The Field Act requires the Department of General Services under the police power of the state to supervise the design and construction of any school building or the reconstruction or alteration of or addition to any school building, if not exempted, to ensure that plans and specifications comply with adopted rules and regulations and building standards published in regulations, and to ensure that the work of construction is performed in accordance with the approved plans and specifications for the protection of life and property. The California Building Standards Code requires that specified buildings, structures, and facilities be accessible to, and useable by, persons with disabilities, including that when alterations or additions are made to existing buildings or facilities, an accessible path of travel to the specific area of alteration or addition is provided. Existing law limits the cost of complying with the requirement to provide an accessible path of travel to a free-standing, open-sided shade structure project that meets specified requirements and that is on a school district, county office of education, charter school, or community college campus to 20% of the adjusted construction cost, as defined, of the shade structure project. This bill would additionally limit the cost of complying with the requirement to provide an accessible path of travel to a school district, county office of education, or charter school project that is approved by the Division of the State Architect on or before December 31, 2030, and that improves community ecological health and climate resilience, or pupil well-being, learning, or pupil play, and incorporates nature, as provided, to 20% of the adjusted construction cost, as defined, of the school project. The bill would authorize the Division of the State Architect to adopt regulations to implement these provisions, as provided. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2032.
Existing law establishes a system of childcare and development services, administered by the State Department of Social Services, for children from infancy to 13 years of age. Existing federal law establishes the Child Care and Development Fund authorized under the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2014 and administered by states to provide assistance to low-income families who need childcare due to specified reasons. Existing federal law requires a portion of those funds to be used to disseminate information on existing resources for developmental screenings and descriptions of how a family may utilize those resources to obtain developmental screenings. Existing law authorizes, upon departmental approval, the use of appropriated funds for alternative payment programs to allow for maximum parental choice. Existing law authorizes the reimbursement to those programs for the cost of child care paid to child care providers and the administrative and support services costs of the alternative program. This bill would state that the costs allowable for administration shall include, but not be limited to, costs associated with disseminating the above-described information.
Existing law establishes the Office of the Inspector General that is responsible for, among other things, contemporaneous public oversight of internal affairs investigations and staff grievance inquiries conducted by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's Office of Internal Affairs. Existing law requires the Office of the Inspector General to issue regular reports, no less than annually, to the Governor and the Legislature summarizing its recommendations concerning its oversight of the department allegations of internal misconduct and use of force and, no less than semiannually, summarizing its oversight of Office of Internal Affairs investigations. Existing law requires these reports to be posted on the Inspector General's internet website and otherwise made available to the public upon release to the Governor and Legislature. This bill would give the Office of the Inspector General investigatory authority over all staff misconduct cases that involve sexual misconduct with an incarcerated person and would authorize the Office of the Inspector General to monitor and investigate a complaint that involves sexual misconduct with an incarcerated person, as provided. The bill would require the Office of the Inspector General to, upon the completion of an investigation, compile and submit a report to the appropriate hiring authority, as specified.
Existing law establishes independent institutions of higher education as one of the segments of postsecondary education in the state. Existing law, the Cal Grant Program, establishes the Cal Grant A Entitlement Awards, the Cal Grant B Entitlement Awards, the California Community College Expanded Entitlement Awards, the California Community College Transfer Entitlement Awards, the Competitive Cal Grant A and B Awards, the Cal Grant C Awards, and the Cal Grant T Awards under the administration of the Student Aid Commission. The Cal Grant Reform Act revises and recasts the provisions establishing and governing the existing Cal Grant Program into a new Cal Grant Program. Existing law specifies that the act becomes operative only if General Fund moneys over the multiyear forecasts beginning in the 2024–25 fiscal year are available to support ongoing augmentations and actions, and if funding is provided in the annual Budget Act to implement the act. This bill would prohibit, commencing September 1, 2025, an independent institution of higher education, as defined, from providing a legacy preference or donor preference in admissions, as defined, to an applicant as part of the regular or early action admissions process. The bill would require, on or before June 30, 2026, and annually thereafter, an independent institution of higher education to report to the Legislature and the Department of Justice on whether it is in compliance or violation of these provisions, and if in violation of these provisions, to also report, for that academic year, (1) specified information about newly enrolled students and (2) the admission rate of students who are provided a legacy preference or donor preference in admissions, as compared to the admission rate of students who are not provided a legacy preference or donor preference in admissions. The bill would require the department to post the names of the independent institutions of higher education that violate the prohibition on its internet website by the next fiscal year.
