SB 1106: Instructional materials: follow-up adoptions.

Session Year: 2015-2016
House: Senate
Latest Version Date: 2016-06-13

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Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt instructional materials for kindergarten and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, and to adopt procedures for the submission of instructional materials, and provides that instructional materials may be submitted for adoption in specified subject areas every 8 years.

This bill would instead provide that instructional materials may be submitted for adoption at least once but no more than twice every 8 years. The bill would require the State Department of Education, before conducting a follow-up adoption, as defined, in a given subject area to post a notice on the departments Internet Web site and notify all publishers or manufacturers known to produce basic instructional materials in that subject area that each publisher and manufacturer choosing to participate in the follow-up adoption shall be assessed a fee, as specified.

Existing law, known as the Mobilehome Parks Act, generally regulates various classifications of mobilehome and related vehicle parks. The Special Occupancy Parks Act generally regulates special occupancy parks. Both acts impose related duties on the Department of Housing and Community Development and local enforcement agencies. Existing law provides that any person who willfully violates the act, related building standards, or other related rules and regulations adopted by the department is guilty of a misdemeanor, subject to suspension or revocation of permits issued under the act, and liable for a civil penalty for each violation or for each day of a continuing violation. Existing law requires all fees or other moneys accruing to the department to be deposited into the Mobilehome-Manufactured Home Revolving Fund, which is continuously appropriated to the department for carrying out the provisions of the act.

This bill would authorize the Director of Housing and Community Development or a local enforcement agency that has assumed jurisdiction to issue citations that assess additional civil penalties to any owner or operator, or both, of a mobilehome park, special occupancy park, or registered owner of a manufactured home, mobilehome, or recreational vehicle, or other responsible party when he or she has permitted the continuation of a violation for at least 30 days after the expiration of a notice to correct the violation or violations from the enforcement agency. The bill would prescribe the amounts of those penalties and provide for a hearing on the citations. By increasing revenues deposited into a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation.

The bill would prescribe procedures for petitioning the department to review and investigate the enforcement activities of the local enforcement agency regarding the citation. Any hearing held pursuant to these procedures would not be subject to the Administrative Procedure Act.

Discussed in Hearing