Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to serve as a central repository for the collection, storage, retrieval, and dissemination of data and information on all forms of energy supply, demand, conservation, public safety, research, and related subjects. Existing law requires the commission to adopt a statewide home energy rating program for residential dwellings. Under existing law, the commission adopted regulations that require home energy rating system providers to record and maintain for a period of 10 years all data collected for a rating, as provided, and require the provider, upon request by the commission, to submit the data to the commission and provide the commission ongoing access to the database. This bill would require the commission to establish a compliance document repository and would require home energy rating system providers to transmit all the data required to be recorded and maintained to the repository. The bill would require the commission to make information in the repository available to the public only in aggregate form and would prohibit the disclosure of personally identifiable information.
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Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law requires the PUC and the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) to undertake specified actions to advance the state's clean energy and pollution reduction objectives, including, where feasible, cost effective, and consistent with other state policy objectives, increasing the use of large- and small-scale energy storage with a variety of technologies, including green electrolytic hydrogen, as defined. Existing law requires the PUC, State Air Resources Board (state board) , and Energy Commission to consider green electrolytic hydrogen an eligible form of energy storage, and to consider other potential uses of green electrolytic hydrogen. This bill would require the PUC, in consultation with the Energy Commission and state board, to establish a critical consumption program for hydrogen production and processing, as specified, and to establish a framework for directing electricity generated by eligible renewable energy resources to the production and processing of hydrogen at specified times. The bill would require the PUC to direct an electrical corporation to file a petition with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to file tariffs for the removal of the noncoincident peak demand charge. Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the PUC is a crime. Because the provisions of this bill require the PUC to direct electrical corporations to undertake certain actions and failure to comply with a direction of the PUC would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime. 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 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 requires the State Department of Public Health to maintain an electronic database to support electronic laboratory reporting of blood lead tests, management of lead-exposed children, and assessment of sources of lead exposures. Existing law requires a laboratory that performs a blood lead analysis on human blood drawn in California to report specified information, including the test results and the name, birth date, and address of the person tested, to the department for each analysis on every person tested. Existing law authorizes the department to share the information reported by a laboratory with, among other entities, the State Department of Health Care Services for the purpose of determining whether children enrolled in Medi-Cal are being screened for lead poisoning and receiving appropriate related services. This bill also would additionally require a laboratory that performs a blood lead analysis to report to the department, among other things, the Medi-Cal identification number and medical plan identification number, if available, for each analysis on every person tested.
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of contractors by the Contractors' State License Board (board) . Under existing law, a willful or deliberate disregard by a licensed contractor of various state building, labor, and safety laws constitutes a cause for disciplinary action by the board. This bill would add illegal dumping to the list of violations that constitute a cause for disciplinary action against a contractor by the board.
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, while local publicly owned electric utilities, as defined, are under the direction of their governing boards. Existing law establishes as policy of the state that eligible renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources supply 100% of retail sales of electricity to California end-use customers and 100% of electricity procured to serve all state agencies by December 31, 2045. This bill would make nonsubstantive revisions to this policy.
This measure would proclaim January 23, 2020, as Maternal Health Awareness Day, to draw attention to the efforts that have improved maternal health in California and to highlight the need for continued improvement of maternal health for all women.
This measure would proclaim January 26, 2020, as India Republic Day, and would urge all Californians to join in celebrating India Republic Day.
This measure would designate the month of January 2020 as Positive Parenting Awareness Month in California.
This measure, among other things, would declare that California is a Reproductive Freedom State for All and provide that the Legislature is committed to guaranteeing the constitutionally protected right to an abortion and supporting efforts to increase access to the best available reproductive and pregnancy-related care for women and pregnant individuals.