 914 - Burke
Requires all motorcycles manufactured and first
(Chapter 217)
registered after January 1, 1971, to be equipped so
all taillamps, when turned on, will remain lighted
automatically for a period of at least one-quarter
hour if the engine stops.
AB 951 - Cory
Includes the request for entry of default as part of
(Chapter 218)
the judgement roll in cases in which the defendant
does not answer the complaint.
AB 1002 - Biddle
Exempts a driver who is in the process of exiting
(Chapter 219)
from a highway or a driver who must necessarily
drive in a lane other than the right-hand lane
to continue on his intended route from the
requirement that vehicles be driven in designated
lanes at specified times.
AB 1004 - Crandall
Repeals the Education Code sections which require
(Chapter 220)
absentee ballots for school districts. The bill
would make it easier for persons in nursing homes
and hospitals to cast their ballot in school
district elections.
AB 1095 - Wood
Establishes standard carrot container 45X, to be
(Chapter 221)
considered standard only for carrots which are sold
to the armed forces.
AB 1212 - Fenton
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Civil Code.
(Chapter 240)
AB 1214 - Fenton
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Government
(Chapter 241)
Code.
AB 1215 - Cory
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Labor Code.
(Chapter 242)
AB 1216 - Cory
Makes nonsubstantive amendment to the Revenue and
(Chapter 207)
Taxation Code.
AB 1262 - Lanterman
Appropriates $4,000,000 in augmentation of the
(Chapter 222)
Emergency Fund, Budget Act of 1969.
AB 1273 - Badham
Amends certain provisions of the Labor Code to
(Chapter 243)
reflect the transfer of jurisdiction over
employment agencies from the Department of
Industrial Relations to the Department of Professional
and Vocational Standards.
AB 1573 - MacGillivray
Extends until the 61st day after 1972 Regular
(Chapter 223)
Session of the legislature, the use of trawlnets
between Point Arguello and a line running due
south from El Capitan Point.
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AB 1773 - Belotti
Eliminates the requirement that a department must
(Chapter 244)
secure approval from the Department of Finance to
make exhibits for fairs and to fund them within
their appropriations.
AB 2532 - Ralph
Authorizes school districts to apply to the
(Chapter 208)
Superintendent of Public Instruction for exemption
from the provisions requiring specified percentages
of amounts in school district budgets to be
expended for the salaries of classroom teachers.
The bill is applicable only for the 1969-70 fiscal
year, with applications to be filed before June 30,
1970.
SB 180 - Cusanovich
Requires the agency which receives report of
(Chapter 224)
accident resulting in injury or death which it is not
responsible for investigating to immediately forward
such report to the law enforcement agency which is
responsible for investigating the accident. The
bill permits the report of such accident occurring
within a city to be made to the California Highway
Patrol or police department of a city in which
accident occurred, rather than to such police
departments.
SB 313 - Danielson
Provides that the clerk of a local legislative
(Chapter 201)
body shall file a revised map with the county
recorder within 10 days of any order of
modification which deletes territory from an
assessment district instead of 10 days prior to the
adoption of such an order.
SB 332 - Danielson
Requires, under the Improvement Act of 1911, that
(Chapter 209)
written consent of a property owner be obtained
prior to any work being done on private property
to eliminate the disparity in level between the
street and driveway, etc.
SB 384 - Lagomarsino
Requires that an applicant for a cosmetologist
( Chapter 225)
license who fails two examinations take a further
course of study in a school of cosmetology of 50
hours for each subject in which passing grade was
not received, rather than a course of study of not
less than 500 hours. The bill also requires that
an applicant for a manicurist license who fails two
examinations take further course of study of 50
hours, rather than not less than 50 hours.
Applicants for an electrologist license who fail
two examinations must take a further course of 75
hours, rather than not less than 150 hours.
SB 451 - Bradley
Provides that certain public officers and employees
(Chapter 226)
are deemed to have a "remote interest, in a
contract between the officer's agency or body
or board of which such officer is a member and a
borrower or depositor, debtor or creditor of a
bank, bank holding company, or savings and loan
association of which the public officer or
employee is an officer, director or employee.
SB 478 - Coombs
Specifically provides that the exception from the
(Chapter 227)
Contractors License Law for persons who engage
in activities regulated by such law as employees
with wages as their sole compensation does not
apply to persons subject to prescribed Business
and Professions Code provisions relating to
persons engaged in the business of home improvement.
SB 491 - McCarthy
Restricts specified provisions governing the
(Chapter 228)
establishment of Marin County Flood Control and Water
Conservation District projects to projects which
exceed $10,000. The bill also increases from
$2,000 to $3,500 the limit on the cost of work above
which competitive bidding will be required.
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SB 534 - Sherman
Changes the requirement of marking the runway of
(Chapter 229)
a private airport with an "X" to include other
symbols as selected by the Department of Aeronautics
which shall be guided by letters or symbols used by
the Federal Aviation Administration.
SB 548 - Sherman
Increases the maximum rate of interest on
(Chapter 230)
Alameda County Flood Control and Water Conservation
District bonds from 5 percent to 7 percent.
SB 605 - Cologne
Authorizes the county treasurer to issue a master
Chapter 231 )
warrant for the payment of expenditures of a citrus
pest district. The master warrant would be drawn
on the order of the board of directors with
approval of the board of supervisors and attested
to by district officers.
SB 628 - Mills
Authorizes local agencies employing temporary
(Chapter 232)
borrowing to issue notes payable during the fiscal
year succeeding the fiscal year in which issued,
but in no event later than 15 months after the
date of issue, when such note is payable only from
revenue received or accrued during the fiscal year
in which issued. The bill authorizes pledging of
accounts receivable from the state or federal
governments as payment for temporary borrowing.
SB 761 - Danielson
Provides that prescribed provisions of the Streets
(Chapter 210)
and Highways Code which relate to the collection of
the costs of construction of sidewalks and curbs
are to be used in the collection of such costs
for work done outside of the city or county
undertaking the improvement.
SB 844 - Lagomarsino Defines "waste" for purposes of the Porter-Cologne
(Chapter 202)
Water Quality Control Act as including waste placed
within containers prior to, and for purposes of,
disposal.
SB 991 - Teale
Provides that all laws in force on June 1, 1970,
(Chapter 233)
fixing the salaries of district attorneys or
county auditors are continued in force and effect
as local county ordinances. Proposition 2, which
was approved by the voters on June 2, provides that
the governing board of each non-charter county,
rather than the legislature, will fix the salary
of the district attorneys and county auditors.
This bill is intended to insure that district
attorneys and county auditors will be paid for the
month of June.
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#341
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills
have been signed:
AB 173 - Bagley
Increases the amount of subventions to various
(Chapter 272)
counties to compensate for revenues lost by
reason of the partial exemption for business
inventories, includes goods intended for lease in
definition of business inventory, and includes
certain metropolitan water districts and county
water authorities within the group of local
agencies compensated from state funds for revenues
lost by reason of the homeowner's property tax
exemption and the partial exemption for business
inventories. The bill also provides that the
taxable property of school districts shall be the
total taxable property of the districts prior to
reductions caused by the exemption of assessed
value of business inventories and homeowners
property tax exemption.
AB 208 - Britschgi
Provides that the third Monday in February, the
(Chapter 246)
last Monday in May and the fourth Monday in October
and that Thursday in November proclaimed by the
President as "Thanksgiving Day,' are public school
and classified service employees' holidays. The
bill also provides that if a classified school
employee is required to work a workweek, other
than Monday through Friday, and as a consequence
loses a holiday to which he would otherwise be
entitled, he shall be entitled to compensation or
equivalent time off. The bill conforms the time
of certain school holidays with existing state and
federal law. The bill (as in the case of state and
federal law) becomes operative on January 1, 1971.
AB 298 - Priolo
Makes uniform the Election Code provisions for the
(Chapter 256)
preservation of declarations of candidacy, sponsor
certificates, and nomination papers, requiring
that they be held for four years after the term
of the office sought expires.
AB 488 - Chappie
Requires the filing of a financial report with the
(Chapter 250)
State Lands Commission rather than with Department
of Finance, whenever any provision now in force,
or hereafter enacted, grants or conveys state
tide or submerged lands and requires the filing of
any financial report with Department of Finance.
AB 511 - Ryan
Extends various employment protection rights and
(Chapter 271)
privileges for classified employees in school
districts which are organized, from a one-year
period to a two-year period, after the
reorganization. The bill also extends through
August 31, 1970, the period of reemployment and
bumping rights after layoff, for employees whose
layoff or bumping would have been effective as of
June 30, 1970, except for delay caused by process
of determining relative seniority and bumping right:
with respect to the separation of the unified
school district and the junior college district
including the City of Los Angeles.
AB 542 - Berryhill
Authorizes and directs the Department of General
(Chapter 291)
Services to transfer real property and
appurtenances of the Modesto State Hospital facility
to Stanislaus County and Yosemite Junior College
District on specified terms and conditions.
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A3 905 - Murphy
Provides that a person is guilty of a misdemeanor
(Chapter 257)
if he misrepresents himself to be parent or
guardian of minor and thereby causes the minor to
be admitted to an exhibition of harmful matter.
The bill provides that nothing in the laws relating
to harmful matter prohibits a parent or guardian
from permitting child or ward to attend exhibition
of such matter if accompanied by him.
AB 980 - Mulford
Requires the clerk of the superior court to
(Chapter 247)
publish the list of nominees for the grand jury,
including the name of the judge who selected each
person on the list, one time in a newspaper of
general circulation before such names are placed
in the "grand jury box."
AB 1032 - Hayes
Eliminates as a ground for demurrer the contention
(Chapter 258)
that the court has no jurisdiction over the
person of the defendant.
AB 1038 - Murphy
Forbids bringing or possessing any firearm (rather
(Chapter 259)
than only a loaded firearm) upon the grounds of,
or within, any public school, including the
University of California and state colleges, by
persons other than peace officers or other
specified persons.
AB 1039 - McCarthy
Provides that title to lost or saved property
(Chapter 260)
shall not vest in the person who found or saved the
property or in the successful bidder at public
auction unless the cost of publication is first
paid to the public entity or agency making such
publication.
AB 1051 - Crandall
Specifically excludes certain warrants from the
(Chapter 261)
Government Code provision requiring audit of
demands prior to approval by the legislative
body of a city when such warrants are drawn in
payment of demands certified or approved by the
city clerk as conforming to a budget approved by
ordinance or resolution of the legislative body
and are presented to the legislative body for
ratification and approval at the first meeting
after delivery of the warrants.
AB 1076 - Thomas
Amends the definition of distributor in the
(Chapter 262)
milk stabilization law as it relates to ship
chandlers. It clarifies in the definition that
a person who sells milk to documented or foreign
registry vessels is a milk distributor provided
that he assembles and delivers milk to such
vessels.
AB 1197 - Cory
Authorizes city councils to withdraw department
(Chapter 263)
heads from the civil service system without
voter approval.
AB 1254 - Crandall
Deletes requirement that a branch of a savings
(Chapter 264)
and loan association state in all advertising the lo
location of the principal office.
AB 1255 - Crandall
Provides that applications to the local board
(Chapter 265)
of equalization for an assessment reduction in
Los Angeles County shall be filed between the
third Monday in July and September 15th, rather
than between July 2nd and September 15th.
AB 1414 - Beverly
Authorizes the clerk of Los Angeles municipal
(Chapter 266)
court to charge prescribed fees for court forms.
AB 1462 - Lewis
Authorizes precinct indexes to be furnished in
(Chapter 267)
alphabetical order, rather than in numerical
order by street address, in precincts where the
majority of voters have no street address.
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I.B 15.8 - Badham
Authorizes the Orange County Flood Control
(Chapter 268)
District to preserve and enhance its properties
and for such purpose to acquire, preserve, and
enhance lands contiguous to its properties, for the
protection and preservation of the scenic beauty
and natural environment of such properties.
AB 1568 - Knox
Provides for elections in territories not part
(Chapter 270)
of districts which may become district territory
as a part of a reorganization proceeding under
the District Reorganization Act of 1965.
AB 1946 - Hayes
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to certain Civil
(Chapter 269)
Code provisions relating to family law.
AB 2524 - Britschgi
Makes a loan of up to $600,000 to the Ravenswood
(Chapter 248)
School District to enable the district to pay
contracted indebtedness, due and owing, in the
1969-70 fiscal year.
SB 74 - Rodda
Allows municipal utility districts to issue bonds
(Chapter 245)
at a discount not to exceed 6 percent of par
value, as determined by the district's board of
directors. The bill also removes the 7 percent
maximum interest rate provision for municipal
utility district bonds which are issued without
an election in place of other unissued bonds.
SB 292 - Beilenson
Deletes the residence requirement for admission
(Chapter 251)
to the practice of law in California for both
general applicants and attorney applicants.
SB 359 - Grunsky
Specifies that, except for the original
(Chapter 252)
contractor, any person furnishing provisions,
provender, or other supplies, as well as certain
other specified persons, may serve a stop notice
on the public entity responsible for public work
in accordance with designated provisions. The
bill states that it is declaratory of preexisting
law.
SB 569 - Burgener
Permits boards of supervisors to authorize the
(Chapter 249)
county treasurer to make a temporary transfer of
funds in prescribed amounts, based on an
entitlement for the 1968-69 fiscal year under
Public Law 874 of the 81st Congress, to specified
school districts as assistance in meeting their
financial obligations for the remaining portion
of the 1969-70 fiscal year. The bill provides
for the repayment of such transfers.
SB 607 - Cologne
Makes a nonsubstantive amendment to the Madera
(Chapter 253)
County Flood Control and Water Conservation
Agency Act.
SB 609 - Cologne
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Water Code.
(Chapter 254)
SB 770 - Moscone
Increases the salaries of various attaches of the
(Chapter 255)
San Francisco Superior Court.
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#348
Governor Ronald Reagan today strengthened the state's ability to
protect the insurance buying public by signing into law a bill he
proposed last March which will prevent property insurers from summarily
cancelling fire, homeowner and personal property insurance policies
without good cause.
He noted that under present law, insurers may arbitrarily cancel
such policies at their pleasure, without giving any reason for their
action.
The new law (AB-165, Beverly) will remedy this weakness, he said,
by requiring those companies which contract to provide such insurance
protection to abide by their contracts unless violated by the insured.
The governor said the bill was prompted by instances in recent
years in which property insurers summarily cancelled policies on a
broad scale in areas hit by major fires and urban riots.
The new law---a key part of the governor's 1970 consumer protection
legislative program provides that policies may be cancelled after the
first 60 days (the initial underwriting period) for the following
reasons only:
Non-payment of premium
Insured's conviction of a crime
Fraud in obtaining insurance or pursuing a claim
-Grossly negligent acts or omissions increasing hazards.
Physical changes in property rendering it uninsurable.
In addition, the bill requires that the insurer must give the
policy-holder 45 days notice of intention not to renew.
Governor Reagan said "enactment of the law is an important step
forward in the state's continuing efforts to protect California
consumers. "
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#349
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed a bill that provides legal
and financial protection for state employees who worked while California
was without a budget.
The measure (AB 2538) by Assemblyman Frank Lanterman (R-Pasadena),
Ways and Means Committee chairman, protects the pay and benefits of
all employees who were on the job and new employees who began work
during the period between the end of the fiscal year and July 4, when
the budget was signed.
"The loyal and dedicated state employees who carried on their
duties at a time when the state ceased to function legally must be
protected. They have earned the gratitude of all Californians for
their devotion to duty and I am proud of them," the governor said
in signing the bill.
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Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-8-70
#351
Governor Reagan today announced that the following bills have
been signed:
AB 26 - Duffy
Provides that security interests in farming
(Chapter 310)
operations equipment or farm products other than
crops, or accounts or contract rights arising from
or related to sale of farm products by a farmer can
be perfected by filing with the Secretary of State,
rather than in the county of the debtor's residence,
or county where goods are kept if the debtor is a
nonresident.
AB 103 - Hayes
Provides that a court may expressly retain
(Chapter 293)
jurisdiction of any part or all of certain money
paid, delivered, deposited, or invested for the
benefit of a minor until the minor reaches the age
of 21 years.
AB 104 - Hayes
Inserts certain provisions, relating to termination
(Chapter 311)
of marriage, jurisdiction, procedure, attorneys'
fees, and costs under the Family Law Act into a
separate title of the Civil Code. The bill states
that it is declaratory of existing law.
AB 105 - Priolo
Requires county clerks to provide specified
(Chapter 294)
information to the legislature or an appropriate
legislative committee to use in connection with
reapportionment of legislative districts.
AB 124 - Moorhead
Revises the definition of "quasi-community property"
(Chapter 312)
for purpose of laws relating to property rights,
succession, homesteads, and gift taxes, to include
property acquired in exchange for real or personal
property which would have been community property
if the spouse who acquired the property so exchanged
had been domiciled in this state at the time of
its acquisition. The bill also revises the
definition of "quasi-community property" for
purposes of the Family Law Act to include real
property wherever situated, rather than only real
property situated in this state, which is
acquired in prescribed ways.
AB 193 - Thomas
Provides that on and after the lien date in 1971,
(Chapter 295)
"possessory interests" for purposes of property
taxation shall not include a nonexclusive right to
use any berth, wharf, dock, pier, or similar harbor
facility owned by a city, county, or harbor or
port district, and that such nonexclusive rights
shall not be subject to property taxation. The
bill specifies that if such rights are, in fact,
exclusive, they shall be subject to property
taxation, regardless of the manner in which they
were created.
AB 199 - Wood
Makes it unlawful to capture any wild, live game
(Chapter 296)
mammal, game bird or protected non-game bird, or to
confine or possess any such animal taken from
the wild except as provided by the Fish and
Game Code or regulations made pursuant thereto.
The bill further provides that the Department of
Fish and Game shall seize any illegally held
animal.
AB 240 - Ketchum
Authorizes persons who filed a declaration of
(Chapter 314)
candidacy for judicial office prior to May 1, 1962,
and were elected thereto, to receive credit in
the Judges' Retirement System for time served in
specified public offices.
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AB 288 - Berryhill
Authorizes the Director of Agriculture to
(Chapter 31,5)
maintain poultry and animal disease diagnostic
laboratories at a particular location, and if
the cost of maintaining the laboratory at such
location is in excess of providing the same
service at a central location the excess is to be
paid by fees. This bill will allow continuance
of the Petaluma and Turlock laboratories if the
additional costs are recovered by fees.
AB 329 - Quimby
Re-enacts the authority of a city to change to
(Chapter 278)
the district system of electing city councilmen.
The bill requires general law cities which elect
city councilmen by districts to adjust council
districts after each decennial federal census and
after the first census or population estimate
following annexation or consolidation so that the
districts shall be as nearly equal in population as
may be.
AB 335 - McGee
Provides an alternative definition of "final
(Chapter 316)
compensation" for use in computing benefits in a
county retirement system established under the
County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937.
AB 438 - Britschgi
Requires, rather than permits, a notice of
(Chapter 279)
execution, foreclosure, or probate sale of real
estate to give the street address or common
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designation of such property.
AB 536 - Moorhead
Clarifies the definition of an "established place
(Chapter 289)
of business" in the Vehicle Code relating to
dismantlers to provide for a clear division between
more than one business being conducted from the
establishment to be licensed.
AB. 547 - McDonald
Provides that no person may manufacture, sell or
(Chapter 317)
exchange any eyeglass C. sunglass frame made of
cellulose nitrate or similar flammable material.
The bill becomes operative on July 1, 1971.
