Existing law, the California Child Day Care Facilities Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of day care centers by the State Department of Social Services. Existing regulations require a separate license to be issued for each component of a combination center, and establishes teacher-child ratio requirements. This bill would require the department, in consultation with stakeholders, to adopt regulations on or before January 1, 2021, to create a child care center license to serve infant, toddler, preschool, and schoolage children and would require, before January 1, 2024, all day care centers to be licensed as child care centers. The bill would require the regulations to include components for infant, toddler, preschool, and schoolage children, health and safety standards for children in care, and enhanced ability to transition children from one age group to the next. The bill would authorize the department to charge an applicant for the child care center license a specified fee. Existing law requires the department to develop guidelines and procedures to authorize licensed child day care centers serving infants or preschool age children to create a special optional toddler program component for children between 18 and 36 months of age, and requires the program to be considered an extension of the infant center or preschool license. This bill would authorize the department to extend the period for participation in the toddler program for a maximum of three months for a child in extenuating circumstances, on the request of a day care center, if the center can establish that it is unable to find an alternative placement.
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Existing law requires the adopted course of study for grades 1 to 6, inclusive, and for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to offer courses in specified areas of study, including social sciences. This bill would require, on or before July 1, 2019, the State Department of Education to make available to school districts on its Internet Web site a list of resources and instructional materials on media literacy, as defined, including media literacy professional development programs for teachers.
Existing law requires an elections official, upon receipt of a vote by mail ballot, to compare the signature on the identification envelope with either the signature appearing on the voter's affidavit of registration, or the signature appearing on a form issued by an elections official that contains the voter's signature and that is part of the voter's registration record. Existing law prohibits, if the elections official determines that the signatures do not compare, the elections official from opening the identification envelope and counting the ballot. This bill would eliminate the prohibition on counting the ballot and would instead require the elections official to follow specified procedures to notify the voter and allow the voter an opportunity to verify his or her signature before certification of the election. The bill would also make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions. By increasing the duties of local election officials, 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, 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. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law authorizes the Fair Political Practices Commission, upon mutual agreement between the Commission and the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Bernardino, to have primary responsibility for the impartial, effective administration, implementation, and enforcement of a local campaign finance reform ordinance of the County of San Bernardino, as specified. Existing law also authorizes the Fair Political Practices Commission to enter into such agreements with the City Council of the City of Stockton and the City Council of the City of Sacramento, respectively. This bill would repeal the provisions governing agreements with the Cities of Stockton and Sacramento and would generally authorize the governing body of a local government agency to contract with the Commission for the administration, implementation, and enforcement of a local campaign finance or government ethics law. This bill would also clarify that any agreement with the City of Stockton or the City of Sacramento that was in effect on December 31, 2018, is deemed to comply with this provision, and that this bill does not apply to the County of San Bernardino. The Political Reform Act of 1974, an initiative measure, provides that the Legislature may amend the act to further the act's purposes upon a 23 vote of each house of the Legislature and compliance with specified procedural requirements. This bill would declare that it furthers the purposes of the act.
(1) Existing law prescribes various requirements to be satisfied before the exercise of a power of sale under a mortgage or deed of trust. In this regard, existing law requires that a notice of default and a notice of sale be recorded and that specified periods of time elapse between the recordings and the sale. Certain laws enacted in 2012 and repealed on January 1, 2018, commonly referred to as the California Homeowner Bill of Rights, established a variety of requirements in connection with foreclosures on mortgages and deeds of trust, including restrictions on mortgage servicers actions while a borrower is attempting to secure a loan modification or has submitted a loan modification application. The foreclosure provisions of the act were generally limited to first lien mortgages and deeds of trust on owner-occupied residences, as specified. This bill would reenact various provisions of the California Homeowner Bill of Rights, as described above, and make other changes. With regard to first lien mortgages or deeds of trust on residential real property, as specified, the bill would prohibit an entity that forecloses on more than 175 real properties from recording a notice of default or notice of sale, or conducting a trustee's sale after a borrower submits a complete application for a first lien loan modification and that application is pending. The bill would require that the complete application be submitted at least 5 business days before a scheduled foreclosure sale. The prohibition on recording a notice of default or a notice of sale would continue until one of 3 specified events occur. The bill would grant a borrower 30 days to appeal if the loan modification is denied and authorize the borrower to provide evidence that the mortgage servicer's determination was in error. During this appeal period, the bill would prohibit filing a notice of default, or if that notice has already been filed, from recording a notice of sale or conducting a trustee's sale until the later of specified events. The bill would require a mortgage servicer to send a written notice to the borrower that identifies the reasons for denial and that includes certain information in connection with the denial. The bill would provide that a mortgage servicer satisfies specified telephone contact requirements if the borrower makes a written request to cease communications. This bill would also prohibit these entities from recording a notice of default until a mortgage servicer provides the borrower specified information in writing, 30 days have passed after contacting the borrower or after making diligent effort, as specified, to do so, and after compliance by the mortgage servicer with the requirements for completed applications for loan modification described above, as may be applicable. The bill would require that a notice of default include a specified declaration regarding contact with a borrower. The bill would make technical changes to provisions requiring a mortgage servicer to establish a single point of contact for a borrower requesting a foreclosure prevention alternative. In connection with the entities and mortgages and deeds of trust described above, among other