Existing law requires an owner of a dwelling structure containing one or more units offered to the public for rent or for lease for residential purposes, or a party signing a rental agreement or lease on behalf of the owner, to provide certain information to a tenant, including, among other things, disclosure in the rental agreement or lease the name and contact information of the person or entity to whom rent payments are required to be made and, if rent payments may be made personally, the usual days and hours that the person will be available to receive the payments, or, at the owner's option, the rental agreement or lease instead is required to disclose the number of the account in a financial institution located within 5 miles of the rental property into which rent payments may be made, and the name and street address of the institution, or the information necessary to establish an electronic funds transfer procedure for paying the rent. This bill would require that the address for payment in person be within 5 miles of the rental property and that the rental agreement or lease disclose a name and address to which rent may be paid by mail. Existing law provides that a party who enters into a rental agreement on behalf of an owner who fails to comply with laws requiring that certain information be provided to a tenant is deemed an agent of each person who is an owner for, among other things, receiving rental payments, which may be made in cash, by check, by money order, or in any form previously accepted by the owner or agent, unless the form of payment has been specified in the rental agreement or the tenant has been notified by the owner in writing that a particular form of payment is unacceptable. This bill would omit the specific reference to cash, check, or money order and instead would authorize payment in any manner disclosed in the rental agreement or lease pursuant to these provisions. Existing law, if personal delivery is not allowed, requires that it be conclusively presumed that upon mailing of any rent or notice to the owner by the tenant to the name and address provided, the notice or rent is deemed receivable by the owner on the date posted, if the tenant can show proof of mailing. This bill would require that presumption to be applied regardless of whether personal delivery is allowed. Existing law provides that a tenant of real property is guilty of unlawful detainer in certain circumstances, including when the tenant continues in possession without permission of the landlord after default in the payment of rent and 3 days' notice requiring its payment or possession of the property was served on the tenant, as specified. This bill would recast and clarify that provision. Existing law provides various methods for serving notices in unlawful detainer proceedings, including the service of notice to a tenant, whose place of residence and business cannot be ascertained or there is not a person of suitable age or discretion with whom to leave a copy, by affixing a copy in a conspicuous place on the property, delivering a copy to a person living on the property if such person can be found, and sending a copy through the mail addressed to the tenant at the place where the property is situated. This bill would add that the copy sent through the mail to the tenant be with proof of service by mail. Existing law, commonly known as the Ellis Act, generally prohibits public entities from adopting any statute, ordinance, or regulation, or taking any administrative action, to compel the owner of residential real property to offer or to continue to offer accommodations, as defined, in the property for rent or lease. Existing law authorizes a public entity to enact by ordinance or statute procedures for an owner to notify the entity of his or her intention to withdraw accommodations from rent or lease and for an owner to notify the tenant of specified information. Existing law provides, if the tenant or lessee is at least 62 years of age or disabled, as defined, and has lived in the accommodations for at least one year before the notice of intent to withdraw has been filed with the entity, the date of withdrawal of the accommodations of that tenant or lessee is extended for one year after delivery of the notice to the public entity and certain other requirements apply. This bill would additionally apply that extension if the tenant or lessee has a custodial or family relationship with a pupil enrolled in a primary or secondary school who lives in the accommodations, as specified. Existing law authorizes a public entity to also require the owner to notify the tenant of, among other things, his or her right to extended tenancy for one year after delivery of the notice if that tenant or lessee is at least 62 years of age or disabled and has lived in those accommodations for at least one year prior to the above-referenced notice of intent to withdraw accommodations from rent or lease. This bill would additionally authorize a public entity to require the owner to provide notice of this right to extend tenancy to a tenant or lessee that has a custodial or family relationship with a pupil enrolled in a primary or secondary school who lives in the accommodations, as specified. This bill also would make technical changes.