AB 658 - Stacey
Provides, with respect to county employees
(Chapter 280)
retirement, that when it has been demonstrated to
the satisfaction of the board that the filing of
the member's application was delayed by
administrative oversight until after the date
following the day for which the member last
received regular compensation, such date will be
deemed to be the date the application was filed,
for purposes of determining the effective date of a
member's disability retirement. The bill also
provides, with respect to state teachers retirement,
that a member of the system who is qualified for
disability retirement because of mental incapacity
and who was removed from classroom teaching duties
for that reason and not assigned other full-time
duties, becomes eligible for disability retirement
benefits commencing at the time his application
is filed with the board but not earlier than the
day following the last day for which he received
regular compensation.
AB 767 - Knox
Requires the Office of Intergovernmental Management
(Chapter 318)
or any similar successor office to furnish specified
information to an agency designated by the
legislature.
AB 772 - Quimby
Allows San Bernardino County to appoint the clerk
(Chapter 281)
of the board of supervisors as any other county
officer is appointed.
AB 811 - Dent
Eliminates the requirement of prior approval by
(Chapter 282)
the county school superintendent of agreements
between school districts for services, joint use
and maintenance of facilities or structures.
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1B 833 - Chappie
Gives the State Board of Education broader
(Chapter 283)
discretion in approving plans for creating two
or more unified districts from one high school
district where there is an exceptional situation
and where the board finds that it is not
practical or possible to apply the criteria
prescribed by statute for the formation of
unified districts.
AB 853 - Burton
Increases the actual cash value which may be
(Chapter 319)
claimed as a homestead from $15,000 to $20,000
for heads of family and persons 65 or over, and
from $7,500 to $10,000 for any other person.
The bill provides that a declaration of
homestead filed prior to January 1, 1971, shall
be deemed amended on such date by increasing
the value of the property selected to the extent
that such increase does not impair or defeat the
right of a creditor to execute upon the property
which existed prior to such date.
AB 938 - R.Johnson
Revises the budgeting procedure for four
(Chapter 284)
agriculture industry financed inspection programs.
These programs are Livestock Identification,
Shipping Point Inspection, Canning Tomato Inspection
and Wine Grape Inspection.
AB 950 - Priolo
Establishes a procedure for challenging ballots
(Chapter 320)
during a recount.
AB 987 - Lanterman
Validates the acts and proceedings to increase
(Chapter 285)
the limit on the rate of school district
taxation prescribed by or pursuant to law.
AB 990 - Z'berg
Provides a procedure for waiving a jury trial
(Chapter 321)
when or after the trial has commenced or once
the cause has been assigned to a department
of the court for trial, where the party who had
originally demanded such jury trial subsequently
waives such trial or fails to deposit certain
required fees.
AB 1078 - Mobley
Establishes a Grape Inspection Advisory Committee
(Chapter 322)
in the Department of Agriculture.
AB 1168 - Dent
Makes it unlawful to possess certain species of
(Chapter 302)
animals which may not be imported, transported or
released alive in California.
AB 1358 - Schabarum
Authorizes the Department of Public Works to
(Chapter 286)
waive posting of labor and material bonds where
a contract is for less than $10,000 for the
emergency rental of tools or equipment for 20
days or less.
AB 1487 - Badham
Revises the provision in the Subdivision Map Act
(Chapter 297)
which permits certain signatures of persons owning
easements in the land to be left off a final map
to require the signature of the public entity or
public utility which has an easement, unless the
governing body determines certain specified
conditions exist.
AB 1504 - Dent
Provides that the exemption from taxation of
(Chapter 298)
business inventories does not apply to business
inventories assessed as escaped property under
specified Revenue and Taxation Code provisions.
AB 1505 - Dent
Provides that when any notice or communication is
(Chapter 287)
required by the Revenue and Taxation Code to
be mailed by registered mail, the mailing of such
item by certified mail shall be deemed to be
sufficient compliance with the requirements of
the law.
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AB 1610 - Cullen
Requires any person authorized to receive a deposit
(Chapter 299)
of bail to accept as bail for a nonfelony offense
a personal check of a defendant who has signed a
written notice to appear, if such defendant
furnishes satisfactory evidence of California
residence and if such check is drawn on a California
bank.
AB 1592 - Hayes
Provides that the revocation of a power of
(Chapter 323)
attorney relating to real property which has been
recorded, rather than instrument containing such
power, may only be accomplished by recording an
instrument containing the revocation in the
office in which such power is recorded.
AB 1632 - Lanterman
Requires that individuals meeting designated
(Chapter 288)
qualifications be permitted to take the examination
for a certificate of registration as an optometrist.
AB
1665 - Bagley
Specifies priority of coverage where two or more
(Chapter 309)
policies of automobile liability insurance apply
to same motor vehicle, insured, or specified loss
situations.
AB 1792 - Moorhead
Transfers from the Insurance Commissioner to the
(Chapter 301)
Corporations Commissioner stock permit
jurisdiction over "an organization organized for
the purpose of, but not necessarily the sole
purpose of, acting as the exclusive manager of any
organization, formed or to be formed, as a domestic
insurer."
AB 1864 - Crandall
Declares that funds apportioned to Alum Rock Union
Chapter 325)
School District by county superintendent of schools
shall be treated as appropriated from the State
Treasury. The bill also requires the
Superintendent of Public Instruction to withhold,
during 1970-1971 fiscal year, from apportionments
from the State School Fund to the district, an
amount equal to the amount of specified funds
actually disbursed, to the district by county
superintendent.
AB 2311 - Monagan
Requires that all containers of cherries be marked
(Chapter 290)
to indicate the size of the cherries in the
container. Present law requires size marks only
on closed containers.
SB 26 - Nejedly
Provides that, in any open end credit account,
(Chapter 304)
until the seller delivers a required written
disclosure statement, the buyer shall be
obligated to pay only the cash price of goods or
services pur chased.
SB 196 - Rodda
Authorizes deferral of notice that a probationary
(Chapter 273)
employee will not be employed in the following
year by a school district until the 45th day of
employment where he has been employed less than
45 days on March 15. Present law requires that
such notice be given on March 15 in all cases.
SB 304 - Sherman
Authorizes state competitive scholarship award
(Chapter 305)
winners to use such scholarships at the California
Maritime Academy.
SB 357 - Beilenson
Makes a clarifying amendment to an Education
(Chapter 306)
Code provision relating to state college student
fees.
SB 389 - Sherman
Clarifies the law relating to public inspection
(Chapter 274)
of special county record of birth certificate
marked to indicate that the certificate is not to
be used by a person compiling a business contact
list. The bill makes use of a certificate so
marked by a person compiling a business list a
misdemeanor.
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SB 517 - Bradley
Increases the number of, and salaries of, court
(Chapter 275)
clerks in certain municipal courts in Santa Clara
County.
SB 590 - Moscone
Requires a public administrator to publish his
(Chapter 276)
semi-annual report of estates handled three
successive times, rather than for 10 days.
SB 665 - Collier
Permits a board of supervisors, if land being
(Chapter 277)
subdivided is a portion of a larger parcel shown
on the last preceding tax roll as a unit, to order t
the creation of a new assessor's parcel which is to
include all the land in the subdivision.
SB 789 - Alquist
Permits local safety members credited with less
(Chapter 307)
than 20 years of service on the effective date
of adoption of increased retirement benefits by
their employers which require retirement at age
60 to continue employment, at the option of the
employer beyond age 60 until age 65 or until
completion of 20 years of service, whichever
occurs first.
SB 881 - Nejedly
Specifies that in a case where the board of directo:
(Chapter 308)
of a fire protection district is composed of
supervising authority, and board by resolution
appoints commissioners to act as its agents, that
such commissioners may be councilmen of cities
within the district. The bill also authorizes
such a board of directors to appoint 5 or 7,
rather than 5 commissioners.
SB 989 - Stevens
Requires five rather than 20, owners of
(Chapter 309)
assessable land in a proposed assessment district
to sign petitions for the initiation of
proceedings for the conversion of existing
overhead electric and communication facilities to
underground locations under the Improvement Act
of 1911.
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Governor Ronald Reagan has signed legislation that will make
it possible for an additional 3,000 high school students to receive
state scholarships.
The bill, (AB 31) authored by Assembly Speaker Bob Monagan
(R-Tracy) increases the number of available state scholarships from
two percent to three percent beginning with the 1971-72 fiscal year.
"This legislation will make it possible for more than 9,000
high school students, who lack the funds, to continue their education
at colleges and universities of their choice in California," the governor
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#362
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills
have been signed:
AB 399 - Cullen
Makes it a misdemeanor to knowingly sell, fabricate,
(Chapter 329)
install, glazing materials other than safety glazing
materials in, or for use in, hazardous locations,
unless such glazing material satisfies prescribed
standards.
AB 467 - Assembly
Declares legislative intent of encouraging counties
Committee on Health
to contract with community organizations to provide
and Welfare
innovative, non-inpatient treatment services for
(Chapter 330)
persons under the County Short-Doyle Plan. The bill
provides funding for such contracts of 85 percent
state funds which shall not exceed 5 percent of
the plan's total General Fund Appropriation, 5 percen
county funds and 10 percent contracting organization
funds which shall not include state or federal
funds. State funding is limited to 3 years for
any one contract.
AB 612 - Schabarum
Prohibits anyone from selling or advertising any
(Chapter 331)
device for use in a required motor pollution control
system which modifies the original performance of
the system as installed. It exempts devices which
the Air Resources Board finds do not reduce the
effectiveness of such systems.
AB 634 - Beverly
Appropriates $39,000 from the Motor Vehicle Fund
(Chapter 335)
to the Automobile Accident Study Commission for the
completion of the activities of the commission.
AB 769 - Stull
Exempts certain honorably discharged disabled World
(Chapter 336)
War II veterans, and veterans who served during
specified times from payment of described state and
local peddlers' license taxes and fees. Veterans of
earlier wars are presently exempt from the payment
of such taxes and fees.
AB 863 - R. Johnson Authorizes the Department of Parks and Recreation,
(Chapter 337)
in connection with the development of the Bidwell
Canyon-Kelly Ridge Area of Oroville Reservoir State
Recreation Area, to develop utilities and access
roads located outside the boundaries of state-owned
lands.
AB 884 - Roberti
Deletes the provision declaring that the acquisition
( Chapter 332)
of property for airports to be park purposes and
declaring that any land acquired for park purposes
may be used for airport purposes. The bill provides
that land acquired by a governmental agency for
airport purposes may be used for park or recreation
purposes until actually needed for airport
development.
AB 898 - Chappie
Deletes duplicate aithorization for the Department of
(Chapter 338)
Rehabilitation to extablish rehabilitation facilities.
The bill deletes the requirement of monthly meeting
of the Vocational Rehabilitation Appeals Board.
The bill also specifies that the Department of
Rehabilitation is to cooperate with the federal
government or its agencies in administering rules
or regulations adopted under any act of Congress
relating to the disabled.
AB 977 - Biddle
Repeals provisions for the commitment of mentally
(Chapter 339)
abnormal sex offenders and provides for the continued
commitment until discharge of persons committed under
those provisions. The repealed provisions do not
affect the law relating to mentally disordered sex
offenders.
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AB 998 - Knox &
Authorizes a court, upon its own motion or petition o
Dent
probationer or district attorney of county in which
(Chapter 333)
probationer is supervised, to modify, revoke, or
terminate probation. The bill requires that the
clerk of the court submit a copy of the probation
order and any subsequent changes in probationary
status to the law enforcement agency which
arrested person or investigated matter for violation
which supports the probation order. This bill also
permits the court to revoke probation if it believes
among other things, that the person has subsequently
committed other offenses, regardless whether he has
been prosecuted for such offenses, rather than is
engaging in criminal practices.
AB 1021 - H. Johnson
Extends the application and scope of the Contractor
(Chapter 340)
License Law as it applies to the installation of
mobilehomes and the installation and erection of
mobile home buildings and structures.
AB 1043 - Deddeh
Requires county clerks to keep a copy of the index
(Chapter 341)
of voter registration on file as a public record
for five years after printing.
AB 1044 - Deddeh
Allows voter registration affidavits to be
(Chapter 342)
reproduced in any manner approved by the National
Bureau of Standards rather than only by film.
AB 1045 - Deddeh
Deletes the statutory limit on the fee which a
(Chapter 343)
county clerk may charge a city for signature
verification on municipal nomination petitions.
AB 1060 - Moorhead
Makes discretionary, rather than mandatory, the
(Chapter 344)
filing of post-conviction statements of views by
the judge and the district attorney where the
probation officer has filed a report with respect to
the defendant and the crime committed.
AB 1094 - Dunlap
Provides that upon the death of a surviving spouse,
(Chapter 345)
former community property or any other property
acquired by or through the predeceased spouse upon
the death of the surviving spouse shall be distributed
to the family of the predeceased spouse rather than
escheat to the State.
AB 1183 - Zenovich
Provides that bonds issued under the Parking Law
(Chapter 357)
of 1949 may be sold at not more than a 6 percent
discount with a maximum interest rate of 7 percent.
AB 1230 - Britschgi Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Government
(Chapter 346)
Code.
AB 1272 - Badham
Prohibits a partnership, firm or corporation name
(Chapter 347)
from including the name of a geologist who is not
registered under the Geologist Act.
AB 1292 - Ketchum
Exempts surplus water of a privately owned water
(Chapter 348)
supply used for industrial, as well as domestic and
irrigation purposes from regulation by the Public
Utilities Commission when such surplus is sold or
delivered for specified purposes.
AB 1370 - Powers
Repeals an obsolete provision of the Labor Code.
(Chapter 349)
AB
1375 - Greene, B. Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Unemployment
(Chapter 350)
Insurance Code.
AB 1384 - Lanterman
Continues the present definition of "mentally
(Chapter 351)
retarded persons" as persons requiring supervision,
control, and care, for their own welfare or the
welfare of others or community welfare, rather than
as persons requiring such care because they are a
danger to themselves or others, and also provides no
mentally retarded person may be judicially committed
unless a danger to himself or others.
The bill also limits home visits from state hospital for the mentally
retarded to a period not exceeding 60 days and requires parent or guardian
approval prior to placement of such persons by a regional center for out-
of-home prehospital and posthospital_care.
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AB 1389 - Beverly
Makes a person eligible to be a municipal court
(Chapter 352)
judge in any Los Angeles County judicial district
if he is a resident eligible to vote in the county
for at least 54 days prior to election or appointment.
Present law limits such eligibility to judicial
districts in Los Angeles County with a population
over 1,000,000.
AB 1428 - MacDonald Includes force or threat of force within the Penal
(Chapter 353)
Code provision which provides that a person is
guilty of a felony if he attempts by any means
other than a bribe, fraudulently to induce any
person to give false or withhold true testimony.
AB 1539 - Chappie
Permits filing for the immature forest trees
(Chapter 354)
exemption from property taxation to continue in
effect until a change in the exterior boundary of the
property originally claimed as exempt, rather than
requiring each owner or new owner to file when making
his original claim for the exemption.
AB 1641 - Moorhead
Provides capital notes and debentures shall be
(Chapter 358)
considered paid-up capital when computing the
maximum sum a local agency can deposit in a
depositary.
AB 1997 - Murphy
Permits a person who has purchased wine from a
(Chapter 355)
licensed wine-grower, has taken delivery in this
state for delivery or use outside the state, and
has removed the wine from this state, to return
or any portion thereof to the licensed premises
of the wine-grower from whom the wine was purchased.
AB 2051 - Badham
Permits the Board of Administration of the Public
(Chapter 356)
Employees' Retirement System, in administration of
the program for health benefits for State employees,
to provide comprehensive plans as an alternative to
basic health benefit plans.
SB 312 - Marks
Requires specified rigid coupling structure for
(Chapter 334)
freeway towing except for towing disabled motor
vehicles from point of disablement to the nearest
and most accessible freeway exit.
SB 403 - Collier
Establishes a uniform salary schedule for employees
(Chapter 326)
of the Central Sonoma County and Southern Sonoma
County municipal court districts. The bill also
increases the salary of official reporters of the
Sonoma County Superior Court.
SB 404 - Collier
Permits municipal court judges in Humboldt County
(Chapter 327)
to reside in the county rather than in the judicial
district only.
SB 782 - Mills
Provides that the board of supervisors of one or
(Chapter 328)
more counties may authorize studies of the
feasibility of a high-speed transit system to
operate in one or more counties.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills
have been signed:
AB 68 - Mobley
Authorizes the issuance of permits to students
(Chapter 364)
regularly enrolled in commercial fishing classes
under the jurisdiction of the State Board of
Education or in such classes in a community
college and faculty members to take fish under
specified conditions and to sell only to a licensed
fish dealer or donate all fish taken to a charitable
institution. Any money received from sale of fish
is to be used solely for the support of the commercia.
fishing classes.
AB 70 - Lanterman
Validates organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings,
(Chapter 365)
and bonds of counties, cities, and specified
districts, agencies and entities. The Second
Validating Act of 1970.
AB 101 - Warren
Increases the number of public members on the State
(Chapter 366)
Board of Forestry from one to two. The bill also
increases the size of the Board from seven to eight
members.
AB 169 - Veysey
Increases the number of credentials which may be
(chapter 367)
issued under the Licensing of Certificated Personnel
Law of 1968 from 100 to 200. This law authorizes the
issuance of probationary credentials to college
graduates who have satisfactorily passed an
examination approved by the State Board of
Education.
AB 189 - Thomas
Amends the Cosmetology Act to permit persons to
(Chapter 367)
qualify for a cosmetology instructor's license on
the basis of out-of-state training and experience.
AB 351 - Barnes
Defines "regular interest," "interest," and
(Chapter 369)
"interest at the current rate" for purposes of the
retirement systems established pursuant to the
County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 and
prescribes the method of computation of interest on
deposits and re-deposits of member contributions.
AB 353 - Deddeh
Provides that the remainder of accumulated
(Chapter 370)
contributions of a deceased member of a retirement
system established pursuant to County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937 who was retired for service
or non-service-connected disability shall be paid
to his designated beneficiary if there is no
surviving spouse or children eligible for survivors
benefits.
AB 452 - Chappie
Provides that persons committed to the Youth Authority
(Chapter 371)
who are convicted of the crimes of escape or
attempted escape may have their period of committment
extended for prescribed periods.
B 483 - Dills &
Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to
Collier
issue identification plates and cards to manufacturers
(Chapter 405)
and dealers in special construction equipment,
special mobile equipment, cemetery equipment and
implements of husbandry for purposes of demonstration
or delivery, provided permits have been obtained for
movement thereof if maximums for size, weight or
load are exceeded. The bill also prohibits moving
from a lane until such movement can be made with
reasonable safety, rather than until the driver
has first ascertained that such movement can be made
with safety.
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AB 646 - Mulford
Makes the California State Police a division of
(Chapter 372)
the Department of General Services. The bill defines
the terms "members" and "employees" as they relate
to the California State Police Division. It also
clarifies the respective powers of members and
employees of the Division.
AB 717 - MacDonald
Specifies that a magistrate may receive a nolo
(Chapter 373)
contendere plea in a felony case not punishable by
death.
AB 725 - MacDonald
Provides that if the officer of a joint powers
(Chapter 374)
entity performing the functions of auditor or
controller is the county auditor or controller he
shall establish such funds and accounts to accomplish
the purposes of the agreement in accordance with the
uniform accounting procedures prescribed by the
State Controller for counties.
AB 753 - Conrad
Permits combination of housecar and trailer coupled
(Chapter 375)
together or housecar and semitrailer coupled
together that meet specified requirements, to exceed
a total length of 60 feet but not to exceed a total
length of 65 feet.
