(1) Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop written interagency agreements, or adopt joint regulations that include responsibilities, in accordance with specified federal law, with the directors of certain state departments, for the provision of special education and related services to individuals with exceptional needs in the state. Existing law requires the Superintendent to develop interagency agreements with other state and local public agencies, as deemed necessary by the Superintendent, to carry out the provisions of state and federal law. Existing law establishes the Employment First Policy, which is the policy that opportunities for integrated, competitive employment be given the highest priority for working age individuals with developmental disabilities, regardless of the severity of their disabilities. This bill would provide that the Legislature recognizes that the Superintendent, the Director of Developmental Services, and the Director of Rehabilitation have developed an agreement to ensure the seamless and coordinated delivery of services and supports to individuals with disabilities who are eligible for special education services or who are eligible for services provided by the State Department of Education, the State Department of Developmental Services, or the Department of Rehabilitation for individuals with developmental disabilities. The bill would provide that it is the intent of the Legislature that, in implementing any efforts resulting from that agreement, the State Department of Education ensures that those efforts result in a plan for strengthening the person-centered planning processes across all 3 of those departments to further the Employment First Policy. The bill would require the Superintendent, the Director of Developmental Services, and the Director of Rehabilitation to regularly consult with pupils and adults with developmental disabilities, parents of individuals with developmental disabilities, organizations representing individuals with developmental disabilities, and the Employment First Committee established by the State Council on Developmental Disabilities on the agreement and the implementation of the agreement. The bill would require the Superintendent, the Director of Developmental Services, and the Director of Rehabilitation to submit a report on, among other things, the implementation of the agreement to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature on or before January 1, 2020. The bill would require the State Board of Education, on or before July 1, 2019, and the Department of Rehabilitation, to adopt the Employment First Policy, as provided. (2) Existing law requires local educational agencies to identify, locate, and assess individuals with exceptional needs and to provide those pupils with a free appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment, with special education and related services as reflected in an individualized education program. Existing law requires the individualized education program to include appropriate measurable postsecondary goals based upon age-appropriate transition assessments and the transition services needed to assist the pupil in reaching those goals, as provided. Existing law defines "transition services" to mean a coordinated set of activities for an individual with exceptional needs that, among other things, facilitates the movement of the pupil from school to postschool activities, including postsecondary education, vocational education, integrated employment, including supported employment, continuing and adult education, adult services, independent living, or community participation, as provided. This bill would require, in furtherance of the goals of the Employment First Policy, the individualized education program of a pupil who qualifies, or is expected to qualify, for services through the State Department of Developmental Services or the Department of Rehabilitation, or both departments, to include a subsection created by the local educational agency within the transition planning section of the individualized education program, if the pupil identifies employment as a goal, that specifies how the local educational agency will support the pupil in preparing for, obtaining, or retaining competitive and integrated employment, as specified. (3) Existing law, the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act, requires the State Department of Developmental Services to contract with regional centers to provide services and supports, including supported living services, to individuals with developmental disabilities and their families. The services and supports to be provided to a regional center consumer are contained in an individual program plan, developed in accordance with prescribed requirements. Existing law requires the planning team to consider the Employment First Policy when developing an individual program plan for a transition-age youth or working-age adult. This bill would require a regional center, in furtherance of the goals of the Employment First Policy, to include within the individual program plan for a transition-age youth or working-age adult a section that specifies how the regional center will support the individual in obtaining or retaining competitive integrated employment, including the accommodations that it will provide to the individual. (4) Existing law establishes the Department of Rehabilitation to provide vocational rehabilitation services to individuals with disabilities. Existing law requires an individualized plan for employment to be developed for each individual determined to be eligible for vocational rehabilitation services, as provided. This bill would require the Department of Rehabilitation, in furtherance of the goals of the Employment First Policy, to include within an individualized plan for employment a section that specifies how the Department of Rehabilitation will support the individual in obtaining or retaining competitive integrated employment, including the accommodations that it will provide to the individual, in cooperation and collaboration with the other departments.
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This measure would recognize August 15, 2018, as India's Independence Day, and urge all Californians to join in celebrating India's independence.
This measure would proclaim the month of July 2018 as Uterine Fibroids Awareness Month in California and would recognize the need for greater research, treatment, and care options regarding uterine fibroids.
This measure would proclaim October 9th as Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS) Awareness Day in California, and would encourage the citizens of California, on that day, to become informed and aware of PANS.
This measure would recognize the legacy of California's pioneer Chinese Americans and honor their contributions and the important role they played in the history of Yosemite National Park and the Sierra Nevada.
Existing law authorizes a city, county, or city and county to adopt a resolution creating an affordable housing authority. Existing law authorizes this authority to, among other things, provide for low- and moderate-income housing and affordable workforce housing, as provided. This bill would additionally authorize an affordable housing authority to finance water, sewer, or other public infrastructure necessary to support the development of affordable housing.
This measure would designate August 16, 2018, as Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis and Post-Exposure Prophylaxis Awareness Day in California to enhance public awareness of comprehensive human immunodeficiency virus prevention strategies.
This measure would urge the Congress of the United States to acknowledge the problem of a labor shortage in the agricultural industry in California and to work together with California to solve the issue.
Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to establish a list of reportable communicable and noncommunicable diseases and conditions and specify the timeliness requirements related to the reporting of each disease and condition. Existing law also supports research into the development of a vaccine to protect against coccidioidomycosis, also known as Valley Fever. This bill would require the department, when it receives a report of a case of coccidioidomycosis after the department's reporting deadline for a specified year, to include the case in its data collection for the next year and attribute it to the year of diagnosis in future data reporting. This bill would require the department to collect data on coccidioidomycosis cases by April 15 of each year, as specified. The bill would require the department, if it collects data on coccidioidomycosis cases and removes discrepant data from its internal dataset, to timely report sufficient information about its removal of the discrepant data to a local health officer and the local health officer may remove the discrepant data from the county's dataset. The bill would also require the department, if it publishes provisional data on coccidioidomycosis cases, to publish an explanation of data changes likely to occur and of discrepancies between data reported by a local health officer and data reported by the department. The bill would require the department to publish the date range of a dataset and the date on which the dataset was updated if the department publishes data on coccidioidomycosis cases.
Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to establish a list of reportable diseases and conditions. Existing law requires, for each reportable disease and condition, the department to specify the timeliness requirements related to the reporting of each disease and condition, and the mechanisms required for, and the content to be included in, reports made. This bill would, until January 1, 2024, authorize the department, for the purpose of reports confirming a case of Valley Fever, to use laboratory criteria for diagnosis, with or without clinical criteria.