(1) Existing law, the Dental Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of dentists and dental assistants by the Dental Board of California and authorizes the board to appoint an executive officer to exercise powers and perform duties delegated by the board to the executive officer. The act requires the Governor, the Senate Committee on Rules, and the Speaker of the Assembly to appoint specified members of the board, and authorizes the Governor to remove a member of the board from office at any time for continued neglect of duty, incompetency, or unprofessional or dishonorable conduct. These provisions are in effect only until January 1, 2020, and, upon repeal of those provisions, the board will be subject to review by the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature. This bill would instead authorize the appointing authority to remove from office at any time a member of the board appointed by that authority for the reasons specified above. The bill would revise and recast additional provisions relating to administration of the act, and would extend the provisions relating to the Dental Board of California and the executive officer to January 1, 2024. The Dental Practice Act requires the board to approve foreign dental schools based on specified standards. Existing law requires a foreign dental school seeking approval to submit an application to the board, including, among other things, a finding that the educational program of the foreign dental school is equivalent to that of similar accredited institutions in the United States and adequately prepares its students for the practice of dentistry. Existing law requires the foreign dental school to submit a specified registration fee and to pay the board's reasonable costs and expenses to conduct an approval survey. Existing law requires an approved institution to submit a renewal application every 7 years and to pay a specified renewal fee. This bill, beginning January 1, 2020, would prohibit the board from accepting new applications for approval of foreign dental schools and would instead require foreign dental schools seeking approval to complete the international consultative and accreditation process with the Commission on Dental Accreditation of the American Dental Association (CODA) or a comparable accrediting body approved by the board. The bill would require previously approved foreign dental schools to complete the CODA accreditation by January 1, 2024, to remain approved. The Dental Practice Act requires an applicant for licensure under the act to furnish fingerprint cards for submission to state and federal criminal justice agencies to determine, among other things, whether the applicant has a record of any criminal convictions in the state or in any other jurisdiction. This bill would require the board to require an applicant for licensure under the act to additionally furnish finger prints for the purposes of conducting a background check, and would authorize the applicant to submit a copy of a completed Live Scan form instead of fingerprint cards for specified purposes. The bill would require the board to request subsequent arrest notification service for all applicants. The bill would also require an applicant for licensure to practice dentistry to furnish a signed release allowing disclosure of information from the National Practitioner Data Bank and verification of registration status with the federal Drug Enforcement Administration within the United States Department of Justice for specified purposes. The Dental Practice Act requires each applicant for a license to practice dentistry in the state to meet various requirements, including successfully completing an examination to test the fitness of the applicant to practice dentistry. This bill would revise various provisions relating to the requirements for licensure to practice dentistry in the state, including requiring the examination to assess competency in the areas of diagnosis, treatment planning, and restorative, endodontic, periodontic, and prosthetic dentistry, and requiring specified advanced education programs to be completed within 2 years of the date of application for licensure. The Dental Practice Act requires an applicant for licensure as a registered dental assistant to meet specified eligibility requirements, such as satisfactory performance on a written examination in law and ethics, and to provide evidence of successful completion of specified board-approved courses, including courses in radiation safety and coronal polishing. This bill would instead require satisfactory performance on the Registered Dental Assistant Combined Written and Law and Ethics Examination, and would require an applicant to additionally provide evidence of successful completion of board-approved courses in infection control, the Dental Practice Act, and basic life support. The Dental Practice Act specifies unprofessional conduct by a licensee to include, among other things, the violation of any provisions of the act. Existing law authorizes the board to discipline a licensee under the act by placing the licensee on probation under various specified terms and conditions. Existing law requires a licensed dentist engaged in the practice of dentistry to provide specified notice to each patient of the fact that the dentist is licensed and regulated by the board. Existing law requires the notice to be posted in a conspicuous location accessible to public view, as specified. This bill would provide that the failure by the treating dentist to review diagnostic digital or conventional radiographs for orthodontia prior to the initial diagnosis and correction of malpositions of human teeth or the initial use of orthodontic appliances is unprofessional conduct under the act. The bill would require an individual, partnership, corporation, or other entity providing dental services through telehealth to make available the name, telephone number, practice address, and California state license number of any dentist who will be involved in the provision of services to a patient, and would require a violation of that provision to constitute unprofessional conduct. The bill would prohibit a provider of dental services from requiring a patient to sign an agreement limiting the patient's ability to file a complaint with the board. This bill would also require a licensee whose license is placed on probation on and after July 1, 2020, to provide a patient with a specified disclosure before the patient's first visit following the probationary order, and would require the licensee to obtain a separate, signed copy of the disclosure, unless an exception applies. The bill would require the board to provide specified