This measure would declare October 28, 2025, as First Responders' Day and would urge all Californians to observe and promote the day with appropriate ceremonies and activities that promote awareness of the contributions of first responders in California.
This measure would proclaim the month of November 2025 as California Youth Homelessness Outreach, Prevention, and Education (HOPE) Month to recognize the need for individuals, schools, communities, businesses, local governments, and the state to take action on behalf of runaway and homeless youth in California.
This measure would proclaim November 2025 as Epilepsy Awareness Month and call upon all Californians to recommit their communities to increasing awareness and understanding of those living with epilepsy.
This measure would commemorate 50 years since Southeast Asian refugees began resettling in the United States, honor their sacrifices, recognize their contributions, uplift the principles of second chances, rehabilitation, and intergenerational healing for Southeast Asian Americans who resettled in the United States and California, and resolve the Legislature's continued pursuit of comprehensive policies for Southeast Asian American communities.
This measure would commemorate the 175th anniversary of the founding of the State of California and honor the profound contributions of its people, industries, and institutions to the advancement of our state, nation, and world.
This measure would proclaim the month of October 2025 as California Firefighter Appreciation Month and October 4, 2025, as California Firefighters Memorial Day.
SCR 104 proclaims October 2025 and each subsequent October as National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. This resolution does not create new laws, allocate funding, or impose requirements on any group. It serves as a formal legislative recognition to promote public awareness about domestic violence and encourage community efforts during October. The measure aims to support victims and prevent domestic violence through heightened visibility and educational activities.
(1) Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, establishes the Medical Board of California and sets forth its powers and duties relating to the licensure and regulation of physicians and surgeons. Existing law establishes the Osteopathic Medical Board of California and sets forth its powers and duties relating to the licensure and regulation of osteopathic physicians and surgeons consistent with the Osteopathic Act, as specified. This bill would require those boards to require each applicant to furnish a full set of fingerprints for purposes of conducting criminal history record checks. The bill would require the board to submit those fingerprint images and related information to the Department of Justice (DOJ) and would require the DOJ to charge a fee for those costs, as prescribed. Existing law requires medical school graduates, within 180 days after beginning a board-approved postgraduate program, to obtain a physician's and surgeon's postgraduate training license. Existing law requires each application to include either fingerprint cards or a copy of a completed Live Scan form from the applicant in order to establish the identity of the applicant and whether the applicant has a criminal conviction, in accordance with specified provisions. This bill would delete the above provisions on using that information in order to establish the applicant's identity and criminal conviction records. The bill would instead require those boards to submit to the DOJ fingerprint images and related information required by the DOJ of all applicants to determine whether the applicant has a criminal conviction record, as specified. The bill would require the DOJ to provide a state- and federal-level response, as described. Existing law requires each application for a medical license to contain specified information including either fingerprint cards or a copy of a completed Live Scan form from the applicant in order to establish the applicant's identity and criminal conviction records. This bill would delete the above provisions on using that information in order to establish the applicant's identity and criminal conviction records. The bill would instead require those boards to submit to the DOJ fingerprint images and related information required by the DOJ of all applicants to determine whether the applicant has a criminal conviction record, as specified. The bill would require the DOJ to provide a state- and federal-level response, as described. Existing law establishes a process for physicians who are not citizens but who meet certain postgraduate requirements to participate in professional activities of approved medical schools or academic medical centers, subject to completing an application process and submitting the requisite fees established by the board. This bill would require the board to submit to the DOJ fingerprint images and related information to determine if an applicant has a criminal conviction record, as specified. The bill would require the DOJ to provide a state- and federal-level response, as described. Existing law establishes a process for a person who does not immediately qualify for a physician's and surgeon's certificate and who is offered a full-time faculty position at a medical school or academic medical center to be granted a certificate to engage in the practice of medicine. Existing law requires an applicant to submit specified information to the board to qualify for the certificate. This bill would require the board to submit to the DOJ fingerprint images and related information to determine whether an applicant has a criminal conviction record, as specified. The bill would require the DOJ to provide a specified response, as described. Existing law establishes the Licensed Physicians from Mexico Program under which the Medical Board of California is required to issue a 3-year physician and surgeon's license to each licensed physician from Mexico who, among other requirements, passes a board review course with a score equivalent to that registered by United States applicants when passing a board review course for the United States certification examination in each of the physician's specialty areas. This bill would delete that requirement. The bill would also require the board to submit to the DOJ fingerprint images and related information to determine whether an applicant has a criminal conviction record, as specified. The bill would require the DOJ to provide a specified state- and federal-level response, as described. Existing law authorizes a person who meets specified eligibility requirements to apply for a special faculty permit to practice