Existing law establishes various environmental and economic policies. This bill would enact the California COVID-19 Recovery Deal. The bill would make a series of legislative findings and declarations pertaining to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and various economic, environmental, and social conditions in the state. The bill would state the intent of the Legislature that the state adopt a policy framework with principles and goals committed to accomplish specified economic, environmental, and social objectives and priorities as part of the state's COVID-19 recovery spending. The bill would state that the Legislature establishes various spending rules for the COVID-19 recovery, including adopting spending measures that prohibit businesses, organizations, or agencies from accepting public funds for any long-term projects that prolong the emission of greenhouses gases or lead to the expansion of fossil fuel projects and ensuring that recovery spending includes specific measures for California populations and communities most negatively impacted by COVID-19.
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Existing law, the California Emergency Services Act, authorizes the Governor to proclaim a state of emergency when specified conditions of disaster or extreme peril to the safety of persons and property exist, and to exercise certain powers in response to that emergency. The act also authorizes the governing body of a city, county, city and county, or an official designated by ordinance adopted by that governing body, to proclaim a local emergency, and to exercise certain powers in response to that emergency. Existing law defines the terms "state of emergency" and "local emergency" to mean the duly proclaimed existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the state caused by, among other things, fire, storm, riot, epidemic, or cyberterrorism. This bill would require all proclamations, communications, materials, and announcements made by the Governor or a state agency related to a duly proclaimed state of emergency to be made available in all languages spoken by a substantial number of non-English-speaking people. The bill would define the term "substantial number of non-English-speaking people" to mean a group of people that do not speak English or have limited English proficiency and make up 3 percent or more of the state's population. This bill would also require each county to translate all emergency-related proclamations, communications, materials, and announcements made by the county related to a duly proclaimed state of emergency or a local emergency duly proclaimed by the county into all languages spoken by 1,000 or more of the county's residents.
(1) For purposes of state apportionments to public schools, if the average daily attendance of a school district, county office of education, or charter school during a fiscal year has been materially decreased during a fiscal year because of a specified event, including an epidemic, existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to estimate the average daily attendance in a manner that credits to the school district, county office of education, or charter school the total average daily attendance that would have been credited had the emergency not occurred. This bill would revise the above-described triggering event to be an epidemic, pandemic, or outbreak of infectious disease, and would provide that the various specified triggering events apply to decreases in average daily attendance due to illness, quarantine, social isolation, and social distancing, absences taken as preemptive measures, independent study and distance learning requests, and pupils who are absent due to quarantine, but cannot provide the appropriate documentation. Existing law requires each school district or county superintendent of schools maintaining any kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to provide for each needy pupil, as defined, one nutritionally adequate free or reduced-price meal during each schoolday, and authorizes them to use funds made available through any federal or state program the purpose of which includes the provision of meals to a pupil. The Charter Schools Act of 1992 requires a charter school to provide each needy pupil with one nutritionally adequate free or reduced-price meal during each schoolday, except as provided. This bill would require each school district or county superintendent of schools maintaining any kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to continue to provide each needy pupil with one nutritionally adequate free or reduced-price meal during each day that, had it not been declared a state of emergency or a major disaster, would have been considered a schoolday, except for family daycare homes that are required to be reimbursed for 75% of the meals served. The bill would require a charter school also to continue to provide each needy pupil with one nutritionally adequate free or reduced-price meal during each day that, had it not been declared a state of emergency or a major disaster, would have been considered a schoolday. The bill would require meals to be distributed, with an option to deliver to the home of each needy pupil, in a manner that complies with local, state, and federal agency guidelines regarding the declared state of emergency or major disaster. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) Existing law establishes a procedure, known as an unlawful detainer action, that a landlord must follow in order to evict a tenant. A tenant is subject to an unlawful detainer action if the tenant continues to possess the property without permission of the landlord in specified circumstances, including when the tenant has violated the lease or rental agreement by defaulting on rent. A landlord commences an unlawful detainer action by filing and serving the defendant with a complaint. The California Emergency Services Act authorizes the Governor to declare a state of emergency, and local officials and local governments to declare a local emergency, when specified conditions of disaster or extreme peril to the safety of persons and property exist, and authorizes the Governor or the appropriate local government to exercise certain powers in response to that emergency. This bill would, during a state-declared