AB 885 - Moorhead
Provides that any sale or purchase of property not
(Chapter 376)
previously approved or disapproved during
administration of the guardianship or conservatorship
estate shall be subject to review by the court upon
the next succeeding accounting of the guardian or
conservator after the sale or purchase is made.
The bill authorizes the court, upon such accounting
and review, to hold the guardian or conservator
liable for violation of duties with respect to such
sale or purchase.
AB 963 - Gonsalves
Permits a qualified social and religious club holding
(Chapter 377)
a "club license" under the Alcoholic Beverage Control
Act to hold a caterer's permit.
AB 1142 - Greene, L.
Permits any person who has lost use of one or more
(Chapter 378)
limbs, rather than one or both legs, to park for
unlimited periods in specified parking zones.
AB 1149 - Cory
Requires the proponents to file, with the city or
(Chapter 379)
county clerk, a statement of campaign expenditures
incurred in any unsuccessful effort to initiate a
local recall, referendum or initiative election.
The bill adds to the list of those expenditures
which must be reported, the costs of circulating
and securing signatures on recall petitions.
AB 1161 - Ketchum
Provides for a water district board to permit
(Chapter 380)
installment payments of assessments, and provides
that the present law shall apply to installments in
the same way it does to full assessments.
AB 1163 - Ketchum
Eliminates the requirement that the State Personnel
(Chapter 381)
Board submit a biennial report in addition to its
annual report to the governor and the legislature.
It also permits, for research and statistical
purposes, the obtaining and maintaining of records
pertaining to race, color, or religion on state civil
service employees.
AB 1223 - Barnes
Repeals obsolete Education Code provisions relating
(Chapter 382)
to hearings before the Board of the State Teachers
Retirement System.
AB 1319 - Bagley
Prohibits state or local agencies, from conducting
(Chapter 383)
meetings, conferences, or other functions in a
facility that prohibits the admittance of any
person or persons on the basis of race, religious
creed, color, national origin, ancestry, or sex.
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AB 1325 - Briggs
Repeals the provision of the soil conservation
(Chapter 408)
district law which requires the county in which
the greatest portion of the land of a soil
conservation district is situated to pay the cost
of district election.
AB 1337 - Ketchum
Revises Agricultural Code provision prohibiting
(Chapter 384)
the sale or offer to sell, or giving of any article
in any transaction involving the sale of dairy
products for less than the invoice or replacement
cost, to prohibit the selling or giving of the
article at less than cost.
AB 1372 - Greene, B.
Makes a nonsubstantive amendment to the Harbors
(Chapter 385)
and Navigation Code.
AB 1422 - Badham
Limits use by the Public Utilities Commission of
(Chapter 386)
fees deposited in the Transportation Rate Fund for
purpose of administering and enforcing rates,
charges and classification to such administrative
activities as are related to intrastate motor
carriers of property instead of all carriers of
property. The bill becomes operative on July 1, 1971
AB 1441 - Dent
Expressly authorizes improvement districts in
(Chapter 387)
community services districts to acquire, construct,
operate and maintain designated improvements and
provides for use of the ad valorem tax in
improvement districts in lieu of assessments.
AB 1503 - Dent
Authorizes a city council by resolution of intention
(Chapter 388)
to order territory of a subdivider, without notice
and hearing, to be formed into or annexed to a
street lighting district, if such resolution states
that such territory comes under the term of an
ordinance requiring installation of street lighting
system by a subdivider.
AB 1536 - Chappie
Gives county service areas permanent authority to
(Chapter 409)
fix water standby charges.
AB 1552 - Veysey
Requires the governor to consider students in the
(Chapter 410)
performing or visual arts, or persons having
capability of communicating with such students or
young artists, when making appointments to the
California Arts Commission. The bill also removes
the prohibition against reappointment of a former
member to the Commission within one year of expiratio
of previous term.
AB 1614 - "berg
Provides the computation of time for filing an
(Chapter 411)
application to file a late claim against a public
entity shall not include the time a claimant
was mentally incapacitated and did not have a
guardian or conservator of his person but shall
include the time the claimant was a minor.
AB 1703 - MacGillivray
Provides that abalone may be taken for drying
(Chapter 412)
purposes, but that black abalone may not be
used for canning or drying purposes. This
bill also changes the minimum size limits on
green abalone from 7½ to 7 inches and on pink
and white abalone from 6 to 61/4 inches.
AB 1704 - MacGillivray
Changes the closed commercial abalone season
(Chapter 413)
from January 14th through March 16th to the month
of
February and August.
AB 1810 Stull
Prohibits dealers from selling any mobilehome whose
(Chapter 414)
width necessitates a moving permit, unless they
deliver a written and signed statement that a
permit is required to move such a mobilehome on the
highways of this state and that there are certain
highways for which moving permits may not be issued.
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AB 2177 - Joint
Revises the Government Code provisions with respect
Committee on
to the admission of evidence on locating a public
Open Space Lands
improvement in an agricultural preserve. The bill
(Chapter 415)
also provides procedures under the Williamson Act for
the acquisition, by a public agency, of land within
an agricultural preserve for the location of water
transmission facilities which will extend into
more than one county.
AB 2179 - Joint
Amends the Williamson Act to require that a mailed
Committee on
notice of hearing on a contract cancellation be
Open Space Lands
mailed to each landowner in the preserve in which
(Chapter 416)
any portion of the cancellation is situated and to
the landowners within one mile of the exterior
boundaries of proposed cancellation.
SB.137 - Nejedly
Requires the law enforcement agency investigating
(Chapter 389)
the crime, rather than the county district attorney,
to provide forms to victims of crimes who may be
eligible for indemnification from the state.
SB 156 - Bradley
Provides that a governing board of a district
(Chapter 401)
maintaining a community college may levy a fee for
the use of health services of not more than $7.50
per year upon students, and may charge students
and employees a fee for parking facilities of not
more than $20 per semester.
SB 183 - isjedly
Provides that no person shall operate any motorboat
(Chapter 402)
or vessel or manipulate any water skis, aquaplane or
similar device while under the influence of any
restricted dangerous drug.
SB 206 - Lagomarsino
Makes a nonsubstantive amendment to the Public
(Chapter 403)
Resources Code.
SB 208 - Lagomarsino
Authorizes soil conservation districts to conduct
(Chapter 390)
surveys, investigations and research relating to
the conservation of resources and requires the
districts to seek cooperation of local, state and
federal agencies. The bill also requires that
districtwide comprehensive soil and water
conservation plans shall conform to county
general plans.
SB₁ 210 - Lagomarsino
Provides that cooperation with landowners or any
(Chapter 391)
other agency for constructing improvements for
prevention or stabilization of soil erosion is one
of the purposes for which lands in a soil
conservation district may be formed into an im-
provement district.
SB 229 - Dymally
Appropriates $10,000 from an unexpended appropriation
(Chapter 404)
made in 1969, to the California Museum of Science
and Industry for development and operation of a
Higher Horizon Summer Program. The appropriation
in question was reverted to the General Fund by the
1970 Budget Act. The bill also authorizes the
California Museum of Science and Industry to contract
with, and to receive and expend funds with, any
public or private non-profit agency, foundation or
corporation for purposes of the bill.
SB 253 - Carrell
Specifies that any route in the state highway
(Chapter 392)
system included in select system of county roads
or city streets for purpose of contributions and
processing of projects pursuant to cooperative
agreement with the Department of Public works, shall
remain in the select system upon relinquishment
as a state highway.
SB 347 - Kennick
Adds combinations of two-axle trucks and pole,
(Chapter 359)
pipe or logging dollies which exceed 40 feet to
vehicles regulated by the California Highway Patrol.
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SB 362 - Cologne
Limits the time in which a lawsuit may be filed
(Chapter 360)
against doctors, dentists, registered nurses,
dispensing opticians, optometrists, registered
physical therapists, podiatrists, licensed
psychologists, osteopaths, chiropractors, clinical
laboratory bioanalysts, clinical laboratory
technologists, veterinarians, or licensed hospitals
as employers of any such person, based upon
alleged professional negligence, or for rendering
professional services without consent, or for
error or omission in such person's practice, to
four years after date of injury, or one year
after plaintiff discovers, or through use of
reasonable diligence should have discovered, the
injury, whichever first occurs. The bill provides
that such time limitation shall be tolled for any
period during which such person has failed to
disclose any act, error, or omission upon which
such action based and which is known or through
use of reasonable diligence should have been known
to him.
SB 407 - Bradley
Provides that supervisorial districts shall be as
(Chapter 361)
nearly equal in population as possible. It makes
the district attorney chairman of the supervisorial
redistricting commission instead of the county
clerk, superintendent of schools, or sheriff.
The bill allows use of population estimates
prepared by the State Department of Finance or
county planning department or commission and
deletes authorization of use of such estimates
based on the tdal number of registered voters.
SB 514 - Coombs
Revises the basis for voting on revenue bonds
(Chapter 406)
issued under the Sewer Revenue Law of 1933. The
bill provides that registered voters (rather than
only property owners) in the district may vote in
sewer bond election.
SB 581 - Carrell
Deletes special weight with load limitations with
(Chapter 394)
respect to prescribed vehicles operated on
specified state highways.
SB 524 - Marks
Authorizes persons age 18 to 21 who would qualify
(Chapter 393)
as electors except for their age to solicit
signatures to an initiative petition to lower the
voting age to 18.
SB 599 - Moscone
Revises the Vehicle Code provision relating to
(Chapter 395)
misleading advertising by manufacturers, dealers
and transporters to make it conform with a
Business and Professions Code Section on the same
subject.
SB 620 - Sherman
Provides an option of safety membership to
(Chapter 396)
persons over age 35 and employed as juvenile hall
group counselors and supervisors when a county
adopts provisions making such employees safety
members.
SB 709 - Sherman
Increases the fee for the examination for
(Chapter 397)
registered sanitarians from $15 to $25.
SB 936 - Dolwig
Provides that a period of more than 90 days
(Chapter 398)
between active memberships shall not affect the
computation of final compensation of a member of
more than one system established pursuant to the
County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937, if he
is precluded by law from becoming a member of the
second system. The bill makes such 90 day
restriction inapplicable to members who left
county or district service prior to October 1, 1949.
SB 983 - Petris
Corrects references in the Revenue and Taxation
(Chapter 362)
Code relating to the Franchise Tax Board.
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SB 1081 - Lagomarsino Amends the Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit
(Chapter 363)
District Act. It eliminates the need for the
District to publish a financial report each year.
The District is to make copies of its annual audit
available to the public at cost. The bill increases
the authorized compensation of the directors of the
District from $15 to $30 per meeting, and also
increases the monthly maximum from $60 to $90. The
bill also includes the District treasurer among
those officers who may sign warrants.
SB 1205 - Moscone
Provides an additional death benefit for a safety
(Chapter 399)
member under a retirement system established under
the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 if the
member is killed in performance of duty. The
additional death benefit is a lump sum equal to
annual compensation based on the monthly compensation
at the time of death.
SB 1297 - Dills
Permits the use of trawlnets, except midwater
(Chapter 407)
trawlnets, not less than one nautical mile from
shore in District 18 between Point Lobos and Point
Sur rather than between Point Sur and Cape San
Martin. The bill is effective until the 61st day
after adjournment of the 1972 Regular Session of the
legislature.
SB 1409 - Kennick
Provides that whenever an override tax is continued
(Chapter 400)
as the maximum combined tax rate of a unified or
high school district and a junior college district
with coterminous boundaries governed by the same
governing board, the governing board may divide the
maximum combined tax rate between the two districts,
provided that the resulting tax rate in either
district will not be lower than the maximum tax
rate prescribed for that type of district.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following
bills have been signed:
AB 56 - Chappie
Includes the portion of State Highway Route 88
(Chapter 432)
from Route 89 near Woodfords to the Nevada state
line within the state scenic highway system.
AB 106 - Wood
Defines "nonnative shellfish" for the purposes
(Chapter 433)
of establishing a shellfish bed.
AB 125 - Moorhead
Permits public entities to enter into agreements
(Chapter 417)
to arbitrate any controversy concerning the
compensation to be paid in connection with the
acquisition of real property. It provides that
the public entity acquiring the property shall
pay all costs except the other party's attorney
or expert witness fees.
AB 358 - Britschgi
Includes all of State Highway Route 280 from
(Chapter 434)
Route 17 in Santa Clara County to Route 80 near
First Street in San Francisco within the state
scenic highway system.
AB 618 - Barnes
Allows the Board of Administration of the Public
(Chapter 435)
Employees' Retirement System to assess an
interest charge against contracting agencies who
are late in forwarding employee and employer
contributions.
AB 826 - Johnson, R.
Changes the present boundaries between Zone A and
(Chapter 436)
Zone B licensed pheasant clubs, increasing the
area included in Zone B.
AB 1009 - MacGillivray
Authorizes the Hope Elementary School District
(Chapter 437)
governing board to transfer an amount not to
exceed $10,000 from its Mentally Retarded
Minors Fund to its general fund, with a
corresponding reduction in the tax rate in the
district for the current fiscal year.
AB 1160 - Ketchum
Permits California water district tax collectors
(Chapter 438)
to accept negotiable paper in payment of taxes
rather than requiring the taxpayer to pay cash.
AB 1264 - Schabarum
Allows the California Highway Patrol to inspect
(Chapter 439)
records relating to the dispatch of vehicles or
drivers, and the pay of drivers, within
maintenance facilities or terminals, rather than
inspect vehicles in maintenance facilities or
terminals only, to assure compliance with Vehicle
Code provisions and certain regulations.
AB 1294 - Chappie
Authorizes the Calaveras County Water District to
(Chapter 440)
finance construction and operation of garbage and
trash collection, treatment and disposal
facilities.
AB 1392 - Karabian
Would allow any captain in the San Diego Marshals
(Chapter 418)
office, whose primary duties are administrative,
to retire at age 65 rather than the present
mandatory retirement age of 60.
AB 1470 - Johnson, H.
Authorizes county waterworks districts to acquire
(Chapter 441)
property by exchange, and vests title to property
acquired by a waterworks discrict in the district
rather than the county.
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AB 1777 - Wood
Authorizes the Monterey County Flood Control
(Chapter 442)
and Water Conservation District to buy, provide,
sell and deliver water; to exchange water, to
distribute water to persons in exchange for
ceasing or reducing ground water extractions, and
to transport, reclaim, purify, treat or otherwise
manage and control water for the beneficial use of
persons or property within the district.
AB 1781 - Russell
Changes the name of the Upper Santa Clara Valley
(Chapter 443)
Water Agency to the Castaic Lake Water Agency.
AB 1809 - Stull
Extends the time within which the Director of
(Chapter 444)
the State Department of Social Welfare must act
on a request for a rehearing from 15 calendar
days to 15 working days.
AB 1866 - Crandall
Permits the licensing examination under the
(Chapter 445)
Medical Practice Act to be conducted in other
states as well as in California.
AB 1880 - Berryhill
Changes the title of the Municipal Sewer and
(Chapter 420)
Water Facilities Law of 1911 to the "Community
Facilities Law of 1911." The bill permits a
district formed pursuant to such law in Stanislaus
County to acquire, construct, maintain and
operate any public buildings which would serve as
a community center facility and permits the
acquisition of land, other property rights needed
for such improvements or offstreet parking
facilities related to such improvements.
AB 1884 - MacGillivray Provides that abalone may be taken for commercial
(Chapter 446)
purposes in waters less than twenty feet deep
within one mile of the shores of San Nicolas and
San Miquel Islands.
AB 2331 - Porter
Repeals the specific conflict of interest
(Chapter 447)
provisions of the various water district acts.
Such districts will be governed by the general
conflict of interest provisions of the Government
Code.
AB-2383 - Wood
Requires a farm labor contractor to immediately
(Chapter 448)
surrender his license to the Labor Commissioner
if his license is suspended or revoked.
AB 2537 - Veysey
Declares the tax override election held in the
(Chapter 419)
Meadows Union School District on June 2, 1970, to
be null and void. The bill permits the Meadows
Union School District to order another tax
override election on July 21, 1970.
SB 162 - Sherman
Revises the vehicle code provisions relating to
(Chapter 422)
beam indicators, reflectors, sidemarker lamps,
side, cowl, or fender lamps, flashing lights,
identification lamps, area reflectorizing material
displayed on vehicles, and the color of lamps and
713
reflectors.
SB 173 - Sherman
Includes a plant and facilities for the collection,
(Chapter 430)
treatment, and disposal of sanitary sewage within
the criminal trespass provisions of the Penal Code.
SB 420 - Stevens
Permits the Director of Motor Vehicles to designate
(Chapter 423)
an employee at or above the level of assistant
division chief to act on his behalf, following
a formal hearing, in driver's license cases.
SB 467 - Collier
Provides that when specified vehicles are
(Chapter 424)
required by local authorities to be equipped
with tire chains, such chains must be placed
on at least two drive wheels, and authorizes such
local authorities to provide alternative equipment
requirements.
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SB 508 - Rodda
Revises the Vehicle Code prescribing the manner
(Chapter 425)
in which right turns are to be made at
intersections.
SB 606 - Cologne
Codifies certain provisions previously contained
(Chapter 426)
in Article XVI of the Constitution which were
repealed and continued as statutes. The bill
makes no substantive change in the law.
SB 643 - McCarthy
Revises the requirements for ordinances of local
(Chapter 427)
agencies prescribing procedures for abatement
and removal as public nuisances of abandoned,
wrecked, dismantled, or inoperative vehicles.
SB 700 - Collier
Revises and reenacts assent of the state to
(Chapter 428)
designated federal acts relating to highways.
SB 701 - Collier
Requires the Department of Public Works to
(Chapter 429)
submit reports on the California freeway and
expressway system and state highway system to
the legislature at or prior to the 1972 and 1975
Regular Sessions of the legislature and each 4
years thereafter, rather than at or prior to the
1971 Regular Session and each 4 years thereafter.
SB 958 - Wedworth
Permits Los Angeles County to conduct a pilot
(Chapter 421)
program using mobile intensive care paramedics for
emergency medical care.
SB 1004 - Cusanovich
Permits the governing board of any school
(Chapter 431)
district which has children holding work permits
in the entertainment field who are exempt from full
time school provisions, or a county superintendent
of schools, to contract with persons responsible
for the education of such children, to provide
eligibility lists and placement services for
teaching and allied personnel for tutoring of
such children.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today signed into law a bill he proposed
last January (AB 318) which will provide $6 million in state funds to
help pay for free and reduced-cost meals for hundreds of thousands of
needy California school children.
He said the State Department of Education expects to receive an
additional $14 million in federal (U.S.D.A.) funds to supplement the
program during the coming school year.
The governor said that these $20 million are above and beyond
another $6 million in federal monies which already have been allocated
for basic school lunches during the year ahead.
Under AB 318~-a key part of the governor's 1970 legislative
program--the State Department of Education will administer the program,
in cooperation with the State Department of Social Welfare.
The first priority on the $6 million in state funds will go to
current recipients in the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)
program. The second priority will go to children designated as potential
or former AFDC recipients.
In proposing the legislation early this year, Governor Reagan
said its passage "will enable California to go a long way toward meeting
the nutritional needs of many more needy California school children."
The governor also said his bill corrects inequities contained in
legislation previously offered, by spreading the $6 million throughout
not just some, but all school districts in California.
"I am very pleased to sign this bill into law," he said, "because
it will now assure that hundreds of thousands of needy children--in
literally every school district in the state--can receive nutritious
school meals, at either free or greatly reduced cost."
"It is an important step forward---one in which this administra-
tion took the lead, and one for which we are all very proud," he added.
AB 318 was introduced and carried by the Assembly Committee on
Health and Welfare chaired by Gordon Duffy (R-Hanford).
