Existing law regulates advertising that indicates the price of motor vehicle fuel, including electricity sold as a motor vehicle fuel. Existing law requires a county sealer to enforce the advertising requirements. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions a crime. Existing law defines "correct," for purposes of testing and verifying the accuracy of a weighing or measuring device, as a weight or measure or a weighing, measuring, or counting instrument that meets certain tolerance and specification requirements. This bill would, beginning January 1, 2026, authorize a county sealer to test and verify as correct any electric vehicle charger operated by a public agency, as defined, that is located in the county in which the sealer has jurisdiction. The bill would require a county sealer, upon testing and finding that an electric vehicle charger operated by a public agency is incorrect, as defined, to cause it to be marked with the words "out of order" and require the charger to be repaired or corrected, as specified. The bill would authorize a county board of supervisors to charge an annual registration fee for the cost of inspecting and testing an electric vehicle charger operated by a public agency, as specified. The bill would authorize a county sealer to levy a civil penalty against a public agency, or a vendor or entity contracted by the public agency to provide and maintain electric vehicle charger services on behalf of the public agency, that removes or obliterates a tag or device placed on an electric vehicle charger operated by a public agency, as specified. The bill would exempt an electric vehicle charger from testing and verification by a county sealer if it is owned by a local publicly owned electric utility, as defined, and if certain requirements are met. By expanding the scope of a crime, and to the extent it would impose additional duties on a county sealer, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, the California State University, the University of California, independent institutions of higher education, and private postsecondary educational institutions as the segments of postsecondary education in the state. Existing law, known as the Student Athlete Bill of Rights, requires intercollegiate athletic programs at 4-year private universities or campuses of the University of California or the California State University that do not compete in Division III of the National Collegiate Athletic Association to comply with prescribed requirements relating to student athlete rights. This bill would require a postsecondary educational institution, during the process to authorize a volunteer in the athletic department of the postsecondary educational institution, to contact the current or former employer of the individual applying for volunteer authorization to determine if the applicant violated any employment policies. To the extent these provisions would add additional duties on community college districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law requests the Regents of the University of California, and requires the Trustees of the California State University and the governing boards of community college districts, to require, as part of the hiring process for an appointment to an academic or administrative position, that the applicant disclose any final administrative decision, as defined, or final judicial decision, as defined, issued within the last 7 years, as provided, determining that the applicant committed sexual harassment, as defined. Existing law requests the University of California to not ask, and prohibits the California State University or a community college district from asking, an applicant to disclose, orally or in writing, information concerning any final administrative decision or final judicial decision described above until it has determined that the applicant meets the minimum employment qualifications stated in the notice issued for the position. This bill would additionally request the governing boards or bodies of independent institutions of higher education that receive state financial assistance to adhere to the above-described provisions and would extend those provisions to athletic position appointments. The bill would request the governing boards or bodies of independent institutions of higher education that receive state financial assistance, and would require the Trustees of the California State University and the governing boards of community college districts, as part of the hiring process for an appointment to an academic, athletic, or administrative position, to have an applicant, as defined, sign a release form that authorizes, in the event the applicant reaches the final stages of the application process, the release of information by the applicant's previous employers concerning any substantiated allegations of misconduct, and would require the signed release form to be used by the postsecondary educational institution to engage in a reasonable attempt to obtain that information. To the extent that these provisions would add additional duties on community college districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would request the Regents of the University of California to (1) as part of the above-described hiring process for an academic or administrative position, require that the applicant disclose specified information determining that the applicant committed misconduct, as defined, including sexual harassment, (2) extend those applicant provisions to an applicant applying for an athletic position, (3) require applicants for specified positions to sign, as part of the hiring process, a release form that authorizes, in the event the applicant reaches the final stages of the application process, the release of information by the applicant's previous employers concerning any substantiated allegations of misconduct, and (4) require its campuses to use the signed release form to engage in a reasonable attempt to obtain that information. 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, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Existing law, the Kern County Hospital Authority Act, establishes the Kern County Hospital Authority, which maintains and operates the Kern Medical Center and is governed by a board of governors that is appointed, both initially and continually, by the board of supervisors. Existing law requires the authority to provide management, administration, and other controls as needed to operate the medical center, and maintain its status as a designated public hospital. Existing law requires the authority to maintain financial and accounting records. Existing law, the California Public Records Act, requires state and local agencies to make their records available for public inspection, unless an exemption from disclosure applies. Existing law requires the authority to comply with the act, except as specified. This bill would subject the Kern Medical Center Foundation to the California Public Records Act in the same manner as the authority. The bill would require the authority and the Kern Medical Center Foundation to maintain accounting records and to report accounting transactions in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, as specified. The bill would require the authority, at least once every 12 months, to engage the services of a qualified accountant of accepted reputation to conduct a financial audit of the accounts and records of both the authority and the Kern Medical Center Foundation, as specified, to prepare a report of the audit, and to make copies of the reports available to the public on the authority's internet website. By creating new duties for the authority, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Kern and Kern Medical Center Foundation.