state of emergency, establish a moratorium of the collection of rent from a tenant that is a small business and a moratorium on the filing of an unlawful detainer action due to a default in the payment of rent against a small business, as defined. (3) Under the Small Business Financial Assistance Act of 2013, the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank, within the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development, administers specific programs relating to small business, either administered directly by the bank or under contract with small business financial development corporations. This bill would require the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank, during a state-declared public health state of emergency or a prolonged medical emergency or natural disaster, to provide zero-interest rate loans directly to small businesses and nonprofit organizations affected by the emergency or disaster, as specified, from the California Small Business Expansion Fund, a continuously appropriated fund. The bill would require the bank to establish an application process and a selection criteria for the loans awarded pursuant to these provisions. (4) Under existing law, the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014, an employee who, on or after July 1, 2015, works in California for the same employer for 30 or more days within a year from the commencement of employment is entitled to paid sick days, as specified. Existing law requires an employee to accrue paid sick days at the rate of not less than one hour per every 30 hours worked subject to specified use and accrual limitations. This bill, in the event of a state-declared public health state of emergency, including the COVID-19 pandemic, would provide each employee with paid sick days for immediate use, regardless of how long the employee has been employed. The bill would provide a full-time salaried employee paid sick days in an amount sufficient to provide the employee with 14 continuous days away from work, and would provide a part-time or hourly employee with paid sick days in an amount equal to the number of hours that the employee was scheduled to work, or, if not scheduled to work, regularly works in a 14-day period, as specified. The bill would authorize an employee to use those paid sick days to care for a family member affected by the public health crisis, to care for a child because of a school closing related to the public health crisis, or because the employee has been affected by the public health crisis. This bill would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, require the Department of Industrial Relations to establish a program to provide paid sick days for family care and medical leave due to a public health crisis to independent contractors and day laborers. The bill would require the program to provide paid sick days in an amount equal to the number of hours that the independent contractor or day laborer was scheduled to work or, if not scheduled, regularly works in a 14-day period, as specified. The bill would require the department to establish an application process for independent contractors and day laborers to apply for the paid sick days provided under these provisions. (5) Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, gas corporations, and water corporations. Existing law prohibits an electrical, gas, or water corporation from terminating residential service (A) during the pendency of an investigation by the utility of a customer or subscriber dispute or complaint, (B) when a customer has been granted an extension of the period for payment of a bill, or (C) on the certification of a licensed physician and surgeon that to do so will be life threatening to the customer and the customer is financially unable to pay for service within the normal payment period and is willing to enter into an amortization agreement with the utility with respect to all charges that the customer is unable to pay prior to delinquency. Existing law requires that a customer that meets the requirements of (C) , upon request, be permitted to amortize, over a period not to exceed 12 months, the unpaid balance of any bill asserted to be beyond the means of the customer to pay within the normal period for payment. Existing law requires that a residential customer who has, before termination of service, made a request for extension of the payment period of a bill asserted to be beyond the means of the customer to pay in full within the normal period for payment, be given an opportunity for review of the request by a review manager of the utility and that the review include consideration of whether the customer will be permitted to amortize any unpaid balance of the delinquent account over a reasonable period of time, not to exceed 12 months. Existing law prohibits termination of the service of any customer complying with an amortization agreement, if the customer also keeps the account current as charges accrue in each subsequent billing period. Existing law authorizes the furnishing of utility services by publicly owned entities that are subject to control by their governing bodies, including municipal corporations, municipal utility districts, and public utility districts. Existing law places restrictions upon a municipal corporation, municipal utility district, or public utility district that provides light, water, power, or heat from terminating service identical to those above-described restrictions that are applicable to electrical, gas, and water corporations. This bill would prohibit an electrical corporation, gas corporation, water corporation, municipal corporation, municipal utility district, or public utility district from terminating residential or small commercial electrical, gas, or water service for nonpayment for the first 3 billing cycles following a state of emergency or major disaster, as defined, for a customer that may have been affected by the emergency or major disaster, except in compliance with the bill's requirements. The bill would require those utilities, following a state of emergency or major disaster, to include a notice in the first 3 billing statements made to those residential and small commercial customers that may have been affected by the state of emergency or major disaster, informing those customers that if, as