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 78 - Subcommittee
Requires the State Air Resources Board to study the
on Air
benefits and costs of a program for periodic motor
Pollution
vehicle emission inspections and to report its
(Chapter 451)
findings and recommendations to the legislature by
July 1, 1971. The bill appropriates $65,000 from
the Motor Vehicle Fund for such purposes.
AB 216 - Zenovich
Provides that psychological assistants may be
(Chapter 470)
employed by clinics providing mental health services
under a Short-Doyle contract or by psychological
corporations.
AB 264 - Hayes
Provides that the board of supervisors in any
(Chapter 471)
county in which the assets of the retirement
system exceed $800,000,000 may by resolution
establish a board of investments.
AB 266 - Z'berg
Provides that an action may be brought under
(Chapter 472)
uninsured motorist coverage of an automobile
insurance policy, where the accident occurred in
any other state or foreign jurisdiction to which
coverage is extended under the policy and the insurer
of the tortfeasor becomes insolvent, within three
months of insolvency of the tortfeasor's insurer,
but in no event later than the pertinent period of
limitation of the jurisdiction in which the
accident occurred.
AB 276 - Brown
Eliminates citizenship requirements for vocational
(Chapter 473)
nurse and pharmacist licenses.
AB 370 - Barnes
Provides for the payment of $500 upon the death of
(Chapter 453)
any member after retirement under a system
established under the County Employees Retirement
Law of 1937 in those counties in which the board
of retirement determines that the benefit may be
financed from surplus earnings of the retirement
fund.
AB 398 - Cullen
Provides that no licensed dentist who upon the
(Chapter 454)
request of another dentist renders emergency care
to a person for a dental complication arising from
prior care by another dentist, shall be liable for
any civil damages as a result of any acts or
omissions by him in rendering such emergency care.
AB 402 - Hayes
Provides that persons under the age of 18 may marry
(Chapter 474)
upon the written consent of their parents and a
court order granting permission to marry. Where
the couple, or one of them, is under 18 years of age,
they both must obtain such premarital counseling as
the court deems necessary concerning the social,
economic, and personal responsibilities incident to
marriage.
B 414 - Mobley
Makes Army National Guard and Air National Guard
(Chapter 455)
officer and non-commissioned officer clubs eligible
for club licenses issued by the Department of
Alcoholic Beverage Control.
AB 418 - Schabarum
Provides that no agency within the Department of
(Chapter 475)
Professional and Vocational Standards, except the
State Board of Registration for Professional
Engineers, will be required to compile, publish,
sell, or otherwise distribute a directory. The bill
states that
an agency shall cooperate with the
Director of Professional and Vocational Standards in
determining under what conditions it shall be compile
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AB 421 - Ketchum
Excludes from the property tax seed potatoes held by
(Chapter 456)
a grower as personal property on the lien date for
subsequent planting in field form if planted during
the assessment year. It denies the exemption to
plant nurseries. The bill is effective only for
the 1971-72 and 1972-73 fiscal years.
AB 480 - Knox
Provides that security for insurance premiums held
(Chapter 476)
by an industrial loan company under a premium
finance agreement may be provided by a corporate
surety bond deposited with the Commissioner of
Corporations. The bill authorizes the Commissioner
to demand payment of unpaid claims on behalf of
claimants and sue the surety therefor.
AB 509 - Murphy
Provides that the Youth Authority Board may
(Chapter 477)
modify an order of discharge if conditions indicate
that such modification is desirable and when such
modification is to benefit of the person committed
to the Youth Authority.
AB 527 - Barnes
Provides for uniform application to contracting
(Chapter 457)
agencies and the state of certain provisions of the
Public Employees' Retirement Law relating to
prior service credit and minimum service
retirement allowance.
AB 528 - Barnes
Makes applicable to all members of the Public
(Chapter 458)
Employees' Retirement System rather than state
miscellaneous and local miscellaneous members only,
the provision generally limiting the new pension
of a member who reinstates after retirement to the
same amount as his prior pension if the period of
reinstatement is less than one year.
AB 583 - Russell
Repeals various provisions relative to ownership
(Chapter 478)
by a director of stock or savings accounts in the
savings and loan association of which he is
director. The bill empowers the Savings and Loan
Commissioner to require specified reports from
association directors and officers under specified
conditions.
AB 714 - Burke
Provides that no person elected or appointed to the
(Chapter 459)
governing body of any city, county, or district
having an elected governing body, shall be appointed
to fill any vacancy on such governing body during
the term for which he was elected or appointed.
AB 727 - Dunlap
Provides that in an action against a surety on a
(Chapter 479)
payment bond for public works projects the court
shall award to the prevailing party a reasonable
attorney's fee. This bill would permit the
prevailing party to recover attorney's fees on
appeal. The courts have construed the existing law
to limit payment of attorney fees to the prevailing
party only at the trial level.
AB 744 - Stull
Provides that a school district superintendent may
(Chapter 460)
assign teachers from one school to another school
within the district, subject to approval of the
governing board.
AB 754 - Badham
Increases court filing fees in Orange County.
(Chapter 480)
AB 774 - Schabarum
Allows the Real Estate Commissioner to prescribe
(Chapter 461)
fees relating to subdivided lands lower than those
fees now specified, when he determines lower fees
are sufficient to offset the costs and expenses of
administration, and provides that fees now
prescribed are maximum fees. The bill requires
the commissioner to hold at least one regulation
hearing each calendar year, to determine if lower
fees should be prescribed.
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AB 821 - Chappie
Renames the Folsom Lake Toll Bridge Authority as
Chapter 462)
the Gold Rush Parkway Authority and increases
the membership of governing board to include
two members from the Board of Supervisors of
Sacramento County and includes Sacramento County
along with Placer and El Dorado Counties within the
coverage of the act. The bill also authorizes the
Authority to study the feasibility of, plan, design,
finance, construct and maintain a system of
parkways within the three counties.
AB 869 - Duffy
Provides that the exception from the application of
(Chapter 481)
provisions relating to voluntary area planning
programs involving health facilities, is only
applicable to those prior applicants who commence
construction of facilities prior to July 1, 1971,
and that such exception only applies to original
applicants and not to their transferees.
AB 880 - Arklin
Provides that the former site of the proposed San
(Chapter 463)
Fernando State Hospital may be quitclaimed to a
public body for one-third of its market value
until November 10, 1974.
AB 959 - Bagley
Changes from 80 percent to 70 percent the area of
(Chapter 464)
taxable or assessable land of a district of
limited powers which must be inside the boundaries
of a city so that the district may be established
as a subsidiary district.
AB 967 - Mobley
Declares a public office to be vacant upon an
(Chapter 465)
adjudication pursuant to a quo warranto proceeding
declaring the incumbent is physically or mentally
incapacitated due to disease, illness or accident
and will not be able to perform the duties of his
office for the remainder of his term of office,
rather than upon determination by the court that
the incumbent is insane, The bill does not apply
to offices created by the Constitution and state
and federal legislators.
AB 1222 - Barnes
Authorizes audits of records of public agencies
(Chapter 466)
by the State Teachers' Retirement Board. The bill
also makes other technical changes to clarify and
update the Teachers' Retirement Law.
AB 1554 - Britschgi
Changes the types of military service for which
(Chapter 467)
public employees are provided temporary military
leaves of absence with pay. The bill states that
such a leave of absence with pay is not authorized
for periods of inactive military duty.
AB 1867 - Priolo
Places Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 50 of
(Chapter 482)
the 1970 Regular Session on the November 1970
general election ballot.
SB 326 - Teale
Extends the "schedule of charges" to cover loans
(Chapter 469)
made by pawnbrokers in amounts in excess of $150.00.
SB 315 - Danielson
Authorizes the governing board of a community college
(Chapter 468)
district to establish a community college police
department, the members of which are peace officers
only upon the campus of the community college.
419 - Marks
Requires that 50 percent of the fines and
(Chapter 449)
forfeitures collected for Vehicle Code or local
ordinance violations, relating to stopping, standing,
or parking of vehicles, that have occurred on
premises physically located in one county, but owned
by another county, which other county furnishes
law enforcement for the premises, be transmitted to
the county which owns the facilities. The bill
further provides that these provisions are not
applicable when the county in which such
facilities are located performs all law enforcement
functions with respect to such facilities.
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SB 1314 - Stiern
Limits replacement revenue paid by the state to
(Chapter 450)
local governments in lieu of property taxes
formerly collected on assessments of intangible
value of motion picture films to amounts of $100
or more.
Governor Reagan also announced he has vetoed the following bill:
SB 591 - Moscone
Provides that in a hearing of a motion to supress
evidence, an investigating peace officer may be
called by the defendant and examined as if under
cross-examination. The peace officer may then
be examined by the district attorney as if on
redirect examination.
REASON FOR VETO: Governor Reagan said, "This bill
provides that in a hearing of
a motion to suppress evidence, an investigating
peace officer may be called by the defendant and
examined as if under cross-examination, without
any showing that he is a hostile witness. The
peace officer may then be examined by the district
attorney as if on redirect examination. Such a
provision would treat a peace officer differently
than any other witness. There is no demonstrated
need for such legislation since the Evidence Code
now permits defense counsel to ask the peace
officer leading questions upon a proper showing.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills
have been signed:
AB 435 - Deddeh
Provides that a member of a county retirement system
(Chapter 491)
operating under the County Employees Retirement Law
of 1937 who subsequently becomes entitled to
receive a persion or retirement allowance for the
service for which he was granted public service
credit, whether or not the member elects to
exercise such entitlement, shall be refunded the
amount deposited by him plus interest and shall
receive no credit in the system for such service.
AB 448 - Ketchum
Revises the priority of claims to be paid under
(Chapter 492)
required escrow upon transfer of an alcoholic
beverage license and specifies that claims for
services rendered, performed or supplied with the
licensed business are in the sixth category of
priorities.
AB 544 - Veysey
Requires the Board of Governors of the California
(Chapter 493)
Community Colleges, rather than the State Board
of Education, to set nonresident tuition. It
requires each junior college district to report
the number of nonresident students to the Board
of Governors of the California Community Colleges,
rather than the State Department of Education. The
bill also excepts any junior college district which
had out-of-state student enrollment in 1962-63
of more than 15 percent, instead of 25 percent,
from charging tuition, and extends the time for
such exception to school year 1975-76 rather than
1970-71.
AB 724 - Ketchum
Specifies that a vacancy on school district
(Chapter 494)
governing board occurs on the date specified in the
written resignation filed, rather than when such
resignation is filed. The bill directs the
county superintendent to call immediately, within
120 days after a written resignation is filed, a
special election to fill such a vacancy.
AB 776 - Brown
Reduces the period from 34 to 24 months of active
(Chapter 495)
duty service as a corpsman in the armed services,
with no less than an aggregate of 12 months
rendering patient care, in order to qualify for a
vocational nurse's license.
AB 797 - Berryhill
Provides that marketing orders and agreements may
(Chapter 496)
contain provisions designed to detect, control
and prevent damage of agricultural pests and
diseases. The bill also authorizes the Director of
Agriculture to issue and make multiple commodity
marketing orders.
AB 904 - Murphy
Authorizes the court, in any action or proceeding
(Chapter 497)
based upon defamation, upon a showing of good
cause to order any records sealed under specified
provisions of the Penal Code to be opened and
admitted into evidence. The bill provides that
such records are confidential and shall be
available for inspection only by court, jury,
parties, counsel for parties, and any other
persons who are authorized by court to inspect them.
The records are to be resealed when the judgement
becomes final.
AB 1083 - Deddeh
Makes permanent the increase in maximum compensation
(Chapter 498)
of members of boards of fire prevention districts
enacted in 1969.
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AB 1207 - Schabarum
Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to
(Chapter 499)
cancel, suspend, or revoke, or refuse to renew
the license of a driving school operator or an
instructor for a driving school whenever the
licensee is convicted of specified violations
relating to permitting an unlicensed person
to drive a motor vehicle, duty to report accidents,
or reckless driving.
AB 1239 - Bagley
Revises exclusions from the Subdivision Map Act
(Chapter 500)
to grant, in addition to the exclusion for lots
divided into 40 acres or more or each of which is
a quarter-quarter section or larger, an exclusion
for such other amount up to 60 acres as may be
specified by local ordinances.
AB 1376 - Crown
Deletes the requirement that, with regard to the
(Chapter 501)
state plan for the construction of public and
other non profit hospitals, special consideration
be given to hospitals serving rural communities.
AB 1396 - Cory
Amends the Structural Pest Control Act to provide
(Chapter 502)
for distribution of copies of inspection reports to
the owner of the property inspected.
AB 1649 - Priolo
Provides that an "amortized loan" under the
(Chapter 503)
Savings and Loan Association Law includes a
loan to finance the construction of real property
if the loan provides for payment in full on or
before 18 months from date of the loan. The bill
also deletes certain limitations on a savings and
loan association's power to make amortized loans
secured by real property, including residential
real property.
AB 1945 - Hayes
Provides that any public school employee
(Chapter 504)
organization shall have standing to sue in any
action or proceeding heretofore or hereafter
instituted by it as representative and on behalf
of one or more of its members with respect to
any matter within the scope of its representation.
AB
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Johnson,
R.
Permits the names of licensed land surveyors to
(Chapter 505)
be used in the name under which engineering
partnerships, firms and corporations do business.
SB 412 - Rodda
Makes technical amendments to the Education Code.
(Chapter 483)
SB 523 - Beilenson
Amends the Code of Civil Procedure to clarify the
(Chapter 484)
manner in which complaints in intervention and
cross-complaints are to be served, and the time
periods within which response thereto shall be
made.
SB 570 - Burgener
Specifically provides that connections to the
(Chapter 485)
owner's premises may be financed as part of
assessment proceedings to finance conversion of
existing overhead electric and communication
facilities to underground locations.
SB 613 - Beilenson
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Health
(Chapter 486)
and Safety Code.
SB 679 - Stiern
Changes the method of State distribution of
(Chapter 487)
reimbursement to local government for revenue
loss resulting from the homeowners' property tax
exemption. This legislation will be operative
for the 1970-71 fiscal years.
SB 862 - Cologne
Extends on the showingof good cause, the time within
(Chapter 488)
which the order to show cause must be returned after
the issuance of a temporary restraining order.
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SB 1009 - Schmitz
Requires electronic or electromechanical voting tapes
(Chapter 489)
and punchcard counting device and counting tapes to
be kept under lock and seal as provided for voting
machines with counting or recording devices and
requires the officer entrusted with the tapes to
submit his affidavit that they are the true tapes
and are unaltered if there is a recanvass.
SB 1088 - Way
Revises provisions establishing standard containers
(Chapter 490)
for grapes. The bill also establishes standard
grape lug container 38R.
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RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-28-70
#380
Governor Ronald Reagan in a further escalation of his
administration's fight against water pollution today placed on the
November ballot a $250 million bond issue which, if approved by the
voters, will enable communities throughout California to build bigger
and better sewage treatment plants to conform with the state's tougher-
than-ever water quality regulations.
The program could generate a total of $1 billion over the next five
years to upgrade local sewer systems including $550 million in federal
matching funds and another $200 million raised at the local level.
The governor proposed the program to the legislature last March
(3-20-70) as part of his administration's continuing commitment to make
California's waters clean and clear.
The bill to put the plan before the voters (AB-1456) was carried for
the administration by Carley V. Porter (D-Compton), chairman of the
Assembly Water Committee.
In signing the legislation known as the Clean Water Bond Act
Governor Reagan said:
"Under this administration, California has enacted the strictest
water pollution control laws in the nation. This new measure escalates
even further our fight against water pollution a
fight
which
can
and
must be won by all of us for the sake of this and future generations.
"Last year, I strongly supported and signed into law the tough
Porter-Cologne Act which, for the first time, gave the courts in California
the power to impose stringent penalties up to $6,000 per day on
violators. The Clean Water Bond Act is the logical counterpart to last
year's law.
"If the voters approve this bond issue in November and I am
confident they will then communities throughout the state will be able
to significantly speed up their efforts to end water pollution by
upgrading municipal sewage treatment systems so that they conform with
our stringent water quality laws."
The provisions of AB 1456 drastically alter a local-federal funding
formula which now requires California cities to raise 67 percent of the
monies necessary for sewage treatment facilities in order to qualify for
the remaining 33 percent of federal funds.
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If the voters approve the Clean Water Bond Act, the cities will
be required to put up only 20 percent of the money necessary to build
and improve sewage treatment plants.
The federal government will provide 55 percent and the state will
add another 25 percent of the funds.
To make the new funding formula work, the voters must agree that
the state will provide its 25 percent of the funds. The $250 million
in general obligation bonds would be sold over the next five years at
the rate of about $50 million a year.
Governor Reagan also took the opportunity to urge the legislature
to pass a companion measure (AB 1799-Porter) which would enable the
State Water Resources Control Board to issue revenue bonds---to assist
local agencies experiencing extreme financial hardship in financing
waste treatment facilities to come up with their 20 percent share of
the new funding formula. The issuance of revenue bonds requires
legislative approval only.
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Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-29-70
#381
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 417 - Schabarum
Eliminates requirements concerning issuance and
(Chapter 524)
display of renewal licenses under the Nursing
Practice Act and the Contractors License Law.
AB 613 - Campbell
Provides for the appointment of a member of a
(Chapter 525)
school district merit system personnel commission
recommended by the school district's classified
employees and appointed by the district governing
board, rather than appointment by the Superintendent
of Public Instruction.
AB 710 - Beverly
Provides a penalty for unjustified underpayment of
(Chapter 506)
personal income taxes. The penalty is a flat
5 percent of the amount unpaid plus 1/2 of 1 percent
per month for each month of continued delinquency,
up to 36 months. The bill passed both the Senate
and Assembly unanimously. It was introduced at
the request of the Franchise Tax Board. The bill
is in substantial conformity with the federal
penalty for underpayment of income taxes which is
contained in the Federal Tax Reform Act of 1969.
It is similar to the provisions in existing state
law which impose a penalty on underpayment of
corporate taxpayers.
AB 1012 - Schabarum
Provides that the presiding judge of the Los
(Chapter 526)
Angeles County Superior Court, upon application by
either the Attorney General or the district
attorney and after finding by the court that the
existing grand jury is unable for any reason to
inquire into matters which are subject to grand
jury inquiry, except public offenses, may impanel
one additional grand jury to inquire into matters
subject to grand jury inquiry. The bill specifies
that there can be no more than two grand juries
impaneled in any one year.
AB 1048 - Stacey
Provides that domesticated game mammals must be
(Chapter 527)
held in escapeproof cages or enclosures. The bill
further provides that the owner of such mammals
shall attempt to recapture any that may escape.
If the owner is unable to recapture such animals,
the Department of Fish and Game may capture them
with the owner being responsible for costs incurred
and for any damage by the animals to public or
private property.
AB 1144 - Bagley
Exempts land in Marin County from prohibition against
(Chapter 528)
inclusion within a fire protection district of
commercial forest lands which are timbered lands
declared by law to be the responsibility of the
state for fire protection.
AB 1204 - Berryhill
Updates the Commercial Feed Law to conform with
(Chapter 529)
manufacturing practices for special feed mixes.
AB 1405 - Brown
Provides that the Department of the Youth Authority
(Chapter 530)
shall adopt minimum standards for the operation and
maintenance of juvenile halls, jails and lockups
that detain minors under 18 years of age in excess
of 24 hours.
AB 1545 - Chappie
Revises provisions of the Revenue and Taxation Code
(Chapter 531)
relating to the taxpayer's statement of taxable
property to provide that the statement show all
such property required to be reported or
requested by the assessor pursuant to specified
provisions and to delete the requirement that a
legal description of real estate be given.
