The Budget Act of 2022 and the Budget Act of 2023 made appropriations for the support of state government for the 2022–23 and 2023–24 fiscal years. This bill would amend the Budget Act of 2022 and the Budget Act of 2023 by amending and repealing items of appropriation and making other changes. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.
(1) Existing law regulates the submission and review of fingerprint images and criminal history information by state agencies. This bill would make certain changes to the process for submission and review of fingerprint images and criminal history information by the Department of Cannabis Control and the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation. The bill would add requirements regulating the process for submission and review of fingerprint images and criminal history information by the Department of Consumer Affairs, the State Department of Developmental Services, the Department of General Services, the Department of Health Care Access and Information, the Public Employees' Retirement System, the State Department of Public Health, and the State Department of Social Services. (2) The Horse Racing Law vests the California Horse Racing Board with jurisdiction and supervision over horse racing meetings in the state and makes the board responsible for issuing licenses to racing associations and all persons who participate in horse racing meetings with parimutuel wagering. The Horse Racing law authorizes the board to issue a license to any person to conduct a horse racing meeting at the track specified in the written application submitted for that license, as specified. The Horse Racing Law also requires a person who is not required to obtain one of those licenses but who participates in, or has anything to do with, the racing of horses to be licensed by the board under a separate license, as specified. The Horse Racing Law requires the board to submit to the Department of Justice fingerprint images and related information required by the Department of Justice of all employees, prospective employees, and contractors. The Horse Racing Law authorizes the board's chief of licensing and enforcement to investigate the criminal history of those persons in order to make a final determination of a person's fitness to perform duties. This bill would define "person" for purposes of the above-described track operator license to mean any officer, director, or partner, or any individual who holds 5% or more of outstanding shares, of a racing association. The bill would also provide that the separate license requirement described above applies to certain persons who participate in, or have anything to do with, the racing of horses in specified capacities. The bill would expand the fingerprinting and background check provisions to, among others, current or prospective holders of the above-described licenses. (3) Existing law establishes the Forced or Involuntary Sterilization Compensation Program, to be administered by the California Victim Compensation Board for the purpose of providing victim compensation to survivors of specified state-sponsored or coercive sterilization. Existing law requires an individual seeking victim compensation pursuant to this program to submit an application within a specified timeframe. Existing law authorizes a claimant who receives an adverse claim decision to file an appeal to the board within 30 days of receipt of notice of the decision. This bill would instead authorize a claimant who receives an adverse claim decision to file an appeal to the board no later than January 1, 2025. The bill would require the board to do an additional review of previously denied claims or appeals upon request by the claimant with a showing of good cause, as specified. The bill would authorize a claimant to make a request for additional review no later than January 1, 2025. Existing law requires the board to conclude the program after exhaustion of all appeals arising from the denial of an individual's application, but no later than 3 years and 3 months after the start date of the program. This bill would instead require the board to conclude the program after the exhaustion of the aforementioned appeals, but no later than January 1, 2026. This bill would make the provisions establishing the program inoperative on July 1, 2026, and would repeal it as of January 1, 2027. The Budget Act of 2021 appropriated $300,000 to the board to conduct a study relating to the program, as specified. This bill would require the board to submit a report on the outcome of that study to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee on or before January 1, 2025. (4) Existing law establishes the Flexible Assistance for Survivors (FAS) pilot grant program, administered by the Office of Emergency Services, to provide grants to qualifying community-based organizations with the goal of improving safety, healing, and financial stability for survivors, and the loved ones of those violently injured or killed. Existing law authorizes an organization receiving a grant under these provisions to use the funds as flexible cash assistance to survivors to meet survivors' financial needs or to cover survivors' expenses, distributed at the discretion of the organization in amounts determined by the organization based