Existing law authorizes specified state departments and authorities, as well as counties, upon determination that an advance payment is essential for the effective implementation of a program, to advance to a community-based private nonprofit agency with which it has contracted for the delivery of services funds not exceeding 25% of the annual allocation to be made to the agency during the fiscal year. Existing law also establishes a pilot program, which is repealed on July 1, 2025, to explore possible improvements to the state's existing advance payment practices for state-funded assistance grants. Existing law authorizes an administering state agency of a grant program to advance a payment to a recipient entity, which means a local agency or a nongovernmental entity that is awarded a grant by an administering state agency and with whom the administering state agency has entered into a contract pursuant to that grant, in accordance with specified procedures. This bill would require state and county departments that offer grants to nonprofit organizations to advance a payment of 10% of the total grant amount awarded to the nonprofit organization, upon request of the nonprofit administrators. By imposing additional duties on counties, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Existing law requires land to be declared either "surplus land" or "exempt surplus land," as supported by written findings, before a local agency may take any action to dispose of it consistent with an agency's policies or procedures. Existing law establishes procedures for the disposal of surplus land, including requiring certain information to be provided to the Department of Housing and Community Development. These procedures do not apply to the disposal of exempt surplus land. Existing law describes various categories of "exempt surplus land," including surplus land that is less than 5,000 square feet in area, less than the minimum legal residential building lot size for the jurisdiction in which the parcel is located, or 5,000 square feet in area, whichever is less, or has no record access and is less than 10,000 square feet in area; and is not contiguous to land owned by a state or local agency that is used for open-space or low- and moderate-income housing purposes. In this regard, if this category of surplus land is not sold to an owner of contiguous land, it is not considered exempt surplus land and is subject to the surplus land procedures. This bill would expand the above category of "exempt surplus land" to include land that is designated in an adopted downtown revitalization plan not to exceed 1.1 square miles and includes residential, commercial, office, civic and hospitality uses.
Existing law requires every local public agency within its respective jurisdiction to establish and have in operation a basic system, or be part of a system, that processes "911" emergency telephone calls. Existing law requires each system to include police, firefighting, and emergency medical and ambulance services, and authorizes the system to include other emergency services, such as poison control services, suicide prevention services, and civil defense services. Existing law requires a public safety agency that provides "911" call processing services for emergency medical response to make a connection available from the public safety agency dispatch center to an emergency medical services (EMS) provider's dispatch center for the timely transmission of emergency response information. Existing law requires a public safety agency implementing an emergency medical dispatch program to perform "911" call processing services and operate the program in accordance with applicable state guidelines and regulations and the policies adopted by the local EMS agency, as specified. This bill would require the University of California at Davis Health (UC Davis Health) to establish a program for the receipt and collection of "911" emergency call and dispatch data, in order to complete an analysis of the data for the purpose of improving emergency response services systems. The bill would require UC Davis Health to adopt uniform statewide data standards for "911" call and dispatch data, as specified, and to create a data portal that catalogs the collected data, aggregated on a statewide level, and containing only deidentified data, as defined. Under the bill, the Emergency Medical Services Authority, the Office of Emergency Services, the Department of Health Care Access and Information, and the Department of Justice would collaborate with UC Davis Health for purposes of this program. The bill would require any applicable entity, as specified, whether state or local, public or private, that has available to it "911" call and dispatch data to send the data to UC Davis Health. By creating new duties for local public entities, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would condition implementation of these provisions on an appropriation, approval by the Regents of the University of California for the participation of UC Davis Health, and the provisions not superseding or preempting the applicability of any existing state or federal privacy laws. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, establishes the Medical Board of California within the Department of Consumer Affairs and sets forth its powers and duties relating to the licensure and regulation of physicians and surgeons. Existing law prohibits a person from using the words "doctor" or "physician," the letters or prefix "Dr.," the initials "M.D.," or any other terms or letters indicating or implying that the person is a physician and surgeon, physician, surgeon, or practitioner, unless the person has been issued a physician's and surgeon's certificate by the board, and makes a violation of these provisions a crime. This bill would specifically prohibit a person who has earned a Master of Divinity from displaying the title "MDiv" or "M.D.i.v." in a communication or advertisement relating to the person's practice unless the title is clearly distinguishable from the title "MD" or "M.D." The bill would provide that prohibited displays include, but are not limited to, using different colors, fonts, or font sizes in a way that makes the "MD" or "M.D." more prominent than the "iv" or "i.v." The bill would specify that a person who violates this provision is not subject to criminal penalties, as specified.
Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, provides for the licensing and regulation of physicians and surgeons by the Medical Board of California. Existing law requires the board, in determining its continuing education requirements, to consider including a course in integrating mental and physical health care in primary care settings, especially as it pertains to early identification of mental health issues and exposure to trauma in children and young adults and their appropriate care and treatment. Existing law requires a physician and surgeon to provide notice to patients at an initial office visit regarding a specified database. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license and regulate health facilities, including general acute care hospitals. A violation of those provisions is generally a crime. Existing law requires a general acute care hospital to establish and adopt written policies and procedures to screen patients who are 12 years of age and older for purposes of detecting a risk for suicidal ideation and behavior. 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. This bill would require a physician and surgeon, a general acute care hospital, a health care service plan, and a health insurer to provide to each legal guardian of a patient, enrollee, or insured, 10 to 18 years of age, a written or electronic notice regarding the benefits of a behavioral health and wellness screening. The bill would require the providers to provide the notice at least once every 2 years in the preferred method of the legal guardian. Because a violation of the bill's requirements relative to health care service plans and health facilities would be crimes, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. 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. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing law requires a Medi-Cal managed care plan, no later than January 1, 2025, to conduct annual outreach and education for its enrollees, based on a plan that the Medi-Cal managed care plan develops and submits to the department, as specified, regarding the mental health benefits that are covered by the Medi-Cal managed care plan. This bill would require a Medi-Cal managed care plan to include the above-described notice requirement in their outreach and education plan. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Existing law prohibits any person from being unlawfully denied full and equal access to the benefits of, or from being unlawfully subjected to discrimination under, any program or activity that is conducted, operated, or administered by the state or by any state agency funded directly by the state, or that receives any financial assistance from the state, on the basis of race. Existing law prohibits the state, including any county, from discriminating against, or granting preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting. Existing law prohibits the inclusion of any question relative to an applicant's race in any application blank or form required to be filled in and submitted by an applicant to any department, board, commission, officer, agent, or employee of this state. Existing law makes a violation of this provision a misdemeanor. Existing law requires the Controller to superintend the fiscal concerns of the state and to audit all claims against the state. Existing law requires the Controller to suggest plans for the improvement and management of the public revenues. Existing law requires the Controller to summon county auditors to meet with the Controller at least once each year for the purpose of discussion, among other things, promotion of uniformity of procedure in all matters pertaining to the duties of county auditors throughout the state. This bill would require the Controller, on or before January 1, 2025, and every 5 years thereafter, to perform a comprehensive antiracism audit, as defined, of each state agency and county. The bill would require each state agency and county, within one year following completion of its audit, to establish and implement an action plan, as specified, tailored to the function of the agency or particular activities of the county, to rectify deficiencies in the agency's or county's efforts to identify, interrupt, and dismantle racist practices, policies, and attitudes identified by the antiracism audit. Because the bill would require local officials to perform additional duties, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would require the Controller to evaluate and approve the sufficiency of each action plan to rectify deficiencies in the agency's or county's efforts to identify, interrupt, and dismantle racist practices, policies, and attitudes. The bill would authorize the Controller, if they determine that appropriate progress has not been made by a state agency or county toward rectifying deficiencies identified in the antiracism audit within 3 years following completion of the action plan, to impose a civil penalty or to bring an action in a court of appropriate jurisdiction to hold all property of the state agency or county subject to a receivership in a manner directed or ratified by the court. The bill would require the Controller to establish rules and regulations to carry out the purposes of this section. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Existing law regulates the construction and operation of dams and exempts certain structures for these purposes. Existing law requires the owner of such exempt structures to employ a registered civil engineer to supervise the structure, as prescribed. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the above provision.
Existing law makes all persons eligible and qualified to be prospective trial jurors, except persons who, among other things, are not citizens of the United States. This bill would instead make a person eligible and qualified to be a prospective juror if they are a lawful permanent resident.
