Existing law requires the State Water Resources Control Board to establish uniform statewide recycling criteria for each varying type of use of recycled water where the use involves the protection of public health. This bill would, on or before December 1, 2022, require the state board, in consultation with the California Building Standards Commission and the Department of Housing and Community Development, to adopt regulations for risk-based water quality standards for the onsite treatment and reuse of nonpotable water, as provided. The bill would authorize the state board to contract with public or private entities regarding the content of the standards. The bill would require a local jurisdiction, as defined, that elects to establish a program for onsite treated nonpotable water systems to, among other things, adopt, through ordinance, a local program that includes the risk-based water quality standards established by the state board. The bill would, on or before December 1, 2023, require the department, in consultation with the state board, to develop and propose for adoption any necessary corresponding building standards to support the risk-based water quality standards established by the state board. The bill would prohibit an onsite treated nonpotable water system from being installed except under a program established by a local jurisdiction in compliance with the bill's provisions.
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Existing law generally provides for the compensation of victims and derivative victims of specified types of crimes by the California Victim Compensation Board from the Restitution Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, for specified losses suffered as a result of those crimes, including a cash payment or reimbursement not to exceed a specified amount to a victim for expenses incurred in relocating, if the expenses are determined by law enforcement to be necessary for the personal safety of the victim or by a mental health treatment provider to be necessary for the emotional well-being of the victim. Existing law requires the board to be named as the recipient of funds upon expiration of the victim's rental agreement if a security deposit is required for relocation. This bill would authorize "expenses incurred in relocating" as described above to include a pet deposit and additional rent required if the victim has a pet. The bill would also require the board to be named as the recipient of funds upon expiration of the victim's rental agreement if a pet deposit is required for relocation. By expanding the authorization for use of continuously appropriated funds, this bill would make an appropriation. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 13957 of the Government Code proposed by AB 900, AB 1865, and AB 1939 to be operative only if this bill and any or all of those bills are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
The Rechargeable Battery Recycling Act of 2006 requires every retailer, as defined, to have in place a system for the acceptance and collection of used rechargeable batteries for reuse, recycling, or proper disposal. Existing law requires the system for the acceptance and collection of used rechargeable batteries to include, at a minimum, specified elements, including, among others, the take-back at no cost to the consumer of a used rechargeable battery of the type or brand that the retailer sold or previously sold. Existing law defines "rechargeable battery" for purposes of these provisions to mean a small, nonvehicular, rechargeable nickel-cadmium, nickel metal hydride, lithium-ion, or sealed lead-acid battery, or a battery pack containing these types of batteries. This bill would require the Secretary for Environmental Protection, on or before April 1, 2019, to convene the Lithium-Ion Car Battery Recycling Advisory Group to review, and advise the Legislature on, policies pertaining to the recovery and recycling of lithium-ion batteries sold with motor vehicles in the state, and would require the secretary to appoint members to the committee from specified departments, vocations, and organizations. The bill would require the advisory group to consult with specified entities and, on or before April 1, 2022, to submit policy recommendations to the Legislature aimed at ensuring that as close to 100% as possible of lithium-ion batteries in the state are reused or recycled at end-of-life in a safe and cost-effective manner. The bill would require the policy recommendations to reflect specified considerations. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2027.
Existing law establishes various programs, including, among others, the Emergency Housing and Assistance Program, homeless youth emergency service pilot projects, and Housing First and the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council, to provide assistance to homeless persons. Existing law establishes the council to oversee the implementation of the Housing First guidelines and regulations, and, among other things, identify resources, benefits, and services that can be accessed to prevent and end homelessness in California. This bill would require the council to assume additional responsibilities, including setting specific, measurable goals aimed at preventing and ending homelessness among youth in the state and defining outcome measures and gathering data related to those goals. The bill would also require the council, in order to coordinate a spectrum of funding, policy, and practice efforts related to young people experiencing homelessness, to coordinate with certain stakeholders and, to the extent that funding is made available, provide technical assistance and program development support.