on the need of survivors, as specified. This bill would authorize an organization to distribute flexible cash assistance funds to a survivor directly, to the parent or guardian of a survivor, or to a vendor, business, or another third party to pay for an expense or to purchase a product on a survivor's behalf, as specified. The bill would prohibit payments under FAS from reducing a victim's maximum benefit allowance from the California Victim Compensation Board, except as specified. Existing law requires cash assistance received under these provisions to be treated in the same manner as the federal earned income refund, as specified, for purposes of determining eligibility to receive specified benefits. This bill would instead require cash assistance received by a survivor under these provisions to be treated in the same manner as the federal earned income refund, as specified, for purposes of determining eligibility to receive specified benefits. Existing law authorizes the Office of Emergency Services to use up to 5% of the funds appropriated for the grant program each year for the costs of administering the grant program, including, among other things, issuing a report on the impacts of the grant program through the 2025–26 fiscal year. Existing law requires the office to submit a progress report to the Legislature by July 1, 2025, as specified, and to post on its internet website a public report on the impact of the grant program before July 1, 2027, as specified. Under existing law, the FAS pilot grant provisions become inoperative on July 1, 2027, and are repealed as of January 1, 2028. This bill would instead include in the costs of administering the grant program described above, issuing a report on the impacts of the grant program through the 2026–27 fiscal year. The bill would instead require the office to submit the above-described progress report to Legislature by July 1, 2026, and to post the above-described public report on July 1, 2028. The bill would instead make the FAS pilot grant provisions inoperative on July 1, 2028, and would repeal these provisions as of January 1, 2029. (5) Existing law establishes the Budget Deficit Savings Account in the State Treasury to serve as a supplementary savings account to mitigate the effects of actual or future projected budget deficits in the General Fund or other state funds. Existing law authorizes the Legislature, in any fiscal year, to transfer funds into the Budget Deficit Savings Account or authorize the transfer of some or all of the balance of the Budget Deficit Savings Account to the General Fund or any other state fund. This bill, until December 31, 2030, would establish the Projected Surplus Temporary Holding Account in the State Treasury as a General Fund reserve to hold a portion of General Fund surplus moneys temporarily for use in future fiscal years, as an added responsible budgeting technique to counter tax revenue volatility. The bill would require, in a year that a transfer is made to the Projected Surplus Temporary Holding Account, that such a transfer be provided for in the annual Budget Act. The bill would require funds transferred to the Projected Surplus Temporary Holding Account to remain in that account for no more than one year from the date of deposit, after which time these funds would be transferred to the General Fund, except as specified. The bill would authorize the Controller to use the funds in the Projected Surplus Temporary Holding Account for cashflow loans to the General Fund, as specified. (6) Existing law creates the Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund within the State Treasury and, upon appropriation by the Legislature, requires the Office of Small Business Advocate within the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development to establish and administer a grant program to enable small nonprofit performing arts organizations to hire and retain employees, among other things. Existing law requires the Office of Small Business Advocate to adopt regulations on specified matters relating to the grant program and fund, including regulations ensuring that grant recipients have not used moneys for other purposes. This bill would instead require the Office of Small Business Advocate to adopt guidelines on those specified matters, and would exempt the adoption of those guidelines from the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act. (7) Existing law, the State Contract Act, authorizes a department, defined as specified state entities as to any project under the jurisdiction of that state entity, to authorize the carrying out of the project directly by the state agency concerned therewith if the estimated cost does not exceed $600,000, except as specified, where the nature of the work, in the opinion of the department, is such that its services in connection therewith are not required. This bill would also authorize a department described above, upon request from the state agency concerned, to authorize the carrying out of a project, or a class of projects, with an estimated cost of any amount directly by the state agency concerned if the department finds that the state agency is capable of successfully undertaking the project or projects of that amount. The bill would require a department, for projects or a