medicine only within a medical school or certain affiliated institution. Existing law requires the application for a special faculty permit to be on a form prescribed by the board and to include specified information regarding the applicant's qualifications. This bill would require the board to submit to the DOJ fingerprint images and related information to determine whether an applicant has a criminal conviction record, as specified. The bill would require the DOJ to provide a specified state- and federal-level response, as described. (2) Existing law, the Licensed Midwifery Practice Act of 1993, provides for the licensure and regulation of midwives by the Medical Board of California in accordance with specified procedures. This bill would require the board to submit to the DOJ fingerprint images and related information to determine whether an applicant has a criminal conviction record, as specified. The bill would require the DOJ to provide a specified state and federal response, as described. (3) Existing law, the Psychology Licensing Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of psychologists by the Board of Psychology. Existing law also establishes a process whereby a person who is registered with the board as a psychological associate may perform psychological functions in preparation for licensure as a psychologist. Existing law further establishes procedures for graduates and students who have completed certain psychoanalysis training to engage in psychoanalysis as an adjunct to teaching, training, or research, subject to meeting certain requirements. Existing law authorizes a person who is registered with the board as a psychological testing technician to administer and score standardized objective psychological and related tests, upon meeting specified application requirements. This bill would require the board to require the above-described applicants for licensure or registration under that law to undergo a fingerprint-based state and national criminal history background check. The bill would require the board to submit to the DOJ fingerprint images and related information for those individuals and would require the department to provide a state- and federal-level response, as described. (4) Existing law requires the Medical Board of California to promulgate regulations regarding qualifications for the registration of individuals as certified polysomnographic technologists, polysomnographic technicians, and polysomnographic trainees, in accordance with certain procedures. Under existing law, an individual seeking registration from the board under these provisions is subject to a state- and federal-level criminal offender record information search conducted through the DOJ, as specified. This bill would revise and recast the above-described criminal information requirements. The bill would require the board to submit to the DOJ fingerprint images and related information to determine whether an applicant has a criminal conviction record, as specified. The bill would also require the department to provide a state- and federal-level response, as described. (5) Existing law establishes the Board of Behavioral Sciences to license and regulate specified professionals, including marriage and family therapists and educational psychologists, among others. Existing law requires the board to keep an accurate record of all applicants for licensure and all individuals to whom it has issued a license. This bill would require the board to require an applicant for a marriage and family therapist licensure, registration as an associate marriage and family therapist, and other specified behavioral sciences professionals to undergo a fingerprint-based state and national criminal history background check. The bill would require the board to submit to the DOJ fingerprint images and related information to determine whether an applicant has a criminal conviction record, as specified. The bill would require the DOJ to provide a state- and federal-level response, as described. (6) Existing law, the Collateral Recovery Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of repossession agencies by the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services. This bill would require the bureau to require each applicant as a repossession agency licensee, qualified certificate holder, or registrant, as defined, to undergo a fingerprint-based state and national criminal history background check. The bill would require the bureau to submit to the DOJ fingerprint images and related information on applicants. The bill would require the DOJ to provide a state- and federal-level response, as prescribed. (7) Existing law, the Private Investigator Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of private investigators by the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services. This bill would require the bureau to require each applicant for a private investigator license and qualified manager, as defined, to undergo a fingerprint-based state and national criminal history background check. The bill would require the bureau to submit to the DOJ fingerprint images and related information on applicants. The bill would require the DOJ to provide a state- and federal-level response, as described. (8) Existing law, the Household Movers Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of household movers, including corporations and persons, as defined, by the Division of Household Movers established within the Bureau of Household Goods and Services. Existing law establishes a process for each applicant under that act to submit to the DOJ fingerprint images and related information as a prerequisite to the issuance of a permit to operate as a household mover. This bill would revise and recast those provisions. The bill would require the bureau to require each applicant for a permit as a household mover, as defined, to undergo a fingerprint-based state and national criminal history background check. The bill would require the bureau to submit to the DOJ fingerprint images and related information for the purposes of obtaining information as to state and federal convictions and arrests, as prescribed. (9) Existing law requires a fingerprint-based criminal history information check that is required pursuant to any statute to be requested from the DOJ. When a government agency or other entity requests such a criminal history check for purposes of employment, licensing, or certification, existing law requires the DOJ to disseminate specified information in response to the request, including information regarding convictions and arrests for which the applicant is presently awaiting trial. Existing law establishes the State Department of Education, under the