Under existing law, the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act, the State Department of Developmental Services is responsible for providing various services and supports to individuals with developmental disabilities, and for ensuring the appropriateness and quality of those services and supports. Under existing law, the department contracts with regional centers to provide services and supports to persons with developmental disabilities. Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services, including dental services that are provided under a fee-for-service system, which is referred to as Denti-Cal program, and managed care in the Counties of Los Angeles and Sacramento. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing law establishes various pilots and programs, including the Caries Risk Assessment and Disease Management Pilot, a dental integration pilot program in County of San Mateo, and a dental outreach and education program, which address dental services provided under the Medi-Cal program. This bill would require the department to establish and administer a 5-year pilot program to educate and train Denti-Cal providers on how to effectively serve Medi-Cal beneficiaries with intellectual or developmental disabilities who are regional center consumers, to contract with an independent evaluator, and to utilize an expert to perform specified duties, including advising on the design of the pilot program. The bill would require a Denti-Cal provider who participates in the pilot program to complete continuing education hours and clinical hours working with Medi-Cal beneficiaries who are regional center consumers, and would require the department to determine the number of continuing education and clinical hours, in collaboration with the Dental Board of California and the Dental Hygiene Board of California within the Department of Consumer Affairs. The bill would require the department to establish a supplemental provider payment under the Denti-Cal program for any dental provider who renders dental services to regional center consumers and has completed the continuing education and clinical hours, and to issue, no later than one year after the initial funding of the pilot program, a report to the Legislature on the evaluation of the pilot program. The bill would repeal those provisions on January 1, 2027.
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Existing law allows a person who was arrested or convicted of a nonviolent offense while they were a victim of human trafficking to petition the court for vacatur relief. Existing law requires the petitioner to establish by clear and convincing evidence that the arrest and conviction was the direct result of being a victim of human trafficking. This bill would prohibit a court from refusing to hear the petition on the basis of the petitioner's outstanding fines and fees or the petitioners's failure to meet the conditions of probation. With the exception of restitution, the bill would require that the collection of fines imposed as a result of a nonviolent offense that is the subject of the petition be stayed while the petition is pending.
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including telephone corporations. Existing law establishes, among other funds related to telecommunications, the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) in the State Treasury. Existing law requires the commission to develop, implement, and administer the CASF to encourage the deployment of high-quality advanced communications services to all Californians that will promote economic growth, job creation, and the substantial social benefits of advanced information and communications technologies. Existing law requires the commission to approve infrastructure projects supported by expenditures from the fund that provide last-mile broadband access to households that are unserved by an existing facilities-based broadband provider. This bill would establish the Rural Broadband and Emergency Infrastructure Grant Act of 2020 to ensure that all California fairgrounds are equipped with adequate broadband and telecommunications infrastructure to support local, regional, and state emergency and disaster response personnel and systems. The bill would, upon appropriation, require the Department of Technology, Department of Food and Agriculture, Public Utilities Commission, California Broadband Council, and Office of Emergency Services to jointly develop the Rural Broadband and Emergency Infrastructure Grant Program to provide each California fairground with grant moneys to support broadband and telecommunications infrastructure deployment.
This measure would designate the week of February 24, 2020, to March 1, 2020, as Eating Disorders Awareness Week.
Existing law allows a person who was arrested or convicted of a nonviolent offense while they were a victim of human trafficking to petition the court for vacatur relief. Existing law requires the petitioner to establish by clear and convincing evidence that the arrest and conviction was the direct result of being a victim of human trafficking. Existing law requires that a petition be made and heard within a reasonable time after the person has ceased to be a victim of human trafficking, or within a reasonable time after the petitioner has sought services, whichever is later. Existing law allows a petitioner, or the petitioner's attorney, to be excused from appearing in person at a hearing on the petition only if the court finds a compelling reason why the petitioner cannot attend, in which case existing law allows the petitioner to appear by electronic means. This bill would allow the petitioner to appear at all hearings on the petition by counsel if the petition is unopposed. The bill would allow a petition to be made and heard at any time after the person has ceased to be a victim of human trafficking, or at any time after the petitioner has sought services for being a victim of human trafficking. The bill would specify that the right to petition for relief pursuant to these provisions do not expire with the passage of time.