class of projects where the total project cost exceeds $3,000,000, to seek approval from the Department of Finance prior to authorizing a state agency to carry out the project or class of projects. The State Contract Act generally provides for a contracting process by state agencies for public works of improvement pursuant to a competitive bidding process, under which bids are awarded to the lowest responsible bidder, with specified alternative procurement procedures authorized in certain cases. Other existing law authorizes certain state and local agencies to engage in job order contracting, as prescribed. This bill would amend the act to authorize the Department of General Services (DGS) to engage in job order contracting, as prescribed, as an alternative procurement procedure for public works. The bill would restrict such a contract to a maximum initial contract term of 24 months. The bill would impose a maximum contract amount of $10,000,000 in the first term of the contract and authorize the DGS to issue up to 4 one-year extensions to each job order contract, up to an additional $5,000,000 per year. The bill would prohibit any single job order from exceeding $1,000,000, as prescribed. The bill would provide for the adjustment of these caps to reflect the percentage change in the annual California Construction Index, as prescribed. Existing law establishes requirements that apply when a public entity is required by statute or regulation to obtain an enforceable commitment that a bidder, contractor, or other entity will use a skilled and trained workforce, which requires, among other conditions, that all the workers performing work in an apprenticeable occupation, as defined, in the building and construction trades are either skilled journeypersons or registered apprentices. Existing law also authorizes a public entity to require that a bidder, contractor, or other entity use a skilled and trained workforce to complete a contract or project, regardless of whether the public entity is required to do so by a statute or regulation. This bill, with prescribed exceptions, would prohibit a contractor from being awarded a job order contract unless the contractor provides an enforceable commitment to the Director of General Services that the contractor and its subcontractors at every tier will use a skilled and trained workforce to perform all work for each job order that falls within an apprenticeable occupation in the building and construction trades, in accordance with existing law. Existing law, except as specified, requires that, for workers employed on public works, as defined, not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages, determined as provided by the Director of Industrial Relations, for work of a similar character in the locality in which the public work is performed be paid to those workers, as provided. This bill would require a job order contract to set forth in the general conditions of the job order contract the party or parties responsible for seeing that prevailing wage requirements are complied with. The bill would provide that, for purposes of job order contracting, prevailing wages when required to be paid apply to all work ordered under the job order contract regardless of thresholds set forth in existing law. The bill would require the job order contractor to pay the prevailing wage in effect at the time the job order is issued by the DGS and all increases as published by the Department of Industrial Relations for the term of the job order contract, as prescribed. Existing law governs state acquisition of goods and services and, except as specified, requires DGS approval for contracts entered into by any state agency for the acquisition of goods, services, the construction, alteration, improvement, repair, or maintenance of property, or the performance of work or services by the state agency for or in cooperation with any person or public body. Existing law requires the DGS to exempt from its approval contracts under $150,000 that any state agency awards if the state agency complies with certain requirements, including conducting an audit every 2 years of the contracting program and reporting to the DGS as it requires. Existing law also requires any state agency that enters into or expects to enter into more than one consulting services contract with the same individual, business firm, or corporation within a 12-month period for an aggregate amount of $12,500 or more to notify the DGS and have it approve each contract that exceeds that amount. This bill would revise the approval exemption provision for contracts under $150,000 to instead require a state agency to conduct the audit every 3 years of the contracting program. The bill would remove the notification and approval requirement for consulting services contracts that exceed $12,500. (8) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 26051.5 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by SB 1064 to be operative only if this bill and SB 1064 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. (9) This bill would, for the 2024–2025 fiscal year, appropriate the sum of $10,000 to the Department of Justice for purposes of administering the above-described fingerprint requirements. (10) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.
