The Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act imposes, on and after January 1, 2020, a surcharge on each access line for each month or part thereof for which a service user subscribes with a service supplier, at an amount no greater than $0.80, based on the Office of Emergency Services' estimate of the number of access lines to which the surcharge will be applied per month for a calendar year period, that it estimates, pursuant to a specified formula, will produce sufficient revenue to fund the current fiscal year's 911 costs. That act also imposes, on and after January 1, 2020, a surcharge of equal amount for each retail transaction in this state on the purchase of prepaid mobile telephony services. Existing law requires service suppliers to report the total number of access lines to the Office of Emergency Services, on or before August 1, for the previous period of January 1 to December 31, inclusive, for purposes of the surcharge. This bill would allow public disclosure of access line information provided by service suppliers to the Office of Emergency Services only if the information is aggregated such that no service supplier-specific information is disclosed or to the extent that the Federal Communications Commission or Public Utilities Commission lawfully disclose the same information to members of the public. Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.
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Existing law authorizes specified individuals, including the judge, district attorney, and probation officer, after judgment has been pronounced in a criminal case, to file with the clerk of the court specified statements and reports regarding the person convicted. Existing law requires the clerk to mail these documents, along with charging documents, a copy of waiver and plea forms, and other specified documents, to the prison or other institution to which the person convicted is delivered. Existing law also requires the clerk to, among other things, mail a copy of any statement submitted by the attorney for the defendant to the district attorney. This bill would authorize the clerk of the court, with consent of the recipient, to deliver these documents by electronic means rather than by mail. The bill would additionally require the clerk, upon written request by a person convicted or by that person's counsel, to also mail the documents to the prison or other institution to which the person convicted is delivered.
(1) The Transit District Law authorizes any city together with unincorporated territory, or 2 or more cities, with or without unincorporated territory, in either the Counties of Alameda or Contra Costa or both, to organize and incorporate as a transit district with specified powers and duties relative to providing public transit service. This bill would repeal the authority to form a transit district under these provisions and would recognize the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District as the district formed pursuant to this authority. (2) Existing law requires a local agency to comply with all applicable building ordinances and zoning ordinances of the county or city in which the territory of the local agency is situated and, for purposes of this provision, excludes rapid transit districts from the definition of a local agency. This bill would designate the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District as a rapid transit district, thereby excluding the district from the definition of a local agency for purposes of that provision. (3) Existing law vests the government of a transit district formed under the Transit District Law in the board of 7 directors and provides that a majority of the board constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business. Existing law prohibits an ordinance, resolution, or motion from having any validity or effect unless passed by the affirmative votes of a majority of the directors. This bill would specify that an action of the board does not have any validity or effect unless passed by the affirmative vote of 4 directors. (4) Existing law requires the board of directors of a transit district formed under the Transit District Law to fill all vacancies on the board, except if the vacancy exists for 60 days, in which case the Governor is required to fill the vacancy. This bill would instead require the Governor to fill a vacancy on the board of directors of the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District if a vacancy exists for 90 days. (5) Existing law authorizes the board of directors of a transit district formed under the Transit District Law to establish a retirement system for the officers and employees of the district, as specified, and prohibits the retirement system from applying to elective officers. Existing law authorizes the board to prescribe the terms and conditions upon which the officers and employees of the district or their beneficiaries are entitled to benefits and the amounts of those benefits. This bill would prohibit a former employee of the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District who is elected as a board member from accruing service credit in the retirement system for their service on the board. (6) Existing law authorizes a district formed under the Transit District Law to borrow money for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the district incurred after the commencement of the fiscal year, but before the moneys from the tax levy for the fiscal year are received by the district. Existing law requires the amount borrowed to be paid from the tax levy from the current fiscal year. This bill would instead authorize the amount borrowed to be paid from the tax levy from the current fiscal year or from either or both of the following 2 fiscal years. (7) The bill would make other related changes. (8) This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Counties of Alameda and Contra Costa.
Existing law prohibits a retailer in any sales, service, or lease transaction from imposing surcharges on consumers who elect to use a credit card in lieu of payment by cash, check, or similar means, but permits a retailer to offer discounts to encourage payments by means other than credit cards, as specified. This bill would repeal these provisions. The bill would authorize a retailer in any sales, service, or lease transaction with a consumer to impose a surcharge on a cardholder who elects to use a credit card in lieu of payment by cash, check, or similar means, subject to two requirements. The bill would restrict the amount of the surcharge to be impose to the lesser of the reasonable cost of the transaction to the retailer or 3.5% percent of the transaction. The bill would also require that the retailer to notify the cardholder that the retailer has elected to impose a surcharge on credit card transactions before payment is provided. The bill would except specified utility payments from these provisions.