Existing law requires a public or private school that serves pupils in any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, and that issues pupil identification cards to have printed on the identification cards the telephone number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, among other telephone numbers, and authorizes those schools to have printed on the identification cards certain other suicide-prevention and emergency-response numbers, as provided. This bill, commencing July 1, 2025, would instead require a public or private school that serves pupils in any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, and that issues pupil identification cards to have printed on the identification cards the number for the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. The bill would require schools subject to this requirement that, as of July 1, 2025, have a supply of unissued identification cards that are noncompliant with this requirement to issue the noncompliant identification cards until that supply is depleted. The bill, commencing July 1, 2025, also would expressly authorize those schools to additionally have printed on either side of the identification card a quick response (QR) code that links to the mental health resources internet website of the county in which the school is located.
Existing provisions of the California Constitution provide that the University of California constitutes a public trust and requires the university to be administered by the Regents of the University of California, a corporation in the form of a board, with full powers of organization and government, subject to legislative control only for specified purposes, including such competitive bidding procedures as may be applicable to the university by statute for the letting of construction contracts, sales of real property, and purchasing of materials, goods, and services. Existing law requires the regents to give prescribed public notice to bidders of the sale of university real property situated in California that is estimated at more than $1,000,000 in net value to the university. Existing law requires the regents to accept in public a bid for the sale that offers the best combination of price, terms, and bidder's qualifications to the university, or reject all bids or proposals. Existing law exempts certain transactions from these publication and award procedures. This bill would additionally exempt from certain publication and award procedures the transfer of specified real property in the City of Berkeley from the regents to the Berkeley Student Cooperative for the purpose of maintaining affordable housing. This bill would require the regents to reserve a right of reverter for the University of California that may be subordinated at the discretion of the regents and would be subject to existing liens and obligations of the property, in the event the property ceases to be used for affordable housing by the Berkeley Student Cooperative and its successors or assigns. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the transfer of that real property.
