Asm. Phil Ting

This measure would recognize the contributions of CAL FIRE Fire Apparatus Engineer Cory Iverson to the people of California and would designate a specified portion of State Route 15 in the County of San Diego as the CAL FIRE Firefighter Cory Iverson Memorial Highway. The measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering the cost, to erect those signs.

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 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 authorizes the City and County of San Francisco to create infrastructure financing districts, including districts that include specified waterfront property, adopt infrastructure financing plans for those districts, and issue bonds financed by projected increases in ad valorem property taxes to fund certain public facilities, pursuant to a specified procedure. Existing law specifies the types of projects a waterfront district may finance. This bill would revise those provisions by, among other things, expanding the authorization for the creation of waterfront districts by the City and County of San Francisco to include a shoreline protection district, as defined, subject to a shoreline protection enhanced financing plan, as provided. The bill would also expand the types of projects a waterfront district may finance, as specified. The bill would require the proposed infrastructure financing plan for a shoreline protection district to be mailed to, among others, the Director of Finance and the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency. Existing law authorizes the adoption of infrastructure financing plans for special waterfront districts that include the waterfront area in the City and County of San Francisco designated as the America's Cup venues, and the use of specified tax revenues produced in the districts for, among other things, the construction of the Port of San Francisco's maritime facilities at Pier 27 and improvement of publicly held waterfront lands used as viewing sites, as provided. This bill would repeal that authorization. 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 Planning and Zoning Law authorizes a local agency to provide by ordinance for the creation of accessory dwelling units in single-family and multifamily residential zones and sets forth standards the ordinance is required to impose, including, among others, maximum unit size, parking, lot coverage, and height standards. Existing law prohibits the ordinance from establishing size requirements for accessory dwelling units that do not permit at least an efficiency unit to be constructed. This bill would prohibit the imposition of lot coverage standards or requirements on minimum lot size, lot coverage, or floor area ratio, and would prohibit an ordinance from establishing size requirements for accessory dwelling units that do not permit at least an 800 square foot unit of at least 16 feet in height to be constructed. Existing law requires a local agency that has adopted an ordinance for the creation of accessory dwelling units to consider a permit application within 120 days of receiving the application, and requires a local agency that has not adopted an ordinance to ministerially approve a permit application for the creation of an accessory dwelling unit within 120 days of receiving the application. Existing law also authorizes a local agency ordinance to require a permit applicant for an accessory dwelling unit to be an owner-occupant. This bill would instead require a local agency that has or has not adopted an ordinance to consider a permit application for the creation of an accessory dwelling unit within 60 days. The bill would provide that, if a local agency imposes an owner-occupancy restriction, the frequency of monitoring owner occupancy shall not be monitored more frequently than annually, shall be based on specified published documents, and would further define "owner-occupant" for purposes of that requirement. Existing law requires a local agency to ministerially approve a permit application to create one accessory dwelling unit per single-family lot, subject to specified conditions and requirements. This bill would provide for the ministerial approval of one or more accessory dwelling units on single-family and multifamily lots, subject to specified conditions and requirements. Existing law requires a local agency to submit an ordinance adopted for the creation of accessory dwelling units to the department and authorizes the department to review and comment on the ordinance. This bill would authorize the department to submit written findings as to whether the ordinance complies with state law and to notify the Attorney General if the ordinance is in violation of state law. The bill would authorize the department to adopt guidelines to implement uniform standards or criteria to supplement or clarify the terms, references, and standards set forth in statute and would exempt the adoption of the guidelines from the Administrative Procedure Act. The bill would also revise applicable definitions and make other conforming changes. Existing law authorizes a local agency to provide by ordinance for the creation of junior accessory dwelling units in single-family residential zones and requires a local agency to consider an application for a junior accessory dwelling unit ministerially and to issue the permit within 120 days of submission of the application. This bill would require the permit to be approved within 60 days of application and would require a local agency that has not adopted an ordinance for the creation of junior accessory dwelling units to apply the same standards established by this bill for local agencies with ordinances. The State Housing Law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to propose building standards to the California Building Standards Commission, and to adopt, amend, or repeal rules and regulations governing apartment houses and dwellings, as specified. This bill would require the department to create and submit small building standards to the California Building Standards Commission by January 1, 2020. By increasing the duties of local agencies with respect to land use regulations, the 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

(1) Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to implement and administer a residential lead-based paint hazard reduction program, as specified, including adopting regulations regarding accreditation of providers of health and safety training to employees who engage in or supervise lead-related construction work, as defined, and certification of employees who have successfully completed that training. Existing law requires specified persons engaged in lead construction work to have a certificate issued by the department. This bill would require the department, by February 1, 2019, to request permission from the federal Environmental Protection Agency to modify its Lead Related Construction Program agreement to expand its authority and authorize a county to implement and administer the certification program for persons engaged in lead construction work described above. The bill would authorize the department, if it receives this permission from the federal Environmental Protection Agency, to authorize, upon request of the county, a county health department to implement and administer the certification program. The bill would require specified persons engaged in lead construction work to have a certificate issued either by the department or by a county health department, if applicable. (2) Existing regulations promulgated by the Division of Occupational Safety and Health require an employer to ensure that an employee is not exposed to lead at concentrations greater than 50 micrograms per cubic meter of air averaged over an 8-hour period. This bill would require the division to complete rulemaking to establish a revised permissible exposure limit for lead in the regulations described above by July 1, 2019. The bill would authorize the division to promulgate emergency regulations as necessary to implement these provisions.

The Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Act of 2003 creates the Division of Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation within the Department of Parks and Recreation. The act gives the division certain duties and responsibilities, including the planning, acquisition, development, conservation, and restoration of lands in state vehicular recreation areas. Existing law establishes the Off-Highway Vehicle Trust Fund to be the repository of certain moneys, including fees received by the department for the use of state vehicular recreation areas. Existing law requires the revenues in the fund to be available, upon appropriation, for grants and cooperative agreements, as specified, the support of the division, and the planning, acquisition, development, mitigation, construction, maintenance, administration, operation, restoration, and conservation of lands in state vehicular recreation areas and certain other areas. This bill would authorize the department to dispose of the portion of the Carnegie State Vehicular Recreation Area known as the "Alameda-Tesla Expansion Area" to permanently preserve that land for conservation purposes, as specified, if the department determines that disposing of the land is in the public interest. The bill would require that the land only be sold to a local agency or nonprofit organization for use as a park or another open space purpose, as specified. The bill would require any revenue from the disposition of the land to be deposited in the Off-Highway Vehicle Trust Fund for the purchase, by the department, of land for off-highway vehicle recreation.

This measure would mark May 6, 2018, as the 136th anniversary of the enactment of the Chinese Exclusion Act in order to recognize the harm caused by racially discriminatory immigration measures, and to honor the contributions of all immigrants and refugees who have enriched our communities. The measure would also declare the opposition of the Legislature to executive orders and a presidential proclamation signed by President Trump relating to immigration, call upon the President to revoke those orders and that proclamation, condemn the expansion of deportations being undertaken under the current presidential administration, and reaffirm that the state is open and welcoming to immigrants and refugees who are integral to life in our state.