administration of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and assigns to it numerous duties relating to the governance and financing of the public elementary and secondary schools of this state. Existing law establishes the California School for the Deaf, Northern California, the California School for the Deaf, Southern California, and the California School for the Blind, known as the state special schools, under the administration of the department, and 3 related diagnostic centers under the administration of the Superintendent, as provided. This bill would authorize the department to require employees, prospective employees, volunteers, contractors, and subcontractors of the department, the state special schools, or the diagnostic centers to undergo a fingerprint-based state and national criminal history background check, as provided. (10) Existing law establishes the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in the state. This bill would authorize the California State University to require employees, prospective employees, volunteers, contractors to undergo a fingerprint-based state and national criminal history background check, as provided. (11) The California Constitution provides that the University of California constitutes a public trust administered by the Regents of the University of California, a corporation in the form of a board, with full powers of organization and government, subject to legislative control only for specified purposes, including, among others, as may be necessary to ensure the security of its funds. This bill would expressly authorize the University of California to require background checks, to be completed by the DOJ as specified, during the final stages of the recruitment process for prospective staff employees, contractors, and volunteers. (12) Existing law requires the sheriff or other specified agency to furnish a classifiable set of fingerprints to the DOJ and to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for every peace officer employed, except as provided. This bill would require a law enforcement agency, as defined, to require peace officers and prospective peace officers to undergo a criminal history background check and to submit fingerprint images and related information to the DOJ, as specified. The bill would require the DOJ to provide a state- or federal-level response, as described. By increasing the duties of local law enforcement agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (13) Under the Yacht and Ship Brokers Act, the Division of Boating and Waterways in the Department of Parks and Recreation licenses the activities of brokers and salespersons engaged in the buying and selling of yachts and ships, as specified. The act authorizes the division to deny an application or suspend or revoke the license of a yacht broker or yacht salesperson who, within 4 years immediately preceding, has committed any of certain specified acts, including, among others, having been convicted of a felony or any crime involving moral turpitude or withholding information from the department that they at any time have been convicted of a felony or any crime involving moral turpitude. This bill would require the division to require an applicant for a yacht and ship broker or salesperson license to undergo a fingerprint-based state and national criminal history background check, as provided. (14) Existing law requires the DOJ to maintain state summary criminal history information, as defined, and to furnish this information to various state and local government officers, officials, and other prescribed entities, if needed in the course of their duties. Existing law makes it a crime for a person authorized by law to receive state summary criminal history information to knowingly furnish that information to a person who is not authorized to receive it. This bill would require the DOJ to inform the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the Senate Standing Committee on Public Safety, and the Assembly Public Safety Committee, as specified, within 30 days of determining that a legislative enactment is likely to be needed, for an entity that is authorized to receive criminal history information, to reestablish or retain proper authorization for an applicant population. The bill would additionally prohibit the department from disseminating criminal history information, as specified. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would require a criminal justice agency to submit fingerprint images and related information for a specified individual to the department if the individual is subject to a state or national criminal history background check, as specified. By expanding the scope of the crime of unlawful disclosure of state summary criminal history information, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would require certain government entities, including, among others, the California State Summer School for the Arts and the Department of Fish and Wildlife, to submit fingerprint images and related information for various persons, including employees or prospective employees, to the DOJ, if the employees are subject to a state and national criminal history background check, as specified. The bill would also require a law enforcement agency, if it performs a background check, to submit fingerprint images and related information for a retiring or retired peace officer seeking an endorsement for the officer to carry a concealed and loaded firearm. (15) Existing law requires the DOJ to provide subsequent state or federal arrest or disposition notification to the State Department of Social Services, the Medical Board of California, the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, and other authorized entities to assist in, among other things, fulfilling employment, licensing, or certification duties. Existing law requires an entity, other than a law enforcement agency, as defined, to enter into a contract with the DOJ in order to receive notification of subsequent state or federal arrests or dispositions for licensing, employment, or certification purposes. Commencing January 1, 2028, this bill would no longer exempt law enforcement agencies from the contract requirement. Commencing January 1, 2028, the bill would also require authorized entities for each volunteer, as specified, to verify no less than every 6 months that the person is still a volunteer with the entity. 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. (17) This bill would, for the 2025–26 fiscal year, appropriate the sum of $10,000 to the DOJ for purposes of administering the above-described fingerprint requirements. (18) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.