probation information on a licensee's profile on the board's internet website. The Dental Practice Act establishes the State Dentistry Fund and requires that specified fees and fines be paid into that fund, and provides that the funds, unless otherwise provided, be available, upon appropriation, to the board for specified purposes. The act also establishes the State Dental Assistant Fund and requires that specified fees be paid into that fund, and provides that the fund be available, upon appropriation, to the board for the purposes of administering provisions relating to dental assistants, registered dental assistants, registered dental assistants in extended functions, dental sedation assistant permitholders, and orthodontic assistant permitholders. This bill would abolish the State Dental Assistant Fund on July 1, 2022, and would require that any moneys in that fund be transferred to the State Dentistry Fund before July 1, 2022. The bill would make various related conforming changes. (2) Existing law requires an applicant for a physician's and surgeon's license to complete, among other things, 36 months of postgraduate training approved by the California Medical Board, including 4 months of general medicine training obtained in specified postgraduate training programs. Existing law authorizes an applicant who completes 24 of the 36 months as a resident after receiving a medical degree from a combined dental and medical degree program accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation or approved by the board to be eligible for licensure. This bill would specify that the 24 months of postgraduate training as a resident described above must be part of an oral and maxillofacial surgery postgraduate training program, and would exempt these applicants from completing the 4 months of postgraduate training in general medicine. (3) Existing law defines "telehealth" as the mode of delivering health care services and public health via information and communication technologies to facilitate the diagnosis, consultation, treatment, education, care management, and self-management of a patient's health care while the patient is at the originating site and the health care provider is at a distant site. "Health care provider" is defined for these purposes as a person who is licensed under specified provisions of law relating to healing arts. Existing law requires health care providers using telehealth to comply with specified provisions, including informing the patient about the use of telehealth and obtaining verbal or written consent from the patient for the use of telehealth prior to the delivery of health care services via telehealth, and makes a violation of these provisions unprofessional conduct. This bill would specify that all laws and regulations governing professional responsibility, unprofessional conduct, and standards of practice shall apply to health care providers who provide telehealth services. (4) This bill would make other conforming and nonsubstantive changes, including replacing gendered terms with nongendered terms, updating cross-references, and deleting obsolete provisions. (5) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 144 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by AB 496 and SB 608 to be operative only if this bill and AB 496 or SB 608, or both, are enacted and this bill is enacted last. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 205 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by AB 896 to be operative only if this bill and AB 896 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 2290.5 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by AB 744 to be operative only if this bill and AB 744 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
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Existing law, the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) , approved by the voters at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, regulates the cultivation, distribution, transport, storage, manufacturing, testing, processing, sale, and use of marijuana for nonmedical purposes by people 21 years of age and older. The existing Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA) , among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities. The existing MAUCRSA imposes specified labeling requirements on cannabis and cannabis products, including requiring specified disclosures on the packaging and label of the product. This bill would implement the labeling requirements of AUMA by requiring a cannabis cartridge or integrated cannabis vaporizer, as defined, to bear an established universal symbol that is not smaller than 14 inch wide by 14 inch high and would require that the symbol be engraved, affixed with a sticker, or printed in black or white. AUMA authorizes the Legislature to amend by majority vote certain provisions of the act to implement specified substantive provisions, provided that the amendments are consistent with, and further the purposes and intent of, AUMA. This bill would declare that its provisions implement specified substantive provisions of AUMA and are consistent with, and further the purposes and intent of, AUMA. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
(1) Existing law establishes the system of public elementary and secondary schools in this state and provides for the establishment of local educational agencies to operate these schools and provide instruction to pupils. Existing law states the policy of the State of California to afford all persons in public schools, regardless of their disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or any other specified characteristic, equal rights and opportunities in the educational institutions of the state. This bill would encourage each school operated by a school district or county office of education and each charter school to use resources developed by the State Department of Education to provide training at least once every 2 years to teachers and other certificated employees at that school that serve pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, and to other certificated employees at that school, on schoolsite and community resources for the support of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) pupils, and strategies to increase support for LGBTQ pupils and thereby improve overall school climate, as specified. The bill, no later than July 1, 2021, would require the State Department of Education to develop resources or, as appropriate, update existing resources for in-service training on schoolsite and community resources for the support of LGBTQ pupils, and strategies to increase support for LGBTQ pupils, as specified.
