Here’s a list of Senator Price’s most recent legislation.
This bill would exempt from qualification offerings or sales of securities using a general solicitation or general advertising, provided the transaction meets specified requirements, including a requirement that the sales are made to accredited investors. The intent of this bill is to allow small businesses to access capital from private investors without having to go through a private equity firm or a money manger.
This bill would require the Student Aid Commission to develop and regularly update the areas of occupational or technical training for which students may utilize Cal Grant C awards and would require the commission to give priority in granting the awards to students pursuing occupational or technical training in areas that meet specified, high employment need, high employment salary or wage projections high employment growth.
This bill would provide that expenses incurred for elections proclaimed by the Governor to fill a vacancy in the office of State Senator or Member of the Assembly, or to fill a vacancy in the office of United States Senator or Representative in Congress, are to be paid by the state. Where an election proclaimed by the Governor is consolidated with a local election, the bill would provide that the state would pay only those additional expenses directly related to the election proclaimed by the Governor.
This bill would authorize taxpayers to voluntarily contribute amounts in excess of their tax liability for the support of the Arts Council when filing their state Personal Income Tax returns.
This bill would prohibit the limiting age for dependent children covered by these health care service plan contracts and group health insurance policies from being less than 27 years of age. The bill would also provide that no employer is required to pay the cost of coverage for dependents who are at least 23 years of age, but less than 27 years of age.
This bill would authorize the Department of General Services to direct all state agencies, departments, boards, and commissions to establish the goal to achieve 25% small business participation in state procurements and contracts, to ensure that the state’s procurement and contract processes are administered in order to meet or exceed the goal, and to report to the Director of General Services statistics regarding small business participation in his or her agency’s procurements and contracts.
This bill would authorize the California Travel and Tourism Commission, at its own discretion, to conduct a review of its principal mission and core competencies in order to determine if the commission should include trade promotion in its strategic marketing plan or other future plans of the commission. The bill would require the commission to report its findings to the Legislature no later than December 31, 2013, if it elects to conduct this review. The bill would repeal its provisions on January 1, 2014.
This bill would authorize the Department of Transportation to establish prequalified lists of architectural and engineering services firms. The bill would authorize the department, for each category of architectural and engineering service, to establish separate lists for small, medium, and large projects by geographical area. The bill would require the department to comply with certain requirements relating to the advertisement and award of contracts in the event the department utilizes the prequalification list.
The County Transportation Commissions Act creates county transportation commissions or authorities in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura counties, with specified powers and duties. Existing law, with respect to those agencies, generally requires purchase of all supplies, equipment, and materials, and the construction of all facilities and works, when the expenditure exceeds $25,000, to be by contract let to the lowest
responsible bidder. Existing law contains various alternative provisions applicable solely to the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. This bill would enact additional provisions applicable to the Los
Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority relative to preferences in contracting for small business enterprises, as defined.
This bill would implement recommendations of the California Budget Project relating to the Food Stamp program, including: impose requirements for
semiannual reporting for the Food Stamp program; delete the fingerprint imaging requirements; and prohibit eligibility for food stamps from being conditioned on the limitation of an individual’s or family’s assets, as defined, and would delete existing asset limitations.
Existing law requires all local telephone corporations, excluding providers of mobile telephony service and mobile satellite telephone service, to the extent permitted by existing technology or facilities, to provide every existing and newly installed residential telephone connection with access to “911″ emergency service regardless of whether an account has been established. This bill would require local telephone corporations to provide a connection that has the capacity to place a “911″ call rather than providing access to “911″ emergency service.
This bill would require a notice of default to include a statement that identifies the name, address, telephone, and e-mail address of any person or entity that is designated to be responsible for the maintenance of the property for which the deed of trust is recorded. Existing law, until January 1, 2013, requires a legal owner to maintain vacant residential property purchased at a foreclosure sale, or acquired by that owner through foreclosure under a mortgage or deed of trust. Existing law authorizes a governmental entity to impose civil fines and penalties for failure to maintain that property of up to $1,000 per day for a violation. Existing law provides that these statutory provisions do not preempt any local ordinances and prohibits a governmental entity from imposing fines on a legal owner under both these provisions and a local ordinance. This bill would provide that these statutory provisions preempt any local ordinance and would further provide that any fines or penalties imposed for failure to maintain a property are the obligation of the legal owner and that these fines would be treated as a lien against the property in a foreclosure sale.
This bill would provide that if an affiant fails to identify his or her place of birth, the county elections official shall apply a rebuttable presumption that the affiant is eligible to register to vote if the affiant marked the box on the affidavit of registration, executed under penalty of perjury, that the affiant is a citizen of the United States. The bill would additionally provide that it would incorporate provisions of Senate Bill 6 if Senate Constitutional Amendment 4 from the 2009-10 Regular Session is approved by the voters.
This bill would provide that the requirement that the approval of a racetrack, satellite wagering facility, tribal casino that has a satellite wagering facility, or fair be obtained if the proposed minisatellite wagering facility is within 20 miles shall only apply to those facilities that are operated by racetracks or fairs that actually conduct 7 weeks or more of live racing in the preceding year. The bill would authorize the board, if a satellite wagering facility or tribal casino does not consent to a minisatellite wagering facility being situated within 20 miles, to conduct a
one-year test at the proposed site in order to determine its impact on total parimutuel revenues and on attendance and wagering at existing satellite wagering facilities. The bill would authorize a certain impact fee, as provided.
This bill, subject to an appropriation of federal funds for this purpose, would require the State Department of Education to contract for the development of a new indicator that measures pupil-level growth in academic achievement over time using specified statewide tests. The new indicator would be required to allow the state to comply with the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and to measure adequate yearly progress under that act.
The bill would require the department to convene an advisory board consisting of representatives from the state board, the Secretary for Education, the Department of Finance, the Legislative Analyst’s Office, parent groups, school districts, and education researchers to provide general guidance and make recommendations relative to modifying assessments, academic content standards, performance expectations, and eligibility criteria for state support and resources.
The bill would require the department, subject to funding being provided in the annual Budget Act, to contract with a consultant for independent oversight of the project to develop a new academic performance indicator. The consultant would be required to twice annually submit a written report on the progress in developing the new indicator and how the new indicator is meeting specified goals to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the state board, the advisory board, the Director of Finance, the Legislative Analyst, and the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature.
This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact Legislation that would reform fingerprinting, asset limitation, and reporting Requirements under the CalWORKs program and the Food Stamp program..
This measure would proclaim the month of January 2010 as National Mentoring Month.
This measure recognizes February 2010 as Black History Month, urge all residents to join in celebrating the accomplishments of African Americans during Black History Month, and encourage the people of California to recognize the many talents, achievements, and contributions that African Americans make