(1) Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to establish and implement a community treatment program, under which a woman sentenced to state prison who has one or more children under 6 years of age is eligible for release with the woman's children to a public or private facility in the community suitable to their needs. Existing law authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to enter into contracts with public or private agencies to provide housing, sustenance, supervision, and services, subject to the approval of the Director of General Services. This bill would remove the requirement that the contracts be approved by the Director of General Services. The bill would authorize the department to enter into long-term contracts, not to exceed 10 years, for the transfer of prisoners to, or placement of prisoners in, facilities under contract pursuant to these provisions. The bill would require that the secretary advertise potential contracts under these provisions and would require that priority be given to certain community treatment programs, as specified. (2) Under existing law, the primary responsibilities of the State Public Defender are to represent those persons who are entitled to representation at public expense in specified proceedings, to provide assistance and training to specified attorneys, and to engage in related efforts for the purpose of improving the quality of indigent defense. This bill would exempt contracts entered into or amended by the State Public Defender to implement those duties from specified contract register requirements, specified small business procurement, disabled veteran business, and public contracting provisions, and from the review or approval of any division of the Department of General Services. (3) Existing law creates within the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation the Prison Industry Authority and Prison Industry Board. Existing law continues in existence within the department the Prison Industry Authority and the Prison Industry Authority Board, among other entities. This bill would revise these provisions to rename the Prison Industry Authority as the California Correctional Training and Rehabilitation Authority, and to rename the Prison Industry Board as the California Correctional Training and Rehabilitation Board. The bill would make these provisions operative only if SB 857 of the 2025–26 Regular Session is enacted and takes effect on or before January 1, 2026. (4) Existing law, the California Public Records Act, generally requires public records to be open for inspection by the public. Existing law provides numerous exceptions to this requirement. Under existing law, the personnel records of peace officers and custodial officers are confidential and not subject to public inspection. Existing law provides certain exemptions to this confidentiality, including the reports, investigations, and findings of certain incidents involving the use of force by a peace officer. Existing law makes records relating to an investigation conducted by a local detention facility into a death incident, as defined, available to public inspection, as specified. Existing law establishes the Board of State and Community Corrections, with the mission of, among other things, promoting legal and safe conditions for youth, inmates, and staff in local detention facilities. Existing law creates the position of Director of In-Custody Death Review within the board. This bill would authorize the director to have access to, and authority to, examine and reproduce records of any local detention facility, as specified. By increasing duties on local governments, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (5) Existing law, the California Community Corrections Performance Incentives Act of 2009, authorizes each county to establish a Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund, and provides annual payments to the counties for purposes relating to improving local probation supervision practices and capacities. Existing law continuously appropriates the State Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund for these incentive payments. Existing law, as part of those annual payments, requires the Director of Finance, in consultation with certain entities, to annually calculate a statewide performance incentive payment and a county performance incentive payment for each eligible county. Existing law requires the director to calculate those payments based on, among other things, the cost to the state to incarcerate in a contract facility and supervise on parole an offender who fails local supervision and is sent to prison. This bill would instead make that calculation based on the per capita cost to the state to incarcerate in a state prison and supervise on parole an offender who fails local supervision and is sent to prison, calculated pursuant to specified formulas. Existing law also requires that calculation to be based on an estimate of the number of felons on probation, mandatory supervision, and postrelease community supervision each county successfully prevented from being incarcerated in state prison, determined based on the reduction in the county's probation and mandatory supervision failure rate as calculated annually for that year and the county's failure rate from the previous year. This bill would instead calculate that estimate based on the actual number of individuals under one of those forms of supervision admitted to state prison from each county in the previous calendar year subtracted from each county's baseline admission to prison rate for those forms of supervision, as specified, multiplied by the average daily population of those forms of supervision for each county in the previous calendar year. Existing law additionally requires the Director of Finance to calculate a statewide performance incentive payment for each county using a formula based on the county's return to prison rate and the county's highest year of funding that the county received from the California Community Incentive Grant Program from the 2011–12 fiscal year to the 2014–15 fiscal year, inclusive, as