Existing law establishes the Secretary of State as the custodian of the public archives of the State and requires him or her to maintain and properly equip safe and secure vaults for the preservation, indexing, and use of the archives. Existing law authorizes the Secretary of State to receive into the archives any item that he or she deems to be of historical value. This bill would require the Secretary of State to establish an Online Archives Program to be administered by the State Archives for the purpose of providing public access to state records and other records and items of historical and archival value, as specified. The bill would require the program to include, among other things, development, administration, and maintenance of an archival standards-based digital records preservation system for secure intake of, preservation of, indexing of, and public access to, public records.
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Existing law governs the procedure by which crime victims may obtain compensation from the Restitution Fund, a continuously appropriated fund. Existing law establishes eligibility for compensation when prescribed requirements are met and authorizes the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board to grant compensation from the fund for pecuniary loss when the board determines it will best aid the person seeking compensation, including expenses for psychiatric, psychological, or other mental health counseling-related services if the services were provided by specific individuals. Existing law establishes requirements and sets specific monetary caps for certain payments or reimbursements relating to relocation. Existing law governs the award of compensation by the board for loss of income and support. This bill would expand eligibility for compensation to include a victim or derivative victim that sustained emotional injury as a direct result of specific crimes relating to obscene matter. The bill would authorize the grant of compensation for expenses for psychiatric, psychological, or other mental health counseling-related services if the services were provided by a person who is licensed by the state to provide those services, or who is properly supervised by a person who is so licensed, subject to the board's approval and subject to limitations and restrictions as imposed by the board. The bill would revise eligibility for relocation reimbursement or payments and increase monetary caps. The bill would revise those loss of income and support provisions to additionally authorize the grant of compensation for specific costs incurred by victims. Existing law requires that an application for compensation based on any of specified crimes involving sex with a minor be filed any time prior to the victim's 28th birthday. The bill would instead require that the application be filed anytime prior to the victim's 40th birthday for crimes committed by certain dates, as specified, and be filed within 10 years after commission for all other crimes. Existing law requires a victim or derivative victim seeking compensation to have sustained one or more specified physical or emotional injuries, or pecuniary losses, as a direct result of the crime. Existing law includes among those injuries emotional injury to a victim who is a minor incurred as a direct result of the nonconsensual distribution of pictures or video of sexual conduct in which the minor appears. This bill would delete this provision and instead would include among the compensable injuries emotional injury that occurred due to a violation of provisions prohibiting intentional distribution of certain specified private images of another person, as specified. Existing law, until January 1, 2017, authorizes the board to grant from the fund for pecuniary losses, as specified, reimbursement for outpatient psychiatric, psychological, or other mental health counseling-related expenses incurred by the victim or derivative victim. Existing law specifically authorizes the board to reimburse a victim of statutory rape for outpatient mental health counseling expenses, up to a specified amount. The bill would repeal the January 1, 2017, repeal date, thereby extending the board's authority to grant reimbursement for those outpatient mental health counseling-related expenses indefinitely. The bill would remove the board's specific authorization to reimburse a victim of statutory rape for outpatient mental health counseling expenses. By expanding the authorizations for use of moneys in the Restitution Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation. Because an application for reimbursement is required to be submitted under penalty of perjury, this bill would expand the definition of a crime and thus 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.
The Compassionate Use Act of 1996, an initiative measure enacted by the approval of Proposition 215 at the November 5, 1996, statewide general election, allows the use of marijuana for medical purposes. The Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act, enacted by the Legislature, provides for the state licensure and regulation of certain commercial cannabis activities by the Department of Consumer Affairs, the Department of Food and Agriculture, or the State Department of Public Health, as specified. The act establishes the Bureau of Medical Marijuana Regulation within the Department of Consumer Affairs, under the supervision and control of the Director of Consumer Affairs, and requires the director to administer and enforce the provisions of the act. Existing law requires the Governor to appoint a chief of the bureau, subject to confirmation by the Senate, to serve under the direction and supervision of the director and at the pleasure of the Governor. Existing law, the doctrine of tribal immunity and the Indian Commerce Clause, precludes the state, with certain exceptions, from asserting authority over the activities of federally recognized Indian tribes on their own lands. This bill would authorize the Governor to enter into agreements concerning medical cannabis with federally recognized sovereign Indian tribes, as defined. The bill would authorize these agreements to include provisions regulating activities between licensees operating on and off the land of federally recognized sovereign Indian tribes. The bill would require these agreements to include a provision requiring individuals conducting medical cannabis business activity on tribal land to meet the state and local licensure requirements that are required of licensees operating in the jurisdiction of the local government in which the tribal land is located. The bill would authorize the Governor to delegate to the chief of the bureau authority to negotiate these agreements.
Existing law, the Child Care and Development Services Act, among other things, requires the State Department of Education to develop prekindergarten learning development guidelines in accordance with specified criteria. The act also requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to ensure that all contracts for child care and development programs include a requirement that each public or private provider maintain a developmental profile to appropriately identify the emotional, social, physical, and cognitive growth of each child in order to promote the child's success in the public schools. This bill would require the department to develop prekindergarten learning development guidelines, focused on preparing 4- and 5-year-old children for kindergarten, based on current science that reflects how publicly funded programs can close the school readiness gap. The bill would require the department, on or before March 1, 2017, to convene the California Committee for Kindergarten Readiness stakeholder group to evaluate and develop recommendations on what constitutes kindergarten readiness and would require the committee to submit to the state board and the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature, on or before January 1, 2018, a kindergarten readiness definition that has clear benchmarks for skills that are predictive of later success in academics and social-emotional and executive functioning skills as evidenced by current research. The bill would specify the membership of the committee and would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2019.
Existing law establishes the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training and requires it to develop and disseminate guidelines and training for law enforcement officers, as described. This bill would require the commission to develop and disseminate training for peace officers on principled policing, which would include the subjects of procedural justice and implicit bias, as defined. The bill would require this training for specified peace officers. The bill would also require the commission to certify and make training available to train peace officers to teach the course of training on principled policing to other officers in their agencies. The bill would require the commission to offer the principled policing course and the training course quarterly commencing in June 2017. The bill would require the commission, no later than June 1, 2018, to evaluate its current course of basic training and promulgate a plan to incorporate the concepts of principled policing into its course of basic training and would require each peace officer to complete a refresher course no less than every 5 years. By requiring additional training for peace officers, 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, 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 these statutory provisions.
This measure would commend Muslim Americans for their economic, political, and cultural impact on California and the United States. This measure would call upon Members of the United States Congress to respect the First Amendment, and to speak out against and reject efforts to monitor mosques, efforts to police and profile Muslim Americans, and efforts to prohibit Muslims from immigrating to the United States, and to speak out against and reject any efforts to pursue an immigration policy based on religion.
This measure would declare the month of April 2016 as Financial Aid and Literacy Month, with the theme of "Prosperity Through Education," to raise public awareness about the continuing need for increased financial literacy.
This measure would recognize May 2016 as National Mental Health Awareness Month in California to enhance public awareness of mental illness.
The measure would urge the Members of Congress to work to recognize Mexican American families' needs to visit family members in Mexico and increase commerce between our nations by reducing border delays through a more open border and to speak out against and to reject efforts to build a wall along the United States-Mexico border.