This measure would recognize June 17, 2018, as Father's Day and would commend fathers and father figures present in their children's lives.
This measure would declare the week of June 1, 2018, to June 7, 2018, inclusive, as Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Automated External Defibrillator Awareness Week in California, as specified.
This measure would declare Friday, October 5, 2018, as California Manufacturing Day and would recognize the importance of California's manufacturing sector. The measure would also commemorate California's manufacturers as they continue to push the bounds of clean technologies that reduce emissions and increase energy efficiency in products and processes.
Existing law, known as the Student Athlete Bill of Rights, requires intercollegiate athletic programs at 4-year private universities or campuses of the University of California or the California State University that receive, as an average, $10,000,000 or more in annual revenue derived from media rights for intercollegiate athletics to comply with prescribed requirements relating to student athlete rights. Existing law requires these institutions to rely exclusively on revenue derived from media rights for intercollegiate athletics to defray certain costs accrued under the Student Athlete Bill of Rights. Existing law defines "student athlete" for purposes of the Student Athlete Bill of Rights. Existing law provides for a scholarship to be provided by the institution to an injured student athlete for up to 5 academic years. This bill would instead require intercollegiate athletic programs at private postsecondary educational institutions, independent institutions of higher education, or campuses of the University of California or the California State University that provide athletic scholarships for college student athletes to comply with the prescribed requirements. The bill would rename the Student Athlete Bill of Rights as the College Student Athlete Bill of Rights and would redesignate "student athlete" as "college student athlete" for purposes of the College Student Athlete Bill of Rights. The bill would delete the provisions requiring an institution to exclusively use revenue from media rights for intercollegiate athletics to defray certain costs accrued under the College Student Athlete Bill of Rights. The bill would require a scholarship to be provided to an injured college student athlete for one additional academic year beyond the 5-year limit upon showing of cause for need. The bill would require the provision of an equivalent scholarship to an athletic scholarship to a college student athlete who has exhausted his or her athletic eligibility under certain circumstances. The bill would exempt, from certain of these requirements, institutions that receive, as an average over the most recent 3-year period, less than $10,000,000 in annual revenue as reported pursuant to federal law. The bill would require an institution of higher education to provide each of its college student athletes with a copy of their rights established under the College Student Athlete Bill of Rights and designate an individual at the institution to receive complaints from college student athletes for violations of the College Student Athlete Bill of Rights. The bill would establish a process by which a suspected violation of a college student athlete's rights under the College Student Athlete Bill of Rights can be investigated and remedied.
Existing law establishes various programs, including, among others, the Emergency Housing and Assistance Program, to provide assistance to homeless persons. Existing law also establishes the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council to, among other things, create a statewide data system or warehouse that collects local data through homeless management information systems, with the ultimate goal of matching data on homelessness programs to programs impacting homeless recipients of state programs, as specified. This bill would direct the Department of Housing and Community Development to create a state homeless integrated data warehouse, in coordination with the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council, to develop a composite portrayal of the homeless population in the state and the services provided to this population or to those at risk of becoming homeless. The bill would require that the information compiled for the database include the data necessary to make certain findings, including, among other things, the number of individuals and families experiencing homelessness, their access to benefits, and the stated reasons for their homelessness. The bill would require the department to coordinate with other state agencies to draft and carry out a strategy to integrate information to provide longitudinal, cost-based studies with relevant data, as specified. The bill would require the database to comply with all relevant state and federal laws regarding privacy and personally identifying information and encourage local agencies that provide services to homeless persons and use homeless management information systems to collaborate with the department, as specified.