Existing law, the California Hope, Opportunity, Perseverance, and Empowerment (HOPE) for Children Trust Account Act, establishes a program to provide a trust fund account to an eligible child, defined to include minor California residents who are specified dependents or wards under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court in foster care with reunification services terminated by court order, or who have a parent, Indian custodian, or legal guardian who died due to COVID-19 during the federally declared COVID-19 public health emergency and meet the specified family household income limit. Under the program, all assets of the fund and moneys allocated to individual HOPE trust accounts are considered to be owned by the state until an eligible youth withdraws or transfers money from their HOPE trust account. This bill would, among other things, require the Treasurer to verify the cause of death of the parent, Indian custodian, or legal guardian and to verify the minor's family household income prior to the death of the parent, Indian custodian, or legal guardian once the Treasurer receives government-issued documents or a statement signed by a person who is eligible to do so under penalty of perjury that establishes the identity of the child and that the person whose death certificate was provided was the child's parent, Indian custodian, or legal guardian. By expanding the crime of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would also state the intent of the Legislature that all eligible children will be automatically enrolled for a HOPE trust account to the extent possible, and would require the Treasurer to, in order to achieve this goal, collaborate with the State Department of Social Services and any other relevant governmental agencies to gather data to maximize participation in the HOPE Trust Account Program for eligible children and youth, as specified. Under the bill, individual records or source data associated with the establishment of a HOPE trust account would not be subject to disclosure under the California Public Records Act. Existing law establishes various means-tested public social services programs administered by counties to provide eligible recipients with certain benefits, including, but not limited to, cash assistance under the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, nutrition assistance under the CalFresh program, and health care services under the Medi-Cal program. This bill would, to the extent permitted by federal law, prohibit funds deposited and investment returns accrued in a HOPE trust account from being considered as income or assets when determining eligibility and benefit amount for any means-tested program until an eligible youth withdraws or transfers the funds from the HOPE trust account, as specified. The bill would make these provisions operative on July 1, 2025, or on the date that the State Department of Social Services notifies the Legislature that the Statewide Automated Welfare System or the California Automated Response and Engagement System (CARES) can perform the necessary automation to implement these provisions, whichever date is later. The bill would also require a one-time lump-sum payment made from a HOPE trust account to be exempt from enforcement of a money judgment by levy without making a claim, as specified. To the extent that the bill would expand county duties, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would also authorize a program enrollee who is also an eligible youth to withdraw or transfer funds from their HOPE trust account on and after their 18th birthday, and would require the Treasurer to assist an eligible youth in transferring funds from their HOPE trust account to other specified accounts. The bill would require the Treasurer to design and disseminate information for parents, Indian custodians, and legal guardians of children and youth who are potentially eligible for the HOPE Trust Account Program to facilitate their enrollment in the program and the transfer of funds, as specified, and to annually submit an audited financial report on the operations of the program by August 1 to the Governor, the Controller, the California State Auditor, and the Legislature, as specified. The bill would expand the composition of the California HOPE for Children Trust Account Program Board, as specified, and would make other changes to board-related provisions. Existing law sets forth various provisions relating to the disclosure of certain information in the administration of taxes. Under existing law, any unwarranted disclosure or use of the information by the administering person or receiving agency is a misdemeanor. Under existing law, it is generally a misdemeanor for the Franchise Tax Board (FTB) or certain persons to disclose or make known in any manner information as to the amount of income or any particulars set forth or disclosed therein. This bill would require the Treasurer to disclose to the FTB certain information for the sole purpose of determining eligibility under the California HOPE for Children Trust Account Act. The bill would require the FTB to disclose to the Treasurer the amounts of the federal adjusted gross income, as specified. The bill would prohibit the Treasurer from disclosing or using any information obtained from the FTB under these provisions except for this purpose. The bill would require the FTB to return or destroy all information received from the Treasurer after completing the exchange of information under these provisions. By expanding the scope of a crime under the above-described disclosure provisions, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 11157 of the Welfare and Institutions Code proposed by AB 274 to be operative only if this bill and AB 274 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. 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 with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