Existing law defines an electric bicycle and classifies electric bicycles into 3 classes with different restrictions. Under existing law, a "class 2 electric bicycle" is a bicycle equipped with a motor that may be used exclusively to propel the bicycle, and that is not capable of providing assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 20 miles per hour. Under existing law, a "class 3 electric bicycle" is a bicycle equipped with a speedometer and a motor that provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling, and that ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 28 miles per hour. Existing law prohibits a person under 16 years of age from operating a class 3 electric bicycle. Existing law requires a person operating, or riding upon, a class 3 electric bicycle to wear a helmet, as specified. This bill would establish the Marin Electric Bicycle Safety Pilot Program that would, until January 1, 2029, authorize a local authority within the County of Marin, or the County of Marin in unincorporated areas, to adopt an ordinance or resolution that would prohibit a person under 16 years of age from operating a class 2 electric bicycle or require a person operating a class 2 electric bicycle to wear a bicycle helmet, as specified. The bill would require an ordinance or resolution that is adopted for this purpose to make a violation punishable by warning notices for the first 60 days after the prohibition comes into effect. After the 60-day period, the bill would require a violation to be an infraction punishable by a fine of $25. The bill would prohibit a record of the action from being transmitted to the court and a fee from being imposed if the person who violates the ordinance or resolution delivers proof to the issuing agency within 120 days after the citation was issued that the person has completed specified requirements. The bill would, if an ordinance or resolution is adopted, require the county to, by January 1, 2028, submit a report to the Legislature that includes, among other things, the total number of traffic stops initiated for violations, the results of the traffic stops, and the actions taken by peace officers during the traffic stops, as specified. The bill would require the local authority or county to administer a public information campaign for at least 30 calendar days prior to the enactment of the ordinance or resolution, as specified.
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 items of appropriation and making other changes. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.
(1) Existing law provides that a provision of a memorandum of understanding reached between the state employer and a recognized employee organization representing state civil service employees that requires the expenditure of funds does not become effective unless approved by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act. Existing law requires the Department of Human Resources to provide a memorandum of understanding to the Legislative Analyst, who then has 10 calendar days from the date the tentative agreement is received to issue a fiscal analysis to the Legislature. Existing law prohibits the memorandum of understanding from being subject to legislative determination until either the Legislative Analyst has presented a fiscal analysis of the memorandum of understanding or until 10 calendar days have elapsed since the memorandum was received by the Legislative Analyst. This bill, notwithstanding the above-described statutory provisions, would approve provisions of agreements entered into by the state employer and State Bargaining Units 5, 8, and 10. The bill would provide that the provisions of the agreements that require the expenditure of funds will not take effect unless funds for these provisions are specifically appropriated by the Legislature. The bill would authorize the state employer or those specified bargaining units to reopen negotiations if funds for these provisions are not specifically appropriated by the Legislature. The bill would require the provisions of the agreements that require the expenditure of funds to become effective even if the provisions are approved by the Legislature in legislation other than the annual Budget Act. Existing law, for the 2024–25 fiscal year, continuously appropriates to the Controller from the General Fund unallocated special funds, including federal funds and unallocated nongovernmental cost funds, and any other fund from which state employees are compensated, the amount necessary for the payment of compensation and employee benefits to state employees covered by specified memoranda of understanding if the Budget Act of 2024 is not enacted by July 1, 2024. This bill would also include, within these continuous appropriation provisions, the amount necessary for the payment of compensation and employee benefits to state employees covered by the memoranda of understanding for State Bargaining Unit 5 (effective July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2027, inclusive) , State Bargaining Unit 8 (effective July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2026, inclusive) , and State Bargaining Unit 10 (effective July 1, 2024, to July 1, 2027, inclusive) . Existing law, for the 2025–26 fiscal year, continuously appropriates to the Controller from the General Fund unallocated special funds, including federal funds and unallocated nongovernmental cost funds, and any other fund from which state employees are compensated, the amount necessary for the payment of compensation and employee benefits to state employees covered by specified memoranda of understanding if the Budget Act of 2025 is not enacted by July 1, 2025. This bill would also include, within these continuous appropriation provisions, the amount necessary for the payment of compensation and employee benefits to state employees covered by the memoranda of understanding for State Bargaining Unit 5 (effective July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2027, inclusive) , State Bargaining Unit 8 (effective July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2026, inclusive) , and State Bargaining Unit 10 (effective July 1, 2024, to July 1, 2027, inclusive) . Existing law, for the 2026–27 fiscal year, continuously appropriates to the Controller from the General Fund unallocated special funds, including federal funds and unallocated nongovernmental cost funds, and any other fund from which state employees are compensated, the amount necessary for the payment of compensation and employee benefits to state employees covered by specified memoranda of understanding if the Budget Act of 2026 is not enacted by July 1, 2026. This bill also would include, within these continuous appropriation provisions, the amount necessary for the payment of compensation and employee benefits to state employees covered by the memoranda of understanding for State Bargaining Unit 5 (effective July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2027, inclusive) , State Bargaining Unit 8 (effective July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2026, inclusive) , and State Bargaining Unit 10 (effective July 1, 2024, to July 1, 2027, inclusive) . This bill, for the 2027–28 fiscal year, if the Budget Act of 2027 is not enacted by July 1, 2027, with respect to the memoranda of understanding for State Bargaining Unit 5 and State Bargaining Unit 10, as described above, would continuously appropriate to the Controller from the General Fund unallocated special funds in the amount necessary for the payment of compensation and employee benefits to state employees covered by those memoranda of understanding until the Budget Act of 2027 is enacted, subject to certain conditions. (2) The bill would appropriate the sum of $89,035,000 for State Bargaining Units 5, 8, and 10 and employees excluded from collective bargaining, in accordance with a specified schedule. (3) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.