things, the bill also would require a mortgage servicer that offers a foreclosure prevention alternative to send a written communication containing specified information regarding the alternative to a borrower within 5 days after recording a notice of default, except as specified. The bill would require a mortgage servicer to provide a borrower who submits a complete first lien loan modification application, or any document connected to that modification, written acknowledgment of receipt within 5 business days of receipt along with other information regarding the loan modification process. The bill would define "complete" for these purposes. The bill would prohibit recording a notice of default if a foreclosure prevention alternative is approved in writing before the notice is recorded and other specified conditions are met. If a foreclosure prevention alternative is approved after recording the notice, the bill would prohibit recording a notice of sale or conducting a trustee sale if specified conditions are met. The bill would require that a notice of default be rescinded or a pending trustee sale canceled when a borrower executes a permanent foreclosure alternative. The bill would prohibit a mortgage servicer from charging fees for a first lien loan modification or other foreclosure prevention alternative, as specified, and would require modifications and prevention alternatives previously approved to be honored following transfer or sale to another servicer. The bill would provide for liability to borrowers for material violations of these provisions, as specified, and would permit a court to award the greater of treble actual damages or specified statutory damages in cases of intention or reckless violations. Violations of certain of the provisions described above by licensees of the Department of Corporations, the Department of Financial Institutions, and the Department of Real Estate would also be deemed violations of those respective licensing laws. Because certain violations of those licensing laws are crimes, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would provide that a mortgage servicer that engages in multiple and repeated filing of unsubstantiated documents related to foreclosure is liable for a civil penalty of up to $7,500 per mortgage or deed of trust, in an action brought by specified state and local government entities, and would also authorize administrative enforcement against specified licensees by their regulatory agencies. With regard to first lien mortgages or deeds of trust on residential real property, as specified, in connection with an entity that forecloses on fewer than 175 real properties in a reporting period, as specified, the bill would prohibit recording a notice of default, notice of sale, or conducting a trustee's sale while a complete first lien loan modification application is pending and until the mortgage servicer provides the borrower a written determination regarding his or her eligibility for the requested modification. The bill would require that the complete application be submitted at least 5 business days before a scheduled foreclosure sale. The bill would prohibit recording a notice of default if a foreclosure prevention alternative is approved in writing before the notice is recorded and other specified conditions are met. If a foreclosure prevention alternative is approved after recording the notice, the bill would prohibit recording a notice of sale or conducting a trustee sale if specified conditions are met. The bill would prescribe a process by which these entities become subject to the provisions described above that are applicable to entities that foreclose on more than 175 real properties. The bill would require modifications and prevention alternatives previously approved to be honored following transfer or sale to another servicer. The bill would authorize a borrower to seek injunctive relief to enjoin material violations certain of its provisions if a trustee's deed upon sale has not been recorded. If the deed has been recorded, the bill would provide for liability to borrowers for material violations of these provisions, as specified, and would permit a court to award the greater of treble actual damages or specified statutory damages in cases of intention or reckless violations. The bill would authorize a court to award attorney's fees and costs, as specified. Violations of certain of the provisions described above by licensees of the Department of Corporations, the Department of Financial Institutions, and the Department of Real Estate would also be deemed violations of those respective licensing laws. Because certain violations of those licensing laws are crimes, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would make a statement of legislative intent regarding the amendment, addition, or repeal of provisions of the California Homeowner Bill of Rights that took effect on January 1, 2018, on liability incurred prior to January 1, 2018. The bill would make conforming changes and repeal duplicate provisions of law. (2) 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 urge the Congress and the President of the United States to support the retention of, and investment in, the Amtrak National Network of passenger trains, specifically the California Zephyr, the Coast Starlight, the Southwest Chief, and the Sunset Limited, as vital components of the state's rail program and would also urge Congress to reject President Trump's proposed Fiscal Year 2019 federal budget cuts to Amtrak and restore full funding for the Amtrak National Network through the appropriations process.
This measure would declare that the State of California welcomes the hosting of World Cup 2026, would declare the state's full support of local organizing committees in the San Francisco Bay area and Los Angeles area to be selected as World Cup 2026 sites, and would encourage the Governor and all affected state departments to cooperate with those committees.
Existing law, the California Voter's Choice Act, authorizes certain counties to conduct any election, after a specified date, as an all-mailed ballot election if certain conditions are satisfied, including conditions related to ballot dropoff locations, vote centers, and plans for the administration of all-mailed ballot elections. Existing law requires, with certain exceptions, that state-owned buildings, parking lots, and other facilities be made available free of charge for use as polling places. This bill would extend this requirement to vote centers. Existing law authorizes the governing body with jurisdiction over school buildings or other public buildings to allow its buildings to be used for polling places on any election day, or to store voting machines and other vote-tabulating devices. This bill would authorize school buildings or other public buildings to also be used as vote centers beginning up to ten days before the election and continuing through election day. The bill would require an elections official requesting the use of a public building to include a list of the buildings from which the use of a building for polling places or vote centers is needed, and would require that request to be made sufficiently before election day for the governing body to adequately plan for the public building's use as a polling place or vote center. The bill would define "public building" as a building owned or controlled by a city, county, or other local governmental agency.
This measure would urge the federal government and the United States Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission to take immediate action to adequately address cross-border pollution in the Tijuana River Valley.
This measure would, among other things, call upon stakeholders in the health professions to foster the well-being of children born with variations of sex characteristics through the enactment of policies and procedures that ensure individualized, multidisciplinary care, as provided.