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AB 1546 - Chappie
Revises the definition of "dwelling", for
(Chapter 532)
purposes of the homeowners' property tax
exemption, to provide that a two-dwelling unit
would be considered as two separate single-family
dwellings.
AB 1652 - Johnson, R. Provides for a specified additional filing fee
(Chapter 533)
in the Butte County Superior Court to be used to
help defray costs of reporting services.
AB 1693 - Bee
Adds spirit whiskey to the list of whiskeys which
(Chapter 534)
are exempt from specific alcohol percentage content
and aging requirements if the spirit is 5 percent
or more straight whiskey and 4 years old or older.
AB 1746 - Murphy
Provides that the expenses incurred by a county
(Chapter 535)
in returning a fugitive or escaped prisoner
to another county for trial or detention in a
county facility are to be paid by the county
where the fugitive or escaped prisoner is to be
tried or detained.
AB 1828 - Mobley
Deletes authorization for a local legislative
(Chapter 536)
body, upon its own motion, to direct that
assessments of less than $50 under the Improvement
Act of 1911 be collected upon the tax roll upon
which general taxes are collected.
AB 1829 - Mobley
Requires the city clerk, rather than superintendent
(Chapter 537)
of streets or city tax collector, to record a
notice of assessment under the Municipal Improvemen
Act of 1913.
AB 1830 - Mobley
Authorizes construction or reconstruction of
(Chapter 538)
recreation areas, including structures, buildings
and other facilities necessary to make parkways
and recreation areas useful under the Improvement
Act of 1911.
AB 1872 - Moorhead
Provides that a defendant who has completed
(Chapter 539)
probation shall be permitted to withdraw plea
of guilty or nolo contendere at any time
thereafter, if he is not serving sentence for
any offense, rather than without any specified
conditions. The bill exempts Vehicle Code
special misdemeanors and infractions from its
provisions.
AB 1893 - McCarthy
Allows an offset within a tax year for overpayments
(Chapter 540)
to the extent of assessment of property taxes.
The bill also extends the statute of limitations
for refund claims from 3 to 4 years.
AB 1894 - McCarthy
Makes various technical, clarifiying and
(Chapter 547)
conforming changes in the sales and use tax, the
cigarette tax, and the alcoholic beverage tax
laws.
AB 1896 - McCarthy
Changes the time for assessor's application for
(Chapter 541)
review on intercounty equalization appraisals.
AB 2046 - Badham
Permits highway common carriers, under certain
(Chapter 542)
conditions, to enter into contracts for vehicle
unit rate service, at the rates provided in their
tariffs, notwithstanding that the service
involves operations as a highway permit carrier
beyond scope of its authority as a highway common
carrier.
AB 2147 - Fenton
Specifies that the governing body of a city or
(Chapter 543)
county may erect a suitable memorial upon an
abandoned cemetery dedicated as a pioneer memorial
park, rather than making such erection mandatory
upon the governing body. The bill also requires
the resolution of dedication to contain a legal
description of the abandoned cemetery, and vests
fee title to such cemetery, in the city or county,
as the case may be, upon recordation of the
resolution.
AB 2370 - Moorhead
Requires automobile insurers admitted to do
(Chapter 544)
business in California after January 1, 1970, or
who did not have a valid bona fide application
pending before the Insurance Commissioner on or
before August 1, 1970, to issue such automobile
insurance, to have an additional surplus of
$200,000.
AB 2374 - Duffy
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction
(Chapter 507)
to allocate $75,000 from State School Fund to the
Lakeside Elementary School District by July 26, 1970
The bill requires the amount of such allocation,
plus interest, to be withheld from subsequent
1970-71 apportionments.
AB 2434 - Milias
Decreases noise limits applicable to the operation
(Chapter 545)
of specified motor vehicles and motorcycles other
than motor-driven cycles.
AB 2443 - Moretti
Amends the Unruh Act relating to retail installment
(Chapter 546)
sales to conform California law with regulations
promulgated pursuant to the Federal Truth-in-Lending
Act.
SB 127 - Cologne
Extends from 30 to 60 days the length of time
(Chapter 509)
which a facility may hold an alledged "gravely
disabled" person, pending a conservatorship
hearing under the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act.
SB 263 - Cologne
Extends from 10 days to 120 days the period prior
(Chapter 510)
to the annual meeting of the Board of Governors
of the State Bar during which the officers of the
State Bar are to be elected. The bill also deletes
the provision stating that the treasurer of the
State Bar need not be a member thereof.
SB 267 - Cologne
Provides that where a decedent dies without spouse
(Chapter 511)
or issue, the portion of the estate created by
gift, descent, devise, or bequest from the
separate property of a parent or grandparent shall
go to the parent or grandparent who made such gift,
devise, or bequest or from whom the property
descended. If the parent or grandparent is dead,
such property shall go in equal shares to the
heirs of such deceased parent or grandparent.
SB 414 - Rodda
Makes technical amendments to the Education Code.
(Chapter 512)
SB 477 - Coombs
Specifies that the value of property held by a
(Chapter 513)
decedent as a joint tenant at the time of death,
or in which the decedent had an interest which
terminated at his death, is not to be considered
in determining the value of the estate for purposes
of eligibility for distribution without probate
or by summary probate.
SB 513 - Coombs
Declares that a transfer of property to a trustee,
(Chapter 514)
with the power to make discretionary payments to
the trust beneficiaries, is a transfer to the
trust beneficiaries for purposes of computing
inheritance tax.
SB 518 - Marler
Makes it a prima facie violation of basic speed
(Chapter 515)
law for any person to operate a vehicle in excess
of the posted speed limit, rather than at a speed
greater than 25 miles per hour, upon a specified
portion of a highway. The bill also revises the
authority of the Department of Public Works or
local authorities to determine and declare prima
facie speed limit on highways when snow or ice
conditions are present.
SB 614 - Beilenson
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Welfare and
(Chapter 516)
Institutions Code.
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SB 650 - Cologne
Makes clarifying and technical changes relating
(Chapter 517)
to community property held in specified inter
vivos trusts.
SB 678 - Walsh
Excludes air pressure tanks from jurisdiction of
(Chapter 518)
the Division of Industrial Safety if supplied
with air by the same air compressor which supplies
air for the brakes of any motor vehicle or
streetcar operated by any agency subject to the
jurisdiction of the United States Department of
Transportation or the California Highway Patrol,
rather than such tanks installed on transportation
units operated by any agency under the
jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission
or the Public Utilities Commission.
SB 838 - Dills
Amends the Public Utilities Code to eliminate the
(Chapter 519)
funding requirement for depreciation and eliminates
a mandatory hearing whenever the Public Utilities
Commission desires to change the form or rates
used for the purpose of computing depreciation.
It deletes a separate provision for fees for the
issuance of stock and makes such fees similar to
those required for the issuance of bonds, notes
or other evidence of indebtedness. The bill
further provides that where modification is made
by the commission in the amount of the issue
requested a refund may be paid to the utility
when it elects not to avail itself of such
authorization.
SB 839 - Dills
Permits the Public Utilities Commission to
(Chapter 520)
compromise penalties for violation of any rules
or regulations involving safety standards for
pipeline facilities for the transportation of
gas within this State.
SB 864 - Grunsky
Extends the sales tax to food sold at schools
(Chapter 548)
when it is sold at a place where an admission
charge is made.
SB 883 - Burgener
Deletes full-time day students regularly
(Chapter 521)
attending in the school district of employment
from specified Education Code sections relating
to tuberculosis exams, physical exams, sex or
narcotic offenses, and identification cards as
they relate to personnel exempt from the classified
service.
SB 1078 - Lagomarsino
Excepts from the prohibition against dealers
(Chapter 522)
advertising or offering for sale or exchange
any vehicle not actually for sale at the premises
of such dealer, specified used mobilehomes and
used commercial coaches, other than recreational
vehicles, which are in a mobilehome park or
located pursuant to local zoning ordinance or
permit or other authorization.
SB 1100 - Burgener
Authorizes improvement of easements under the
(Chapter 523)
Improvement Act of 1911. The bill also authorizes
construction or reconstruction of recreation areas,
including structures, buildings, and other
facilities necessary to make parkways and
recreation areas useful, under the 1911 Act.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-30-70
#382
Governor Ronald Reagan today wrote into the state's lawbooks "one
of the most fundamental and far-reaching breakthroughs in the history
of California's public school system"-- a bill to let local school
boards choose the person they want to run their schools, solely on the
basis of managerial and administrative competence, even though the person
does not hold a school credential
The new law (AB-122, Ryan) also creates a 5-member Commission for
Teacher Preparation and Licensing, to be appointed by the governor,
consisting of ten professional educators, two school board members and
three private citizens. Regulations adopted by the Commission will be
subject to the approval of the State Board of Education.
The governor, at a special signing ceremony in his office said
"the bill represents one of the most fundamental and far-reaching
breakthroughs in the history of California's public school system.
"It is nothing less than a giant stride forward in this
administration's efforts to reform California's archaic teacher cre-
dentialing system through streamlining and modernizing the state's
administrative machinery in this area.
"By insuring a continuing flow of new ideas from the teaching
profession and the public, and bringing together the leadership of the
higher educational institutions responsible for teacher preparation, it
will give our state college and university education departments a better
closer feel for the changing needs in curriculum development as they
affect our young people studying to become teachers."
Governor Reagan emphasized that the new law "will, for the first
time in a century, untie the hands of local school boards so that they
will no longer be forced to limit their search for a district
superintendent to only those members of the educational establishment
who possess a credential.
"On the contrary," he said, "the new law opens wide the doors throug
which local school officials can look for professional managers of
proven administrative ability to direct the operations of their district.
No longer will it be necessary to exclude from consideration men of
widely recognized managerial talents from such fields as business,
industry and the professions simply because they never have sought a
teaching license.
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The governor said that while he is "pleased that the legislation
did exempt chief administrative officers (district school superintendents)
from the credential requirement, I am nonetheless disappointed that
provisions to extend the exemption to all other school district
administrative personnel were killed in committee.
"We will continue, however, to push vigorously in future sessions
of the legislature to extend the exemption so that ultimately no school
administrator will be required to possess a credential, he said.
"I am convinced that only in this way will our schools ever really
be able to achieve the prudent and careful management they require to
insure that public funds are used for the maximum benefit of our children
in extending and improving the quality of classroom instruction,' he added
Governor Reagan said the new law also dramatically simplifies both
the standards and processing of teaching credentials. It eliminates the
present cumbersome, lengthy and costly process of reviewing individual
transcripts of candidates for school credentials by requiring only that
an applicant:
--Hold a B.A. or equivalent degree--which includes at least nine
units of professional preparation- from an approved college or university
as a determinant of area of competence for teaching,
--Or, that he or she passes an examination in those subjects to be
taught.
He noted that a fifth year of study must be completed within seven
years of the first employment as a teacher.
The bill will further cut down on a maze of paperwork and red tape
by reducing from some 350 to about 2 dozen the number of teacher
credential categories and subcategories.
The bill also streamlines the processing of credentials. Instead
of having to wait as long as nine months, an applicant will now be able
to expect a decision from the state in only a matter of several weeks.
In addition, the legislation enables a teacher to conduct classes
in his approved field at any grade level both elementary and secondary.
At present, unless a teacher holds specific credentials for both levels,
he is confined to one or the other.
Governor Reagan, recalling that he vetoed a teacher credentialing
bill last year by Assemblyman Ryan, said AB-122 corrects the flaws
contained in the previous legislation.
The governor subsequently formed a Governor's Commission on
Educational Reform to study all aspects of elementary and secondary
education in California including teacher preparation and licensing.
"Many of the recommendations submitted to me by the commission are
incorporated in this bill, II he said.
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"I want to express my deep thanks to all of those on the commission
who worked so long and hard to help make today's signing possible, " he
added.
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Max Rafferty, commenting
on the bill today, said:
"I join with the governor in the hope that the new emphasis on
teacher professional development will be of great benefit to the dedicate
men and women who are devoting their lives to the education of our
children.
"While I have had concern about the legislation in the past, I feel
that the bill in its final form overcomes my most serious reservation
by assuring that the historic prerogative of the State Board of Education
is maintained through the veto power which the bill has vested in the
board," Rafferty said.
The law in no way diminishes the basic overall role of the State
Department of Education in helping to upgrade the quality of education
in California's public schools.
The legislation also drew strong support from the California
Teachers' Association (CTA) and the California School Boards Association
(CSBA).
Cal Rossi, acting executive secretary of the CTA said:
"This legislation represents a departure from the traditional
certification statutes enacted in the past. We feel that it is a very
positive move in the right direction and that, when fully implemented,
it could lead to improved teacher preparation, resulting in better
education for the children of California. It is our conviction that the
establishment of a professional standards commission will result in the
development and maintenance of sound certification standards and will
facilitate updating and improving them when necessary."
Joseph M. Brooks, CSBA executive director, said:
"The California School Boards Association has supported AB-122
during its passage through the legislature and has worked constructively
with the authors of the bill and with representatives of the governor's
office.
"We feel that this legislation is a significant forward step toward
improvement of the teacher credentialing process."
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Dr. James D. Koerner, a widely known and highly respected
authority in this field who is now a fellow at the Sloan Foundation,
New York, as well as a senior research fellow at the Education Development
Center, Newton, Massachusetts, said:
"The establishment of this commission will, indeed, be a contribution
to the advancement of education. It is the best bet for the general
reform of education, and licensing of school personnel."
Seymour Gang, presidential fellow at the Metropolitan Applied
Research Center, New York City, and also widely recognized in public
school education, said:
"With this measure, California is once again in the forefront of
educational reform. The new law will serve as a model for other states
anxious to bring about the fundamental reform of teacher training."
Legislative Analyst A. Alan Post said (on July 2, 1970) the
legislation could save the taxpayers $600,000 per year.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
8-5-70
#389
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills
have been signed:
AB 28 - Belotti
Requires the Department of Fish and Game to
(Chapter 558)
notify the board of supervisors of specified courties
when a request is made for a depredation antlerless
deer hunt and requires the board of supervisors
to notify the Fish and Game Commission within
30 days after receipt of such notice of its
recommendation regarding such proposed hunt.
AB 295 - Priolo
Changes the deadline for filing declaration as
(Chapter 559)
a write-in candidate from the fifth to the eighth
day prior to the election.
AB 411 - Dunlap
Authorizes local school districts to provide
(Chapter 560)
basic reading instruction under the Miller-Unruh
Act for students in kindergarten. The bill
becomes effective on July 1, 1971.
AB 495 - Veysey
Provides that the Cotton Abatement District Act
(Chapter 561)
shall remain in effect until February 1, 1975.
The bill also provides that the required payment
of a fee for each bale of cotton and the
appointment of a Cotton Pest Control Board,
which is effective until February 1, 1971, be
extended to February 1, 1975.
AB 784 - Belotti
Provides that no privilege tax is applicable to
(Chapter 549)
fish improted into California from another
state or country and which are for human
consumption and are not thereafter canned or
cooked.
AB 886 - Moorhead
Provides that automatic review of bail with
(Chapter 562)
respect to the person detained because he
cannot post it, may be waived by the defendant.
AB 1209 - Roberti
Permits a defendant named in a complaint, or
(Chapter 563)
cross-complaint, in inter-pleader to file an
answer setting out the basis for his claim
and any affirmative defenses in lieu of, or in
addition to, other pleadings. The answer
shall contain allegations of fact as to ownership
of, or other interests in, the amount of the
property in the affirmative defenses and the
relief requested.
AB 1217 - Cory
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Education
(Chapter 550)
Code.
AB 1219 - MacDonald
Eliminates the Coordinating Council on State Program
(Chapter 564)
for the Blind. The Council consists of the Director
of Education, Rehabilitation, Social Welfare, and
Public Health.
AB 1400 - Ryan
Permits a city to act by resolution as well as
(Chapter 565)
by charter or ordinance to provide that city
offices shall not be closed on enumerated
state holidays.
AB 1431 - Moorhead
Provides that if a public guardian is the duly
(Chapter 566)
designated officer providing conservatorship
investigation and is granted temporary letters of
conservatorship, his official oath and bond as
public guardian are in lieu of any other bond or
oath. The bill also provides that if a public
guardian is appointed conservator, his official
bond and oath as public guardian are in lieu of the
conservator's bond and oath on the grant of letters
of conservatorship.
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AB 1432 - Moorhead
Provides for the issuance of letters of
(Chapter 567)
guardianship or conservatorship to public
guardians in the same manner as such letters are
issued to other persons. The bill also provides
that the public guardian's official bond and oath
are in lieu of the guardian's or conservator's
bond and oath upon grant of specified letters.
AB 1524 - Powers
Provides that specified events such as marriage,
(Chapter 568)
dissolution of marriage and the birth of a child
automatically terminate a prior revocable designation
of beneficiaries under the Public Employees'
Retirement System. The bill provides for payment
to designated survivors in the event that there is
no effective designation of beneficiary at the
time of death.
AB 1533 - Chappie
Provides that the State Board of Equalization or
(Chapter 569)
an assessor may disclose appraisal data to any
assessee regarding his property, and that the
Board may disclose any appraisal data to any
assessor. The bill specifies that the
information and records which an assessee may inspect
shall include market data.
AB 1591 - Hayes
Provides that salaries of judicial officers and
(Chapter 551)
employees who are exempt from civil service and
whose salaries are fixed by a state court or
judicial agency are subject to the approval of the
Chairman of the Judicial Council instead of the
Department of Finance. The bill also deletes the
requirement that the clerk of the Supreme Court
serve as secretary of the Judicial Council.
AB 1644 - Moorhead
Provides that a person who has been temporarily
(Chapter 570)
released from a State prison facility for purposes
of employment, education, or medical treatment
or research and who has willfully failed to return tc
custody shall be punished as an escapee.
AB 1718 - Wilson
Permits formation of area housing councils composed
(Chapter 571)
of cities and counties. It requires such councils
to develop area housing plans, The bill also
permits area housing councils to require payment of
a limited surcharge on building permits issued
by member cities and counties, to be returned to
member cities and counties which adopt and implement
area housing plan as a housing element of their
general plan.
AB 1791 - Moretti
Revises the Insurance Code provisions relating to
(Chapter 572)
membership and composition of the governing
committee of the California Riot and Civil
Disorders Insurance Association. The bill requires
the state to make annual premium payments for
a specified period of time to the Association for its
assuming the obligation of the state under the
National Housing Act.
AB 1798 - Ryan
Authorizes cities to require or provide for the
(Chapter 577)
preventive abatement of weeds, including prevention
chemical control, where they may occur as a
seasonal recurrent nuisance on specified parcels
of property.
AB 1850 - Beverly
Prescribes a procedure which a lender shall follow
(Chapter 573)
when he cancels an insurance policy when the
insured has financed the premium and granted the
lender a power of attorney to exercise the
insured's option to cancel the policy.
AB 1895 - McCarthy
Allows assessors to make escape assessment for all
(Chapter 552)
incorrectly allowed exemptions. The bill also
requires that state reimbursements to local taxing
agencies for revenue loss from incorrectly allowed
exemptions, if not repaid, be deducted by the State
Controller from the next reimbursement to such
agencies.
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AB 1943 - Russell
Establishes a reserve for working capital in the
(Chapter 574)
General Fund in the amount of the difference
between the gross surplus available for
appropriation, determined by the Controller not
counting such reserve, and cash in the General
Fund in the treasury at the end of the fiscal
year after adjustment for temporary loans under
specified provisions. The bill also requires the
Governor to use figures for reserve for working
capital determined by the Controller for the past
actual year, when submitting the budget.
