This measure would proclaim February 20, 2020, as Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day.
This measure would recognize February 2020 as Black History Month, urge all citizens to join in celebrating the accomplishments of African Americans during Black History Month, encourage the people of California to recognize the many talents of African Americans and the achievements and contributions they make to their communities to create equity and equality for education, economics, and social justice, and recognize the significance in protecting citizens' right to vote and remedying racial discrimination in voting.
The California Drought, Water, Parks, Climate, Coastal Protection, and Outdoor Access For All Act of 2018, approved by the voters as Proposition 68 at the June 5, 2018, statewide direct primary election, authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of $4,000,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance a drought, water, parks, climate, coastal protection, and outdoor access for all program. This bill would enact the Economic Recovery, Wildfire Prevention, Safe Drinking Water, Drought Preparation, and Flood Protection Bond Act of 2020, which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $6,980,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance projects for an economic recovery, wildfire prevention, safe drinking water, drought preparation, and flood protection program. This bill would provide for the submission of these provisions to the voters at the November 3, 2020, statewide general election. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law provides for the management and monitoring of groundwater. Existing law, the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, requires all groundwater basins designated as high- or medium-priority basins by the Department of Water Resources to be managed under a groundwater sustainability plan or coordinated groundwater sustainability plans, except as specified. Existing law authorizes a local agency, as defined, to adopt and implement a groundwater management plan for a groundwater basin designated as a low- or very low-priority basin by the department. Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the 9 California regional water quality control boards regulate water quality in accordance with the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act and the federal Clean Water Act. This bill would require a person who extracts or uses water from a groundwater basin within 20 miles of Joshua Tree National Park for purposes of construction and operation of a closed-loop pumped hydroelectric energy storage system to submit to the state board any plans, technical reports, or monitoring data reports related to groundwater required under any license for hydroelectric generation issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The bill would require those materials submitted to the state board to include certain other information relating to groundwater monitoring and environmental impacts. The bill would require the person to report the materials to the state board on the same schedule and in the same manner as provided in the license. The bill would make a person who fails to timely submit those materials subject to a penalty of up to $10,000 per day, as assessed by the state board. The bill would require the state board to review the materials and would authorize it, if it concludes the person is not in compliance with its hydroelectric generating license from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, to petition the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to ensure compliance with the terms and conditions of the license. The bill would prohibit the extraction of groundwater in excess of maximum allowable change thresholds, as defined, by a pumped hydroelectric energy storage facility unless the extraction is permitted following consideration of an action or project that requires discretionary approval by a state or local governmental entity. The bill would subject extraction of groundwater beyond those thresholds to civil liability in an amount not to exceed $10 per gallon of excess groundwater extracted, with the aggregate penalty not to exceed $1,000,000. The bill would establish the Joshua Tree National Park Environmental Protection Fund and would require civil penalties imposed under the bill to be deposited in the fund. The bill would make moneys in the fund available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to mitigate the environmental harms caused by the extraction or use of water from a groundwater basin within 20 miles of the boundaries of Joshua Tree National Park for purposes of construction and operation of a pumped hydroelectric energy storage system.
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including telephone corporations. The Moore Universal Telephone Service Act establishes the Universal Lifeline Telephone Service program (lifeline program) in order to provide low-income households with access to affordable basic residential telephone service. Existing law requires the commission, by January 15, 2017, to adopt a "portability freeze" rule for the lifeline program, which requires lifeline program participants to remain with the same lifeline program service provider for a specified time period in order to remain in the program, except as specified, and requires the commission to consider including in the rule a 60-day duration for the portability freeze. This bill would require the commission, on or before July 1, 2021, to update the portability freeze rule, and would require the commission to include in the updated rule a 6-month duration, rather than a 60-day duration, of the portability freeze. The bill would require the commission, on or before July 1, 2021, to adopt updated rules for the lifeline program that include, among other things, a modified recertification process and other changes relating to enrollment, participation, and renewal in the program, as specified. The bill would require that the commission authorize only commission-approved telephone corporations to provide service using lifeline program funding. The bill would require the commission, before July 1, 2022, to determine whether to permit a lifeline telephone service subscriber to have an additional lifeline subscription for broadband services. The bill would require the commission to annually report to the Legislature on the implementation of those updated rules and lifeline participation and renewal levels by ZIP Code until specified participation goals are achieved. Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime. Because the provisions of this bill would be a part of the act and because a violation of an order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission implementing its 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.
Existing law authorizes the state, a local or regional public fire agency, or a local or regional law enforcement agency to establish a peer support and crisis referral program to provide a network of peers available to aid fellow emergency services or law enforcement personnel on emotional or professional issues. Existing law authorizes emergency services or law enforcement personnel to refuse to disclose, and to prevent another from disclosing, a confidential communication between them and a peer support team member, crisis hotline staff member, or crisis referral service, except under limited circumstances, including in a criminal proceeding. Under existing law, a person providing peer support services, as specified, and the agency that employs that person are not liable for damages, except in an action for medical malpractice, relating to an act, error, or omission in performing peer support services, unless the act, error, or omission constitutes gross negligence or intentional misconduct. This bill would authorize the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to establish a peer support and crisis referral program until January 1, 2024. The bill would extend the above-described confidentiality protections to correctional personnel who participate in a peer support and crisis referral program and would extend the above-described liability protections to the department and correctional employees who are peer support team members. The bill would require the department to establish a peer support advisory committee to advise, assist, support, and advocate for the program, and to establish a selection panel to screen and process applications, interviews, and member selection for the committee.
