Asm. Ash Kalra

(1) Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, which is administered by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, regulates the application, issuance, and suspension of alcoholic beverage licenses. Existing law, known as tied-house restrictions, generally prohibits specified licensees, or their officers, directors, or agents, from giving or lending money or a thing of value to a person operating, owning, or maintaining any on-sale premises where alcoholic beverages are sold. In this regard, existing law specifically prohibits paying a retailer for advertising. Existing law creates a variety of exceptions to this prohibition, including permitting specified licensees to purchase advertising space and time from, or on behalf of, an on-sale licensee that is an owner, manager, agent or assignee of the owner, or major tenant of certain venues, including a fully enclosed arena with a fixed seating capacity of more than 15,000 seats located in the City of San Jose. Existing law makes specified violations of these advertising provisions punishable as a misdemeanor. This bill would expand the above-described exception to tied-house restrictions that allows for the purchase of advertising by extending it to a fully enclosed arena with a fixed seating capacity of more than 4,000 seats located in the City of San Jose. By expanding the scope of a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of San Jose. (3) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 25503.6 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by SB 1280 and AB 1330 to be operative only if this bill and SB 1280, AB 1330, or both are enacted and this bill is enacted last. (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. (5) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

(1) The federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act provides for workforce development activities, including activities in which states may participate. Existing state law provides that the California Workforce Development Board is the body responsible for assisting the Governor in the development, oversight, and continuous improvement of California's workforce investment system and the alignment of the education and workforce investment systems to the needs of the 21st century economy and workforce. Existing law, the State Budget Act of 2021, appropriates specified funds to the board for local assistance, including $10,000,000 for the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) for worker support and assistance, including mental health services, worker training, retraining, trauma counseling, and reasonable accommodations. Existing law additionally requires the board to allocate $10,000,000 to the VTA for worker support and facilities improvement, and requires the VTA to first prioritize worker support and assistance, including mental health services, worker training, retraining, trauma counseling, and reasonable accommodations. This bill would require the board, any research institution under contract with the board, the VTA, and the California Health and Human Services Agency, to perform prescribed duties, including analyzing the effectiveness of the VTA's wellness center, drafting a model plan for the development and implementation of a worker wellness center, and developing a plan to encourage the establishment of worker wellness center demonstration sites statewide in transit authorities. The bill would require the VTA to provide the board, or research institutions under contract with the board, with data and outcomes from its wellness center that are necessary for the evaluation required by this bill, as specified. The bill would require the board to consult with the Division of Occupational Safety and Health to ensure compliance with occupational safety and health laws and regulations. By imposing new duties on a local agency to report information to the board, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would make its provisions operative only upon appropriation by the Legislature. No later than 2 years following appropriation, the bill would require the board to prepare and send to the Legislature a report on the results of its evaluation conducted and the plans developed pursuant to these provisions. (2) This bill would make legislative related findings and declarations, including findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the VTA. (3) 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 establishes within the Department of Industrial Relations the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, headed by the Labor Commissioner, for the purposes of enforcing labor laws. This bill would establish within the division the Labor Trafficking Unit, which would be required to coordinate with the Labor Enforcement Task Force, the Criminal Investigation Unit, the Department of Justice, and the Civil Rights Department to combat labor trafficking. The bill would require the unit to receive and investigate complaints alleging labor trafficking and take steps to prevent labor trafficking. The bill would require the unit to coordinate with or refer cases to the Labor Enforcement Task Force or the Civil Rights Department for potential civil actions, and to coordinate with or refer cases to the Department of Justice for potential criminal actions. The bill would require the unit to follow protocols to ensure survivors of labor trafficking are not victimized by the process of prosecuting traffickers and are informed of the services available to them. The bill would authorize the unit to coordinate with state and local agencies for specified purposes relating to the investigation and prosecution of labor trafficking. The bill would require the Division of Occupational Safety and Health to notify the unit when, upon investigating businesses under their purview, there is evidence of labor trafficking. The bill would require the unit, beginning January 1, 2025, until January 1, 2035, to annually submit a report to the Legislature with specified information relating to labor trafficking complaints, including the number, types, and outcomes of complaints.

This measure would proclaim the month of September 2022 as Prostate Cancer Awareness Month.

This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 44, near Oak Run in the County of Shasta, as the Stan Statham Memorial Highway. This 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 that cost, to erect those signs.

This measure would designate the East End Complex-Block 171 in Sacramento as the Mario Obledo Building, and would request the Department of General Services to determine the cost of erecting appropriate plaques and markers showing the designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources, to cover that cost to erect signage.

This measure would urge the United States Congress to amend the United States Social Security Administration's index of earnings to ensure that a decline in aggregate wages due to COVID-19 does not result in decreased benefits.

This measure would request that the Department of Transportation remove the "The Christopher Columbus Transcontinental Highway" designation from the portion of Interstate 10 in the state, as well as any signage and markers memorializing that designation, and advise the Federal Highway Administration of the state's action.

This measure would, among other things, on the first anniversary of the attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, urge the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol to uncover the facts, circumstances, and causes relating to the attack, and honor the individuals who died or were injured as a result of the attack.

This measure would urge the United States Secretary of Education to establish and submit to the United States Congress for approval a monthly student loan payment plan for federal student loans, based on the personal savings rate as published by the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis.