The Donahoe Higher Education Act sets forth, among other things, the missions and functions of California's public and independent segments of higher education and their respective institutions of higher education. A provision of the act applies to the University of California only to the extent that the Regents of the University of California, by appropriate resolution, act to make the provision applicable. A portion of the Donahoe Higher Education Act, known as the Equity in Higher Education Act, provides, among other things, that all students have the right to participate fully in the educational process, free from discrimination and harassment, and that California's postsecondary educational institutions have an affirmative obligation to combat racism, sexism, and other forms of bias, and a responsibility to provide equal educational opportunity. This bill would state that the Trustees of the California State University and the Regents of the University of California have the primary responsibility to prevent and address conduct that either creates a hostile environment for students on campus or results in differential treatment of students on campus, as specified. The bill would require the trustees to, among other things, adopt rules and procedures, as specified, to prohibit violent, harassing, intimidating, or discriminatory conduct that creates a hostile environment on campus, to prohibit conduct that limits or denies a person's ability to participate in or benefit from the free exchange of ideas or the educational mission of the California State University, and to establish, and require each campus to publish on campus internet websites, reasonable content-neutral time, place, and manner restrictions and, if applicable, any advance permitting requirements for protests on campus. The bill would require the trustees to develop mandatory training programs to educate students on what constitutes violent, harassing, intimidating, or discriminatory conduct that creates a hostile environment on campus, the procedures for investigating violations of the student code of conduct, when and where protests and gatherings may be held, as specified, and on how to exchange views in an atmosphere of mutual respect and civility. The bill would require the trustees to submit a report, on or before January 2, 2025, and annually thereafter, to the Legislature on the implementation and administration of the bill. The bill would request the University of California to comply with these provisions. The bill would make its provisions severable.
Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing law establishes, under the Medi-Cal program, the Family Planning, Access, Care, and Treatment (Family PACT) Program, administered by the Office of Family Planning within the department. Under Family PACT, comprehensive clinical family planning services are provided to a person who has a family income at or below 200% of the federal poverty level and who meets other eligibility criteria to receive those services. Existing law makes the Family PACT Program inoperative if the program is determined to no longer be cost effective, as specified. If the program becomes inoperative, existing law requires all persons who have received, or are eligible to receive, comprehensive clinical family planning services pursuant to Family PACT to receive family planning services under other specified provisions of the Medi-Cal program or under the State-Only Family Planning Program, which is also established within the department. Existing law requires enrolled providers in the Family PACT Program or the State-Only Family Planning Program to attend a specific orientation approved by the department and requires providers who conduct certain services to have prior training in those services. This bill would, for the Family PACT Program, require a site certifier of a primary care clinic or affiliate primary care clinic, as those terms are defined, to be a clinician who oversees the provision of Family PACT services and would authorize certain clinic corporations to enroll multiple, but no more than 10, service addresses under one site certifier. The bill would require any orientation or training that the department requires of a site certifier to comply with specified requirements, including, among others, being offered through a virtual platform and being offered at least once every other month. For purposes of both of the above-described programs, existing law requires the program to disenroll as a program provider any individual who, or any entity that, has a license, certificate, or other approval to provide health care that is revoked or suspended by a federal, California, or other state's licensing, certification, or other approval authority, that is otherwise lost, or that is surrendered while a disciplinary hearing is pending, as specified. This bill would authorize the department to elect to not disenroll an individual or entity as a program provider if the revocation, suspension, loss, or disciplinary hearing in another state is based solely on conduct that is not deemed to be unprofessional conduct under California law. Under existing law, a provider is subject to disenrollment if the provider submits claims for payment for the services, goods, supplies, or merchandise provided to a program beneficiary, by an individual or entity that has been previously suspended, excluded, or otherwise made ineligible to receive reimbursement from one of the above-described programs or from the Medi-Cal program and the individual has previously been on one of certain lists, as specified. Under this bill, a provider would not be subject to disenrollment under that provision if the sole basis for an individual's listing is conduct that is not deemed to be unprofessional conduct under California law. The bill would condition implementation of the disenrollment exceptions described in the 2 provisions above on receipt of any necessary federal approvals and the availability of federal financial participation.
