Existing law prohibits a business from requesting medical information directly from an individual regardless of whether the information pertains to the individual, and using, sharing, or otherwise disclosing that information for direct marketing purposes unless certain requirements are met, including that it disclose that it is obtaining the information to market or advertise products, goods, or services to the individual and that it obtain consent for the information to be used or shared for that purpose, as specified. This bill would require a business that conducts business in California, and that collects a California resident's consumer data, to disclose to the consumer the monetary value to the business of their consumer data by posting the average monetary value to the business of a consumer's data, including that information in its privacy policy posted on its internet website, and also including in its privacy policy disclosure of any use of a consumer's data that is not directly or exclusively related to the service that the consumer has contracted the business to provide, as specified. The bill would also require a business that conducts business in California, that collects a California resident's consumer data, and that sells that data, to disclose to the consumer the average price it is paid for a consumer's data and to disclose to the consumer the actual price it was paid for a consumer's data upon receipt of a verifiable request for that information from the consumer. This bill would also establish the Consumer Data Privacy Commission comprised of members of academia, civil society, and industry to provide guidance to the Legislature regarding appropriate metrics and methodology for determining the value of consumer data. The bill would require the commission to report its findings to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2021.
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(1) Existing law establishes the Board of State and Community Corrections. Existing law charges the board with providing the statewide leadership, coordination, and technical assistance to promote effective state and local efforts and partnerships in California's adult and juvenile criminal justice system, including addressing gang problems. The existing Budget Act of 2019 establishes the California Violence Intervention and Prevention (CalVIP) Grant Program, administered by the Board of State and Community Corrections, to award competitive grants for the purpose of violence intervention and prevention. This bill would codify the establishment of the California Violence Intervention and Prevention Grant Program and the authority and duties of the board in administering the program, including the selection criteria for grants and reporting requirements to the Legislature. (2) Existing law imposes various taxes, including taxes on the privilege of engaging in certain activities. The Fee Collection Procedures Law, the violation of which is a crime, provides procedures for the collection of certain fees and surcharges. This bill would impose an excise tax on a retailer in the amount of $25 per firearm on the sale in this state of a handgun or semiautomatic rifle or shotgun sold as new, as provided, and an excise tax on a retailer in the amount of ___% of the gross receipts from any sale of ammunition. The tax would be collected by the state pursuant to the Fee Collection Procedures Law. This bill would require that the revenues collected be deposited in the CalVIP Firearm and Ammunition Tax Fund, which the bill would create. The moneys in that fund would be continuously appropriated to the Board of State and Community Corrections to provide CalVIP grants. This bill would include a change in state statute that would result in a taxpayer paying a higher tax within the meaning of Section 3 of Article XIIIA of the California Constitution, and thus would require for passage the approval of 23 of the membership of each house of the Legislature. Because this bill would expand the scope of the Fee Collection Procedures Law, the violation of which is a crime, this 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.
Existing state sales and use tax laws impose a tax on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state, or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. The Sales and Use Tax Law provides various exemptions from those taxes, including an exemption for the sale of, or the storage, use, or consumption of, newspapers and periodicals published by an organization that qualifies for tax-exempt status and meets specified requirements, and an exemption for the sale of, or the storage, use, or consumption of, a newspaper or periodical distributed at specified intervals without charge. Until July 15, 1991, existing law provided for the sale of, or the storage, use, or consumption of, any newspaper or periodical regularly issued at specified intervals, any tangible property that becomes an ingredient or component part of that newspaper or periodical, and any photograph transferred under specified conditions for the purpose of being reproduced in that newspaper. This bill, on and after January 1, 2020, and before January 1, 2025, would reinstate the exemption from those taxes on the gross receipts from the sale in this state of, and the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of, photographs transferred under specified conditions for the purpose of being reproduced in that newspaper, and would make an exemption from those taxes on the gross receipts from the sale in this state of, and the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of, newspapers, unless otherwise provided. The Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law authorizes counties and cities to impose local sales and use taxes in conformity with the Sales and Use Tax Law, and existing laws authorize districts, as specified, to impose transactions and use taxes in accordance with the Transactions and Use Tax Law, which generally conforms to the Sales and Use Tax Law. Amendments to the Sales and Use Tax Law are automatically incorporated into the local tax laws. Existing law requires the state to reimburse counties and cities for revenue losses caused by the enactment of sales and use tax exemptions. This bill would provide that, notwithstanding Section 2230 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, no appropriation is made and the state shall not reimburse any local agencies for sales and use tax revenues lost by them pursuant to this bill. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
Existing law, the California Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly Act, provides for the licensure of residential care facilities for the elderly by the State Department of Social Services. Existing law requires any person seeking a license for a residential care facility for the elderly to file an application with the department, as specified. Existing law makes a violation of the act a crime. This bill would require a person licensed to operate a residential care facility for the elderly to disclose to the local agency when applying for a land use permit any violations found by the department that meet certain criteria. The bill would specify that failure to disclose those violations is not a crime.
