Existing law establishes the Clean Transportation Program, administered by the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, to provide funding, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to certain entities to develop and deploy innovative technologies that transform California's fuel and vehicle types to help attain the state's climate change policies. Existing law requires the commission to give preference to those projects that maximize the goals of the program based on specified criteria and to fund specified eligible projects, including, among others, alternative and renewable fuel infrastructure, fueling stations, and equipment. This bill would expand the list of eligible projects to include, among other things, roadway integrated fueling and parking surface integrated fueling projects.
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. Under the act, the state board is required to approve a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020 and to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by no later than December 31, 2030. The act authorizes the state board to include the use of market-based compliance mechanisms in regulating greenhouse gas emissions. The act requires the state board to prepare and approve a scoping plan for achieving the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and to update the scoping plan at least once every 5 years. This bill would require the state board to initiate a regulatory process to evaluate potential updates to the market-based compliance mechanism, and would require regulatory changes to take effect no later than January 1, 2025. The bill would require the evaluation to focus on specified items, including whether the supply of emission allowances and carbon offsets are consistent with a linear trajectory toward the statewide greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal established in the state board's most recent scoping plan, rules for banking allowances to use for future compliance, and recommendations made by the Independent Emissions Market Advisory Committee and the state board's environmental justice advisory committee. The bill would require the state board, beginning January 1, 2028, and subsequently on a triennial basis, as specified, and in consultation with the Independent Emissions Market Advisory Committee and the environmental justice advisory committee, to conduct an evaluation of the market-based compliance mechanism, as provided. The bill would require the chairperson of the state board to appear before the Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies to present the results of an evaluation and specified proposed revisions to the regulations implementing the market-based compliance mechanism. The bill would authorize, following the chairperson's appearance before the Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies, the state board to revise the regulations implementing the market-based compliance mechanism so that the mechanism can more effectively meet the goals of the act and objectives specified in the most recent scoping plan.
Existing law defines "residence" for voting purposes as a person's domicile. Existing law describes the domicile of a person for voting purposes as that place in which their habitation is fixed, wherein the person has the intention of remaining, and to which, whenever they are absent, the person has the intention of returning. Existing law provides that a person who leaves their home to go into another state or precinct in this state for temporary purposes, with the intention of returning, does not lose their domicile. Existing law also provides that a person does not gain a domicile in any precinct they go into for temporary purposes if the person does not intend to make that precinct their home. This bill would additionally provide that a person who leaves their home for temporary purposes because of a natural disaster, and who intends to return to the home or to another address within the same jurisdiction, does not lose the person's domicile at that home. The bill would authorize the person to provide a temporary address for mailing purposes without losing their domicile.
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities. Existing law requires the commission to publish and maintain specified documents on the internet, including each of the commission's adopted decisions and resolutions. Existing law requires the commission to publish each of the commission's adopted decisions and resolutions within 10 days of the adoption of each decision or resolution by the commission. This bill instead would require the commission to publish the commission's adopted decisions and resolutions within 5 days of the adoption of each decision or resolution.
Existing law, the Mobilehome Residency Law, prescribes various terms and conditions of tenancies in mobilehome parks. Existing law defines "tenancy" for these purposes as the right of a homeowner to use a site within a mobilehome park on which to locate, maintain, and occupy a mobilehome for human habitation, including the use of the services and facilities of the park. Existing law, prohibits, with certain exceptions, the management of a mobilehome park from increasing the gross rental rate for a tenancy in a qualified mobilehome park, as defined, more than 3% plus the percentage change in the cost of living, or 5%, whichever is lower, of the lowest gross rental rate charged for a tenancy at any time during the 12 months prior to the effective date of the increase, subject to specified conditions. Existing law defines "qualified mobilehome park" for these purposes as a mobilehome park that is located within and governed by the jurisdictions of 2 or more incorporated cities. This bill would enact the Mobilehome Affordability Act. The bill would prohibit the management of a mobilehome park from increasing the gross rental rate for a tenancy for a mobilehome space more than 3% plus the percentage change in the cost of living, as defined, over the course of any 12-month period, as specified. The bill would prohibit management from increasing the gross rental rate for a tenancy in more than 2 increments over a 12-month period, after the tenant maintains the tenancy over a 12-month period. The bill would prohibit management from imposing an increase in rent on a prospective purchaser or homeowner that purchases a mobilehome if the purchase qualifies as an in-place transfer, as specified. The bill would exempt specified mobilehome spaces from these provisions. This bill would specify that these provisions apply to rent increases for mobilehome spaces occurring on or after January 1, 2023. The bill would provide that in the event that management increased the rent by more than the amount specified above between January 1, 2023, and January 1, 2024, then the applicable rent on January 1, 2024, is the rent as of January 1, 2023, plus the maximum permissible increase, and that management is not liable to the homeowner for any corresponding rent overpayment. The bill would provide that its provisions shall not impair, alter, or change any rental term or obligation contained in a rental agreement in effect between management and a resident as of January 1, 2024, and which was entered into or became effective before January 1, 2023, except as described. The bill would void any waiver of the rights provided under these provisions. The bill would not apply to a mobilehome park when a local government has adopted an ordinance, rule, regulation, or initiative measure before January 1, 2024, that establishes a maximum amount that may be charged by management for rent or otherwise regulates the rental rate for a mobilehome tenancy in that mobilehome park. This bill would state that its provisions are severable.
