Existing law, known as the Density Bonus Law, requires a city, county, or city and county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development within the jurisdictional boundaries of that city, county, or city and county with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions for the production of lower income housing units, or for the donation of land within the development, if the developer agrees to construct a specified percentage of units for very low income, low-income, or moderate-income households or qualifying residents and meets other requirements. Under existing law, a city, county, or city and county is required to provide a density bonus to a developer that agrees to construct a housing development in which 100% of the units, exclusive of managers' units, are for lower income households, as provided. Existing law generally requires that a housing development meeting these criteria receive a density bonus of 80% of the number of units for lower income housing, but exempts a development from any maximum controls on density if it is located within 12 mile of a major transit stop, as defined. Existing law requires that a housing development meeting these criteria also receive 4 incentives or concessions under the Density Bonus Law and prohibits a development that receives a waiver from maximum controls on density from receiving a waiver or reduction of development standards other than as expressly provided in specified provisions of the Density Bonus Law. This bill would, instead, require that a housing development meeting these criteria receive at least 4 incentives or concessions, thereby authorizing additional incentives or concessions for these developments. The bill would also authorize a housing development that receives a waiver from any maximum controls on density to receive additional waivers or reductions of development standards agreed to by the city, county, or city and county. Existing law, upon the request of the developer, prohibits a city, county, or city and county from requiring a vehicular parking ratio for a development meeting the eligibility requirements under the Density Bonus Law that exceeds specified ratios. For a development that includes specified percentages of low-income or very low income units and is located within 12 mile of a major transit stop, as defined, and there is unobstructed access to that major transit stop from the development, existing law limits that vehicular parking ratio to 0.5 spaces per bedroom. For purposes of determining the maximum vehicular parking ratio under these provisions, existing law specifies that a development has unobstructed access to a major transit stop if a resident is able to access the major transit stop without encountering natural or constructed impediments. This bill would specify that "natural or constructed impediments" for these purposes includes, but is not limited to, freeways, rivers, mountains, and bodies of water, but does not include residential structures, shopping centers, parking lots, and rail used for transit. The bill would also require that the distance of a development eligible for a maximum 0.5 spaces per bedroom vehicular parking ratio under these provisions be measured from any point located on the property of the proposed development to any point on the property on which the major transit stop is located. By adding to the duties of local planning officials in providing incentives and concessions under the Density Bonus Law, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
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Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law authorizes the commission to establish rules for all public utilities, subject to control by the Legislature. Existing law authorizes the commission, after a hearing, to require every public utility to construct, maintain, and operate its line, plant, system, equipment, apparatus, tracks, and premises in a manner so as to promote and safeguard the health and safety of its employees, passengers, customers, and the public. The Public Utilities Act provides that any public utility that violates any provision of the California Constitution or the act, or that fails or neglects to comply with any order, decision, decree, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission, where a penalty has not otherwise been provided, is subject to a penalty of not less than $500 and not more than $100,000 for each offense. This bill would authorize the Attorney General or the district attorney of a proper county or city and county, as specified, to bring an action in the name of the people, pursuant to the above-described civil penalty provision, against an electrical corporation involving a failure to comply with safety standards or requirements. The bill would provide that when the conduct that constitutes the violation or failure to comply is of a continuing nature, each day of that violation or failure to comply is subject to a separate and distinct civil penalty. The bill would require that an action seeking these civil penalties be commenced within 4 years after the cause of action accrues. The Public Utilities Act provides that every public utility and every officer, agent, or employee of a public utility, who violates or fails to comply with, or who procures, aids, or abets any violation by any public utility of any provision of the California Constitution or of the act, or who fails to comply with any part of any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission, or who procures, aids, or abets any public utility in a violation or noncompliance, in a case in which a penalty has not otherwise been provided, is guilty of a misdemeanor and is punishable by a fine not exceeding $5,000, or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by both fine and imprisonment. This bill would authorize the Attorney General or the district attorney of a proper county or city and county, as specified, to bring an action in the name of the people, pursuant to the above-described criminal provision, against an electrical corporation involving a failure to comply with safety standards or requirements. The bill would provide that when the conduct that constitutes the violation or failure to comply is of a continuing nature, each day of that violation or failure to comply is a separate and distinct offense subject to a fine or imprisonment, or both a fine and imprisonment. The bill would require that an action seeking a fine or imprisonment pursuant to the above-described criminal provision be commenced within 4 years after the commission discovers the violation or failure to comply, or within 4 years after completion of the violation or failure to comply, whichever is later. The Public Utilities Act provides that all penalties accruing under the act are cumulative, and a suit for the recovery of one penalty does not bar or affect the recovery of any other penalty or forfeiture or serve as a bar to any criminal prosecution against any public utility, or any officer, director, agent, or employee of the public utility, or any other corporation or person. This bill would expressly provide that the above-described civil penalty and criminal sanction provisions are in addition to other fines or penalties imposed by other law. The Public Utilities Act requires the commission to ensure that where enforcement of provisions affecting public utilities is not specifically vested in some other officer or tribunal, that those provisions are enforced and obeyed and that violations are promptly prosecuted and penalties are recovered and collected. To accomplish this requirement, the commission is authorized to sue in the name of the people and to request the Attorney General or a district attorney to aid in any investigation, hearing, or trial and to institute and prosecute actions or proceedings. This bill would provide that the bill does not diminish the duty of the commission to be the primary entity responsible to ensure that the laws pertaining to public utilities are enforced and obeyed and does not diminish the authority of the commission to request the Attorney General or the district attorney of a proper county or city and county to aid in any investigation, hearing, or trial pursuant to the act.
