This measure would proclaim the month of September 2023 as Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month.
(1) Existing law establishes the Ocean Protection Council in state government. Among other things, the council is required to develop and implement a coastal climate change adaptation, infrastructure, and readiness program that does certain things, including recommend best practices and strategies to improve the climate change resilience of the state's coastal communities, infrastructure, and habitat. Existing law authorizes the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency to enter into an agreement with an existing nonprofit corporation to establish a nongovernmental trust with the purpose of, among other things, encouraging coordinated, multiagency, multiinstitution approaches to ocean resource science to deliver actionable science solutions that accelerate equitable climate change adaptation. This bill would require the secretary, on or before December 1, 2024, to establish acreage-based targets to restore kelp forests, eelgrass meadows, and native oyster beds, with the goal of achieving restoration by the year 2050, as provided. The bill would require the council to establish a Kelp Forest and Estuary Restoration and Recovery Framework to achieve the above-described acreage-based targets. The bill would require the framework to contain specified things, including criteria by which a designated area of kelp forests, eelgrass meadows, and native oyster beds can be considered restored. The bill would require the council to establish an interagency working group that coordinates and facilitates large-scale restoration along the coast, as provided. The bill would establish in the State Treasury the Ocean Restoration and Recovery Fund to be administered by the council and consisting of specified moneys. The bill would require the fund to be used, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to develop and carry out large-scale restoration and enhancement projects, as provided. The bill would require the council to publish various items on its internet website and to provide reports to the Legislature, regarding the above provisions, as provided. (2) Existing law requires the Department of Fish and Wildlife to administer the California Artificial Reef Program, which, among other things, includes the placement of artificial reefs in state waters. This bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2026, in coordination and consultation with the Ocean Protection Council, among other state entities, to review the program, as provided. The bill would require the department to post the completed review on its internet website.
Existing law makes it unlawful for a person doing business in California and advertising to consumers in California to make any false or misleading advertising claim. Existing law, the Unfair Competition Law, makes various practices unlawful and provides that a person who engages, has engaged, or proposes to engage in unfair competition is liable for a civil penalty, as specified. Existing law prohibits the state from denying or interfering with an individual's fundamental right to choose or obtain an abortion. This bill would prohibit a person doing business in California from advertising using a statement that a reasonable person would believe indicates that the person provides a pregnancy-related service if the person does not provide that pregnancy-related service or does not make a timely referral to a provider of that pregnancy-related service. The bill would make a violation of that prohibition an unfair business practice, and would authorize an entity authorized to enforce unfair competition laws, a district attorney, a county counsel, or a city attorney to file for injunctive relief or seek a civil penalty, as specified. The bill would authorize a court to impose statutory penalties of up to $10,000 per violation, order injunctive relief, award restitution, and award reasonable attorney's fees and costs.
This measure would proclaim the month of October 2023 as California Firefighter Appreciation Month and October 14, 2023, as California Firefighters Memorial Day.
This measure would proclaim November 15, 2023, as Pechanga Pu'éska Mountain Day.
This measure would proclaim the month of November 2023 as California Runaway and Homeless Youth Prevention Month to recognize the need for individuals, schools, communities, businesses, local governments, and the state to take action on behalf of runaway and homeless youth in California.
This measure would proclaim October 7, 2023, as Ostomy Awareness Day.
This measure would designate May 9, 2023, as National Fentanyl Awareness Day.
This measure would designate the month of September 2023 as Service Dog Appreciation Month.
The Santa Clara Valley Water District Act creates the Santa Clara Valley Water District, and authorizes the district to provide for the conservation and management of flood, storm, and recycled waters, and other waters, for beneficial uses and to enhance natural resources in connection with carrying out the purposes of the district. The act authorizes the district to levy ad valorem taxes or assessments in the district to pay the general administrative costs and expenses of the district, to carry out the act's objects or purposes, and to pay the costs and expenses of constructing or extending works within the district. The act additionally authorizes the district to levy taxes or assessments upon all property or all real property within a portion of the district for specified purposes. The act authorizes the district to issue bonds for specified purposes, and requires that the bonds be paid by revenue derived from those tax levies and assessments, except the ad valorem taxes or assessments. This bill would additionally authorize the district to use the revenues from the ad valorem taxes or assessments to pay for the bonds. Existing law authorizes the district to issue bonds in accordance with the Revenue Bond Law of 1941 for the purpose of financing the construction, reconstruction, replacement, acquisition, or improvement of any facility or facilities necessary or convenient for the storage, treatment, transmission, or distribution of water for beneficial use within the district and for the purpose of generation or transmission of electricity. The Revenue Bond Law of 1941 requires the district to pay the principal, interest, and premiums for a bond issued in accordance with that law solely from and secured by a lien upon its gross revenues. This bill would authorize the district to pay bonds from the net revenues, rather than gross revenues, of its water system, as specified. Existing law authorizes the district to borrow money and incur indebtedness, not to exceed $8,000,000, by action of the board of directors and without the necessity of calling and holding an election, and prohibits the resulting indebtedness from exceeding 85% of the estimated amount of the district's revenues, charges, taxes, and assessments that will be available in that fiscal year for payment of short-term notes, including interest. This bill would delete the $8,000,000 limit. Existing law prohibits, until December 31, 2023, the district from compensating its directors for more than a total of 15 days in any calendar month, as specified. This bill would extend the above provision indefinitely. This bill would also make various nonsubstantive changes throughout the act. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Santa Clara. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 4 of the Santa Clara Valley Water District Act proposed by AB 1469 to be operative only if this bill and AB 1469 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
