Posted on 01/02/2011 12:31:09 AM PST by Stayfrosty
Californians will welcome 725 new laws on Jan. 1. Here's a glance at some of the laws taking effect when you ring in the new year:
AB 119 prevents insurance companies from charging different rates for men and women for identical coverage. SB 782 prevents landlords from evicting tenants who are victims of domestic or sexual abuse or stalking. AB 1844—informally known as Chelsea's Law and authored by local Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher—will increase penalties, parole provisions and oversight of sex offenders, including a "one-strike, life-without-parole penalty" for some. AB 1871 allows people to lease out their cars when they are not being used—alleviating the need to purchase additional insurance. AB 537 will make food stamps an acceptable form of payment at farmers markets through an EBT process. SB 1411 makes it a misdemeanor to maliciously impersonate someone via a social media outlet or through e-mails. SB 1317 allows the state to slap parents with a $2,000 fine if their K-8 child misses more than 10 percent of the school year without a valid excuse. It also allows the state to punish parents with up to a year in prison for the misdemeanor. AB 715 makes a change to the California Green Building Standards code. The change will require new California buildings to be energy efficient. SB 1449 makes the possession of up to one ounce of marijuana an infraction with a penalty of a $100 fine. AB 12 allows foster youth to acquire state services until the age of 21. SB 1399 allows California to medically parole state prison inmates with physical incapacitating conditions and ultimately shifts some of the cost of care to the federal government. AB 97 bans the use of trans-fats in food facilities.
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I think California just turned into Nazi Germany.
AB 1844—informally known as Chelsea’s Law and authored by local Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher—will increase penalties, parole provisions and oversight of sex offenders, including a “one-strike, life-without-parole penalty” for some.
That one is not bad. Get rid of the trash off the street.
...and I have family and friends that actually like to live in California
I don’t believe you win battles by ceding portions of land to the enemy. The French have been trying that tactic with the ‘youths’ and it hasn’t been working. I am not the runnin’ kind. Don’t bother telling me to ‘shut up’ because it won’t work; I generally don’t take orders from people who shriek ‘run’ when the going gets tough.
The only reason all congress and legislators continue to make laws is to protect their jobs...if no laws are needed then neither are they..
Uh, let me count some of the ways. Let's start with Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, along with all of the rest of the states. California will just go bankrupt but California is TOO BIG to fail, so the federal government will walk in and tell every other state, especially the states that vote red, to pony up to the table and empty their pockets. There is NO EASY WAY for conservatives just to move out of California. By the way, I'm an ultra right wing constitutionalist conservative and I don't plan on going anywhere. That is just what the liberals in California want. I refuse to bend over and take it without fighting and I don't see an end to the battle in the near future.
California once had an economy that was the envy of the world. Now it’s a race to the bottom.
“Race to the bottom”
There is no race to the bottom for California,
They won by a mile and are already there.
JMHO
EL
California has to hit rock bottom; then, when it’s probably too late, it may welcome an infusion of conservative principles.
Do you realize that FreeRepublic is based in Fresno?
I really like 782, don’t want to move or pay rent, just call 911 and say you husband/boyfriend beat you up, or is stalking you.
let this be the year where the mass migration to conservative states like AZ begins.
But don’t bring your liberal ideas with you. Soon AZ will look just like Calipornia.
This is probably meant with the public schools in mind, but if we were in California (the state of my birth and rearing, but left there long ago) and home schooling, like we have since 1982, we would be warning California home schoolers to be very watchful of this development.
When I was asked once by a county attendance officer, "How many days per year are your children in school," my answer then is as it always has been, "365 days per year." We teach our children things every day.
True dat. The liberals have demonstrated before that they know exactly what to do! But they are so hell bent on looting and controlling that they will not lift a finger until it is absolutely necessary. I hop a republican congress denies any funds to Californication when they scream for a bailout.
California is .....Greece? Portugal? Ireland?
We sane Americans will be taxed to support the LaLaLans. The best we can hope for is a debilitating earth quake that will destroy the current status quo.
Conservatives don’t pay for the socialist agenda in California. Hollywood, Silicon Valley and Big Agriculture do.
Persuade a Warner Brothers to move its executives and soundstages to Dallas (not just some tax-credit-seeking production), or Google to move to Las Vegas, and maybe you might start a trend. Doesn’t seem too likely — Google’s biggest domestic expansion is in the one place in the U.S. which is higher cost: New York City, where it just spent over a billion dollars to buy an office building.
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