Existing law requires the State Department of Health Care Services to license adult alcoholism and drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities, as defined. This bill would include in the definition of alcoholism and drug abuse recovery and treatment facilities a premises, place, or building that provides 24-hour residential services to adults who are recovering from problems related to alcohol, drug, or alcohol and drug misuse or abuse and who need alcohol, drug, or alcohol and drug recovery treatment or detoxification services and medical care under specified circumstances. The bill would authorize a facility to provide medical services exclusively to residents of the facility and in specified limited circumstances. The bill, until January 1, 2018, would also require the department to conduct an evaluation of the program licensing alcoholism and drug abuse recovery and treatment facilities that provides 24-hour residential services to adults who need alcohol, drug, or alcohol and drug recovery treatment or detoxification services and medical care and would require the department, on or before January 1, 2016, to report to the appropriate fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature. Existing law provides that the State Department of Health Care Services has the sole authority in state government to license adult alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities. Existing law authorizes the director of the department to suspend or revoke any license issued, or deny an application for licensure, for extension of the licensing period, or to modify the terms and conditions of a license under specified circumstances, including conduct in the operation of an alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facility that is inimical to the health, morals, welfare, or safety of either an individual in, or receiving services from, the facility or to the people of the State of California. This bill would revise that circumstance to instead apply to conduct in the operation of an alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facility that endangers the health or safety of an individual receiving services. The bill would also revise the list of circumstances described above to include the failure to report to the department, within 24 hours, the death of a resident for any cause, even if the death did not occur at the facility.
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Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to allow pupils whom the district has determined would benefit from advanced scholastic or vocational work to attend community college as special part-time or full-time students, subject to parental permission. Existing law, until January 1, 2014, required credit to be awarded to these pupils, as specified, made the authority of a school principal to recommend a pupil for community college summer session contingent upon a determination that the pupil met various criteria, and prohibited the principal from recommending more than 5% of the total number of pupils from any particular grade level who completed that grade immediately before the time of recommendation for summer session attendance, except as specified. This bill would reinstate these provisions until January 1, 2017. The bill would, until July 1, 2020, authorize the governing board of a school district to enter into a concurrent enrollment partnership agreement with a community college district located within its immediate service area to allow pupils to attend community college. The bill would require a community college district and a school district, as a condition of, and before adopting, a concurrent enrollment partnership agreement, to take testimony from the public and approve or disapprove the proposed agreement at a regularly scheduled open public hearing of its respective governing board after having presented the agreement at a prior open public hearing. The bill would require the concurrent enrollment partnership agreement to outline the terms of the partnership, as specified. The bill would prohibit a school district from receiving a state allowance or apportionment for an instructional activity for which a community college district has been, or will be, paid an allowance or apportionment under a concurrent enrollment partnership agreement. The bill would authorize a participating high school to monitor the progress of its pupils attending a community college and to obtain the pupils' records from a community college district to do so. The bill would require, for each concurrent enrollment partnership agreement entered into under the bill, the affected community college district and school district to file an annual report, containing specified data, with the Office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges. The bill would also authorize the governing board of a community college district to enter into a partnership with the governing board of a school district located within its service area with the goal of developing seamless pathways from high school to community college for career technical education or preparation for transfer. The bill would require the partnership agreement to outline the terms of the partnership, as specified, and would require copies of the partnership agreement to be filed with the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges and the Superintendent of Public Instruction. The bill would authorize a community college district to limit enrollment in a community college course to solely high school pupils under specified circumstances. The bill would authorize specified high school pupils to enroll in up to 15 units if those units are required for these pupils' partnership programs and specified circumstances are satisfied, and would authorize a community college district to exempt special part-time and full-time students taking up to a maximum of 15 units per term from specified fee requirements. The bill would prohibit a community college district from receiving a state allowance or apportionment for an instructional activity for which a school district has been, or will be, paid an allowance or apportionment under a concurrent enrollment partnership agreement. The bill would require, for each partnership agreement entered into under the bill, the affected community college district and school district to file an annual report, containing specified data, with the Office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges. The bill would also make related and conforming changes.
Existing law provides for the operation of autonomous vehicles, as defined, on public roads for testing purposes under specified circumstances, and requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to adopt regulations no later than January 1, 2015, setting forth various requirements in that regard. This bill would authorize the City of Lancaster to research and develop autonomous public buses. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of Lancaster.
