Asm. Phil Ting

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.

Existing law prescribes requirements for the disposal of surplus land, as defined, by a local agency, as defined. Existing law requires land to be declared surplus land or exempt surplus land, as supported by written findings, before a local agency takes any action to dispose of it consistent with the agency's policies or procedures. This bill would provide that the provisions regulating the disposal of surplus land shall not be construed to require a local agency to dispose of land that is determined to be surplus.

Existing law establishes a system of public elementary and secondary schools in this state and authorizes local educational agencies throughout the state to operate schools and provide instruction to pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive. Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission to require the administration, until January 1, 2026, of a self-generation incentive program to increase the development of distributed generation resources and energy storage technologies. This bill would appropriate $300,000,000 per fiscal year in the 2020–21, 2021–22, and 2022–23 fiscal years from the General Fund to the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) to administer a program to provide resiliency grant funding and technical assistance to local educational agencies for the installation of energy storage systems. The bill would require the Energy Commission to allocate resiliency grant funding in a specified order of priority. The bill would make a project eligible for funding if it is financed and owned by the local educational agency or financed and owned by a third party that has a power purchase or energy services agreement with the local educational agency. The bill would require the Energy Commission to provide local educational agencies with preapplication funding for technical assistance, as provided.

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.

Existing law, the Banking Law, authorizes a bank to participate in a financial education program that involves receiving deposits or paying withdrawals on the premises of, or at a facility used by, a school, subject to specified conditions, including that the bank employees work at the site only to participate in the program. The law requires a bank account by or in the name of a minor to be held for the exclusive right and benefit of the minor. This bill would authorize a bank to participate in a financial education program described above on the premises of a youth agency, as defined. The bill would also prohibit a bank from denying a checking or savings account to a person because the person is a minor or from requiring that minor to provide a cosignor or guarantor as a condition of opening a checking or savings account, except as provided. The bill would define "noncustodial account" to mean a checking or savings account that is held by a minor who is 14 years old and on which a person other than the minor is not a cosignor or guarantor. The bill would prohibit a bank from engaging in specified practices with respect to a noncustodial account, including by prohibiting a bank from charging a regular monthly fee or inactivity fee on the account or requiring the minor to provide a social security number as a condition of opening the account. The bill would also require a bank to collect specified demographic and income information related to noncustodial accounts and to annually report that information to the Commissioner of Business Oversight. Existing law establishes the Bank on California Program, which is a voluntary collaborative initiative that assists Californians in opening a bank or credit union account and saving for the future. This bill would require the program to develop and implement a plan to improve youth financial literacy, access to financial institutions, and awareness of noncustodial accounts.

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.

Existing law authorizes a school district or charter school to maintain a transitional kindergarten program. Existing law requires, in the 2014–15 school year and each school year thereafter, and as a condition of receipt of apportionments for pupils in a transitional kindergarten program, a child who will have their 5th birthday between September 2 and December 2 to be admitted to a transitional kindergarten program maintained by a school district or charter school. Existing law authorizes, for the 2015–16 school year, and each school year thereafter, a school district or charter school to admit a child to a transitional kindergarten program who will have their 5th birthday after December 2 but during that same school year, as provided. Existing law prohibits a pupil admitted to a transitional kindergarten who has their birthday after December 2 from generating average daily attendance or being included in the enrollment or unduplicated pupil count until the pupil has attained their 5th birthday, as provided. This bill would delete the provision that prohibits a pupil admitted to a transitional kindergarten who has their birthday after December 2 from generating average daily attendance or being included in the enrollment or unduplicated pupil count, as provided.

Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a city and the board of supervisors of a county to license, for revenue and regulation, and fix a license tax upon, every kind of lawful business transacted in the city or county, as specified. The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act of 2016 (AUMA) , an initiative measure approved as Proposition 64 at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, authorizes a person who obtains a state license under AUMA 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 (MAUCRSA) , among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities. MAUCRSA does not supersede or limit the authority of a local jurisdiction to adopt and enforce local ordinances to regulate commercial cannabis businesses within that local jurisdiction. Existing law also specifies that a county may impose a tax on the privilege of cultivating, manufacturing, producing, processing, preparing, storing, providing, donating, selling, or distributing cannabis or cannabis products by a licensee operating under MAUCRSA. Existing law imposes a state excise tax on the purchase of adult-use and medicinal cannabis and cannabis products at the rate of 15% of the average market price of any retail sale by a cannabis retailer. Existing law also imposes a state cultivation tax upon all cultivators on all harvested cannabis that enters the commercial market, at specified rates per dry-weight ounce of cannabis flowers and leaves. Existing law requires the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration to administer the cannabis excise tax and the cannabis cultivation tax. This bill, on or before January 1, 2022, would require the California Department of Tax and Fee administration to issue and deliver to the Legislature a report on how the state, cities, and counties could receive any cannabis tax amounts due by payment using stablecoins, as described.