Existing law creates various public programs to provide health care services. Existing law regulates health care service plans and health insurers. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to address disparities in the provision of, and access to, health care in California.
Existing law establishes the various segments of the public higher education system in the state. These segments include the University of California, which is administered by the Regents of the University of California, the California State University, which is administered by the Trustees of the California State University, and the California Community Colleges, which is administered by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. This bill would require the Trustees of the California State University, by January 1, 2011, to conduct a study regarding the feasibility of a California State University satellite program, and ultimately, an independent California State University campus, in the high desert, as defined.
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (the act) requires the State Air Resources Board (state board) to adopt regulations to require the reporting and verification of emissions of greenhouse gases and to monitor and enforce compliance with the reporting and verification program, and requires the state board to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions levels in 1990 to be achieved by 2020. The act requires the state board to prepare and approve a scoping plan for achieving the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The state board is required by January 1, 2011, to adopt greenhouse gas emissions limits and emission reduction measures by regulation to achieve the prescribed emission reductions. This bill would suspend the act until the state unemployment rate is 5.5% or lower for four consecutive calendar quarters. The bill would require the resuspension of the act whenever the state unemployment rate rises above 5.5% for four consecutive calendar quarters. The bill would prohibit the state board, and specified other state agencies, from proposing, promulgating, or adopting any regulation pursuant to the act during a period of suspension and would require that any such regulation adopted prior to January 1, 2011, be inoperative until the suspension is lifted. The bill would request local agencies to refrain from adopting rules, regulations, and policies that derive authority or responsibility from the act and to revise or repeal those rules, regulations, or policies adopted prior to January 1, 2011, until the suspension is lifted.
Existing law directs the State Personnel Board to enforce the civil service statutes, and, by majority vote of all its members, prescribe probationary periods and classifications, adopt other rules authorized by statute, and review disciplinary actions. Under existing law, eligible lists are established as a result of free competitive examinations open to persons who lawfully may be appointed to any position within the class for which these examinations are held and who meet the minimum qualifications requisite to the performance of the duties of that position as prescribed by the specifications for the class or by board rule. This bill would direct the State Personnel Board to establish a state internship program. Eligibility for an internship classification would be based upon a competitive assessment. The bill would require an appointing power to prepare written job performance evaluations during an internship. The final performance evaluation would contain a recommendation to the board as to whether or not to appoint the intern to the civil service classification related to the internship, and with the approval of the board, would permit the appointing power to appoint the intern to that classification.
Existing law establishes the California State University and its various campuses under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University. Existing law requires the California State University to offer undergraduate and graduate instruction through the master's degree in the liberal arts and sciences and professional education, including teacher education. This bill would authorize the California State University to award the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree. The bill would distinguish the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from the doctor of philosophy degree offered at the University of California. The bill would require the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree program to be designed to enable professionals to earn the degree while working full time, train nurses for advanced practice, and prepare clinical faculty to teach in postsecondary nursing programs. The bill would require initial funding to come from existing budgets, without diminishing the quality of undergraduate programs or reducing enrollment therein. The bill would require the California State University to annually report on the status of the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree program, as specified.
Existing law requires the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to license establishments, including commercial blood banks for animals, that produce, or propose to produce, biologics and that meet specified requirements, provides requirements relating to the application for a license, and requires a certain license application fee and license renewal fee. This bill would delete the requirement that the secretary license those biologic establishments and would delete those related provisions regarding license applications and fees. Existing law prohibits the offer for sale or use of any biologic unless it is registered by the secretary, except that registration is not required of any biologic manufactured pursuant to the terms of a valid license issued by the United States Department of Agriculture unless the secretary finds that, due to local conditions, it is necessary that the biologic be registered. This bill would, instead, prohibit the offer for sale or use of any biologic unless the person has a valid license or permit issued by the United States Department of Agriculture. Existing law requires the secretary to register any biologic that meets certain requirements and a biologic that is produced in an establishment exempt from licensing and that meets certain requirements, provides requirements relating to the application for registration of a biologic, and authorizes the secretary to impose conditions on the production or use of biologics. This bill would delete the requirement that the secretary register biologics and would delete those related provisions regarding the registration application and the imposition of conditions. Existing law authorizes the secretary to adopt rules and regulations for the administration and enforcement of the provisions relating to biologics. This bill would delete that authority. Existing law provides various enforcement provisions that the secretary may undertake with respect to biologic licensees and registrants. This bill would delete those enforcement provisions. Existing law requires the Department of Food and Agriculture, or humane officers under contract with the department, to inspect commercial blood banks for animals licensed by the department at least once a year to ensure compliance with certain protocols. This bill would, instead, authorize humane officers to inspect commercial blood banks for animals to ensure compliance with certain husbandry standards, written protocol requirements, and with a requirement for the maintenance of an affiliation with an identified oversight veterinarian for the facility. This bill would also make various conforming changes and other technical changes.
Existing law, the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, on or before January 1, 2004, requires the State Water Resources Control Board, in consultation with others, to adopt regulations or standards for the permitting and operation of specified onsite sewage treatment systems. The act requires the board to apply those regulations or standards to those systems commencing 6 months after their adoption. This bill would repeal those provisions.
Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the 3 segments of public higher education in the state. Existing law authorizes the establishment, throughout the state, of community college districts, which provide instruction to students at the campuses they operate and maintain. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to develop and adopt uniform, objective, high-quality criteria and standards for evaluating programs of instruction in career technical education within the California Community Colleges.
Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt procedures for determining the compliance of any system designed for the control of gasoline vapor emissions during gasoline marketing operations, including storage and transfer operations, and additional performance standards to ensure that systems for the control of gasoline vapors from motor vehicle fueling operations do not cause excessive spillage and emissions. Existing law prohibits the state board from requiring a gasoline dispensing facility that meets certain requirements from undergoing an Enhanced Vapor Recovery Phase II upgrade until April 1, 2011. Regulations adopted by the state board require an Enhanced Vapor Recovery Phase II upgrade by April 1, 2009, as provided. This bill would prohibit the state board from requiring a gasoline dispensing facility owned or operated by a local government that does not meet these requirements from undergoing an Enhanced Vapor Recovery Phase II upgrade until April 1, 2010. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law authorizes state agencies to use personal services contracts if, among other things, the contract does not adversely affect the state's affirmative action efforts and the contract includes assurance that the contractor's hiring practices meet applicable nondiscrimination, affirmative action standards. Existing law prohibits the state from discriminating against, or granting preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting. This bill would instead prohibit the personal services contract from adversely affecting the state's equal employment opportunity efforts and would require the contract to include assurances that the contractor's hiring practices meet applicable nondiscrimination, equal employment opportunity standards.