Existing law regulates common carriers of persons and requires a common carrier of persons to provide a sufficient number of vehicles to accommodate all the passengers who can be reasonably expected to require carriage at any one time, except as specified. This bill, the Carrier of Passengers Act of 2024, would require carriers of passengers, as defined to include certain motor carriers, passenger carriers, and charter-party carriers of passengers engaging in transportation services, to provide electronic notice, at least 24 hours before embarkation, as defined, to a designated point of contact of the local governing body of the city, county, or city and county with jurisdiction at the geographic location of disembarkation, as defined. The bill would require this electronic notice to include, among other things, the anticipated date and time of arrival of passengers at the geographic location of disembarkation, as specified, and the number of passengers on the motor vehicle operated by the carrier who the carrier of passenger knows or reasonably should know arrived in the United States within 30 days of embarkation that are likely to seek emergency shelter and other immediate services upon disembarkation. The bill would prohibit a governing body from sharing, disclosing, or otherwise make accessible to any immigrant authority, as defined, information shared or received, as specified. By imposing additional duties on local governing bodies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill, among other things, would impose a civil penalty of up to $10,000 for each act, committed by carriers of passengers, of transporting one or more passengers in violation of the bill's provisions. The bill would make its provisions severable. 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 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, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and each city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for its physical development, and the development of specified land outside its boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. Existing law, the Permit Streamlining Act, among other things, requires a public agency that is the lead agency for a development project to approve or disapprove that project within specified time periods. Existing law extended by 18 months the period for the expiration, effectuation, or utilization of a housing entitlement, as defined, that was issued before, and was in effect on, March 4, 2020, and that would expire before December 31, 2021, except as specified. Existing law provides that if the state or a local agency extended the otherwise applicable time for the expiration, effectuation, or utilization of a housing entitlement for not less than 18 months, as specified, that housing entitlement would not be extended an additional 18 months pursuant to these provisions. This bill would extend by 18 months the period for the expiration, effectuation, or utilization of a housing entitlement, as defined, that was issued before January 1, 2024, and that will expire before December 31, 2025, except as specified. The bill would toll this 18-month extension during any time that the housing entitlement is the subject of a legal challenge. By adding to the duties of local officials with respect to housing entitlements, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. 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 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 creates the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) , governed by a 14-member board, with specified powers and duties relative to transportation planning, programming, and operations in the County of Los Angeles. Existing law prescribes a code of conduct for the board of MTA, which includes, among other things, rules pertaining to gifts and financial conflicts of interest. As part of the provisions establishing this code of conduct, existing law requires the board of MTA to appoint an ethics officer who reports to the board. Existing law also requires MTA to appoint an inspector general and requires the code of conduct to be enforced by the inspector general. This bill would revise and recast the code of conduct by, among other things, specifying that board members are subject to all ethics laws applicable to other public officials and by eliminating specific rules from the code of conduct including, among others, certain rules pertaining to gifts and financial conflicts of interest. The bill would also provide that the code of conduct is in addition to any rules or codes adopted by the board. The bill would require the ethics officer, in addition to reporting to the board, to operate in an independent manner, and would prohibit the ethics officer from being removed from office except under certain circumstances. The bill would require the ethics officer to provide advice to the board and MTA relating to codes of conduct, lobbying, governmental ethics, campaign finance, fair procurement practices, and conflicts of interest. The bill would also authorize the ethics officer to make recommendations regarding a potential violation to the inspector general. By imposing additional duties on the ethics officer, the bill would create a state-mandated local program. Existing law requires MTA to adopt and implement an ordinance for the regulation of lobbying. Existing law requires this ordinance to require lobbyists, lobbying firms, and lobbyist employers to submit an annual registration statement containing specified information and to submit quarterly reports containing specified information about their lobbying activities. Existing law also requires the ordinance to include specified prohibitions. Under existing law, a violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor and subject to a specified civil penalty, as specified. This bill would revise and recast these provisions by, among other things, authorizing the ethics officer to issue guidance and advice to implement these statutory requirements and by revising the required contents of the annual registration statements and quarterly reports. The bill would authorize the ethics officer to prescribe additional information to be included in the registration statements and quarterly reports, to conduct audits of those statements or reports, and to impose a late fee in a certain amount for a late filing of one of those statements or reports. The bill would subject lobbyist employers to various prohibitions applicable to lobbyists and lobbying firms. By expanding the scope of a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law requires the authority to adopt an ordinance regulating the making of gifts to board members and employees of MTA. This bill would repeal this provision and would instead require any gifts to board members and employees of MTA to be governed by applicable state law and MTA's administrative