This measure would recognize the month of February 2014 as American Heart Month in California and recognize February 7, 2014, as Wear Red Day in California.
This measure would declare that President Abraham Lincoln be honored on February 12, 2014, the anniversary of his birthday.
This measure would declare February 19, 2014, as a Day of Remembrance in order to increase public awareness of the events surrounding the internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II.
Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards as the principal state agencies with authority over matters relating to water quality. This bill would, before October 1, 2014, and until January 1, 2018, permit the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Board to authorize a voluntary pilot project for the purposes of investigating potential water quality impacts associated with maximizing the supplementation of agricultural irrigation impoundments with disinfected tertiary treated recycled water, if the regional board finds that the proposed pilot project satisfies specified criteria. This bill would require the pilot project to include a stakeholder advisory group, composed as prescribed, to review and provide input on pilot project design, implementation, and data analysis. This bill would require a prescribed final report to be issued to the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board and the state board, as specified, and upon review of the final report would authorize the regional board to develop a formula for future waste discharge requirements to be issued for similar purposes and report to the state board and the Legislature with any recommendations, as prescribed.
Existing law prohibits, except in specified circumstances, a state agency, political subdivision, municipal corporation, district, or public officer responsible for letting a public works contract from drafting bid specifications for that contract in a manner that limits the bidding to any one concern or product, unless the specification is followed by the words "or equal." Existing law requires that these bid specifications provide a period of time prior to or after, or prior to and after, the award of the contract to allow the contractor to submit data that demonstrates that a concern or product to be provided under the contract is equal to the concern or product identified in the bid specification. This bill would prohibit these bid specifications from requiring a bidder to provide submission of data substantiating a request for a substitution of "an equal" item prior to the bid or proposal submission deadline.
Existing law establishes the State Department of Health Care Services and sets forth its powers and duties, including, but not limited to, the licensing and regulation of health facilities, with certain exceptions. Existing law requires the department to investigate complaints relating to long-term health facilities, as defined. This bill would require the department to complete its investigation and issue a citation within specified time periods, but would allow for an extension of these periods for up to 30 days if the department is unable to complete its investigation due to extenuating circumstances beyond its control, and would require the department to document these circumstances in its final determination. Existing law requires the confidentiality of all information and records obtained in the course of providing intake, assessment, and services pursuant to specified provisions of existing law to persons with developmental disabilities and to voluntary or involuntary recipients of services under the Lanterman-Petris Short Act or within a prescribed state or county hospital. Existing law authorizes disclosure of this information to certain authorized licensing personnel who are employed by, or who are authorized representatives of, the State Department of Public Health or State Department of Social Services, as necessary to the performance of their duties to inspect, license, and investigate health facilities and community care facilities, and to ensure that the standards of care and services provided in these facilities are adequate and appropriate and to ascertain compliance with the rules and regulations to which the facility is subject. Existing law prohibits the confidential information in the possession of these departments from containing the name of the patient or the person with a developmental disability. This bill would authorize public notice of the survey or licensing reports, or all class "AA," "A," or "B" violations issued by the State Department of Public Health, as specified, or facility evaluation, deficiency, or complaint investigation reports issued by the State Department of Social Services, if the information relates to a facility with a license capacity of 16 beds or more and does not include the name or personally identifiable information of any patient or person with a developmental disability. The bill would also prohibit the confidential information in the possession of the State Department of Public Health or State Department of Social Services from containing personally identifiable information about a patient or a person with a disability.
