Asm. Marc Levine

This measure would recognize the month of August 2017 as Opportunity Youth Reengagement Month, and state the intent of the Legislature to encourage the expansion of schools authorized to specifically reengage "opportunity youth" 16 to 24 years of age by developing recommendations for a statewide student reengagement strategy and identifying the cost of the strategy compared to the cost of inaction; authorizing systems for accountability to students, parents, and families through transparency, active engagement, and outreach strategies; and highlighting, promoting, and uplifting evidence-based practices for successful student reengagement efforts that maintain multiple measures for evaluation of student success.

This measure would urge the Congress of the United States to support S. 349, the Access to Counsel Act, which would ensure that those persons held or detained while attempting to enter the United States, whether at a border crossing or a port of entry, would be guaranteed access to legal counsel.

This measure would urge the President and the Congress of the United States to continue to place an emphasis on increasing funding to NASA's budget and encouraging the expansive use of public-private partnerships to propel the industry forward into the next generation of advancement.

This measure would recognize adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) , also known as post-traumatic "street" disorder in communities of color, as having lasting negative outcomes to both physical and mental health with growing implications for our state.

Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is 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. Under existing law, the department and counties provide specialty mental health services for Medi-Cal beneficiaries through mental health managed care plans, as specified. Under existing law, these services may include crisis stabilization services and inpatient psychiatric care. This bill would authorize a certified crisis stabilization unit designated by a mental health managed care plan, at the discretion of the mental health managed care plan, to provide medically necessary crisis stabilization services to individuals beyond the service time of 24 hours in those cases in which the individual needs inpatient psychiatric care or outpatient care and inpatient psychiatric beds or outpatient services are not reasonably available. The bill would require a person who is placed under, or who is already under, a 72-hour involuntary hold because, based on probable cause, the person, as a result of a mental disorder, is a danger to others, or to himself or herself, or is gravely disabled, to be credited for the time detained at a certified crisis stabilization unit. The bill would require the department to amend its contract with a mental health plan to include a provision authorizing the provision of crisis stabilization services for more than 24 hours if the mental health plan elects to provide crisis stabilization services under these provisions. The bill would require the department to require these mental health plans to establish treatment protocols, documentation standards, and administrative procedures, consistent with best practices and other evidence-based medicine, to be followed by a certified crisis stabilization unit for appropriate treatment to individuals who are provided crisis stabilization services for more than 24 hours. The bill would require the department to seek any state plan amendments or waivers, or amendments to existing waivers, that are necessary to implement these provisions.

Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is 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 establishes the Targeted Case Management Program under the Medi-Cal program, under which targeted case management (TCM) services are provided by local governmental agencies to eligible Medi-Cal beneficiaries in defined target populations to assist those beneficiaries to gain access to needed medical, social, educational, and other services. Existing law authorizes a local governmental agency to contract with the department to provide TCM services, and requires a local governmental agency that elects to provide TCM services to submit an annual cost report certifying, among other things, the expenditure of 100% of the costs incurred for the provision of TCM services from the local governmental agency's general fund or from any other funds allowed under federal law and regulation. Existing law defines a local governmental agency to mean a county or chartered city. This bill would expand the definition of a local governmental agency for purposes of the TCM Program to include a California Native American Indian organization funded by Public Law 93-638 that manages a statewide Medi-Cal administrative activities program. The bill would authorize the department to contract with no more than one local governmental agency that is a California Native American Indian organization funded by Public Law 93-638 that manages a statewide Medi-Cal administrative activities program. The bill would make conforming changes.

The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act contains provisions for various types of licenses that permit licensees to furnish alcoholic beverages under designated circumstances, including an on-sale general license for a wine, food and art cultural museum and educational center located in the County of Napa that would authorize described persons to sell, furnish, or give alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises and various off-sale privileges. This bill would revise the provisions relating to ownership of any interest in the premises and license of a wine, food and art cultural museum and educational center and would authorize a similar on-sale general license for a wine and food cultural museum and educational center, located in the County of Sonoma, that would authorize described persons to sell, furnish, or give alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises and various off-sale privileges. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Sonoma.

