Existing law prohibits a person from driving a motor vehicle upon a highway unless that person holds a valid driver's license to operate the type of vehicle that the person is driving. Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to require an examination for issuance of a driver's license. The examination is required to be appropriate to the type of motor vehicle or combination of vehicles the applicant desires a license to drive or tow, in accordance with certain license classifications. A class C driver's license includes the operation of, among other vehicles, firefighting equipment, provided that the equipment is operated by a person who holds a firefighter endorsement, as specified. This bill would include the operation of specified emergency equipment under a class C driver's license, provided the equipment is owned by a law enforcement agency and is operated by a person who has completed the emergency equipment training described below. Existing law establishes the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to set minimum standards for the recruitment and training of peace officers and to develop training courses and curriculum. This bill would require specified peace officers and volunteers registered with specified law enforcement agencies be permitted to operate emergency equipment, as specified. The bill would require the training to include both classroom and driver training components, as specified, and a written examination. The bill would impose certification, experience, and licensure requirements on instructors for the training program, including, among other things, a requirement that an instructor be certified as a qualified training instructor by the State of California, the federal government, or a county training officers' association. The bill would define "emergency equipment" as a motor vehicle or combination of vehicles that meets the definition of a class A or class B vehicle and is subject to certain requirements, including, but not limited to, that they are used to travel to and from the scene of an emergency situation, to and from a place where the emergency equipment is repaired or positioned, or to transport equipment used in the control of an emergency situation and that is owned, leased, rented by, or under the exclusive control of specified law enforcement agencies.
This measure would recognize that sudden cardiac arrest is a critical issue facing student athletes and provide that the Legislature supports the important work nonprofit organizations are doing to raise awareness of sudden cardiac arrest, increase preventative screenings, and reduce the number of cases.
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations and gas corporations. Existing law finds and declares that the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) was organized as a nonprofit corporation at the request of the Legislature for the specific purpose of offering expert advice to the state government on public policy issues significantly related to science and technology. Existing law requests the CCST, every 3 years, to assess the infrastructure project types, scale, and pace necessary to achieve the state's energy, climate change, and air quality goals, as specified. This bill would require the CCST to establish, on or before March 1, 2027, upon appropriation by the Legislature, a program to, upon request of the Legislature, analyze legislation that would establish a mandated requirement or program, as defined, or otherwise affect electrical corporation or gas corporation ratepayers, as specified. The bill would require the analysis to include, among other things, whether the legislation will increase electricity or natural gas utility rates, and if so, would require an assessment of specified financial impacts. The bill would require the CCST to develop and implement conflict-of-interest provisions to prohibit a person from participating in an analysis for which the person knows or has reasons to know that the person has a material financial interest. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2032.
The Public Employees' Retirement Law (PERL) creates the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to specified public employees and prescribes the rights and duties of members and annuitants of the system. PERL vests management and control of PERS in the Board of Administration. PERL authorizes the board, during the course of an audit, to require each state employer, school employer, including each school district represented by a school employer, and contracting agency to provide information as deemed necessary by the board to determine eligibility for, and the correctness of, retirement benefits, reportable compensation, enrollment in, and reinstatement to this system. PERL requires the board, before initiating an audit, to notify the subject of the audit of the estimated time required to completion. This bill would require the board, before initiating an audit, to list specific information about the audit on its internet website and provide written notice to the affected state employer, school employer, including each school district represented by a school employer, or contracting agency. The bill would specify the distribution of the notice, the final audit report, and a list of members affected by the final audit report, between the board, a state employer, school employer, or contracting agency, and any exclusive representative.
Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services through fee-for-service (FFS) or managed care delivery systems. The Medi-Cal program is in part governed by, and funded pursuant to, federal Medicaid program provisions. Under existing law, pharmacist services are a benefit under the Medi-Cal program, subject to federal approval, as specified. Existing law authorizes the department to provide and administer Medi-Cal pharmacy services under a single statewide FFS delivery system, commonly known as the Medi-Cal Rx program. The department has implemented a transition of Medi-Cal pharmacy services, through Medi-Cal Rx, from managed care to FFS as a result of a 2019 executive order by the Governor. This bill would require the department to issue guidance clarifying Medi-Cal managed care plan obligations to cover pharmacist services, as specified. The bill would require the department to update its model evidence of coverage to explicitly include coverage of pharmacist services. The bill would also require the department to take appropriate corrective action for failure to comply with existing provisions of law relating to Medi-Cal coverage of pharmacist services or the issued guidance. The bill would authorize the department to implement, interpret, or make specific these provisions by means of all-plan letters, plan letters, or other similar instructions, without taking any further regulatory action.
Existing law establishes the Natural Resources Agency, composed of departments, boards, conservancies, and commissions responsible for the restoration, protection, and management of the state's natural and cultural resources. This bill would designate the Santa Cruz Mountains, as defined, as a resource of statewide significance that requires special protection, as defined. The bill would require the Natural Resources Agency and its boards, departments, and conservancies, to the extent that resources are available, and when appropriate, to encourage collaborative stewardship approaches that support the protection, restoration, and preservation of the Santa Cruz Mountains, among other things. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Santa Cruz Mountains covering portions of the Counties of San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz.
Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, which is administered by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, regulates the application, issuance, and suspension of alcoholic beverage licenses. Existing law, known as tied-house restrictions, generally prohibits a manufacturer, winegrower, manufacturer's agent, rectifier, California winegrower's agent, distiller, bottler, importer, and wholesaler, and any officer, director, or agent of any of those persons, from giving or lending money or a thing of value to a person operating, owning, or maintaining any on-sale premises where alcoholic beverages are sold. Existing law provides certain exceptions to this prohibition if specified requirements are met. Existing law authorizes certain licensees or their representatives to conduct or participate in certain instruction or instructional events, as specified, if specified conditions are met. In this regard, specified information, pictures, illustrations, and depictions of the retailer's premises, personnel, and customers may be listed in advertisements for the event if the pictures, illustrations, or depictions are relatively inconspicuous in relation to the advertisement as a whole and video is not permitted. This bill would make changes to the provisions related to advertising for the events described in the above paragraph, including, among other things, authorizing the advertisement to include videos of the retailer's premises, personnel, and customers and contain or consist of pictures, illustrations, videos, and graphical depictions. The bill would prohibit videos of the retailer's premises, personnel, and customers from being longer than 60 seconds in duration. The bill would remove the requirement that the specified information and any pictures, illustrations, or depictions be relatively inconspicuous in relation to the advertisement as a whole. Existing law authorizes specified information of a winegrower, wine importer, or winegrower's agent licensee, the brand names of wine being featured, and the time, date, location, and other identifying information of a wine promotional lecture at retail premises to be listed in advance of the event in an advertisement of the off-sale or on-sale retail licensee. This bill would also authorize the advertisement to include pictures, illustrations, videos, and depictions of the winegrower, wine importer, or winegrower's agent licensee and would authorize the advertisement to contain or consist of pictures, illustrations, videos, or graphical depictions. Existing law authorizes a licenseholder or on-sale retail licensee to advertise an instructional tasting event to the general public, and specifies that permitted advertisements include flyers, newspaper ads, internet communications, and interior signage. This bill would instead authorize a licenseholder or on-sale retail licensee to advertise an instructional tasting event, and would remove the provision that specifies what advertisements are permitted.
