The California Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1973 establishes certain safety and other responsibilities of employers and employees. Violations of the act under certain circumstances are a crime. Existing law establishes the Department of Industrial Relations to, among other things, foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment. Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of talent agencies, as defined, by the Labor Commissioner. Existing law requires moneys collected for licenses and fines collected for violations of these provisions to be paid into the State Treasury and credited to the General Fund. This bill would require a person engaging in the occupation of a modeling agency, as defined, to be licensed by the Labor Commissioner under the licensing provisions that apply to talent agencies. The bill would require a model, as defined, to be classified as an employee of the person for whom the model's services are directly provided. The bill would require the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board to, no later than December 1, 2017, and in consultation with accredited specialists in the prevention and treatment of eating disorders, adopt an occupational safety and health standard for models, as specified. The bill would exempt a person covered by certain wage orders by the Industrial Welfare Commission from these provisions. The bill would define various terms for its purposes and would make related findings.
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Existing law, the Costa-Isenberg Water Transfer Act of 1986, requires the Department of Water Resources to establish an ongoing program to facilitate the voluntary exchange or transfer of water and implement the various laws that pertain to water transfers. The act requires the department to create and maintain a list of entities seeking to enter into water supply transfers, leases, exchanges, or other similar arrangements and to maintain a list of the physical facilities that may be available to carry out water supply transfers. The act requires the department to prepare a water transfer guide with prescribed components. This bill, on and after July 1, 2018, would establish the California Water Market Clearinghouse as an independent office within the Natural Resources Agency for the purpose of making the water transfer and exchange process more transparent and more efficient and to enhance access to voluntary water market transactions, as specified. This bill would require the clearinghouse, on or before December 31, 2018, to create a centralized water market platform on its Internet Web site that provides ready access to information that has been provided about water available for transfer or exchange and information about the process for transferring or exchanging water. The bill would require the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency to convene a Water Market Clearinghouse Task Force, composed as prescribed, and would require the task force to make recommendations to the clearinghouse, as specified. The bill, on or before December 31, 2018, would require the clearinghouse to consider and act upon the recommendations submitted by the task force in order to establish administrative procedures under which state agencies would more expediently act upon proposed water transfers or exchanges and would prioritize projects that provide environmental and community benefits or have a demonstrated history of minimal potential impact to other legal water users or instream beneficial uses. The bill would require the clearinghouse to work in collaboration with other state agencies to make necessary changes in the rules and regulations governing water transfers and exchanges. This bill would require all transfers or exchanges of water occurring on or after January 1, 2020, that require conveyance across the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta or result in conveyance of water from one watershed to another to be submitted to the clearinghouse and processed, as specified, and would require the payment of an administrative fee to the clearinghouse for this processing, as specified. The bill, on or before December 31, 2018, would require the agency to create an Office of the Water Transfer Advocate within the clearinghouse and to appoint an advocate.
This measure would commend Muslim Americans for their economic, political, and cultural impact on California and the United States. This measure would call upon Members of the United States Congress to respect the First Amendment, and to speak out against and reject efforts to monitor mosques, efforts to police and profile Muslim Americans, and efforts to prohibit Muslims from immigrating to the United States, and to speak out against and reject any efforts to pursue an immigration policy based on religion.
This measure would declare the month of April 2016 as Financial Aid and Literacy Month, with the theme of "Prosperity Through Education," to raise public awareness about the continuing need for increased financial literacy.
This measure would recognize May 2016 as National Mental Health Awareness Month in California to enhance public awareness of mental illness.
The measure would urge the Members of Congress to work to recognize Mexican American families' needs to visit family members in Mexico and increase commerce between our nations by reducing border delays through a more open border and to speak out against and to reject efforts to build a wall along the United States-Mexico border.
This measure would recognize Nowrūz, the Persian New Year celebration.
This measure would recognize the month of April 2016 as Citrus Strong Month for the purpose of celebrating California's vibrant citrus industry and the benefits it provides to the state's environment, economy, and people, and to affirm that California is citrus strong.