(1) Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt a state master plan for services to children identified as migrant children. This bill would change references from "migrant child" to "migratory child," and would require the state master plan to be developed and revised as necessary by the Superintendent of Public Instruction in consultation with the statewide parent advisory council. The bill would specify additional services and elements that would be required as part of the plan, and would require the Superintendent to develop a monitoring instrument and monitoring procedure to annually monitor each local educational agency and region receiving funds for the provision of services to migratory children. The bill would set forth the primary objectives of the state's monitoring activities, including, among others, improving educational results and outcomes for migratory children. The bill would require the Superintendent to coordinate the design of evaluations, as provided, and to monitor, provide technical assistance to, and provide guidance to, operating agencies in conducting local evaluations. The bill would require the Superintendent to periodically sponsor or conduct workshops and seminars for the education of operating agency personnel responsible for evaluation of migrant education programs, and would require the Superintendent to submit triennially to the state board, the Legislature, and the Governor a performance report regarding the migrant education programs. The bill would require the Superintendent to develop a process to ensure that all migratory youth enrolled in juvenile court schools and other alternative education placements are properly identified and receive services for which they are eligible. (2) Existing law requires migrant education programs to include prescribed components, including, but not limited to, a brief individual learning plan provided to a pupil's parent or guardian annually and each time the pupil moves to a new district. This bill would also require delivery of the plan each time a pupil experiences a change in school placement or educational program and would require migrant education programs to include the collection of individual and aggregate data with specified information relating to migratory pupils. By imposing these additional requirements on local educational agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require a local educational agency or region receiving funds for the provision of services to migratory children to include as part of its refunding application an evaluation of the overall effectiveness of the program, as specified. (3) Existing law requires the Superintendent to establish the service regional system as the primary method for delivery of services to migrant children, and requires the Superintendent to review and approve plans for the effectiveness of service regions based on specified criteria. This bill would include among those criteria a written evaluation plan that describes how the operating agency whose plan is under review for approval will measure annual migratory pupil progress and overall success of its program, and would add to the conditions for direct funding of local educational agencies that the parent advisory council be actively involved in the planning, review, and improvement of the program. (4) Existing law sets forth responsibilities of parent advisory councils at the district, regional, and state levels, including, among other responsibilities, a review of individualized educational plans. This bill would add to these responsibilities a review of the aggregate data collected for migratory pupils, as specified. (5) Existing law provides that the responsibilities of a service region include, among other responsibilities, providing training for the parents and members of district, regional, and school parent advisory councils. This bill would revise that responsibility to instead provide training, support services, and technical assistance to the parents and members of district, regional, and school parent advisory councils to assist them in fulfilling their roles and responsibilities. (6) Existing law requires the Superintendent to establish a statewide parent advisory council and requires the council to meet a minimum of 6 times per year. This bill would instead require the council to meet a minimum of 9 times per year. The bill would also require the Superintendent and each operating agency, as defined, to provide certain documents in a language understandable to members of the statewide and operating agency parent advisory councils, as specified. (7) This bill would make other related changes and various conforming and nonsubstantive changes. (8) 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 these statutory provisions.
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The Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014 provides, among other things, that an employee who, on or after July 1, 2015, works in California for 30 or more days within a year from the commencement of employment is entitled to paid sick days for prescribed purposes, to be accrued at a rate of no less than one hour for every 30 hours worked. Existing law provides that an employee under the act does not include a provider of in-home support services, as described. This bill would revise the definition of an employee under the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014 to, as of July 1, 2016, include providers of in-home support services, as described.
Existing law prohibits a local public entity, charter city, or charter county from requiring a bidder on a public works contract to assume responsibility for the completeness and accuracy of architectural or engineering plans and specifications on public works projects, except as specified. Existing law requires the State Water Resources Control Board and the 9 California regional water quality control boards to prescribe waste discharge requirements in accordance with the federal national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program established by the federal Clean Water Act and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law regulates the discharge of pollutants in storm water associated with construction activity to waters of the United States from construction sites that disturb one or more acres of land surface, or that are part of a common plan of development or sale that disturbs more than one acre of land surface. This bill would prohibit a public entity, charter city, or charter county from delegating to a contractor the development of a plan, as defined, used to prevent or reduce water pollution or runoff on a public works contract, except as provided. By requiring a public entity, charter city, or charter county to prepare a plan, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would also prohibit a public entity, charter city, or charter county from requiring a contractor on a public works contract that includes compliance with a plan to assume responsibility for the completeness and accuracy of a plan developed by that entity. The bill would also declare that this is a matter of statewide concern. 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 these statutory provisions.
Existing law establishes the University of California, under the administration of the Regents of the University of California, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. The University of California operates 10 campuses located in Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz. This bill would require the Legislative Analyst's Office to conduct a study of, and report to the Legislature on, the feasibility of establishing a campus of the University of California devoted to science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics. The bill would require the report to be submitted on or before January 1, 2017. The bill would appropriate $50,000,000 from the General Fund to the Controller for allocation, as specified, to the regents for establishment of the campus.
Existing law requires every employer, except the state, to secure the payment of workers' compensation as provided by law. Existing law authorizes an employer, pursuant to this provision, to insure against liability in insurers duly authorized to write compensation insurance in the state or to secure from the Director of Industrial Relations a certificate of consent to self-insure. This bill would exempt agricultural employers, as defined, from the requirement to secure payment of workers' compensation and would create the Pilot Program for the Care of Agricultural Workers. This bill would create the Care of Agricultural Workers Fund, a continuously appropriated fund. This bill would require the Administrative Director of the Department of Industrial Relations to evaluate the amount spent by agricultural employers on workers' compensation and the amount spent on workers' compensation medical coverage. This bill would require that the amount that would otherwise have been spent by agricultural employers on workers' compensation medical coverage be placed in the Care of Agricultural Workers Fund. This bill would require that the fund be used to provide essential health benefits for agricultural workers. This bill would require agricultural employers to deposit additional moneys into the Care of Agricultural Workers Fund, as determined necessary by the administrative director to provide essential health benefits. This bill would require the administrative director to make a report to the Legislature after the 2nd year of the pilot program and at the completion of the pilot program.