(1) Existing law, the Joint Exercise of Powers Act, authorizes 2 or more public agencies, by agreement, to form a joint powers authority to exercise any power common to the contracting parties, as specified. Existing law requires a joint powers agreement to state the purpose of the agreement or the power to be exercised, and to provide for the method by which the purpose will be accomplished or the manner in which the power will be exercised. The act grants the agency the common power specified in the agreement and authorizes the agency to exercise that power in the manner provided in the agreement. Existing law authorizes a governing body that satisfies certain conditions to delegate its functions to an advisory body. This bill would define the terms "advisory body," "policy formation," "program development," and "program implementation" for purposes of that provision. The bill would state that these definitions do not constitute a change in, but are declaratory of, existing law. (2) The California Constitution requires the state to provide a subvention of funds to reimburse the local government for the costs of a new program or a higher level of service, with specified exceptions, when the Legislature or a state agency mandates a new program or higher level of service on any local government, including school districts. Existing law, in the event that revised claiming instructions are issued by the Controller between November 15 and February 15, provides a local agency or school district filing an annual reimbursement claim with 120 days following the issuance date of the revised instructions to file a claim. This bill would instead apply that provision if the revised claiming instructions are issued by the Controller between October 19 and February 15. (3) Existing law requires specified county officers, including the public administrator, to be elected by the people. Existing law authorizes the boards of supervisors of specified counties to provide, by ordinance, that the public administrator be appointed by the board. Existing law also authorizes the boards of supervisors of specified counties, by ordinance, to appoint the same person to the offices of public administrator and public guardian, and to, at any time, separate the consolidated offices of the district attorney and public administrator, as specified. This bill would apply those provisions to the County of Merced. (4) Existing law establishes the office of the county clerk, and requires a county clerk, among other things, to take charge of and safely keep all books, papers, and records that are filed or deposited in the county clerk's office pursuant to law. This bill would make technical changes to various provisions relating to the county clerk to use gender-neutral language and update a cross-reference. (5) Existing law establishes the office of county recorder and specifically requires the county recorder within 30 days of recordation of a deed, quitclaim deed, mortgage, or deed of trust, to notify by mail the party or parties executing the document, as specified. Existing law requires this notification to be sent to the address for mailing tax bills that was established prior to the recording of the document. This bill would instead require a county recorder to mail the required notice to the current assessee at the most recent address for mailing tax bills that was established prior to the recording of the document. (6) Existing law authorizes the county board of supervisors to provide for an additional fee of $1 for each instrument, paper, or notice of record to order to defray the cost of converting the county recorder's document storage system to micrographics. This bill would instead authorize that fee to defray the costs of implementing and funding a county recorder archive program and converting the county recorder's document storage system for permanent retention. (7) Existing law generally prescribes the duties and powers of mayors, including requiring a mayor to sign certain instruments. Existing law authorizes a legislative body to provide by ordinance that those instruments be signed by an officer other than the mayor. This bill would authorize a legislative body to authorize, by resolution, an officer other than the mayor to sign those instruments, provided the instruments are in connection with or for the purposes of participating in a state-administered or state-approved funding or regulatory program. (8) Existing law makes the treasurer of a local agency responsible for the safekeeping of money and authorizes them to enter into a contract with a depository, as specified. Existing law requires the depository and the depository agent to secure the deposits in eligible securities. Existing law defines eligible securities for this purpose to include, among other things, letters of credit issued by the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, as specified. This bill, would make various nonsubstantive changes to those provisions and, for a county, city and county, or local agency that pools money in deposits or investments with other agencies and with assets under management of at least $100,000,000, would additionally authorize an eligible bank headquartered outside of the state to submit letters of credit drawn on its federal home loan bank, as specified. (9) Existing law requires a local agency to declare land either "surplus land" or "exempt surplus land," as supported by written findings, before the local agency may take any action to dispose of it consistent with an agency's policies or procedures. Existing law generally requires a local agency, before disposing of or negotiating to dispose of surplus land, to provide a written notice of the availability of the surplus land to specified entities and housing sponsors. Under existing law, land declared as "exempt surplus land" is not subject to these requirements. Existing law defines "exempt surplus land" to mean, among other things, surplus land totaling 10 or more acres, consisting of either a single parcel, or 2 or more adjacent or nonadjacent parcels combined for disposition to one or more