Existing law establishes the Expanded Learning Opportunities Program to provide funds to school districts and certain charter schools to offer, outside of any instructional time, expanded learning opportunities, as defined, to pupils enrolled in classroom-based instructional programs in kindergarten and grades 1 to 6, inclusive, under specified funding methodologies and program conditions. The After School Education and Safety Program Act of 2002, an initiative statute approved by the voters as Proposition 49 at the November 5, 2002, statewide general election, establishes the After School Education and Safety Program (ASES) , under which participating public schools receive grants to operate before and after school programs serving pupils in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 9, inclusive. Existing federal law establishes the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program to provide pupils with academic enrichment and other activities during nonschool hours or periods when school is not in session, as provided. Existing law establishes the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System, which is maintained by the State Department of Education and consists of pupil data from elementary and secondary schools, as specified, relating to demographics, program participation, enrollment, and statewide assessments, among other things. Existing law requires the system to be used to accomplish specified goals, including to provide an efficient, flexible, and secure means of maintaining statewide pupil level data, as provided. This bill would require the department, beginning with the 2025–26 school year, to define and collect, as part of the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System, annual pupil enrollment data for each pupil enrolled in an expanded learning opportunity program, including, but not limited to, the Expanded Learning Opportunities Program, ASES, and the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program, as specified. The bill would require the department, beginning with the 2025–26 school year, to identify and reduce data reporting redundancies, and provide guidance and recommendations to local educational agencies, in the collection of pupil data pursuant to these provisions and existing local educational data reporting requirements for those programs, as specified. The bill would express the intent of the Legislature to provide equitable opportunities to pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, with a welcoming and enriching space through afterschool programs.
Existing law, commencing January 1, 2025, requires oil or gas production facilities or wells with a wellhead within a health protection zone, defined as an area within 3,200 feet of sensitive receptors, which include residences and health care facilities, to comply with specified health, safety, and environmental requirements, as provided. Existing law requires operators with a production facility or well with a wellhead in a health protection zone to submit a leak detection and response plan, as provided, to the Geologic Energy Management Division of the Department of Conservation by January 1, 2025, division approval or notice of deficiency by January 1, 2026, and implementation of the plan by January 1, 2027. Existing law requires every operator to submit a sensitive receptor inventory and map to the division by July 1, 2023. Existing law, commencing January 1, 2027, requires operators with a wellhead or other production facility or facilities in a health protection zone to provide certain information relating to leaks to the division, as provided. This bill would instead require the oil or gas production facilities and wells within a health protection zone to comply with those health, safety, and environmental requirements commencing July 1, 2026. The bill would instead require operators with a production facility or well with a wellhead in a health protection zone to submit a leak detection and response plan to the division by July 1, 2028, division approval or notice of deficiency by July 1, 2029, and implementation of the plan by July 1, 2030. The bill would instead require every operator to submit a sensitive receptor inventory and map to the division by July 1, 2025. The bill would require operators with a wellhead or other production facility or facilities in a health protection zone to provide certain information relating to leaks to the division, as provided, commencing July 1, 2030. Existing law requires the State Oil and Gas Supervisor, commencing July 1, 2023, and at 6-month intervals thereafter, to notify the applicable legislative budget and policy committees on progress for the leak detection and response plans, as provided. Existing law requires the division, on or before July 1, 2027, to provide a legislative report to the applicable budget and policy committees regarding the implementation of health protection zones, as provided. This bill would instead require the supervisor to notify those committees on the progress for the leak protection and response plans commencing July 1, 2026. The bill would instead require the division to provide the legislative report on or before July 1, 2030. Existing law authorizes the division, the State Air Resources Board, and the State Water Resources Control Board to prescribe, adopt, and enforce emergency regulations to implement, administer, and enforce its duties relating to health protection zones and authorizes those emergency regulations to remain in effect for 2 years from adoption. Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board, relevant local air districts, the State Water Resources Control Board, and relevant local water quality control boards to enter into memoranda of understanding with the division to clearly delineate respective responsibilities for implementing and enforcing health protection zones and to execute those memoranda of understanding by June 1, 2023. This bill would instead authorize the emergency regulations to remain in effect for 2 years from adoption or until July 1, 2026, whichever date is later. The bill would instead require those memoranda of understanding to be executed by June 1, 2025. Existing law requires the Department of Conservation, on or before June 15 of each year, to make an estimate of the amount of money that will be required to carry out specified laws related to oil and gas conservation, as provided. Existing law requires, by June 15 each year, the department to determine the rate, or rates, for charges on operators that will produce the sums necessary to be raised to cover that estimate. Existing law provides penalties for any person who fails to pay an oil and gas assessment within the time required, as provided. This bill would, if the department determines between June 15, 2024, and March 1, 2025, that the estimate is insufficient for the current fiscal year, authorize the department to assess and levy a supplemental assessment on oil and gas production to ensure funds are available for the full amount of the adjusted cost estimate, as provided. The bill would prohibit the department from issuing this supplemental assessment after March 1, 2025. The bill would apply the same penalties to delinquent charges under a supplemental assessment. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2027, and would authorize the department to continue to pursue the collection of unpaid supplemental assessments, penalties, and interest after these provisions are repealed. Existing law requires specified funds collected from oil and gas operators to be deposited to the credit of the Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Administrative Fund, to be used for, among other things, the State Water Resources Control Board and the regional water quality control boards for their activities related to oil and gas operations that may affect water resources. This bill would appropriate $2,646,000 from the Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Administrative Fund for the 2024–25 fiscal year to the State Water Resources Control Board to support water quality projects implementing provisions related to the above-described health protection zones, as provided. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.
