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(1) The Gambling Control Act, among other things, generally requires a person to be licensed by the California Gambling Control Commission to participate in operation of a controlled game. The act requires the commission to deny a license to an applicant who has been convicted of a felony, including a conviction by a federal court or a court in another state for a crime that would constitute a felony if committed in California. This bill would except from the requirement to deny a license a conviction of a felony for the possession of cannabis, the facts of which would not constitute a felony or misdemeanor under California law on the date the application for a license is submitted. (2) Existing law ratifies, approves, and sets forth the provisions of the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, an interstate agreement that provides for mutual assistance between states responding to emergencies and disasters. The compact becomes inoperative on March 1, 2018, and as of January 1, 2019, is repealed. This bill instead would make the compact inoperative on March 1, 2023, and repeal it on January 1, 2024. (3) Existing law requires each public employer, as defined, to provide the exclusive representative mandatory access to its new employee orientations, and requires the parties, upon request of the employer or the exclusive representative, to negotiate regarding the structure, time, and manner of the access of the exclusive representative to a new employee orientation. Existing law provides that if any dispute has not been resolved within 45 days after the first meeting of the parties, or within 60 days after the initial request to negotiate, whichever comes first, either party may make a demand for compulsory interest arbitration. Existing law requires the arbitrator selection process to commence no later than 14 days prior to the negotiation period. This bill would instead require the arbitrator selection process to commence within 14 days of a party's demand for compulsory interest arbitration. The bill would also require the party demanding compulsory interest arbitration to be responsible for requesting a panel of arbitrators from the State Mediation and Conciliation Service. (4) Existing law requires compulsory interest arbitration to commence either on the arbitrator's earliest available date or any other date to which the parties agree, and to be completed within not less than 30 days. This bill would instead require interest arbitration to be completed within 30 days. (5) Existing law prohibits a city or county or local law enforcement agency from, on or after June 15, 2017, entering into a contract with the federal government or any federal agency to house or detain an adult noncitizen in a locked detention facility for purposes of civil immigration custody. This bill would revise the reference to locked detention facilities as being those facilities owned and operated by a local entity. (6) Existing law authorizes the Board of State and Community Corrections or the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the State Public Works Board, and a participating county, as defined, to acquire, design, and construct an adult local criminal justice facility, as defined, and provides funding for those purposes. Existing regulations of the Board of State and Community Corrections specify the number of visits that inmates held in certain types of correctional facilities are required to be provided. Existing law requires that specified conditional funding to a participating county for the construction or renovation of a local jail facility or adult local criminal justice facility be used to construct or renovate a facility that meets or surpasses the minimum number of weekly visits as specified in regulations through the use of in-person visitation space. This bill would make technical, clarifying changes to these provisions. (7) The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes the formation of retirement systems pursuant to its provisions for the purpose of providing benefits to employees of counties, cities, and districts and prescribes conditions for service after retirement. The California Public Employees' Pension Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA) establishes various limits on retirement benefits generally applicable to specified public employee retirement systems in the state and, among other things, prescribes limits on service after retirement without reinstatement. The Public Employees' Retirement System permits a retired person to serve as an elective officer without reinstatement from retirement, provided that any portion of his or her retirement allowance based on service in that elective office is suspended during incumbency, which provisions prevail over those of PEPRA. This bill, for the purposes of a retirement system formed under the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937, would permit a retired person to serve as an elective officer without reinstatement from retirement or loss or interruption of benefits, provided that his or her retirement allowance is suspended to the extent that it is based on service in that elective office. (8) Existing law establishes the Office of the State Fire Marshal in the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and requires the office to foster, promote, and develop ways and means of protecting life and property against fire and panic. This bill would require the State Fire Marshal, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, to prepare and adopt regulations establishing minimum standards for the prevention of fire and for the protection of life and property against fire in any building or structure used or intended for use as a community correctional reentry facility, as specified. The bill would also require these standards and regulations to address buildings and structures that provide residential housing for parolees under contract with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. (9) Existing law prohibits a local detention facility, as defined, that provided in-person visitation as of January 1, 2017, from converting to only video visitation. Existing law prohibits a local detention facility from charging for visitation when visitors are onsite and participating in either in-person or video visitation. Existing law requires a local detention facility that does not offer in-person visitation to provide the first hour of remote video visitation each week free of charge. This bill would provide that a local detention facility is required to offer the first hour of remote video visitation each week free of charge if that facility offers remote video visitation. (10) Existing law prohibits a person who has an outstanding warrant for a felony from owning, purchasing, receiving, or possessing a firearm. A violation of this prohibition is punishable as a felony. Existing law also prohibits a person who has an outstanding warrant for certain misdemeanors from owning, purchasing, receiving, or possessing a firearm. A violation of this prohibition would be a crime, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year or in the state prison, by a fine not exceeding $1,000, or by both that imprisonment and fine. This bill would provide that these provisions shall not apply to or affect a person who otherwise violates those provisions if the person did not have knowledge of the outstanding warrant. (11) This bill would appropriate $2,625,000 in reimbursement authority to the General Fund to the Office of Emergency Services to reimburse local fire departments for activities related to the October 2016 Little Valley Fire. (12) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.