Asm. Bill Quirk

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, as part of the hazardous waste control law, requires a facility handling hazardous waste to apply for and obtain a hazardous waste facilities permit from the Department of Toxic Substances Control. Existing law requires that a hazardous waste facilities permit be for a fixed term not to exceed 10 years for certain facilities. Existing law requires the owner or operator of a facility intending to extend the facility's permit to submit a complete Part A application for a permit renewal before the fixed term of the permit expires and, at any time following the submittal of the Part A application, to submit a complete Part B application, or any portion of that application, and other relevant information, if requested by the department. Existing law requires a person who applies for, or requests, a renewal of an existing hazardous waste facilities permit to enter into a written agreement with the department pursuant to which that person is required to reimburse the department for the costs incurred by the department in processing the renewal application. This bill would require the department to process a hazardous waste facilities permit renewal application in an expedited manner, as provided, if the department determines that certain conditions are met, including that operations at the hazardous waste facility have not changed since the approval of the permit in effect at the time the renewal application is submitted. The bill would require the department to cease processing a hazardous waste facilities application in an expedited manner if the hazardous waste facility no longer meets one or more of the specified conditions. The bill would provide that the expedited permit renewal process is not available for land disposal facilities. The bill also would repeal certain legislative findings and declarations relating to a 2016 act that affected charges for hazardous waste facilities permit applications.

Existing law, the Charter Schools Act of 1992, provides for the establishment and operation of charter schools and authorizes the governing board of a school district, a county board of education, and the State Board of Education to approve a petition for the establishment of a charter school and to act as a chartering authority. This bill would, contingent upon an appropriation made for these purposes, establish the Charter Authorizers Regional Support Network Program, to be administered by the Alameda County Office of Education, as an initiative to expand uniform charter school authorizing and oversight practices, as provided. The bill would require the Alameda County Office of Education to, among other things, award grant funds to 11 regional lead county offices of education to be used to improve the quality of school district and county office of education charter school authorizing activity. The bill would require a regional lead county office of education to use its grant funds for specified activities. The bill would require the Alameda County Superintendent of Schools to appoint an advisory board, to consist of specified members, to develop values and principles for charter school authorizing and oversight that will provide guidance for regional lead county offices of education, trainings, and conference materials, as provided. The bill would also require the Legislative Analyst's Office, on or before December 1, 2020, to complete and submit to the Governor and the appropriate education policy and budget committees of the Legislature an evaluation of the program. To the extent the provisions of this bill, upon implementation, would impose additional requirements on the Alameda County Office of Education, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Alameda County Office of Education. 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, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

Existing law, the Mosquito Abatement and Vector Control District Law, provides for the formation of mosquito abatement and vector control districts and specifies the powers and duties of the district boards. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to provide examinations to certify government agency employees and vector control technicians. This bill would create the California Mosquito Surveillance and Research Program, to be administered by the department, and would require the department to maintain an interactive Internet Web site for management and dissemination of data on mosquito-borne virus and surveillance control and provide confirmation of tests done by local or state agencies, among other functions. The bill would require the department to finance the program by federal or state grants, or from any private donations or grants. The bill would make related findings and declarations.

Existing law, the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Act of 1991, requires the State Department of Public Health to adopt regulations establishing a standard of care at least as stringent as the most recent United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention screening guidelines, whereby all children are evaluated for risk of lead poisoning by health care providers during each child's periodic health assessment. Existing law requires the standard of care for a child who is determined to be "at risk" for lead poisoning to include the screening of that child. Existing regulations require every health care provider who performs a periodic health assessment of a child to order a child who receives services from a publicly funded program for low-income children to be screened for lead poisoning. This bill would require the department to coordinate with specified state entities to gather data to determine whether low-income children are being screened for lead poisoning as required by the regulation described above. The bill would also require all uses and disclosures of the gathered or shared data to comply with all applicable state and federal laws for the protection of the privacy and security of data. Existing law requires a laboratory that performs a blood lead analysis on a specimen of human blood drawn in California to report specified information to the department for each analysis on every person tested. Existing law requires that all information reported be confidential, except that the department is authorized to share the information for the purpose of surveillance, case management, investigation, environmental assessment, environmental remediation, or abatement with the local health department, environmental health agency, or building department, so long as the entity receiving the information otherwise maintains the confidentiality of the information, as specified. This bill would add the State Department of Health Care Services to the above-described list of entities with which the State Department of Public Health is authorized to share the reported information, for official governmental program purposes.

Existing law, the California Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1973, requires, among other things, that an employer provide for the safety of its employees. Existing law requires an employer to provide and use safety devices and safeguards reasonably adequate to render the employment and place of employment safe. This bill would require, among other things, that a hotel employer, as defined, provide its employees, as defined, with a panic button, as specified, in order to summon immediate assistance when working alone in the guestroom. The bill would require a hotel employer to post a specified notice in each guestroom regarding these provisions. The bill would require a hotel employer to provide paid time off to an employee who is the victim of assault in order to contact the police, a counselor, medical professional, or an attorney. The bill would require a hotel employer to provide reasonable accommodations to an employee who has been subjected to an act of violence, sexual assault, or sexual harassment by a guest, as specified. The bill would require a hotel employer, upon request of an employee, to contact law enforcement to report an act constituting a crime and to cooperate in the investigation. The bill would prohibit a hotel employer from discriminating or retaliating against an employee who reasonably uses a panic button, reports a specified act, requests time off, reasonable accommodations under these provisions. The bill would establish a minimum standard of protection for these employees and would authorize the enactment and enforcement of more protective policies. The bill would impose a specified civil penalty on hotel employers for violations of its provisions and would provide legislative findings in support of its provisions.

(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.

This measure would declare the intent of the Legislature to further support the housing needs of individuals with developmental disabilities by exploring models that facilitate the private donation of homes in perpetuity and would recognize the work of organizations that have developed a property donation program.