Existing law regulates the wages, hours, and working conditions of any worker employed in any occupation, trade, or industry, whether compensation is measured by time, piece, or otherwise, except as specified. This bill would authorize an employee working from home or a remote location not at the physical location of the employer to receive legally required notices and postings electronically and sign or acknowledge certain documents electronically. The bill would also authorize an employee who works from home or a remote location to have any wages due at the time of separation of employment mailed to the employee using the address the employer has on file for the employee for sending notices. The bill would require the wages to be deemed paid on the date of mailing.
Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each city, county, and city and county to prepare and adopt a general plan that contains certain mandatory elements, including a housing element. Existing law requires the planning agency of a city or county to provide an annual report that includes specified information by April 1 of each year to specified entities, including the Department of Housing and Community Development. Among other things, existing law requires that this report include the progress in meeting the city's or county's share of regional housing needs and local efforts to remove governmental constraints to the maintenance, improvement, and development of housing, as specified. This bill would additionally require that the annual report include the total number of housing units that received a certificate of occupancy in the prior year. The bill would require this information to also specify the total number of housing units constructed that were approved pursuant to a specified streamlined, ministerial approval process and the total number of accessory dwelling units constructed that were approved by the city or county, as specified. By adding to the reporting requirements imposed on cities and counties, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to submit an annual report to the Governor and both houses of the Legislature on the operations and accomplishments during the previous fiscal year of the housing programs administered by the department. Existing law requires that the report include, among other things, the number of units assisted by those programs and the number of individuals and households served and their income level. This bill would require the department, by March 1 of each year, to develop an annual summary report that discloses the amount of state, federal, and private funding spent on the development of affordable housing within the state, each city, and each county in the preceding calendar year. The bill would require the department to post the annual summary report on its internet website and make the report available to the public by March 15 of each year.
Existing law, the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) , an initiative measure enacted by the voters as Proposition 63 at the November 2, 2004, statewide general election, establishes the continuously appropriated Mental Health Services Fund (MHSF) to fund various county mental health programs and requires counties to spend those funds as specified. Existing law requires funds allocated to a county that have not been spent for their authorized purpose within 3 years, and the interest accruing on those funds, to revert to the state, except for specified purposes, including capital facilities and technological needs, which revert after 10 years. Under existing law, reverted funds are reallocated to the counties, as specified. As part of the MHSA, existing law requires counties to engage in specified planning activities, including creating and updating a 3-year program and expenditure plan through a stakeholder process. Existing law authorizes the MHSA to be amended by a 23 vote of the Legislature if the amendments are consistent with, and further the purposes of, the MHSA. This bill would amend the MHSA by requiring reverted funds to be used in the county from which the funds reverted, except as specified. The bill would also amend the MHSA by requiring a county that has had funds reverted to work with the local educational agencies (LEAs) , community-based mental health agencies, and other specified stakeholders within that county to create a plan for the use of the reverted funds for school-based mental health services, as specified. The bill would prohibit the reverted funds from being used to pay for educationally related mental health services. By authorizing a new purpose for continuously appropriated funds, this bill would make an appropriation. The bill would require reversion funds not used for the plan to be deposited in the Mental Health Services Fund and redistributed as provided. The bill would make funds used for school mental health purposes subject to reversion after 10 years. This bill would state the finding and declaration of the Legislature that this change is consistent with, and furthers the intent of, the MHSA.
Existing law establishes the University of California, the California State University, the California Community Colleges, and independent institutions of higher education as segments of higher education in this state. The California Educational Facilities Authority Act establishes the California Educational Facilities Authority to, among other things, (1) provide private institutions of higher education within the state with an additional means by which to expand, enlarge, and establish dormitory, academic, and related facilities, finance those facilities, and refinance existing facilities; and (2) enter into agreements with nonprofit entities, as defined, to develop student, faculty, and staff housing on or near the campuses of the University of California, the Hastings College of the Law, the California State University, the California Community Colleges, or a participating private college, as specified. The act authorizes the authority to fund, as specified, and to construct, acquire, or otherwise provide for, projects for these purposes. The act defines "project" for a participating private college to mean a dormitory, an educational facility, or faculty or staff housing, and defines "project" for a participating nonprofit entity to mean the construction or acquisition of student housing or faculty and staff housing. The act requires, among other things, that a project involving a participating nonprofit entity include and maintain for 40 years a restriction to the grant deed on the real property on which the student or faculty or staff housing is to be located, with specified rights for the participating institution and its students, faculty, or staff. This bill would specify that the above-referenced requirement for a grant deed restriction does not apply to a project for student, faculty, or staff housing located on property within the boundary of a campus or on property located outside the campus boundary and owned by the applicable institution.