Existing law requires the Office of Emergency Services to establish a protocol for the examination and treatment of victims of sexual assault and attempted sexual assault and the collection and preservation of evidence therefrom. Existing law requires the office to adopt a standard and a complete form or forms for the recording of medical and physical evidence data disclosed by a victim of sexual assault or attempted sexual assault. This bill would authorize the form to be issued as a paper version or as an electronic version, or as both the paper and electronic version. Existing law requires a qualified health care professional who conducts an examination for evidence of a sexual assault or an attempted sexual assault to use the standard form and to make those observations and perform those tests required to record the data required by the form. Existing law defines qualified health care professional for this purpose to include a physician and surgeon and a currently licensed nurse who is working in consultation with a physician and surgeon who conducts examinations or provides treatment in a general acute care hospital or in a physician and surgeon's office. This bill would include in the definition of "qualified health care professional" a currently licensed nurse practitioner or a physician assistant who is working in consultation with a physician and surgeon and who conducts examinations or provides treatment in a general acute care hospital or in a physician and surgeon's office. Existing law requires a hospital-based training center to be established through a competitive bidding process, to train medical personnel on how to perform medical evidentiary examinations for victims of specified crimes, including, among other things, child abuse or neglect, domestic violence, and sexual assault. This bill would require that center to be identified as the California Clinical Forensic Medical Training Center and would require the center to train qualified health care professionals, as defined above. The bill would require the training to additionally include specified training regarding victims of child sexual abuse, intimate partner violence, and sex trafficking. The bill would require the center to, among other things, develop and maintain updated standardized medical evidentiary examination forms and protocols for examinations of specified crimes, and to provide training and technical assistance for sexual assault forensic examination teams on the science of medical evidentiary examinations, emerging trends, and sound operational practices. Existing law requires any victim of a sexual assault who seeks a medical evidentiary examination to be provided with one, as specified. This bill would authorize data from a medical evidentiary examination, with the patient's identity removed, to be collected for health and forensic purposes in accordance with state and federal privacy laws. Existing law prohibits costs incurred by a qualified health care professional, hospital, or other emergency medical facility for the medical evidentiary examination portion of the examination of the victim of a sexual assault, as described in a specified protocol, when the examination is performed as specified, from being charged directly or indirectly to the victim of the assault. This bill would make that prohibition on charging a victim of sexual assault applicable to costs incurred by a clinic or sexual assault forensic examination team, and would include nurse practitioners and physician's assistants as qualified health care professionals. Existing law requires the cost of a medical evidentiary examination performed by a qualified health care professional, hospital, or other emergency medical facility for a victim of a sexual assault to be treated as a local cost and charged to the local law enforcement agency in whose jurisdiction the alleged offense was committed. Existing law authorizes a local law enforcement agency to seek reimbursement from the Office of Emergency Services for the cost of conducting the medical evidentiary examination portion of a medical examination of a sexual assault victim who does not participate in the criminal justice system and limits the amount that may be charged and reimbursed for that portion of the exam to $300. This bill, instead, would authorize a local law enforcement agency to seek reimbursement for the cost of conducting the medical evidentiary examination of a sexual assault victim who is undecided at the time of an examination whether to report to law enforcement. The bill would repeal the provision limiting the amount that may be charged and reimbursed to $300, and would instead require the Office of Emergency Services to determine the amount that may be reimbursed to offset the cost of a medical evidentiary exam once every 5 years, not to exceed 50% of the most recently determined reimbursement amount. The bill would authorize the Office of Emergency Services to redetermine the amount that may be reimbursed to offset the cost of a medical evidentiary exam, at any time, if the federal government reduces the amount of specified federal grants awarded to the office. Existing law authorizes