(1) Existing law, known commonly as the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program, authorizes a public agency, by making specified findings, to authorize public agency officials and property owners to enter into voluntary contractual assessments to finance the installation of distributed generation renewable energy sources or energy or water efficiency improvements that are permanently fixed to real property. Existing law, the California Financing Law (CFL) , requires a program administrator who administers a PACE program on behalf of, and with the written consent of, a public agency to comply with specified requirements relating to the PACE program, including requiring, commencing on January 1, 2019, a program administrator to be licensed by the Commissioner of Business Oversight under the California Financing Law. The CFL, commencing on January 1, 2019, requires a program administrator to establish and maintain a process for the enrollment, and for the cancellation of that enrollment, of a PACE solicitor and a PACE solicitor agent. The CFL defines the term "PACE solicitor" and "PACE solicitor agent" to not include specified persons. This bill would clarify that the term "PACE solicitor" and "PACE solicitor agent" does not include a person who only solicits a property owner to enter into an assessment contract with a person who is not considered a program administrator within the meaning of the CFL. The bill would prohibit a person from engaging in the business of a PACE solicitor unless that person is enrolled with a program administrator. The bill would also require the program administrator to maintain the processes described above in a manner that is acceptable to the commissioner. (2) The CFL requires a program administrator who administers a PACE program on behalf of, and with the written consent of, a public agency to comply with specified requirements relating to the PACE program, including requiring a program administrator to ensure criteria related to the assessment contract are satisfied before the contract is approved for recordation, including ensuring that the property owner has not been a party to any bankruptcy proceedings within the last 7 years and that the property owner is current on all mortgage debt on the subject property and has had no more than one late payment during the 12 months immediately preceding the application date, as provided. This bill would, instead, prohibit a program administrator from executing an assessment contract, and would prohibit any work from commencing under a home improvement contract that is financed by that assessment contract and would prohibit that home improvement contract from being executed, unless the program administrator ensures that certain criteria related to that assessment contract are satisfied. The bill would revise the two criteria described above to require the program administrator to ensure that the property owner has not been a party to any bankruptcy proceeding within the last 4 years and to require the program administrator to ensure that the property owner is current on all mortgage debt on the subject property and has had no more than one late payment during the 6 months immediately preceding the application date. (3) The CFL prohibits a program administrator from approving an assessment contract for funding and recording by a public agency unless the program administrator makes a reasonable good faith determination that the property owner has a reasonable ability to pay the PACE assessment, and requires that determination to include specified factors, including household income. Existing law requires a public agency that administers a voluntary contractual assessment program under the PACE program to, with respect to each real property subject to an assessment, record a document that contains specified information related to the assessment, including, the names of all current owners of the real property subject to the assessment. This bill would, instead, prohibit a program administrator from executing an assessment contract, and would prohibit any work from commencing under a home improvement contract that is financed by that assessment contract and would prohibit that home improvement contract from being executed, unless the program administrator makes a reasonable good faith determination that the property owner has a reasonable ability to pay the PACE assessment. The bill would authorize a program administrator when conducting this determination to utilize the income of a property owner's legal spouse through marriage or domestic partnership who is not on title to the property, provided that person consents, in writing, to that effect. The bill would also provide that if the property owner's legal spouse through marriage or domestic partner is used to determine the property owner's income in that manner, then the public agency that administers the PACE assessment is required to include that person's name in the document recorded related to that assessment described above. (4) The CFL requires the program administrator to be responsible for the difference between the determination of the property owner, who is obligated on the underlying home improvement contract, ability to pay the annual PACE obligations and the actual amount financed for the property owner, provided certain requirements are met. This bill would require the program administrator in that instance to provide to the property owner a written disclosure of the methodology that the program administrator used to determine whether there was a difference between the property owner's ability to pay the annual PACE obligation and the actual amount financed for the property owner. The bill would also provide that this requirement only applies to an assessment contract executed between April 1, 2018, and January 1, 2019. (5) The CFL requires a program administrator to submit to the commissioner information beneficial to evaluating various aspects of the PACE program to be included in a specified annual report, and requires the commissioner to file an annual report with the department as a public record that is a composite of the annual reports and any comments on that report that the commissioner determines to be in the public interest. The CFL requires a program administrator to report annually to the commissioner all PACE assessments that were funded and recorded. This bill would require the commissioner to include information on all PACE assessments that were funded and recorded into the annual composite report described above. (6) This bill would make other clarifying changes to the provisions of the CFL relating to program administrators, PACE solicitors, and PACE solicitor agents. (7) Existing law requires a program administrator to provide an oral confirmation of the key terms of an assessment contract with the property owner on the call, or his or her authorized representative, and to retain a copy of a recording of that confirmation for a period of 5 years after the recording is made. Existing law requires that oral confirmation to contain specified information. This bill would also require the program administrator to include in the oral conformation that it is the responsibility of the property owner to contact the property owner's home insurance provider to determine whether the efficiency improvement to be financed by the PACE assessment is covered by the property owner's insurance plan.