AB 1980 - Bagley
Provides that any person in the state instead of
(Chapter 575)
any citizen of the state has a right to access to 1
public records. The bill specifies that
declaratory or injunctive relief is available to
enforce the right of inspection of public
records. The bill also defines confidential
records for purposes of prohibiting disclosure of
certain records of the Division of Industrial
Safety of the Department of Industrial Relations.
AB 2159 - Beverly
Provides that cancellation of specified types of
(Chapter 576)
automobile insurance policies shall not be
effective unless a notice of cancellation is
mailed or delivered to the named insured within
required time period.
AB 2165 - Burke
Consolidates five elected marshals' offices of
(Chapter 578)
Orange County into one appointive position and
provides for the continued employment of the
present marshals.
AB 2183 - Veysey
Provides that under specified conditions melons
(Chapter 553)
and vegetables in field bins or bulk may be
shipped out of state for a distance of not
exceeding 25 miles into adjoining states if a permit
is obtained from the Director of Agriculture.
AB 2304 - Fong
Makes several technical changes in the property
(Chapter 554)
tax laws. The bill corrects cross references,
deletes obsolete language and renumbers some
provisions of the Revenue and Taxation Code.
AB 2305 - Fong
Provides that a person who certifies in
(Chapter 555)
writing that aircraft jet fuel purchased by him
is not subject to the jet fuel tax and who later
uses the fuel in a taxable manner shall be
considered an aircraft jet fuel dealer selling
such fuel and be liable for the tax. The bill
permits the State Board of Equalization to issue
written authorization to certain transit
operators to purchase fuel subject to use fuel
tax from a vendor without payment of the tax to
the vendor.
AB 2398 - Hayes
Provides that a patient may initiate proceedings
(Chapter 556)
to compel production of medical records if the
custodian of such records refuses to make them
available during business hours within five days
after an authorized demand. The patient is
entitled to all reasonable expenses, including
attorney fees, incurred in any proceeding to
compel production of medical records.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following
bills have been signed:
AB 294 - Priolo
Provides that in general law cities and counties
(Chapter 592)
where the election board provides for the ballots
to be counted at a central counting place or places,
the board or person who canvasses the returns may
appoint not less than three deputies to open the
envelopes or containers. The bill provides that
if, after examination, any precinct returns are
still incomplete, ambiguous, not properly
authenticated, or otherwise defective, the board
or person canvassing the returns may require the
attendance of the precinct board members.
AB 541 - Dunlap
Eliminates six-month limitation on the disclosure
(Chapter 593)
of a certain mental patient's records by his
physician after completion of the records.
AB 889 - MacDonald
Permits a statement of partnership to state the
(Chapter 606)
name and date of withdrawal of a partner and that
the partnership was not dissolved by such
withdrawal. The bill provides that such
information shall be conclusively presumed to be
true in favor of bona fide purchaser for value of
real property from the partnership, unless the
partner or his personal representative files the
specified statement.
AB 1373 - Greene, B.
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the Public
(Chapter 607)
Resources Code.
AB 1484 - Foran
Requires the driver of any vehicle approaching a
(Chapter 608)
railroad grade crossing to stop not less than 15
feet, rather than 10 feet from the nearest rail.
AB 1611 - Greene, L.
Deletes architecture from the fields of graduate
(Chapter 594)
instruction over which the University of California
has exclusive jurisdiction in public higher
education.
AB 1686 - Roberti
Permits a school district governing board to
(Chapter 595)
require parent, guardian, or relative home and
business addresses and phone numbers so that a
school can contact someone in event of an
emergency.
AB 1723 - Crandall
Makes the Vehicle Code provision prohibiting
(Chapter 596)
driving, parking, or stopping of vehicles or
animals on designated public premises, unless
in accordance with regulations established by
the governing board or officer thereof, applicable
to units of the state park system.
AB 2000 - Murphy
Provides that the signature, countersignature or
(Chapter 609)
attestation of a public officer or deputy on
bonds or coupons or both is valid and sufficient
even if the officer or deputy ceases to be
officer or deputy before delivery of the bonds.
AB 2093 - Murphy
Makes technical amendments to the Government Code
(Chapter 610)
sections relating to county fire protection
services.
AB 2260 - Stull
Permits bonds of a school district to be offered
(Chapter 598)
for sale as a group with bonds of other school
districts in the county when authorized by the
school district governing boards. The bill
authorizes 7 percent maximum interest rate on the
bonds.
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AB 2307 - Fong
Provides that in the event the Governor declares
(Chapter 599)
a holiday, other than those specified in the
law, and the schools close, though not at the
direction of the Governor, such closing shall be
deemed a closing for a holiday declared by the
school district governing board. The bill also
provides pay for school employees for such
holidays, including any which occurred in the
calendar year, 1969.
AB 2340 - Stacey
Extends time for health facilities or
(Chapter 611)
institutions to comply with certain licensing
provisions from July 1, 1970, to July 1, 1972.
AB 2351 - Collier
Increases the types of libraries in which
(Chapter 597)
elementary textbooks may be displayed as a
condition to adoption by the State Board of
Education. The textbooks may be displayed in
school and college libraries as well as in public
libraries.
AB 2436 - Wilson
Allows recordation of a certificate describing
(Chapter 613)
real property and any lien thereon claimed
pursuant to law for the abatement of a nuisance
upon such property.
AB 2346 - Knox
Makes several technical amendments to the
(Chapter 612)
Corporate Securities Law of 1968.
SB 125 - Alquist
Clarifies language authorizing employment by
(Chapter 579)
community colleges of teachers to be classified as
temporary employees.
SB 179 - Mills &
Requires peace officers or employees of a
Barnes
humane society or animal shelter to take an
(Chapter 580)
injured cat or dog found in a public place to
a veterinarian for a determination of whether
the animal shall be immediately and humanely
destroyed or shall be hospitalized under proper
care and given emergency treatment. Funds for the
treatment of injured animals will come from dog
license fees. The cost of such treatment is to
be repaid by the animal's owner.
SB 333 - Cologne
Authorizes discovery and use of depositions in
(Chapter 581)
arbitration proceedings resulting from actions
for injury to or death of person caused by the
wrongful act or neglect of another. The bill
limits such provisions to arbitration proceedings
relative to such actions, unless the parties to
arbitration agree otherwise.
SB 474 - Cologne
Provides grounds on which the Secretary of State
(Chapter 600)
may refuse to appoint a person as a notary
public or revoke or suspend the commission of a
notary public: (1) false or misleading advertising
wherein such person has represented that he has
duties, rights and privileges that he does not
possess by law; (2) his giving legal advice while
not an active member of the State Bar; or (3) not
being of good moral character.
SB 521 - Marler
Authorizes boards of supervisors or a city
(Chapter 601)
council doing its own assessing to provide for the
assessment or reassessment of property damaged.
or destroyed to the extent of more than $1,000 by
a major misfortune or calamity in an area or
region subsequently declared by the Governor to
be in a state of disaster and to base the taxes
on such property on its value in the damaged or
destroyed condition according to a prescribed
procedure.
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SB 575 - Moscone
Provides that a cross-complaint may be dismissed
(Chapter 582)
if summons has not been served and return filed
within three years after filing. The bill also
provides that cross-complaints are subject to
dismissal if not brought to trial within two years
(discretionary) or within five years (mandatory)
after filing.
SB 577 - Moscone
Increases the fee for reporting testimony in
(Chapter 614)
contested cases in the superior courts from
$45 to $55 per day. The bill increases the
salaries of official reporters in Mendocino, San
Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, Sonoma, and
Stanislaus Counties. The bill also provides that
official reporters of the Municipal Court of the
El Cajon Judicial District shall be paid salary
and per diem of reporters of the San Diego County
Superior Court.
SB 638 - Sherman
Allows county welfare departments and probation
(Chapter 583)
departments to institute a court action to
declare a child free from the custody and control
by parents.
SB 752 - Danielson
Revises the California Uniform Gifts to Minors
(Chapter 584)
Act to include various changes in the 1965 Uniform
Gifts to Minors Act.
SB 756 - Danielson
Provides that service of process on a foreign
(Chapter 585)
corporation which has its right to do business in
this state forfeited under the Bank and Corporation
Tax Law may be effected in same manner as that of
a foreign corporation whose right to do business
has not been so forfeited.
SB 817 - Dymally
Authorizes the State Board of Education to
(Chapter 586)
approve expenditures for language development and
mathematics projects if specified priorities have
been met.
SB 849 - Cologne
Authorizes a party dissatisfied with costs
(Chapter 602)
claimed to move to tax costs in certain proceedings,
or to retax costs in unlawful detainer
proceedings, within 10 days, rather than five
days.
SB 863 - Grunsky
Allows a defendant reasonable time to answer a
(Chapter 587)
complaint after an order granting or denying a
motion to transfer certain cause or proceeding
has been appealed from and a stay granted, or
has been subject to mandate, irrespective of
whether such order was reversed by the appellate
court.
SB 919 - Danielson
Permits a person who meets specified requirements
(Chapter 588)
to take the examinations for a physician's and
surgeon's certificate.
SB 968 - Deukmejian
Permits a person who meets special qualifications
(Chapter 603)
to take the examination for an optometrist's
license.
SB 975 - Coombs
Establishes a bidding system for awarding
(Chapter 589)
construction contract for any public project
over $3,000 by a public leaseback corporation.
SB 994 - Grunsky
Removes the limitation of 150 miles on the
(Chapter 590)
effectiveness of a subpoena duces tecum in those
cases where the party requesting the production
of records does not desire the personal attendance
of the custodian; and the records are to be
delivered by mail as provided in the Evidence
Code.
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SB 1023 - Coombs
Provides for venue of actions by and against a
(Chapter 604)
local agency, as defined, in a manner similar to
actions by and against a city or county.
SB 1212 - Moscone
Provides that property distributed pursuant to
(Chapter 591)
court order or any payment properly made before
notice of petition to file a late claim against
an estate shall not be subject to such claim.
SB 1391 - Cologne
Provides that the court shall not make an order
(Chapter 605)
authorizing leases for a period exceeding ten
years if any heir, legatee, or devisee who has
an interest in the property to be leased objects.
Present law provides that the court shall not
make the order if any person interested in the
estate objects at the hearing.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the
following bills have been signed:
AB 289 - Johnson, H. Increases from 15 to 20 years from the date of
(Chapter 636)
discharge the period within which an applicant
for a "Cal Vet" farm and home purchase loan may
file an application.
AB 561 - Britschgi
Provides that an "entrance examination" for the
(Chapter 637)
purpose of granting veterans preference in
certain state civil service examinations is any
open competitive examination other than one for a
classification having a requirement of both
college graduation and two or more years of
experience.
AB 619 - Schabarum
Provides that specified penalty provisions
(Chapter 617)
pertaining to kindergarten class size standards
and specified restrictive provisions pertaining to
instructional aides are not applicable to an
experimental kindergarten program which has been
approved by the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
AB 768 - Stull
Requires that 6 percent interest be paid on certain
(Chapter 638)
property tax refunds paid as a result of a
reduction in assessed value by a board of equaliza-
tion or by a court action to recover taxes.
AB 831 - Knox
Provides that elections of local hospital
(Chapter 623)
districts be conducted pursuant to Uniform District
Election Law. The bill substitutes the appropriate
voluntary area health planning agency for the
State Department of Public Health as the agency
whose findings regarding need for hospital beds
in a hospital service area must be filed with the
supervising authority prior to a hearing on a
petition to form a hospital district. The bill
set rules governing the expiration of board member
terms. It requires district boards to establish
capital outlay fund before tax revenues can be
used for capital improvements.
AB 1018 - Dent
Adds "STP", its salts and derivatives to the
(Chapter 624)
restricted dangerous drugs category.
AB 1103 - Brown
Amends the Welfare and Institutions Code relating
(Chapter 625)
to the appointment of counsel for minors in
juvenile court hearings and provides that the court
shall appoint counsel unless there is an intelligent
waiver to the right of counsel and provides that the
parent or guardian shall pay for counsel if they
have the ability to do SO.
AB 1129 - Bee
Authorizes the Superintendent of Public Instruction
(Chapter 626)
to exempt from class size penalties pilot programs
of team instruction in reading conducted in an
elementary school within a unified school district.
The bill
requires the school district to submit a progress
report on pupils participating in the program. The
State Board of Education is required to review the
program annually.
AB 1356 - Belotti
Amends the Milk Stabilization Law to establish a
(Chapter 627)
procedure for the filing of briefs after a public
hearing on milk prices.
AB 1357 - Belotti
Amends the Milk Stabilization Law to require the
(Chapter 628)
Director of Agriculture to provide on request a
written statement of the basis for the minimum
price for fluid milk which are established after a
price hearing.
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AB 1393 - Dent
Excludes the amount of interest to maturity on
(Chapter 639)
outstanding bonds of an acquired school district
in determining bonding capacity of the acquiring
school district for purposes of the School Building
Aid Law.
AB 1666 - McCarthy
Increases from $500 to $1,000 the amount of the
(Chapter 640)
liability that may be imputed to a parent for
injury or damage suffered on account of the
wilful misconduct of their minor child.
AB 1754 - Briggs
Includes sanitary sewer facilities within
(Chapter 629)
provisions of the Subdivision Map Act relating
to construction and financing of storm sewers,
drains, and other facilities.
AB 1800 - McCarthy
Extends the period from one to two years during
(Chapter 630)
which a taxpayer under the Personal Income Tax
Law may replace involuntarily converted property
and have the gain thereon recognized only to a
limited extent.
AB 1801 - McCarthy
Extends the period from one to two years during
(Chapter 641)
which a taxpayer under the Bank and Corporation
Tax Law may replace involuntarily converted property
and have the gain thereon recognized only to a
limited extent.
AB 2077 - Knox
Increases the maximum tax rate from 5 cents to 10
(Chapter 642)
cents per $100 of assessed value that any regional
park district may levy on all real and personal
property within the district to carry out any
of its objects or purposes and to pay its
obligations. The bill eliminates the provision
allowing such districts to levy an additional tax
rate of 5 cents per $100 for fiscal years 1969-70
through 1974-75 for general purposes.
AB 2107 - Townsend
Amends the Chiropractic Initiative Act to augment
(Chapter 643)
the authority of the Board of Chiropractic
Examiners to adopt regulations and take disciplinary
action.
AB 2205 - Stacey
Eliminates the Health and Safety Code provision
(Chapter 644)
conditioning continuation of the Emergency Medical
Care Services Program on the receipt of federal
funds.
AB 2250 - Quimby
Permits wineries with bona fide public eating
(Chapter 631)
places to sell brandy as well as wine to consumers
for consumption on the premises and also to use
wine and brandy in the preparation of food and
beverages to be consumed on the premises.
AB 2298 - Wilson
Expands the definition of "improvement, for
(Chapter 645)
purposes of the Park and Playground Act of 1909,
to include urban open space lands.
AB 2364 Waxman
Requires the voter's pamphlet to bear a statement
(Chapter 632)
that it does not list all candidates (if true), that
the statements of qualifications therein are
volunteered by the candidates, and that such
statements are printed at the candidate's expense
(if true).
AB 2441 - Moretti
Redefines "insurer" for purposes of basic
(Chapter 633)
property insurance inspection and placement plan
provisions. The bill provides that inability to
obtain basic property insurance after deligent
effort through normal channels may be shown in a
specified manner. The bill also expands nonvoting
membership of governing committee of industry
placement facility in plan to include one representa_
tive of surplus line brokers.
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AB 2465 - Sieroty
Deletes from the California freeway and expressway
(Chapter 634)
system a 2.1 mile portion of Route 1 from Route 90 t
Dewey Street in Santa Monica.
AB 2525-Britschgi
Authorizes a county to expend funds collected
(Chapter 646)
under a former local vehicle license fee for rapid
transit purposes.
SB 98 - Grunsky
Revises the law relating to fictitious business
(Chapter 618)
names.
SB 223 - Dymally
Broadens the exemption of offices of physicians,
(Chapter 635)
dentists or chiropodists from licensure as a clinic
or dispensary to include the leasing of the clinic
or office premises.
SB 460 - Sherman
Specifies that, in a county having three or more
(Chapter 619)
municipal courts, the judges of those courts
shall elect two, rather than one, of their members
to serve as trustees on the county law library
board. The bill requires the board of supervisors to
appoint as many additional trustees as may be
necessary for a seven-member board in a county
where there are three or more municipal courts.
SB 547 - Moscone
Provides that upon filing of the first notice of
(Chapter 621)
motion for a new trial by a party, each other
party served with such notice shall have 15 days
from the date of service within which to file and
serve his own notice of motion for a new trial.
SB 560 - Sherman
Defines U-turns and substitutes U-turn for
(Chapter 620)
language in various Vehicle Code sections prohibiting
certain vehicle turns.
SB 956 - Stevens
Extends from January 1, to June 1, 1970, the date
(Chapter 622)
by which documents relating to certain simultaneous
city and school district boundary changes must be
filed with state and local agencies for assessment
and tax purposes during the 1970-71 fiscal year.
The bill also provides for an extension to June 30,
1970, for certain detachments of territory from
recreation and park districts.
SB 969 - Coombs
Amends the Improvement Act of 1911 to require a
(Chapter 616)
local legislative body to give notice and call a
hearing if the lowest responsible bid is 15 percent
more than the engineer's estimate of cost. Present
law permits a legislative body to give such notice
and call a hearing if the lowest bid is 10 percent
more than the engineer's estimate of costs.
SB 1421 - Whetmore
Moves back, by 14 days, various dates preceding
(Chapter 615)
the printing of ballots for an election. The bill
provides that an initiative measure may not be
placed on a statewide special election ballot if
it qualifies less than 131 days before the election.
The bill also prohibits certain candidates from
using their primary election ballot designation
at the general election.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation he proposed earlier
this year which for the first time in California history establishes
uniform sanitation and health requirements for all grocery stores and
retail food outlets in the state.
The bill (AB-323, Townsend and Hom) a key element in the
governor's 1970 consumer protection legislative program- is the fourth
of six major pieces of legislation proposed by the governor this year
which he has enacted into law. The three bills which he has already
signed will:
--Strengthen the state's ability to protect the insurance buying
public by preventing property insurers from summarily cancelling fire,
homeowner and personal property insurance policies without good cause
(AB-165), Beverly).
--Assure that information obtained from clients in the preparation
of state and federal income tax returns is maintained in the strictest
confidence (SB-485, Marks).
Permit the adoption of high safety standards for all tires used
on motor vehicles in the state (AB-733, Lewis).
The two remaining pieces of legislation would:
--Combat misleading and deceptive practices of those in the franchise
industry whose activities reflect unfairly on the rest of the industry
(SB-647, Bradley).
--And, guarantee that the accounts of small investors in financially
troubled industrial loan companies be protected from loss (SB-1290,
Sherman).
Governor Reagan said AB-323 "will, for the first time in California
history, establish uniform sanitation and health standards for grocery
stores and retail food outlets throughout the state with particular
emphasis on perishable foods---thus, protecting virtually every citizen,
young or old, who has occasion to make such food purchases."
He called the new law "a major step in the state's efforts to assure
that the food we buy in such stores as these meets adequate standards of
cleanliness and purity."
The new uniform regulations which will be enforced by local health
departments replace a hodgepodge of sanitation requirements which have
varied from county to county. Some smaller counties in the state have had
little or no sanitation standards governing retail food distribution,
up to now.
The State Department of Public Health will function as both a
coordinator and consultant to local health departments in the enforcement
of the new law.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today stepped up California's battle against
smog by signing into law a precedent-setting bill which will impose
stiff fines up to $6,000 per day---on individuals, companies, or
state and local public agencies which violate cease-and-desist orders
issued by local air pollution control districts or the State Air
Resources Board.
