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(1) The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, administered by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, regulates the granting of licenses for the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcoholic beverages within the state. Existing law prohibits a person from performing duties that include the sale or service of alcoholic beverages for consumption on premises licensed by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, and management of that person, without a valid alcohol server certification. Existing law requires a licensee to ensure that each alcohol server it employs has a valid alcohol server certification and to maintain records of certifications for inspection by the department. Existing law prohibits a licensee, beginning on July 1, 2021, from employing or continuing to employ an alcohol server without a valid alcohol server certification. This bill would instead prohibit a licensee from employing or continuing to employ an alcohol server without a valid alcohol server certification beginning on July 1, 2022, and would make other conforming changes. (2) The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) , an initiative measure approved as Proposition 64 at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, authorizes a person who obtains a state license under AUMA to engage in commercial adult-use cannabis activity pursuant to that license and applicable local ordinances. The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA) , among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities. MAUCRSA gives the Bureau of Cannabis Control in the Department of Consumer Affairs the power, duty, purpose, responsibility, and jurisdiction to regulate commercial cannabis activity in the state as provided by the act, but generally divides responsibility for the state licensure and regulation of commercial cannabis activity among the Bureau of Cannabis Control, the Department of Food and Agriculture, and the State Department of Public Health. MAUCRSA imposes duties on the Bureau of Cannabis Control with respect to the creation, issuance, denial, suspension, and revocation of licenses issued for microbusinesses, transportation, storage, distribution, testing, and sale of cannabis and cannabis products pursuant to MAUCRSA. MAUCRSA authorizes the Director of Consumer Affairs to employ and appoint all employees necessary to properly administer the work of the bureau, in accordance with civil service laws and regulations. MAUCRSA requires the Director of Consumer Affairs to ensure that a sufficient number of employees are qualified peace officers for purposes of enforcing MAUCRSA and authorizes a licensing authority to make or cause to be made any investigation as it deems necessary to carry out its duties under MAUCRSA. Existing law provides that certain persons are peace officers whose authority extends to any place in the state for the purpose of performing their primary duty, as specified. Existing law classifies, among others, persons in the Department of Consumer Affairs who have been designated as peace officers with that authority as state peace officer/firefighter members under the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) . Employees classified as safety members under PERS, including state peace officer/firefighter members, are generally entitled to higher benefits and subject to higher contribution rates than employees classified as miscellaneous or general members. Under existing law, member contributions to PERS are deposited in the Public Employees' Retirement Fund, a continuously appropriated fund. Under this bill, the chief of enforcement, and all investigators, inspectors, and deputies of the bureau identified by the Director of Consumer Affairs would have the authority of peace officers extending to any place in the state while engaged in exercising their powers or performing their duties imposed upon them in investigating the laws administered by the department or commencing directly or indirectly any criminal prosecution arising from any investigation conducted under these laws. The bill would authorize the bureau to employ peace officers, as specified. Under the bill, those individuals identified by the director would be peace officers for purposes of the public employee retirement benefits described above if their primary duty is as set forth in this bill. The bill would make an appropriation by increasing the amount of employee contributions to the Public Employees' Retirement Fund. The bill would also allow the bureau to employ individuals who are not peace officers to provide investigative services. AUMA authorizes the Legislature to amend, by a majority vote, certain provisions of the act to implement specified substantive provisions, provided that the amendments are consistent with and further the purposes and intent of the act. This bill would declare that its provisions implement specified substantive provisions of AUMA and are consistent with and further the purposes and intent of AUMA. (3) Existing law requires the Attorney General to register data brokers, as defined, and requires the Attorney General to create a page on its internet website where the information provided by data brokers is accessible to the public. Existing law further requires data brokers to pay a registration fee not to exceed the reasonable costs of establishing and maintaining that internet website. A data broker that fails to register as required is subject to injunction and is liable for civil penalties, fees, and costs in an action brought in the name of the people of the State of California by the Attorney General. Existing law requires any penalties, fees, and expenses recovered in such an action to be deposited in the Consumer Privacy Fund established by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018. Under existing law, those revenues are intended to offset costs incurred by the state courts and the Attorney General in connection with the data broker registration provisions. This bill would require data broker registration fees to be deposited in the Data Brokers' Registry Fund, which the bill would create in the State Treasury, to be available for expenditure by the Department of Justice, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to offset the internet website costs described above. (4) Existing law recognizes various holidays, including March 31, known as Cesar Chavez Day. Existing law provides that if March 31 falls upon a Sunday, the Monday following is a holiday. This bill would specify that, if March 31 falls on a Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday, the Legislature may observe the holiday on the preceding Friday, the preceding Monday, or the following Friday. (5) Existing law establishes within the Department of Industrial Relations the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, also known as the Labor Commissioner's Office and headed by the Labor Commissioner, for the purpose of enforcing labor laws. The