a result of conditions associated with the state of emergency or major disaster, the customer suffered financially and is unable to pay for service in full within the normal period for payment, the customer may apply for an amortization agreement or other extension, to pay the unpaid balance within a reasonable period of time, not to exceed 12 months. The bill would require the utility to grant an extension or amortization request if the residential or small commercial customer represents to the utility that the customer suffered financially as a result of the conditions associated with the state of emergency or major disaster and that as a result the customer is unable to pay for service in full within the normal period for payment. The bill would prohibit the utility from terminating the service of any customer complying with an amortization agreement or other extension, if the customer also keeps the account current as charges accrue in each subsequent filling period following the first 3 billing statements made following the state of emergency or major disaster. Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime. Because certain provisions of this bill would be a part of the act and because a violation of an order or decision of the commission implementing its requirements with respect to an electrical, gas, or water corporation would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime. By placing additional requirements upon municipal corporations, municipal utility districts, and public utility districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (6) The Irrigation District Law authorizes the formation of irrigation districts and authorizes those districts to provide various utility services, including providing water service and the generation, transmission, distribution, and sale of electricity for use inside or outside the boundaries of the district. Existing law authorizes an irrigation district to refuse service to any land if outstanding charges for services already rendered to that land have not been paid within a reasonable time. Existing law authorizes the formation of municipal water districts, county water districts, and California water districts and authorizes those districts to adopt ordinances fixing the charges for the furnishing of commodities or services, to enforce district rules or regulations pertaining to the sale or distribution of water, and to petition the superior court for the issuance of an order stopping or disconnecting a service if the charges for that service are unpaid at the time specified in an ordinance, rule, or regulation. This bill would prohibit an irrigation district from terminating residential or small commercial electrical or water service, and would prohibit a municipal water district, county water district, or California water district from terminating residential or small commercial water service for nonpayment for the first 3 billing cycles following a state of emergency or major disaster for a customer that may have been affected by the emergency or major disaster, except in compliance with the bill's requirements, which are identical to the obligations and restrictions that the bill places upon an electrical corporation, gas corporation, water corporation, municipal corporation, municipal utility district, and public utility district. (7) This bill would declare that its provisions are severable. (8) 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 with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
(1) Existing law makes it a crime for a person to willfully obtain the personal identifying information of another and to use that information for any unlawful purpose, to acquire or retain possession of the personal identifying information of another person with the intent to defraud, and to sell the personal identifying information of another with the intent to defraud. Under existing law, entering a vehicle when the doors are locked with the intent to commit grand or petit larceny or any felony is 2nd-degree burglary, punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony. This bill would make entering a vehicle when the doors are locked with the intent to commit the theft of any electronic device capable of holding personal and confidential information a felony. By increasing the punishment for a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) Existing law requires each sheriff or police chief executive to submit descriptions of serialized property, or nonserialized property that has been uniquely inscribed, which has been reported stolen, directly into the appropriate Department of Justice automated property system for stolen bicycles, stolen vehicles, or other property. This bill would require the Department of Justice to establish the California Stolen Property Inventory (CSPI) , an online database of all serialized property, or nonserialized property that has been uniquely inscribed, that has been reported to the department by an individual or by a law enforcement agency as stolen. The bill would require that the CSPI database be accessible to the public from the department's internet website and allow members of the public to input serialized numbers or other unique alpha-numeric identifiers to determine whether an item bearing that number has been reported stolen. (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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Existing law requires every person or agency dealing with crimes or criminals to maintain records for the correct reporting of statistical data and to report statistical data to the Department of Justice when requested by the Attorney General. Subject to the availability of adequate funding, existing law requires the Attorney General to direct local law enforcement agencies to report information related to hate crimes to the Department of Justice. This bill would require a law enforcement agency to complete a supplemental hate crime or hate incident report form for each suspected hate crime or hate incident. The bill would require that the form indicate the type of bias motivation and any other identifying information to assist in the prosecution of the hate crime. By creating new reporting requirements for local law enforcement agencies, 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.
