Existing law, the California Child Day Care Facilities Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of child daycare facilities by the State Department of Social Services. Under the act, "child daycare facility" is defined to mean a facility that provides nonmedical care to children under 18 years of age in need of personal services, supervision, or assistance essential for sustaining the activities of daily living or for the protection of the individual on less than a 24-hour basis. For purposes of the act, a child daycare facility includes a daycare center, an employer-sponsored childcare center, and a family daycare home. Under existing law, a violation of the act is a crime. This bill would require the State Department of Social Services, in consultation with the State Department of Education, on or before July 1, 2024, to establish an anaphylactic policy that sets forth guidelines and procedures recommended for child daycare personnel to prevent a child from suffering from anaphylaxis and to be used during a medical emergency resulting from anaphylaxis. The bill would require the policy to be developed in consultation with specified individuals, including pediatric physicians and other health care providers with expertise in treating children with anaphylaxis. The bill would require the policy to include specified components, including a procedure and treatment plan for child daycare personnel responding to a child suffering from anaphylaxis and a training course for child daycare personnel for preventing, recognizing the symptoms of, and responding to anaphylaxis. The bill would require an anaphylactic policy for family childcare providers to be developed in consultation and coordination with the Joint Labor Management Committee established by the state and Child Care Providers United - California (CCPU) pursuant to a specified agreement between the state and CCPU. The bill would require training on the anaphylactic policy to be provided by the department's Community Care Licensing Division in consultation with CCPU pursuant to that agreement, and any extension or renewal of that agreement, for all family childcare providers who wish to participate. This bill would exempt child daycare personnel who provide, administer, or assist in the administration of epinephrine in compliance with the anaphylactic policy, as specified, from liability in a civil action or from criminal prosecution for the person's acts or omissions in administering the epinephrine. Under the bill, these exemptions would not apply in the case of gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct. The bill would require the State Department of Social Services to create informational materials detailing the anaphylactic policy and would require the State Department of Social Services and the State Department of Education, on or before September 1, 2024, to post the informational materials on each of the departments' internet websites. The bill would authorize a child daycare facility to implement the anaphylactic policy on or before January 1, 2025, and would, on and after January 1, 2025, require a child daycare facility that adopts the anaphylactic policy to notify the parent or guardian of a child of the policy upon enrollment. Because a willful or repeated violation of the bill by a child daycare facility would be a crime, 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.
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Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Under federal bankruptcy law, the Pacific Gas and Electric Company entered into a settlement agreement with victims of certain wildfires caused by the company occurring before the 2019 calendar year through the establishment of the Fire Victim Trust that has a certain expected value. This bill would require the commission, in a new or existing proceeding, to undertake a comprehensive review of actions taken by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company that materially and adversely affected the value of its stocks provided pursuant to the above-described settlement agreement. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Pacific Gas and Electric Company.
Existing law authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to supervise and regulate every public utility in the state, including telephone corporations, and to fix just and reasonable rates and charges for public utilities. Existing law establishes the state's 6 universal service funds in the State Treasury, including the California High-Cost Fund-A Administrative Committee Fund and the California High-Cost Fund-B Administrative Committee Fund, and provides that moneys in each of the state's universal service funds are the proceeds of rates and are held in trust for the benefit of ratepayers and to compensate telephone corporations for their costs of providing universal service. Moneys in the funds may only be expended to accomplish specified telecommunications universal service programs, upon appropriation in the annual Budget Act or upon supplemental appropriation. Existing law, until January 1, 2023, requires the commission to maintain the California High-Cost Fund-A Administrative Committee Fund (the CHCF-A program) to provide universal service rate support to small independent telephone corporations, as defined, in certain amounts in furtherance of the state's universal service commitment to the continued affordability and widespread availability of safe, reliable, high-quality communications services in rural areas of the state. Existing law, until January 1, 2023, requires the commission to develop, implement, and maintain a suitable, competitively neutral, and broad-based program to establish a fair and equitable local rate support structure aided by universal service rate support to telephone corporations serving areas where the cost of providing services exceeds rates charged by providers, as determined by the commission (the CHCF-B program) . This bill would extend the CHCF-A program and CHCF-B program requirements to January 1, 2028. Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or an order or direction of the commission is a crime. Because the CHCF-A program and CHCF-B program, that are extended under the provisions of this bill, are within the act and a decision or order of the commission implements the programs' requirements, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program by expanding the definition of a crime. 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. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law, the California Prompt Payment Act, generally provides that a state agency that acquires property or services pursuant to a contract with a business but fails to make payment to the person or business on the date required by the contract is subject to a late payment penalty, as specified. The act requires state agencies to pay applicable penalties, without requiring that the claimant submit an additional invoice for these amounts, whenever the state agency fails to submit a correct claim to the Controller by the required payment approval date and payment is not issued within 45 calendar days from the state agency receipt of an undisputed invoice. The act requires a state agency to pay, through the Controller, to the claimant a penalty at a rate of 10 percent above the United States Prime Rate on June 30 of the prior fiscal year if the claimant is a certified small business, a nonprofit organization, a nonprofit public benefit corporation, or a small business or nonprofit organization that provides services or equipment under the Medi-Cal program, as prescribed. The act requires, if the Director of Finance determines that a state agency or the Controller is unable to promptly pay an invoice as provided for by this chapter due to a major calamity, disaster, or criminal act, the late payment penalty provisions described above to be suspended, except as they apply to certain claimants, including a certified small business, a nonprofit organization, or a nonprofit public benefit corporation. This bill would include a resource conservation district in the list of entities entitled to the late payment penalty and excepted from the suspension provision described above. The act also requires the required payment approval date, as defined, to be extended by 30 calendar days if an invoice from a business under a contract with the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection would become subject to late payment penalties during the annually declared fire season, as declared by the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection, except if the contract is with a certified small business, a nonprofit organization, or a nonprofit public benefit corporation. This bill would also except a contract with a resource conservation district from that extension provision.
Existing law authorizes the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to prescribe, by regulation, energy efficiency standards, including appliance efficiency standards. Pursuant to this authority, the commission has established regulations requiring solar-ready buildings and for the installation of photovoltaic systems meeting certain requirements for low-rise residential buildings built on or after January 1, 2020. Existing law, until January 1, 2023, specifies that residential construction intended to repair, restore, or replace a residential building damaged or destroyed as a result of a disaster in an area in which a state of emergency has been proclaimed by the Governor before January 1, 2020, is required to comply with the photovoltaic requirements, if any, that were in effect at the time the damaged or destroyed residential building was originally constructed and is not required to comply with any additional or conflicting photovoltaic requirements in effect at the time of repair, restoration, or replacement. Existing law provides that this provision applies if certain requirements are met with respect to the owner's income and insurance coverage and the location and square footage of the construction. This bill would extend the operation of the above-described exemption from the commission's requirements for the installation of photovoltaic systems until January 1, 2024, and extend the exemption to residential buildings damaged or destroyed as a result of a disaster declared during the 2020 calendar year. The bill would require the commission to collect data on the use and application of the exemption from local permitting agencies and, on or before March 1, 2023, and again on or before March 1, 2024, to prepare and submit a report to the relevant policy committees of the Legislature concerning the exemption, as provided. Because a local agency would be required to determine whether those requirements are met, 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.
This measure would proclaim the month of September 2022 as Prostate Cancer Awareness Month.
This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 44, near Oak Run in the County of Shasta, as the Stan Statham Memorial Highway. This measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.
This measure would designate the East End Complex-Block 171 in Sacramento as the Mario Obledo Building, and would request the Department of General Services to determine the cost of erecting appropriate plaques and markers showing the designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources, to cover that cost to erect signage.
This measure would urge the United States Congress to amend the United States Social Security Administration's index of earnings to ensure that a decline in aggregate wages due to COVID-19 does not result in decreased benefits.
This measure would request that the Department of Transportation remove the "The Christopher Columbus Transcontinental Highway" designation from the portion of Interstate 10 in the state, as well as any signage and markers memorializing that designation, and advise the Federal Highway Administration of the state's action.