This measure would recognize the legacy of California's pioneer Chinese Americans and honor their contributions and the important role they played in the history of Yosemite National Park and the Sierra Nevada.
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This measure would designate August 16, 2018, as Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis and Post-Exposure Prophylaxis Awareness Day in California to enhance public awareness of comprehensive human immunodeficiency virus prevention strategies.
This measure would urge the Congress of the United States to acknowledge the problem of a labor shortage in the agricultural industry in California and to work together with California to solve the issue.
This measure would declare October 23 to 31, 2018, inclusive, as Red Ribbon Week, and would encourage all Californians to help build drug-free communities and to participate in drug prevention activities.
This measure would declare July 27, 2018, as California Bullying Prevention Day, also to be known as Rosie's Day.
Existing law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, grants, commencing on January 1, 2020, a consumer various rights with regard to personal information relating to that consumer that is held by a business, including the right to request a business to delete any personal information about the consumer collected by the business, and requires the business to comply with a verifiable consumer request to that effect, unless it is necessary for the business or service provider to maintain the customer's personal information in order to carry out specified acts. The act prohibits a business from discriminating against the consumer for exercising any of the consumer's rights under the act, except if the difference is reasonably related to value provided by the consumer's data. This bill would, instead, prohibit a business from unreasonably discriminating against a consumer for exercising of any of the consumer's rights under the act. The act authorizes a business to offer financial incentives for collection, sale, or deletion of personal information. The act authorizes a business to offer a different rate, price, level, or quality of goods or services to the consumer if that price or difference is directly related to the value provided to the consumer by the consumer's data. The act, however, prohibits a business from entering a consumer into a financial incentive program unless the consumer gives the business opt-in consent for the program pursuant to a specified process. The act prohibits a business from using financial incentives practices that are unjust, unreasonable, coercive, or usurious in nature. This bill would, instead, authorize a business to offer incentives, including payments to consumers for compensation, for the sale or retention of personal information, and make conforming changes to that effect. The bill would, instead, authorizes a business to offer a different rate, price, level, or quality of goods or services to the consumer if that price or difference is reasonably related to the value provided to the business by the consumer's data, including offering a specific good or service whose functionality is reasonably related to collection, use, or sale of the consumer's data. The bill would, instead, prohibit a business from entering a consumer into an incentive program unless the consumer gives the business prior opt-in consent after notice provided to the consumer. The bill would, instead, prohibit a business from using incentive practices that are coercive or usurious in nature.
This measure would urge the United States Department of Justice not to direct its enforcement priorities towards California's lawfully and closely regulated cannabis industry, among other things.
Existing law designates particular days each year as having special significance and encourages all public schools and educational institutions to observe those days and to conduct suitable commemorative exercises on those days. Existing law also requires the Governor to proclaim certain days each year for specified reasons. This bill would require the Governor to annually proclaim a specified date as the Lunar New Year, would designate and set this date apart each year as a day having special significance, and would encourage all public schools and educational institutions to, on Lunar New Year, conduct exercises recognizing the traditions and cultural significance of the Lunar New Year, among other things.
This measure would encourage the federal government to maintain or restore full funding to integral international exchange programs, such as the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.