This measure would recognize the month of January 2024 as National Human Trafficking Awareness Month.
This measure would designate, in perpetuity, the 4th week of January as Data Privacy Week and the last Sunday of January as Data Privacy Day.
The Dymally-Alatorre Bilingual Services Act requires a state agency that serves a substantial number of non-English-speaking people, as defined, and that finds other specific factors to exist, to distribute specified written materials in the appropriate non-English language through its statewide and local offices or facilities to those non-English-speaking persons. As an alternative, the act requires the state agency to furnish translation aids or guides, or to provide assistance, through use of a qualified bilingual person, in completing English forms or questionnaires and in understanding English forms, letters, or notices. This bill would require the State Department of Social Services, commencing with the 2023–24 fiscal year, to establish and administer the Bilingual-Oriented Social Equity Services Grant Program to distribute funding to nonprofit, community-based organizations that provide social services that ensure equity in access to specified public social services. Grants awarded pursuant to the bill would be used to provide a pay differential to direct service professionals who can communicate in a language or medium other than English, as defined, as a primary part of their regular job duties. The bill would require 40% of funds appropriated for its purposes to be awarded as Multilingual Success Grants, to community-based organizations serving those non-English-speaking populations in the community that meet the threshold of "substantial number of non-English-speaking people pursuant to the Dymally-Alatorre Bilingual Services Act. The bill would require 60% of the appropriated funds to be awarded as Multilingual Access Grants, to community-based organizations serving those non-English-speaking populations in the community that do not meet that threshold. The bill would establish the Bilingual-Oriented Social Equity Services Grant Program Fund, which would consist of moneys appropriated by the Legislature for purposes of providing the grants described in the bill.
Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and 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 requires the department, subject to any necessary federal approvals, for managed care rating periods that begin between January 1, 2023, and December 31, 2026, inclusive, to establish and implement the Workforce and Quality Incentive Program under which a network provider furnishing skilled nursing facility services to a Medi-Cal managed care enrollee may earn performance-based directed payments from the Medi-Cal managed care plan with which they contract, as specified. Existing law, subject to an appropriation, requires the department to set the amounts of those directed payments under a specified formula. Existing law requires the department to establish the methodology or methodologies, parameters, and eligibility criteria for the directed payments, including the milestones and metrics that network providers of skilled nursing facility services must meet in order to receive a directed payment from a Medi-Cal managed care plan, with at least 2 of these milestones and metrics tied to workforce measures. This bill would require that the measures and milestones include program access, staff training, and capital improvement measures aimed at addressing the needs of skilled nursing facility residents with vision loss. The bill would make related legislative findings.
Existing law, except in complaints that allege physical injury or damage to property, requires a complaint asserting a construction-related accessibility claim, as defined, filed by or on behalf of a high-frequency litigant to state, among other things, the number of complaints alleging a construction-related accessibility claim that the high-frequency litigant has filed during the 12 months before filing the complaint and the reason the individual was in the geographic area of the defendant's business. Existing law defines "high-frequency litigant" to mean a person who utilizes court resources in actions arising from alleged construction-related access violations at such a high level that it is appropriate that additional safeguards apply so as to ensure that the claims are warranted, including, subject to certain exceptions, an attorney who has represented as attorney of record 10 or more high-frequency litigant plaintiffs in actions that were resolved within the 12-month period immediately preceding the filing of the current complaint alleging a construction-related accessibility violation. For the purpose of defining the term "high-frequency litigant," this bill would revise and recast the terms "construction-related accessibility claim" and "construction-related accessibility violation" to "accessibility-related violation" and would instead include in the definition of "high-frequency litigant" an attorney who has represented as attorney of record 5 or more high-frequency litigant plaintiffs in actions that were resolved within the 12-month period immediately preceding the filing of the current complaint alleging an accessibility-related violation. Existing law makes a person who denies, aids or incites a denial, or makes any discrimination or distinction contrary to the Gender Tax Repeal Act of 1995 and certain provisions of the Unruh Civil Rights Act liable for each and every offense for the actual damages and any amount that may be determined by a jury, or a court sitting without a jury, up to a maximum of 3 times the amount of actual damage but in no case less than $4,000, and any attorney's fees that may be determined by the court in addition thereto, suffered by any person denied the rights provided in those provisions. This bill would prohibit a high-frequency litigant from recovering any amount, other than actual damages, pursuant to those provisions that exceeds $1,000 for each offense. The bill would also prohibit a party alleging an accessibility-related violation due to disability pursuant to those provisions from alleging more than one violation per defect and from, through repeated visits, using the previously identified defect as the basis for additional damages. The bill would also prohibit a plaintiff from alleging an accessibility-related violation unless the plaintiff had a bona fide intent to be a customer of the business at the time that the plaintiff accessed the business.
Existing law provides that it is the intent of the Legislature that all public schools, in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, operated by school districts, in cooperation with specified entities and individuals, develop a comprehensive school safety plan, as provided. Existing law requires a comprehensive school safety plan to include the development of procedures for conducting tactical responses to criminal incidents, including procedures related to individuals with guns on school campuses and at school-related functions. This bill would establish the Statewide Active Shooter and Student Rescue Training Facility for purposes of training sheriff's departments, municipal police departments, school law enforcement agencies, statewide law enforcement agencies, municipal emergency medical and fire personnel, and school educators and personnel from across the state for preparedness training for active shooter situations at school facilities, as specified. The bill would require the training facility to be located at the Sacramento County Sheriff Department's Kenneth Royal Range Facility and managed by the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department. The bill would require training to be conducted by law enforcement officers employed or under contract with the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department and other regional experts with whom the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department has entered into a memorandum of understanding. The bill would require all training to be consistent with current Sacramento County Sheriff's Department policies and adhere to training standards developed by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training. By requiring training to be conducted by, and the training facility to be managed by, the Sacramento County Sheriff Department, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would also require that the training facility be used for the purposes of human trafficking-related incidents and shall provide simulation training to law enforcement agencies on the rescue and extraction of victims of human trafficking from structures used to illegally house and transport victims of human trafficking. 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.
Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, generally prohibits housing discrimination with respect to the personal characteristics of race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, ancestry, familial status, source of income, disability, or genetic information. This bill would state that it is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation regarding housing discrimination, including increasing enforcement pathways to address source of income discrimination against recipients of federal housing assistance vouchers.
Existing law authorizes a county satisfying specified conditions to establish a service authority for the abatement of abandoned vehicles and to impose a $1 vehicle registration fee. Existing law authorizes a service authority to adopt an ordinance establishing procedures for the abatement, removal, and disposal, as a public nuisance, of an abandoned, wrecked, dismantled, or inoperative vehicle or part of the vehicle from private or public property and for the recovery of costs associated with the enforcement of the ordinance. This bill would allow the ordinance to provide for the issuance of permits or licenses, consistent with local nuisance codes and in cooperation with local code enforcement authorities, regarding the temporary parking allowance of abandoned, wrecked, dismantled, or inoperative vehicles and to authorize any necessary investigations and inspections related to the determination of a public nuisance.