a minor to consent to hospital, medical, and surgical care related to a sexual assault without the consent of a parent or guardian. This bill would also authorize a minor to consent to, or withhold consent for, a medical evidentiary examination without the consent of a parent or guardian. Existing law requires the collection of physical evidence to conform to specified procedures, including, but not limited to, requiring that a baseline gonorrhea culture and syphilis serology be taken, if indicated by the history of contact, that specimens for a pregnancy test be taken, if indicated by the history of contact, and the taking of both swabs and slides, as specified. This bill, instead, would authorize sexually transmitted infection testing and presumptive treatment to be provided, if indicated by the history of the contact. The bill would require that specimens for a pregnancy test be taken if indicated by the history of contact and age of the victim. The bill would require baseline testing for sexually transmitted infections to be done for a child, a person with a disability, or a person who is residing in a long-term care facility, if forensically indicated. The bill would also require, for victims of sexual assault with an assault history of strangulation, best practices to be followed for a complete physical examination and diagnostic testing to prevent adverse outcomes or morbidity and documentation on a supplemental medical evidentiary examination form. The bill would also delete the requirement to take slides as part of the procedure to collect physical evidence and would make a conforming change. The bill would further require, on or before January 1, 2021, a hospital, clinic, or other emergency medical facility at which medical evidentiary examinations are conducted to implement a system to maintain medical evidentiary examination reports in a manner that facilitates their release only as required or authorized by law.
(1) Existing law classifies certain controlled substances into Schedules I to V, inclusive. Existing law requires the Department of Justice to maintain the Controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation System (CURES) for the electronic monitoring of the prescribing and dispensing of Schedule II, Schedule III, and Schedule IV controlled substances by a health care practitioner authorized to prescribe, order, administer, furnish, or dispense a Schedule II, Schedule III, or Schedule IV controlled substance. Existing law requires a dispensing pharmacy, clinic, or other dispenser to report specified information to the department as soon as reasonably possible, but no more than 7 days after a controlled substance is dispensed. This bill, on and after January 1, 2021, would require a dispensing pharmacy, clinic, or other dispenser to instead report the information required by the CURES database no more than one working day after a controlled substance is released to a patient or a patient's representative, except as specified. The bill would similarly require the dispensing of a controlled substance included on Schedule V to be reported to the department using the CURES database. The bill would make conforming changes to related provisions. (2) Existing law requires a health care practitioner authorized to prescribe, order, administer, furnish, or dispense controlled substances included on Schedule II, Schedule III, or Schedule IV, and a pharmacist upon licensure, to submit an application to obtain approval to electronically access information in the CURES database. This bill, on and after a specified date, would permit a licensed physician and surgeon who does not hold a DEA registration to submit an application to obtain approval to electronically access information in the CURES database. (3) Existing law requires an authorized health care practitioner to consult the CURES database to review a patient's controlled substance history before prescribing a Schedule II, Schedule III, or Schedule IV controlled substance to the patient for the first time and at least once every 4 months thereafter if the controlled substance remains part of the treatment of the patient. This bill, on and after a specified date, would instead require the authorized health care practitioner to consult the CURES database to review the patient's controlled substance history at least once every 6 months after the first time the substance is prescribed and the prescriber renews the prescription, except as specified. The bill would also establish a review and documentation requirement, as set forth, for a health care practitioner who receives the CURES database information from another authorized user, as specified. (4) Existing law requires the Department of Justice and other specified entities to identify necessary procedures to enable licensed health care practitioners and pharmacists with access to the CURES database to delegate their authority to order reports from the CURES database. This bill would instead require those entities to identify necessary procedures to enable those practitioners with access to the CURES database to delegate their authority to access reports from the CURES database.
