Under the Dental Practice Act, the Dental Board of California is responsible for the licensure and regulation of dentists. Existing law establishes the California Dental Corps Loan Repayment Program to assist dentists who practice in an underserved area with educational loan repayment pursuant to an agreement between the board and the dentist, as specified. Existing law requires the board to report to the Legislature, during its sunset review period, on the effectiveness of the program and recommendations for maintaining or expanding its operation. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that reporting requirement.
Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services, including emergency or nonemergency medical transportation services, as specified. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing law requires, with exceptions, that Medi-Cal reimbursement to providers of emergency medical transports be increased by application of an add-on to the associated Medi-Cal fee-for-service payment schedule. Under existing law, those increased payments are funded solely from a quality assurance fee (QAF) , which emergency medical transport providers are required to pay based on a specified formula, and from federal reimbursement and any other related federal funds. Existing law sets forth separate provisions for increased Medi-Cal reimbursement to providers of ground emergency medical transportation services that are owned or operated by certain types of public entities. This bill would establish, for dates of service on or after July 1, 2024, a workforce adjustment, serving as an additional payment, for each ground ambulance transport performed by a provider of medical transportation services, excluding the above-described public entity providers. The bill would vary the rate of adjustment depending on the point of pickup and whether the service was for an emergency or nonemergency, with the workforce adjustment being equal to 80% of the lowest maximum allowance established by the federal Medicare Program reduced by the fee-for-service payment schedule amount, as specified. The bill would require that the workforce adjustment meet a certain workforce standard, as determined by the department, which would apply to specified classes of employees, including emergency medical dispatchers, emergency medical technicians, paramedics, and registered nurses. The bill would set forth criteria for a provider to meet the workforce standard, with formulas taking into account the fiscal year and base hourly wage rates within a class of employees, and whether the provider is a new provider of ground ambulance services. The bill would require the department to direct each Medi-Cal managed care plan to implement a value-based purchasing model that provides for reimbursement to a network provider that meets the workforce standard requirement and that furnishes ambulance transport services, as specified. The bill would require the department to establish the manner and format for participating providers to report the required data, as specified. The bill would require a provider that has received the workforce adjustment to certify under penalty of perjury that it met the workforce standard, as specified. By expanding the scope of the crime of perjury, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would authorize the department to recoup any workforce adjustments paid to a provider that did not meet the workforce standard. The bill would prohibit implementation of the workforce adjustment from affecting the calculation of the above-described QAF-based add-on, and would prohibit adjustments to the workforce adjustment, except as specified to comply with federal requirements. The bill would condition implementation of the workforce adjustment on receipt of any necessary federal approvals and the availability of federal financial participation. The bill would make conforming changes. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Existing law establishes procedures for state agencies to enter into contracts for goods and services, including generally requiring that certain contracts by a state agency be approved by the Department of General Services. This bill would establish the California Nonprofit Fairness in Contracting Act and would define, among other terms, "covered contract" to mean a contract for goods or services by a state or local agency using state funds, including a grant made by a state or local agency using state funds. The bill would require a state or local agency to, among other things, establish a preference for covered contracts that last longer than one year when awarding a covered contract to a nonprofit, and would require those contracts to include a provision allowing for automatic cost of doing business increases. The bill would require a covered contract to provide the full cost of delivering services and projects, including paying at least state minimum wage and allowing for compensation and employee benefit packages that support competitive salaries and annual cost of living increases, as specified. By imposing new contracting requirements on local agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Existing law subjects a person to no more than 3 years of postrelease community supervision after release from prison or after the person's term of imprisonment has been deemed to have been served, unless the person was released from prison after serving a term of imprisonment for a specified crime, including serious or violent felonies or crimes that require registration as a sex offender. Existing law requires that a person who is eligible for postrelease community supervision be given notice that they are subject to postrelease community supervision prior to their release from prison. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Existing law makes it a crime for a person, while operating a motor vehicle with the intent to evade, to willfully flee or otherwise attempt to evade a pursuing peace officer's motor vehicle or bicycle if specified conditions exist. Existing law makes it a crime to drive a vehicle upon a highway in willful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property. Existing law authorizes a magistrate to issue a warrant or order authorizing a peace officer to immediately seize and cause the removal of a vehicle if presented with a peace officer's affidavit establishing reasonable cause to believe that the vehicle was an instrumentality used in the peace officer's presence in violation of an offense described above. Existing law makes it a crime for a person to engage in a motor vehicle speed contest or a motor vehicle exhibition of speed, as specified. This bill would include this crime in the list of offenses for which a peace officer may impound a vehicle pursuant to a warrant or order issued by a magistrate. The bill would additionally allow a peace officer to submit an affidavit establishing reasonable cause that the violation occurred if they viewed or captured the violation using video surveillance that is under the sole control of a law enforcement agency.
The California Constitution provides that the University of California constitutes a public trust administered by the Regents of the University of California, a corporation in the form of a board, with full powers of organization and government, subject to legislative control only for specified purposes. This bill would appropriate an unspecified sum of moneys from the General Fund to the Regents of the University of California each fiscal year, commencing with the 2024–25 fiscal year, to be expended only for the creation, construction, and establishment of a public law school in the County of Riverside administered by the University of California.