Existing law creates the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) with various powers and duties relative to transportation projects and services and the operation of public transit in the County of Santa Clara. Existing law vests the government of the VTA in a 12-member board of directors and requires the board of directors to annually elect a chairperson who shall preside at all meetings and a vice chairperson who shall serve in the absence of the chairperson. This bill would instead require the board of directors to biennially elect a chairperson and a vice chairperson.
Existing law creates the Solutions for Congested Corridors Program, with funding available for the program to be allocated by the California Transportation Commission to projects designed to achieve a balanced set of transportation, environmental, and community access improvements within highly congested travel corridors throughout the state and that are part of a comprehensive corridor plan. Existing law authorizes regional transportation planning agencies or county transportation commissions or authorities and the Department of Transportation to nominate projects, with preference to be given to projects that demonstrate collaboration between the regional agencies and the department. This bill would expand "regional transportation planning agency" to include specified transportation planning agencies, certain county transportation commissions, the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, a joint exercise of powers authority, or any other local or regional transportation entity that is designated by statute as a regional transportation agency.
The California Emergency Services Act, among other things, establishes the Office of Emergency Services within the office of the Governor, under the charge of a Director of Emergency Services appointed by the Governor. The act and other existing laws set forth the duties and authority of the office and the director, with respect to specified emergency preparedness, mitigation, and response activities within the state. This bill would require the office to prepare for the planning, resourcing, management, and delivery of safety and security at the potential 2026 FIFA World Cup hosting sites in the City of Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay area. The bill would require the office, no later than one year from the date the final selection of host cities is made, to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the cities hosting the 2026 FIFA World Cup games, the chosen host committees, and with other necessary parties to implement those safety and security activities. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2027. 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 requires the governing board of a school district to give diligent care to the health and physical development of pupils and authorizes the governing board of a school district to employ properly certified persons for the work. Existing law requires a school of a school district or county office of education and a charter school to notify pupils and parents or guardians of pupils no less than twice during the school year on how to initiate access to available pupil mental health services on campus or in the community, or both, as provided. This bill would, subject to moneys being appropriated by the Legislature for the purposes of the bill, establish the Trauma, Grief, and Loss Pilot Program, to be administered by the State Department of Education. The bill would authorize school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools maintaining grades 9 to 12, inclusive, that meet certain criteria to apply to the department for a one-time multiyear pilot program grant award for the 2021–22 to the 2025–26 school year, inclusive. The bill would require a local educational agency that has received a pilot program grant award to, on or before December 31, 2021, either (1) designate at least one trauma, grief, and loss counselor to be generally accessible to pupils in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, at a schoolsite of the local educational agency during school hours or (2) designate an existing employee as a trauma, grief, and loss counselor, or enter into a memorandum of understanding with a county agency or community-based organization for a trauma, grief, and loss counselor employed by the agency or organization, to provide trauma, grief, and loss counseling services to pupils in grades 9 to 12, inclusive. The bill would require a local educational agency participating in the pilot program to annually submit a report to the department within 30 days of the end of each school year of the pilot program that summarizes certain information relating to the pilot program, and would require the department, following the conclusion of the pilot program, to submit to the Legislature and post on its internet website all the information the department receives in the annual reports.
This measure would designate the week of February 24, 2020, to March 1, 2020, as Eating Disorders Awareness Week.