(1) Existing law requires a landlord of a residential dwelling to give notice to the tenant a certain number of days before the effective date of a rent increase depending on the amount of the increase, as specified. This bill would apply this requirement to leases of commercial real property by a qualified commercial tenant, as defined. The bill would specify, in all leases for commercial real property by a qualified commercial tenant, that a rent increase would not be effective until the notice period required by these provisions has expired. The bill would also specify that a violation of these provisions would not entitle a qualified commercial tenant to civil penalties. The bill would require a landlord of a commercial real property to include information on these provisions in the notice. (2) Existing law requires a person engaged in a trade or business who negotiates primarily in Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, or Korean, in the course of entering into specified agreements, to deliver to the other party a translation of the agreement in the language in which it was negotiated, as specified. Existing law authorizes a person to rescind an agreement if the agreement does not comply with that translation requirement, as specified. Existing law creates an exemption from the translation requirement for specified agreements if the other party negotiates the terms through the other party's own interpreter. Under existing law, both the translation requirement and the interpreter exemption apply to a tenancy agreement covering a dwelling unit normally occupied as a residence. This bill would apply the translation requirement, but not the interpreter exemption, to a tenancy agreement covering a nonresidential-zoned commercial space entered into between a landlord and a qualified commercial tenant, as defined, on or after January 1, 2025. The bill would only authorize the tenant to rescind the agreement for noncompliance with the translation requirement. (3) Existing law specifies that a hiring of residential real property, for a term not specified by the parties, is deemed to be renewed at the end of the term implied by law unless one of the parties gives written notice to the other of that party's intention to terminate the tenancy. Existing law requires an owner of a residential dwelling to give notice at least 60 days prior to the proposed date of termination, or at least 30 days prior to the proposed date of termination if a tenant or resident has resided in the dwelling for less than one year, as specified. This bill would generally apply these provisions to a hiring of commercial real property hired by a qualified commercial tenant, as defined. The bill would require a landlord of a commercial real property to include information on these provisions in the notice. (4) Existing law applicable to commercial leases and nonresidential tenancies of real property prohibits a landlord from demanding a payment as a condition of initiating, continuing, or renewing a lease or rental agreement, unless the amount of the payment is stated in a written lease or rental agreement. Existing law specifies that these provisions do not prohibit a landlord from increasing a tenant's rent for nonresidential real property in order to recover building operating costs incurred on behalf of the tenant, if the right to rent, the method of calculating the increase, and the period of time covered by the increase is stated in the lease or rental agreement. This bill would prohibit a landlord of a commercial real property from charging a qualified commercial tenant, as defined, a fee to recover building operating costs, as defined, unless specified conditions are met, including, among other things, that the costs are allocated proportionately per tenant and the qualified commercial tenant is provided supporting documentation, as specified. The bill would allow a qualified commercial tenant to raise a violation of this provision as an affirmative defense in an action to recover possession based on a failure to pay the fee. The bill would make a landlord of a commercial real property who violates this provision liable to a qualified commercial tenant for specified damages, and would authorize the district attorney, city attorney, or county counsel, as specified, to seek injunctive relief. The bill would apply these provisions to specified leases and tenancies, but not to assessments levied pursuant to the Property and Business Improvement District Law of 1994. (5) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 1632 of the Civil Code proposed by AB 3281 to be operative only if this bill and AB 3281 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. (6) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 1946.1 of the Civil Code proposed by SB 611 to be operative only if this bill and SB 611 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits certain contributions of more than $250 to an officer of an agency by any party, participant, or party or participant's agent in a proceeding while a proceeding involving a license, permit, or other entitlement for use is pending before the agency and for 12 months following the date a final decision is rendered in the proceeding, as specified. The act requires disclosure on the record of the proceeding, as specified, of certain contributions of more than $250 within the preceding 12 months to an officer from a party or participant, or party's agent. The act disqualifies an officer from participating in a decision in a proceeding if the officer has willfully or knowingly received a contribution of more than $250 from a party or a party's agent, or a participant or a participant's agent, as specified. The act allows an officer to cure certain violations of these provisions by returning a contribution, or the portion of the contribution of in excess of $250, within 14 days of accepting, soliciting, or receiving the contribution, whichever comes latest. This bill would raise the threshold for contributions regulated by these provisions to $500, as specified. The bill would extend the period during which an officer may cure a violation to within 30 days of accepting, soliciting, or directing the contribution, whichever is latest. The bill would specify that a person is not a "participant" for the purposes of these provisions if their financial interest in a decision results solely from an increase or decrease in membership dues. The bill would exempt from these provisions contracts valued under $50,000, contracts between 2 or more government agencies, contracts where no party receives financial compensation, and the periodic review or renewal of development agreements, as specified, from these provisions. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 84308 of the Government Code proposed by SB 1181 to be operative only if this bill and SB 1181 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. The Political Reform Act of 1974, an initiative measure, provides that the Legislature may amend the act to further the act's purposes upon a 23 vote of each house of the Legislature and compliance with specified procedural requirements. This bill would declare that it furthers the purposes of the act.