buyers pursuant to a plan or ordinance adopted by the legislative body of the local agency, or a state statute. This bill would revise this definition of "exempt surplus land" to remove the reference to buyers and instead mean 2 or more adjacent or nonadjacent parcels combined for disposition to one or more persons or entities, as specified. (10) Existing law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a legislative body, as defined, of a local agency be open and public and that all persons be permitted to attend and participate. The act authorizes an eligible subsidiary body to conduct a teleconference meeting, provided that it complies with specified requirements, including that the legislative body that established the eligible subsidiary body makes specified findings. Existing law authorizes a subsidiary body authorized to use teleconferencing to present any recommendation it develops to the legislative body that created it, and requires the legislative body to hold a discussion at a regular meeting upon receiving a request. Existing law authorizes that discussion to be combined with the legislative body's subsequent consideration of the teleconferencing findings for the following 12 months. This bill would instead authorize that discussion to be combined with the legislative body's subsequent consideration of the teleconferencing findings for the following 6 months. The act also authorizes an eligible multijurisdictional body to conduct a teleconference meeting, provided that it complies with specified requirements. Existing law defines "eligible multijurisdictional body" to mean a multijurisdictional board, commission, or advisory body of a multijurisdictional, cross-county agency. This bill would redefine "eligible multijurisdictional body" to mean a multijurisdictional board, commission, or advisory body of a multijurisdictional, intercounty, or intracounty agency. (11) Existing law requires a legislative body of a county, before approving a tentative map, to make specified findings, except as provided. This bill would fix an erroneous cross-reference within that provision. (12) Existing law requires the Imperial County Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) , by December 31, 2026, and by December 31 every 5 years thereafter, to conduct a municipal service review regarding health care service provision within the boundaries of the district, as specified. This bill would instead require the Imperial County LAFCO to conduct that review by December 31, 2027, and by December 31 every 5 years thereafter. (13) This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Merced.
The Personal Income Tax Law, in modified conformity with federal income tax laws, defines "gross income" as income from whatever source derived, except as specifically excluded, and provides various exclusions from gross income. This bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2028, and before January 1, 2033, would exclude from gross income any reparations benefit or payment, as defined, received by a taxpayer during the taxable year. 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 also would include additional information required for any bill authorizing a new tax expenditure. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which health care services are provided to low-income individuals pursuant to a schedule of benefits. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Under existing law, pharmacist services are a benefit under the Medi-Cal program, subject to federal approval, and the rate of reimbursement for pharmacist services is 85% of the fee schedule for physician services, except for medication therapy management (MTM) pharmacist services. Existing law requires the department to implement an MTM reimbursement methodology relating to the dispensing of qualified specialty drugs by an eligible contracting pharmacy, which would be intended to supplement Medi-Cal payments to eligible pharmacies for MTM pharmacist services provided in conjunction with certain specialty drug therapy categories. This bill would additionally require the rate of reimbursement for advanced pharmacist practitioner services to be no less than 85% of the fee schedule for physician services, including MTM pharmacist services. The bill would, subject to, among other things, federal approval, require advanced pharmacist practitioners to be recognized as health care providers at federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics for reimbursement purposes under the Medi-Cal program. The bill would require the department to implement an MTM reimbursement methodology relating to the use of drugs to ensure that Medi-Cal payments are only made to eligible advanced pharmacist practitioners or pharmacies, including those operating at federally qualified health centers or rural health clinics, for MTM pharmacist services provided in conjunction with certain specialty drug therapy categories. 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 disability insurer that offers coverage for pharmacist services to pay or reimburse the cost of the service performed by a pharmacist at an in-network pharmacy or a pharmacist at an out-of-network pharmacy if the insurer has an out-of-network pharmacy benefit. Existing law authorizes this payment or reimbursement when specified conditions are met, including that the coverage otherwise provides reimbursement for identical services performed by other licensed health care providers. This bill would additionally require those health care service plans and disability insurers to pay or reimburse the cost of the service performed by a pharmacist enrolled as a provider with the plan or insurer. The bill would specify for these purposes that a pharmacist includes pharmacists who provide services at a federally qualified health center or a rural health clinic. The bill would authorize payment or reimbursement if the coverage otherwise provides reimbursement for similar services performed by other licensed health care providers, among other requirements. 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.