The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act generally prohibits any licensee from giving any premiums, gift, or free goods in connection with the sale or distribution of any alcoholic beverage, except as permitted by rules adopted by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. The act prohibits the department from adopting a rule that permits a licensee to give any premium, gift, or free good of greater than inconsequential value, in connection with the sale or distribution of beer, except as specified. The act provides, with respect to beer, that premiums, gifts, or free goods, including specified advertising specialties, are deemed to have greater than inconsequential value if they cost more than $0.25 per unit, or cost more than $15 in the aggregate for all those items given by a single supplier to a single retail premises per calendar year. This bill would authorize a beer manufacturer, without direct or indirect charge, to give up to five cases of retail advertising glassware to an on-sale retail licensee, per licensed location, each calendar year for use at the licensed location. The bill would permit an on-sale retail licensee to accept, without direct or indirect charge, up to 10 cases of retail advertising glassware, per licensed location, from licensed beer manufacturers each calendar year for use at the licensed location. The bill would prohibit the on-sale retail licensee from selling the glassware, giving it away, or returning it to a manufacturer for cash, credit, or replacement, would prohibit the on-sale retail licensee from conditioning the purchase of a beer manufacturer's product or products on the giving of retail advertising glassware by that beer manufacturer, and would prohibit a beer wholesaler from contributing to specified costs associated with the glassware or serving as the agent of the beer manufacturer to deliver, stock, or store glassware for an on-sale retailer. The bill would require a beer manufacturer to file records relating to glassware with the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control and would require both a beer manufacturer and an on-sale retail licensee to keep and maintain records for a 3-year period of all glassware given, purchased, or received pursuant to these provisions, as specified. The bill would prescribe definitions in this regard. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2023.
Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California as the 3 segments of public postsecondary education in this state. The missions and functions of these segments are set forth in the Donahoe Higher Education Act. The Student Voter Registration Act of 2003 requires the Secretary of State to annually provide every high school and University of California campus, and authorizes the Secretary of State to annually provide every community college and California State University campus, with voter registration forms, as specified. The act also requires the California State University and the California Community Colleges to implement a process and the infrastructure to allow a person who enrolls online at the institution to submit an affidavit of voter registration electronically on the internet website of the Secretary of State. The act encourages the University of California to comply with this provision. This bill would establish the Student Civic and Voter Empowerment Program to be conducted by the Secretary of State, in partnership with the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California. The bill would require each campus of the California Community Colleges and the California State University, and request each campus of the University of California, (1) to distribute, in consultation with the Secretary of State, campuswide emails to all students with specified voting- and election-related dates and information, and to include specified dates on all print and online academic calendars, (2) to post on social media reminders to students of specified voter-related dates and information, and (3) to designate one person per campus as the Civic and Voter Empowerment Coordinator with specified responsibilities, including developing a Civic and Voter Empowerment Action Plan. The bill would require the Secretary of State to evaluate the program each year, and to report to the Legislature the results of the evaluation on or before January 1, 2021, and annually thereafter. The bill would require the Secretary of State to develop a Students Vote Project to implement these requirements. By imposing additional duties on community college districts, 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.