Existing sales and use tax laws impose taxes on retailers measured by gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state, or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state, measured by sales price. The Sales and Use Tax Law provides various exemptions from these taxes. This bill would, on and after January 1, 2023, and before January 1, 2028, exempt from those taxes the gross receipts from the sale in this state of, and the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of, a qualified drayage truck. The bill would define "qualified drayage truck" to mean a new or used drayage truck that meets the criteria of certain emission reduction programs. The Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law authorizes counties and cities to impose local sales and use taxes in conformity with the Sales and Use Tax Law, and existing laws authorize districts, as specified, to impose transactions and use taxes in accordance with the Transactions and Use Tax Law, which generally conforms to the Sales and Use Tax Law. Amendments to the Sales and Use Tax Law are automatically incorporated into the local tax laws. This bill would specify that this exemption does not apply to local sales and use taxes or transactions and use taxes. Existing law requires that any bill introduced on or after January 1, 2020, that would authorize certain tax expenditures, as defined, or tax exemptions contain, among other things, specific goals, purposes, and objectives that the tax expenditure or exemption will achieve, detailed performance indicators, and data collection requirements. This bill would include additional information required for any bill authorizing a new tax expenditure. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy, but its operative date would depend on its effective date.
Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a city or a county to propose the establishment of an enhanced infrastructure financing district, in accordance with specified procedures, to finance public capital facilities or other specified projects of communitywide significance, including, but not limited to, the acquisition, construction, or rehabilitation of housing for persons of low and moderate income for rent or purchase. This bill would establish the Transit-Oriented Affordable Housing Funding Program, to be administered by the Treasurer's office. The bill would authorize the city council of a city, or the board of supervisors of a city and county, to participate in the program by enactment of an ordinance establishing a transit-oriented affordable housing district, as provided. The bill would require that the city council or board of supervisors serve as the governing board of the district and, in that capacity, prepare and adopt a transit-oriented affordable housing financing plan. The bill would authorize a district to designate program areas. The bill would authorize the district to provide program funding to multifamily housing developments, as defined, within those program areas that meet specified requirements, including that the housing include a minimum percentage of units that are restricted to very lower, low, or moderate income households, and that the development receives to preliminary approval from the office, as provided. The bill would require that program funding be used for the acquisition, construction, or rehabilitation of housing for very low income households and persons and families of low or moderate income. The bill would authorize the transit-oriented affordable housing financing plan to include a provision for the division of taxes with respect to those properties selected for participation. The bill would establish an unspecified maximum amount of program funding, and an unspecified maximum term for the division of taxes, for multifamily housing developments based on the percentage of very low, lower, or moderate income units included. The bill would authorize a transit-oriented affordable housing district to enter into a contract with the Treasurer's office that includes specified provisions, including a provision requiring the district to remit the entirety of the amount allocated to it by a division of taxes to the office and a provision requiring that the office deposit the remitted amount into the Transit-Oriented Affordable Housing Trust Fund (trust fund) , which this bill would create and continuously appropriate to the office. The bill would require the office to issue revenue bonds, in accordance with specified procedures, secured by moneys in the trust fund and allocate the proceeds of those bonds to districts with which it has a contract in proportion to the amount remitted by each district. The bill would specify that moneys in the trust fund are nonstate moneys and are instead the property of, and held in trust on behalf of, the districts that contract with the office under these provisions. The bill would require that a district use the proceeds of revenue bonds allocated to it pursuant to these provisions for those purposes to provide program funding to participating multifamily housing developments. The bill would make various conforming changes to other laws relating to state moneys and the division of taxes by local agencies. By adding to the duties of county auditors with respect to the allocation of property tax revenues, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
The Personal Income Tax Law allows various credits against the taxes imposed by that law. Existing law requires any bill authorizing a new tax expenditure to contain, among other things, specific goals, purposes, and objectives that the tax expenditure will achieve, detailed performance indicators, and data collection requirements. This bill would allow a credit against those taxes for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2022, and before January 1, 2027, in an amount equal to the amount paid or incurred by a qualified teacher during the taxable year for instructional materials and classroom supplies, as defined, not to exceed $200. The bill would define "qualified teacher" to mean a teacher in a public, charter, or private school offering instruction in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive. The bill would require the Franchise Tax Board to submit a report to the Legislature on the amount of credits used by qualified teachers and would provide findings and declarations relating to the goals of this credit. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care, and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a health care service plan or health insurer to provide access to medically necessary health care services to its enrollees or insureds who have been displaced by a state of emergency. Existing law enumerates actions that a plan or insurer may be required to take to meet the needs of its enrollees or insureds during the state of emergency. Under existing law, the department may relax time limits for prior authorization during a state of emergency. Existing law requires a health care service plan or a health insurer to reimburse each complete claim, as specified, as soon as practical, but no later than 30 working days, or for a health maintenance organization, 45 working days, after receipt of the complete claim. Under existing law, within 30 working days, or 45 working days for a health maintenance organization, after receipt of the claim, a plan or insurer can contest or deny a claim, as specified. Existing law also authorizes the plan or insurer to request reasonable additional information about a contested claim within 30 working days, or for a health maintenance organization, 45 working days. Existing law allows the plan or insurer 30 working days, or a health maintenance organization 45 working days, after receipt of the additional information to reconsider the claim. Under existing law, once the plan or insurer has received all the information necessary to determine payer liability for the claim and has not reimbursed the claim deemed to be payable within 30 working days, or 45 working days for a health maintenance organization, interest will accrue as specified. Under existing law, for an unpaid claim for nonemergency services, the plan or insurer is required to pay interest, and a plan is required to automatically include the interest in its payment to the claimant on an uncontested claim that has not been paid within the prescribed period. Under existing law, if a plan fails to automatically include this interest owed, it is required to also pay the claimant a $10 fee for failing to comply with this requirement. Under existing law, if a claim for emergency services is not contested by the plan or insurer, and the plan or insurer fails to pay the claim within the 30- or 45-day respective period, the plan or insurer is required to pay a fee or interest, as specified. This bill would require a health care service plan or disability insurer that provides hospital, medical, or surgical coverage to provide access to medically necessary health care services to its enrollees or insureds that are displaced or otherwise affected by a state of emergency. The bill would allow the Department of Managed Health Care and the Department of Insurance to also suspend requirements for prior authorization during a state of emergency. The bill would authorize the respective departments to issue guidance to health care service plans and specified insurers regarding compliance with these provisions. The bill would shorten the time requirements for a plan or insurer to pay or contest a claim for emergency or nonemergency services to 20 working days. The bill would likewise shorten the time limit for requesting additional information about a claim to 20 working days. The bill would require a plan or insurer to pay a provider any interest and fees that accrue from failure to pay a claim regardless of whether the department institutes an enforcement action against the plan or insurer. The bill would define concurrent review for these purposes, and would authorize telephone, videochat, or onsite conduct to qualify as a concurrent review activity. The bill would also prohibit a plan or insurer from recouping an alleged overpayment on one claim by deducting or withholding the amount of the alleged overpayment from another claim relating to the same or a different enrollee or insured. Because a willful violation of the bill's requirements relative to health care service plans would be a crime, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Existing law provides for a comprehensive scheme for the regulation of market milk. Those provisions, among other things, authorize the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to formulate, administer, and enforce stabilization and marketing plans for market milk. Existing law requires the secretary, if the secretary finds that a stabilization and marketing plan is necessary, to formulate a stabilization and marketing plan for market milk and conduct a public hearing on the plan. If the secretary determines after the public hearing that the plan will accomplish its purposes, existing law requires the secretary to issue an order declaring the plan in effect within 62 days from the date of the hearing and requires the secretary to announce that order at least 10 calendar days prior to the effective date of the plan. This bill would instead require the secretary to issue an order declaring the plan in effect within 62 business days from the date of the hearing and would require the secretary to announce that order at least 10 business days before the effective date of the plan.
Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources, in coordination with the State Water Resources Control Board, and including collaboration with and input from stakeholders, to conduct necessary studies and investigations and authorizes the department and the board to jointly recommend to the Legislature a standard for indoor residential water use. Existing law establishes, beginning January 1, 2025, 52.5 gallons per capita daily and, beginning January 1, 2030, 50 gallons per capita daily, as the standards for indoor residential water use, unless the department and the board recommend more appropriate standards for indoor residential water use. This bill would establish, beginning January 1, 2025, the standard as 47 gallons per capita daily and, beginning January 1, 2030, 42 gallons per capita daily.
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. For the emissions of pollutants other than greenhouse gases, existing law generally designates the state board with the primary responsibility for the control of air pollution from vehicular sources and air pollution control and air quality management districts with the primary responsibility for the control of air pollution from all sources other than vehicular sources. This bill would revise the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 by designating the state board with the responsibility of regulating vehicular sources of emissions of greenhouse gases and each district with the responsibility of regulating all sources, other than vehicular sources, of emissions of greenhouse gases within its jurisdiction. By imposing additional duties on the districts, 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.