Existing law provides for various memorials and monuments on the grounds of the State Capitol. Existing law requires the Department of General Services to maintain state buildings and grounds. Existing law, the Apology Act for the 1930s Mexican Repatriation Program, makes findings and declarations regarding the unconstitutional removal and coerced emigration of United States citizens and legal residents of Mexican descent, between the years 1929 and 1944, to Mexico from the United States during the 1930s "Mexican Repatriation" Program. Existing law expresses the apology of the State of California to those individuals who were illegally deported and coerced into emigrating to Mexico and requires that a plaque to commemorate those individuals be installed and maintained by the Department of Parks and Recreation in an appropriate public place in the City or County of Los Angeles. This bill would authorize a nonprofit organization representing Mexican Americans or Mexican immigrants to enter into negotiations to plan, construct, and maintain a memorial to Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants who were forcibly deported from the United States during the Great Depression, as provided. The bill would require the memorial to be located at an appropriate public place in the City or County of Los Angeles. The bill would require the nonprofit organization to enter into negotiations with the Department of General Services and the state agency with jurisdiction over the state property where the memorial is proposed, where applicable, if the nonprofit organization proposes to locate the memorial on state property. The bill would require the nonprofit organization to submit a plan for the memorial to the department and the applicable state agency for review and approval. The bill would require these provisions to be funded exclusively through private sources. This bill would, if the nonprofit organization proposes a site owned by the City of Los Angeles or the County of Los Angeles for location of the memorial, require the nonprofit organization to follow any procedures that the City of Los Angeles or the County of Los Angeles require to consider approving the proposed memorial. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of Los Angeles and the County of Los Angeles.
The Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law (Bradley-Burns) authorizes counties and cities to impose local sales and use taxes in conformity with the Sales and Use Tax Law. Existing law, on or after January 1, 2016, prohibits a local agency from entering into any form of agreement that would result, directly or indirectly, in the payment, transfer, diversion, or rebate of Bradley-Burns local tax revenues to any person, as defined, for any purpose, if the agreement results in a reduction in the amount of Bradley-Burns local tax revenues that, in the absence of the agreement, would be received by another local agency and the retailer continues to maintain a physical presence within the territorial jurisdiction of that other local agency, with specified exceptions. This bill would require a local agency, as defined, to annually provide specified information relating to each agreement resulting in the direct or indirect payment, transfer, diversion, or rebate of Bradley-Burns local tax revenues to the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration. The bill would additionally require the local agency to publish that information on its internet website, as prescribed. The bill would impose monetary penalties on any local agency that fails to provide information to the department or fails to publish information to its internet website, as prescribed. By expanding the duties of local agencies, 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.
Existing law, the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act, requires the State Department of Developmental Services to contract with regional centers for the provision of community services and supports for persons with developmental disabilities and their families. Existing law requires the department, on or before March 1, 2019, to submit a rate study to specified committees of the Legislature regarding community-based services for individuals with developmental disabilities. Existing law requires the department to implement rate increases between April 1, 2022, and July 1, 2025, to raise service providers' rates based on a formula that takes into account the fully funded rate reflected in the rate models that were included in the rate study. This bill would require the department, commencing on July 1, 2025, and every other year thereafter, subject to appropriation and the approval of federal funds, to review and update the rate models, as defined, per the cost inputs available at the time of the review. The bill would also require the department to post the updated rate models to its internet website no later than January 1 of the following year.
Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, administered by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, regulates the sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages and the granting of licenses for the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcoholic beverages within the state. Existing law requires the department to develop, implement, and administer a curriculum for a Responsible Beverage Service (RBS) training program, as specified. Existing law requires an RBS training course to include information on, among other things, state laws and regulations relating to alcoholic beverage control and the impact of alcohol on the body, as specified. This bill would require, on or before January 1, 2027, the RBS training courses to include best practices on how to prevent or protect a person from drink spiking and best practices if the person believes they have, or someone they know has, been drugged as a result of drink spiking.
