Existing law, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009, establishes the Delta Stewardship Council, which consists of 7 members, and requires the council to develop, adopt, and commence implementation of a comprehensive management plan for the Delta, known as the Delta Plan. This bill would increase the membership of the council to 13 members, including 11 voting members and 2 nonvoting members, as specified. By imposing new duties upon local officials to appoint new members to the council, the 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, 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.
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This measure would recognize August 6, 2017, as the 52nd anniversary of the signing of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965.
This measure would proclaim the period of October 23, 2017, to October 31, 2017, inclusive, as Red Ribbon Week and would encourage all Californians to help build drug-free communities and to participate in drug prevention activities.
(1) Existing law requires, if a minor is not returned to the physical custody of his or her parents, the juvenile court to devise a permanency plan, including, among others things, an order that the child be placed for adoption, an order that a legal guardian be appointed, or an order that the child remain in another planned permanent living arrangement if the child is 16 years of age or older. Existing law requires, at the time of application for adoption of a child who is potentially eligible for Adoption Assistance Program benefits is made, and at the time immediately prior to the finalization of the adoption decree, the State Department of Social Services, the county adoption agency, or the licensed adoption agency to provide the prospective adoptive family with information on the availability of mental health services through the Medi-Cal program or other programs. This bill would require, in any case in which the court has ordered a dependent child or a ward of the juvenile court placed for adoption or has appointed a relative or nonrelative legal guardian, the social worker or probation officer to provide the prospective adoptive family or the guardian or guardians specified mental health treatment information. The bill would also require the department, the county adoption agency, or the licensed adoption agency, to provide that information to the prospective adoptive family at the time the application for adoption is made and at the time immediately prior to the finalization of the adoption decree. By requiring social workers, probation officers, and county adoption agencies to provide additional information to prospective adoptive families and guardians, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to select and award a grant to a private nonprofit or public entity for the purpose of establishing a statewide multipurpose child welfare training program. Existing law requires the training to provide practice-relevant training to county child protective services social workers who screen referrals for child abuse or neglect and for all workers assigned to provide emergency response, family maintenance, family reunification, and permanent placement services. Existing law requires the training to include, among other topics, post-traumatic stress disorder and the causes, symptoms, and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder in children. This bill would require the training to also include the types of and behavioral manifestation of trauma, loss, and grief. (3) Existing law requires a county social worker to create a case plan for foster youth within a specified timeframe after the child is introduced into the foster care system. Existing law requires the case plan to include prescribed components, including, among other things, if the case plan has as its goal for the child a permanent plan of adoption, or legal guardianship, a statement of the child's wishes regarding their permanent placement plan and an assessment of those stated wishes. This bill would additionally require, if the case plan has as its goal for the child another planned permanent living arrangement, the case plan to include a statement of the child's wishes regarding their permanent placement plan and an assessment of those stated wishes. The bill would also require, if a child has been in care for 3 years or more, certain documentation relating to steps the agency is taking to find an adoptive family or other permanent living arrangement for the child to include a description of the specialized permanency services the agency is using or, if specialized permanency services have not been used, a statement explaining why the agency chose not to provide these services. The bill would authorize specific elements of specialized permanency services to be included in the case plan as needed to meet the permanency needs of the individual child or nonminor dependent. By imposing additional duties on county social workers and probation officers, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (4) This bill would incorporate additional changes proposed by AB 404 and SB 12 to be operative only if this bill is enacted last. (5) 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.
The Child Care and Development Services Act has a purpose of providing a comprehensive, coordinated, and cost-effective system of child care and development services for children from infancy to 13 years of age and their parents, including a full range of supervision, health, and support services through full- and part-time programs. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop standards for the implementation of quality child care programs. Existing law authorizes the Counties of Alameda and Santa Clara, as a pilot project, to develop an individualized county child care subsidy plan, as provided. This bill would authorize, until January 1, 2023, the Counties of San Diego and Solano to develop and implement individualized county child care subsidy plans, as specified. The bill would require the plans to be submitted by the counties to their local planning council and their respective county board of supervisors for approval, as specified. The bill would require the Early Education and Support Division of the State Department of Education to review and approve or disapprove the plans and any subsequent modifications to the plans and, in specified situations, would require the State Department of Social Services to only review the plans. The bill would require the counties to annually prepare and submit to the Legislature, the State Department of Social Services, and the State Department of Education a report that contains specified information relating to the success of the counties' plans. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Counties of San Diego and Solano.
