Existing law establishes within the state government various commissions, including, but not limited to, the Commission on the State of Hate, the Commission on the Status of Women and Girls, and the California Commission on Disability Access. This bill would establish the LGBTQ+ Commission within the Governor's Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation. The bill would provide for the appointment of 9 members, appointed by the Governor, the Speaker of the Assembly, and the Senate Committee on Rules. The bill would require members of the commission to serve at the pleasure of the appointing power, to be appointed for terms of four years, except as specified, and to elect one of their number to serve as chairperson of the commission. The bill would authorize the commission to appoint officers from its membership and form advisory committees, as specified, in order to carry out and fulfill its duties, and require the commission to determine the powers and duties of appointed officers and advisory committee chairpersons. The bill would establish the goals of the commission, which would include, among other things, acting in an advisory capacity to the Legislature and the Governor on policy matters affecting the state's LGBTQ+ community and its members. The bill would require the commission to have the powers and authority necessary to carry out its duties, including conducting fundraising activities that may require a payment or purchase to attend. The bill would, commencing April 1, 2026, require the commission to convene quarterly meetings to identify the statewide needs of the LGBTQ+ community and to assist in implementing supportive policies and initiatives to address the needs of the LGBTQ+ community. The bill would require the commission to submit a report summarizing certain information and making specified policy recommendations to the Legislature and the Governor by January 1, 2028, and annually thereafter. The bill would establish the LGBTQ+ Commission Fund as a fund in the State Treasury to carry out the bill's provisions in support of the commission, upon appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act. The bill would require all moneys collected or received by the commission from gifts, bequests, or donation to, subject to the approval of the Department of Finance, be deposited in the treasury to the credit of the fund, as specified. The bill would authorize the commission to accept gifts and grants from any source, as specified, to help perform its functions, and to seek out funding and in-kind contributions from specified sources, including foundations, in order to carry out the work of the commission. Existing law, the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act, generally requires, with specified exceptions for authorized closed sessions, that the meetings of state bodies be open and public and that all persons be permitted to attend. This bill would specify that the act does not apply to, among other things, any fundraising event held or organized by the commission, provided that a majority of members of the commission do not hear, discuss, or deliberate upon any item that is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. The bill would repeal its provisions on January 1, 2035.
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Existing law establishes the Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) in the California Health and Human Services Agency for the promotion of education and training of health professionals to address workforce shortage and distribution needs. Existing law establishes the Board of Registered Nursing within the Department of Consumer Affairs for the licensure and regulation of the practice of nursing. Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities and clinics, as defined, by the State Department of Public Health. This bill would require a health facility or clinic, upon the request of a California community college or California State University with an approved school of nursing or approved nursing program, to meet with the California community college or California State University and work in good faith to meet the needs of the prelicensure nursing clinical placement needs of the California community college or California State University program, including adding additional clinical placement slots to accommodate the nursing program. The bill would require the health facility or clinic, following that meeting, to inform the department if it cannot provide additional placement slots, as specified, no later than the following January 30, and annually on or before each January 30 thereafter. The bill would require the health facility or clinic to inform the department as to the reason it cannot meet the needs of the California community college or California State University for each type of clinical rotation requested, such as obstetrics and pediatrics, among others. The bill would subject the health facility or clinic to an administrative penalty not to exceed $1,000 for failure to provide the information, as required. The bill would require the department to post the information on its internet website. The bill would repeal those provisions on January 1, 2032.
Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, administered by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, regulates the application for, the issuance of, the suspension of, and the conditions imposed upon, various alcoholic beverage licenses. Existing law generally makes a violation of the act a misdemeanor and grounds for suspension or revocation of a license, except as specified. Existing law authorizes the issuance of on-sale general public premises (Type 48) licenses, which authorize, as specified, the sale of beer, wine, and distilled spirits for consumption on the licensed premises. Existing law, commencing July 1, 2024, until January 1, 2027, requires an applicant for a new permanent Type 48 license and the holder of an existing Type 48 license to offer drug testing devices for sale to their customers and to post a related notice containing specified language, as specified. This bill would also, commencing July 1, 2025, until January 1, 2027, require an applicant for a new permanent Type 48 license and the holder of an existing Type 48 license to, upon request, provide a lid with a customer's drink. The bill would require a licensee to post a related notice containing specified language in a prominent and conspicuous location and would make a conforming change to the above-described notice requirement related to drug testing devices. The bill would authorize the licensee to charge an additional fee for providing a lid with a customer's drink and would prohibit the fee from exceeding the reasonable cost of providing the lid, as specified. The bill would specify that a violation of this provision is not a crime.