Existing law with respect to the collection of property taxes provides that any county department, officer, or employee may refrain from collecting any tax, assessment, penalty or cost, license fees, or money owing to the county where the amount to be collected is $20 or less. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
Existing law defines specified behavior as disorderly conduct and prohibits that behavior. Under existing law, disorderly conduct includes, among other things, soliciting prostitution, prowling, peeping, surreptitious photographing or filming of an identifiable person, and the distribution of certain images of another person taken under circumstances in which the person understands that the image shall remain private, the distribution of which causes serious emotional distress. This bill would add to the definition of disorderly conduct the distribution of those images recorded, captured, or otherwise obtained without the authorization of the person depicted or by exceeding authorized access from the property, accounts, messages, files, or resources of the person depicted. Because the bill would expand the scope of a crime, it would establish 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 system of elementary and secondary education in this state. This system consists of the public and private schools that provide instruction in kindergarten and in grades 1 to 12, inclusive. Existing law establishes a system of higher education in this state, consisting of 4 segments: the University of California, under the administration of the Regents of the University of California; the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University; the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges; and independent institutions of higher education. This bill would enact the Education Savings Account Act of 2024 and establish the Education Savings Account (ESA) Trust, to be known as the ESA Trust, as a fund within the State Treasury to be administered by the ESA Trust Board. During the first 4 school years following the operative date of the act, the bill would authorize certain children eligible to be enrolled in kindergarten, or in an elementary or secondary school, in any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to establish an ESA, based on parent or guardian income. The bill would remove these income eligibility limits after 4 school years following the operative date of the act, thereby entitling every child eligible to be enrolled in kindergarten, or in an elementary or secondary school, in any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to establish an ESA. The bill would specify that every child enrolled in an eligible school shall be entitled, pursuant to this act, to a credit to the child's account for tuition, elementary and secondary eligible education expenses, and undergraduate or graduate eligible education expenses, as defined. Commencing with the first fiscal year following the operative date of the act, the bill would require the Department of Finance to determine, on July 1 of each year, the annual ESA deposit amount for the upcoming school year. The bill would specify the procedure for calculating the ESA deposit amount and would require the Controller to transfer an amount of money from the General Fund to the ESA Trust equal to the ESA deposit amount multiplied by the number of ESAs established, as provided. The bill would require the ESA Trust Board to be composed of specified members and would vest the ESA Trust Board with certain powers and duties. The bill would establish 2 accounts within the ESA Trust, the ESA Trust Program Account and the ESA Trust Administrative Account, and would continuously appropriate the moneys in the program account to the ESA Trust Board for purposes of the bill, thereby making an appropriation. The bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish a procedure for the parents and legal guardians of eligible students to apply to establish an ESA and submit an executed participation agreement. The bill would authorize the ESA Trust Board to disburse funds from ESAs to eligible schools. The bill would define "eligible school" as a campus of the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California, a full-time private school, a private college or university, a public college or university, or a vocational educational or training institution, as specified. The bill would specify the procedures for participating eligible schools to receive funds disbursed by the ESA Trust Board. Once an eligible student graduates from high school or obtains a high school equivalency certification, the bill would impose a $60,000 cap on the balance in any ESA available for an eligible student's use for tuition, undergraduate or graduate eligible education expenses, or expenses associated with vocational education. The bill would require the Department of Finance to adjust this limit annually for inflation using the California Consumer Price Index. (2) The Classroom Instructional Improvement and Accountability Act, an initiative approved by the voters as Proposition 98 at the November 8, 1988, statewide general election, amended the California Constitution to, among other things, set forth a formula for computing the minimum amount of revenues that the state is required to appropriate for the support of school districts and community college districts based on one of 3 tests in any given fiscal year, one of which is based on the percentage of General Fund revenues appropriated for school districts and community college districts, respectively, in the 1986–87 fiscal year, and 2 of which are based on, among other things, changes in enrollment. This bill would require the Legislature to recalculate that minimum education funding guarantee by including eligible students not enrolled in a public elementary or secondary school before the operative date of the act in those minimum funding guarantee calculations based on average daily attendance, as provided. The bill would also require the costs of providing ESA deposit amounts for eligible students to be apportioned between the General Fund and the public school district in which those eligible students reside in the same ratio of General Fund and local property tax revenue that would have been used to educate those eligible students in their public school district. (3) The Personal Income Tax Law, in modified conformity with federal law, generally defines "gross income" as income from whatever source derived, except as specifically excluded, and provides various exclusions from gross income for purposes of computing tax liability. This bill would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, exclude from gross income any amounts received as distribution from an ESA, as defined, as part of a participation agreement. Existing law requires a bill authorizing a new tax expenditure to contain, among other things, specific goals, purposes, and objectives the tax expenditure will achieve, detailed performance indicators, and data collection requirements. This bill would include additional information required for any bill authorizing a new tax expenditure. (4) These provisions would become operative on January 1, 2025, only if Senate Constitutional Amendment 5 of the 2023–24 Regular Session is approved by the voters at the statewide general election on November 5, 2024.
Existing law requires employers to provide specified information to health care providers or health insurers regarding employees who were terminated on or after March 2, 2010, and who were enrolled in an employer-offered health care service plan or health insurance policy on or after September 1, 2008, as specified. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that requirement.