(1) Existing law authorizes the Department of Parks and Recreation to enter into contracts with natural persons, corporations, partnerships, and associations for the construction, maintenance, and operation of concessions within units of the state park system. Existing law authorizes the awarding of a concession agreement at Will Rogers State Beach for up to 50 years in length without specific authorization by statute, as provided. This bill would require, notwithstanding any other law or any other agreement, in furtherance of specified concession agreements between the County of Los Angeles and a private entity at the state-owned Will Rogers State Beach, development or renovation of capital improvements, and related public access and recreation improvements, to be exempt from specified permits required by state law or municipal building and zoning codes or from approvals by municipal agencies and to be subject only to the approval by the County of Los Angeles and a coastal development permit or amendment to a coastal development permit from the California Coastal Commission. (2) Existing law, the California Tire Recycling Act, requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to administer a tire recycling program that promotes and develops alternatives to the landfill disposal of used whole tires. This bill would authorize the department to solicit and use expertise available in other state agencies and, if an existing state agency performs functions of a similar nature to the department's functions, to contract with, or cooperate with, that agency in carrying out the requirements of the California Tire Recycling Act. (3) Existing law prohibits a municipal utility district furnishing light, water, power, or heat from terminating residential service for nonpayment of a delinquent account unless the district gives notice of the delinquency and impending termination, as provided. Existing law requires the reviewing manager of a district to give a residential customer who has initiated a complaint or requested an investigation within 5 days of receiving a disputed bill, or made a request for extension of the payment period within 13 days of the mailing of the notice of delinquency and impending termination, an opportunity for review of the complaint, investigation, or request, including whether the customer is permitted to amortize the unpaid balance of the account over a reasonable period of time, not to exceed 12 months. This bill would instead specify that a reasonable period of time is generally 12 months, and authorize a district to grant a longer period of time if the district finds a longer period of time is necessary to avoid undue hardship to the customer based on the individual circumstances of the case. Existing law prohibits termination of the above residential utility services if a licensed physician and surgeon certifies that to do so would be life threatening to the customer and the customer is unable to pay for the service within the normal payment period and is willing to enter into an amortization agreement. Existing law requires a district to permit a customer that meets these requirements to amortize, over a period not to exceed 12 months, the unpaid balance of any bill asserted to be beyond the means of the customer to pay within the normal period for payment. This bill would delete the prohibition on the amortization period exceeding 12 months, instead specify that the normal period for payment is generally within 12 months, and authorize a district to grant a longer period if the district finds a longer period is necessary to avoid undue hardship to the customer based on the individual circumstances of the case. (4) Existing law allows an individual, until January 1, 2032, to designate on their personal income tax return that a specified amount in excess of their tax liability be contributed to the California Beach and Coastal Enhancement Account under a space on the tax return titled "Protect Our Coast and Oceans Voluntary Tax Contribution Fund." Existing law requires these moneys to be continuously appropriated and allocated to the Franchise Tax Board, the Controller, and the California Coastal Commission to support eligible programs awarded grants under the selection criteria established by the California Coastal Commission for the Whale Tail Grants Program. Existing law repeals these provisions on December 1, 2032, or on December 1 of the year that the minimum contribution amount of $250,000 is not met, as specified. This bill would reduce the minimum contribution amount to $200,000. (5) Existing law appropriates $553,900,000 from the General Fund, the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, and the Toxic Substances Control Account and allocates that appropriation over the 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24, 2024–25, and 2026–27 fiscal years, as prescribed, for specified purposes. Existing law specifies that the amount appropriated is available for encumbrance for 4 fiscal years after the fiscal year in which funds are released. Existing law requires a state agency, before expending moneys appropriated from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, to prepare a record, as