The governor said "the stringent new law (AB-88, Schabarum) moves
California further into the forefront of the battle against smog by
giving smog control authorities around the state the tools they need to
crack down even harder on air polluters."
He also noted that the legislation parallels the basic provisions
of another tough new law---the Porter-Cologne Act, supported and signed
by the governor last year which authorized the imposition of $6,000-
per-day fines on water polluters in California.
AB-88 also subjects any person who disobeys state or local smog
regulations to a $500-per-day penalty, and authorizes the attorney general
district attorneys and lawyers for local air pollution control districts
to bring such actions in court. The bill further gives such cases
special precedence on court calendars.
Governor Reagan called the legislation "a major step forward in the
state's continuing efforts to, once again, make our waters and skies
clear and blue for this and future generations of Californians."
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Governor Ronald Reagan today wrote into California's lawbooks two
key provisions of the tough Omnibus Clean Air Law he proposed to the
legislature last January measures which will require strict compliance
at the local level with the state's increasingly tougher non-vehicular
smog standards, and create by far the most comprehensive air quality
measurement network in the nation.
He called his Omnibus Clean Air package "the most comprehensive and
far-reaching legislative plan of action ever proposed by any state or
nation. "
The overall program of which the two measures (AB-83 and AB-87,
Schabarum) he signed today are important features is aimed at giving
California the long range tools necessary to crack down even harder on
the two main causes of smog: the internal combustion engine, and open
burning and industrial smoke.
AB-83 mandates the creation of an air pollution control district in
every county where one does not presently exist. It also requires that
either a regional air pollution control district, or a basin-wide
coordinating council, be formed in each of the eleven air basins of the
state
by no later than July 1, 1971.
The bill further requires that each regional district or basin-wide
council file a plan for controlling smog by January 1, 1972. If the
State Air Resources Board (ARB) determines that the plan is inadequate
to meet the state's air quality standards, the board would then draw up a
plan of its own. The local districts would then be required to comply
with, and enforce, the ARB plan.
Governor Reagan called the coordinated, basinwide approach to air
pollution control "a reasonable and logical tool for effectively meeting
and overcoming our statewide smog problem."
"Just as we have already moved, statewide, on increasingly more
stringent vehicle emission standards, we will now be able to insure that
non-vehicular air quality standards also are observed and enforced
across the length and breadth of the state,' " the governor said.
AB-87 will, for the first time, establish a statewide Air Monitoring
Network to measure air quality. Although the Mulford-Carrell Air
Resources Act and federal law require certain data on air quality,
up to now such measurements have been made on a haphazard basis, and in
only certain areas of the state. While a few local air pollution control
agencies have conducted their own monitoring operations, without state
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support, others have received state assistance for this purpose. And,
in yet other instances, the state alone has done the monitoring.
Furthermore, there has been no clear state policy on the
responsibility for air quality measurements.
Governor Reagan said the new law will correct this situation by
authorizing the State Air Resources Board to create what will be, by far,
the most comprehensive and extensive statewide air quality measurement
network in the nation.
The network will enable the ARB to gather and assemble such data
from every region in California so that the board will know whether its
strict air quality standards are being met and, if not, what new control
programs must be developed to see to it that the standards are, indeed,
achieved.
"In effect," the governor said, "the new system will enable us to
prevent from happening in rural areas what has already happened in a
number of our metropolitan areas---by maintaining a scrutinizing, day-by-
day watch on smog through the sophisticated sensors of the monitoring
equipment."
"The enactment
of both of these tough new laws is another
example of this administration's continuing commitment to the all-out war
against the debauching of our environment.
"By signing them into law, we are not only further strengthening
California's already tough controls on smog, but we are adding the teeth
which are necessary to enforce them."
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Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
8-14-70
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 263 - McCarthy
Authorizes members of the California Highway Patrol
(Chapter 648)
to inspect vehicles in an automobile dismantler's lot,
as well as in other specified places, for purposes
of investigations of vehicles wrecked or dismantled,
as well as for locating stolen vehicles and
investigating title and registration of vehicles.
AB 529 - Barnes
Authorizes the Board of the Public Employees'
(Chapter 676)
Retirement System to enter into an agreement with a
contracting agency and the board of supervisors of a
county maintaining a retirement system under the
County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 for
termination of agency's participation in the System
and the inclusion of employees in the county system.
AB 530 - Barnes
Provides that when a legislative body deems it to be
(Chapter 677)
in the public interest, it may initiate and adopt
an ordinance or resolution establishing a specific
plan or amendment thereto.
AB 535 - Thomas
Extends the privilege tax for the support of the
(Chapter 678)
Marine Research Committee, on handling of designated
fish from December 1, 1970, to December 31, 1972.
AB
565
- Brathwaite Requires that if food offered for sale in a
(Chapter 679)
restaurant contains any food additive not on the
Federal Drug Administration safe list, this must be
noted on the menu. If the additive does not appear
in the menu, the food will be deemed misbranded under
the California Pure Foods Act.
AB 572 - Crandall
Requires that a notice of disciplinary action to
(Chapter 650)
classified school personnel contain the specific
acts and omissions on which the disciplinary action
is based and any rule or regulation violated.
648 - Deddeh
Provides that a state college employee who is
Chapter 680)
reassigned from a nonacademic year position to an
academic year position any time subsequent to Januaryl
1965, shall be entitled to a lump sum payment for
vacation.
a3 819 - Russell
Directs the Educational Innovation Advisory Commission
(Chapter 716)
to review and to make recommendations to the State
Board of Education with regard to the policies and
practices relative to hiring, advancement and
assignment of statewide level administrators of
projects and project funding under Title III of
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
-B 875 - Hayes
Provides that a child 12 years of age or over who has
(Chapter 651)
been relinquished for adoption but has not been
adopted may change his name by petition to the superic:
court signed by the child and the adoption agency to
which he has been relinquished.
AB 895 - Dunlap
Permits authorized emergency vehicles to be equipped
Chapter 681)
with a flashing headlight system to be used under
specified conditions. Such systems are to be approved
by the California Highway Patrol.
AB 953 - Moorhead
Includes as a crime solicitation of another to commit
(Chapter 632)
or join in commission of an assault with a deadly
weapon or instrument or by means of force likely to
produce great bodily injury. The bill specifies that
punishment for the offense of solicitation of another
to commit or join in commission of any of the listed
crimes may be by both designated imprisonment and fine.
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AB 954 - Moorhead
Authorizes a sheriff or chief of police, in the
(Chapter 683)
event a prisoner elects to decline treatment by the
county or city jail physician and to provide medical
treatment at his own expense, to have him removed
from jail to a privately owned or operated medical
facility or hospital located in county approved by a
judge of the superior court for such treatment.
AB 974 - Johnson, H. Amends the Employment Agency Act to exempt certain
(Chapter 695)
overseas employment agencies from the requirement of
using the word "agency" in the conduct of their
business.
AB 1026 - Green, L. Extends through the 1970-71 fiscal year the provision
(Chapter 684)
providing that, upon approval of Superintendent of
Public Instruction, the deductible amount of fire
insurance for any school district with an average
daily attendance of less than 50,000 may exceed $1,00C
for each occurrence. The bill requires the legislativ
analyst to conduct a study of school property losses
resulting from specified causes, costs of school
districts to insure against such losses, and the
amount of such losses which is uncompensated by
insurance and to recommend a program for state
participation in payment of excessive losses or
school property insurance premiums.
AB 1054 - Dent
Eliminates provision for a 90-day observation period
(Chapter 685)
in a state hospital or county hospital prior to
commitment of mentally disordered sex offenders to
a state hospital for an indeterminate period.
AB 1056 - Sieroty
Repeals the Labor Code provisions prohibiting the
(Chapter 652)
employment of aliens by contractors or subcontractors
on public works projects. The repealed provisions wer
declared unconstitutional by the California Supreme
Court in 1969.
AB 1057 - Sieroty
Repeals the Labor Code restrictions on the employment
(Chapter 653)
of aliens in State and local government.
AB 1073 - Hayes
Prohibits court commissioners of superior and
(Chapter 686)
municipal courts from engaging in the private
practice of law.
AB 1125 - Johnson, H. Includes within the definition of dwellings subject
(Chapter 687)
to homestead condominiums, planned developments,
stock cooperatives, community apartment projects,
and property situated on real property under a lease
of 30 years or more.
AB 1127 - Johnson, H. Specifies that officers enforcing a writ of
(Chapter 654)
restitution obtained in an unlawful detainer action
either personally serve such writ on the tenant or
post the writ on a conspicuous place on the property.
The bill provides that if writ is posted, an
additional copy thereof shall also be mailed to the
tenant.
AB 1158 - Hom
Establishes a procedure to increase from 5 to 7 the
(Chapter 688)
number of members of the board of directors of a
local hospital district which provides at least
225 hospital beds.
AB 1194 - Hayes
Includes the report to the court from the investigating
(Chapter 655)
agency in adoption proceeding among those documents
which must be filed in the office of the county clerk
and which the judge cannot authorize anyone to inspect
except in exceptional circumstances and for good cause
The bill also prohibits a county clerk, upon the
written request of any party to action and upon order
of a judge of the superior court, from providing
certain documents for inspection or copying unless
the name of the natural parents of the adopted child
or information tending to identify such parents is
deleted.
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AB 1203 - Badham
Provides that a railroad may purchase or otherwise
(Chapter 689)
acquire and use all property necessary for the
conduct of its business, rather than all property
as is absolutely necessary for the conduct of its
business.
AB 1241 - Porter
Permits the maximum interest rate on metropolitan
(Chapter 696)
water district bonds to exceed 7 percent if the
district board determines by a two-thirds vote of
the board that the interests of the district and the
public interest or necessity require that such bonds
be sold subject to a higher maximum rate in order
to obtain needed funds.
AB 1315 - Russell
Includes public school teachers who are employed in
(Chapter 697)
classes organized under the Manpower Development and
Training Act of 1962, the Economic Opportunity Act
of 1966, and the Adult Education Act of 1966, and
other training and education programs in the State
Teachers' Retirement System.
AB 1347 - Wood
Provides for various different specified testing
(Chapter 690)
facilities and organizations, including the Director
of Agriculture, to determine the weight or measure
or percentage of milk fat and fluid skim milk
components for the purposes of payment for milk,
cream, or any fluid derivative of milk or cream.
AB 1401 - Vasconcellos
Permits the Trustees of the California State
(Chapter 698)
Colleges to use day labor for any emergency
that may occur on a campus (rather than only for
"acts of God") provided the total expenditure per
incident does not exceed $3, 500.
AB 1406 - Brown
Extends the filing period for senior citizens
(Chapter 656)
property tax assistance claims in cases where the
claimant was prevented from filing a timely claim
because of a medically certified incapacity.
B 1473 - Stacey
Allows the State Board of Medical Examiners to
(Chapter 657)
delegate its authority to approve examination
applicants, approve issuance of certificates, and
to issue certificates to persons who qualify for a
reciprocity certificate, or whose application is
based on a diplomate certificate.
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1496 - Johnson, R.
Provides that the Director of Agriculture shall
(Chapter 699)
establish a system for certifying colony strength
for bees used in pollination of agricultural crops.
AB 1502 - Knox
Deletes the prohibition against the use of specified
(Chapter 700)
words in signs advertising the sale of alcoholic
beverages at retail for consumption on the premises.
AB 1529 - Chappie
Authorizes the Director of Parks and Recreation
(Chapter 691)
to exchange certain lands at Malakoff Diggins State
Historic Park and San Clemente State Beach for other
lands of comparable value.
AB 1532 - Chappie
Requires approval of plans and specifications by the
(Chapter 701)
Department of General Services prior to award of a
contract where state funds are utilized for any
building or facility subject to the law relating to
building access for the handicapped. The bill
requires the application for approval to be
accompanied by a filing fee determined by the
Department of General Services.
AB 1540 - Chappie
Revises the provision establishing a rebuttable
(Chapter 702)
presumption that the full cash value of property
fixed by a local board of equalization is correct when
the assessor proposes to change such value during
the succeeding two years, commencing with the
1971-72 assessment year.
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AB 1566 - Knox
Requires, rather than permits, that the general plan
(Chapter 717)
of a city or county include a conservation element
for the conservation, development and use of natural
resources and requires them to designate solid and
liquid waste disposal facilities in the land use
element. The bill provides that each city and county
must comply with such requirements by July 1, 1972.
AB 1617 - 'berg
Provides that employees of Sacramento County may
(Chapter 718)
receive sick leave credit at retirement on a day-
for-day basis.
AB 1635 - Mulford
Provides for the transfer of 90 percent of all fines
(Chapter 703)
and forfeitures of persons arrested or notified by
regional park police officers and charged with
violating provisions of the Vehicle Code or vehicle
regulations of the district to the general fund of
the regional park district and the remaining 10
percent to the general fund of the county in which
the regional park is located.
AB 1642 - Moorhead
Extends the statute of limitation on forgery so that
(Chapter 704)
the crime may be prosecuted at any time within three
years from its discovery rather than requiring it to
be prosecuted within three years of its commission.
The bill also removes the limitation upon prosecution
for kidnap for ransom or robbery if the victim suffers
bodily harm.
AB 1645 - Barnes
Provides for service credit under a retirement system
(Chapter 705)
established under the County Employees' Retirement
Law of 1937 for county service in which the person
was not a member because of a provision deferring
membership until 180 days after entry into service.
Member contribution would be required for such
service credit.
AB 1675 - Cory
Increases from 50 percent to 75 percent of capital
(Chapter 706)
and surplus the statutory limit on the amount that
a state bank may invest in fixed assets.
AB 1717 - Wilson
Makes it unlawful for a physician or a clinical
(Chapter 658)
laboratory to charge or solicit payment from any
patient for any clinical laboratory service not
actually rendered unless specified conditions are
complied with.
AB 1739 - Thomas
Specifies that burial at sea of cremated remains may
(Chapter 707)
be carried out either by boat from any harbor in
state, or by air, three miles from the nearest
shoreline.
AB 1852 - Briggs
Increases the maximum permissible charge by a
(Chapter 659)
personal property broker on the portion of a loan
between $700 and $1500 from 1 percent to 1½ percent
per month.
AB 1924 - Knox
Classifies agents ofthe Bureaus of Narcotic
(Chapter 708)
Enforcement and Criminal Identification and
Investigation, along with the deputy and assistant
directors of the Department of Justice, as "policemen"
for Social Security purposes. The bill becomes
operative as of such time as a ruling or regulation
authorizing inclusion of the employees described in
the definition of "policemen."
AB 1953 - Crown
Directs the Department of Public Health, without
(Chapter 709)
impairing existing programs, to give priority to
specified medical conditions in use of funds provided
for crippled children services in the Budget Act of
1970.
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AB 2080 - Fenton
Permits contracting agencies under the Public
(Chapter 719)
Employees' Retirement System to separately include
local firemen or policemen or both within the
provisions that provide for continuation of a part
of retirement allowances to survivors.
AB 2314 - Quimby
Permits any agency, commission, or board provided for
(Chapter 692)
by a joint powers agreement entered into prior to
January 1, 1971, between the County of San Bernardino
and any city thereof, which has the power to operate
sanitary sewer facilities to issue revenue bonds
below the par or face value thereof. The bill is
effective until July 1, 1971.
AB 2442 - Moretti
Provides that any nonprofit corporation, created by
(Chapter 710)
one or more public agencies, whose board of directors
is appointed by such public agencies and which is
formed to acquire, construct, reconstruct, maintain
or operate any public work project, is a local agency
within the meaning of the Ralph M. Brown Act.
AB
2529
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MacGillivray
Extends from January 1, 1970, to April 6, 1970,
(Chapter 711)
the time in which the statement, map or plat
regarding annexation to a city may be filed with the
State Board of Equalization for the annexation to be
effective for assessment and tax purposes for the
1970-71 fiscal year. The bill applies to cities
completing annexations on March 30, 1970.
SB 23 - Nejedly
Provides that variances to zoning ordinances shall
(Chapter 660)
not be granted which authorize a use or activity not
otherwise expressly authorized by the governing
zoning regulation.
SB 71 - Grunsky
Adds an approved public health laboratory to
(Chapter 661)
laboratories that a physician may submit a blood
sample to determine the Rh factor of a pregnant woman.
SB 91 - Song
Authorizes the exercise of the right of eminent domair
(Chapter 662)
by common carriers operating upon waterways with
respect to terminal facilities, lands, or structures
for the receipt and transfer of passengers or property
The bill also requires public agencies to secure
either written permission or a court order prior to
entering on private property to conduct surveys,
studies, tests, and similar activities related to
locating public projects. Advance deposit by the
public agency of the amount of damage from such
activities is provided for as a condition of the
court order.
SB 316 - Schrade
Permits a city or county to adopt an ordinance
(Chapter 663)
requiring payment of a fee as a condition of approval
of a final subdivision map or issuance of building
permit for purposes of defraying cost of constructing
bridges.
SB 507 - Dolwig
Empowers the Counties of San Mateo, Marin and Santa
(Chapter 712)
Clara to adopt rules and regulations with respect
to logging which are stricter than those provided
under the Forest Practice Act and those promulgated
by the forest district forest practice committee.
SB 520 - Marler
Provides that the territory of any school district
(Chapter 713)
which was included in a specified unification proposal
which was defeated and which territory has been
restored to its existence as a separate elementary
school district or high school district, as the case
may be, will be exempted from the areawide elementary
school and high school foundation program provisions
and areawide aid and tax support provisions.
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SB 611 - Wedworth
Provides that the Fish and Game provisions making
(Chapter 665)
it unlawful to deposit or permit specified litter
to pass into state waters do not apply to a refuse
disposal site authorized by the appropriate local
agency having jurisdiction or to the depositing of
such materials in a container from which the materials
are routinely removed to a legal point of disposal,
rather than to the depositing of such materials in a
container or refuse disposal dump maintained for the
disposal of such materials by any federal, state or
local government agency, or the property owner.
SB 757 - Danielson
Allows a community college governing board to hold
(Chapter 666)
meetings anywhere in the community college district,
high school district, unified districts or combination
thereof served by the community college district, as
it may by resolution determine. The bill requires
notice of location, date, and time of meeting to be
posted in each community college in the district at
least 10 days prior to a meeting.
SB 793 - Alquist
Limits the property taxing power of the Santa Clara
(Chapter 667)
County Transit District to taxation solely for bond
redemption purposes.
SB 869 - Grunsky
Deletes the Education Code provision authorizing
(Chapter 668)
elementary school pupils to attend the school they
would otherwise have attended when that portion of
the elementary school district in which they reside
is included in a unified district containing no
elementary school, and authorizing interdistrict
attendance agreements between the school district in
which the pupil resides and the district containing
the school which the pupil attends.
SB 932 - Dolwig
Authorizes the Estero Municipal Improvement District
(Chapter 669)
to acquire and construct reclamation of land for small
craft harbor, rather than for private small craft
harbor, purposes.
SB 988 - Moscone
Requires the State Lands Commission, within 3 years,
(Chapter 670)
at the cost of the Port Commission of the City and
County of San Francisco, to provide a description of
harbor lands transferred to the City and County of
San Francisco in 1968. The bill also authorizes the
City and County of San Francisco to lease specified
lands held by it in trust for 40 years, rather than
for 20 years, for purpose of developing and promoting
aquatic sport.
SB 1094 - Marler
Provides that the requirement that corporations file
(Chapter 671)
specified statement with the Secretary of State does
not put any person dealing with a corporation on
notice or under duty to inquire about the content of
such statement, The bill provides that suspension of
corporate powers on failure to file the specified
statement with the Secretary of State shall be
effective upon transmittal to the Franchise Tax
Board of the notification of suspension.