The Planning and Zoning Law requires the legislative body of a city or county to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan that includes various elements, including, among others, a safety element for the protection of the community from unreasonable risks associated with the effects of various geologic and seismic hazards, flooding, and wildland and urban fires. This bill would require a city or county, upon the next update of one or more of the elements included in the general plan on or after January 1, 2028, to review and update its safety element as necessary to address the hazard of extreme heat, as specified. The bill would authorize a city or county that has adopted an extreme heat action plan or other document that fulfills commensurate goals and objectives to use that information in the safety element, as specified, and, upon doing so, would require the city or county to summarize and incorporate into the safety element the other plan or document. The bill would also authorize a city or county to use or reference information in the Extreme Heat Action Plan and the State Hazard Mitigation Plan, as described, to comply with the above-described updating requirement. Existing law requires the planning agency to review and, if necessary, revise the safety element upon each revision of its housing element or local hazard mitigation plan, but not fewer than once every 8 years, to identify new information relating to flood and fire hazards and climate adaptation and resiliency strategies applicable to the city or county that was not available during the previous revision of the safety element. This bill would require the planning agency to also identify new information relating to extreme heat hazards applicable to the city or county that was not available during the previous revision of the safety element. 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. This bill would provide that the changes proposed in Section 1 of this bill, amending Section 65302 of the Government Code, would not become operative if AB 1889 is enacted, and amends Section 65302 of the Government Code, as specified, in which case Section 2 of this bill, adding Section 65302.01 to the Government Code, would become operative.
The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) , an initiative measure approved as Proposition 64 at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, authorizes a person who obtains a state license under AUMA to engage in commercial adult-use cannabis activity pursuant to that license and applicable local ordinances. Existing law, the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA) , among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities. MAUCRSA establishes the Department of Cannabis Control (department) within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency to administer the act, and requires the department to be under the supervision and control of a director. Existing law provides that a local jurisdiction may allow for the smoking, vaporizing, and ingesting of cannabis or cannabis products on the premises of a retailer or microbusiness licensed under this division if certain conditions are met. Existing administrative law specifies that a licensed retailer or licensed microbusiness authorized for retail sales who operates a consumption area on the licensed premises in accordance with this provision may also sell prepackaged, noncannabis-infused, nonalcoholic food and beverages if the applicable local jurisdiction allows. This bill would authorize a local jurisdiction, if specified conditions are met, to allow for the preparation or sale of noncannabis food or beverage products, as specified, by a licensed retailer or microbusiness in the area where the consumption of cannabis is allowed, and to allow, and to sell tickets for, live musical or other performances on the premises of a licensed retailer or microbusiness in the area where the consumption of cannabis is allowed. The bill would additionally specify that these provisions do not authorize a licensed retailer or microbusiness to prepare or sell industrial hemp or products containing industrial hemp, as provided.