provided. This bill would require that those moneys appropriated from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund be used for the purpose of facilitating the achievement of reductions of emissions of greenhouse gases in the state or to improve climate change adaptation and resiliency, or environmental quality and public health, of California communities, with an emphasis on disadvantaged or low-income households or communities. By expanding the purposes for which the moneys appropriated from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund may be used, the bill would make an appropriation. The bill would authorize the Department of Toxic Substances Control to comply with the requirement on the preparation of the record by describing how each proposed expenditure of those moneys appropriated from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund will improve climate adaptation and resiliency, or environmental quality and public health, of disadvantaged communities or low-income households or communities. The bill would authorize the State Air Resources Board, in consultation with the department, to develop methodologies and collect metrics or other information related to the description of the proposed expenditure provided by the department. (6) The Salton Sea Restoration Act establishes the Salton Sea Restoration Fund, which is administered by the Director of Fish and Wildlife, and requires that the moneys in the fund be expended, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for environmental and engineering studies related to the restoration of the Salton Sea and the protection of fish and wildlife dependent on the sea, conservation measures necessary to protect the fish and wildlife species dependent on the Salton Sea, and the preferred Salton Sea restoration alternative, including administrative, technical, and public outreach costs related to the development and selection of that alternative, as specified. This bill would appropriate the sum of $3,098,000 from the Salton Sea Restoration Fund to the Department of Fish and Wildlife for the 2024–25 fiscal year to support projects at the Salton Sea. (7) This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for Will Rogers State Beach. (8) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.
(1) The California Hospice Licensure Act of 1990 requires a person, political subdivision of the state, or other governmental agency to obtain a license from the State Department of Public Health to provide hospice services to an individual who is experiencing the last phase of life due to a terminal disease, as defined, and their family, except as provided. Existing law requires the department, by January 1, 2025, to adopt emergency regulations to implement the recommendations in a specified report of the California State Auditor. Existing law requires the department to maintain the general moratorium on new hospice agency licenses until the department adopts the regulations. Existing law requires the moratorium to end the date the emergency regulations are adopted. This bill would extend the deadline by which the department is required to adopt those regulations to January 1, 2026, and would require the moratorium to end January 1, 2027, or one year after the date the emergency regulations are adopted. (2) Existing law requires a disability insurance policy issued, amended, renewed, or delivered on or after January 1, 2024, to provide coverage for medically necessary treatment of mental health and substance use disorders and cover services identified in a fee-for-service reimbursement schedule published by the State Department of Health Care Services when those services are delivered at schoolsites, regardless of the network status of the local educational agency, institution of higher education, or health care provider. Existing law requires the Insurance Commissioner to issue guidance to disability insurers regarding compliance with these provisions. Existing law, as part of the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative, requires the State Department of Health Care Services to develop and maintain a school-linked statewide provider network of schoolsite behavior health counselors and requires a health care service plan, insurer, or Medi-Cal managed care plan that covers necessary schoolsite services, as specified, to comply with all administrative requirements to cover and reimburse the services set forth by the network administrator. This bill would require the commissioner to additionally issue guidance to disability insurers regarding compliance with provisions regarding administrative requirements to cover and reimburse services under the school-linked statewide behavioral health provider network. (3) Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing law provides that Medi-Cal funding be made available to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital, to serve the population of South Los Angeles, as specified. This bill would, for dates of service commencing no later than January 1, 2026, and subject to an appropriation by the Legislature, require the department to establish a Medi-Cal managed care directed payment reimbursement methodology in accordance with federal regulations. The bill would specify the minimum requirements for the reimbursement methodology. The bill would authorize the department to adjust or modify the directed payment reimbursement methodology to meet applicable federal requirements. The bill would specify, for any dates of service for which these provisions are implemented, that a Medi-Cal managed care plan is not required to make payments pursuant to existing specified provisions. The bill would authorize the department to implement these provisions by means of all-county letters, plan letters, or other similar instructions. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Los Angeles. (4) Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of certain health facilities, including general acute care hospitals, by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law requires health facilities to annually report certain information to the state, including the current inventory of beds and services. This bill, upon appropriation or availability of funds, would authorize the State Department of Public Health, in collaboration with the State Department of Health Care Services, to contract, or develop and administer, a capacity data solution, as specified. The bill would require specified entities, as defined, to submit data to the capacity data solution, which would both collect data and enable searches to identify available behavioral health beds. The bill would authorize the State Department of Health Care Services to impose a plan of correction or assess civil money penalties against an entity licensed or certified by the State Department of Health Care Services that fails to submit data accurately, timely, or as required by the State Department of Public Health. (5) Existing law authorizes a state hospital under the jurisdiction of the State Department of State Hospitals to develop a list of items that are deemed contraband and prohibited on hospital grounds and control and eliminate the contraband on hospital grounds. This bill would authorize the department to adopt emergency regulations related to the management, inspection, and disposition of contraband identified by the department pursuant to these provisions until June 30, 2026. (6) The bill would also reappropriate specified funds from the Budget Act of 2021 related to the CalHOPE Student Support Program. (7) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) grants to a consumer various rights with respect to personal information, as defined, that is collected by a business, as defined, including the right to request that a business delete personal information about the consumer that the business has collected from the consumer. The act establishes a variety of exceptions to the obligations imposed on a business under these provisions. The California Privacy Rights Act of 2020, approved by the voters as Proposition 24 at the November 3, 2020, statewide general election, amended, added to, and reenacted the CCPA. The Early Learning Personal Information Protection Act and the Student Online Personal Information Protection Act prohibit the operator of specified internet websites, online services, online applications, or mobile applications from knowingly engaging in targeted advertising to amass a profile about a preschool or prekindergarten pupil or K–12 student, selling a pupil's or student's information, or disclosing covered information, except as otherwise provided. Existing law defines "covered information" as personally identifiable information or materials, in any media or format that, among other things, is gathered by an operator through the operation of a site, service, or application and is descriptive of a pupil or student or otherwise identifies a pupil or student. This bill would instead refer to a K–12 student as a "pupil," and make conforming changes. Existing law requires an operator to take specified other actions relating to the protection of a pupil's or student's covered information, including implementing and maintaining reasonable security procedures and practices and deleting a pupil's or student's covered information if the school or district requests deletion of data under the control of the school or district. This bill would except from that deletion requirement, with respect to K-12 pupils, pupil records held by a national assessment provider, as defined, and that only include standardized test results. The bill would additionally require, except as prescribed, an operator to delete a preschool, prekindergarten, or K–12 pupil's covered information under the operator's control that is not subject to the CCPA if the pupil's parent or legal guardian, the pupil's education rights holder, or the pupil, as prescribed, requests an operator to delete the covered information under the operator's control if the pupil has been no longer enrolled in the local educational agency, preschool, prekindergarten, or district, as applicable, for at least 60 days and would require an operator to require documentation that the pupil is no longer enrolled. The bill would also specify that these provisions shall not be interpreted to limit or supersede any rights or requirements under specified federal law.
