Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission, in consultation with the Independent System Operator, to establish resource adequacy requirements for all load-serving entities, as provided. Existing law defines load-serving entity as an electrical corporation, electric service provider, or community choice aggregator. Existing law requires the commission to calculate and publish annually on its internet website, in a new report or as part of another report, the percentage of each load-serving entity's local and system resource adequacy requirements from the previous calendar year that was met with capacity from eligible renewable energy resources, other zero-carbon resources, or energy storage resources. This bill instead would require the commission to calculate and publish this information biannually.
The General Corporation Law (GCL) prohibits a foreign corporation from transacting intrastate business, as defined, without having first obtained from the Secretary of State a certificate of qualification and stating, as prescribed, certain information, including the state or place of its incorporation or organization and a statement that the foreign corporation is authorized to exercise its powers and privileges in that state or place of its incorporation or organization. The GCL makes a foreign corporation that transacts intrastate business without complying with the GCL guilty of a misdemeanor. This bill, the Corporate Transparency Act, would require a foreign corporation to additionally disclose certain information with respect to any beneficial owner, as defined, of the foreign corporation, including the owner's full legal name. By expanding the scope of the misdemeanor described above, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act authorizes a foreign limited liability company to apply for a certificate of registration to transact business in this state by delivering an application to the Secretary of State for filing on a form prescribed by the Secretary of State that states certain information, including the state or other jurisdiction under whose law the foreign limited liability company is organized and a statement that the foreign limited liability company is authorized to exercise its powers and privileges in that state or other jurisdiction. This bill would require a foreign limited liability company to additionally disclose certain information with respect to any beneficial owner, as defined, of the foreign limited liability company, including the owner's full legal name. 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 defines "hate crime" as a criminal act committed, in whole or in part, because of actual or perceived characteristics of the victim, including, among other things, race, religion, disability, and sexual orientation. This bill would, instead, define a hate crime as a criminal act that is motivated in whole or in part by a bias against one or more of the protected characteristics. The bill would define "bias against" and would specify that evidence of bias motivation may include, among other things, instances when the person has selectively targeted the victim based on the actual or perceived characteristic of the victim. By changing the definition of a crime, this 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to provide, or contract for the provision of, public and professional education on Alzheimer's disease for consumers, caregivers, and health care providers. This bill would require the department to implement a public awareness campaign, as specified, and include education for unpaid caregivers. The bill would also make related legislative findings and declarations.
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 establishes the State Air Resources Board as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases. The act authorizes the state board to include the use of market-based compliance mechanisms. Pursuant to the act, the state board has adopted the Low-Carbon Fuel Standard regulations. Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, in partnership with the state board and in consultation with other state agencies, as specified, to develop and adopt a state plan to increase the use of alternative transportation fuels, which includes hydrogen. Existing law requires the energy commission, in consultation with the state board and the Public Utilities Commission, to prepare a statewide assessment of the fuel cell electric vehicle fueling infrastructure and fuel production needed to support the adoption of zero-emission vehicles, as specified. This bill would require the energy commission to develop a plan for improving reliability, service quality, and operational uptime of retail hydrogen fueling stations, would require specified metrics for measuring reliability, and would require the use of a public workshop process to develop the measures. The bill would require a retail hydrogen refueling station operator to maintain a publicly available online customer feedback portal, and prominently display the internet website address for the feedback portal at the operator's retail hydrogen refueling station in a place clearly visible to a customer during refueling. The bill would disqualify a retail hydrogen refueling station operator from receiving a publicly funded grant if the operator fails to comply. The bill would require the energy commission to convene a public workshop process to develop mechanisms to improve consumer access to information about the status of a retail hydrogen refueling station's ability to meet refueling demands and recommend ways a consumer can provide feedback on service concerns at a retail hydrogen refueling station. This bill would require the energy commission, with the input of stakeholders, to analyze existing retail hydrogen refueling station performance, identify barriers to improving retail hydrogen refueling station performance, and develop recommendations for mechanisms to improve retail hydrogen refueling station performance, as specified.
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including gas corporations. Existing law requires the commission, in consultation with the State Air Resources Board, to consider adopting specific biomethane procurement targets or goals for each gas corporation, as specified. Existing law requires that the commission, before establishing biomethane procurement targets or goals, find that the targets or goals are cost-effective means of achieving the reductions in emissions of short-lived climate pollutants and other greenhouse gases forecast pursuant to specified laws and that the targets or goals comply with all applicable state and federal laws. Existing law authorizes the commission to establish rules and to fix the rates and charges for all public utilities, subject to control by the Legislature, and requires that the rates and charges of a public utility be just and reasonable. Existing law requires the commission and the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to undertake specified actions to advance the state's clean energy and pollution reduction objectives, including, where feasible, cost effective, and consistent with other state policy objectives, increasing the use of large- and small-scale energy storage with a variety of technologies, including green electrolytic hydrogen, as defined. This bill would require the commission to open a new proceeding, or a new phase of an existing proceeding, to consider establishing procurement goals for renewable hydrogen, as defined, and consider requiring each gas corporation and core transport agent to annually procure a proportionate share of renewable hydrogen to meet those goals. The bill would require the commission to make specified findings before establishing renewable hydrogen procurement targets or goals. Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime. Because the provisions of this bill would be a part of the act and because a violation of an order or decision of the commission implementing its requirements would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime. 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 requires the State Oil and Gas Supervisor to publish any printed matter relating to geothermal resources for which there may be public demand, as provided, and requires that if these printed matter are sold, they be sold at cost and the proceeds deposited in the Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Administrative Fund. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that provision.