Labor Commissioner is authorized to investigate employee complaints. Existing law authorizes the Labor Commissioner, after investigation and upon determination that wages or monetary benefits are due and unpaid to any worker in the State of California, to collect those wages or benefits on behalf of the worker. This bill, until January 1, 2031, would require the division, by March 1, 2022, and by that date annually thereafter, to submit a report to the Department of Finance and the budget committees and relevant policy committees of the Legislature that includes prescribed information relating to wage claims for the prior calendar year. (6) Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including telephone corporations. Existing law establishes the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) in the State Treasury with the goal to approve funding by December 31, 2022, for infrastructure projects that will provide broadband access to no less than 98% of California households in each consortia region, as identified by the commission on or before January 1, 2017. Existing law authorizes the commission to impose a surcharge to collect $330,000,000 for deposit into the CASF beginning January 1, 2018, and continuing through the 2022 calendar year. Existing law establishes 4 accounts, the Broadband Infrastructure Grant Account, the Rural and Urban Regional Broadband Consortia Grant Account, the Broadband Public Housing Account, and the Broadband Adoption Account within the CASF and specifies the amount of moneys to be deposited into each account. Existing law requires that a grant from the Broadband Infrastructure Grant Account not include funding for costs of broadband infrastructure already funded by the federal Connect America Fund program or other similar federal public program that funds that infrastructure. This bill would delete the requirement that a grant from the Broadband Infrastructure Grant Account not include funding for costs of broadband infrastructure already funded by the federal Connect America Fund program or other similar federal public program. The bill would revise the definition of an "unserved household" for purposes of the CASF. (7) Existing law provides that the California Workforce Development Board (board) is responsible for assisting the Governor in the development, oversight, and continuous improvement of California's workforce investment system. Existing law sets forth the intent of the Legislature that California, among other services, deliver comprehensive workforce services to jobseekers, students, and employers through a system of one-stop career centers and that services and resources target high-wage industry sectors with career advancement opportunities. This bill would establish the Social Entrepreneurs for Economic Development Initiative (SEED Initiative) , to be administered by the board, to, among other things, assist economically disadvantaged groups who face significant barriers to employment, including, but not limited to, individuals with limited English proficiency. The bill would, through the SEED Initiative, authorize entrepreneurial training to individuals from the target populations and the award of microgrants to support them in launching or maintaining a small business in California. The bill would provide that information collected from individuals participating in the SEED Initiative would not constitute a record subject to disclosure under the California Public Records Act. The bill would require the board to provide a report to the Legislature by March 1, 2022, regarding the uses and outcomes of the funds provided in the 2020 Budget Act and to include prescribed information. (8) Existing state sales and use tax laws impose a tax on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. AB 85 of the 2019–20 Regular Session, with respect to specified vehicles sold at retail on and after January 1, 2021, by any licensed dealer, except a new motor vehicle dealer, requires the dealer to pay the applicable sales tax to the Department of Motor Vehicles acting for and on behalf of the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration within 30 days from the date of the sale. AB 85 imposes specified penalties if the dealer makes an application to the Department of Motor Vehicles that is not timely and imposes penalties and interest if the dealer fails to do specified acts. AB 85 also requires, for retail sales of vehicles occurring on and after January 1, 2021, a dealer, other than a new motor vehicle dealer, to submit with a vehicle registration application the payment of the applicable sales tax to the Department of Motor Vehicles. This bill would require the Department of Motor Vehicles, through the adoption of regulations, to establish any additional requirements for the implementation of AB 85 and would prohibit a dealer from participating in the sale of a used vehicle without complying with the provisions described above. This bill would make the operation of these provisions contingent on the enactment of AB 85 of the 2019–20 Regular Session. Existing law generally requires the registration of vehicles by the Department of Motor Vehicles and requires that department to issue a certificate of ownership to the legal owner and a registration card to the owner, as specified, upon registering that vehicle. AB 85 requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to withhold the registration or the transfer of registration of any vehicle sold at retail on and after January 1, 2021, to any applicant by any licensed dealer, other than a new motor vehicle dealer, until the dealer pays to the Department of Motor Vehicles the sales tax and any penalties, except as specified. This bill would eliminate the requirement that Department of Motor Vehicles withhold the registration or the transfer of registration of any vehicle sold at retail on and after January 1, 2021, to any applicant by any licensed dealer, other than a new motor vehicle dealer, until the dealer pays to the department the sales tax and any penalties. This bill would make the operation of this elimination contingent on the enactment of AB 85 of the 2019–20 Regular Session. (9) Existing law requires specified forms filed with the Department of Motor Vehicles to contain a social security account number. Existing law provides that information provided on those forms regarding a driver's license or identification card applicant's social security account number or ineligibility for a social security account number is not a public record and is not subject to disclosure by the department, except for specified reasons. This bill would expand those exceptions by permitting the Department of Motor Vehicles to disclose that information to the Employment Development Department for purposes relating to tax administration and to ensure compliance with specified requirements, including, among others, unemployment compensation benefit requirements. (10) Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect. (11) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.