The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allow various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws. This bill, under both laws, for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2021, and before January 1, 2026, would allow a credit to a taxpayer, except as specified, that purchases a battery storage system unit for a solar energy system, as defined, in an amount equal to 50% of the costs paid or incurred by the taxpayer for that battery storage system unit, not to exceed $5,000 per taxable year, as specified. The bill would allow the credit for only one battery storage system unit per each separate legal parcel of property for which the filing taxpayer has legal ownership in the state. The bill would require the Franchise Tax Board to allow the credit to taxpayers filing for the same legal parcel of property on a first-come-first-served basis, determined by the date the taxpayer's timely filed original tax return is received by the Franchise Tax Board, except as provided. The bill would provide that the board's determination as to the date a return is received and whether a return has been timely filed for purposes of the credit is not reviewable in any administrative or judicial proceeding. Existing law requires any bill authorizing a new tax expenditure to contain, among other things, specific goals, purposes, and objectives that the tax expenditure will achieve, detailed performance indicators, and data collection requirements. This bill would also include additional information required for any bill authorizing a new tax expenditure. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
Existing law makes the State Department of Health Care Services the sole authority in state government to license adult alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities and prohibits a person, firm, corporation, or other specified entity from operating that type of facility without a valid license. Existing law also prohibits specified persons, programs, or entities from giving or receiving remuneration or anything of value for the referral of a person who is seeking alcoholism or drug abuse recovery and treatment services. Existing law authorizes the department to investigate allegations of violations of that prohibition and to impose sanctions for a violation, including assessing a penalty upon, or suspending or revoking the license or certification of, a facility. This bill would enact Brandon's Law, which would prohibit an operator of a licensed alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facility or a certified alcohol or other drug program from engaging in various acts, including making a false or misleading statement about the entity's products, goods, services, or geographical locations. The bill would also prohibit a picture, description, staff information, or the location of an entity from being included on an internet website along with false contact information that surreptitiously directs the reader to a business that does not have a contract with the entity. The bill would authorize the department to investigate allegations of a violation of these provisions and, upon finding a violation, to impose the sanctions available pursuant to existing law, as specified.
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The act authorizes the state board to include the use of market-based compliance mechanisms. Existing law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be available upon appropriation. Existing law authorizes the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to administer various programs, including grant programs, relating to forest health and wildfire protection. Existing law states that a specified amount is to be annually appropriated, through the 2023–24 fiscal year, from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to the department in the annual Budget Act for specified healthy forest and fire prevention programs and projects. Under existing law, the 2019–20 annual Budget Act appropriated $165,000,000 to the department, with at least $5,000,000 to be made available to the California Conservation Corps, as specified. This bill would appropriate $330,000,000 for the 2020–21 fiscal year from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, as specified, to the department for specified healthy forest and fire prevention programs and projects that improve forest health and reduce greenhouse gas emissions caused by uncontrolled wildfires, with not less than $10,000,000 for the California Conservation Corps' fire prevention projects and activities in, or adjacent to, the state responsibility areas.
Existing law, the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act, requires the State Department of Developmental Services to contract with private nonprofit corporations for the establishment of regional centers to provide services and supports to individuals with developmental disabilities and their families. Existing law requires a regional center to include specified information on its internet website for the purpose of promoting transparency and access to public information, including, among other things, regional center annual independent audits and purchase of service policies. Existing law requires the department to establish and maintain a transparency portal on its internet website that allows consumers, families, advocates, and others to access provider and regional center information, and requires posted information on the department's internet website transparency portal to include, among other things, a link to each regional center's internet website information. This bill would, on or before January 1, 2022, require the department, in consultation with stakeholders, to determine the most appropriate open, machine-readable format to be used when disclosing numeric data. The bill would, on or before July 1, 2022, require the department and regional centers to provide numeric data generated by the department or the regional center in that format and would require the department or the regional center to make a good faith effort to provide numeric data that is, or can be, provided by a third party in that format. The bill would also, on or before July 1, 2022, require the department to develop, in consultation with stakeholders, transparency guidelines for the disclosure of information that regional centers are required to post on their internet websites. The bill would require the department to post the finalized transparency guidelines on its internet website. The bill would require each regional center to, on or before July 1, 2022, ensure that all publicly disclosed information made available by the regional center on its internet website is accessible through a public information web page located on its internet website, and that the regional center's internet website conforms to the transparency guidelines.
The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allow various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws. Existing law requires any bill authorizing a new tax expenditure, including tax credits, to contain, among other things, specific goals, purposes, and objectives the tax expenditure will achieve, detailed performance indicators, and data collection requirements. This bill would allow a credit against those taxes for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2021, and before January 1, 2033, to a taxpayer that sells a qualified vacant site in an amount equal to 50% of the tax attributable to a capital gain from the sale of a qualified vacant site in the taxable year that it is sold and 50% of the tax imposed on a capital gain from the sale of a qualified vacant site in the taxable year that the construction process begins on the qualified vacant site, as specified. The bill would require a county assessor to provide a report, upon request, to a taxpayer or the Franchise Tax Board relating to use of the qualified vacant site. The bill would also include additional information required for any bill authorizing a new tax expenditure. By imposing additional duties upon county assessors, 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, 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. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.