code. Existing law prohibits any construction company, engineering firm, consultant, legal firm, or any company, vendor, or business entity seeking a contract with MTA from giving to a board member or employee of MTA, or to any member of their immediate families, a contribution of over $10 in value or amount, and imposes other related prohibitions with regard to contributions involving those entities. This bill would repeal those prohibitions. Existing law prohibits a board member or employee of MTA who has participated as a decisionmaker in the preparation, evaluation, award, or implementation of a contract and who leaves the authority from accepting, within 3 years of leaving the authority, employment with any company, vendor, or business entity that was awarded a contract as a result of their participation, evaluation, award, or implementation of that contract. This bill would repeal that provision and would instead prohibit a former board member or employee of MTA from accepting compensation from an MTA contractor as an employee, officer, director, or consultant of the contractor within 12 months after the former board member or employee served in certain capacities relating to an award of a contract to that contractor, as provided. The bill would authorize the inspector general to enforce this prohibition. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires the legislative body of a city or county to adopt a comprehensive general plan that includes various elements, including land use, housing, and conservation elements, as specified. Existing law requires the conservation element to consider the effect of development within the jurisdiction on natural resources located on public lands. This bill would additionally require the conservation element to consider the effect of development within the jurisdiction on the movement of wildlife and habitat connectivity. The bill would require the conservation element, upon the next update of one or more elements on or after January 1, 2028, to, among other things, identify and analyze connectivity areas, permeability, and natural landscape areas within the jurisdiction, identify and analyze existing or planned wildlife passage features, and consider the impacts of development and the barriers caused by development to wildlife, as defined, and habitat connectivity. The bill would authorize a city, county, or city and county to incorporate by reference into its general plan an existing plan, including a certified local coastal plan, that meets these requirements. The bill would authorize a city, county, or city and county preparing to update its conservation element to consider incorporating appropriate standards, policies, and feasible implementation programs, consult with specified entities, and consider relevant best available science and the most appropriately scaled scientific information on linkages, corridors, and other locations that are essential to maintain landscape connectivity. The bill would authorize a city, county, or city and county to consult with other appropriate entities and meet the above-described requirements in a separate component or section of the general plan entitled a wildlife connectivity element. The bill would include related legislative findings and declarations. By adding to the duties of county and city officials in the administration of their land use planning duties, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Existing law establishes the California Racial Mascots Act, which prohibits public schools from using the term Redskins as a school or athletic team name, mascot, or nickname. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish and implement a system of complaint processing, known as the Uniform Complaint Procedures, for specified educational programs. This bill would exempt public schools operated by an Indian tribe or a tribal organization from this prohibition. The bill would prohibit, beginning July 1, 2026, public schools, except for public schools operated by an Indian tribe or tribal organization, from using any derogatory Native American term, as defined, as a school or athletic team name, mascot, or nickname, except as provided. The bill would require the Uniform Complaint Procedures to apply to school or athletic team names, mascots, or nicknames pursuant to the bill. To the extent that the bill would impose new duties on public schools, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Existing law prohibits persons desiring to use an electric vehicle charging station that requires payment of a fee from being required to pay a subscription fee to use the station and from being required to obtain membership in any club, association, or organization as a condition of using the station. Existing law requires the total actual charges for the use of an electric vehicle charging station, including any additional network roaming charges for nonmembers, to be disclosed to the public at the point of sale. Existing law authorizes the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to adopt interoperability billing standards for network roaming payment methods for electric vehicle charging stations if no interoperability billing standards have been adopted by a national standards organization by January 1, 2015. This bill would require the commission to apply any network roaming standards it adopts only to major electric vehicle charging network providers, as defined. The bill would require that those network roaming standards require major electric vehicle charging network providers to accept payment for charging made by users from multiple other major electric vehicle charging network providers and automakers.
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. The Public Utilities Act prohibits any electrical corporation from beginning the construction of a line, plant, or system, or of any extension thereof, without having first obtained from the commission a certificate that the present or future public convenience and necessity require or will require its construction, except that the extension, expansion, upgrade, or other modification of an existing electrical transmission facility, including transmission lines and substations, does not require a certificate of public convenience and necessity. Existing law requires the commission, in considering an application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity for an electric transmission facility, to consider cost‑effective alternatives to transmission facilities that meet the need for an efficient, reliable, and affordable supply of electricity, including demand-side alternatives such as targeted energy efficiency, ultraclean distributed generation, as defined, and other demand reduction resources. This bill would repeal the latter provision requiring the commission to consider cost-effective alternatives to transmission facilities, as specified.