(1) Existing law, the California Values Act, prohibits a California law enforcement agency from providing a person's release date, or responding to a request for notification of a release date, unless that information is available to the public, and prohibits the transfer of an individual to immigration authorities, as specified, unless the person has been convicted of specified crimes or arrested for a serious or violent felony. This bill would instead prohibit a law enforcement agency from providing an immigration authority with information regarding a person's release date or responding to a notification request by providing a release date for the individual or other information in all circumstances. If release dates are available online, the bill would require that the information be released only upon providing the individual's first and last name and would require the person requesting the information to indicate, under penalty of perjury, that the information is not being accessed for immigration purposes. By expanding the existing crime of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would also prohibit a law enforcement agency from complying with a subpoena from an immigration authority seeking information for immigration enforcement purposes unless it is signed by a federal judge or federal magistrate judge. The bill would prohibit a law enforcement agency from transferring an individual to an immigration authority or facilitating or assisting with a transfer request. The bill would prohibit a law enforcement agency from providing an immigration authority with access to a nonpublic area of a facility for immigration enforcement purposes. The bill would remove authority to give immigration authorities access to interview an individual who is in custody. (2) Existing law allows a law enforcement agency to investigate, enforce, or detain or arrest an individual who is deportable for specified criminal activity that is detected during an unrelated law enforcement activity. This bill would delete that authorization. (3) Existing law allows a law enforcement agency to conduct enforcement or investigative duties associated with a joint law enforcement task force with federal law enforcement if the primary purpose of the joint task force is not immigration enforcement. This bill would remove that authority if a purpose of the joint task force is immigration enforcement. (4) Existing law requires the agency to report annually to the Department of Justice the number of transfers it makes to immigration authorities and the offenses that allowed for the transfer. This bill would instead require the law enforcement agency to report the number of immigration hold requests, transfer requests, notification requests, and civil immigration warrants the agency has received, the number the agency responded to, and the reason for each response. By expanding the duties of local law enforcement agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (5) Existing law requires the Attorney General to annually report on the total number of arrests made by joint law enforcement task forces and the total number of arrests made for the purpose of immigration enforcement by all task force participants. This bill would require the Attorney General to report the number of immigration hold requests, transfer requests, notification requests, and civil immigration warrants each law enforcement agency has received, the number each agency has responded to, and the reason for each response. The bill would require the Attorney General to report the number of joint law enforcement taskforces each agency has been involved in, the federal and California law enforcement agencies involved in each, and the total number of arrests made for the purpose of immigration enforcement. (6) Existing law prohibits the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation from restricting access to in-prison educational or rehabilitative programming or credit-earning opportunities on the sole basis of citizenship or immigration status, or from considering citizenship or immigration status as a factor in determining a person's classification level. This bill would also prohibit the department from detaining a person on the basis of a hold request, providing an immigration authority with release date information, responding to a notification request, transferring an individual to an immigration authority , or facilitating or assisting with a transfer request regarding an individual who is eligible to be released after serving time for offenses that were committed when the person was 25 years of age or younger. The bill would prohibit the department from detaining an individual on a hold request from an immigration authority, allowing parole agents to facilitate or assist an immigration authority with immigration enforcement, or requesting an immigration authority to place a hold, notification, or transfer request on a person based on information that the person was born in a foreign country. (7) 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.