(1) Existing law establishes the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists, which is within the Department of Consumer Affairs, to license and regulate engineers under the Professional Engineers Act, to license and regulate land surveyors under the Professional Land Surveyors' Act, and to license and regulate geologists and geophysicists under the Geologist and Geophysicist Act. Existing law requires the board to appoint an executive officer. Existing law repeals the provisions establishing the board, requiring the board to appoint an executive officer, and vesting the board with the power to administer these provisions on January 1, 2020. This bill would extend these repeal dates to January 1, 2024. (2) The Professional Engineers Act, the Geologist and Geophysicist Act, and the Professional Land Surveyors' Act contain provisions that make it a cause for disciplinary action for a licensee to fail or refuse to respond to a request by the board to cooperate in an investigation of a complaint against the licensee. Existing law repeals those provisions on January 1, 2020. This bill would instead make it a cause for disciplinary action for a licensee to fail or refuse to respond to a request by the board in an investigation of a complaint against the licensee and would extend the operation of those provisions indefinitely. (3) The Professional Engineers Act makes it a misdemeanor for a person to impersonate or use the seal of a licensed professional engineer. This bill would also make it a misdemeanor for a person to use the signature or license number of a licensed professional engineer or use a false license number. (4) The Geologist and Geophysicist Act makes it unlawful for anyone other than a licensed specialty geologist or licensed geophysicist to use certain titles. The act also makes it a misdemeanor for a person to impersonate or use the seal of any other practitioner. This bill would also make it unlawful to use a combination of the words and phrases or abbreviations that are restricted pursuant to the aforementioned provisions and would make it a misdemeanor for a person to use the license number of a licensee or use a false license number. (5) The Geologist and Geophysicist Act provides for certification as a geologist-in-training by the board upon application and satisfaction of specified requirements. This bill would authorize the board to investigate the actions of a geologist-in-training, make findings, and, by majority vote, revoke the certificate of a geologist-in-training for specified acts, including conviction of certain crimes. (6) The Professional Land Surveyors' Act specifies that surveys made exclusively for geological or landscaping purposes that do not involve the determination of any property line do not constitute surveying for purposes of the act. The act also makes it a misdemeanor to impersonate or use the seal of a professional land surveyor or to use an expired, suspended, or revoked license. This bill would exclude from the act's provisions a survey specified above only if the survey is performed by a person authorized to practice geology or licensed to practice landscape architecture. The bill would make it a misdemeanor to use the signature or license number of a professional land surveyor or to use a surrendered license or a false license number. (7) This bill would make other conforming and nonsubstantive changes to the Professional Engineers Act, the Geologist and Geophysicist Act, and the Professional Land Surveyors' Act, including deleting an obsolete reporting requirement. (8) Because the bill would expand the scope of crimes under those acts, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
(1) Existing law authorizes the governing board of any school district or community college district to order an election and submit to the electors of the district the question of whether the bonds of the district shall be issued and sold to raise money for specified purposes. Existing law generally requires, to pass a school bond measure, that either at least 23 of the votes cast on the proposition of issuing bonds be in favor of issuing the bonds to pass the measure, or, if certain conditions are met, at least 55% of the votes cast on the proposition of issuing bonds be in favor of issuing the bonds. Existing law prohibits the total amount of bonds issued by a school district or community college district from exceeding 1.25% of the taxable property of the district, as provided. This bill would raise that limit to 2%. (2) Existing law also authorizes a unified school district to issue bonds receiving at least 55% of the votes cast on the proposition of issuing the bonds that, in aggregation with bonds issued with a 23 favorable vote, do not exceed 2.5% of the taxable property of the district, as provided. This bill would raise that limit to 4%. The bill would make a similar percentage increase for community college districts. (3) The Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998 provides for the adoption of rules, regulations, and procedures, under the administration of the Director of General Services, for the allocation of state funds by the State Allocation Board for the construction and modernization of public school facilities. This bill would, among other things, require a school district to submit to the Department of General Services a 5-year school facilities master plan or updated 5-year school facilities master plan, as provided, as a condition of participating in the school facilities program under the act, would require the school district to submit specified information in the school district's application for an apportionment of state funds, and would make other changes to requirements a school district is required to comply with before participating in programs under the act. The bill would require the department to process applications to participate in the program, as specified, and would make other changes to the method by which the board makes apportionments of moneys under the act. This bill would establish the 2020 State School Facilities Fund, and authorize the board to apportion, and make disbursements of, moneys in the fund, as provided. The bill would require, for bonds approved by voters in 2020 or thereafter, the board to adjust a school district's required local and state contribution, as specified. The bill would authorize new construction and modernization grants to be used for seismic mitigation purposes and, among other things, to establish schoolsite-based infrastructure to provide broadband internet access. The bill would also authorize modernization