Under existing law, it is an infraction or a misdemeanor for any person to permit any dog that is owned, harbored, or controlled by him or her to cause injury to, or the death of, any guide, signal, or service dog, as defined, while the guide, signal, or service dog is in discharge of its duties. Existing law makes any person who intentionally causes injury to, or the death of, any guide, signal, or service dog, as defined, while the dog is in discharge of its duties, guilty of a misdemeanor. Under existing law, if a defendant is convicted of either of these crimes, the defendant is required to make restitution to the person with a disability who has custody or ownership of the dog for any veterinary bills and replacement costs of the dog if it is disabled or killed, or other reasonable costs deemed appropriate by the court. Existing law provides for the compensation of victims of certain crimes by the California Victim Compensation Board from the Restitution Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, for specified losses suffered as a result of those crimes. Existing law authorizes the person with a disability in either of the above crimes to apply for compensation by the board for veterinary bills and replacement costs if the dog is disabled or killed, or other reasonable costs, as specified, in an amount not to exceed $10,000. This bill would delete, from both crimes, the requirement that the guide, signal, or service dog be in discharge of its duties when the injury or death occurs and would make these crimes applicable to the injury or death of dogs that are enrolled in a training school or program for guide, signal, or service dogs, as specified. The bill would require the defendant, convicted of either crime, to also make restitution to the person for medical or medical-related expenses, or for loss of wages or income, incurred by the person as a direct result of the crime. The bill would authorize the disabled person to apply for compensation from the California Victim Compensation Board and would authorize the board to pay compensation for medical and medical-related expenses, and loss of wages or income incurred by the person with a disability as a direct result of a violation of those criminal provisions, in an amount not to exceed $10,000. By expanding the authorization for the use of moneys in the continuously appropriated Restitution Fund, this bill would make an appropriation. Because this bill would expand the scope and penalties of existing crimes, it 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 bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 13955 of the Government Code proposed by Senate Bill 1494 to be operative only if this bill and SB 1494 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 13957 of the Government Code proposed by SB 1005, AB 900, and AB 1939 to be operative only if this bill and any or all of those bills are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
Existing law requires a person who acts as a vehicle dealer or salesperson to be licensed by the Department of Motor Vehicles. Existing law additionally requires a person who applies for a used vehicle dealer's license to complete a preliminary educational program of not less than 4 hours, covering specified topics, including motor vehicle financing, advertising, odometers, air pollution control requirements, departmental forms, a written exam, and another educational program every 2 years after issuance of the license. This bill would, with certain exceptions, prohibit a person licensed as a salesperson from performing the functions of a salesperson for a dealer that sells used vehicles unless he or she has, within the previous 3 years, completed the same educational program as the educational program required for licensed dealers every 2 years after issuance of the dealer's license, and to provide evidence of completion to his or her employer. The bill would also require the dealer to maintain evidence that all salespersons employed by that dealer are in compliance with this requirement. The bill would also require a dealer to reimburse an employee, as specified, for the cost of training taken during employment. The bill would make these new provisions operative on July 1, 2019. Because a violation of these provisions would be a crime, this bill would create 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.
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various healing arts professions, including, but not limited to, physicians and surgeons, by various boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law imposes certain fines and other penalties for, and authorizes these boards to take disciplinary action against licensees for, violations of the provisions governing those professions. This bill would require, by July 1, 2019, a licensed health care practitioner who provides prenatal or postpartum care for a patient to offer to screen or appropriately screen a mother for maternal mental health conditions. Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of that act a crime. Existing law also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires health care service plan contracts and health insurance policies that provide hospital, medical, or surgical coverage to provide coverage for the diagnosis and medically necessary treatment of severe mental illnesses, as defined, of a person of any age. This bill would require health care service plans and health insurers, by July 1, 2019, to develop, consistent with sound clinical principles and processes, a maternal mental health program, as specified. Because a willful violation of the bill's requirement by a health care service plan 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.
Existing state sales and use tax laws impose a tax on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state, or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. The Sales and Use Tax Law provides various exemptions from those taxes, including an exemption for the sale of, or the storage, use, or other consumption of, meals and food products that are furnished or served by any nonprofit veteran's organization for purposes of fundraising, as specified. This bill, on and after January 1, 2019, and before January 1, 2025, would exempt from these taxes the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of, building materials and supplies purchased by a qualified person for use by that qualified person in the construction of specified military and veteran medical facilities. The Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law authorizes cities and counties to impose local sales and use taxes in conformity with the Sales and Use Tax Law, and existing laws authorize districts, as specified, to impose transactions and use taxes in accordance with the Transactions and Use Tax Law, which generally conforms to the Sales and Use Tax Law. Amendments to the Sales and Use Tax Law are automatically incorporated into the local tax laws. Existing law requires the state to reimburse cities and counties for revenue losses caused by the enactment of sales and use tax exemptions. This bill would provide that, notwithstanding these provisions, no appropriation is made and the state shall not reimburse cities and counties for sales and use tax revenues lost by them pursuant to this bill. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
Existing law authorizes the juvenile court to suspend or order a delay in the issuance of the driving privilege, for one year, of a minor who is an habitual truant, as defined, or who is adjudged to be a ward of the court, as prescribed. Existing law requires the juvenile court, when determining whether to suspend or delay a minor's driving privilege, to consider whether a personal or family hardship exists that requires the minor to have a driver's license for his or her own, or a member of his or her family's, employment or for medically related purposes. This bill would repeal those provisions, and would provide that any court order to suspend, restrict, or delay a minor's driving privilege issued pursuant to those provisions prior to January 1, 2019, shall remain in full effect, as specified.