Existing law establishes a local health care district in the County of Imperial, designated as the Imperial Valley Healthcare District, that includes all of the County of Imperial. Existing law requires the initial board of directors of the Imperial Valley Healthcare District to be appointed from and by specified bodies, including, among others, the Imperial County Board of Supervisors, the Pioneers Memorial Healthcare District Board of Directors, and the Heffernan Memorial Healthcare District Board of Directors. Existing law requires the initial board of directors to recommend a permanent funding source mechanism to be presented to and approved by voters via ballot measure and requires the permanent funding source mechanism to be placed on the ballot for the March 2024 or November 2024 election. This bill would instead require the initial board of directors, the elected board of directors, or a combination of the initial and elected board of directors to recommend a permanent funding source mechanism to be presented to voters via ballot measure and would require the permanent funding source mechanism to be placed on the ballot on or before the November 2026 election. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Imperial.
Existing law establishes the Employment Development Department, administered by the Director of Employment Development who is vested with certain duties relating to unemployment compensation. Existing unemployment insurance law requires any employing unit that is a motion picture payroll services company, as defined, to be treated as an employer of a motion picture production worker, as defined, and to file a statement of intent with the Employment Development Department. Existing law makes specified violations of unemployment insurance law a misdemeanor. This bill would specify that a loan-out company is the employer of its employee-owners or members who are engaged to provide services to a motion picture production company or to an allied motion picture services company for purposes of remitting employment taxes and related obligations, as specified. The bill would prohibit a loan-out company or an individual whose services are provided by a loan-out company from being considered an employee of a motion picture payroll services company. The bill would require a motion picture payroll services company to file a quarterly report with the Director of Employment Development relating to payments made to a loan-out company, as specified. The bill would define "loan-out company" for these purposes. By expanding the scope of an existing 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.
The Hazardous Waste Control Law regulates the use and disposal of hazardous materials. Existing law permits the Department of Toxic Substances Control or any local officer or agency authorized to enforce the Hazardous Waste Control Law to require specified parties to furnish and transmit certain information relating to hazardous substances, hazardous wastes, and hazardous materials. A violation of the Hazardous Waste Control Law is a crime. Existing law, beginning January 1, 2025, prohibits a person or entity from manufacturing, selling, delivering, holding, or offering for sale in commerce any cosmetic product that contains intentionally added perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) , as defined. This bill would similarly prohibit any person from manufacturing, distributing, selling, or offering for sale in the state any menstrual products that contain regulated PFAS, as defined. The bill would require the Department of Toxic Substances Control to adopt regulations on or before January 1, 2029, as specified, for the purposes of implementing, interpreting, enforcing, or making specific these provisions. The bill would require the department to publish on its internet website, on or before January 1, 2027, a list of accepted testing methods for testing for regulated PFAS in menstrual products. The bill would require a manufacturer of menstrual products to register with the department, on or before July 1, 2029, and to provide to the department specified information and a registration fee. The bill would require the department to issue a notice of violation of the above provisions under specified circumstances, including that the department determines that a violation of the regulations described above has occurred or the department receives a report of an alleged violation and verifies that the violation alleged in the report occurred through its own independent testing, verification, or inspection. The bill would make a violation of these provisions punishable by administrative or civil penalties, as specified, and would authorize the Attorney General, on behalf of the department or on behalf of the people of the state at the request of the department, to bring an action to enforce these provisions. The bill would create, and would require all moneys collected from penalties to be deposited in, the T.A.M.P.O.N. Act Fund. The bill would make the department's duties to initiate, implement, or enforce any of these requirements contingent upon sufficient funds in the Toxic Substances Control Account, as determined by the Department of Finance, and an appropriation by the Legislature for the purposes of implementing and enforcing the requirements. By expanding the scope 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.
