This measure would acknowledge April 2022 as Child Abuse Prevention Month and encourage Californians to work together to support youth-serving child abuse prevention activities in their communities and schools.
This measure would encourage state agencies and departments and local agencies and organizations that serve families and children to incorporate fathers' needs into their service delivery models, to adopt the Father-Friendly Principles, as specified, and to use Father-Friendly Organizational Assessment and Implementation Tools.
This measure would recognize the 30th anniversary of the Los Angeles Riots on April 29, 2022, as a time of building and reflection for the citizens of Los Angeles and the citizens of California.
This measure would declare April 28, 2022, as Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day, and would recognize the goals of introducing our daughters and sons to the workplace and commend all participants of Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work Day.
This measure would designate the week of May 1, 2022, through May 7, 2022, as Compost Awareness Week.
Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, establishes the Medical Board of California for the licensure and regulation of physicians and surgeons and requires the board to have 7 public members. This bill would increase the number of public members of the board from 7 to 8, would require the first vacant position held by a physician and surgeon occurring on or after January 1, 2023, to become a public member position for that purpose, and would make other conforming changes. Existing law requires board members to be citizens of this state for the 5 years preceding their appointment to the board and requires at least 4 physician members to hold faculty appointments in a clinical department of an approved medical school in the state. This bill would instead require board members to be residents of this state for the 5 years preceding their appointment and would decrease the number of physician members that are required to hold specified faculty appointments from 4 to 3 members. Existing law authorizes the board to carry out disciplinary actions against licensees, authorizes the board to appoint panels of at least 4 members for this purpose, and prohibits a panel from being comprised of more public members than licensed physicians and surgeons. This bill would delete the prohibition against a panel being comprised of more public members than licensed physicians and surgeons.
Existing law establishes the Geologic Energy Management Division in the Department of Conservation under the direction of the State Oil and Gas Supervisor, who is required to supervise the drilling, operation, maintenance, and abandonment of oil and gas wells. Existing law requires the owner of any well to file with the supervisor a monthly statement that provides certain information relating to the well, including the source, volume, treatment, and disposition of water produced in oil and gas activities. Under existing law, a person who fails to comply with this and other requirements relating to the regulation of oil or gas operations is guilty of a misdemeanor. Under the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards are the principal state agencies with authority over matters relating to water quality, including prescribing waste discharge requirements for the discharge of waste that could affect the quality of the waters of the state. Under the act, persons discharging waste are required to file with the appropriate regional board a report of the discharge and the discharge is subject to waste discharge requirements prescribed by that regional board. Under the act, each regional board is required to formulate and adopt water quality control plans for all areas within its region, as specified. Beginning January 1, 2023, and until January 1, 2025, this bill would prohibit the disposal of produced wastewater, as defined, into unlined ponds and the construction of new unlined ponds, except as conducted pursuant to a permit or other authorization lawfully issued before that date, and would also prohibit the issuance or renewal of a permit or other authorization for those activities. Beginning January 1, 2025, the bill would prohibit all disposal of produced wastewater into unlined ponds and the construction of new unlined ponds. The bill would exclude from these prohibitions the discharge of produced wastewater into unlined ponds under specified conditions. The bill would require, as needed, the State Water Resources Control Board and regional water quality control boards, on or before January 1, 2025, to adopt amendments to their rules and regulations consistent with the prohibitions beginning January 1, 2023. To the extent regional water quality control boards would be required to provide a higher level of service in the amending of rules and regulations, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Because violation of the prohibition on disposing of produced wastewater into unlined ponds or constructing new unlined ponds, except pursuant to a permit issued before January 1, 2023, or as otherwise exempted, would create a new crime, 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 with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board and the 9 California regional water quality control boards as the principal state agencies with authority over matters relating to water quality. Existing law requires the state board to formulate and adopt state policy for water quality control. Existing law authorizes the state board to adopt water quality control plans for waters that require water quality standards pursuant to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, and provides that those plans supersede any regional water quality control plans for the same waters to the extent of any conflict. This bill would require the state board, on or before December 31, 2023, to adopt a final update of the 1995 Water Quality Control Plan for the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary, as specified, and to implement the amendments to the plan adopted by the state board pursuant to Resolution No. 2018-0059 on December 12, 2018. The bill would prohibit the state board, on or after January 1, 2024, from approving a new water right permit that would result in new or increased diversions to surface water storage from the Sacramento River/San Joaquin River watershed until and unless the state board has taken those actions.
Existing law requires the Ocean Protection Council, on or before December 31, 2024, to adopt and implement a Statewide Microplastics Strategy related to microplastic materials that pose an emerging concern for ocean health, as provided. Existing law declares the goal of the Statewide Microplastic Strategy to be the increase in the understanding of the scale and risks of microplastic materials on the marine environment and to identify proposed solutions to address the impacts of microplastic materials, to the extent feasible. Existing law requires the council, on or before December 31, 2021, to submit to the Legislature the Statewide Microplastics Strategy, along with recommended policy changes, including statutory changes, that may be needed to implement the strategy. Existing law, the Microbeads Nuisance Prevention Law, prohibits a person from selling or offering for promotional purposes in the state any personal care products containing plastic microbeads that are used to exfoliate or cleanse in a rinse-off product, including, but not limited to, toothpaste. This bill would, on and after specified dates that vary based on the product, ban the sale, distribution in commerce, or offering for promotional purposes in the state of designated products, such as leave-on cosmetic products and waxes and polishes, as defined, if the products contain intentionally added microplastics, as defined, at a concentration equal to or greater than 0.01% weight by weight. The bill would exclude from this ban prescription drugs, as defined, and products consisting, in whole or in part, of specified substances or mixtures containing microplastics. The bill would make a person who violates these provisions liable for a civil penalty not to exceed $2,500 per day for each violation. The bill would authorize the penalty to be assessed and recovered in a civil action brought in any court of competent jurisdiction by the Attorney General or specified local officials. The bill would require the civil penalties collected in an action brought pursuant to the act to be paid to the office that brought the action.
This measure would proclaim, in perpetuity, the month of April as California Wines: Down to Earth Month, to celebrate the sustainable leadership of California wineries and winegrape growers throughout the month of April.