grants to be used, among other things, for the control, management, or abatement of lead and for the demolishment and construction of a building on an existing schoolsite that meets specified conditions. The bill would prohibit the use of new construction and modernization grants for the purchase of portable electronic devices with a useful life of less than 3 years. This bill would authorize funding for health and safety projects by a school district, as provided. This bill would authorize the board to provide a grant to test for lead in water outlets used for drinking or preparing food on schoolsites serving kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, as provided. The bill would specify procedures that small school districts, as defined, may use to obtain project and construction management, new construction grants, and modernization grants. The bill would also make conforming changes in, and remove inoperative provisions from, the act. (4) The act also requires the board to adopt regulations for determining the amount of funding and the eligibility and prioritization of funding that school districts with a financial hardship may receive from bond acts for construction, modernization, or relocation assistance. The act requires those regulations to include consideration of various factors, including whether the school district's total bonding capacity is $5,000,000 or less, in which case the school district shall be deemed eligible for financial hardship. This bill, for purposes of the regulations related to financial hardship eligibility, would increase the total bonding capacity cap to $15,000,000, to be adjusted as specified. (5) The California Constitution prohibits the Legislature from creating a debt or liability that singly or in the aggregate with any previous debts or liabilities exceeds the sum of $300,000, except by an act that (A) authorizes the debt for a single object or work specified in the act, (B) has been passed by a 23 vote of all the Members elected to each house of the Legislature, (C) has been submitted to the people at a statewide general or primary election, and (D) has received a majority of all the votes cast for and against it at that election. This bill would set forth the Public Preschool, K-12, and College Health and Safety Bond Act of 2020 as a state general obligation bond act that would provide $15,000,000,000 to construct and modernize education facilities, as specified. This bond act would become operative only if approved by the voters at the March 3, 2020, statewide primary election. The bill would also provide for the submission of the bond act to the voters at that election. (6) Existing law establishes the California State University, which is administered by the Board of Trustees of the California State University, and the University of California, under the administration of the Regents of the University of California, as segments of public postsecondary education in this state. This bill would require the Board of Trustees and the Regents to comply with certain conditions, as provided, before receiving funds from the 2020 University Capital Outlay Bond Fund established pursuant to the Public Preschool, K-12, and College Health and Safety Bond Act of 2020. (7) Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to impose, as specified, an alternative fee, charge, dedication, or requirement on developers to fund school facilities, until the date new construction bond proceeds authorized by the Preschool-College Public Education Bond Act of 2016 are expended, or December 31, 2020, whichever is earlier. This bill would remove this authority beginning the earlier of January 1, 2021, or the date new construction bond proceeds authorized by the 2016 bond act are expended or apportioned, until January 1, 2028. The bill would also exempt multifamily housing developments that are located no further than 12 mile from a major transit stop, and reduce by 20% from specified amounts for any other multifamily housing developments, as specified, from any fee, charge, dedication, or other requirement for the construction or reconstruction of school facilities, as provided. (8) This bill, except for the provision making the provisions of the bill severable, would become effective upon the adoption of the Public Preschool, K-12, and College Health and Safety Bond Act of 2020 by the voters at the March 3, 2020, statewide primary election.
The California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009 provides for the regulation of private postsecondary educational institutions by the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education in the Department of Consumer Affairs. The act also establishes the Student Tuition Recovery Fund and requires the bureau to adopt regulations governing the administration and maintenance of the fund, including requirements relating to assessments on students and student claims against the fund, and establishes that the moneys in this fund are continuously appropriated to the bureau for specified purposes. The act authorizes a California student of a Corinthian Colleges, Inc., institution who meets all of the other eligibility requirements, including that the student was enrolled as of June 20, 2014, or withdrew within 120 days of that date, to receive payment from the fund. The act defines economic loss, for the purposes of a student's loss that may be relieved or mitigated through the fund, to include but not necessarily be limited to, pecuniary loss, which is the sum of the student's tuition, all other institutional charges, the cost of equipment and materials required for the educational program, and interest on any student loan used to pay for such charges. This bill would instead allow a California student of a Corinthian Colleges, Inc., institution who was residing in California and attending a campus on or after January 1, 2010, and who would be eligible but for the Corinthian College's exemption from the act, or a student of a Corinthian College who was enrolled as of June 20, 2014, or withdrew within 120 days of that date, as specified, to receive payment from the fund. The bill would expand the definition of economic loss to include all cash or other consideration paid by the student to an institution, all expenses related to private or government student loans in connection with the student's attendance, and all third-party payments paid to the student or to the institution in connection with the student's attendance at the institution, as specified. To the extent that the bill expands the purposes of the fund, the bill would make an appropriation.