(1) The Early Education Act, among other things, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer all California state preschool programs. Existing law requires the Superintendent to adopt rules and regulations pursuant to the act. The act, until July 1, 2027, authorizes a California state preschool contractor operating a part-day, full-day, or both part- and full-day California state preschool program to enroll interested eligible 2-year-old children, as defined. The act, on or after July 1, 2027, prohibits a contractor from serving any 2-year-old children, unless the contractor was serving those 2-year-old children before July 1, 2027, as provided. The act requires the Superintendent to develop guidance for contractors to follow when enrolling 2-year-old children. The act requires each applicant or contracting agency to give priority for services for part-day and full-day California state preschool programs according to a specified priority order. This bill would, until July 1, 2027, revise and recast the priority order for 2-year-old children, as specified. The bill would, until July 1, 2027, require the Superintendent's guidance to be developed in consultation with the State Department of Social Services and include guidance for safe, age-appropriate diapering and toilet training, as specified. The bill would authorize the State Department of Education, for purposes of expediting the implementation of state or federal legislation to expand preschool services, to use an alternative application process and waive certain regulations. The act authorizes a provider operating a state preschool program within the attendance boundary of certain public schools where at least 80% of enrolled pupils are eligible for free or reduced-price meals to enroll 3-year-old and 4-year-old children in accordance with the above-described enrollment priorities. This bill would, until July 1, 2027, additionally authorize those providers to enroll 2-year-old children, as specified. (2) The act establishes the California Universal Preschool Planning Grant Program with the goal of expanding access universally to preschool programs for 3- and 4-year-old children, as provided. The act requires the Superintendent to develop and administer a grant process and award grant funds to each county that applies for funding, as provided. To the extent funds are available in the annual Budget Act for the 2023–24 and 2024–25 fiscal years, the act requires existing grantees, newly formed consortia of current grantees, or individual counties who participated as a grantee in a former consortium for this grant to be eligible to apply for a renewal grant under the program. This bill would instead, to the extent funds are available in the Budget Act of 2023, only make existing grantees eligible to apply for a renewal grant under the program. The bill would, to the extent funds are available in the Budget Act of 2024, make existing grantees, newly formed consortia, and individual counties who participated in a former consortium for this grant eligible to apply for a grant under the program, except as provided. (3) Existing law requires each school district and county office of education to develop a comprehensive school safety plan for each of its schools operating kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive. Existing law requires the school safety plan to include, beginning July 1, 2025, an instructional continuity plan to establish communication with pupils and their families and provide instruction to pupils when in-person instruction is disrupted due to an emergency. Existing law authorizes the instructional continuity plan to include support to pupils and families to enroll in or be temporarily reassigned to another local educational agency outside of the school district in which the pupil's parent or guardian resides. This bill would instead authorize the instructional continuity plan to include support to pupils and families to enroll in or be temporarily reassigned to another local educational agency outside of the school district, but within the county or an immediately adjacent county, in which the pupil's parent or guardian resides. (4) Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to report to the Superintendent during each fiscal year the average daily attendance of the school district for all full school months, as provided. Existing law requires the average daily attendance to be determined by dividing the total number of days of attendance allowed in all full school months by the number of days the schools are actually taught in all full school months, excluding Saturdays or Sundays and excluding weekend makeup classes. This bill would also exclude from those calculations attendance generated through an attendance recovery program. (5) Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified. Existing law requires funding pursuant to the local control funding formula to include, in addition to a base grant, supplemental and concentration grant add-ons that are based on the percentage of unduplicated pupils, defined as those pupils who are English learners, foster youth, or eligible for free or reduced-price meals, served by the county superintendent of schools, school district, or charter school, as specified. Existing law defines "eligible for free or reduced-price meals" for these purposes to mean a pupil who is determined to meet federal income eligibility criteria, either through completing an application for the federal National School Lunch Program or through an alternative household income data collection form, or who is deemed to be categorically eligible for free or reduced-price meals under the federal National School Lunch Program, as provided. Existing law authorizes a school participating in a special assistance alternative authorized by federal law to establish a base year for purposes of the local control funding formula, as specified, and