specified. This bill would repeal those provisions. The bill would additionally, beginning with the 2025–26 fiscal year, appropriate $103,668,010 to the State Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund from the General Fund, to be distributed to counties, as specified. The bill would decrease a county's appropriation pursuant to these provisions by a factor of 10% for each percentage point the county return to prison rate exceeds its baseline return to prison rate, as specified. Existing law additionally requires the Director of Finance to calculate a statewide performance incentive payment based on the number of felons on probation, mandatory supervision, or postrelease community supervision that were successfully prevented from being incarcerated in the state prison, multiplied by 35% of the state's costs to incarcerate a prison felony offender in a contract facility, as specified. This bill would instead multiply that number by 25% of the average of the state's per capita cost to incarcerate a prison felony offender in a state prison and supervise an individual on parole. By changing the distribution of continuously appropriated funds and making a new appropriation, this bill would make an appropriation. (6) 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. (7) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.
(1) Existing law, the Child Care and Developmental Services Act, administered by the State Department of Social Services, establishes a system of childcare and development services for children up to 13 years of age. Existing law authorizes, upon departmental approval, the use of appropriated funds for alternative payment programs to allow for maximum parental choice. Existing law authorizes those programs to include, among other things, a subsidy that follows the family from one provider to another, or choices among hours of service. Under existing law, effective July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026, reimbursement of state-subsidized childcare and development providers and license-exempt providers is to be based on the maximum authorized hours of care, as specified. Existing law, the Early Education Act, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to provide an inclusive and cost-effective preschool program. Under existing law, commencing January 1, 2023, through June 30, 2026, reimbursement of California state preschool family childcare home education network providers is to be based on the maximum certified hours of care, as specified. This bill would extend the period in which reimbursement of state-subsidized childcare and development providers, license-exempt providers, and California state preschool family childcare home education network providers is based on the maximum authorized or certified, as applicable, hours of care to July 1, 2028. (2) Existing law allocates certain appropriated funds to the State Department of Social Services and the State Department of Education to provide specified family childcare providers and childcare centers with a monthly cost of care plus rate commencing January 1, 2024, and through June 30, 2026. The monthly cost of care plus rate is a supplemental monthly payment to those providers and centers. Existing law establishes the base amount of the monthly cost of care plus rate and, for the period from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026, provides for an increase to that base amount. This bill would extend the payment of the monthly cost of care plus rate, including the increase, indefinitely, for those family childcare providers and childcare centers. The bill would additionally establish a one-time payment to family daycare providers for the total amount of the increase for each month or partial month occurring between July 1, 2025, and December 30, 2025. The bill would require the payment to be paid to providers by January 1, 2026, contingent on full ratification by September 30, 2025, of the tentative agreement received between the State of California and the Child Care Providers United - California (CCPU) on August 7, 2025. The bill would specify that, if full ratification of the tentative agreement is not achieved by September 30, 2025, the January 1, 2026, deadline for the payment would not be applicable; however, the bill would require, if the payment is not made by January 1, 2026, that providers receive an increase to the one-time payment, as specified. The bill would also require those family daycare providers and childcare centers to receive a one-time, per-child stabilization payment. That payment would be $431 for licensed family childcare providers and childcare centers and $300 for license-exempt family childcare providers. The bill would require, if the tentative agreement described above is ratified by September 30, 2025, this one-time payment to be made to family childcare providers by January 1, 2026. This bill would appropriate $157,852,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Social Services for the purpose of making those one-time stabilization payments to family childcare providers and childcare centers, as specified. The bill would also approve the agreement dated August 7, 2025, entered into by the Governor and Child Care Providers United - California, in its sole capacity as the certified provider organization representing family childcare providers, as specified. (3) Existing law establishes, and appropriates funds to, the Joint Child Care Providers United - State of California Training Partnership Fund and the Child Care Providers United - California (CCPU) Workers Health Care Fund. Existing law also appropriates funds to the State Department of Social Services for a one-time contribution payable to Child Care Providers United - California (CCPU) , or its designee, for the establishment of the CCPU Retirement Trust. This bill would, for each year of the tentative agreement described above, from July 1, 2025, to July 1, 2028, inclusive, require funds to be allocated in the annual Budget Act, upon approval of the Department of Finance, to those funds and trust. (4) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.