Existing law, the Economic Revitalization Act, establishes the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development, also known as "GO-Biz," in state government within the Governor's office under the control of a director. Existing law requires GO-Biz to serve as the Governor's lead entity for economic strategy and the marketing of California on issues relating to business development, private sector investment, and economic growth. Existing law creates the Office of Small Business Advocate (the office) within GO-Biz to be led by the Small Business Advocate, who is appointed by, and serves at the pleasure of, the Governor. Existing law requires the Small Business Advocate to, among other things, counsel small businesses on how to resolve questions and problems concerning the relationship of small business to state government. Existing law requires the Small Business Advocate to prepare and submit a written annual report to the Governor and to the Legislature that describes the activities and recommendations of the office regarding small business development, as prescribed. This bill would enact the One-Stop Capital Shop Act that would require the office to serve as the lead state government entity for helping California small businesses become finance-ready relative to state programs utilizing certain federal funds. The bill would also require the office, on or before July 1, 2024, to launch the One-Stop Capital Shop online platform to assist small businesses in accessing safe funding opportunities and to reduce barriers in access to affordable capital. The bill would require the One-Stop Capital Shop platform to include certain elements, including a small business loan marketplace that allows small businesses and technical and financial assistance providers to access information on public and private loan products and credit enhancement opportunities. The bill would also require the office to include a summary of the activities it has undertaken pursuant to the bill in the report to the Legislature and the Governor described above.
Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to establish a uniform statewide system of annual reporting of emissions of criteria pollutants and toxic air contaminants for a stationary source, as defined. Existing law also classifies refrigerated trailers as mobile sources and requires that they be regulated by the state board on a statewide basis to prevent confusion concerning whether the trailers are stationary sources when not being driven and to prevent inconsistent regulation by districts of vehicles that are operated in more than one air pollution control and air quality management district. This bill would require a fixed-mount generator to be classified as a stationary source. The bill would require the state board to adopt regulations consistent with that requirement.
Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt basic instructional materials for use in kindergarten and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, for governing boards of school districts in specified subjects and any other subject, discipline, or interdisciplinary area for which the state board determines the adoption of instructional materials to be necessary or desirable, and requires the governing board of each school district maintaining one or more high schools to adopt instructional materials for use in the high schools under its control, consistent with specified conditions. Existing law requires the adopted course of study for grades 1 to 6, inclusive, and for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to offer instruction in specified areas of study, including social sciences. Existing law establishes the Instructional Quality Commission and requires the commission to, among other things, recommend curriculum frameworks to the state board. Existing law requires the state board, concurrently with, but not before, the next revision of textbooks or curriculum frameworks in the social sciences, health, and mathematics curricula, to ensure that these academic areas integrate components of, among other things, financial literacy. Notwithstanding that requirement on the state board, existing law requires the commission, when the history-social science curriculum framework is revised after January 1, 2017, to consider including age-appropriate information for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, regarding certain topics on financial literacy. This bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction, subject to an appropriation of one-time funds for this purpose in the annual Budget Act or another statute, to allocate funding for the purchase of standards-aligned instructional materials in financial literacy for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, and for professional development in that content, as provided. The bill would require the Superintendent to allocate these funds to school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and the state special schools on the basis of an equal amount per unit of average daily attendance, as those numbers were reported at the time of the first principal apportionment for the 2021–22 fiscal year. The bill would require a school district, county office of education, charter school, or state special school to expend allocated funds for professional development or instructional materials in financial literacy that is aligned to the history-social science curriculum framework adopted by the state board and the financial literacy subject matter recommended considered by the commission, as provided.
The Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the State Department of Social Services, establishes a system of child care and development services for children up to 13 years of age. Existing law also requires the department to ensure that eligible children with exceptional needs are given equal access to all child care and development programs and requires all child care and development programs to include plans or programs, or both, for the care of the children when they are sick. This bill would, upon appropriation, establish the Specialized Inclusivity Training for Child Care Staff Grant Program, to be administered by the department. The bill would require the department, in administering the program, to award grants to child care centers and family child care homes to fund staff training on including children with disabilities and to collect data from child care centers and family child care homes that receive grants to determine whether the training provides better access to childcare for children with disabilities. The bill would make a related finding and declaration.
Existing law makes it a misdemeanor for an employee or officer of a public health facility to engage in sexual activity with a consenting adult who is confined in a health facility. Existing law additionally makes it a misdemeanor for specified individuals, including an employee or officer of a public entity detention facility or an employee with a department, board, or authority under the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, to engage in sexual activity with a consenting adult by rubbing or touching the breasts or sexual organs of another, as specified. This bill would change the definition of sexual activity to also include the touching of the anus, groin, or buttocks. The bill would instead make it a misdemeanor or a felony, punishable in the county jail, for employees or officers of a public health facility or public entity detention facility and employees with a department, board, or authority under the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, to engage in sexual activity with a consenting adult, as specified. Existing law makes it punishable as either a misdemeanor or a felony for specified individuals, including an employee or officer of a public entity detention facility, to engage in sexual activity by engaging in sexual intercourse, sodomy, oral copulation, or sexual penetration, as defined, with a consenting adult who is confined in a detention facility. Existing law makes it punishable as either a misdemeanor or a felony for an employee with a department, board, or authority under the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, as specified, to engage in sexual activity by engaging in sexual intercourse, sodomy, oral copulation, or sexual penetration, as defined, with a consenting adult who is an inmate, ward, or parolee. This bill would additionally make it punishable as either a misdemeanor or a felony, punishable in a state prison, for employees or officers of a public health facility to engage in sexual activity with a consenting adult who is confined in a health facility by engaging in sexual intercourse, sodomy, oral copulation, or sexual penetration, as defined. By expanding the scope of crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law requires a person convicted of a felony violation of the above provisions who is employed by a department, board, or authority within the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to be terminated, as specified, and prohibits that person from being eligible to be hired or reinstated by the department. This bill would instead require that a person convicted of any violation of these provisions be terminated and prohibited from being reinstated by the department. The bill would also require that a person convicted of any violation of these provisions who is employed by a public entity detention facility or a public health facility be terminated and made ineligible to be hired or reinstated by any public entity detention facility, as specified. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Existing law establishes the Golden State Teacher Grant Program under the administration of the Student Aid Commission to award grants to students enrolled in professional preparation programs leading to a preliminary teaching credential or a pupil personnel services credential who commit to work at a priority school for 4 years, as provided. Existing law defines "priority school " as a school with 55% or more of its pupils being unduplicated pupils, as defined. Existing law makes funds appropriated for the program in the Budget Acts of 2020 and 2021 available for encumbrance or expenditure by the commission until June 30, 2026. This bill would instead require, commencing with new grants awarded on or after January 1, 2024, the student candidates to commit to work for 4 years in a shortage area, as designated by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, at any California public or nonpublic school, as provided. The bill would make funds appropriated for the Golden State Teacher Grant Program in the Budget Acts of 2022 and 2023 available for encumbrance or expenditure by the commission until June 30, 2028. Existing law requires the commission to conduct an evaluation of the program to determine the effectiveness of the program to recruit and employ credential candidates and credentialholders at priority schools, and to provide a report to the Legislature on or before December 31, 2025, and every 2 years thereafter, as provided. This bill would revise and conform requirements regarding the evaluation of the program, and would require the Student Aid Commission to annually collect demographic data on the recipients of the grant programs, commencing with new grants awarded on or after January 1, 2024, and to annually report that information to the Legislature, as provided.
Under existing law, the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training is responsible for developing and implementing programs to increase the effectiveness of law enforcement. The commission is required to adopt rules establishing minimum standards relating to physical, mental, and moral fitness governing the recruitment of specified peace officers. This bill would require the commission to perform specified duties, including, among other things, partnering with academic researchers to conduct an assessment of existing officer training requirements and determining how well the existing officer training requirements are working for officers in the field. The bill would require the commission to report its findings to the Legislature by January 1, 2026. This bill would require the commission to establish a permanent academic review board to, among other things, regularly review and update the commission's training standards and curriculum to ensure alignment with the latest scientific research. The existing California Public Records Act requires state and local agencies to make their records available for public inspection, unless an exemption from disclosure applies. This bill would require information that is collected in order to improve training and to encourage more rigorous analysis of officer training programs to be kept confidential but would allow the information to be made available to the commission or research institutions for analysis. Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.