Existing law prohibits a person from having in the person's possession or otherwise under the person's control more than one driver's license. Existing law prohibits the Department of Motor Vehicles from issuing a driver's license, or renewing a driver's license, of a person who holds a valid driver's license issued by a foreign jurisdiction unless the license has been surrendered to the department, or is lost or destroyed. Except as specified, existing law requires the department to require an applicant for an original driver's license to submit satisfactory proof of California residency and that the applicant's presence in the United States is authorized under federal law. Existing law requires the department, upon application for an original driver's license, except a student license, to require an examination of the applicant. Existing law requires the examination to test, among other things, the applicant's knowledge and understanding of the provisions of the Vehicle Code governing the operation of vehicles upon the highways, an actual demonstration of the applicant's ability to exercise ordinary and reasonable control in operating a motor vehicle by driving it under the supervision of an examining officer, and a test of the hearing and eyesight of the applicant, as specified. Existing law authorizes the department to waive the driving test part of the examination for an applicant who submits a license issued by another state, territory, or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico if the department verifies through any acknowledged national driver record data source that there are no stops, holds, or other impediments to its issuance. This bill would authorize the department, for purposes of the issuance of a noncommercial class C driver's license, to the extent not prohibited by federal law or treaty, to waive the driving test part of the examination for an applicant who submits a driver's license issued by a foreign nation, as defined, under specified conditions, including a requirement that the foreign nation, in a memorandum of understanding, extends the same reciprocal privilege relating to the issuance of a driver's license to a person who holds a valid California driver's license. The bill would require an applicant to be 18 years of age or older, to submit satisfactory proof of California residency and specified documents issued by the foreign nation, and to have no stops, holds, or other impediments to issuance in the person's driving record. The bill would specify that an applicant may submit a driver's license issued by a foreign nation that is equivalent to a noncommercial or a commercial class A, class B, or class C California driver's license, but would require the California driver's license issued by the department to the applicant to be a noncommercial class C driver's license only.
Existing law generally prohibits the sale, representation, and manufacture of a poppy, badge, or label represented as being sponsored, endorsed, or offered by a veterans' organization when the poppy, badge, or label is not sponsored, endorsed, or offered by a veterans' organization. Existing law makes it unlawful for a person to represent, directly or indirectly, that an act of solicitation is sponsored, endorsed, or made by or at the request of a veterans' organization when it is not sponsored, endorsed, or made by or at the request of a veterans' organization. Under existing law, a person who violates these prohibitions is guilty of a misdemeanor. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
Existing law prohibits a person or business from referring or recommending a person for any form of medical care or treatment for profit and creates a presumption that the referral or recommendation is for profit if a fee or charge is imposed. Existing law makes a violation of this provision a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in county jail for not longer than one year, or of a fine not exceeding $5,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment. This bill would increase the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allow various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws. This bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2024, and before January 1, 2029, would allow a credit against those taxes to a taxpayer operating a hotel, motel, inn, bed and breakfast, or other similar transient lodging, as specified, in an amount equal to 50% of the nightly rate, as defined, of each unit, as defined, that the taxpayer provides free of charge to displaced persons during a state of emergency declared by the Governor or President, times the number of nights displaced persons occupied the unit, not to exceed $2,000 per room and not to exceed $10,000 total per state of emergency declaration. The bill would require a qualified taxpayer claiming the credit to provide to the Franchise Tax Board, upon request, statements with specified information from all displaced persons who occupied a unit in the qualified lodging free of charge. Existing law requires any bill authorizing a new tax credit to contain, among other things, specific goals, purposes, and objectives that the tax credit will achieve, detailed performance indicators, and data collection requirements. The bill would make specified findings detailing the goals, purposes, and objectives of the above-described tax credit, performance indicators for determining whether the credit meets those goals, purposes, and objectives, and data collection requirements. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
Existing law designates all parks, public campgrounds, monument sites, landmark sites, and sites of historical interest established or acquired by the state, or that are under its control, as the state park system, except as specified. Under existing law, the Department of Parks and Recreation controls the state park system, which is made up of units. Existing law authorizes the department to acquire title to or any interest in real property, including personal property incidental to the purchase of real property and options to purchase property, that the department deems necessary or proper for the extension, improvement, or development of the state park system. Existing law requires that all land and other real property to be acquired by or for any state agency be acquired by the State Public Works Board, except as specified. This bill would additionally exempt from that requirement property acquired for the state park system by the department on its own behalf, as provided. This bill would authorize the department to enter into an agreement with an eligible entity, as defined, that would state the intent of the department to work with the eligible entity to permanently protect lands in or for the state park system. The bill would authorize the department to coordinate with other relevant agencies, including the Wildlife Conservation Board, the Department of Fish and Wildlife, and the State Coastal Conservancy, to identify priority properties for permanent protection to fulfill the objectives of each unit of the state park system. The bill would require, upon appropriation by the Legislature, the department to take all reasonable actions to permanently protect priority properties identified in an agreement within 24 months following the execution of an acquisition agreement, or as soon as reasonably practicable.