Existing law authorizes courts to suspend the imposition or execution of punishments in misdemeanor cases and instead enforce the terms of probation for a period not to exceed one year, except for offenses for which existing law prescribes specific probation lengths. This bill would require, in instances where a defendant is charged with a controlled substance offense and granted probation, the court to order a drug treatment program or drug education, if an appropriate program with capacity to accept the defendant has been identified by the probation officer, as specified. The bill would authorize a court to revoke probation and impose a new grant of probation if the court determines the defendant has willfully failed to comply with the treatment program or education. By expanding the duties of probation officers, 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, 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 Field Act requires the Department of General Services under the police power of the state to supervise the design and construction of any school building or the reconstruction or alteration of or addition to any school building, if not exempted, to ensure that plans and specifications comply with adopted rules and regulations and building standards published in regulations, and to ensure that the work of construction is performed in accordance with the approved plans and specifications for the protection of life and property. The California Building Standards Code requires that specified buildings, structures, and facilities be accessible to, and useable by, persons with disabilities, including that when alterations or additions are made to existing buildings or facilities, an accessible path of travel to the specific area of alteration or addition is provided. Existing law limits the cost of complying with the requirement to provide an accessible path of travel to a free-standing, open-sided shade structure project that meets specified requirements and that is on a school district, county office of education, charter school, or community college campus to 20% of the adjusted construction cost, as defined, of the shade structure project. This bill would additionally limit the cost of complying with the requirement to provide an accessible path of travel to a school district, county office of education, or charter school project that is approved by the Division of the State Architect on or before December 31, 2030, and that improves community ecological health and climate resilience, or pupil well-being, learning, or pupil play, and incorporates nature, as provided, to 20% of the adjusted construction cost, as defined, of the school project. The bill would authorize the Division of the State Architect to adopt regulations to implement these provisions, as provided. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2032.
Existing law establishes a system of childcare and development services, administered by the State Department of Social Services, for children from infancy to 13 years of age. Existing federal law establishes the Child Care and Development Fund authorized under the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2014 and administered by states to provide assistance to low-income families who need childcare due to specified reasons. Existing federal law requires a portion of those funds to be used to disseminate information on existing resources for developmental screenings and descriptions of how a family may utilize those resources to obtain developmental screenings. Existing law authorizes, upon departmental approval, the use of appropriated funds for alternative payment programs to allow for maximum parental choice. Existing law authorizes the reimbursement to those programs for the cost of child care paid to child care providers and the administrative and support services costs of the alternative program. This bill would state that the costs allowable for administration shall include, but not be limited to, costs associated with disseminating the above-described information.
Existing law establishes the Office of the Inspector General that is responsible for, among other things, contemporaneous public oversight of internal affairs investigations and staff grievance inquiries conducted by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's Office of Internal Affairs. Existing law requires the Office of the Inspector General to issue regular reports, no less than annually, to the Governor and the Legislature summarizing its recommendations concerning its oversight of the department allegations of internal misconduct and use of force and, no less than semiannually, summarizing its oversight of Office of Internal Affairs investigations. Existing law requires these reports to be posted on the Inspector General's internet website and otherwise made available to the public upon release to the Governor and Legislature. This bill would give the Office of the Inspector General investigatory authority over all staff misconduct cases that involve sexual misconduct with an incarcerated person and would authorize the Office of the Inspector General to monitor and investigate a complaint that involves sexual misconduct with an incarcerated person, as provided. The bill would require the Office of the Inspector General to, upon the completion of an investigation, compile and submit a report to the appropriate hiring authority, as specified.
Existing law establishes independent institutions of higher education as one of the segments of postsecondary education in the state. Existing law, the Cal Grant Program, establishes the Cal Grant A Entitlement Awards, the Cal Grant B Entitlement Awards, the California Community College Expanded Entitlement Awards, the California Community College Transfer Entitlement Awards, the Competitive Cal Grant A and B Awards, the Cal Grant C Awards, and the Cal Grant T Awards under the administration of the Student Aid Commission. The Cal Grant Reform Act revises and recasts the provisions establishing and governing the existing Cal Grant Program into a new Cal Grant Program. Existing law specifies that the act becomes operative only if General Fund moneys over the multiyear forecasts beginning in the 2024–25 fiscal year are available to support ongoing augmentations and actions, and if funding is provided in the annual Budget Act to implement the act. This bill would prohibit, commencing September 1, 2025, an independent institution of higher education, as defined, from providing a legacy preference or donor preference in admissions, as defined, to an applicant as part of the regular or early action admissions process. The bill would require, on or before June 30, 2026, and annually thereafter, an independent institution of higher education to report to the Legislature and the Department of Justice on whether it is in compliance or violation of these provisions, and if in violation of these provisions, to also report, for that academic year, (1) specified information about newly enrolled students and (2) the admission rate of students who are provided a legacy preference or donor preference in admissions, as compared to the admission rate of students who are not provided a legacy preference or donor preference in admissions. The bill would require the department to post the names of the independent institutions of higher education that violate the prohibition on its internet website by the next fiscal year.