Existing law requires that every automatic fire extinguishing system, including, but not limited to, fire sprinkler systems, engineered and preengineered fixed extinguishing systems, standpipe systems, and alarm and supervisory equipment attached to those systems, be serviced, tested, and maintained in accordance with regulations and building standards adopted by the State Fire Marshal. Existing law requires the owner or operator of any privately owned high rise structure to annually certify that the owner has requested the appropriate local fire enforcing agency to conduct an inspection of the building to determine its conformance with all applicable high rise structure fire safety standards and requires that the certification be submitted by letter to the State Fire Marshal. This bill would establish the Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Fire Damper, Smoke Damper, and Smoke Control System Inspection Verification Program. The bill would require that the owner of a building equipped with HVAC fire dampers, smoke dampers, or a smoke control system has any fire dampers and smoke dampers inspected and tested, as specified, by a qualified inspector, as defined, no less than once after the first year of installation and once every 4 years thereafter. The bill would require that the owner of a hospital have the hospital's fire dampers and smoke dampers inspected and tested, as specified, by a qualified inspector no less than once after the first year of installation and once every 6 years thereafter. The bill would require that smoke control systems be tested periodically, as specified, and require that dedicated smoke control systems be tested at least annually. The bill would provide for compliance certification by persons performing any inspection and testing and require that any deficiency be brought into compliance within 60 days. The bill would provide for posting of a verification of the inspection and testing, containing specified information, in the outside lobby window or the building or another area clearly visible to the public.
(1) Existing law generally designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency with the primary responsibility for the control of vehicular air pollution and air pollution control and air quality management districts with the primary responsibility for the control of air pollution from all sources other than vehicular sources. This bill would classify a mobile fueling on-demand tank vehicle, as defined, as a mobile source and would require that it be regulated by the state board. The bill would require the state board to adopt regulations on or before an unspecified date to achieve reductions in emissions attributable to mobile fueling on-demand tank vehicles. (2) Existing law requires the state board to adopt performance standards to ensure that systems for the control of gasoline vapors resulting from motor vehicle fueling operations do not cause excessive gasoline liquid spillage when used in a proper manner. Existing law requires the state board to adopt test procedures to determine the compliance with vapor emission standards of vapor recovery systems of cargo tanks on tank vehicles used to transport gasoline, as provided. Existing law authorizes the state board to test those vapor recovery systems, to certify those systems if they meet the state board's requirements, and to charge a fee for certification. Existing law prohibits a person from operating, or allowing the operation of, a tank vehicle transporting gasoline that is required to have a vapor recovery system, unless the system has been certified and is installed and maintained in compliance with the requirements for certification. Existing law exempts from these certification requirements tank vehicles used exclusively to service gasoline storage tanks that are not required to have gasoline vapor controls. Existing law makes a violation of a rule or regulation of the state board or a district relating to nonvehicular air pollution control a misdemeanor. This bill would impose those testing, installation, maintenance, and certification requirements on a system or system component of a mobile fueling on-demand tank vehicle used to load, transport, and transfer motor vehicle fuel directly from an onboard cargo tank into a motor vehicle fuel tank. By expanding the scope of a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would exempt from the certification requirements motor vehicle fuel tanks equipped with onboard refueling vapor recovery systems. (3) Existing law prohibits a person from installing or maintaining a stationary gasoline tank with a capacity of 250 gallons or more that is not equipped for loading through a permanent submerged fill pipe, unless certain conditions apply, subject to certain exceptions. This bill would provide that the prohibition does not apply with regard to a mobile fueling on-demand tank vehicle, except as provided. (4) 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 establishes the Integrated Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Program, administered by the Office of Planning and Research, to coordinate regional and local efforts with state climate adaptation strategies to adapt to the impacts of climate change, as specified. This bill would require the Strategic Growth Council, by July 1, 2021, to establish guidelines for the formation of regional climate adaptation planning groups. The bill would require the council, by July 1, 2022, to develop criteria for the development of regional climate adaptation plans.
This measure would declare March 5, 2020, as Family Justice Center Day in California and would recognize the lifesaving and hope-giving work of the California Family Justice Center Network and its member Family Justice Centers as they work with rape crisis centers, domestic violence shelters, human trafficking agencies, prosecutors' offices, law enforcement agencies, and other professionals and community-based organizations to ensure that adult and child survivors of trauma can access all of their services in one setting.
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.