Existing law vests the Department of Transportation with full possession and control of all state highways. Existing law describes the authorized routes in the state highway system, including that for Route 405 from Route 5 near El Toro to Route 5 near San Fernando. This bill would specify that Route 405 from Bolsa Chica Road to Bolsa Avenue in the County of Orange shall be known and designated as the Little Saigon Freeway, and would require the department to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing that special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources sufficient to cover the cost, to erect those signs, as specified.
Existing law generally regulates the possession of firearms, including imposing storage requirements to prevent children from gaining access to firearms. This bill would, beginning on January 1, 2026, require a person who possesses a firearm in a residence to keep the firearm securely stored when the firearm is not being carried or readily controlled by the person or another lawful authorized user. For purposes of these provisions, a firearm is securely stored if the firearm is maintained within, locked by, or disabled using a certified firearm safety device or secure gun safe that meets specified standards. The bill would make a first and 2nd violation of this offense punishable as an infraction, and a 3rd or subsequent violation punishable as a misdemeanor. The bill would exempt unloaded antique firearms, as defined, or firearms that are permanently inoperable from these provisions. The bill would require the Department of Justice to seek to inform residents about these standards for storage of firearms. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor or a felony if a person keeps a firearm within any premises that are under the person's custody or control and the person knows or reasonably should know that a child is likely to gain access to the firearm without the permission of the child's parent or legal guardian, and the child obtains access to the firearm and causes injury, other than great bodily injury, or death or great bodily injury to the child or any other person, or carries that firearm off-premises, as defined, to a public place or a school. Existing law exempts a person from the above provisions if the person has no reasonable expectation, based on objective facts and circumstances, that a child is likely to be present on the premises. This bill would remove these exemptions. 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 defines and regulates mortgages, including recording notices of default and applications for loan modification. The California Consumer Financial Protection Law requires the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation to regulate the offering and provision of consumer financial products or services under California consumer financial laws and to exercise nonexclusive oversight and enforcement authority under California consumer financial laws. This bill would require a conventional home mortgage loan originated on or after January 1, 2027, and secured by owner-occupied residential real property containing 4 or fewer dwelling units with multiple borrowers to include provisions to allow for any of the existing borrowers to purchase the property interest of another borrower on the loan by assuming the seller's portion of the mortgage under specified circumstances if the assuming borrower qualifies for the underlying loan, as determined by the lender.
Existing law requires a county elections official to cancel a person's voter registration in certain circumstances, including when a person is deemed mentally incompetent, upon proof that the person is presently imprisoned for conviction of a felony, upon the death of the person, and when a person fails to respond to an address verification mailed by the elections official and does not attempt to vote at the next two federal general elections. Existing law requires the elections official to provide notice of the intent to cancel the person's registration between 15 and 30 days before the cancellation. This bill, until July 1, 2025, instead would require the elections official to provide notice of the intent to cancel the person's registration between 15 and 30 days before the cancellation if the cancellation was due to mental incapacity to vote, a prison commitment, or the voter has failed to respond to an address verification, as specified, and would require the elections official to provide notice within 15 days before or after cancellation of a voter's registration if the person has died. This bill would require the Secretary of State to submit an update on January 1, 2025, and on the first of each month thereafter until July 1, 2025, to specified committees of the Legislature detailing its efforts and progress in fully implementing and achieving compliance with specified laws regarding voting rights disqualifications and restorations. By increasing the duties on county elections officials, 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 establishes the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University, and the University of California, under the administration of the Regents of the University of California, which are 2 of the segments of public postsecondary education in the state. The Donahoe Higher Education Act prohibits the campuses of those segments from charging mandatory systemwide tuition or fees to specified students who apply for a waiver, including a child of any veteran of the United States military who has a service-connected disability, has been killed in service, or has died of a service-connected disability, an undergraduate student who is a recipient of a Medal of Honor, or an undergraduate student who is a child of a recipient of a Medal of Honor and who is no more than 27 years of age, if certain requirements are satisfied. Provisions of the act apply to the University of California only to the extent that the Regents of the University of California act, by appropriate resolution, to make them applicable. This bill would additionally prohibit the campuses of the California State University and the University of California from charging mandatory systemwide tuition or fees, as specified, for students who meet certain requirements, including having completed one year in the California Conservation Corps, as specified. The bill would apply to the campuses of the University of California only to the extent that the regents, by appropriate resolution, make it apply.
