Existing law, the Valley Fever Education, Early Diagnosis, and Treatment Act, states the intent of the Legislature to raise awareness of the symptoms, tests, and treatments for valley fever among the general public, primary health care providers, and health care providers who care for persons at higher risk for getting valley fever. The act required the State Department of Public Health, under a provision that was repealed on January 1, 2021, to conduct a valley fever awareness campaign, as specified. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to various provisions of that act.
Existing law, the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act, among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities, including delivery of cannabis. Existing law gives the Department of Cannabis Control the power, duty, purpose, responsibility, and jurisdiction to regulate commercial cannabis activity in the state. Existing law does not supersede or limit the authority of a local jurisdiction to adopt and enforce local ordinances to regulate commercial cannabis businesses within that local jurisdiction, as described. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that provision.
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, while local publicly owned electric utilities are generally under the direction of their governing boards. Existing law requires each electrical corporation, local publicly owned electric utility, electrical cooperative, or other entity that offers electrical service, except as specified, to develop a standard contract or tariff that provides for net energy metering, which, among other things, compensates each eligible customer-generator, as defined, for the electricity it generated during a preceding 12-month period that exceeds the electricity supplied by the entity through the electrical grid to the eligible customer-generator during that same period, as provided. Existing law requires each entity to make the contract or tariff available to eligible customer-generators, upon request, on a first-come-first-served basis until the time that the total rated generating capacity used by those eligible customer-generators exceeds 5% of the entity's aggregate customer peak demand, except as specified. Existing law requires the commission to develop an additional standard contract or tariff, which may include net energy metering, for eligible customer-generators that are customers of large electrical corporations, as defined, requires each large electrical corporation to offer this standard contract or tariff to its eligible customer-generators beginning July 1, 2017, or before that date if ordered to do so by the commission because it has reached that 5% net energy metering program limit, and prohibits limiting the amount of generating capacity or the number of new eligible customer-generators entitled to receive service pursuant to this standard contract or tariff, as specified. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation relating to net energy metering.
Existing law provides that 8 hours of labor is a day's work. Existing law prescribes general rules for compensation for work in excess of 8 hours in a day or work in excess of 40 hours in a workweek. Existing law provides that these requirements, among others, do not require an employer to combine more than one rate of overtime compensation in order to calculate the amount to be paid to an employee for any hour of overtime work. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
Existing law establishes the governing body of a county drainage district as a board of directors of not less than 5 members, as specified. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
The Community Services District Law authorizes the establishment of community services districts to provide various services within the district. The law authorizes a proposal to form a district to be made by petition or by resolution of application by the legislative body of a county, city, or special district, as specified. The law requires a local agency formation commission to consider a proposal and authorizes the district to approve the proposal only if the commission determines that the proposed district will have sufficient revenue to carry out its purpose. The law authorizes the commission to approve a proposal where the commission has determined that the proposed district will not have sufficient revenue if the commission conditions its approval on the concurrent approval of special taxes or benefit assessments that will generate sufficient revenues. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the provision authorizing the commission to approve a proposal where the commission has determined that the proposed district will not have sufficient revenues.
Existing law authorizes a relocation agreement between certain utilities, cable television corporations, or cable operators and the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, entered into in connection with a transit or transportation capital improvement project. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the definition of "utility" applicable to the above described utility relocation agreement provisions.
Existing law requires, except as prescribed, a person who, for money or other valuable consideration, knowingly advises an employer to treat an individual as an independent contractor to avoid employee status for that individual to be jointly and severally liable with the employer, if the individual is found not to be an independent contractor. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
Existing law prescribes the powers and duties that are common to cities and counties, including the powers and duties of legislative bodies. Under existing law, if a statute requires a local agency to take legislative action by resolution, and the local agency's charter requires it to take legislative action by ordinance, action by ordinance is compliance with the statute for all purposes. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
Existing law, 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 delivering, as specified, or possessing a container of distilled spirits that does not have a label plainly indicating certain information, including the quantity and proof strength of the contents, and makes a violation of that prohibition a misdemeanor. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that misdemeanor provision.
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. CEQA exempts from its requirements projects for the installation of a solar energy system on the roof of an existing building or at an existing parking lot, as provided. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the above exemption provision.
Existing law, upon appropriation by the Legislature, establishes the Fentanyl Misuse and Overdose Prevention Task Force to undertake various duties relating to fentanyl misuse, including, among others, collecting and organizing data on the nature and extent of fentanyl misuse in California and evaluating approaches to increase public awareness of fentanyl misuse. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this provision.