Existing law provides for state cooperation with the federal government in the construction of specified flood control projects. For certain flood control projects authorized on or after January 1, 2002, or for small flood management projects for which specified findings have been made on or after that date, existing law requires the state to pay 50% of specified nonfederal costs. Existing law authorizes the state to pay up to 70% of those nonfederal costs upon the recommendation of the Department of Water Resources or the Central Valley Flood Protection Board if either entity determines that the project will advance one of several specified objectives. Existing law authorizes a plan of improvement for flood control and water conservation on Cache Creek, including Clear Lake, in the Counties of Yolo and Lake. This bill would specifically adopt and approve the Lower Cache Creek Flood Risk Management Project, as provided. The bill would also authorize the state to provide funds, up to 99% of the costs, as specified, for the project for flood control on the Lower Cache Creek in the County of Yolo, and would authorize the City of Woodland to receive funds for these purposes under specified conditions. The bill would also authorize the state to authorize funding, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to be used for planning, engineering, designing, mitigation, and constructing the project if the Director of Water Resources makes specified findings. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of Woodland.
Existing law requires a person who is directly or indirectly the beneficial owner of more than 10% of any class of stock of a domestic insurer to file in the office of the Insurance Commissioner within 10 days after that person becomes a beneficial owner a statement, in a form prescribed by the commissioner, of the amount of all stock of that insurer of which the person is the beneficial owner, as specified. The General Corporation Law (GCL) requires a domestic corporation and a foreign corporation to file annually, as prescribed, with the Secretary of State, a statement containing certain information, including the names and complete business or residence addresses of its chief executive officer, secretary, and chief financial officer. The GCL requires a domestic corporation to certify that the information it provides in that statement is true and correct. This bill would additionally require those corporations to include in the statement described above the names and complete business or residence addresses of any beneficial owner, as defined. By expanding the scope of the crime of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law, the California Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act, requires a limited liability company, and a foreign limited liability company registered to transact intrastate business in this state, to file biennially, as specified, with the Secretary of State, a statement containing certain information, including the name and complete business or residence addresses of any manager or managers and the chief executive officer, if any, appointed or elected in accordance with the articles of organization or operating agreement or, if a manager has not been so elected or appointed, the name and business or residence address of each member. This bill would additionally require those limited liability companies to include in the statement described above the name and complete business or residence addresses of any beneficial owner, as defined. Existing law authorizes an unincorporated association to file with the Secretary of State, on a form prescribed by the Secretary of State, a statement containing either of certain information, including a designation of the location and complete street address of the unincorporated association's principal office in California. This bill would require a real estate investment trust, as defined, to file with the Secretary of State a statement containing the name and complete business or residence address of any beneficial owner, as defined. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Existing law, the California Public Employees' Pension Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA) , generally requires a public retirement system, as defined, to modify its plan or plans to comply with the act. PEPRA prohibits a public employer's contribution to a defined benefit plan, in combination with employee contributions to the plan, from being less than the normal cost rate, as defined, for the plan in a fiscal year. Existing law authorizes a public retirement system to suspend contributions if certain conditions are satisfied, one of which is that the plan be funded by more than 120%, based on a computation by the retirement system actuary in accordance with specified standards, that is included in the annual valuation. This bill would revise the conditions for suspending contributions to a public retirement system defined benefit plan to increase the threshold percentage amount of plan funding to more than 130%.
Existing law requires a pupil to complete designated coursework while in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, in order to receive a diploma of graduation from high school. These graduation requirements include, among others, the completion of a one-semester course in ethnic studies, meeting specified requirements, commencing for pupils graduating in the 2029–30 school year. Existing law establishes authorization for 4 basic teaching credentials, one of which is the single-subject credential, and requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to, among other duties, establish standards for the issuance and renewal of those credentials, as provided. This bill would require the commission to convene a statewide task force, composed of relevant stakeholders, and would require the task force, on or before September 1, 2024, to provide a report to the commission and the Legislature with recommendations for the criteria that should be required in order to obtain a single-subject credential in ethnic studies. The bill would require the commission, on or before January 1, 2025, to use the task force's recommendations to begin developing the criteria that will be required in order to obtain a single-subject credential in ethnic studies.
Existing law requires the governing board of each community college district, the Trustees of the California State University, the Board of Directors of the College of the Law, San Francisco, the Regents of the University of California, and the governing boards of postsecondary educational institutions receiving public funds for student financial assistance to require the appropriate officials at each campus to compile records of specified crimes and noncriminal acts reported to campus police, campus security personnel, campus safety authorities, or designated campus authorities. This bill would require each campus of the California Community Colleges and the California State University, and request each campus of the University of California, to take action after receiving a credible threat to student, faculty, or staff safety. The bill would require each campus after receiving a threat to student, faculty or staff safety to determine, through a third-party risk assessment, whether the threat is credible, as specified. The bill would require the campus, if the campus determines the threat is credible, to determine whether the individual poses an immediate threat to the physical health or safety of any student, or other individual on campus, which justifies their removal from campus. The bill would authorize a campus to impose interim measures to ensure school and student safety, as specified. By imposing new duties on community college districts the bill would create a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Existing law prohibits an entity from substantially diverting or obstructing the natural flow of, or substantially changing or using any material from the bed, channel, or bank of, any river, stream, or lake, or from depositing or disposing of certain material where it may pass into any river, stream, or lake, without first notifying the Department of Fish and Wildlife of that activity, and entering into a lake or streambed alteration agreement if required by the department to protect fish and wildlife resources, except as specified. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