(1) Existing state and federal law, including the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, require the Secretary of State and county elections officials to provide language assistance to voters in order to access voting information, register to vote, and cast their votes at the polling place. Existing law requires a county elections official to provide a facsimile copy of the ballot with the ballot measures and ballot instructions printed in Spanish and other languages if the Secretary of State has determined that doing so is appropriate, as specified. This bill would, by December 15, 2025, and by December 15 of every subsequent year following a presidential election, require the Secretary of State to determine the number of residents of voting age in each county and precinct who are members of a single language minority group and who lack sufficient skills in English to vote without assistance, as specified. The bill would require that, by that same date, the Secretary of State make publicly available on the Secretary of State's internet website a list of languages used by single language minority groups, as specified. Beginning January 1, 2028, this bill would further require the Secretary of State and county elections officials to provide specified materials in the language of the applicable language minority group as well as in the English language. (2) Existing law requires the Secretary of State to make specified findings and determinations regarding the provision of ballot materials in languages other than English. Until January 1, 2028, this bill would direct the Secretary to make those findings and determinations by December 15 of each year following a presidential election, and it would further limit the expansion of categories of covered languages for the purpose of providing facsimile ballots. As of January 1, 2028, this bill would impose new requirements relating to translated ballots, including requiring the training of specified precinct board members. The bill would make conforming changes. By increasing the duties of county elections officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (3) Existing law requires the elections official to send a voter information guide that contains the written statement of each candidate. Existing law requires the elections official to provide a Spanish translation of the written statement to each candidate who wishes to have one and to select a person to provide the translation who is, among other things, a certified and registered interpreter on the judicial council master list or a current voting member in good standing of the American Translators Association. This bill would add a language speaker with relevant experience in providing certified translations of legal documents who has been referred by a nonprofit agency to the list of eligible individuals that may provide the translation. (4) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 3019 of the Elections Code proposed by AB 3184 to be operative only if this bill and AB 3184 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. The bill would incorporate changes to Section 4005 of the Elections Code proposed by SB 1450 to be operative only if this bill and SB 1450 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. (5) 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 establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law requires community college districts to charge students an enrollment fee of $46 per unit per semester, except as provided. Existing law authorizes, until July 1, 2028, the governing board of the San Mateo County Community College District to, among other things, adopt a policy that uses local unrestricted general funds to provide fee waivers to students with the greatest financial need when other fee waivers are not provided to those students, and to provide assistance to students for the total cost of attendance. This bill would authorize the governing board of the West Valley-Mission Community College District to adopt a policy that uses local unrestricted general funds to provide fee waivers to students with the greatest financial need when other fee waivers are not provided to those students, and would require the policy to include a requirement to prepare a fiscal impact statement, including a 3-year projection of the fiscal impact of the fee waiver on the community college district, as specified. Existing law establishes the California College Promise, to be administered by the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges. Existing law requires the chancellor to distribute funding, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to community college districts to fund colleges that meet prescribed requirements. Existing law authorizes a community college that receives funding under the program to, among other things, waive some or all of the fees for up to 2 academic years for first-time students and returning students who are enrolled in 12 or more semester units or the equivalent at the college and complete and submit either a Free Application for Federal Student Aid or a California Dream Act application. This bill would authorize the West Valley-Mission Community College District to use local unrestricted general funds, in addition to funding received under the California College Promise, to provide assistance to students for the total cost of attendance, as defined. This bill would require the West Valley-Mission Community College District to use local unrestricted general funds for purposes of these provisions only for students who reside within the boundary of the community college district. This bill would require the governing board of the West Valley-Mission Community College District, on or before March 1, 2028, to submit a report to the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, the Department of Finance, and the appropriate committees of the Legislature on the implementation of these provisions, as specified. This bill would make these provisions inoperative on July 1, 2030, and would repeal them as of January 1, 2031. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for West Valley-Mission Community College District.