The Budget Acts of 2021, 2023, 2024, and 2025 made appropriations for the support of state government for the 2021–22, 2023–24, 2024–25, and 2025–26 fiscal years, respectively. This bill would amend those budget acts by amending, adding, and repealing items of appropriation and making other changes. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.
(1) Existing law, the Public Employees' Retirement Law (PERL) creates the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) for the purpose of providing pensions and benefits to state employees and their beneficiaries and prescribes the rights and duties of employers participating in the system. Under PERL, benefits are funded by investment income and employer and employee contributions, which are deposited into the Public Employees' Retirement Fund, a continuously appropriated trust fund administered by the system's board of administration. PERL prescribes methods for the calculation and payment of the state employer contribution for its employees who are PERS members. PERL provides for an annual adjustment of the state's contribution in the budget and quarterly appropriations to the Public Employees' Retirement Fund from the General Fund and other funds that are responsible for payment of the employer contribution. Existing law makes additional General Fund appropriations to the Public Employees' Retirement Fund for the 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24, and 2024–25 fiscal years. Supplemental payments connected with appropriations for those fiscal years are to be apportioned to the state employee member categories generally, as directed by the Department of Finance, and to specified state employee member categories, including to the state miscellaneous member category, the industrial member category, the state safety member category, and the state peace officer/firefighter member category. The California Constitution establishes the Budget Stabilization Account in the General Fund and requires the Controller, in each fiscal year, to transfer from the General Fund to the Budget Stabilization Account amounts that include a sum equal to 1.5% of the estimated amount of General Fund revenues for that fiscal year. These provisions further require, until the 2029–30 fiscal year, that the Legislature appropriate a percentage of these moneys, the amount of which is generated pursuant to specified calculations, for certain obligations and purposes, including addressing unfunded liabilities for state-level pension plans. This bill would appropriate $372,000,000 from the General Fund for the purposes identified in the constitutional provisions described above, to supplement the state's appropriation to the Public Employees' Retirement Fund. The bill would specify that this appropriation represents a portion of the amount identified in a specific provision of the Budget Act of 2025. The bill would require the Department of Finance to provide the Controller with a schedule establishing the timing of specific transfers. The bill would require the supplemental payment to the Public Employees' Retirement Fund to be apportioned to specified state employee member categories, not to exceed $174,523,000 to the state miscellaneous member category, $10,296,000 to the state industrial member category, $20,479,000 to the state safety member category, and $166,702,000 to the state peace officer/firefighter member category. The bill would require the appropriation described above to be applied to the unfunded state liabilities for the state employee member categories that are in excess of the base amounts for the 2025–26 fiscal year. (2) PERL authorizes any public agency to make its employees members of PERS by contract. Under existing law, when a contracting agency is succeeded by another agency, the successor agency may become a contracting agency of PERS. Existing law provides that if the successor agency contracts with PERS, the contract of the former agency shall merge with the contract of the succeeding agency. Existing law authorizes specified successor agencies to provide employees the defined benefit plan or formula that those employees received from their respective employer prior to annexation. This bill would authorize a successor agency for the Humboldt No. 1 Fire Protection District and City of Eureka Fire Department to provide employees the defined benefit plan or formula that those employees received from their respective employer prior to the annexation, as prescribed. (3) Existing law authorizes a local government, when hiring additional firefighters, to appoint as a member or officer any person who meets specified criteria, including, among other things, that the person was serving as a permanent career civilian federal firefighter in good standing at any United States military installation and that the person was, as a consequence of the closure, downsizing, or realignment of a federal military installation, terminated as a permanent career civilian federal firefighter, as specified. This bill would revise these provisions to specify the person was serving as a permanent career civilian firefighter, in good standing, employed by the federal government or contracted to serve at a federal installation, and would make conforming changes. (4) Existing law establishes the In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program, administered by the State Department of