(1) Existing law provides that a child may be adjudged to be a dependent of the juvenile court because of abuse or neglect and generally provides for the placement of dependent children in various foster care placement settings. Existing law requires the court to review the status of every dependent child in foster care no less frequently than once every 6 months and requires the county social worker to file a supplemental report as part of that review. This bill would additionally require the court, in conducting the periodic status review for a child or nonminor dependent who is not residing with their relatives, nonrelative extended family members, or in the case of an Indian child, their extended family members, or an Indian custodian, to determine whether the social worker has continued efforts, and in the case of an Indian child, the active efforts, to locate any relatives, extended family members, or nonrelative extended family members who could provide family support or possible placement of the child and the names of those relatives, extended family members, or nonrelative extended family members. The bill would also require the supplemental report for a child or nonminor dependent who does not reside with their relatives, nonrelative extended family members, or in the case of an Indian child, their extended family members, or an Indian custodian to additionally include the efforts, and in the case of an Indian child, the active efforts, and findings that the social worker has made to locate any relative, extended family members, or nonrelative extended family members who could provide family support or possible placement of the child or nonminor dependent and the name of those relatives, extended family members, or nonrelative extended family members. By imposing additional duties on county officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) Existing law requires the court to place a foster child in the home of a relative, if possible, unless the placement would not be in the best interest of the child. Existing law requires the court to take into consideration other specified factors in making a determination of the placement of a foster child. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to correct an erroneous cross reference in that provision. (3) 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 Cyberbullying Protection Act requires a social media platform to disclose all cyberbullying reporting procedures in the social media platform's terms of service and to establish a mechanism within its internet-based service that allows an individual, whether or not that individual has a profile on the internet-based service, to report cyberbullying or any content that violates the existing terms of service. Existing law requires the reporting mechanism to allow, but not require, an individual to upload a screenshot of the content that contains cyberbullying or violates the terms of service. This bill would, beginning January 1, 2026, require a social media platform to disclose all social media-related threat reporting procedures for certain verified reporters in the social media platform's terms of service. The bill would define "social media-related threat" to mean content posted on a social media platform that promotes, incites, facilitates, or perpetrates any of certain things, including cyberbullying, suicide, and drug trafficking. This bill would require a large social media platform, as defined, to, among other things, create a process to verify certain individuals as verified reporters, including a school principal, as specified. The bill would require, in addition to any other reporting mechanism required by state law, a large social media platform to create a process by which a verified reporter can make a report of a social media-related threat or a violation of the large social media platform's terms of service that in the verified reporter's opinion poses a risk or a severe risk to the health and safety of a minor. The bill would require a large social media platform that receives a report from a verified reporter to, on a publicly accessible internet website, report annually on, among other things, the total number of reports from a verified reporter received for the calendar year.
Existing law prohibits a pupil from being suspended from school or recommended for expulsion, unless the superintendent of the school district or the principal of the school in which the pupil is enrolled determines that the pupil has committed a specified act, including, among other acts, that the pupil (1) unlawfully possessed, used, sold, or otherwise furnished, or had been under the influence of, a controlled substance, an alcoholic beverage, or an intoxicant of any kind, or (2) possessed or used tobacco, or products containing tobacco or nicotine products, including, but not limited to, cigarettes, cigars, miniature cigars, clove cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, snuff, chew packets, and betel. This bill would prohibit the suspension of a pupil who voluntarily discloses, in order to seek help through services or supports, their use of a controlled substance, alcohol, intoxicants of any kind, or a tobacco product, solely for that disclosure. Existing law requires a petition to establish a charter school to include, among other things, a reasonably comprehensive description of the procedures by which pupils can be suspended or expelled from the charter school for disciplinary reasons or otherwise involuntarily removed from the charter school for any reason, as specified. This bill would prohibit the suspension of a pupil enrolled in a charter school in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, who voluntarily discloses, in order to seek help through services or supports, the pupil's use of a tobacco product, controlled substance, alcohol, or an intoxicant of any kind, solely for that disclosure.
