Existing law authorizes specified harbor and port districts, as defined, jointly with an electrical corporation, a gas corporation, a specified community choice aggregator, or a publicly owned electric or gas utility serving the district to prepare one or more energy management plans to reduce air emissions, promote economic development, and encourage the development of new businesses and retention of existing businesses in the district. Existing law requires, if a district prepares an energy management plan, that the plan include, among other things, an assessment of other energy efficiency and management issues the district determines to evaluate in order to inform the development of specific goals and actions that reduce air emissions and promote economic development. Existing law requires that assessment to include, among other things, an electric or natural gas load forecast and an assessment that identifies domestic and international shipping requirements and operations related to energy use and consumption. This bill would require that assessment to also include an assessment of the capacity of ports to advance the state's greenhouse gas reduction targets by facilitating the development, construction, and creation of a supply chain for eligible renewable energy resources.
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Existing law makes various provisions relating to pedestrian safety, including requiring the driver of a vehicle to yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within any marked crosswalk or within any unmarked crosswalk at an intersection, except as specified. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Existing law generally requires a vehicle, stopped or parked upon a roadway where there are adjacent curbs, to be stopped or parked with the right-hand wheels of the vehicle parallel with, and within 18 inches of, the right-hand curb, with specified exceptions. Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to publish a synopsis or summary of laws regulating the operation of vehicles and the use of highways, and requires the department to furnish copies of the publication to its field offices for general distribution at no charge. Existing law requires an applicant for a driver's license to submit to examination by the department. This bill would require the department to include in its California Driver Handbook publication information advising drivers on the Dutch Reach method, as defined, when opening a vehicle door after parallel parking the vehicle. The bill would also require the department to include test questions regarding driving safely in the presence of bicycles in the question pool used for the written portion of the driver's license examination. The bill would permit one of those questions to be a question regarding the Dutch Reach method.
This measure would proclaim January 23, 2020, as Maternal Health Awareness Day, to draw attention to the efforts that have improved maternal health in California and to highlight the need for continued improvement of maternal health for all women.
Existing law requires school districts to establish, maintain, and destroy pupil records according to regulations adopted by the State Board of Education, and requires those regulations to establish state policy concerning pupil records. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
This measure would designate the month of January 2020 as Positive Parenting Awareness Month in California.
This measure, among other things, would declare that California is a Reproductive Freedom State for All and provide that the Legislature is committed to guaranteeing the constitutionally protected right to an abortion and supporting efforts to increase access to the best available reproductive and pregnancy-related care for women and pregnant individuals.
This measure would proclaim January 13, 2020, as Korean American Day.
This measure would honor the late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.