(1) Existing law, the Financial Institutions Law, regulates the activities of various financial entities, including commercial banks, industrial banks, trust companies, credit unions, and savings and loan associations. The Banking Law defines and regulates state banks and commits the enforcement of banking laws to the Commissioner of Business Oversight. The California Credit Union Law provides for the licensure and regulation of credit unions by the Commissioner of Business Oversight and makes a willful violation of that law a crime. The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act of 2016, an initiative measure approved as Proposition 64 at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, authorizes a person who obtains a state license under the act to engage in commercial adult-use cannabis activity pursuant to that license and applicable local ordinances. The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act, among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities. This bill would create the Cannabis Limited Charter Banking and Credit Union Law, to be administered by the Commissioner of Business Oversight and the Department of Business Oversight. The bill would create the Cannabis Limited Charter Bank and Credit Union Advisory Board and specify its composition, to include the Treasurer, the Controller, and the Chief of the Bureau of Cannabis Control, and commit to it the general responsibility for ensuring that this law functions in a safe and efficient way. The bill would prescribe the powers and duties of the board, including reviewing department enforcement reports, holding meetings that would be open to public comment, and issuing its own recommendations, which would be submitted to the Legislature and the Governor. The board would also be required to provide guidance on specified investment activities. The bill would provide for the licensure and regulation of cannabis limited charter banks and credit unions for the purpose of providing limited banking services, as defined, to cannabis businesses. The bill would require a person who desires to be licensed as a cannabis limited charter bank or credit union to submit an application to the department, and would require that person to elect to form under either the Banking Law or the California Credit Union Law. The bill would authorize the department to charge an applicant for a cannabis limited charter bank or credit union license a reasonable fee. The bill would require a licensee to comply with all requirements in the Financial Institutions Law, and either the Banking Law or the California Credit Union Law, as applicable, except to the extent that any requirement of those laws are inconsistent with a provision of the Cannabis Limited Charter Banking and Union Law. By expanding the application of the California Credit Union Law, a willful violation of which is a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would authorize a cannabis limited charter bank or credit union to issue to an account holder special purpose checks that would be valid for only specified purposes. The bill would authorize a cannabis limited charter bank or credit union to cash the checks it has issued, including those presented by parties that are not account holders, as specified. The bill would permit these checks to be used for the payment of state and local fees and taxes, payment of rent on property leased by, or on behalf of, the account holder's cannabis business, payment of vendors physically located in California, as specified, and the purchase of state and local bonds, as specified. The bill would provide that a person or entity is not required to accept these checks. The bill would require a cannabis limited charter bank or credit union to obtain and maintain insurance at all times that it is engaged in business, subject to certain requirements including that the insurance be in an amount acceptable to the commissioner. The bill would authorize a cannabis limited charter bank or credit union to charge fees for its banking services, and would authorize the commissioner, if requested by any person or whenever the commissioner deems appropriate, to review any fee charged. The bill would require a cannabis limited charter bank and credit union to provide the commissioner with a specified fee schedule, which information the department would be required to compile and post information on its Internet Web site. The bill would authorize a cannabis limited charter bank or credit union to enter into an agreement with another licensee to form a banking network, subject to the approval of the commissioner, to facilitate the provision of cannabis banking services. The bill would require the department to adopt emergency regulations and would prohibit the department from issuing a license for these purposes prior to July 1, 2019, except as specified. The bill would require the department to provide a specified report to the Senate Committee on Banking and Financial Institutions and the Senate Committee on Governance and Finance. The bill would require a cannabis limited charter bank or credit union to adopt policies and practices to achieve the principles and goals outlined in the federal Bank Secrecy Act and cooperate with the federal Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. The bill would prohibit a cannabis limited charter bank or credit union from engaging in banking activity with any other financial institution that lacks a limited purpose charter issued under these provisions. The bill would prescribe a framework for the administration of its provisions. The bill would also make a statement of legislative findings. (2) 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.
The Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the State Department of Education, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer child care and development programs that offer a full range of services to eligible children from infancy to 13 years of age, inclusive. Existing law requires the Superintendent to administer all California state preschool programs, which include part-day age and developmentally appropriate programs for 3- and 4-year-old children, as provided. Existing law provides that 3- and 4-year-old children are eligible for the state part-day preschool program if the family meets one of several eligibility requirements, including income eligibility. Existing law provides that "income eligible," for purposes of the Child Care and Development Services Act, means that a family's adjusted monthly income is at or below 70% of the state median income, adjusted for family size, and adjusted annually. This bill would revise the eligibility requirements for full-day preschool programs operated at any California public school, including a charter school, that has at least 40% of its pupils being from low-income families, as specified pursuant to Title I of the federal Elementary and Secondary Act of 1965, or a community-based organization that contracts with the above-described school or school district. This bill would require the State Department of Education to share participation data from the Medi-Cal program with local educational agencies. The bill would impose specified requirements on the State Department of Education and local educational agencies relating to the privacy and confidentiality of that participation data. The bill would require a local educational agency participating in a full-day preschool program at a high poverty school, as defined, to use that participation data, commencing with the participation data of pupils in the 2019–20 school year, to directly certify pupils eligible for full-day preschool at a high poverty school, to the extent permitted under federal law. The bill would authorize a school district or county superintendent of schools to determine a pupil's eligibility for full-day preschool at a high poverty school based on data including the direct certification match and alternative measures of poverty pursuant to specified state and federal law. This provision would become operative upon the receipt of federal funds to assist the state in implementing its provisions.
