This measure would proclaim June 12, 2022, as Women Veterans Recognition Day and urge all Californians to join in celebrating the many contributions of women to our armed forces.
This measure would respectfully memorialize the 117th United States Congress and the President of the United States to enact legislation, S. 3213, known as the IDEA Full Funding Act, which would fully fund the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
This measure would designate the highway overcrossing in the County of San Bernardino at the Interstate 210 interchange at Haven Avenue, postmile marker 6.913, as the Lance Cpl. Dylan Merola Memorial Highway Overcrossing. 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 the cost, to erect those signs.
This measure would designate a specified interchange of State Highway Route 168 in the City of Clovis as the Dr. Fareed Wade Nader Memorial Interchange. The measure would request that the Department of Transportation determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, erect those signs.
This measure would declare August 2022 as Valley Fever Awareness Month.
Existing law establishes the Department of Health Care Access and Information. Existing law requires the department to administer various programs, including the California Registered Nurse Education Program, designed to encourage an adequate supply of health professionals. This bill would require the department to develop and administer the Public Health Workforce Loan Repayment Program to provide loan assistance payments to qualifying public health workforce staff. The bill would require the department to commence providing loan assistance payments to individuals as of July 1, 2024. The bill would require the department, in administering the program, to establish various things, including an application process for applicants and eligibility criteria, as specified. The bill would require the department, on or before April 4 each year, to post a report on the program, as specified. The bill would authorize the department to implement, interpret, or make specific those provisions by means of policy letters, provider bulletins, or other similar instructions, without taking regulatory action. This bill would appropriate $90,000,000 from the General Fund to the department to administer and implement those provisions, in accordance with a specified schedule.
Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt basic instructional materials for use in kindergarten and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, for governing boards of school districts in specified subjects and any other subject, discipline, or interdisciplinary area for which the state board determines the adoption of instructional materials to be necessary or desirable, and requires the governing board of each school district maintaining one or more high schools to adopt instructional materials for use in the high schools under its control, consistent with specified conditions. Existing law requires the adopted course of study for grades 1 to 6, inclusive, and for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to offer instruction in specified areas of study, including social sciences. Existing law establishes the Instructional Quality Commission and requires the commission to, among other things, recommend curriculum frameworks to the state board. Existing law requires the state board, concurrently with, but not before, the next revision of textbooks or curriculum frameworks in the social sciences, health, and mathematics curricula, to ensure that these academic areas integrate components of, among other things, financial literacy. Notwithstanding that requirement on the state board, existing law requires the commission, when the history-social science curriculum framework is revised after January 1, 2017, to consider including age-appropriate information for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, regarding certain topics on financial literacy. This bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction, subject to an appropriation of one-time funds for this purpose in the annual Budget Act or another statute, to allocate funding for the purchase of standards-aligned instructional materials in financial literacy for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, and for professional development in that content, as provided. The bill would require the Superintendent to allocate these funds to school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and the state special schools on the basis of an equal amount per unit of average daily attendance, as those numbers were reported at the time of the first principal apportionment for the 2019–20 fiscal year. The bill would require a school district, county office of education, charter school, or state special school to expend allocated funds for professional development or instructional materials in financial literacy that is aligned to the history-social science curriculum framework adopted by the state board and the financial literacy subject matter recommended considered by the commission, as provided.
(1) Existing law licenses and regulates motor vehicle dealers and retail sellers. Existing law prohibits a motor vehicle dealer or retail seller from selling any motor vehicle that is not in compliance with the requirements enumerated in the Vehicle Code. The bill would authorize a dealer or retailer to impose a reasonable charge on the purchaser of a motor vehicle for complying with this requirement, as specified. This bill would prohibit a dealer or retail seller from selling a vehicle equipped with a catalytic converter unless the catalytic converter has been permanently marked with the vehicle identification number (VIN) of the vehicle to which it is attached with a label, as specified. The bill would authorize a dealer or retail seller to impose a reasonable charge on the purchaser of a motor vehicle for complying with this requirement, as specified. A violation of this provision would be punishable by specified fines. (2) This bill would also prohibit any person, except as exempted, from removing, altering, or obfuscating the VIN engraved, etched, or otherwise marked on a catalytic converter. A violation of these provisions would be punishable as a misdemeanor. (3) Existing law licenses and regulates automotive repair dealers, as defined. This bill would require any automotive repair dealer that installs or replaces a catalytic converter on a motor vehicle to ensure that the catalytic converter is permanently marked with the VIN of the vehicle on which it is being installed with a label or an engraving, etching, or marking, as specified, and would authorize the automotive repair dealer to charge the consumer a reasonable fee, as specified. A violation of this provision would be punishable by specified fines. (4) Existing law licenses and regulates smog check stations. This bill would require a smog check station, as part of any smog check performed on a motor vehicle, to inspect the exterior of the catalytic converter and notify the customer whether or not the catalytic converter is permanently marked, as specified, with the VIN. The bill would require a smog check station to perform only a visual inspection to satisfy this requirement. Failure by a smog check station to comply with this provision would be punishable as a misdemeanor. (5) By creating new crimes, 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.