SB
1278
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Lagomarsino
Permits Embarcadero Municipal Improvement District
(Chapter 672)
to acquire and operate recreational facilities.
The bill also provides that the District may acquire
or construct the reclamation of land for small craft
harbor, rather than private small craft harbor,
purposes.
SB 1313 - Stiern
Deletes various obsolete provisions allowing
(Chapter 673)
reassessment of property destroyed by disaster and
late filing of statements and maps with the Board of
Equalization for assessment purposes.
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Governor Reagan also announced he has vetoed the following bills:
AB 1028 - Brown
Permits the employment of persons between the ages
of 18 and 21 as musicians, for entertainment purposes
only, in premises selling and serving alcoholic
beverages. The bill restricts the areas of such
employment, and provides that no alcoholic beverages
shall be sold, served, consumed, or taken into such
area.
REASON FOR VETO: Governor Reagan said, :This bill
permits the employment of persons
18 to 21 years of age as musicians in premises selling
and serving alcoholic beverages, but restricts the
area of such employment.
"I recognize that AB 1028 is intended to provide
additional employment opportunities for young
musicians. I am in support of this objective. I
believe that young musicians could perform in the
great majority of licensed establishments without
being adversely affected.
"However. the bill makes no distinction whatsoever
between those establishments in which such young
musicians could appropriately perform, and those where
nudity, obscenity, and other forms of so-called
"adult" entertainment are a principal attraction.
"Unfortunately, there are not sufficient safeguards
in the legislation to insure against potential
harmful effects on these young people.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
AB 1285 - Stacey
Includes licensed vocational nurses and psychiatric
technicians within the definition of "professional
employees" for purposes of the right to representation
by professional employees organization under the
public employer-employee relations law.
REASON FOR VETO:
Governor Reagan said, "This bill
includes licensed vocational
nurses and psychiatric technicians within the
definition of "professional employees" for purposes
of the right to representation by professional employee
organizations under the public-employee relations
law.
"This would be another instance of unnecessary state
interference with local government. Experience of
other states has shown that the public agency must
retain the broadest possible flexibility in
determining negotiating units. To restrict this
latitude by expanding the definition of professional
employees and proliferating the representation units
makes it difficult for government to establish
workable and sound employee relations programs.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE:
Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
8-17-70
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the
following bills have been signed:
AB 3 - Barnes
Provides for improvement in the "automatic cost-
(Chapter 647)
of-living" provisions of the Public Employees'
Retirement Law by earlier adjustment after
retirement and by increasing the maximum permitted
adjustment. Changes are effective on the first
annual adjustment date after an actuarial interest
rate of 5.25 percent or higher has been fixed under
the system. The annual maximum increase to the base
allowance is increased from 1½ percent to 2 percent.
AB 48 - MacDonald
Provides that fraudulent receipt of payments under
(Chapter 693)
aid to families with dependent children shall
be treated as a felony if the defrauded amount
exceeds $200, and, as a misdemeanor if the
defrauded amount is less than $200.
AB 218 - Campbell
Makes it a felony to simultaneously possess two
(Chapter 730)
designated chemical ingredients of methamphetamine
("speed") with the intention to manufacture the
drug. Exemptions are provided for drug manufacturer
licensed by this state and persons authorized to
possess the drugs by regulations of the Pharmacy
Board.
AB 390 - Greene, B.
Authorizes the establishment of a revolving fund
(Chapter 731)
for immediate or emergent need of aid recipients
in Los Angeles County.
AB 523 - Johnson, R. Authorizes the Director of Agriculture to
(Chapter 732)
contract with local milk inspection agencies to
handle the inspection of soft serve ice cream
establishments.
AB 623 - Biddle
Provides that a person arrested for driving a
(Chapter 733)
motor vehicle while under the influence of
intoxicating liquor who has chosen a chemical
test of blood alcohol content, and either is
incapable, or states he is incapable, of
completing the chosen test, has a choice of
submitting to and completing any remaining tests
or test and that the arresting officer must
so advise him. The bill specifies that failure to
submit to and to complete, rather than to submit to,
a test will result in a six-month suspension of the
driving privilege.
AB- 642 - Brown
Changes the composition of the membership of the Bay
(Chapter 734)
Area Air Pollution Control Advisory Council.
AB 654 - Hayes
Includes within categories of person under 21
(Chapter 735)
years of age for whom an action may be brought
for the purposes of having such person declared
free from the custody and control of parents those
persons who have been left without provision for
their identification by a parent or others for
six months. The bill provides that failure to
provide identification for six months is
presumptive evidence of intent to abandon.
AB 752 - Ketchum
Provides for dissemination of ballot pamphlets
(Chapter 736)
for all elections on city formations and
annexations and elections on formations of
specified districts. The bill specifies that the
pamphlets are to include an impartial analysis
prepared by appropriate local agency formation
commission as well as arguments for or against
the proposal.
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AB 761 - Beverly
Revises the Personal Property Brokers Law with
(Chapter 737)
respect to the making of loans, the licensing of
brokers, the keeping of records, annual reports,
charges and fees, and insurance.
AB 825 - Johnson, R. Exempts from registration vehicles equipped with
(Chapter 738)
a water tank owned by a farmer and used exclusively
to service his implements of husbandry and
subjects such vehicles to the same equipment and
device requirements as if registered if owner has
obtained identification plate as set forth in the
Vehicle Code.
AB 931 - Dunlap
Requires school districts, with specified
(Chapter 739)
exceptions, to make payments of wages and payroll
orders and warrants for payment of wages to classi-
fied employees on the last working day of month in
which the employee was in paid status.
AB 960 - Bagley
Provides that a grand jury shall not spend money
(Chapter 740)
or incur obligations in excess of the amount
budgeted by the county board of supervisors for
its investigative activities unless the proposed
expenditure is approved in advance by presiding
judge of superior court after the board of
supervisors has been advised of the request.
AB 970 - Crown
Provides for a mandatory felony sentence in the
(Chapter 741)
event of conviction for the illegal selling or
transporting of destructive devices. The bill
increases the punishment from a maximum of three
years to a minimum of 15 years. It also carries
a mandatory requirement for confinement in the
state prison for at least one year, without
possibility of probation, parole or a suspended
sentence.
AB 1086 - Burke
Amends the Probate Code to permit specified
(Chapter 742)
distributees of money to present a claim for
money or property in the form of an affidavit,
in lieu of filing a prescribed petition, to the
judge of superior court which made the assignment
or distribution.
AB 1208 - Dent
Repeals the Education Code provision containing
(Chapter 743)
a termincation date relating to the employment of
architectural and engineering firms on a temporary
basis.
AB 1220 - Barnes
Amends the Teachers Retirement Law to require
(Chapter 744)
deduction of the lesser of either 4 percent of
the refundable balance of $25 from each refund
for termination of service and imposes a like
fee for redeposits upon reentry into the State
Teachers Retirement System, for administrative
expenses.
AB 1317 - Russell
Provides that the State Board of Control may
(Chapter 745)
delegate to the Department of Public Works, under
such terms and conditions as are acceptable to
the Board, authority to order discharge from
accountability for collection of delinquent real
property rental accounts which do not exceed
$300.
AB 1449 - Dunlap
Provides that redeposit of contributions of a
(Chapter 746)
member who became a member of another county system
or of the Public Employees' Retirement System shall
be in the fund of the county at the time of
separation, and that upon redeposit the member's
retirement allowance shall be computed on the
basis of the law at retirement rather than the
law at the time of leaving county service.
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AB 1454 - Z'berg
Enacts the "Uniform Minor Student Capacity to
(Chapter 747)
Borrow Act, = providing that any written
obligation signed by a minor 18 or more years
of age in consideration of an educational loan
received by him from any person is enforceable as
if he were an adult at time of execution, if
specified conditions are met. The Act reflects
the recommendations of the National Conference of
Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.
AB 1543 - Chappie
Requires that any statement or affidavit for
(Chapter 748)
property tax purposes made by a taxpayer
asserting timely filing of a document by mail be
made within one year of the deadline applicable
to the original filing of such documents. The
bill also states that mailed payments received
under the property tax law need not be accepted
if received more than 30 days after the date and
time set by law for the payment.
AB 1590 - Hayes
Provides for involuntary commitment to a narcotics
(Chapter 749)
facility by the superior court of defendants who
were convicted of crime or had probation
revoked, if the superior court hearing determines
that the defendants were addicted to or in
imminent danger of addiction to narcotics.
AB 1694 - Bee
Requires that the notice of intended transfer
(Chapter 750)
for a limited alcoholic beverage license or on-sale
general seasonal license include a description
of the entire consideration paid, with a
designation as to form of payment.
AB 1732 - Thomas
Provides that Pacific mackerel may not be taken
(Chapter 751)
or possessed at any time for commercial purposes,
except that a load of fish taken may contain up
to 18 percent by weight of Pacific mackerel, when
they are taken incidentally with other fish.
AB 1740 - Bagley
Eliminates the authority of public administrators
(Chapter 752)
to deposit estate moneys with the county treasurer.
Under current law, the public administrator may
either deposit these monies in a bank or savings
and loan account, or with the county treasurer.
AB 1749 - Murphy
Authorizes any officer in charge of a jail, before
(Chapter 753)
whom any person arrested for any Vehicle Code
misdemeanor or infraction is brought, to release
such person on his written promise to appear as
provided for in the Penal Code, in lieu of admitting
such person to bail.
AB 1776 - Arklin
Authorizes the Department of Parks and Recreation
(Chapter 754)
to contract with any public or private agency for
the collection of fees and rentals and for the
operation of a reservation system in connection
with the State Park System. The bill also provides
that such a contract may contain provisions which
would allow the agency to retain a portion of the
fee or rental as reimbursement for the cost of its
services.
AB 1779 - Wood
Provides that the Public Utilities Commission shall
(Chapter 755)
require less accident insurance of air operators
who fulfill certain specified requirements than
generally required of commercial operators.
AB 1847 -- McCarthy
Eliminates preference for those needing employment
(Chapter 756)
in issuing licenses to blind persons for operation
of vending stands.
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AB 1996 - Murphy
Specifies that it shall be conclusively presumed
Chapter 757)
that a statute enacted last is intended to prevail
over statutes enacted earlier at the same
session in absence of an express provision to the
contrary in a statute enacted last, rather than in
the absence of an express provision to the
contrary. The bill specifies that it shall be
presumed that a statute which has a higher
chapter number was intended by the legislature to
prevail over a statute which has a lower chapter
number in the absence of an express provision to
the contrary in a statute which has a higher
chapter number, rather than in the absence of an
express provision to the contrary.
AB 2031 - Campbell
Amends the Medical Practice Act to permit waiver
(Chapter 758)
of the internship requirement for graduates of
foreign medical schools who meet prescribed
qualifications.
AB 2148 - Fenton
Authorizes commissioners of municipal courts to
(Chapter 759)
conduct arraignment proceedings if directed to
do so by the presiding or sole judge of the court.
AB 2393 - Duffy
Changes the name of the Social Worker and Marriage
(Chapter 760)
Counselor Qualifications Board of the State of
California to the Board of Behavioral Science
Examiners. The bill also makes technical
amendments to the clinical social worker's licens-
ing law.
AB-2418 - McCarthy
Prohibits any city or county from approving a
(Chapter 761)
subdivision map for a subdivision fronting upon
any lake or reservoir owned partially or
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entirely by any public agency including the state,
which does not provide or have available
reasonable access by fee or easement from public
highways to any water of the publicly owned lake
or reservoir upon which the subdivision borders
either within the subdivision or a reasonable
distance from the subdivision.
SB 90 - Song
Provides that no evidence is admissible in a
(Chapter 720)
civil action to charge a person concerning
representations made by him as to the credit of a
third person unless such representation or a
memorandum thereof is in writing and is either
signed by or in the writing of the person to
be charged.
SB 114 - Richardson
Permits the killing by shooting of all domesticated
(Chapter 721)
game mammals by their owner or his employee,
rather than permitting killing only domesticated
deer by shooting.
SB 188 - Coombs
Authorizes the plaintiff and defendant in a
(Chapter 722)
small claims court hearing to offer evidence
by witnesses appearing at times other than at
the hearing only with permission of court.
SB 429 - Grunsky
Authorizes the court, when a public defender
(Chapter 723)
or assigned counsel is appointed at the expense
of a county to represent a person who is a minor,
in a criminal proceeding, to order the parent or
guardian of such minor to reimburse the county for
all or any part of expenses of such appointed
counsel if it determines that the parent or
guardian has ability to pay such expense.
SB 440 - Sherman
Permits a contracting agency to fix the amount of
(Chapter 724)
its contribution under the Meyers-Geddes State
Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act, but not
less than the amount specified.
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SB 489 - Nejedly
Clarifies the venue and sub-venue requirements
(Chapter 725)
for actions on contracts within the Unruh Retail
Installment Sales Act and the Rees-Levering Act
relating to automobile sales.
SB 594 - Sherman
Specifies that it is a misdemeanor to knowingly
(Chapter 726)
register as a voter a nonexistent person, to
knowingly register a person who is ineligible to
register or to knowingly register a person under
a false name or address.
SB 784 - Mills
Redefines "meet and confer in good faith" for
(Chapter 727)
purposes of public employer-employee relations
to require meeting and conferring within a
reasonable period of time.
SB 1015 - Coombs
Extends the filing time for instruments required
(Chapter 728)
to qualify land as open space land for assessment
purposes.
SB 1132 - Song
Makes the alternative death benefit and life
(Chapter 729)
annuity payable under a county retirement
system established under the County Employees'
Retirement Law of 1937 on election of the
surviving spouse available only where the member
dies in service after five years of service or as
a result of service-connected injury or disease
and changes the computation of the annuity.
SB 1410 - Moscone
Requires that emergency service and care be
(Chapter 674)
provided to any person requesting it or for whom
it is requested, for any condition in which the
person is in danger of loss of life or serious
injury or illness, rather than only loss of
life, at any licensed hospital that maintains
and operates an emergency department to provide
emergency service to the public when such
hospital has appropriate facilities and
qualified personnel available to provide such
services or care. The bill also includes dentists
and podiatrists in provisions presently exempting
hospitals, employees, and physicians from
liability in any action arising out of a refusal
to render emergency services or care if reason-
able care is exercised in certain determinations.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
8-19-70
#406
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed into law another key
provision of the tough Omnibus Clean Air Law he proposed to the
legislature last January--a bill to assure that smog control systems
on all new cars sold in California are properly adjusted and
certified for optimum performance prior to the time of sale.
"This legislation," he said, "is the first of its kind
ever to be enacted by any state or nation, and represents a major
step forward in this administration's continuing efforts to reduce
smog."
The governor said "the measure (SB-505, Sherman) writes
into the law more of the teeth necessary for helping the state to
enforce compliance with California's increasingly tougher motor vehicle
emission standards."
Since 1966 auto manufacturers have been required to equip
new cars with smog control systems to meet the state's standards.
However, studies by the State Air Resources Board show that these
systems are not always properly adjusted for optimum performance--prior
to sale or delivery of the new car to the customer.
The new law will make such adjustments mandatory, either at
the factory or by the dealer. The measure also requires that the
emission control adjustments be certified by Official Motor Vehicle
Pollution Control Stations. These inspection stations are licensed,
policed and regulated by the California Highway Patrol. Most
automobile dealers in the state already are, or can become, licensed
inspection stations under the CHP's present program.
Although the legislation also covers transfer of ownership
of used cars, the main thrust of the new law is to require that smog
control systems on all new cars sold in California are properly adjusted
prior to sale by the dealer.
The filing of a false certification could be the basis for
revocation of an automobile dealer's license by the Department of
Motor Vehicles, and/or revocation of the license of any Official
Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Station by the CHP.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
8-19-70
#407
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation which extends the
death penalty to cases where great bodily harm is caused by the explosion
of a bomb including the "molotov cocktail."
The measure (AB-1003), by Assemblyman Craig Biddle (R-Riverside),
was supported by the governor.
"As you know, " the governor said, "a wave of bombings has hit the
country in recent months, and California has not been spared.
"I know I share the hopes of all law abiding citizens in the state
that the new law will somehow help to curb this most tragic and
senseless form of violence," he added.
The new law sets the penalty of death or life imprisonment
without parole, at the discretion of the jury, when a person is convicted
of willfully and maliciously exploding a "destructive device" causing
great bodily injury to another. The law includes "molotov cocktails"
in the definition of "destructive devices."
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
8-20-70
#408
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills
have been signed:
AB 301 - Veysey
Authorizes school districts located in counties
(Chapter 769)
contiguous with Mexico and maintaining a regional
occupational center to enter into student exchange
agreements with trade and technical schools in
Mexico.
AB 605 - Wilson
Increases the membership of the Home Ownership
(Chapter 770)
Training and Management Program Advisory Committee
from five to nine. The bill deletes the stated
emphasis on preoccupancy training as an element
of a pilot study by the Department of Housing and
Community Development.
AB 1170 - Fong
Includes within the state scenic highway system
(Chapter 772)
all of, rather than only a portion of Interstate
Route 580. The bill also includes Interstate
Route 680 within Alameda County in the scenic
highway system.
AB 1242 - Porter
Extends the time for publishing or posting
(Chapter 773)
notices of the pendency of applications for
unappropriated water from 15 to 20 days after
the date of issuance of the notice. The bill also
specifies that no person shall be excused from
testifying before the State Water Resources
Control Board on the ground that his testimony
may tend to incriminate him or subject him to
any penalty, and specifies that no person shall
be criminally prosecuted or be subject to any
criminal penalty, for or on account of any matter
before the Board which he has been compelled as
witness to testify.
AB 1571 - Wilson
Amends the definition of Factory-Buile Housing
(Chapter 774)
by deleting the reference to a habitable room
and adds in its place a reference to, "an
individual dwelling room or combination of rooms
thereof." The definition is further amended to
include units designed for use as part of an
institution for resident or patient care. The
bill adds a provision for reciprocity with other
states when the Commission of Housing and
Community Development determines that the law
and regulations of another state are equal to
those of California and that they are being
enforced.
AB 1618 - McCarthy
Provides for the submission of Assembly
(Chapter 763)
Constitutional Amendment Nos. 3,4,9,32,36,40,
42,43,49,65,66.67, and 68 to the voters at the
1970 general election.
AB 2450 - Roberti
Specifies that the executive officer of the State
(Chapter 764)
Personnel Board shall administer the civil service
statutes under rules of the Board, subject to right
of appeal to the Board. The bill becomes operative
only upon the adoption of Assembly Constitutional
Amendment No. 36 by the voters,
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SB 438 - Stevens
Allows records relating to public social services
(Chapter 765)
for which grants-in-aid are received by this
state from the United States government to be
made available to the head of a law enforcement
agency charged with conducting criminal
investigations into violations of state law
involving fraudulent or other unauthorized use
of public assistance payment checks or warrants.
SB 685 - Cusanovich
Increases the combined current and prior service
(Chapter 767)
pension for local miscellaneous members of the
Public Employees' Retirement System by changing
the benefit formula from one-sixtieth to one-
fiftieth if the contracting agency so elects.
SB 749 - Marler
Authorizes the rate of interest which bonds or
(Chapter 768)
notes issued under the State College Revenue
Bond Act of 1947 may bear, and the yield
resulting to purchasers thereof, to exceed
seven percent to the extent of any debt service
grant applicable to such interest which the
federal government has agreed to pay with
respect to such bonds or notes.
SB 780 - Mills
Directs the Secretary of State to revise
(Chapter 762)
Assembly Constitutional Amendment 79 of 1969
and ACA 36 of 1970.
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