Existing law, the California Hope, Opportunity, Perseverance, and Empowerment (HOPE) for Children Trust Account Act, establishes a program to provide a trust fund account to an eligible child, defined to include minor California residents who are specified dependents or wards under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court in foster care with reunification services terminated by court order, or who have a parent, Indian custodian, or legal guardian who died due to COVID-19 during the federally declared COVID-19 public health emergency and meet the specified family household income limit. Under the program, all assets of the fund and moneys allocated to individual HOPE trust accounts are considered to be owned by the state until an eligible youth withdraws or transfers money from their HOPE trust account. This bill would, among other things, require the Treasurer to verify the cause of death of the parent, Indian custodian, or legal guardian and to verify the minor's family household income prior to the death of the parent, Indian custodian, or legal guardian once the Treasurer receives government-issued documents or a statement signed by a person who is eligible to do so under penalty of perjury that establishes the identity of the child and that the person whose death certificate was provided was the child's parent, Indian custodian, or legal guardian. By expanding the crime of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would also state the intent of the Legislature that all eligible children will be automatically enrolled for a HOPE trust account to the extent possible, and would require the Treasurer to, in order to achieve this goal, collaborate with the State Department of Social Services and any other relevant governmental agencies to gather data to maximize participation in the HOPE Trust Account Program for eligible children and youth, as specified. Under the bill, individual records or source data associated with the establishment of a HOPE trust account would not be subject to disclosure under the California Public Records Act. Existing law establishes various means-tested public social services programs administered by counties to provide eligible recipients with certain benefits, including, but not limited to, cash assistance under the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, nutrition assistance under the CalFresh program, and health care services under the Medi-Cal program. This bill would, to the extent permitted by federal law, prohibit funds deposited and investment returns accrued in a HOPE trust account from being considered as income or assets when determining eligibility and benefit amount for any means-tested program until an eligible youth withdraws or transfers the funds from the HOPE trust account, as specified. The bill would make these provisions operative on July 1, 2025, or on the date that the State Department of Social Services notifies the Legislature that the Statewide Automated Welfare System or the California Automated Response and Engagement System (CARES) can perform the necessary automation to implement these provisions, whichever date is later. The bill would also require a one-time lump-sum payment made from a HOPE trust account to be exempt from enforcement of a money judgment by levy without making a claim, as specified. To the extent that the bill would expand county duties, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would also authorize a program enrollee who is also an eligible youth to withdraw or transfer funds from their HOPE trust account on and after their 18th birthday, and would require the Treasurer to assist an eligible youth in transferring funds from their HOPE trust account to other specified accounts. The bill would require the Treasurer to design and disseminate information for parents, Indian custodians, and legal guardians of children and youth who are potentially eligible for the HOPE Trust Account Program to facilitate their enrollment in the program and the transfer of funds, as specified, and to annually submit an audited financial report on the operations of the program by August 1 to the Governor, the Controller, the California State Auditor, and the Legislature, as specified. The bill would expand the composition of the California HOPE for Children Trust Account Program Board, as specified, and would make other changes to board-related provisions. Existing law sets forth various provisions relating to the disclosure of certain information in the administration of taxes. Under existing law, any unwarranted disclosure or use of the information by the administering person or receiving agency is a misdemeanor. Under existing law, it is generally a misdemeanor for the Franchise Tax Board (FTB) or certain persons to disclose or make known in any manner information as to the amount of income or any particulars set forth or disclosed therein. This bill would require the Treasurer to disclose to the FTB certain information for the sole purpose of determining eligibility under the California HOPE for Children Trust Account Act. The bill would require the FTB to disclose to the Treasurer the amounts of the federal adjusted gross income, as specified. The bill would prohibit the Treasurer from disclosing or using any information obtained from the FTB under these provisions except for this purpose. The bill would require the FTB to return or destroy all information received from the Treasurer after completing the exchange of information under these provisions. By expanding the scope of a crime under the above-described disclosure provisions, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. 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. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 11157 of the Welfare and Institutions Code proposed by AB 274 to be operative only if this bill and AB 274 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. 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.