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations and gas corporations. Existing law requires the commission to annually prepare a written report on the costs of programs and activities conducted by certain electrical corporations and gas corporations. Existing law requires the report to identify specified information including each program mandated by statute or by the commission and its annual cost to ratepayers. Existing law requires the commission, before the commencement of certain meetings, to make copies of a meeting agenda available to the public. This bill would require the report to also identify the average cost to gas corporation or electrical corporation ratepayers, provided separately for residential, commercial, agricultural, and industrial ratepayers, per therm or per kilowatthour, as applicable, of each program mandated by statute during the preceding year and over the lifetime of the program, and would require that information to be included as an attachment to the agenda for each commission meeting.
Existing law authorizes the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) to prescribe, by regulation, energy efficiency standards for new residential and nonresidential buildings. Under this authority, the Energy Commission has established regulations requiring the installation of photovoltaic systems meeting certain requirements for low-rise residential buildings built on or after January 1, 2020. This bill would require the Public Utilities Commission, in collaboration with the Energy Commission, by March 31, 2020, to submit to the Legislature a report on the feasibility of expanding an existing tariff or program or establishing a new tariff or program to facilitate compliance with the photovoltaic requirements for low-rise residential buildings, as specified.
The Teacher Housing Act of 2016 authorizes a school district to establish and maintain programs, as provided, that address the housing needs of teachers and school district employees who face challenges in securing affordable rental housing. The act creates a state policy supporting housing for teachers and school employees, as provided, and permits school districts and developers in receipt of local or state funds or tax credits designated for affordable rental housing to restrict occupancy to teachers and school district employees on land owned by school districts. Existing law defines affordable rental housing for these purposes to mean a rental housing development, as defined, with a majority of its rents restricted to levels that are affordable to persons and families of low or moderate income. This bill would additionally define affordable rental housing for the purposes of the Teacher Housing Act of 2016 to mean a rental housing development with a majority of its rents restricted to levels that are affordable to persons and families whose income does not exceed 200 percent of area median income, as specified, and located on real property owned by the school district.
Existing law permits state agencies to enter into personal services contracts with firms when certain conditions are met. These conditions include requiring a state agency that enters into a personal services contract for janitorial and housekeeping services, custodians, food service workers, laundry workers, window cleaners, and security guards to include provisions for employee wages that are valued at least 85% of the state's cost of wages provided to state employees performing similar duties. Existing law provides for criminal and civil penalties for violations of specified statutes regarding payment of wages. This bill would require the Department of Industrial Relations to, by January 1, 2021, and annually thereafter, identify employers with a market capitalization of at least $1,000,000,000. The bill would require an eligible employer that enters into a personal services contract, as defined, on or after January 1, 2021, to provide the employees who will perform that contract with specified information regarding the employees' right to form or assist labor organizations as provided for by federal law. This bill would define terms for purposes of these provisions. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, this 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.
This measure would name the public street, circle, and plaza at 914 and 915 Capitol Mall in the City of Sacramento as the Willie L. Brown, Jr. Circle and Plaza. The measure would request the Department of General Services to determine the cost of erecting the appropriate signage commemorating this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources, to cover that cost to erect that signage.