Existing law, until January 1, 2020, generally prohibits a person from possessing, importing, shipping, or transporting in the state, or from placing, planting, or causing to be placed or planted in any water within the state, dreissenid mussels, and authorizes the Director of Fish and Wildlife or his or her designee to engage in various enforcement activities with regard to dreissenid mussels. Among those activities, existing law authorizes the director to conduct inspections of waters of the state and facilities located within waters of the state that may contain dreissenid mussels and, if those mussels are detected or may be present, order the closure of the waters or facilities to conveyances or otherwise restrict access to the waters or facilities, with the concurrence of the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency. This bill would also authorize a peace officer to engage in certain of these enforcement activities, as prescribed, and would extend to January 1, 2023, the repeal date of those provisions. Under existing law, a violation of these provisions is a crime. By extending the operation of these provisions, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law requires any person, or federal, state, or local agency, district, or authority, that owns or manages a reservoir, as defined, where certain recreational activities are permitted, except a privately owned reservoir that is not open to the public, and where nonnative dreissenid mussels have not been detected, to assess the vulnerability of the reservoir for the introduction of nonnative dreissenid mussel species and to develop and implement a program designed to prevent the introduction of that species. Existing law requires the owner of a vessel, as described, to register the vessel in accordance with prescribed requirements. Existing law establishes a registration fee for vessels. Existing law imposes an additional fee, known as the quagga and zebra mussel infestation prevention fee, in specified amounts, as determined by the Division of Boating and Waterways, on a vessel required to pay that fee, and requires funds from the fee, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to be used to, among other things, implement and administer dreissenid mussel monitoring, inspection, and infestation prevention programs, as prescribed. Existing law requires the division to award grants from those funds to entities that own or manage reservoirs described above for the reasonable regulatory costs incident to the implementation of a dreissenid mussel infestation prevention plan. This bill would authorize the Division of Boating and Waterways to award grants from funds generated from the quagga and zebra mussel prevention infestation fee to those entities, including a local sponsor of a reservoir owned or operated by a federal agency, district, or authority, required by the director to implement a dreissenid mussel infestation prevention plan and to those entities required to implement a dreissenid mussel control program, for the reasonable regulatory costs to implement the plan or program, as specified. This bill would additionally impose a quagga and zebra mussel infestation prevention fee, in an amount to be determined by the division not to exceed a maximum annual amount of $50, on a nonresident owner of a vessel to be paid by that owner before placing the vessel on the waterways of the state. The bill would require the division to prescribe procedures for the collection and use of those fees. The bill would require that all revenues collected from the fee be deposited into the Harbors and Watercraft Revolving Fund and used for the dreissenid mussel control 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.

Existing law, the Psychology Licensing Law, provides for the licensing and regulation of psychologists and requires a person applying for licensure as a psychologist to have completed specified coursework or training. Existing law also requires licensed psychologists to participate in continuing professional development as a prerequisite for renewing their licenses. Existing law requires a person applying for relicensure or for reinstatement to an active license status to certify under penalty of perjury that he or she has fulfilled the continuing professional development requirements. Existing law defines "continuing professional development" as certain continuing education learning activities and provides requirements for continuing education courses approved to meet the continuing professional development requirements. This bill, effective January 1, 2020, would require an applicant for licensure as a psychologist to complete a minimum of 6 hours of coursework or applied experience under supervision in suicide risk assessment and intervention. The bill would also require, effective January 1, 2020, as a one-time requirement, a licensed psychologist to have completed this suicide risk assessment and intervention training requirement prior to the time of his or her first renewal. The bill would also require, effective January 1, 2020, a person applying for reactivation or for reinstatement to have completed this suicide risk assessment and intervention training requirement. The bill would require that proof of compliance with this provision be certified under penalty of perjury that he or she is in compliance with this provision and be retained for submission to the board upon request. By expanding the crime of perjury, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.