authorizes a school, between base year eligibility determinations, to include (A) any newly enrolled pupils who are determined to be eligible for free or reduced-price meals or (B) any current pupils found to be newly eligible for free or reduced-price meals, as identified through a local or state direct certification match or another categorical designation. This bill would authorize a school, between base year eligibility determinations, to instead include any current or newly enrolled pupils who are determined to be eligible for free or reduced-price meals. (6) Existing law, among other things, appropriates various amounts, as specified, from the Public School System Stabilization Account for the support of school districts, but requires the Controller to first transfer those amounts to Section A of the State School Fund. This bill would revise the list of appropriations that the Controller is required to first transfer to Section A of the State School Fund, as provided. (7) Existing law establishes the Expanded Learning Opportunities Program and requires local educational agencies, as a condition of receipt of certain funds under the program, to offer to all pupils in classroom-based instructional programs in kindergarten and grades 1 to 6, inclusive, access to expanded learning opportunity programs. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to allocate program funding in a specified manner, and requires those funds to be used to support pupil access to expanded learning opportunity programs. Existing law requires an expanded learning opportunity program operated by a third party that holds a child daycare facility license or special permit as of June 1, 2023, to maintain that license or permit capacity until June 30, 2024. This bill would extend the requirement to maintain that license or permit capacity by one year to June 30, 2025. The bill would also require a local educational agency that receives specified funds under the program to report final expenditures to the State Department of Education and would require a local educational agency that does not submit the final expenditure report to forfeit program funds for that fiscal year, as provided. (8) Existing law authorizes a local educational agency, beginning July 1, 2025, to implement attendance recovery programs for pupils to make up lost instructional time and offset absences, as specified. Existing law requires the attendance generated in an attendance recovery program to be applied to the schoolday in which the pupil was absent for the purposes of generating attendance. Existing law imposes certain requirements relating to pupil-to-teacher ratios for attendance recovery programs. Existing law prohibits pupils enrolled in a nonclassroom-based program from participating in an attendance recovery program and specifies that a pupil is enrolled in a nonclassroom-based program for this purpose if, for school districts, the pupil meets the minimum day requirements for independent study and is continually enrolled in independent study for more than 14 schooldays in a school year or, for charter schools, the pupil is continually enrolled in independent study for more than 14 schooldays on any of the days on which school is taught. This bill would delete the requirement that the attendance generated in an attendance recovery program must be applied to the schoolday in which the pupil was absent. The bill would prohibit a pupil from being credited with more than 5 days of attendance per school week for school districts or county offices of education, or more than one day of attendance in a calendar day when school is actually taught for charter schools. The bill would revise the pupil-to-teacher ratio requirements for attendance recovery programs. The bill would specify that a pupil is enrolled in a nonclassroom-based program for purposes of the prohibition on participation in an attendance recovery program if, for school districts, the pupil meets the minimum day requirements for independent study and is continually enrolled in independent study for more than 15 schooldays in a school year or, for charter schools, the pupil is continually enrolled in independent study for more than 15 schooldays on any of the days on which school is taught. (9) If the average daily attendance of a local educational agency has been materially decreased during a fiscal year because of an emergency and that fact has been established to the satisfaction of the Superintendent by an affidavit submitted by the local educational agency, existing law requires the Superintendent to credit to the local educational agency the total average daily attendance that would have been credited to it had the emergency not occurred. Existing law requires, for affidavits submitted for emergencies occurring after September 1, 2021, but on or before June 30, 2025, the local educational agency to certify that it has a plan for independent study to be offered to pupils and requires, for affidavits submitted for emergencies occurring on or after July 1, 2025, the local educational agency to certify that it has a comprehensive school safety plan, including an instructional continuity plan to provide instruction when in-person instruction is disrupted due to an emergency. This bill would extend the above-described respective ending and commencing date by one year to instead be on or before June 30, 2026, and on or after July 1, 2026, respectively. (10) Existing law, commencing with the 2024–25 fiscal year, requires the State Department of Education to annually report specified information on its internet website regarding juvenile court and county community school pupils, including, among other information, (A) the number and percentage of pupils who leave juvenile court schools without a high school diploma or high school equivalency who transfer back and enroll in a school district or charter school and (B) juvenile