Existing law, the Veterans Housing and Homeless Prevention Act of 2014 (the act) , requires the California Housing Finance Agency, the Department of Housing and Community Development, and the Department of Veterans Affairs (referred to collectively as "the departments") to establish and implement programs that focus on veterans at risk for homelessness or experiencing temporary or chronic homelessness, as specified. In this regard, existing law requires the departments to establish and implement programs that, among other things, prioritize projects that combine housing and supportive services. Existing law requires the departments to ensure at least 50% of funds awarded for capital development provide housing to veteran households with extremely low incomes. Existing law requires a determination of whether a potential tenant is eligible under those provisions to consider all of a household's income sources upon initial tenancy, as specified. Existing law, for purposes of supportive housing units that are restricted to extremely low income veterans pursuant to a regulatory agreement with the committee, authorizes an entity tasked with making referrals of those units targeted to extremely low income households that is unable to place a qualified tenant in a qualified unit, as specified, to match prospective secondary tenants to qualified units. For purposes of the act, existing law defines a "secondary tenant" as (1) a veteran who is homeless, has an income of up to 50% of the median income, and is receiving income as a result of service-connected disability benefits or (2) a veteran who is homeless and has an income of up to 60% of the area median income, but would otherwise have an income below 50% of the area median income if not for their income as a result of their service-connected disability. For purposes of supportive housing for veterans funded by tax credits and private activity bonds, existing law defines a "secondary tenant" as a veteran who is homeless, who has an income of up to 60% of the area median income, and who is receiving income as a result of service-connected disability benefits. This bill would instead, for both purposes described above, define a "secondary tenant" to mean a veteran who is homeless and has an income of up to 60% of the area median income. The bill would prohibit a determination of whether a potential tenant is eligible for supportive, affordable, or transitional housing under the act from considering a potential tenant's service-connected disability benefits. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law permits the governing body of a city or district to request that the county render specified services to the city or district regarding the conduct of an election. This bill would prohibit a local government from enacting or enforcing any charter provision, ordinance, or regulation requiring a person to present identification for the purpose of voting or submitting a ballot at any polling place, vote center, or other location where ballots are cast or submitted, as specified. The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) grants a consumer various rights with respect to personal information that is collected or sold by a business, as defined, including the right to direct a business that sells or shares personal information about the consumer to third parties not to sell or share the consumer's personal information, as specified. The California Privacy Rights Act of 2020, approved by the voters as Proposition 24 at the November 3, 2020, statewide general election, amended, added to, and reenacted the CCPA. This bill would require a business to which another business transfers the personal information of a consumer as an asset that is part of a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, or other transaction in which the transferee assumes control of all or part of the transferor to comply with a consumer's opt out direction to the transferor. This bill would declare that its provisions further the purposes and intent of the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 1798.120 of the Civil Code proposed by AB 1949 to be operative only if this bill and AB 1949 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
(1) Existing law prohibits juvenile products, textile articles, and food packaging that contain specified levels of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from being distributed, sold, or offered for sale in the state, as provided. This bill would require the Department of Toxic Substances Control, on or before January 1, 2029, to adopt regulations for the enforcement of those prohibitions on the use of PFAS, and, on and after July 1, 2030, to enforce and ensure compliance with those provisions and regulations, as provided. The bill would require manufacturers of these products, on or before July 1, 2029, to register with the department, to pay a registration fee to the department, and to provide a statement of compliance certifying compliance with the applicable prohibitions on the use of PFAS to the department, as specified. The bill would authorize the department to test products and to rely on third-party testing to determine compliance with prohibitions on the use of PFAS, as specified. The bill would require the department to issue a notice of violation for a product in violation of the prohibitions on the use of PFAS, as provided. The bill would authorize the department to assess an administrative penalty for a violation of these prohibitions and would authorize the department to seek an injunction to restrain a person or entity from violating these prohibitions, as specified. The bill would require the department, on or before July 1, 2033, to submit a report to the Legislature regarding its compliance and enforcement activities performed pursuant to these provisions, as specified. The bill would require the department to deposit the registration fees and administrative penalties into the PFAS Enforcement Fund, which the bill would create in the State Treasury, to be used to implement these provisions, upon appropriation by the Legislature. (2) For purposes of restricting the use of PFAS, existing law defines "juvenile product" to mean a product designed for use by infants and children under 12 years of age, including, but not limited to, specified products. This bill would limit the definition of this term to the list of specified products.
