Existing law authorizes the Board of Supervisors of the County of Alameda to establish a hospital authority for the purpose of effecting a transfer of the management, administration, and control of the Alameda Health System. Existing law requires the hospital authority to be governed by a board that is appointed, both initially and continually, by the board of supervisors. Existing law requires the enabling ordinance to specify the membership of the hospital authority governing board, the qualifications for individual members, the manner of appointment, selection, or removal of governing board members, their terms of office, and all other matters that the board of supervisors deems necessary or convenient for the conduct of the hospital authority's activities. Existing law specifies that a hospital authority established pursuant to these provisions, but that does not obtain the administration, management, and control of the medical center or has those duties and responsibilities revoked by the board of supervisors, is not empowered with the powers provided to an independent hospital authority, as specified. This bill would specify that the board of supervisors is authorized to amend the enabling ordinance. The bill would require the enabling ordinance to authorize the membership of the governing board to include, with the approval of the board of supervisors, a representative of any local public entity that contributes financial or other support to the hospital authority, as specified. The bill would authorize, at the board of supervisors' discretion and as specified in the enabling ordinance, the governing board to consist entirely of members of the board of supervisors or to include any number of the members of the board of supervisors or county officers or employees appointed to represent the interests of the county. The bill would prohibit the inclusion of members of the board of supervisors or county employees on the governing board from being a basis to determine that the hospital authority is not an independent entity or that the hospital authority has not obtained the administration, management, and control of the medical center. This bill would also authorize the governing board to delegate day-to-day operational responsibilities to one or more subsidiary bodies it establishes, consisting of members possessing relevant expertise, and requires that delegation to involve reasonable safeguards to ensure that the governing board retains ultimate control over the hospital authority. The bill would authorize the hospital authority to affiliate with, or acquire ownership or control of, additional public or private hospitals, clinics, or programs to further its mission, at the discretion of the governing board. After a hospital authority is created as specified, the bill would authorize the board of supervisors to change the composition of the governing board and to revoke the duties and responsibilities of the hospital authority and transfer the hospital authority back to the county.
Existing law, the Local Agency Public Construction Act, sets forth procedures that a local agency is required to follow when procuring certain services or work. The act requires the governing board of any school district and the governing board of any community college district to let contracts for the purchase of, among other things, equipment, materials, or supplies to be furnished, sold, or leased to the district, involving an expenditure of more than $50,000, to the lowest responsible bidder that gives security as the board requires, or else reject all bids. The act also authorizes the governing board of a school district, as described, to use, before December 31, 2030, a best value procurement method for bid evaluation and selection for public projects that exceed $1,000,000. This bill would additionally authorize the governing board of a community college district to use, before December 31, 2030, a best value procurement method for bid evaluation and selection for public projects that exceed $1,000,000. The bill would establish various requirements applicable to the use of the best value procurement method under this authorization. The bill would require a community college district to submit a report on the use of the best value procurement method, as specified, to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature, on or before January 1, 2030. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2031.
Existing law makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to refuse to grant a request by any employee to take up to 5 days of bereavement leave upon the death of a family member, as defined, to refuse to hire, or to discharge, demote, fine, suspend, expel, or discriminate against, an individual because of the individual's exercise of the right to bereavement leave or because of the individual's giving information or testimony as to their own or another person's bereavement leave, or to interfere with, restrain, or deny the exercise of, or the attempt to exercise, any of these rights, as specified. This bill would include a designated person identified by the employee, as specified, in the definition of "family member" and authorize an employer to limit an employee to one designated person per 12-month period for purposes of these provisions relating to bereavement leave.
Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services, subject to an appropriation, to provide grants to qualified nonprofit organizations through contracts, in order to provide certain immigration-related legal services to persons residing in, or formerly residing in, the state. Under existing law, those grants are aimed at obtaining certain immigration remedies and benefits, assisting with the naturalization process and an appeal arising from the process, or providing legal training and technical assistance. This bill would establish the Immigration Legal Fellowship Project within the department for the purpose of expanding access to high-quality immigration legal services by supporting legal fellowships for qualified individuals who provide immigration legal services under the grant programs described above. The bill would require the department to award grants or enter into contracts with nonprofit entities to operate legal fellowships that include specified components, including, among other things, the recruitment, placement, coordination, and hosting of legal fellows. The bill would authorize the department to establish eligibility criteria, application requirements, and funding priorities for the program. The bill would require the department to include specified information relating to the use of funds appropriated for the purposes of the project in reports and updates provided to the Legislature regarding other immigration-related programs. The bill would provide that the implementation of these provisions is contingent on an appropriation for these purposes.
