School buses: Extends to school buses the $300 penalty already applicable to commercial vehicles that idle too long. Existing clean-air regulations prohibit school buses from idling for more than five minutes within 100 feet of a school, but the fine has been $100.
School safety: Makes it a misdemeanor to possess a razor blade or box cutter on school grounds.
Talent agents: Prohibits talent representatives from charging advance fees.
Teen voting: Permits a California resident who is 17 to pre-register to vote.
Snake food: Requires pet stores to use specific, "humane" methods for killing rodents before they are used as food for another animal.
Toll roads: Allows toll road operators to use license-plate-reading technology to bill motorists who use their roads.
Used car sales: Bars car dealers from selling a used vehicle until action is taken to cover any previous loan or lease obligations held by a previous owner. Also boosts by $25 fees for dealers' state business licenses.
Vietnam veterans: Establishes an annual Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day on March 30.
Water management: To better manage California's water supplies, creates a statewide monitoring program to track groundwater levels.
Water softeners: Allows local governments to ban residential water softeners if regulators find that salts discharged into municipal sewer lines pose a pollution problem.
patrick.mcgreevy@latimes.com