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(1) The California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009 provides for the regulation of private postsecondary educational institutions by the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education in the Department of Consumer Affairs. The act also establishes the Student Tuition Recovery Fund and requires the bureau to adopt regulations governing the administration and maintenance of the fund, including requirements relating to assessments on students and student claims against the fund, and establishes that the moneys in this fund are continuously appropriated to the bureau for specified purposes. The act caps the amount that may be in the fund at any time at $25,000,000. This bill would raise the cap for the fund to $30,000,000. (2) This bill would appropriate the sum of $1,300,000 from the Student Tuition Recovery Fund to the Attorney General for the purposes of providing grants to eligible nonprofit community service organizations to assist eligible students affected by the closure of Corinthian Colleges, Inc., as defined, with loan discharge and other student loan-related requests and tuition recovery-related claims, and to pay an amount not to exceed $150,000 for the reasonable administrative costs of the Attorney General's office related to these grants, as specified, thereby making an appropriation. The bill would require the bureau to notify the Attorney General of all unlawful Corinthian Colleges, Inc., closures within 15 days of the effective date of these provisions. The bill would require the Attorney General to, among other things, within 90 days of the notification, solicit grant applications from eligible nonprofit community service organizations, select one or more of these organizations deemed to be qualified, and set additional terms and conditions of the grants as necessary. The bill would set a schedule for how grant funds are to be distributed. The bill would require the grantee to submit specified information to the Attorney General on a quarterly basis, and require the Attorney General to make these reports available to the Legislature and the bureau upon request. The bill would require the Attorney General to provide the Legislature and the bureau a final report summarizing all the information submitted to it by grantees, promptly following the time when all funds are expended by the grantees, or by August, 1, 2018, whichever is earlier. The bill would authorize the Attorney General to contract with another qualified entity to perform the Attorney General's duties under these provisions. (3) This bill would, for a period not to exceed 2 years from April 27, 2015, authorize state agencies that provide certification, registration, or licensure necessary to promote the safety and protection of the public to, on a case-by-case basis, consider for certification, registration, or licensure students who were enrolled in a program of Corinthian Colleges, Inc., that provided education or training aimed towards these students receiving certification, registration, or licensure from the state agency, and who did not receive that certification, registration, or licensure due to the closure of that institution. (4) The Cal Grant Program prohibits an applicant from receiving Cal Grant awards totaling in excess of the amount equivalent to the award level for a total of four years of full-time attendance in an undergraduate program, except as provided. This bill would partially exempt from this limitation on Cal Grant awards a student who was enrolled and received a Cal Grant award at a California campus of Heald College, and who was unable to complete an educational program offered by the campus due to its closure. (5) The California National Guard Education Assistance Award Program authorizes the renewal of California National Guard Education Assistance Awards, for a maximum of the greater of either four years of full-time equivalent enrollment or the duration for which the qualifying member would otherwise be eligible pursuant to the Cal Grant Program, if specified conditions are met. This bill would partially exempt from this limitation on California National Guard Education Assistance Awards a student who was enrolled and received a California National Guard Education Assistance Award at a California campus of Heald College, and who was unable to complete an educational program offered by the campus due to its closure. (6) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, 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 reimbursement to Medi-Cal pharmacy providers for drugs, as prescribed. As a condition for the participation of a pharmacy in the Medi-Cal program, and subject to specified exceptions, existing law requires the pharmacy, upon presentation of a valid prescription for a patient and the patient's Medicare card, to charge Medicare beneficiaries a price that does not exceed the Medi-Cal reimbursement rate for prescription medicines and an amount, as set by the department, to cover electronic transmission charges. Existing law prohibits Medicare beneficiaries from being allowed to use the Medi-Cal reimbursement rate for over-the-counter medications or compound medications. Existing law provides that these provisions do not apply to a prescription that is covered by insurance. Existing law requires the department to conduct an outreach program to inform Medicare beneficiaries of their right to participate in this program. This bill would expand these provisions to also apply to any patient upon presentation of a valid prescription for the patient and evidence of residency in California. The bill would provide that for purposes of these provisions "covered by insurance" does not apply to a prescription for a specific medication prescribed for a patient that is not included on the drug formulary maintained by that patient's health care service plan or health insurer, and for which the patient is prepared to pay cash.
Existing law, the California Retail Food Code, provides for regulation by the State Department of Public Health of food manufacturers and retail food facilities and the preparation and sale of foods. Under existing law, local health agencies are primarily responsible for enforcing the code. A person who violates any provision of the code is guilty of a misdemeanor, except as otherwise provided. This bill would, among other things, require the department to identify a list of ready-to-eat foods that have a high level of risk associated with consumption after a specified date and to post that list on its Internet Web site. The bill would, beginning July 1, 2017, require a food manufacturer or retail food facility that chooses to include a quality date, as defined, on foods for sale that are not identified on the department's list to display that date using the phrase "best if used by" in 8-point type size or larger type, as specified. The bill would, beginning July 1, 2017, require a food manufacturer that elects to include an elevated risk date on products that require time/temperature control for safety (TCS) to label the package or container of that food identifying the elevated-risk date, as defined, using the phrase "expires on" or another term specified by the department. The bill would specify that it does not create a legal liability for a retail food provider to ensure that the manufacturer has properly labeled the product. The bill would make related findings and declarations. By creating new crimes and imposing additional enforcement duties on local health 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 with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
This measure would declare the month of April 2016 as the Month of the Military Child.
This measure would designate April 3, 2016, to April 9, 2016, inclusive, as Women and Girls in STEM Week and would encourage all citizens and community organizations to support the observance of California Women and Girls in STEM Week by encouraging and celebrating women in the STEM fields.