This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 152 in the County of Santa Clara as the Rusty Areias Highway. The measure would request that the Department of Transportation determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources sufficient to cover the cost, to erect those signs.
Existing law requires the governing board of a school district or the governing body of a charter school that requires a course in health education for graduation from high school to include instruction in performing compression-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) , as provided. Existing law also encourages those entities to provide to pupils general information on the use and importance of an automated external defibrillators (AED) . Existing law further requires the State Department of Education to provide guidance on how to implement these provisions, including, but not limited to, who may provide instruction. Existing law establishes the Instructional Quality Commission and requires the commission to, among other things, recommend curriculum frameworks to the State Board of Education. This bill would require the commission, when the physical education framework is next revised after January 1, 2027, to consider including content on the importance, performance, and use of CPR and AEDs in that framework.
Existing law, the Public Cemetery District Law, contains various provisions relating to the establishment of public cemetery districts, including the formation of a district, the selection of a district governing board, and the powers and duties of the board. Existing law sets the term of office for a member of the board of trustees at 4 years, subject to certain exceptions, and prohibits a board of supervisors from reducing the term of office of a trustee once the trustee has been appointed to that term. This bill would authorize the board of trustees of a public cemetery district in the County of Tulare to adopt a resolution to remove a trustee for specified causes, including substantial neglect of duty, gross misconduct in office, or causing the board to be unable to discharge its duties. Prior to removal, the bill would entitle the trustee to notice and opportunity to respond to the proposed removal, as specified. If a board of trustees of a public cemetery district in the County of Tulare adopts a resolution that orders the removal of a trustee, the bill would require the Tulare County Board of Supervisors to promptly appoint a person to the board of trustees to fulfill the remaining term of office, as specified. This bill would authorize the Tulare County Board of Supervisors to adopt a resolution to remove a trustee from the board of trustees of a public cemetery district in the County of Tulare for specified causes, including, but not limited to, gross misconduct in office. The bill would require the resolution to be considered at a public hearing, as specified. After receiving and considering comments at the public hearing, the bill would authorize the Tulare County Board of Supervisors to adopt a resolution that orders the removal of the trustee, pursuant to certain requirements. If the Tulare County Board of Supervisors adopts a resolution that orders the removal of the trustee, the bill would require the board of supervisors to promptly appoint a person to the board of trustees to fulfill the remaining term of office, as specified. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Tulare.
Existing law, the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development (act) , governs the creation and operation of common interest developments. The act requires a declaration to be recorded to create a common interest development, and authorizes the declaration to be amended pursuant to the declaration's provisions or pursuant to processes specified in the act. This bill would establish a process for reinstating a declaration that has been terminated by operation of the provisions that set forth the initial term of the declaration. As a condition for reinstatement, the bill would require approval by the percentage of members that the declaration required for extending the term of the declaration. If the declaration does not specify that percentage, the bill would require approval by a majority of all members. The bill would make the declaration effective upon satisfaction of additional requirements, including certification of member approval and recording the declaration in the county recorder's office. The bill would make the extension of the terms of the declaration equal to the number of years of the initial term of the declaration or 20 years, whichever is less. The bill would make the bill's provisions applicable only to the County of Los Angeles and would repeal the provisions on January 1, 2028. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Los Angeles. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