(1) Existing law establishes the Agricultural Career Technical Education Incentive Program, which requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to award a grant, for the purpose of purchasing or leasing agricultural career technical education equipment, to an applicant school district that operates an agricultural career technical education program and that meets specified requirements. Existing law requires the governing board of each school district to annually adopt or update a local control and accountability plan that contains specified information. This bill would continuously appropriate the sum of $4,134,000 in each fiscal year beginning with the 2015–16 fiscal year from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for purposes of funding the Agricultural Career Technical Education Incentive Program. The bill would require the Superintendent to award a grant to a school district that, in addition to meeting the existing requirements, demonstrates how the expenditure of the grant funds will be consistent with its adopted local control and accountability plan. The bill would also express various findings and declarations of the Legislature relating to agricultural career technical education. (2) Funds appropriated by this bill would be applied toward the minimum funding requirements for school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.
(1) The Small Business Procurement and Contract Act requires the Director of General Services and the heads of other state agencies that enter into contracts for the provision of goods, services, and information technology and for the construction of state facilities to establish goals for the participation of small businesses in these contracts, to provide for small business preference in the award of these contracts, to give special consideration and special assistance to small businesses, and, whenever possible, to make awards to small businesses, as specified. This bill would require all state agencies, departments, boards, and commissions to establish and achieve an annual goal of 25% small business participation in state procurements and contracts, to ensure that the state's procurement and contract processes are administered in order to meet or exceed the goal, and to report to the Director of General Services statistics regarding small business participation in the agency's procurements and contracts. The bill would require the Department of General Services to monitor the progress of the agencies toward meeting the goal and to provide this information to the Office of Small Business Advocate. The bill would also require a state agency, department, board, or commission that has not achieved the goal by the close of the fiscal year to submit a corrective action plan to the Department of General Services within 45 days. The bill would require the department, in collaboration with the Office of Small Business Advocate, to undertake reasonable means to assist agencies in improving small business participation in their contracting. The bill would require all state agencies, departments, boards, and commissions to work with the department to help small businesses market their products, goods, and services to the state by providing access to information about current bid opportunities on their Internet Web sites. The bill would also require the Office of Small Business Advocate within the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development to collaborate with the Department of General Services to cooperatively enhance the state's small business program by helping small businesses access capital and other financial resources necessary to successfully fulfill state contracts. The bill would apply to all state public entities that receive state public funding, including the California State University, the University of California, and the California Community Colleges. In calculating the total amount of contracting covered by this bill, the California State University, the University of California, and the California Community Colleges would only be required to meet the 25% goal for state funding used in contracting. (2) Existing law requires a state agency, department, officer, or other state governmental entity, to meet an annual statewide participation goal of not less than 3% for disabled veteran business enterprises for specified contracts entered into by the awarding department during the year. The bill would gradually increase that participation goal to 5% by the 2017–18 fiscal year. The bill would require contracts awarded by any state agency, department, officer, or other state governmental entity for goods, services, or information technology for which the expected bid could be over $100,000,000 to have this participation goal, unless the Department of General Services certifies, prior to the issuance of bid requests, that the state agency, department, officer, or other state governmental entity met its disabled veteran business enterprise goal in prior fiscal years, as specified, and will likely meet its disabled veteran business enterprise goal in the current fiscal year. (3) Existing law requires the Director of General Services to adopt written policies and guidelines for state contracting that would provide a disabled veteran business enterprise participation incentive to bidders. The bill would require the incentive provided to a disabled veteran business enterprise prime contractor to be higher than the incentive provided to a prime contractor that is not a disabled veteran business enterprise but that has agreed to use a disabled veteran business enterprise subcontractor. (4) Existing law specifies the duties of the Department of Veterans Affairs with respect to the implementation of the Disabled Veteran Enterprise Program, including, among other things, a requirement to establish a system to track the effectiveness of its efforts to promote the program. The bill would require the department to include in the tracking system a record of those businesses that became certified disabled veteran business enterprises and participated in a state contract within 2 years following the date of a promotional effort. (5) Existing law requires the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs to appoint a California Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Advocate, and each awarding department to appoint an agency Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Advocate, and requires each advocate to perform certain duties relating to the implementation of the of the Disabled Veteran Enterprise Program. This bill would require the California Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program advocate to perform additional duties, including meeting regularly with, and assisting, agency Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Advocates, serving as an advocate for the disabled veteran business enterprises, and reporting to the Office of Small Business and Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Services, as specified. This bill would also require each agency Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Advocate to perform additional duties, including maintaining records of promotional efforts hosted or attended by each agency Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Advocate, as specified, and indicating which of these businesses became certified disabled veteran business enterprises and participated in a state contract. (6) Existing law requires the Department of General Services to make available a report on state agency contracting activity containing certain information. This bill would require the department, for any contracting activity occurring on or after July 1, 2015, to include in that report information of the use of disabled veteran business enterprise utilization plans, as specified. The bill would prohibit the department from approving a vendor's utilization plan unless the vendor agrees to provide the department with any information the department deems necessary to meet these reporting requirements.