(1) Existing law provides for the consolidation of certain regional transportation planning, programming, and related functions in San Diego County from various existing agencies including the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) , the San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board, also known as the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) , and the North County Transit District (NCTD) . Existing law provides for the consolidated agency, commonly known as SANDAG, to be governed by a board of directors of 21 city and county members selected by the governing body of each member agency. Existing law provides that the officers of the board are the chairperson and the vice chairperson. This bill would require the mayor and the president of the city council of the City of San Diego to serve on the board. The bill would delete the requirement for the chair of the County of San Diego Board of Supervisors to serve on the board. The bill would also revise the selection of alternate members of the board. The bill would require that the chairperson and vice chairperson be elected by the membership of the board every 2 years or when a vacancy exists by the weighted vote process and that the chairperson and the vice chairperson not represent the same subregion. Existing law, in order for the SANDAG board to act on any item, generally requires a majority vote of the members present on the basis of one vote per agency as well as a weighted vote pursuant to a specified process, except in the case of consent items. This bill would modify the weighted vote process. Existing law provides for SANDAG to have 4 standing policy advisory committees named the executive, transportation, regional planning, and borders committees. This bill would increase the membership of the transportation committee from 9 to 10 members and would additionally provide for an audit committee with specified responsibilities, including the appointment of an independent performance auditor. The bill would require SANDAG to submit an annual report to the Legislature, developed by its transportation committee, that outlines various matters related to public transit. Existing law provides for the consolidated agency to prepare a regional comprehensive plan containing various elements, as specified. This bill would require the regional comprehensive plan to address greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets set by the State Air Resources Board and would require the plan to include strategies that provide for mode shift to public transportation. The bill would also require the board members of the consolidated agency to make an annual report to their member agencies at a public meeting that includes a summary of the activities of the consolidated agency, including, but not limited to, program developments, project updates, changes to voter-approved expenditure plans, and potential ballot measures. (2) Existing law creates MTS and NCTD, with various public transit responsibilities in the southern and northern parts of the County of San Diego, respectively. Existing law provides for MTS to be governed by a board of 15 members generally consisting of city and county representatives selected by member agencies. Existing law provides that the chairperson of the MTS board is a resident of the County of San Diego selected by the board, as specified. This bill would require one of the 4 San Diego City Council members on the MTS board to be the mayor. The bill would grant to the City of Chula Vista a 2nd member, who would be the mayor. The bill would require the chairperson of the MTS board to be selected by the board. The bill would also revise the process for selecting alternate members of the MTS board. Existing law generally provides that official acts of the MTS or NCTD board require the affirmative vote of the majority of the members of the board, except that a weighted vote of the MTS board may be requested pursuant to a specified process. This bill would create a similar weighted voting process for NCTD and modify the weighted voting process for the MTS. Existing law authorizes various transportation agencies, including SANDAG, to impose a transactions and use tax for transportation purposes within its jurisdiction, subject to approval of 23 of the voters and various other requirements. Existing law provides for issuance of bonds backed by these tax revenues, as specified. This bill would additionally authorize MTS and NCTD to individually impose a specified transactions and use tax within their respective portions of the County of San Diego, with revenues to be used for public transit purposes, as specified, serving their jurisdictions, and to issue bonds backed by these tax revenues, subject to similar requirements. The bill would authorize the MTS and the NCTD to increase the amount of the necessary preparatory costs incident to the administration and operation of the ordinance imposing a transactions and use tax. The bill would also require the MTS and the NCTD to provide to the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, within 45 days of the approval of the ordinance by the voters, a complete alphabetical list of all streets within the affected unincorporated area of their respective jurisdictions, maintain that list on their Internet Web sites, and provide a specified legal description and a map or plat. Existing law authorizes the board of the MTS, the NCTD, and the consolidated agency to enter into and perform all necessary contracts to construct or develop property for transit purposes, including, but not limited to, employing labor and doing all acts necessary and convenient for the full exercise of the powers granted to each of these agencies. This bill would prohibit the MTS, the NCTD, and the consolidated agency from entering into a construction contract over $1,000,000 with any entity unless the entity provides to each agency an enforceable commitment that the entity and its subcontractors at every tier will use a skilled and trained workforce to perform all work on the project or a contract that falls within an apprenticeship occupation in the building and construction trades, except as specified. (3) Existing law provides that if the consolidated agency provides compensation to the County of San Diego for the cost of including an ordinance or measure on the ballot, the consolidated agency may call an election, including an advisory election, in the county on any ordinance or measure regarding the governance of or matters related to the powers, privileges, or duties of the consolidated agency, including, but not limited to, merger or complete consolidation of the transit boards. However, existing law also provides that a complete consolidation requires enactment of a statute by the Legislature. This bill would require that any ordinance or measure adopted pursuant to these provisions be consistent with, and not in conflict with, any other statutory provisions governing the consolidated agency. (4) By imposing additional requirements on local agencies, 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, 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 requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue a driver's license to an applicant when the department determines that the applicant is lawfully entitled to a license. Existing law allows an in-person applicant for a driver's license or identification card to request the word "VETERAN" be printed on the face of the driver's license or identification card, subject to certain requirements, including, among others, verification of veteran status, as specified, and payment of a $5 fee, which the department is authorized to increase by regulation, in an amount not to exceed $15, as specified. This bill, commencing July 1, 2019, would prohibit a fee from being charged for the above-described request if made by (1) a person who has been determined to have a current income level that meets the eligibility requirements for specified assistance programs, or (2) a person who can verify his or her status as a homeless person, in accordance with specified provisions.