Existing law requires a certified farmers' market operator to annually register with the Department of Food and Agriculture by applying for and obtaining a certificate from a county agricultural commissioner that is valid for up to 12 months from the date of issue. Existing law requires a producer, as defined, to register with the department by applying for and obtaining a certificate from the county agricultural commissioner's office in the county in which the producer's land or facility is located before selling at a certified farmers' market. Existing law requires the county agricultural commissioner to issue to the producer a certified producer's certificate upon approval of an application. Existing law makes it unlawful for a person or entity, or employee or agent of that person or entity, to make a statement, representation, or assertion relating to the sale or availability of agricultural products that is false, deceptive, or misleading, as specified, and makes a violation of those provisions a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding 6 months, by a fine not exceeding $2,500, or both the fine and imprisonment. This bill would require an operator of a certified mobile farmers' market, as defined, to register annually with the department. The bill would require the operator of a certified mobile farmers' market to sell or distribute agricultural products, as defined, produced by a California producer with a valid certified producer's certificate, obtain from each producer an itemized list of all products, as specified, ensure that all processed agricultural products being sold comply with specified requirements, and ensure all products being represented or offered for sale as organic are clearly labeled or have conspicuous and posted point-of-sale signage identifying the products as organic. The bill would make a person who makes false, deceptive, or misleading representations, relating to the sale or availability of agricultural products, subject to the penalties mentioned above. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law requires a dealer, as defined, of any farm product to be licensed. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor for a person to, among other things, attempt to act or to act as a licensee or agent without a license. This bill would require the operator of a certified mobile farmers' market who is selling agricultural products not of their own production to be licensed as a produce dealer. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law requires a registered California direct marketing producer to pay an annual registration fee of up to $100, as provided, to be deposited in the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, which would be used by the department for the administration of direct marketing of agricultural products, as specified. Existing law requires the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to file an order to adopt, amend, or repeal regulations relating to the fee with the Office of Administrative Law, and would require the order to be filed with the Secretary of State in accordance with specified provisions. This bill would require a certified mobile farmers' market to pay an annual registration fee of up to $200, as provided, to be deposited in the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, and used by the department for the administration of the certified mobile farmers' market registration program, as specified. The bill would require the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to file an order to adopt, amend, or repeal regulations relating to the fee with the Office of Administrative Law, and would require the order to be filed with the Secretary of State in accordance with specified provisions. By requiring the transfer of moneys into a continuously appropriated fund, and by expanding the purposes for which continuously appropriated fund moneys may be used, the bill would make an appropriation. Existing law, the California Retail Food Code, establishes uniform health and sanitation standards for mobile food facilities and various types of food venues. Existing law authorizes local health agencies to be primarily responsible for enforcing the code, but requires the department to provide technical assistance, training, and standardization. A person who violates any provision of the code is guilty of a misdemeanor, except as otherwise provided. This bill would require a certified mobile farmers' market to be permitted and operated as a mobile food facility and would impose upon the certified mobile farmers' market the uniform health and sanitation standards for mobile food facilities and general food safety requirements. By imposing new enforcement requirements on local health agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing federal law, the WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition Act of 1992, is designed to provide resources to persons who are nutritionally at risk, in the form of fresh, high-quality agricultural products from certified farmers' markets, expand the awareness and use of certified farmers' markets, and increase sales at those markets. Existing state law authorizes the State Department of Public Health to establish the California Special Supplemental Nutrition Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC Program) to implement the federal program. This bill would require the department to include criteria in the next state plan submission to the United States Department of Agriculture to authorize certified mobile farmers' markets to participate in the WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition Program. If the state plan is approved, the bill would require the department to establish the criteria