(1) Existing law requires a landlord of a residential dwelling to give notice to the tenant a certain number of days before the effective date of a rent increase depending on the amount of the increase, as specified. This bill would apply this requirement to leases of commercial real property by a qualified commercial tenant, as defined. The bill would specify, in all leases for commercial real property by a qualified commercial tenant, that a rent increase would not be effective until the notice period required by these provisions has expired. The bill would also specify that a violation of these provisions would not entitle a qualified commercial tenant to civil penalties. The bill would require a landlord of a commercial real property to include information on these provisions in the notice. (2) Existing law requires a person engaged in a trade or business who negotiates primarily in Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, or Korean, in the course of entering into specified agreements, to deliver to the other party a translation of the agreement in the language in which it was negotiated, as specified. Existing law authorizes a person to rescind an agreement if the agreement does not comply with that translation requirement, as specified. Existing law creates an exemption from the translation requirement for specified agreements if the other party negotiates the terms through the other party's own interpreter. Under existing law, both the translation requirement and the interpreter exemption apply to a tenancy agreement covering a dwelling unit normally occupied as a residence. This bill would apply the translation requirement, but not the interpreter exemption, to a tenancy agreement covering a nonresidential-zoned commercial space entered into between a landlord and a qualified commercial tenant, as defined, on or after January 1, 2025. The bill would only authorize the tenant to rescind the agreement for noncompliance with the translation requirement. (3) Existing law specifies that a hiring of residential real property, for a term not specified by the parties, is deemed to be renewed at the end of the term implied by law unless one of the parties gives written notice to the other of that party's intention to terminate the tenancy. Existing law requires an owner of a residential dwelling to give notice at least 60 days prior to the proposed date of termination, or at least 30 days prior to the proposed date of termination if a tenant or resident has resided in the dwelling for less than one year, as specified. This bill would generally apply these provisions to a hiring of commercial real property hired by a qualified commercial tenant, as defined. The bill would require a landlord of a commercial real property to include information on these provisions in the notice. (4) Existing law applicable to commercial leases and nonresidential tenancies of real property prohibits a landlord from demanding a payment as a condition of initiating, continuing, or renewing a lease or rental agreement, unless the amount of the payment is stated in a written lease or rental agreement. Existing law specifies that these provisions do not prohibit a landlord from increasing a tenant's rent for nonresidential real property in order to recover building operating costs incurred on behalf of the tenant, if the right to rent, the method of calculating the increase, and the period of time covered by the increase is stated in the lease or rental agreement. This bill would prohibit a landlord of a commercial real property from charging a qualified commercial tenant, as defined, a fee to recover building operating costs, as defined, unless specified conditions are met, including, among other things, that the costs are allocated proportionately per tenant and the qualified commercial tenant is provided supporting documentation, as specified. The bill would allow a qualified commercial tenant to raise a violation of this provision as an affirmative defense in an action to recover possession based on a failure to pay the fee. The bill would make a landlord of a commercial real property who violates this provision liable to a qualified commercial tenant for specified damages, and would authorize the district attorney, city attorney, or county counsel, as specified, to seek injunctive relief. The bill would apply these provisions to specified leases and tenancies, but not to assessments levied pursuant to the Property and Business Improvement District Law of 1994. (5) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 1632 of the Civil Code proposed by AB 3281 to be operative only if this bill and AB 3281 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. (6) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 1946.1 of the Civil Code proposed by SB 611 to be operative only if this bill and SB 611 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits certain contributions of more than $250 to an officer of an agency by any party, participant, or party or participant's agent in a proceeding while a proceeding involving a license, permit, or other entitlement for use is pending before the agency and for 12 months following the date a final decision is rendered in the proceeding, as specified. The act requires disclosure on the record of the proceeding, as specified, of certain contributions of more than $250 within the preceding 12 months to an officer from a party or participant, or party's agent. The act disqualifies an officer from participating in a decision in a proceeding if the officer has willfully or knowingly received a contribution of more than $250 from a party or a party's agent, or a participant or a participant's agent, as specified. The act allows an officer to cure certain violations of these provisions by returning a contribution, or the portion of the contribution of in excess of $250, within 14 days of accepting, soliciting, or receiving the contribution, whichever comes latest. This bill would raise the threshold for contributions regulated by these provisions to $500, as specified. The bill would extend the period during which an officer may cure a violation to within 30 days of accepting, soliciting, or directing the contribution, whichever is latest. The bill would specify that a person is not a "participant" for the purposes of these provisions if their financial interest in a decision results solely from an increase or decrease in membership dues. The bill would exempt from these provisions contracts valued under $50,000, contracts between 2 or more government agencies, contracts where no party receives financial compensation, and the periodic review or renewal of development agreements, as specified, from these provisions. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 84308 of the Government Code proposed by SB 1181 to be operative only if this bill and SB 1181 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. The Political Reform Act of 1974, an initiative measure, provides that the Legislature may amend the act to further the act's purposes upon a 23 vote of each house of the Legislature and compliance with specified procedural requirements. This bill would declare that it furthers the purposes of the act.