court school or county community school pupil access to and completion of A–G approved courses, high school equivalency tests, and accredited college coursework. This bill would revise those reporting requirements, as specified. (11) Existing law requires the Legislative Analyst's Office to conduct an assessment, on or before January 1, 2025, evaluating the efficacy of existing programs in allied health jointly offered between campuses of the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California. Existing law requires the final assessment to be reported, in writing, to the Legislature and the Governor on or before January 1, 2025, as specified. This bill instead would require the Legislative Analyst's Office to conduct an assessment, on or before January 1, 2031, evaluating the efficacy of existing programs in nursing jointly offered between campuses of those segments of public postsecondary education. The bill would require the assessment to be reported, in writing, to the Legislature and the Governor on or before January 1, 2031. (12) Existing law establishes the Golden State Teacher Grant Program under the administration of the Student Aid Commission. For applications received under the program on July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025, inclusive, existing law requires the commission to provide one-time grants of up to $10,000 to each student enrolled in a professional preparation program leading to a preliminary teaching credential or a pupil personnel services credential if the student commits to working at a priority school or a California preschool program for 2 years within 4 years following the date the student completes the professional preparation program, as specified. Existing law, commencing July 1, 2024, requires the commission to prioritize awards to eligible applicants with the lowest income at the time of application. This bill would instead, commencing July 1, 2024, require the commission to prioritize awards to eligible applicants with the lowest income and asset levels at the time of application, and would specify a methodology for calculating those income and asset levels. (13) Existing law requires the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to report to the Department of Finance no later than September 1 of each year certain information related to the amount of discounts for community colleges authorized by a program to advance universal telecommunications services, as provided. This bill would repeal that provision. (14) Existing law authorizes the chancellor's office to establish the Rising Scholars Network to enter into agreements with up to 50 community colleges to provide additional funds for services in support of postsecondary education for justice-involved students, as defined. Existing law requires a community college district that wishes to participate in the Rising Scholars Network to apply to the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges for funding, as provided. This bill would authorize an additional 15 community colleges to enter into Rising Scholars Network agreements. Beginning in the 2025–26 fiscal year, the bill would authorize the board of governors to prioritize funding provided in the annual Budget Act for Rising Scholars Network applications that demonstrate positive student outcomes consistent with specified goals and guidance. (15) Existing law requires the chancellor's office to submit to the Legislature and the Department of Finance, by April 1 of each year, a systemwide report that summarizes reports submitted by community college districts on the expenditure of Student Equity and Achievement Program funding, as specified. Existing law requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to report to the Department of Finance, the Legislative Analyst's Office, and the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature, on or before March 15 of each year, on the expenditure of certain funds, including program funds, as provided. Beginning in the 2025–26 fiscal year, this bill would require the above-described annual reports to instead be submitted on or before March 1. (16) If a community college district, in order to qualify for Nursing Enrollment Growth and Retention program funds, commits to taking certain actions, existing law requires the community college district to report specified data to the chancellor's office. Existing law requires the chancellor's office to compile and provide the reported data to the Legislature and the Governor by July 1 of each year. Beginning in the 2025–26 fiscal year, this bill would require the chancellor's office to instead report that data biennially on or before March 1 and would authorize the data to be submitted with the below-described report related to allied health professional programs. Existing law requires the chancellor to report to the Legislature and the Governor, on or before September 30 of each year, specific information related to certain community college clinical nursing faculty, as provided. Beginning in the 2025–26 fiscal year, this bill would require that information to instead be reported biennially on or before March 1 and would authorize the information to be submitted with the below-described report related to allied health professional programs. Existing law requires the chancellor to provide to the Legislature, beginning July 1, 2019, and each year thereafter, a report that includes information related to certain allied health professional programs, as provided. Beginning in the 2025–26 fiscal year, this bill would require the chancellor to instead provide this report biennially on or before March 1 and would authorize the report to be submitted with the above-described data related to the Nursing Enrollment Growth and Retention program. (17) Existing law requires the chancellor and the Superintendent of Public Instruction to provide to certain state entities