Existing law creates the Agriculture Trust Fund, the activities of which are subject to audit at least once every 2 years. Existing law provides that the trust fund is for the exclusive purpose of implementing and continuing agricultural programs, as specified. This bill would instead require that those trust fund activities be subject to an audit at least once every year.
Existing law, the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, prohibits a person from introducing into interstate commerce any new drug unless the drug has been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) . Existing law requires the sponsor of a new drug to submit to the FDA an investigational new drug application and to then conduct a series of clinical trials to establish the safety and efficacy of the drug in human populations and submit the results to the FDA in a new drug application. Existing federal law also regulates biomedical and behavioral research involving human subjects. Existing law, the Sherman Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law, regulates the packaging, labeling, and advertising of drugs and devices and is administered by the State Department of Public Health. A violation of that law is a crime. The Sherman Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law prohibits, among other things, the sale, delivery, or giving away of a new drug or new device unless either the department has approved a new drug or device application for that new drug or new device and that approval has not been withdrawn, terminated, or suspended or the drug or device has been approved pursuant to specified provisions of federal law, including the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various healing arts professions and vocations by boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs. For instance, the Medical Practice Act provides for the licensure and regulation of physicians and surgeons by the Medical Board of California and the Osteopathic Act provides for the licensure and regulation of osteopathic physicians and surgeons by the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, among others. This bill, the Right to Try Individualized Investigational Treatments Act, would permit a manufacturer of an individualized investigational treatment, as defined, to make the product available to eligible patients with life-threatening or severely debilitating illness, as specified. The bill would authorize, but not require, a health benefit plan, as defined, to provide coverage for any individualized investigational treatment made available pursuant to these provisions. The bill would prohibit a state regulatory board from taking any action against a health care provider's license solely on a provider's recommendation of or providing access to an individualized investigational treatment. The bill would prohibit a state agency from altering any recommendation made to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services regarding a health care provider's certification to participate in the Medicare or Medicaid program based solely on the recommendation from an individual health care provider that a patient have access to an individualized investigational treatment.
Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of employment. Existing law prohibits a person or public or private entity not a party to a claim for workers' compensation benefits from obtaining individually identifiable information obtained or maintained by the division regarding that claim, except as provided. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these provisions.
Existing law prohibits a deduction from the wages of an employee on account of the employee coming late to work in excess of the proportionate wage that would have been earned during the time actually lost, except as provided. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
Existing law authorizes courts of justice to administer judicial remedies. Existing law authorizes courts of justice to be held, and judicial business to be transacted, on any day other than a judicial holiday. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that provision.
Existing law establishes in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency the Department of Consumer Affairs. Under existing law, the department is composed of various boards, bureaus, committees, and commissions. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the latter provision and correct the name of a state entity.
The California Green Collar Jobs Act of 2008 requires the California Workforce Investment Board to establish a special committee, known as the Green Collar Jobs Council, comprised of the appropriate representatives from the board's existing membership, including the K–12 representative, the California Community Colleges representative, the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development representative, the Employment Development Department representative, and other appropriate members. The act authorizes the council to consult with other state agencies, other higher education representatives, local workforce investment boards, and industry representatives as well as philanthropic, nongovernmental, and environmental groups, as appropriate, in the development of a strategic initiative, as prescribed. The act authorizes the board to accept any revenues, moneys, grants, goods, or services from federal and state entities, philanthropic organizations, and other sources, to be used for purposes relating to the administration and implementation of the strategic initiative. The act requires the board to ensure the highest level of transparency and accountability and make information available on the board's internet website. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions.
Existing law defines certain acts as disorderly conduct and makes them punishable as a misdemeanor. Under existing law, it is disorderly conduct for a person to solicit, agree to engage in, or engage in an act of prostitution with the intent to receive compensation, money, or anything of value from another person. Under existing law, it is unlawful for a person to either direct, supervise, recruit, or otherwise aid another person in the commission of the violation mentioned above or collect or receive all or part of the proceeds earned from an act or acts of prostitution committed by another person in violation of the provision mentioned above. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this provision.
Existing law provides that the Department of Food and Agriculture has general supervision of the weights and measures and weighing and measuring devices sold or used in the state. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that provision.
Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, which is administered by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, regulates the application, issuance, and suspension of alcoholic beverage licenses. Existing law, known as tied-house restrictions, generally prohibit a manufacturer, winegrower, manufacturer's agent, rectifier, California winegrower's agent, distiller, bottler, importer, and wholesaler, and any officer, director, or agent of any of those licensees, from giving or lending money or a thing of value to a person operating, owning, or maintaining premises where alcoholic beverages are sold. Existing law creates various exceptions to tied-house restrictions, including permitting a licensee, or their authorized agent or agents or representative or representatives, to perform services for off-sale licensees at or on the licensed premises of the off-sale retail licensee where the licensee sells alcoholic beverages with the retail licensee's permission including, among other things, stacking or arranging cases of the brand or brands of alcoholic beverages owned or sold by the licensee performing the service in the storeroom or warehouse where the off-sale retail licensee stores the brand or brands. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the provisions described above relating to the exception to tied-house restrictions for specified services performed by a licensee for off-sale licensees.
Existing law defines murder as the unlawful killing of a human being or a fetus, except as specified, with malice aforethought. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this provision.
Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law establishes community college districts throughout the state and authorizes them to provide instruction at the campuses they operate. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation relating to the California Community Colleges.
