Asm. Jim Frazier

This measure would request the Governor to designate specified departments to accelerate the planning, creation, and completion timelines for a California Nonmotorized Trails Master Plan for urban and rural regions to expand specified opportunities for Californians. The measure would request the Governor to request the President of the United States, Members of Congress, and the Federal Highway Administration to dedicate increased funding to California to accelerate and support the planning and development of the plan and to accelerate the completion of existing nonmotorized recreational trails.

This measure would recognize the month of August 2017 as Opportunity Youth Reengagement Month, and state the intent of the Legislature to encourage the expansion of schools authorized to specifically reengage "opportunity youth" 16 to 24 years of age by developing recommendations for a statewide student reengagement strategy and identifying the cost of the strategy compared to the cost of inaction; authorizing systems for accountability to students, parents, and families through transparency, active engagement, and outreach strategies; and highlighting, promoting, and uplifting evidence-based practices for successful student reengagement efforts that maintain multiple measures for evaluation of student success.

This measure would urge the Congress of the United States to support S. 349, the Access to Counsel Act, which would ensure that those persons held or detained while attempting to enter the United States, whether at a border crossing or a port of entry, would be guaranteed access to legal counsel.

This measure would urge the President and the Congress of the United States to continue to place an emphasis on increasing funding to NASA's budget and encouraging the expansive use of public-private partnerships to propel the industry forward into the next generation of advancement.

This measure would recognize adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) , also known as post-traumatic "street" disorder in communities of color, as having lasting negative outcomes to both physical and mental health with growing implications for our state.

(1) The California Tire Recycling Act requires, until January 1, 2024, a person who purchases a new tire to pay a California tire fee of $1.75 per tire, for deposit in the California Tire Recycling Management Fund, for expenditure by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery upon appropriation by the Legislature, to fund the waste tire program and for other purposes, including to pay for the costs associated with a waste tire and used tire hauler program and manifest system, as provided. After January 1, 2024, existing law reduces the tire fee to $0.75 per tire. Existing law requires any person generating waste tires or used tires that are transported or submitted for transportation, for offsite handling, altering, storage, disposal, or for any combination thereof, to complete a California Uniform Waste and Used Tire Manifest, as required by the department. Existing law requires a generator to provide the manifest to the waste and used tire hauler at the time of transfer of the tires, and to submit to the department, on a quarterly schedule, a legible copy of each manifest. This bill would require, until January 1, 2024, upon a specified finding by the department, a waste tire generator that is a retail seller of new tires to end user purchasers to pay a California tire regulatory fee and to remit that fee to the state on a quarterly schedule for deposit in the California Tire Recycling Management Fund. The bill would require the department to track revenue from the California tire regulatory fee separately and would prohibit those funds from being used for activities other than those specified. The bill would require the department to identify the specific programs that the California tire regulatory fee would fund. The bill would require the department to establish the California tire regulatory fee in an amount that does not exceed $1 per new tire sold, and would require the department to base the amount of the fee on specified criteria, as provided. The bill would authorize the department to differentiate in setting the fees between the waste tire generators who are retail sellers depending upon the nature of the activity generating waste tires, the number of waste tires generated, and other appropriate bases. The bill would require the department, prior to establishing the California tire regulatory fee or making any adjustment to the fee, to hold a public hearing, as specified. The bill would provide that an adjustment to the fee becomes effective on January 1 of the year following its adoption. The bill would require the department to adopt regulations to implement the initial California tire regulatory fee, and would authorize the department to adopt regulations to adjust the California tire regulatory fee, as specified. (2) Existing law prohibits the California tire fee from being imposed on a tire sold with, or sold separately for use on, a self-propelled wheelchair, a motorized tricycle or motorized quadricycle, or a vehicle that is similar to a motorized tricycle or motorized quadricycle, as specified. This bill would prohibit the California tire regulatory fee from being imposed on those same vehicles. (3) Existing law establishes, as a part of the waste tire program, the tire recycling program, which promotes and develops alternatives to the landfill disposal of used whole tires. The program provides for grants to certain entities involved in activities that result in reduced landfill disposal of whole used tires, and development and implementation of a waste tire incentive payment program to promote increased demand for waste tires recycled in this state. Under the act, until June 30, 2019, the Rubberized Pavement Market Development Act provides for the award of grants to certain public agency projects that use rubberized asphalt concrete. This bill would repeal the Rubberized Pavement Market Development Act and instead enact the Tire Recycling Incentive Program Act. The bill would require the department to establish this incentive program to make payments to entities that purchase tire products that are processed in the state from waste tire material for incorporation in products for sale to end users, as specified. The bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2019, to hold a public workshop to develop a plan for the tire recycling incentive payment program, as specified. The bill would require the department to collect data from recipients of incentive payments and release that data annually in the California Waste Tire Market Report, as specified. The bill would require the department to evaluate the program in a public forum and propose changes accordingly. The bill would make an entity eligible to receive an incentive payment upon demonstrating to the department that the entity purchased an incentive-eligible tire product that was processed in California from California-generated waste tire material and sold an incentive-eligible tire product incorporating that material to an end user. The bill would require the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to annually expend at least $30,000,000 for the program and would require the department to reduce the amount of moneys expended for waste tire market development grants after consideration of the amount of that appropriation, as specified. (4) Existing law declares the intent of the Legislature to reduce the landfill disposal and stockpiling of used whole tires by 25% within 4 years of full implementation of a statewide tire recycling program and to recycle and reclaim used tires and used tire components to the greatest extent possible in order to recover valuable natural resources. This bill would declare that it is the policy goal of the state that not less than 75% of solid waste tires generated be source reduced or recycled in the state by the year 2020. The bill would require the department, if that policy goal is met for 3 consecutive years, to review existing tire recycling programs and make recommendations, as specified. (5) Existing law requires a person generating waste or used tires that are transported or submitted for transportation to submit a California Uniform Waste and Used Tire Manifest, as defined, to the waste and used tire hauler and to submit copies of the manifest to the department. A waste and used tire hauler is required to possess that manifest while transporting waste or used tires, and the operator of a waste or used tire facility is required to submit a copy of the manifest to the department and the generator. Existing law requires the department to develop and implement a system for auditing manifests, including continuously conducting random sampling and matching of manifests. This bill would revise those provisions to, among other things, require a waste and used tire hauler, on and after January 1, 2019, to submit an electronic manifest, instead of a paper manifest, to the department within 7 days of the date of the pickup or delivery for each load of waste or used tires transported.