Existing law requires, on or before December 31, 2019, public agencies and their contractors that transport household hazardous waste to a hazardous waste facility to use certain consolidated manifesting procedures. Existing law establishes volumetric and weight limits on the amount of hazardous waste that a conditionally exempt small quantity generator may transport to a household hazardous waste collection facility. Existing law expresses the weight limit in 2 alternative measures. This bill would extend the consolidated manifesting procedures requirement to December 31, 2020. Because the bill would extend this requirement, thereby extending local agencies' obligation to comply with this requirement, and because a violation of this requirement would be a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would also eliminate one of the alternative weight measures. 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 specified reasons.
Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation and regional transportation agencies, as defined, to enter into comprehensive development lease agreements with public and private entities, or consortia of those entities, for certain transportation projects that may charge certain users of those projects tolls and user fees, subject to various terms and requirements. These arrangements are commonly known as public-private partnerships. Existing law provides that a lease agreement may not be entered into under these provisions on or after January 1, 2017. This bill would instead provide that a lease agreement shall not be entered into under these provisions on or after January 1, 2030, and would delete obsolete cross-references and make technical changes to these provisions. This bill would also include within the definition of "regional transportation agency" the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, thereby authorizing the authority to enter into public-private partnerships under these provisions.
Existing law establishes the State Coastal Conservancy and prescribes the membership and functions and duties of the conservancy with respect to preservation of coastal resources in the state. This bill would enact the Safe Water and Wildlife Protection Act of 2016, which would require the State Water Resources Control Board, until January 1, 2020, to establish and coordinate the Harmful Algal Bloom Task Force, comprised of specified representatives of state agencies, including the conservancy, in consultation with the Secretary for Environmental Protection, and would prescribe the functions and duties of the task force. The bill would require the task force to review the risks and negative impacts of harmful algal blooms and microcystin pollution and to submit a summary of its findings and recommendations to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature, the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency, and the secretary on or before January 1, 2019. The act would require the task force, before providing funding recommendations or submitting a summary of findings, to notify the public about ongoing activities and provide opportunities for public review and comment on applied research, projects, and programs. The act would authorize the conservancy, the Department of Fish and Wildlife, the Wildlife Conservation Board, and the State Water Resources Control Board to enter into contracts and provide grants, upon appropriation, from specified bond funds available under the Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014, the California Sea Otter Fund, or from other appropriate funds for applied research, projects, and programs, recommended by the task force, aimed at preventing or sustainably mitigating harmful algal blooms, including cyanotoxins and microcystin pollution in the waters of the state.
Existing law subjects property acquired through or as proceeds of criminal profiteering activity to forfeiture. Existing law defines criminal profiteering activity as any specified acts or threats made for financial gain or advantage. Existing law requires a prosecuting agency to file a petition of forfeiture in conjunction with the criminal proceeding for the underlying offense. This bill would allow the prosecuting agency to file a petition of forfeiture prior to the commencement of the underlying criminal proceeding if the value of the assets seized exceeds $100,000, there is a substantial probability that the prosecuting agency will file a criminal complaint, there is a substantial probability the prosecuting agency will prevail on the issue of forfeiture and failure to enter the order will result in the property being destroyed or otherwise removed from the jurisdiction of the court, the need to preserve the property outweighs the hardship on any party against whom the order is entered, and there is a substantial probability that the assets subject to forfeiture represent direct or indirect proceeds of criminal activity committed for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with, a transnational criminal organization, as defined. The bill would allow a person claiming an interest in the property or proceeds to move for return of the property on the grounds there is not probable cause to believe that the property is subject to forfeiture, and if the prosecuting agency does not establish substantial probability that the property is subject to forfeiture the court would be required to order the seized property returned. The bill would require the Attorney General, on or before January 1, 2019, to report to the Governor and specified committees on the use of these proceedings. The bill would provide for the repeal of these changes on January 1, 2020.
Existing law establishes the Student Aid Commission as the primary state agency for the administration of state-authorized student financial aid programs available to students attending all segments of postsecondary education. This bill, commencing with the 2016–17 fiscal year, would establish the California DREAM Work-Study Program under the administration of the California State University and University of California to provide financial aid for students meeting its requirements. These requirements would include: enrollment, or acceptance for enrollment, at a campus of the California State University or the University of California; exemption from nonresident tuition pursuant to a specified provision of existing law or an equivalent provision adopted by the Regents of the University of California; making a timely application for financial aid using a designated application; qualification under applicable income and need standards applied to work-study programs at the institution at which the student is enrolled or accepted for enrollment; and meeting additional eligibility requirements as may be deemed appropriate by the institution at which the student is enrolled or accepted for enrollment. The bill would deem a student who participates in other work-study programs ineligible to receive financial aid under the California Dream Work-Study Program. To participate in the program, the bill would require, upon verification that a student is eligible for financial aid under this program, that the California State University and the University of California match 100% of the cost of the work-study grant of a student whose work under the program is accomplished on a campus of the respective university or at a campus or other facility of a school district or community college district, or 50% of the cost of the work-study grant of a student whose work under the program is accomplished at any other location.