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AB 207, Maze
This bill would amend the Penal Code to make it a crime, punishable
by imprisonment and fine to commit an act of vandalism to a
veterans’ memorial, monument or cemetery.
Fines collected will fund veteran’s hospitals, through
appropriation in the budget.
CMAC Position: Support
Status: In Senate Public
Safety Committee
AB 540, Bogh
This bill would require the immediate processing of the
certificate of death for an individual who is a police officer,
no later than 10 days following acceptance for registration.
CMAC Position: Watch
Status: In Senate
Judiciary Committee
AB 548,
Calderon
Existing law provides that the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau of the
Department of Consumers Affairs administer an examination to license
embalmers. This law would
instead require embalmers to pass the National Examination for
Embalmers to obtain their license.
CMAC Position: Watch
Status: In Senate
Business and Professions Committee
AB 683,
Plescia
This bill creates a Governor’s Commission on Veterans
Cemeteries charged with making findings and recommendations to the
Governor on the possible establishment of State Veteran Cemeteries in
CA. The commission would
expire on January 1, 2006.
CMAC Position: Watch
Status: Dead for this year
AB 777,
Dutton
This bill was amended to deal with organ donations and no longer is
relevant to CMAC.
AB 1438,
Longville
This bill allows for a business to request a copy of their
business records seized by a governmental agency if they can show
that the denial of access to the records would cause the entity to
suffer significant injury or financial hardship.
CMAC Position: Watch
Status: In Senate Public
Safety Committee
AB 1493,
Runner
This bill has been amended to establish felony penalties for the
offenses of sexual penetration of a dead human body and sexual contact
with a dead human body.
CMAC Position: Support
Status: In Senate Public
Safety Committee
SB 2, Speier
This bill has been amended to expresses the intent of the
legislature to ensure health care coverage for working Californians and
their families.
CMAC Position: Watch
Status: In Assembly,
waiting assignment to a policy committee
SB 17,
Escutia
This bill has been substantially amended to declare the
Legislature’s intent that nonresidential property that changes
ownership be assessed when that change occurs.
CMAC Position: Watch
Status:
In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee
SB 341,
Committee on Local Government
This bill enacts a new Public Cemetery District Law.
It repeals and replaces exiting law. It declares the
Legislature’s intent to create and continue a broad statutory
authority for public cemetery districts that can own, improve, expand,
and operate public cemeteries.
The bill:
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Defines
how a new cemetery district would be formed
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Outlines
the role of the Board of trustees of the cemetery district
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Defines
the powers of the district
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Provides
that districts may sell interment right in its cemeteries,
columbaria and mausoleums, must comply with the Mausoleum and
Columbarium Law, and must establish an endowment care fund
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Defines
who may be interred in the district cemetery
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Identifies
how property tax revenue is provided to the district, and
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Allows
for the district to raise additional revenues.
CMAC Position: Support
Status: In Assembly
Local Government Committee
SB 360,
Figueroa
This bill authorizes the Department of Consumer Affairs to doubles
all DCA Boards and Bureau fines.
CMAC Position: Watch
Status: In Assembly
Business and Professions Committee
SB 363,
Figueroa
This bill enacts the recommendations of the Joint Legislative Sunset
Review Committee. It
includes adding “space and location sold” to the items to be
included on a contract of sale for a plot.
CMAC Position: Watch
Status: In Assembly
Local Government Committee
SB 748,
McPherson
This bill creates the Governor’s Commission on State Veterans’
Cemeteries in the Department of Veterans Affairs to determine the need
for State Veterans’ Cemeteries and locate and prioritize future sites
for construction of such cemeteries.
CMAC Position: Watch
Status: In Assembly
Committee on Veteran Affairs
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