Existing law, commencing on January 1, 2023, prohibits a state agency from sending any outgoing United States mail that contains an individual's social security number unless the number is truncated to its last 4 digits or in specified circumstances, including when federal law requires inclusion of the social security number or when documents are mailed to a current or prospective state employee. This bill would instead require state agencies, as soon as is feasible, but no later than January 1, 2023, to stop sending any outgoing United States mail to an individual that contains the individual's social security number unless the number is truncated to its last four digits, except in specified circumstances. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
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The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) , an initiative measure approved as Proposition 64 at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, authorizes a person who obtains a state license under AUMA to engage in commercial adult-use cannabis activity pursuant to that license and applicable local ordinances. The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA) , among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities. MAUCRSA establishes the Department of Cannabis Control and imposes duties on the department with respect to the creation, issuance, denial, suspension, and revocation of licenses issued pursuant to MAUCRSA. MAUCRSA imposes a civil penalty on a person engaging in commercial cannabis activity without a license as required by the act, of up to 3 times the amount of the license fee for each violation. This bill would impose a civil penalty on persons aiding and abetting unlicensed commercial cannabis activity of up to 3 times the amount of the license fee for each violation, but in no case more than $30,000 for each violation. The bill would prohibit filing an action for civil penalties brought against a person pursuant to MAUCRSA 3 years after the discovery of the violation. The bill would require a court to consider certain factors in assessing a penalty for engaging in or aiding and abetting unlicensed commercial cannabis activity. The bill would require that certain factors be demonstrated in order to prove that a person aided and abetted an unlicensed cannabis activity. The bill would authorize an action for civil penalties on persons aiding and abetting unlicensed commercial cannabis activity to be brought exclusively by the Attorney General, or in jurisdictions meeting specified population requirements, by the city prosecutor or city or county counsel. MAUCRSA requires civil penalties collected by the Attorney General in an action brought against a person pursuant to the act on behalf of the people to be deposited into the General Fund. This bill would instead require civil penalties collected by the Attorney General in an action brought against a person pursuant to MAUCRSA on behalf of the people, the department, or a participating agency to be first used to reimburse the Attorney General and the department or participating agency for the costs of investigating and prosecuting the action brought for civil penalties, with the remainder collected, if any, to be deposited into the General Fund. By authorizing the expenditure of civil penalties, which are general funds, to be used to reimburse the Attorney General and the department, or participating agency, this bill would make an appropriation. AUMA authorizes the Legislature to amend the act to further the purposes and intent of the act with a 23 vote of the membership of both houses of the Legislature, except as provided. This bill would declare that its provisions further the purposes and intent of the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act.
Existing law requires the Governor to proclaim certain days each year for specified reasons. This bill would designate August 26 of each year as California Farmworker Day, and require the Governor to annually proclaim August 26 as California Farmworker Day. The bill would make legislative findings in this regard.
Existing law authorizes the Director of Fish and Wildlife to establish 2 free hunting days per year: one in the fall, and one in the winter. Existing law authorizes a California unlicensed resident to hunt during a free hunting day if accompanied by a licensed hunter, subject to certain conditions. Existing law prohibits these provisions from being implemented until the Department of Fish and Wildlife's Automated License Data System is fully operational for at least one year. This bill would require, rather than authorize, the director to establish 2 free hunting days per year no later than July 1, 2023. The bill would require the department to issue a registration for free hunting days to any California resident who provides the department with all of the information required to issue an annual California hunting license and evidence of completing a course in hunter education, as specified. The bill would limit the type of game an unlicensed hunter participating in free hunting days can take. The bill would delete the prohibition requiring a delay in implementation of the above-described provisions. The bill would authorize the department to adopt emergency regulations to implement these provisions. The bill would require the department, on or before July 1, 2022, to develop a plan, as specified, to implement these provisions, and would require the department to provide the plan to the relevant legislative policy and budget committees and post the plan on its internet website.
The Collateral Recovery Act, a violation of which is punishable as a misdemeanor, provides for the licensure and regulation of repossession agencies by the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services under the supervision and control of the Director of Consumer Affairs. The act authorizes the director to suspend or revoke a repossession agency license, a qualification certificate, or registration if the director determines that the licensee or the licensee's manager, if an individual, or if the licensee is a person other than an individual, that any of its officers, partners, registrants, employees, or its manager, has been convicted of a felony or a crime substantially related to the repossession agency business, including illegally using, carrying, or possessing a deadly weapon, which the act defines as any instrument or weapon of the kind commonly known as a blackjack, slungshot, billy, sandclub, sandbag, metal knuckles, dirk, dagger, pistol, or revolver, or any other firearm, any knife having a blade longer than 5 inches, any razor with an unguarded blade, and any metal pipe or bar used or intended to be used as a club. This bill would, among other things, redefine "deadly weapon" to mean an instrument or weapon of the kind commonly known as a firearm. The bill also would define "repossession" to mean when the repossessor moves, gains entry to, or gains control of the collateral, disconnects the collateral from any surface, or connects the collateral to a tow vehicle. Existing law provides for the manner in which a repossession agency prepares inventory for and storage of personal effects, defined as any property that is not the property of the legal owner. Existing law requires the repossession agency to request written authorization from the debtor to release property not covered by a security agreement to someone other than the debtor. This bill would require any instrument or weapon other than a "deadly weapon" to be inventoried and noted as "disposed of, dangerous device" and reasonably disposed of. The bill would require the repossession agency to, instead of request, receive written authorization from the debtor to release property not covered by a security agreement to someone other than the debtor. Because a violation of these requirements 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.
This measure would proclaim November 3, 2021, as One Health Day, to celebrate and bring attention to the need for a One Health approach to address shared health threats at the human-animal-environmental interface.
This measure would designate the month of September 2021 as Leukemia, Lymphoma, and Myeloma Awareness Month and Blood Cancer Awareness Month and the first week of September 2021 as Blood Donation Week.
This measure would designate a specified portion of Westside Parkway on State Route 58 in the County of Kern as the Harvey L. Hall Memorial Highway. The measure would request that the Department of Transportation determine the costs of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering those costs, erect those signs.
This measure would request that the Congress of the United States and the United States Environmental Protection Agency take all measures necessary to prevent further damage to California's citizens, wildlife, and natural resources by the dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane waste dumped in the waters near Santa Catalina Island.
This measure would proclaim May 2021 as Sea Level Rise Awareness Month in California in order to recognize the devastating effects of climate change and encourage local governments to take action.