(1) Existing law establishes a single system for providing support to local educational agencies and schools and for specified federal educational programs. Existing law provides that the purpose of the statewide system of support is to build the capacity of local educational agencies, as specified. Existing law requires the State Department of Education and the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence to establish a process, administered by the department, to select, subject to approval by the executive director of the State Board of Education, an expert lead agency based on specific expertise in an area of need to conduct activities and build statewide capacity to address that area of need within the statewide system of support, as well as geographic lead agencies for other specified purposes, as provided. This bill would require the department and the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence, through contracts or memoranda of understanding with one or 2 county offices of education, to administer the Supporting Inclusive Practices project. The bill would provide that the purposes of the project are, among others, to improve pupil outcomes by increasing opportunities for pupils with disabilities to access education in general education settings, as provided, and to support the educator workforce to serve pupils with disabilities. The bill would require the collaborative, as part of the project, to administer the universal support components, including providing technical assistance to local educational agencies and charter schools focused on supporting evidence-based practices to increase access by pupils with disabilities to education in general education settings. The bill would require the department, as part of the project, to administer the direct support components by deploying targeted technical assistance to support local educational agencies and charter schools, as provided. The bill would require the department and the collaborative to coordinate their respective components, including a shared referral process by which local educational agencies and charter schools receiving assistance from the collaborative may be referred to the department for direct support, as provided. (2) Existing law appropriates $15,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for allocation to the Riverside County Office of Education and the El Dorado County Office of Education in equal amounts in support of the Supporting Inclusive Practices project, as provided. Existing law also appropriates, for the 2026–27 fiscal year, $30,000,000 from the General Fund to the department for allocation to the Riverside County Office of Education and the El Dorado County Office of Education in equal amounts in support of the Supporting Inclusive Practices project, as provided. Existing law requires the Riverside County Office of Education and the El Dorado County Office of Education to submit an expenditure plan to the State Department of Education on or before August 1 of each year that funding is made available, and requires the Supporting Inclusive Practices project to submit a report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction on or before June 30 of each year until the appropriated funds have been fully expended, as provided. This bill would revise those provisions by (A) instead appropriating the $30,000,000 to the department for allocation to the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence for allocation to only the El Dorado County Office of Education for the purposes of implementing the requirements described above in paragraph (1) on behalf of the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence and (B) limiting those expenditure plan and reporting requirements only for purposes of the $15,000,000 appropriation. By changing the terms of a previous appropriation, the bill would make an appropriation.
Existing law establishes within the office of the Governor, the office of the Governor's Tribal Advisor, which is headed by the Governor's Tribal Advisor who is appointed by and serves at the pleasure of the Governor. This bill would, instead, establish within the Office of the Governor, the Office of Tribal Affairs (office) , which is headed by the Secretary of Tribal Affairs who is appointed by and serves at the pleasure of the Governor, as specified. The bill would require each state agency that engages, or has programs, services, or responsibilities affecting tribal governments to, among other things, designate a tribal liaison, as described. The bill would require the office to be advised by a Tribal Advisory Committee, as described, and would require the committee to, among other things, provide recommendations and tribal perspectives to assist the office in strengthening government-to-government engagement and improving the design, access, and implementation of state programs and services affecting tribal governments. The bill would require the office to, among other things, support the implementation of consultation policies, facilitate direct engagement between state agencies and tribal governments, and provide training, guidance, and technical assistance to tribal liaisons and state agency personnel, as specified.