Existing law authorizes proceedings for the formation of a regional park and open-space or regional open-space district in specified counties in the state to be initiated by resolution of the county board of supervisors adopted after a noticed hearing, and specifies the contents of the resolution. This bill, in addition, would authorize the formation of a regional district in the County of Solano to be initiated by resolution of the county board of supervisors after a noticed hearing. The bill would specify the contents of the resolution, including a requirement that the resolution call an election, as prescribed.

Existing law establishes a delta levee maintenance program pursuant to which a local agency may request reimbursement for costs incurred in connection with the maintenance or improvement of project or nonproject levees in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Existing law declares legislative intent to reimburse eligible local agencies under this program, until July 1, 2018, in an amount not to exceed 75% of those costs that are incurred in excess of $1,000 per mile of levee. Existing law, until July 1, 2018, authorizes the board to provide funds to an eligible local agency under this program in the form of an advance in an amount that does not exceed 75% of the estimated state share. This bill would extend until July 1, 2020, the operation of that declaration of legislative intent and the authorization to advance funds. Existing law, on and after July 1, 2018, declares the intent of the Legislature to reimburse eligible local agencies under this program in an amount not to exceed 50% of those costs that are incurred in excess of $1,000 per mile of levee in any year for the maintenance and improvement of levees. Existing law, on and after July 1, 2018, declares the intent of the Legislature that the maximum total reimbursement under the program shall not exceed $2,000,000 annually. This bill would postpone the operation of these provisions until July 1, 2020.

Existing law prohibits the Department of Motor Vehicles from issuing a commercial driver's license to any person to operate a commercial motor vehicle unless the person has passed a written and driving test for the operation of a commercial motor vehicle that complies with the minimum standards established by the federal Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986 and specified federal regulations, and has satisfied all other requirements of that act as well as any other requirements imposed by state law. This bill would require the department, no later than June 5, 2020, to adopt regulations related to entry-level driver training requirements for drivers of commercial motor vehicles including specified minimum hours of behind-the-wheel training and in compliance with the requirements of specified federal regulations. The bill would, until January 1, 2024, exempt a driver operating certain farm vehicles under certain conditions, as specified, from these new training requirements. This bill would also make legislative findings and declarations and would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.