Existing law, the California Healthy Youth Act, requires school districts to ensure that all pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, receive comprehensive sexual health education and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention education, as specified. Under the act, this instruction includes, among other things, information about adolescent relationship abuse and intimate partner violence. This bill would require the information included in the instruction about adolescent relationship abuse and intimate partner violence to also include the early warning signs thereof. To the extent that this requirement would impose additional duties on school districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 51934 of the Education Code proposed by AB 1227 to be operative only if this bill and AB 1227 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. 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 authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to enter into contracts with qualified private industry partners to provide services that include processing and payment programs for vehicle registration and titling transactions, and services related to reporting vehicle sales and producing temporary license plates. Existing law requires the department to charge a $3 transaction fee for providing those services and that information. Existing law authorizes a private industry partner to pass that fee to the customer, as specified. This bill would authorize the department to adopt regulations to establish exemptions from the transaction fee for transactions other than an original registration or transfer of ownership. Existing law authorizes an owner or lessee of a fleet of commercial or passenger vehicles, as specified, to apply for license plates, permanent decals, and registration cards for those vehicles. Existing law requires a fleet to consist of at least 50 motor vehicles to qualify for the program, but also allows the Department of Motor Vehicles to provide permanent fleet registration through an association providing a combination of fleets of motor vehicles of 250 or more vehicles, provided that no individual fleet has fewer than 25 vehicles. This bill would reduce the size of the fleets eligible for that program to a fleet of at least 25 motor vehicles, or through an association providing a combination of fleets of motor vehicles of 125 or more vehicles, provided that no individual fleet has fewer than 25 vehicles. Existing law requires a vehicle registered under the fleet program to display in a conspicuous place on both sides of the vehicle the name, trademark, or logo of the company, as specified, and authorizes vehicles weighing less than 6,000 pounds that are owned or leased by a public utility to be registered under the fleet program if the vehicle displays the permanent fleet registration number on both sides of the vehicle, or on the front and rear of the vehicle, as specified. This bill would delete those display requirements. The bill would make additional technical, nonsubstantive changes.
Existing law provides for the formation of mosquito abatement and vector control districts, and prescribes the powers, functions, and duties of those districts, as specified. Existing law authorizes a district to levy special taxes, to levy special benefit assessments for specified purposes, and to charge a fee to cover the cost of any service that the district provides or the cost of enforcing any regulation for which the fee is charged. Existing law requires a mosquito abatement and vector control district whose boundaries include one or more wildlife management areas or in which vectors and vectorborne diseases from a wildlife management area may enter the district to notify the Department of Fish and Wildlife of those areas that are of concern due to the potential for high mosquito populations that may incur associated mosquito control costs. Existing law requires the department to consult with districts to identify those areas within those wildlife management areas having the highest need for additional mosquito reduction through the implementation of best management practices, as defined. This bill would authorize a private landowner whose property includes managed wetland habitat, as defined, located within the boundaries of a district and meets other criteria to initiate the opportunity to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the district to establish a process to implement best management practices with regard to the managed wetland habitat. The bill would authorize the Central Valley Joint Venture, in consultation with districts, the department, and the State Department of Public Health, to periodically modify the best management practices in order to best fulfill certain purposes. To the extent that the bill imposes additional duties on a district, the 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.