California Bills

Existing law, the Special Occupancy Parks Act, establishes requirements for the construction, maintenance, occupancy, use, and design of special occupancy parks. Existing law defines "special occupancy park" to mean a recreational vehicle park, temporary recreational vehicle park, incidental camping area, or tent camp. This bill would specify that, for purposes of that act, a special occupancy park does not include a low-impact camping area, as specified, that is located in a county that has enacted an ordinance, as specified, authorizing low-impact camping. The bill would define a "low-impact camping area" to mean any area of private property that provides for the transient occupancy rental of a temporary sleeping accommodation, as defined, for recreational purposes that is not a commercial lodging facility and meets specified requirements. The bill would require the county in which the low-impact camping area is located to enforce some of those requirements, relating to waste disposal and quiet hours, as specified. The bill would require that a county that has authorized low-impact camping to take specified actions, including, among others, to establish a registry of low-impact camping areas, as specified. The bill would require the provisions relating to low-impact camping areas to be in effect only until January 1, 2026, unless certain conditions are met. Existing law, the California Tourism Marketing Act, provides for the California Travel and Tourism Commission, a nonprofit mutual benefit corporation, and authorizes the commission to require businesses to pay an assessment for the purpose of increasing the number of persons traveling to and within California. The act authorizes the commission by written contract to accept a voluntary assessment from any person in a travel- and tourism-related business who is not an assessed business. Existing law also authorizes an assessed business to pass on some or all of the assessment to customers. Existing law exempts a business from assessments under the act if certain conditions apply, including if the business is a small business, which is defined to mean a business location with less than $1,000,000 in total California gross annual revenue from all sources, as specified. This bill would modify the definition of small business to mean a business with less than one million dollars ($1,000,000) in total California gross annual revenue from all sources, as specified. The bill would require the Director of the Office of Tourism to seek to enter into voluntary agreements with online hosting platforms, as defined, to impose, collect, and remit a tourism assessment equal to at least 2% of the total cost of each booking for low-impact camping areas, as specified. The bill would require the Director of the Office of Tourism to provide certain related information to the Director of Finance. The bill would establish the Rural Tourism Marketing Fund, which would be continuously appropriated, and would require that the revenues deposited in the fund consist only of assessments received by the Office of Tourism as described above. By establishing a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

This bill is a House Resolution that formally celebrates the 90th anniversary of the East Bay Regional Park District. It recognizes the district's nine decades of providing public parks, trails, and conservation services to residents in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. The resolution expresses gratitude for the district's history and encourages local communities to participate in upcoming anniversary events. It does not change any laws or policies but serves as an official commendation from the California Assembly.

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.

(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.

(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 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 requires 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 2024–25 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.

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) 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.

(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.

Existing law describes the California Interscholastic Federation as a voluntary organization that consists of school and school-related personnel with responsibility for administering interscholastic athletic activities in secondary schools, and sets forth the Legislature's intent regarding the California Interscholastic Federation's implementation of certain policies. This bill would require the California Interscholastic Federation and its sections, whenever a sanction is imposed on a member school or on an interscholastic team of a member school, to post on its respective internet website the name of the member school, the interscholastic team that has been sanctioned, if any, the violation that has occasioned the sanction, and a description of the sanction being imposed.

Existing law imposes various limitations on emissions of air contaminants for the control of air pollution from vehicular and nonvehicular sources. Existing law requires a business entity that is marketing or selling voluntary carbon offsets within the state to disclose on the business entity's internet website specified information about the applicable carbon offset project, including, among other things, the durability period for any project that the seller knows or should know that the durability of the project's greenhouse gas reductions or greenhouse gas removal enhancements is less than the atmospheric lifetime of carbon dioxide emissions. Existing law defines "durability" for purposes of these provisions. Existing law defines a "voluntary carbon offset" to mean any product sold or marketed in the state that makes specified claims. Existing law also requires an entity that makes claims regarding the achievement of net zero emissions, claims regarding carbon neutrality, or other claims implying the entity, related or affiliated entity, or a product does not add net carbon dioxide or greenhouse gases to the climate or has made significant reductions to its carbon dioxide or greenhouse gas emissions, as described, to disclose on the entity's internet website specified information pertaining to all greenhouse gas emissions associated with its claims. Existing law requires these disclosures to be updated no less than annually. Existing law makes a person who violates these provisions subject to a civil penalty of not more than $2,500 per day, as specified, for each violation, not to exceed a total amount of $500,000, as provided. This bill would revise the definition of a "voluntary carbon offset" to mean a tradable instrument, rather than a product. The bill would delete the definition of "durability" and the requirement to disclose the durability period, as described above, and would instead require the disclosure of the period over which carbon storage is required by law or contract to be monitored for reversals and to have any reversals reported, verified, and compensated, as provided. The bill would define "reversals" for purposes of the bill. The bill would expand, revise, and clarify the information that a business entity is required to disclose. The bill would authorize a business entity that markets and resells a voluntary carbon offset within the state that it has not generated to satisfy the disclosure requirements by publishing on the business entity's internet website sufficient information to direct the buyer to the disclosure made by the business entity who generated the voluntary carbon offset, by furnishing that information directly to the buyer by the time of settlement when marketing or reselling voluntary carbon offsets directly to "eligible contract participants," as defined, or by publishing on the internet website sufficient information to direct the buyer to each applicable project-specific disclosure published on a registry, as provided. The bill would also require disclosures made pursuant to these laws to be initially posted on July 1, 2025, and updated annually.

Existing law, the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act, establishes procedures for the reporting and investigation of suspected child abuse or neglect. The act requires certain professionals, including specified health practitioners and social workers, known as "mandated reporters," to report known or reasonably suspected child abuse or neglect to a local law enforcement agency or a county welfare or probation department, as specified. Failure by a mandated reporter to report an incident of known or reasonably suspected child abuse or neglect is a misdemeanor. Existing law defines "neglect" for these purposes as the negligent treatment or the maltreatment of a child by a person responsible for the child's welfare under circumstances indicating harm or threatened harm to the child's welfare. Existing law defines "general neglect" as the negligent failure of a person having the care or custody of a child to provide adequate food, clothing, shelter, medical care, or supervision where no physical injury to the child has occurred. This bill, with specified exceptions, would authorize a mandated reporter who knows or reasonably suspects that a child has been the victim of general neglect to make a report to one or more community-based agencies or service providers that will provide the parent, guardian, or Indian custodian of the child with services and supports the reporter reasonably believes will ameliorate the conditions impacting that individual's ability to provide adequate food, shelter, medical care, or supervision to the child. The bill would authorize the mandated reporter to make this report in addition to, or in lieu of, reporting to one of the entities specified under existing law. A mandated reporter would not be subject to a misdemeanor for making a report authorized by the bill.