Asm. Ash Kalra

This measure would proclaim September 25, 2022, as Gold Star Mothers' and Families' Day in California.

This measure would declare and recognize that the state is currently suffering a supply chain crisis. The measure would urge the state's public agencies, departments, and local governments to provide all due and proper assistance to carriers, cargo owners, public seaports, terminals, workers, and facilities to facilitate the essential service of delivering goods to Californians.

This measure would recognize August 15, 2022, as India's Independence Day and urge all Californians to join in celebrating India's independence.

Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to employ persons for positions not requiring certification qualifications and the governing board of a community college district to employ persons for positions that are not academic positions. Existing law requires the governing board of a school district or community college district to classify those employees and positions and requires that they be known as the classified service. Existing law establishes procedures through which a school district or community college district may be authorized to adopt a merit system with respect to its personnel. Existing law requires a school district or community college district that has a merit system to appoint a personnel commission to prescribe, amend, and interpret rules regarding the merit system. Existing law deems a person who has served an initial probationary period in a class not to exceed 6 months or 130 days of paid service, whichever is longer, as prescribed by the rules of the commission, to be in the permanent classified service, except as provided. Existing law requires that, in a school district or community college district that has adopted a merit system for its classified employees, an employee shall not attain permanent status in the classified service until the employee has completed a probationary period in a class. Under existing law, in a school district that has not adopted a merit system for its employees, a permanent employee who accepts a promotion and fails to complete the probationary period for that promotional position is required to be employed in the classification from which the employee was promoted. This bill, in a school district that has adopted a merit system for its employees, would require a permanent employee who accepts a promotion and fails to complete the probationary period for that promotional position to be employed in the classification from which the employee was promoted. Under existing law, in a community college district that has not adopted a merit system for its employees, a permanent employee who accepts a promotion and fails to complete the probationary period for that promotional classification is required to be employed in the position from which the employee was promoted. This bill, in a community college district that has adopted a merit system for its employees, would require a permanent employee who accepts a promotion and fails to complete the probationary period for that promotional classification to be employed in the position from which the employee was promoted. This bill would not apply the above-described provisions to a conflicting collective bargaining agreement entered into before January 1, 2023, until the expiration or renewal of that collective bargaining agreement.

This measure would declare August 2022 as Valley Fever Awareness Month.

This measure would declare the month of September 2022 as California Emergency Preparedness Month.

The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, generally regulates the disposal, management, and recycling of solid waste, including, among other solid waste, plastic packaging containers. This bill would require an e-commerce shipper, as defined, that ships purchased products in or into the state to reduce from its 2023 calendar year levels the total weight and number of units of single-use plastic shipping envelopes, cushioning, and void fill, and expanded and extruded polystyrene, it uses to ship or transport the products, by no less than unspecified percentages on or before January 1, 2030. The bill would establish exemptions from these prohibitions. The bill would make a violation of the foregoing requirements subject to civil penalties and would require penalties collected by the Attorney General to be deposited into the Plastic Packaging Reduction Penalty Account, which the bill would create, for expenditure by the Attorney General, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to enforce those requirements.