for authorization of certified mobile farmers' markets to participate in the program, 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 prohibits a person from selling or otherwise furnishing tobacco products, as defined, to a person under 21 years of age. Existing law, the Stop Tobacco Access to Kids Enforcement (STAKE) Act, provides for enforcement of that prohibition by the Attorney General. Existing law prohibits a tobacco retailer, as defined, from offering for sale any flavored tobacco product or tobacco product flavor enhancer, as specified. This bill would require the Attorney General to, by no later than December 31, 2025, establish and maintain on the Attorney General's internet website a list of tobacco product brand styles that lack a characterizing flavor, as defined. This bill would require each manufacturer or importer of tobacco products to submit to the Attorney General a list of all brand styles, as defined, of tobacco products that they manufacture or import for sale or distribution in or into California. The bill would require a manufacturer or importer that submits a product pursuant to these provisions to, under penalty of perjury, describe each brand style, brand, and product category, as specified, describe, for each brand style, if a formal authorization, approval, or order from the United States Food and Drug Administration has been sought and its status, if applicable, and certify that each brand style lacks a characterizing flavor. By expanding the scope of the crime of perjury, this bill would create a state-mandated local program. The bill would require a fee for each submission and renewal of a brand style for the costs incurred by the Attorney General for processing the submissions, and operating the list, as specified. The bill would create the California Unflavored Tobacco List Fund for the collection of these fees, and would continuously appropriate these fees to the Attorney General for the purposes above, thereby making an appropriation. The bill would require the Attorney General to determine whether each brand style has a characterizing flavor, as specified. The bill would require any manufacturer or importer that submits a brand style in this way to, among other things, consent to the jurisdiction of the California courts for the purpose of enforcing these provisions and to appoint an agent for service of process, as specified. The bill would authorize the Attorney General to seek injunctive relief and a civil penalty up to $50,000 against any manufacturer or importer who falsely certifies that brand style determined to have a characteristic flavor, lacks a characteristic flavor. This bill would refine the definitions of characteristic flavor and tobacco product for purposes of the prohibition and these provisions. This bill would prohibit a distributor or wholesaler from selling any tobacco product not listed on the Unflavored Tobacco List or any tobacco product flavor enhancer to any person, as specified, for sale in the state and would prohibit a delivery seller from selling a tobacco product not listed on the Unflavored Tobacco List or a tobacco product flavor enhancer to a consumer in California. The bill would authorize the Attorney General to assess civil penalties, as specified, for violations of these prohibitions. This bill would authorize the Attorney General to recover reasonable attorney's fees, investigative costs, and other related costs, against a nonprevailing party in a civil action brought pursuant to these provisions. The bill would require moneys recovered by the Attorney General in an action pursuant to these provisions to be deposited in the Public Rights Law Enforcement Special Fund, as specified. This bill would also ban the retail sale of any tobacco product not on the Unflavored Tobacco List, as specified. The bill would authorize the California Tax and Fee Administration or a law enforcement agency that discovers that a retailer possesses, stores, owns, or has made a retail sale of flavored tobacco products or tobacco product flavor enhancers to seize those products, as specified. Under the bill, seized products would be delivered to the department within 30 days and deemed forfeited to the state. The bill would require the department to issue a civil penalty against the retailer equal to $50 per individual package of flavored tobacco product or tobacco product flavor enhancer seized or delivered to the department, with increasing penalties for subsequent seizures. If a wholesaler possesses, stores, or owns, or has made a sale of, a tobacco product not on the Unflavored Tobacco List or a tobacco product flavor enhancer, the bill would authorize the department to seize the tobacco product or tobacco product flavor enhancer and would require the department to impose a civil penalty if the property is seized, as specified. If a distributor or other person has made a sale of a tobacco product not on the Unflavored Tobacco List or a tobacco product flavor enhancer, or a wholesaler has made a sale of a tobacco product not on the Unflavored Tobacco List or a tobacco product flavor enhancer and the department or a local law enforcement agency has not seized the product, the bill would require the department to issue a warning for a first offense, suspend their license for a second offense, and revoke their license for a third offense. Existing law, the Cigarette and Tobacco Products Tax Law, generally prohibits the retail sale of cigarettes in California unless the sale is a vendor-assisted, face-to-face sale. Existing law authorizes the delivery sale of cigarettes or tobacco products if specified conditions are met. This bill would refine the definition of cigarette for the purpose of these provisions, and would expand that prohibition to include the sale of tobacco products. The bill would require a delivery seller of cigarettes or tobacco products to comply with any applicable state law or local ordinance that imposes restrictions on the retail sale of cigarettes or tobacco products directly to the public from a retail location as if the delivery sale occurred entirely within the state and place. 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 104559.5 of the Health and Safety Code proposed by SB 1230 to be operative only if this bill and SB 1230 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
(1) Existing law requires the Department of Fish and Wildlife to establish the watershed enforcement program to facilitate the investigation, enforcement, and prosecution of offenses relating to unlawful water diversions and other violations of the Fish and Game Code associated with cannabis cultivation. Existing law also requires the department, in coordination with specified state agencies, to establish a permanent multiagency task force to address the environmental impacts of cannabis cultivation. This bill would require the department to conduct a study to create a framework for cannabis site restoration projects with the goal of providing guidance for the cleanup, remediation, and restoration of environmental damage caused by cannabis cultivation, and to complete the study by January 1, 2027, as specified. The bill would authorize the department to enter into an agreement with a nongovernmental organization or educational institution for that entity to conduct the study. The bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2027, and until January 1, 2036, to submit an annual report to the Legislature on illicit cannabis cultivation and on the status of efforts to repair habitat degradation and other environmental damage in watersheds affected by cannabis cultivation on both public and private lands, as specified. (2) Existing law imposes various civil penalties for violations of specified environmental laws in connection with the production or cultivation of a controlled substance, as specified. Existing law defines controlled substance for this purpose to mean a drug, substance, or immediate precursor listed in any of the schedules established pursuant to the California Uniform Controlled Substances Act. Existing law requires 40% of civil penalties imposed or collected by a court, and 50% of administrative penalties imposed or collected by the department, for violations of these provisions to be deposited into the Timber Regulation and Forest Restoration Fund and used for grants for certain environmental purposes, as specified. Existing law also requires 50% of administrative penalties imposed or collected by the department for violations of these provisions to be deposited in the Fish and Game Preservation Fund. This bill, with regard to the above-described civil penalties, would replace the term "controlled substance" with the term "cannabis or cannabis products." The bill would eliminate those apportionments to the Timber Regulation and Forest Restoration Fund and the Fish and Game Preservation Fund and would instead direct those apportionments to the Cannabis-Impacted Lands Restoration Fund, which the bill would create. The bill would continuously appropriate moneys in that fund to the department for the remediation and restoration of lands impacted by cannabis cultivation on public or private lands, thereby creating an appropriation. The bill would also eliminate requirements that moneys from these penalties be deposited into the Timber Regulation and Forest Restoration Fund under certain circumstances for the repayment of a loan authorized from that fund to the department. (3) Existing law requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control to regulate the handling and management of hazardous waste. Existing law requires the department to develop and adopt by regulation criteria and guidelines for the identification of hazardous wastes and extremely hazardous wastes. This bill would exclude plant waste and cannabis waste solely exhibiting the hazardous waste characteristic of toxicity pursuant to a specified regulation from classification as a hazardous waste. (4) Existing law, the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) , an initiative measure, as additionally amended by statute, establishes the California Cannabis Tax Fund as a continuously appropriated fund consisting of specified taxes, interest, penalties, and other amounts related to commercial cannabis activity. Each fiscal year, AUMA requires the Controller to make disbursements from the fund pursuant to a specified schedule, including, among others, amounts to the Environmental Restoration and Protection Account. Of the amount deposited into the Environmental Restoration and Protection Account for disbursement by the Controller, AUMA requires the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency to allocate those funds to the Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Department of Parks and Recreation for certain activities selected by the secretary including, among others, the cleanup, remediation, and restoration of environmental damage in watersheds affected by cannabis cultivation and related activities, as specified, and to support local partnerships for this purpose. This bill would direct the Department of Fish and Wildlife to use moneys made available from that account for those specified purposes to fund the above-described study and annual reports, as specified. (5) AUMA authorizes the Legislature to amend its provisions with a 23 vote of both houses to further its purposes and intent, except as specified. This bill would declare that its provisions further the purposes and intent of AUMA.