(1) The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allow various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws. This bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2021, and before January 1, 2026, would allow a credit against those taxes to a taxpayer that is transferred, and allocated, credits pursuant to the sale of a multifamily rental housing development or mobilehome park to a qualified developer, as defined, that has received a credit reservation from the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee, in specified amounts. The bill would require the credits to be reserved on a first-come-first-served basis. The bill would limit the aggregate amount of credit that may be allocated by the committee, as provided. The bill would also provide that the credit amount shall be $0 for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2021, and before January 1, 2026, unless otherwise specified in a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Act. (2) Existing law requires any bill authorizing a new tax credit to contain, among other things, specific goals, purposes, and objectives that the tax credit will achieve, detailed performance indicators, and data collection requirements. This bill would include additional information required for any bill authorizing a new income tax credit. (3) This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
(1) The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. Existing law provides for various incentives intended to facilitate and expedite the construction of affordable housing. Existing law, until January 1, 2026, authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a multifamily housing development that is subject to a streamlined, ministerial approval process, as provided, and not subject to a conditional use permit, if the development satisfies specified objective planning standards including among others, that the development proponent commit to record a land use restriction or covenant providing that any lower or moderate-income housing units remain available at affordable housing costs or rent, as specified. This bill would exempt a project from the objective planning standard described above, if the project involves the subdivision of a parcel for 10 or fewer units and is not a part of a larger project involving more than 10 units, the project is not a public work, as defined, and the project satisfies the requirements of any applicable inclusionary housing ordinance of the local government, as specified. Existing law also includes as an objective planning standard for the streamlined, ministerial approval process that the development be subject to a requirement mandating a minimum percentage of below market rate housing, as specified. Under existing law, that requirement is satisfied if the locality's latest production report reflects that there were fewer units of housing issued building permits affordable to either very low income or low-income households by income category than were required for the regional housing needs assessment cycle for that reporting period, and the project seeking approval dedicates 50% of the total number of units to housing affordable to households making at or below 80% of the area median income. This bill additionally would condition satisfaction of that objective planning standard on such a project containing more than 10 units of housing. Under the bill, if a project contains 10 units of housing or less and is subject to an inclusionary housing ordinance when the project application is submitted, the project would satisfy the objective planning standard if the project satisfies the requirements of the inclusionary housing ordinance. Under the bill, if a project contains 10 units of housing or less and is not subject to any inclusionary housing ordinances, the project would satisfy the objective planning standard if the developer pays a fee of an unspecified amount to the local government. (2) The Subdivision Map Act vests the authority to regulate and control the design and improvement of subdivisions in the legislative body of a local agency and sets forth procedures governing the local agency's processing, approval, conditional approval or disapproval, and filing of tentative, final, and parcel maps, and the modification thereof. This bill would require a local agency to issue a building permit for a subdivision that consists of 10 or fewer lots and of which at least 75% of the perimeter adjoins parcels that are developed with urban uses, as specified, if the applicant for the permit has received a tentative map approval or parcel map approval and the applicant has submitted proof, to the satisfaction of the local agency, of a recorded covenant and agreement that states that the applicant and the successors and assignees agree that the building permit is issued on the condition that a certificate of occupancy for the building will not be issued unless the final map has been recorded, and that the total number of lots created by the subdivision will not exceed 10. The bill would require the local agency to issue the building permit based upon the approved tentative or parcel map and its conditions of approval. (3) By imposing requirements on local agencies relative to the subdivision of 10 or fewer lots, 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 Employee Housing Act, requires a person operating employee housing to obtain a permit to operate that housing from the agency that enforces the act, which may either be the Department of Housing and Community Development or a city, county, or city and county that assumes responsibility for enforcing the act. Existing law defines "employee housing" for purposes of the act to exclude privately owned housing, including ownership by a nonprofit entity financed with public funds equaling 50% or more of the original development or purchase cost. The act deems any employee housing consisting of no more than 36 beds in a group quarters or 12 units or spaces designed for use by a single family or household as an agricultural land use for purposes of all local ordinances and exempted from any business taxes and registration and other fees that are not otherwise applicable to agricultural activities. A violation of the act is a misdemeanor. This bill would define "Polanco agrihousing" for purposes of the act to mean employee housing that is owned by a nonprofit entity and financed, as specified, with public funds equaling 50% or more of the original development or purchase cost and does not contain dormitory-style housing, and the development consists of no more than 50 units or spaces designed for use by a single family or household. The bill would also designate Polanco agrihousing as an agricultural land use for purposes of the above specified provisions. By increasing the duties of local officials with respect to the Employee Housing Act, and by expanding the scope of 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 specified reasons.
