The California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish a renewables portfolio standard requiring all retail sellers, as defined, to procure a minimum quantity of electricity products from eligible renewable energy resources during specified compliance periods. The program defines an eligible renewable energy resource as an electrical generating facility that meets the definition of a renewable electrical generation facility and meets other requirements, as applicable. The program additionally requires each local publicly owned electric utility, as defined, to procure a minimum quantity of electricity products from eligible renewable energy resources to achieve the targets established by the program. Existing law also requires a retail supplier of electricity to disclose its electricity sources as a percentage of annual sales that are derived from specified sources of energy, including eligible renewable energy resources. This bill would include a facility that uses nuclear energy, as specified, as a renewable electrical generation facility. The bill would also make a conforming change by recategorizing nuclear energy as an eligible renewable energy resource for purposes of a retail supplier's electricity source disclosure requirements.
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This measure would memorialize the achievements of Rosa Parks in the Civil Rights Movement and would commemorate the 20th Anniversary of Rosa Parks Day in California on February 4, 2020.
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various professions and vocations by boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law provides for the issuance of reciprocal licenses in certain fields where the applicant, among other requirements, has a license to practice within that field in another jurisdiction, as specified. Existing law requires a board within the department to expedite the licensure process for an applicant who holds a current license in another jurisdiction in the same profession or vocation and who supplies satisfactory evidence of being married to, or in a domestic partnership or other legal union with, an active duty member of the Armed Forces of the United States who is assigned to a duty station in California under official active duty military orders. This bill would prohibit a board from charging an initial or original license fee to an applicant who meets these expedited licensing requirements.
Existing law, the Brady-Jared Teen Driver Safety Act of 1997, provides for the issuance of a driver's license to an applicant who is at least 16 years of age but under 18 years of age pursuant to the provisional licensing program. Existing law requires a person to hold an instruction permit for not less than 6 months prior to applying for a provisional license, and requires the instruction permitholder to be accompanied by, and under the immediate supervision of, a California licensed driver 25 years of age or older whose driving privilege is not on probation. Existing law makes a violation of these requirements punishable as an infraction. This bill would require the licensed driver who accompanies the permitholder in the vehicle to occupy the front passenger seat, would prohibit the accompanying licensed driver from being under the influence of any alcoholic beverage or drug, or a combination thereof, and would make a violation of the prohibition punishable as an infraction. By creating a new 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 law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, grants a consumer various rights in connection with a business, as defined, that collects a consumer's personal information. The act requires a business to make certain disclosures to consumers regarding a consumer's rights under the act. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions.
This measure would proclaim January 23, 2020, as Maternal Health Awareness Day, to draw attention to the efforts that have improved maternal health in California and to highlight the need for continued improvement of maternal health for all women.
This measure would call on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to extend the REAL ID deadline for air travel by at least 3 years to ensure there is not a disruption in air travel.
(1) Under existing law, the campuses of the California Community Colleges and private postsecondary educational institutions regulated by the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education constitute 2 of the segments of postsecondary education in this state. The bureau's authority to regulate private postsecondary educational institutions exists pursuant to the California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009, which, under existing law, is to be repealed on January 1, 2021. Under existing law, the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges appoints the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to serve as the chief executive officer of the segment. This bill would require, no later than July 1, 2021, the Chancellor's Office of the California Community Colleges to enter into an agreement with an experienced provider of training for persons preparing for licensing and employment as professional commercial truck drivers for the development and provision of instructional material necessary to add human trafficking awareness training to the curriculum of students pursuing this course of study and to disseminate information about how to obtain and use this instructional material to community colleges and private postsecondary educational institutions offering these programs, as specified. The bill would also require the human trafficking awareness training developed under the bill to be incorporated into the curriculum of all community college programs that offer training for persons preparing for licensing and employment as commercial truck drivers as a required part of the training for all community college students commencing participation in these programs on or after January 1, 2022, and would require the chancellor's office to biennially review and update this training, as specified. Because the bill would impose new duties on community college districts, it would constitute a state-mandated local program. The bill, if the January 1, 2021, repeal date of the California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009 is postponed or eliminated, would require the institutions subject to regulation by the bureau that offer this commercial truck driver preparation to incorporate in their curricula this human trafficking awareness training, and would also require the bureau to biannually review and update this training, as specified. (2) 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.
Existing law regulates dating service contracts and prescribes requirements for their contents. Existing law grants a buyer of dating services the right to cancel a dating services contract within 3 days, as specified, after the day on which the buyer signs an agreement or offer to purchase those services. Existing law defines "online dating services" for these purposes as any person or organization engaged in the business of offering dating, matrimonial, or social referral services online, if the services are offered primarily online. This bill would prescribe requirements for an online dating service in connection with users who are banned from the service because the person may have used a false identity or may have posed a significant risk of attempting to obtain money from, or provide money to, another user through fraudulent means. The bill would require the service to send a specified notice to a California user known to have previously received and responded to an onsite message from a banned user. The bill would require that the notice be sent within 24 hours after a banned user has been identified and banned, or at a later time if the service has determined that a different time is more effective, but not later than 3 days after the ban. The bill would require the online dating service to establish a procedure by which a banned user may challenge the user's ban, and require the service to take corrective action if a banned user provides persuasive evidence that the ban was not reasonable. The bill would except from its provisions law enforcement officials acting within the scope of their employment investigating internet crime. The bill would make organizational and conforming changes.