(1) Existing law permits a defendant in a debt enforcement action, brought by a buyer of consumer debt who has obtained a default or default judgment against the defendant, to file a motion to set aside the default or default judgment and for leave to defend the action if the defendant did not receive actual notice of the action in time to defend against it. Existing law requires such a motion to be filed within 6 years after entry of the default or default judgment or 180 days after the first actual notice of the action, or, in the case of identity theft or mistaken identity, within a reasonable amount of time but in no case later than 180 days after the first actual notice of the action. This bill would clarify that a defendant who did not receive actual notice may file a motion to set aside and for leave to defend even if the service of the summons of the action was lawfully effected. (2) Existing law provides that if a copy of the summons and complaint cannot with reasonable diligence be personally delivered to the person to be served, the summons may be served by leaving a copy at the person's dwelling house, usual place of abode, usual place of business, or usual mailing address, in the presence of a person who is at least 18 years of age, and by thereafter mailing a copy of the summons and complaint as specified. Existing law also authorizes a summons in an action for unlawful detainer to be served by posting if the court is satisfied that the party to be served cannot with reasonable diligence be served in any authorized manner other than publication, and that other specified conditions are met. Existing law requires the proof of service of a summons to contain specified information and documentation. Beginning on January 1, 2027, existing law will define reasonable "diligence," for purposes of service of process in specified civil cases, to mean attempting personal delivery of the summons and complaint, in good faith, on at least three occasions on three different days at three different times. Beginning on January 1, 2027, existing law will require the proof of service of a summons and complaint, if served personally, by substituted service, or by posting, if the summons is for an action for unlawful detainer of real property, to include at least one photograph, if such can be obtained without compromising the safety of the process server, of the site of the effectuated or attempted service and contain a readable stamp and global positioning system (GPS) coordinates indicating the date, time, and location of service. Beginning on January 1, 2027, existing law will also require a process server to provide a detailed statement on the proof of service, as specified, if there is no GPS or cellular signal available at the time and place of the effected or attempted service. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to this provision. (3) Existing law prescribes methods for the service of a summons in a civil action. Under existing law, a party that was not served in accordance with those methods may file a motion to set aside or vacate a default or default judgment and for leave to defend the action or move for dismissal. The party making such a motion is required to proffer evidence that service was not lawfully effected. This proffer rebuts the presumption of facts stated in the process server's return and place the burden of proving by a preponderance of the evidence that service of the summons and complaint was lawful on the party seeking the default or default judgment. Existing law makes these provisions operative on January 1, 2027. This bill would clarify that the provisions described above apply to service attempted or completed on or after January 1, 2027, and that those provisions do not alter a court's existing authority to determine a motion for relief from a judgment that involves a proof of service filed before January 1, 2027. The bill would also clarify that a party who is not served may move for dismissal as permitted by existing law.
Existing law, the California Uniform Controlled Substances Act, classifies controlled substances into 5 designated schedules, with the most restrictive limitations generally placed on controlled substances classified in Schedule I, and the least restrictive limitations generally placed on controlled substances classified in Schedule V. Existing federal law also regulates controlled substances by schedule. Under existing state and federal law, testosterone is classified as a Schedule III controlled substance. This bill would, if testosterone or dihydrotestosterone is excluded from Schedule III of the federal Controlled Substances Act and reclassified to a less restrictive schedule or exempted from the act, deem it to be rescheduled or exempted, respectively, under this division.
Existing law provides that if a city council member is absent without permission from all regular city council meetings for a specified number of days from the last regular meeting they attended, their office becomes vacant and shall be filled as any other vacancy. This bill would require a city to establish a process for a city council member to notify the city clerk or other designated official in writing that they are taking parental leave, as defined, for 12 workweeks or longer if the city council member's city provides a parental leave period longer than 12 workweeks for their employees. The bill would exclude parental leave from counting toward the number of allowed absences allotted to each council member. The bill would prohibit the process from requiring a council member to make the declaration at a public hearing. 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. 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.
Existing law creates the California Rice Commission with a prescribed membership and authorizes the commission, among other things, to promote the sale of rice, educate and instruct the wholesale and retail trade with respect to proper methods of handling and selling rice, and conduct scientific research. Existing law declares the California Rice Commission to be necessary for, among other things, carrying out the California rice industry's commitment to responsible stewardship and increasingly efficient cultural practices. This bill would additionally declare the commission to be necessary for maintaining a sufficient footprint of annual rice acreage to support the wildlife habitat objectives of the state.
