Existing law authorizes the State Department of Public Health to establish the Office of Suicide Prevention within the department. Existing law authorizes the office, if established, to perform certain functions, including, among others, conducting state-level assessment of regional and statewide suicide prevention policies and practices and reporting on progress to reduce rates of suicide. Existing law authorizes the office, if established, to focus activities on groups with the highest risk, including youth, Native American youth, older adults, veterans, and LGBTQ people. This bill would authorize the office's activities focused on youth to pay special attention to boys. The bill would additionally authorize the office to focus activities on young men. The bill would require the office, if established, to report to the Legislature, on or before July 1, 2028, on strategies to implement the activities focused on boys and young men.
This California resolution proclaims September 2026 as Sepsis Awareness Month within the state. The measure was adopted by the legislature and signed into law as Chapter 218 of the 2026 Statutes. It serves to formally designate the month for public recognition of sepsis, a serious medical condition.
This bill designates August 10, 2026, as Coastal Stewardship Day in California. It serves as a commemorative resolution that does not create new laws or alter existing regulations. The measure was adopted by the state legislature and filed with the Secretary of State to formally recognize the date.
This bill proclaims September 2026 as California Wine Month. It serves as a commemorative resolution that officially designates the month to highlight the state's wine industry. The measure passed with unanimous support in the Senate and was subsequently filed with the Secretary of State.
This bill designates the week of September 13 to September 19, 2026, as Direct Support Professional Recognition Week in California. It serves as a commemorative measure intended to highlight the contributions of direct support professionals who assist individuals with disabilities. The legislation does not establish new funding or regulatory requirements but rather provides an official state observance for this specific period.
Existing law authorizes an off-highway motor vehicle that has been issued a plate or device to be operated or driven upon a highway under certain circumstances. Existing law authorizes various public entities, and the Director of Parks and Recreation, to designate a highway, or portion thereof, for the combined use of regular vehicular traffic and off-highway motor vehicles if certain requirements are met, including a prohibition on a designation of greater than 3 miles. Existing law, until January 1, 2028, authorizes the City of Needles to operate a pilot project that exempts specified combined-use highways in the City of Needles from this prohibition to link together existing trails and trailheads on federal Bureau of Land Management or United States Forest Service lands and to link off-highway motor vehicle recreational-use areas with necessary service and lodging facilities in order to provide a unified linkage of trail systems for off-highway motor vehicles, as prescribed. Existing law requires the City of Needles to prepare and submit to the Legislature reports evaluating the effectiveness and environmental impacts of the pilot project, as specified. This bill would extend the operation of the above-described pilot program to January 1, 2033, and would make other technical changes. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of Needles.
This bill designates September 2026 as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. It directly affects state agencies and organizations by encouraging them to recognize this specific month for awareness activities. The measure does not change laws or allocate funding but serves as a formal commemorative resolution.
(1) Existing law, the Public Employees' Retirement Law, permits a member of the Public Employees' Retirement System to elect from among several optional settlements for the purpose of structuring the member's retirement allowance. Existing law requires a member to make an election, revocation, or change of election within 30 calendar days after the making of the first payment on account of any retirement allowance or, in the event of a change of retirement status after retirement, within 30 calendar days after making the first payment on account of that change in retirement status. This bill would extend the timeframe for those actions to within 60 calendar days after making the first payment. (2) Existing law sets forth the Labor Commissioner's duties, including investigating employee complaints, and requires the Labor Commissioner, within 30 days of the filing of the complaint, to notify the parties as to whether a hearing will be held and whether certain actions will be taken. Existing law requires a party who has received actual notice of a claim before the Labor Commissioner to notify the Labor Commissioner in writing of any changes in that party's business or personal address within 10 days after the change in address occurs. Existing law requires a copy of the complaint to be served on all parties when a hearing is set, and specifies the copy shall be served personally, by certified mail, or pursuant to specified provisions authorizing certain service in lieu of personal delivery. Existing law requires the Labor Commissioner to file a decision within 15 days after the hearing is concluded and to serve a copy of that decision on the parties in the same manner as the copy of the complaint. This bill would also require a party to notify the Labor Commissioner of any changes to that party's electronic address. The bill would revise the manner in which notice is required to be given and the copy of the decision is required to be served to include first-class mail, registered mail, or any manner that the party agrees to accept service, except that any party that is represented by an attorney would be required to accept electronic service from the Labor Commissioner. The bill would require a represented party to provide their attorney's electronic mail address. (3) Existing law makes it unlawful for a person or employer to engage in certain acts relating to the willful misclassification of an individual as an independent contractor and imposes certain civil penalties for violations of that provision, as specified. Existing law entitles an employee to recover damages for a violation, as specified, and sets forth certain enforcement provisions. In this regard, existing law provides that, for each public employee subject to specified statutes, the Labor Commissioner or a public prosecutor may alternatively recover the above-referenced civil penalties as damages payable to the employee, as specified. This bill would, instead, provide that each