Existing law establishes the Office of Farm to Fork within the Department of Food and Agriculture, and requires the office, to the extent that resources are available, to work with various entities, including, among others, the agricultural industry and other organizations involved in promoting food access, to increase the amount of agricultural products available to underserved communities and schools in the state. Existing law requires the office to, among other things, identify urban and rural communities that lack access to healthy food, and to coordinate with local, state, and federal agencies to promote and increase awareness of programs that promote greater food access. Existing law establishes the Nutrition Incentive Matching Grant Program in the Office of Farm to Fork, and creates the Nutrition Incentive Matching Grant Account in the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund to collect matching funds received from a specified federal grant program and funds from other public and private sources. Under the program, the department is required to award moneys in the account to qualified entities, as defined, to encourage the purchase and consumption of California fresh fruits, nuts, and vegetables by nutrition benefit clients, as defined. Existing law requires that grants only be provided upon the deposit of sufficient funds, as specified in the federal Food Insecurity Nutrition Incentive Grant Program application, into the Nutrition Incentive Matching Grant Account. A violation of the laws governing fruit, nut, and vegetable standards is a crime. This bill would instead require grants to be provided upon the deposit of sufficient funds, including from a successful application of federal grant funding, if available, into the Nutrition Incentive Matching Grant Account. The bill would require matching funds to be collected from the specified federal grant program only if those funds are available. The bill would include, in the definition of "qualified entities," community-supported agriculture programs and farm stands, as defined. The bill would, notwithstanding any other law, authorize the department to provide grant funds to a grantee in advance of the expenditure of funds by the grantee for implementation of the Nutrition Incentive Matching Grant Program, instead of in the form of a reimbursement after the expenditure of funds for that program, in an amount equal to or less than 50% of the grant amount provided in the grantee's grant agreement, if certain conditions are met. The bill would create the Healthy Stores Refrigeration Grant Account in the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund to collect funds for the Healthy Stores Refrigeration Grant Program that would be created by this bill. The bill would require funds to be deposited into the fund upon the appropriation of funds, including from a successful application of federal grant funding, if available, by the Legislature for purposes of the Healthy Stores Refrigeration Grant Program. The bill would require the department to administer the Healthy Stores Refrigeration Grant Program and to award grants to qualified entities, as defined, for the purchase of an energy-efficient refrigeration unit or units by a small business or corner store that is located in a food desert. The bill would require a small business or corner store that purchases a refrigeration unit with grant funds to stock the unit with California-grown fresh fruits, nuts, vegetables, and minimally processed prepared foods, and to offer those items for sale. The bill would authorize a city, county, city and county, or nonprofit entity that is awarded a grant to use up to 10% of Healthy Stores Refrigeration Grant Program grant funds for technical assistance. The bill would authorize the department to establish regulations, minimum standards, funding schedules, and procedures for awarding grants to qualified entities, and to adopt any other regulations to implement and administer the Healthy Stores Refrigeration Grant Program. The bill would provide that certain provisions imposing criminal liability do not apply for a violation of these provisions or any regulation adopted to administer these provisions. The bill would provide that receipt of a grant under the Healthy Stores Refrigeration Grant Program or the Nutrition Incentive Matching Grant Program does not preclude the recipient from being eligible to receive a grant under the other program.
Existing law, the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA) , which includes the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) , enacted by the voters at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, provides for the licensure and regulation of commercial cannabis activity. MAUCRSA specifies the requirements to obtain a license to engage in commercial cannabis activity. AUMA authorizes the Legislature to amend its provisions by a bill passed with a 23 vote of each house of the Legislature, if the amendment furthers its purposes and intent. AUMA also authorizes the Legislature to amend other provisions by a bill passed by a majority vote if the bill implements specified substantive provisions and the amendments are consistent with and further the purposes and intent of the act. Under the existing federal doctrine of tribal immunity and the federal Indian Commerce Clause, the state, with certain exceptions, is precluded from asserting regulatory authority over the activities of federally recognized Indian tribes conducted on their own lands. Under federal law, absent express federal law to the contrary, the state may assert the same regulatory authority over Indians conducting activities beyond their own lands that the state asserts over all citizens of the state. This bill would establish the Cannabis Regulatory Enforcement Act for Tribal Entities or the "CREATE Act" and would require a tribe entering into a tribal cannabis regulatory agreement with the Governor, as ratified by the Legislature, to establish a tribal cannabis regulatory commission or agency pursuant to the tribe's established governmental process.
Existing law, the Charter Schools Act of 1992, provides for the establishment and operation of charter schools and authorizes the governing board of a school district, a county board of education, and the State Board of Education to approve a petition for the establishment of a charter school and to act as a chartering authority. This bill would, contingent upon an appropriation made for these purposes, establish the Charter Authorizers Regional Support Network Program, to be administered by the Alameda County Office of Education, as an initiative to expand uniform charter school authorizing and oversight practices, as provided. The bill would require the Alameda County Office of Education to, among other things, award grant funds to 11 regional lead county offices of education to be used to improve the quality of school district and county office of education charter school authorizing activity. The bill would require a regional lead county office of education to use its grant funds for specified activities. The bill would require the Alameda County Superintendent of Schools to appoint an advisory board, to consist of specified members, to develop values and principles for charter school authorizing and oversight that will provide guidance for regional lead county offices of education, trainings, and conference materials, as provided. The bill would also require the Legislative Analyst's Office, on or before December 1, 2020, to complete and submit to the Governor and the appropriate education policy and budget committees of the Legislature an evaluation of the program. To the extent the provisions of this bill, upon implementation, would impose additional requirements on the Alameda County Office of Education, the 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 Alameda County Office of Education. 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.
