(1) Existing federal law, the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, provides grants to states to carry out activities relating to the education of homeless children and youths, as defined, including, among others, providing services and activities to improve the identification of homeless children and youths and to enable them to enroll in, attend, and succeed in school. The act requires a state plan submitted for the receipt of the grant to include assurances that local educational agencies will designate an appropriate staff person to act as a local educational agency liaison for homeless children and youths and a description of how the state will ensure that local educational agencies and their liaisons will comply with specified requirements of the act, including the identification of homeless children and youths. Under existing state law, public schools, including charter schools, and county offices of education are required to immediately enroll a homeless child or youth seeking enrollment, except as specified. Existing law requires a local educational agency liaison for homeless children and youths to ensure that public notice of the educational rights of homeless children and youths is disseminated in schools within the liaison's local educational agency that provide services pursuant to the act. This bill would require a local educational agency, as defined to include a school district, county office of education, charter school, or special education local plan area, to establish homeless education program policies that are consistent with specified state laws, and would further require the local educational agency to update these policies at intervals not exceeding 3 years. The bill would require local educational agencies to provide training at least annually on designated subjects to its classified and certificated employees who work with pupils, as specified. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) Existing law requires the State Department of Education to provide, among other things, informational and training materials to local educational agency liaisons regarding the educational rights of homeless children and youths and the responsibilities of the liaisons. This bill would require the department to develop and implement a plan for monitoring the compliance of local educational agencies with state laws relating to youth experiencing homelessness. The bill would require the monitoring plan to include reviews of the local educational agencies including, but not limited to, schoolsite inspections to ensure that the state is not underestimating the number of youth experiencing homelessness. (3) 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 declare March 5, 2020, as Family Justice Center Day in California and would recognize the lifesaving and hope-giving work of the California Family Justice Center Network and its member Family Justice Centers as they work with rape crisis centers, domestic violence shelters, human trafficking agencies, prosecutors' offices, law enforcement agencies, and other professionals and community-based organizations to ensure that adult and child survivors of trauma can access all of their services in one setting.
This measure would recognize March 7, 2020, as California Arbor Day, and would urge California residents to observe the day with appropriate tree-planting activities and programs.
Under existing law, a city or county is empowered to perform duties, including providing for public safety and law enforcement. A city or county is authorized, either directly or indirectly, to prescribe policies and regulations for law enforcement agencies under its jurisdiction. This bill would require a California law enforcement agency that participates in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) to do so only in a manner that is fully consistent with the laws of the State of California, including the agency's own policies, procedures, and orders. The bill would require, before a California law enforcement agency enters into or amends a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with a federal law enforcement agency regarding the agency's participation on the JTTF, that the agency submit the proposed MOU and any orders, policies, and procedures relevant to the subject matter of the MOU to its governing body, or the Attorney General as appropriate, for approval. This bill would require a local governing body to post information relating to the proposed MOU on its internet website and to, at a regularly scheduled hearing, with an opportunity for public comment, consider the MOU for adoption by resolution or ordinance on the regular, nonconsent calendar. The bill would require the Attorney General to post a proposed MOU submitted to it for approval by a state law enforcement agency, and all relevant material, on its internet website and allow at least 90 days to receive and consider public comment before considering the MOU for approval. This bill would require a participating local law enforcement agency to provide by February 1 of each year, to its local governing body and to the Department of Justice a written, public report about its activities in the JTTF between January 1 and December 31 of the prior year that contains specified information, including, among other things, the number of local law enforcement officers assigned to the JTTF and the funding source. The bill would require the Attorney General to post all of the reports on its internet website, without any redaction. This bill would require the local governing body of any county, city, or city and county in which a local law enforcement agency has participated on the JTTF during the last year to hold at least one community forum during the following year to provide information to the public about the law enforcement agency's participation in the JTTF and to receive and consider public comment. The bill would also require the local law enforcement agency to participate in the forum, as specified. Because this bill would impose additional requirements on local public agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires local agencies, for the purpose of ensuring public access to the meetings of public bodies and the writings of public officials and agencies, to comply with a statutory enactment that amends or enacts laws relating to public records or open meetings and contains findings demonstrating that the enactment furthers the constitutional requirements relating to this purpose. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect. 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.
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities. Existing law provides that the commission has no authority to establish rates or regulate the borrowing of money, the issuance of evidences of indebtedness, or the sale, lease, assignment, mortgage, or other disposal or encumbrance of the property of any electrical cooperative, as defined, but that electrical cooperatives are otherwise subject to the regulatory authority of the commission pursuant to the Public Utilities Act. This bill would provide that the commission has no authority to establish rates or regulate the borrowing of money, the issuance of evidences of indebtedness, or the sale, lease, assignment, mortgage, or other disposal or encumbrance of the property of any gas cooperative, as defined, but that gas cooperatives are otherwise subject to the regulatory authority of the commission pursuant to the Public Utilities Act. The bill would revise the definition of an electrical cooperative.
This measure would memorialize the achievements of Rosa Parks in the Civil Rights Movement and would commemorate the 20th Anniversary of Rosa Parks Day in California on February 4, 2020.
The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act generally prohibits a manufacturer, winegrower, distiller, bottler, or wholesaler, among other licensees, or agents of these licensees, from paying a retailer for advertising. The act creates a variety of exceptions from this prohibition, including permitting specified licensees to purchase advertising space and time from, or on behalf of, an on-sale retail licensee that is an owner, manager, or major tenant of certain stadiums, parks, entertainment complexes, and arenas, subject to specified conditions. Existing law requires the purchase of advertising space or time in this context to be conducted pursuant to a written contract with the on-sale licensee. Existing law makes it a crime for an on-sale licensee to coerce certain licensees to purchase advertising space or time, as specified. This bill would expand the exceptions described above to allow beer manufacturers, winegrowers, distilled spirits rectifiers, craft distillers, distilled spirits manufacturers, or distilled spirits manufacturer's agents to purchase advertising space and time, in connection with described events, from, or on behalf of, on-sale retail licensees, as described above, at a for-profit theater with specified characteristics located in the City and County of San Francisco. The bill would also authorize the purchase of advertising space and time from, or on behalf of, the owner of the theater, a long-term tenant, or licensee of the theater, whether or not the owner, long-term tenant, or licensee holds an on-sale license. The bill would make conforming changes in provisions relating to written contracts in pursuant to which the purchase is made. By expanding the definition of a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City and County of San Francisco. 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.