employee under those statutes, the Labor Commissioner, or a public prosecutor may alternatively recover the above-referenced civil penalties as damages payable to the employee, as specified. (4) Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of employment. Existing law creates a rebuttable presumption that specified injuries, including cancer and post-traumatic stress disorder, that developed or manifested during a period in which the person is serving as a first responder, as specified, arose out of and in the course of employment. Existing law makes these provisions applicable to an active firefighting members of a fire department that provides fire protection to a commercial airport regulated by the Federal Aviation Administration, as specified, and that are trained and certified by the State Fire Marshal as meeting the standards of Fire Control 5 and a specified section of the Code of Federal Regulations. This bill would eliminate the requirement that the above-described active firefighters be trained and certified by the State Fire Marshal as meeting the standards of Fire Control 5 for the above-described presumptions to apply to those firefighters. (5) Existing law requires the Director of Employment Development to calculate the experiences of school employers relative to usage of the Unemployment Fund and to provide this information, among other things, to the affected school employer and governing body thereof at least annually. This bill would require the report also to be made to the Legislature. Existing law requires the Director of Employment Development to develop experience relationships on all benefits paid to employees via the School Employees Fund and on school employers' experience related to use and exposure, and to report this each year to the Legislature before March 31. This bill would recast those provisions and require the development of experience relationships to be included in the report containing calculation of the experiences of school employers relative to usage of the Unemployment Fund described above. Existing law requires the director to prepare a biennial report to the Legislature on the department's automation plans that, among other things, provides a strategic information technology plan that describes the long-term goals and strategies that shall be undertaken by the department covering a 10-year planning horizon, as specified. This bill would instead require the report to include a plan covering a 3-year planning horizon. The bill would also make other nonsubstantive changes.
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, as provided. These procedures do not apply to the disposal of exempt surplus land. Existing law establishes various categories of exempt surplus land, as provided. This bill would require, if an exemption is granted to the City of Anaheim for the disposition of surplus land involving the sale or lease of Angel Stadium to the Los Angeles Angels, that any materials refer to that team as the Anaheim Angels. The bill would express the intent of the Legislature not to apply this requirement if the City of Anaheim is able to come to an agreement with the Major League Baseball team known as the Los Angeles Angels about their affiliation. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of Anaheim.
Existing law vests the Department of Transportation with possession and control of all state highways, and authorizes the department to do any act necessary, convenient, or proper for the construction, improvement, maintenance, or use of all highways that are under its jurisdiction, possession, or control. This bill would, until January 1, 2032, authorize the Western Riverside Council of Governments, in required coordination with the department, to establish and administer a traffic signal synchronization pilot program for its member local agencies to evaluate a regional model for coordinating traffic signal timing between state highways and local street and road systems, as specified. The bill would require the Western Riverside Council of Governments, in coordination with the department, to evaluate the effectiveness of the pilot program, including assessing its impacts on congestion, travel time reliability, operational efficiency, and vehicle emissions, and to submit, on or before January 1, 2028, a specified report to the Legislature relating to the pilot program. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the local agencies that constitute the Western Riverside Council of Governments.
Existing federal law, known as Title IX, prohibits a person, on the basis of sex, from being excluded from participation in, being denied the benefits of, or being subject to discrimination, which includes sexual harassment, under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. Existing law requires, no later than January 1, 2022, except as specified, the governing board or body of a postsecondary educational institution that receives state financial assistance to provide students with procedural protections relating to complaints of sexual harassment, including the requirement to adopt and publish on its internet website grievance procedures providing for the prompt and equitable resolution of sexual harassment complaints filed by a student against an employee or another student. Existing law requires that the grievance procedures afford both student parties the opportunity to each have a support person or adviser accompany the student party during any stage of the process. This bill would instead require that the grievance procedures afford each student party the opportunity to have a support person and an advisor of their choice accompany the student party during any stage of the process, as specified. The bill would also require the governing board or body of a postsecondary educational institution that receives state financial assistance and state student financial aid to allow each complainant or respondent of a sexual harassment complaint to have a support person, in addition to an advisor, accompany the parties of a sexual harassment complaint during the grievance procedures that provide for the prompt and equitable resolution of sexual harassment complaints pursuant to the above-described procedural protections for students or Title IX, as specified. By imposing new duties on community college districts, 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, 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.
This measure would recognize and affirm the important role of artists, arts organizations, creative arts therapists, and arts for health initiatives in supporting behavioral health, promoting recovery, strengthening community resilience, and contributing to public safety. The measure would encourage and recognize exploration, support, and integration of arts and behavioral health within California's health care, behavioral health, and community-based systems.