The California Emergency Services Act, among other things, establishes the Office of Emergency Services within the office of the Governor, under the charge of a Director of Emergency Services appointed by the Governor. The act and other existing laws set forth the duties and authority of the office and the director, with respect to specified emergency preparedness, mitigation, and response activities within the state. This bill would require the office to prepare for the planning, resourcing, management, and delivery of safety and security at the potential 2026 FIFA World Cup hosting sites in the City of Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay area. The bill would require the office, no later than one year from the date the final selection of host cities is made, to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the cities hosting the 2026 FIFA World Cup games, the chosen host committees, and with other necessary parties to implement those safety and security activities. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2027. 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 contracting between state agencies and private contractors and sets forth requirements for the procurement of goods and services by state agencies and the various responsibilities of state agencies and the Department of General Services in implementing state contracting procedures and policies. This bill would require a construction contract for a state public works project, as defined, to specify and require the installation of noncombustible drain, waste, and vent piping, except as otherwise required for the discharge of acid or corrosive chemicals under the California Buildings Standards Code.
Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires specified health insurance policies that provide coverage for outpatient prescription drugs to cover medically necessary prescription drugs and subjects those policies to certain limitations on cost sharing and the placement of drugs on formularies. Existing law authorizes a health care service plan and a health insurer to utilize formularies, prior authorization, step therapy, or other reasonable medical management practices in the provision of outpatient prescription drug coverage. This bill would require health care service plan contracts and health insurance policies issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2021, that provide outpatient prescription drug benefits to cover all medically necessary prescription drugs approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treating substance use disorders that are appropriate for the specific needs of an enrollee or insured. The bill would require those drugs to be placed on the lowest cost-sharing tier of the plan or insurer's prescription drug formulary, unless specified criteria are met. The bill would, among other prohibitions, prohibit prior authorization or step therapy requirements on a prescription drug approved by the FDA for treating substance use disorders, unless specified criteria are met. Because a willful violation of these provisions by a health care service plan would be a crime, 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.
Existing law establishes the University of California, under the administration of the Regents of the University of California, the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University, and the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as the 3 segments of public postsecondary education in this state. The Equity in Higher Education Act provides that it is the policy of the state to afford all persons, regardless of specified characteristics, including gender identity and gender expression, equal rights and opportunities in the postsecondary educational institutions of the state. This bill would require a campus of the University of California, California State University, or California Community Colleges to update a former student's records to include the student's updated legal name or gender if the institution receives government-issued documentation, as described, from the student demonstrating that the former student's legal name or gender has been changed. The bill would require the institution to reissue specified documents conferred upon, or issued to, the former student with the former student's updated legal name or gender, if requested by the former student. Commencing with the 2022–23 graduating class, the bill would require an institution to provide an option for a graduating student to request that the diploma to be conferred by the institution list the student's chosen name, as specified. Because this bill imposes new duties on community college districts, it would constitute 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 vests the Department of Transportation with full possession and control of the state highway system and associated real property. Existing law generally requires vehicles to be driven upon the right half of a roadway, defined to include only that portion of a highway improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel. Existing law generally prohibits the driver of a vehicle from overtaking and passing another vehicle by driving off the paved or main-traveled portion of the roadway. Existing law authorizes the Monterey-Salinas Transit District and the Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District to conduct a transit bus-only program using the shoulders of certain state highways as transit bus-only traffic corridors, subject to approval by the Department of Transportation and the Department of the California Highway Patrol. Existing law requires that the highway segments to be used for the program are to be jointly determined by the districts, the department, and the Department of the California Highway Patrol, as provided. This bill would authorize the Department of Transportation to establish a pilot program to authorize a transit operator or operators to operate transit buses on the shoulders of state highways, under a project selected under the program. The bill would authorize an operator or operators, in partnership with a regional transportation agency that meets specified requirements, to submit an application to the department to establish and operate a project under the program. The bill would authorize the department to select no more than 8 total projects under the program using guidelines developed with input from the Department of the California Highway Patrol and the public. The bill would require the department, the Department of the California Highway Patrol, and the operator or operators and regional transportation agency that submitted the application to jointly determine the state highways, or segment of state highways, that will be used in a project. The bill would require the applicable regional transportation agency to be responsible for all costs attributable to the project. Two years after commencing a project, the bill would require an operator or operators, in conjunction with the applicable regional transportation agency, to submit a report to the Legislature that includes certain information about the project.
Existing law requires a certificated or classified school employee, and an academic or classified community college employee, who exhausts all available sick leave and continues to be absent from duties on account of illness or accident for an additional period of 5 months to receive during those 5 months either (1) the difference between the employee's salary and the sum that is actually paid, or would have been paid, to a substitute employee employed to fill the position during the employee's absence, or (2) at least 50% of the employee's regular salary during the period of the absence. This bill would instead require a certificated or classified school employee, and an academic or classified community college employee, who exhausts all available sick leave and continues to be absent from duties on account of illness or accident for an additional period of 5 months to receive the employee's full salary during those 5 months. The bill would make numerous related conforming and clarifying changes.
This measure would designate the week of February 24, 2020, to March 1, 2020, as Eating Disorders Awareness Week.