Social Services and counties, under which qualified aged, blind, and disabled persons are provided with services in order to permit them to remain in their own homes. Under existing law, a county board of supervisors may elect to contract with a nonprofit consortium or establish a public authority to provide for the delivery of in-home supportive services. If a public authority or nonprofit consortium and an employee organization fail to reach agreement on a bargaining contract with IHSS workers, existing law authorizes either party to request mediation, and if there is no settlement effected through mediation, existing law requires the parties to submit their differences to factfinding. Existing law authorizes, if both parties agree, the parties to bypass the mediation process and move directly to factfinding, and authorizes either party to request postfactfinding mediation, as specified. Existing law prohibits the findings of fact and recommended settlement terms from being made public until the mediation has concluded if either party elects postfactfinding mediation. This bill would instead authorize either party to opt to bypass the mediation process to move directly to factfinding, and would instead authorize both the parties, by mutual agreement, to request postfactfinding mediation. The bill would require the findings of fact and recommended settlement terms to be made public immediately if either party declines to elect postfactfinding mediation. Existing law subjects a county to a withholding of 1991 Realignment funds if, among other things, the county does not reach an agreement with the employee organization within 90 days after the release of the factfinding panel's recommended settlement terms. This bill would instead change that timeline to 30 days after the release of the factfinding panel's recommended settlement term. Existing law also establishes the Medi-Cal program, 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 authorizes certain Medi-Cal recipients to receive waiver personal care services, as defined, in order to allow the recipients to remain in their own homes. Existing law requires that in-home supportive services and waiver personal care services be performed by providers within a workweek that does not exceed 66 hours per week. Existing law defines the total number of hours worked within a workweek to be the sum of all hours worked providing authorized services and travel time. If federal financial participation is available for travel time, existing law prohibits the travel time from being included in the calculation of the total weekly hours worked within a workweek. Existing law specifies that only federal law and regulations regarding overtime compensation apply to the aforementioned providers of authorized services. This bill would instead require the hours worked by a provider in the performance of services or travel time that exceed 40 hours in a workweek to be compensated at one and 1 12 times the provider's hourly wage, and would, for the purposes of overtime compensation, disregard whether federal financial participation is available for travel time. Existing law, the California Public Records Act, requires public records to be open to inspection at all times during the office hours of the state or local agency that retains those records, and provides that every person has a right to inspect any public record, except as provided. Existing law provides that certain information regarding persons paid by the state to provide in-home supportive services or certain personal care services are not subject to disclosure under those provisions. Existing law further provides that copies of names, addresses, home telephone numbers, and other identifying information are required to be made available, upon request, to an exclusive bargaining agent and to any labor organization seeking representation rights under specified collective bargaining provisions. This bill would, if the State Department of Social Services determines it is necessary to avoid disruption to payroll processes, authorize banking information, subject to a data sharing agreement, to be provided to the payment processing contractor of the recognized employee organization only for persons who have signed a membership agreement authorizing such disclosure. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to be responsible for procuring and implementing a new Case Management Information and Payroll System (CMIPS) to provide case management, payroll, and management information in order to support the IHSS program and Personal Care Services Program. The bill would require the department to contract for payrolling or related functions, as necessary, subject to the same statutory requirements that apply to the State Controller when making such deductions. (5) This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Humboldt. (6) The California Constitution requires local agencies, for the purpose of ensuring public access to the meetings of public bodies and the writings of public officials and agencies, to comply with a statutory enactment that amends or enacts laws relating to public records or open meetings and contains findings demonstrating that the enactment furthers the constitutional requirements relating to this purpose. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect. (7) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.