preliminary reports on or before October 30 following each fiscal year for which funds are appropriated for the Adult Education Program, and final reports on or before February 1 of the following year, about the use of specified funds and outcomes for adults statewide and in each adult education region. This bill would require the chancellor and the Superintendent to instead provide a report on or before February 1 of each fiscal year for which funds are appropriated for the program. (18) Existing law requires the chancellor to submit a report to the Governor and the Legislature, on or before March 1 of each year, that includes, among other things, data summarizing outcome accountability performance measures implemented by the chancellor for the California Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development Program, as provided. Beginning in the 2025–26 fiscal year, this bill would require the chancellor to instead submit this report biennially and would authorize the report to be submitted with the below-described report related to the Strong Workforce Program. Existing law requires the chancellor's office to annually submit a report to the Governor and the Legislature, on or before January 1, on the community college component of the Strong Workforce Program, as provided. Beginning in the 2025–26 fiscal year, this bill would require that annual report to instead be submitted on or before March 1 and would authorize the report to be submitted with the above-described report related to the California Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development Program. (19) Existing law requires, as part of licensing child day care facilities, the State Department of Social Services to request a fire safety clearance from the appropriate fire marshal. Existing law then requires the primary fire enforcing agency to complete a final fire clearance inspection for a child day care facility, as specified. This bill would require, until January 1, 2027, state and local fire marshals assigning occupancy and use, or change of use, classifications and issuing fire clearance approvals for day care centers when making those classifications and conducting those inspections on or after January 1, 2023, to use certain provisions of the California Building Standards Code as they read on December 31, 2022. The bill would require the Office of the State Fire Marshal, in consultation with the State Department of Social Services, to promulgate regulations pertaining to occupancy standards for day care centers no later than January 1, 2027. (20) Existing law requires the Local Agency Public Construction Act to apply to contracts by community college districts. Existing law authorizes the chancellor to enter into a contract or other agreement with the governing board of any community college district whereby the district performs services or acts as a fiscal agent on behalf of the California Community Colleges, if the funds for the contract or agreement are in satisfaction of the state constitutional obligation to appropriate a minimum amount of funds for the support of school districts and community college districts for each fiscal year. Existing law, until July 1, 2025, exempts the chancellor from the requirement to advertise for or invite bids for certain contracts or other agreements with the governing board of a community college district that are no more than $20,000,000. Existing law, until July 1, 2025, also exempts from the requirement to advertise or invite bids the renewal of existing contracts or other agreements that the chancellor has entered into with the governing board of a community college, regardless of the amount. This bill would extend those dates by 2 years, thereby making the exemptions described above operative until July 1, 2027. (21) Existing law makes specified funds appropriated in the Budget Act of 2023 and the Budget Act of 2024 for education for adults in correctional facilities and for special education available for encumbrance until July 31, 2024, for funds appropriated in the Budget Act of 2023 and until July 31, 2025, for funds appropriated in the Budget Act of 2024. This bill would instead make funds appropriated for those purposes in the Budget Act of 2021 and the Budget Act of 2022 available for liquidation until July 31, 2024, for funds appropriated in the Budget Act of 2021 and until July 31, 2025, for funds appropriated in the Budget Act of 2022. By extending the period of time in which funds encumbered under existing appropriations may be liquidated, the bill would make an appropriation. (22) This bill would appropriate $1,500,000 from the General Fund to the State Allocation Board to be available for allocation to the Trinity Alps Unified School District to support the construction of an all-weather track at Trinity High School. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Trinity Alps Unified School District. (23) This bill would state that its provisions are severable. (24) Funds appropriated by this bill would be applied toward the minimum funding requirements for school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution. (25) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 32282 of the Education Code proposed by AB 1858, AB 2887, and AB 2968 to be operative only if this bill and any or all of those bills are enacted and this bill is enacted last. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 69617 of the Education Code proposed by SB 1391 to be operative only if this bill and SB 1391 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. (26) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.
The Budget Act of 2024 made appropriations for the support of state government for the 2024–25 fiscal year. This bill would amend the Budget Act of 2024 by amending, adding, and repealing items of appropriation and making other changes. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.
