This measure would recognize the month of January 2024 as National Human Trafficking Awareness Month.
This measure would designate, in perpetuity, the 4th week of January as Data Privacy Week and the last Sunday of January as Data Privacy Day.
Existing law creates the University of California, San Francisco, San Joaquin Valley Regional Campus Medical Education Endowment Fund for the purpose of supporting the annual operating costs for the development, operation, and maintenance of a branch campus of the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine in the San Joaquin Valley. Existing law requires moneys in the fund to initially be invested to create a sufficient balance to generate ongoing earnings to cover the estimated annual operating costs associated with the development, operation, and maintenance of the branch campus. Existing law requires the balance of the fund to be deemed sufficient when a balance of $500,000,000 is achieved and maintained in the fund. This bill would increase the balance that is required to be achieved and maintained in the fund to be deemed sufficient by $250,000,000.
Existing law establishes various housing programs, including the Affordable Housing Revolving Development and Acquisition Program for the purpose of funding the acquisition of property to develop or preserve affordable housing. The program is administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would increase the supply of affordable housing and reduce homelessness.
Existing law authorizes each of the Counties of Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Merced, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, and Tulare to develop within its respective jurisdiction a Central Valley Rural Crime Prevention Program, to be administered by the county district attorney's office or sheriff's department of each respective county under a joint powers agreement, as provided. Existing law requires each county, in order to receive funds, to agree to participate in a regional task force, to be known as the Central Valley Rural Crime Task Force, to focus on rural and agricultural crimes. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those provisions.
Existing law establishes within the office of the Governor, the office of the Governor's Tribal Advisor, which is headed by the Governor's Tribal Advisor who is appointed by and serves at the pleasure of the Governor. This bill would establish within the office of the Governor, the Office of Tribal Affairs, which would be headed by the Secretary of the Office of Tribal Affairs, would manage the state's tribal programs, and would help tribes connect with state officers' tribal leads. The bill would establish a Deputy of Tribal Affairs in every state agency, as defined, and in every constitutional office, as defined. The bill would establish a Tribal Advisor position in the executive office of every state agency, as defined. The bill would require the Governor to appoint a Tribal Advisory Committee, as specified, to the Secretary of the Office of Tribal Affairs.
Existing law classifies certain substances, including cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl, as controlled substances and generally prohibits the possession, sale, transportation, and use of these substances. Existing law additionally prohibits the possession of certain of these controlled substances including cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine while armed with a loaded and operable firearm. A violation of this prohibition is punishable as a felony punishable by incarceration in the state prison. This bill would additionally prohibit the possession of a heroin analog, fentanyl, and a fentanyl analog while armed with a loaded and operable firearm. The bill would require that, for purposes of this crime, a person possessing a substance containing fentanyl or a fentanyl analog must have knowledge that the substance is fentanyl or a fentanyl analog. By expanding the application of an existing crime, this 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.
Existing law requires the Department of Parks and Recreation to issue a park pass for free use of all park facilities in the state park system to a veteran of war in which the United States has been, or may be, engaged, who is a resident of this state, who presents to the department proof of a disability, proof of being held captive as a prisoner of war, or proof of being a recipient of a Congressional Medal of Honor, and proof of an honorable discharge from service. This bill would require a pass for free day use of any unit of the state park system that is operated by the state to be issued to Gold Star Family members, as provided.
