Asm. Jim Wood

This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 101 in the County of Del Norte as the Harold Del Ponte Memorial Highway. The measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.

This measure would condemn the decision to end the Temporary Protected Status designation for El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Sudan. The measure would also urge the United States Congress to enact a bipartisan permanent solution for Salvadorans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, Hondurans, and Sudanese with Temporary Protected Status.

Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including telephone corporations. Existing law requires the commission, in consultation with the Office of Emergency Services, to identify the need for telecommunications service systems not on customers' premises to have backup electricity to enable telecommunications networks to function, and to enable customers to contact a public safety answering point operator during an electrical outage, to determine performance criteria for backup systems, and to determine whether specified best practices for backup systems have been implemented by telecommunications service providers operating in California. Existing law requires the commission to report various information to the Legislature. This bill would, upon the declaration of a state of emergency or a local emergency by the Governor, require the commission to collect specified information from telecommunications service providers relating to the provider's efforts and resources used to restore telecommunications service outages caused by, and to repair or replace related network infrastructure or facilities that were damaged as a result of, the emergency or a natural disaster. The bill would require the commission to annually submit a report that summarizes the information collected, broken down by each emergency or natural disaster, to the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature and to post the report in a conspicuous area of its Internet Web site. The bill would also require the President of the commission to annually present a summary of the information collected to the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature. The bill would authorize the commission to require telecommunications service providers to collect and forward to the commission any relevant information for these purposes. Under existing law, a violation of any provision of the Public Utilities Act or of any of the rules or orders issued under the act is a crime. Because the provisions of this bill are within the act and require action by the commission to implement its requirements, a violation of which would be a crime, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

This measure would declare June 6, 2018, as Secure Your Load Day in California.

This measure would declare June 6, 2018, as California Nonprofits Day in recognition of the importance of nonprofit organizations to the economy and well-being of this state.

This measure would designate June 2018 as Second Chances Month in California, highlighting existing services and events to support reentry.

This measure would encourage the people of the State of California to recognize the potential and possibilities of our children, instead of focusing on their deficits.

Existing federal law, the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , enacts various health care coverage market reforms that took effect January 1, 2014. Among other things, PPACA requires each state, by January 1, 2014, to establish an American Health Benefit Exchange that facilitates the purchase of qualified health plans by qualified individuals and qualified small employers. Existing state law establishes the California Health Benefit Exchange, also known as Covered California, within state government for the purpose of facilitating the enrollment of qualified individuals and qualified small employers in qualified health plans. This bill would establish the Advisory Panel on Health Care Delivery Systems and Universal Coverage in the California Health and Human Services Agency and would require the advisory panel to develop a plan to achieve universal coverage and a unified publicly financed health care system. The bill would require the Secretary of California Health and Human Services to appoint members to the advisory panel, as provided, and would require the advisory panel to convene public meetings at least quarterly, beginning on or before March 1, 2019. The bill would require the plan developed by the advisory panel to include a timeline of the benchmarks and steps necessary to implement a universal and unified publicly financed health care system. The bill would require the plan to include, among other things, a multiyear financial model, a consideration of requirements necessary to seek federal waivers or federal statutory changes, and a consideration of the requirements for state constitutional amendments. The bill would require the advisory panel to submit a report detailing its progress in developing the plan to the health committees of the Senate and the Assembly on or before January 1, 2020, and to submit a followup progress report every 6 months thereafter. The bill would also set deadlines for the advisory panel to submit proposals to implement certain portions of the plan to the Legislature for approval or review. The bill's provisions would be repealed on January 1, 2024.