Political Reform Act of 1974: campaign disclosures.

Entire dental outreach and support program removed: the requirement for the Dental Board of California to develop, implement, and maintain a program to recruit students from underserved communities into dentistry, including conducting at least two outreach activities per year, providing application guidance, maintaining a bilingual webpage, and reporting through sunset review.

All legislative findings related to dental workforce shortages, maldistribution of dentists, HRSA-designated shortage areas, demographic gaps in the dental profession, and barriers for students from underserved communities were removed.

Minor text corrections in the remaining Political Reform Act section: 'paid thirty party post' corrected to 'paid third-party post' in the statutory text, and a word 'if' was added in the employee social media exception ('where if the only expense').

Senator Cervantes was added as a coauthor of the bill.

The bill now amends Section 84513 of the Government Code (Political Reform Act of 1974), adding an entirely new subject matter area covering paid third-party online political content disclaimers and enforcement.

The amendment to Section 2011 of the Business and Professions Code, which revised the removal authority of appointing powers over Medical Board of California members, has been entirely removed from the bill.

Previously, a person who failed to include the required disclaimer on paid political content was exempt from administrative, civil, and criminal penalties. The amended bill removes that exemption and instead makes both the person and the paying committee jointly and severally liable for any civil or administrative penalties incurred.

Committees must now inform the paid person that failure to include the disclaimer may result in penalties under the Political Reform Act, and must include a statement on their campaign report identifying the payment as being for a paid third-party post.

The required vote changed from a simple majority to a two-thirds vote of each house, as required for amendments to the Political Reform Act. The state-mandated local program designation changed from 'no' to 'yes' because the bill now creates a new crime under the act.

A no-reimbursement provision was added stating that no reimbursement is required under Article XIII B of the California Constitution because the only costs incurred by local agencies relate to the creation of a new crime or change in penalty.

Added a new Article 10 (Section 1980) to the Business and Professions Code requiring the Dental Board of California to develop, implement, and maintain an outreach and support program to recruit students from underserved communities into dentistry education and licensure.

The board must coordinate with public high schools, community colleges, universities, dental schools, and community-based organizations to identify and engage students from underserved communities interested in oral health care professions.

The board must conduct at least two outreach activities per year (such as webinars, in-person presentations, or resource fairs) focused on students from underserved communities.

The board must develop and maintain a publicly available webpage with program information in both English and Spanish.

Defined 'underserved community' as a geographic area or population group identified in the federal Health Resources and Services Administration database, or a medically underserved population as defined in Section 128552 of the Health and Safety Code.

The board must provide a summary of actions taken under the new provisions as part of its report to the Legislature through the sunset review process.

The original Medical Board removal authority amendment (formerly Section 1) was renumbered as Section 3 to accommodate the newly added sections.