Existing law establishes the California Economic Development Fund and authorizes the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to provide matching funds for economic development purposes from that fund. This bill would appropriate $6 million from the General Fund to the California Economic Development Fund to provide a cash match for federal funds to the administrative lead centers that have contracts with the United States Small Business Administration to administer the federal Small Business Development Center Program in California, subject to a specified condition. This bill would become operative only if AB 2670 of the 2013–14 Regular Session is enacted and becomes operative. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law establishes within the Governor's office the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development as the lead entity for economic strategy and the marketing of California on issues relating to business development, private sector investment, and economic growth, and authorizes the office to exercise various powers, including, among others, making recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature regarding policies, programs, and actions to advance statewide economic goals. This bill would enact the Entrepreneur-in-Residence Act of 2014, which would establish the state entrepreneur-in-residence program within the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development for the purpose of utilizing the expertise of private-sector entrepreneurs to help make state governmental activities and practices more streamlined and accessible to small businesses. The program would authorize the director of the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development to appoint a maximum of 10 persons each year to serve within a state agency as an entrepreneur-in-residence, with duties as established in the bill, on a voluntary basis. The bill would require the director to accept appointment applications for the position of an entrepreneur-in-residence and to establish prescribed procedures for complying with the bill no later than March 1, 2015. The bill would also require the director to establish an informal working group of entrepreneurs-in-residence to discuss best practices, experiences, obstacles, opportunities, and recommendations, and to report on the program to the Governor and the Assembly Committee on Jobs, Economic Development, and the Economy, as specified.
Under existing law, prosecution for specified felony sex offenses, including rape, sodomy, lewd or lascivious acts, oral copulation, continuous sexual abuse of a child, and acts of sexual penetration, that are alleged to have been committed when the victim was under 18 years of age, may be commenced at any time prior to the victim's 28th birthday. This bill would authorize prosecution of those crimes at any time prior to the victim's 40th birthday when the crime was committed on or after January 1, 2015, or for which the previous statute of limitations has not run as of January 1, 2015.
Existing law provides for the civil commitment of criminal offenders who have been determined to be sexually violent predators for treatment in a secure state hospital facility, as specified. Existing law requires the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to refer a prisoner for evaluation by the State Department of State Hospitals when the secretary determines that the person may be a sexually violent predator and specifies the judicial processes necessary for civil commitment as a sexually violent predator, including, but not limited to, the right to a jury trial. Existing law establishes provisions by which a committed person may petition for conditional release. Existing law requires the court, if it decides a petition for conditional release is not frivolous, to give notice, as specified, at least 30 court days prior to the hearing date for the petition. Existing law requires a person who is conditionally released pursuant these provisions to be placed in the county of the domicile of the person prior to the person's incarceration, unless the court finds that extraordinary circumstances require placement outside the county of domicile. This bill would recast these provisions to require the court, if it determines that the petition is not frivolous, to give notice of the court's intention to conduct a conditional release hearing. The bill would require the person petitioning for conditional release, the Director of State Hospitals, and the designated attorney of the county of commitment to notify the court within 30 court days of receipt of this notice if it appears that a county other than the county of commitment may be the county of domicile. The bill would provide that the court's determination of the county of domicile would govern the current petition for conditional release, and would apply to any subsequent petitions for conditional release. The bill would require that after determining the county of domicile, the court set a date for the conditional release hearing and provide notice, as specified. The bill would authorize the designated attorney for the county of domicile and the designated attorney for the county of commitment, as defined, to mutually agree that the designated attorney for the county of domicile will represent the state at the conditional release hearing if the county of domicile is different than the county of commitment. If the designated attorneys do not make that agreement, the bill would provide that the designated attorney for the county of commitment will represent the state at the conditional release hearing, as specified. The bill would provide that if the committed person has been conditionally released in a county other than the county of commitment, the jurisdiction of the person would be transferred to the court of the county of placement, unless the designated attorney in the county of placement objects, as provided. The bill would additionally require that a person who is conditionally released pursuant to these provisions be placed in the county of the domicile of the person prior to the person's incarceration, unless the designated county of placement was given prior notice and an opportunity to comment on the proposed placement of the committed person in the county, as specified. By imposing additional duties on counties in regard to conditional releases of committed persons, 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 these statutory provisions.
Existing law establishes the Board of State and Community Corrections to collect and maintain available information and data about state and community correctional policies, practices, capacities, and needs, as specified. Existing law also requires the board to develop incentives for units of local government to develop comprehensive regional partnerships whereby adjacent jurisdictions pool grant funds in order to deliver services to a broader target population and maximize the impact of state funds at the local level. This bill would enact, until January 1, 2020, the Social Innovation Financing Program, and would require the board to administer the program. The bill would, among other things, authorize the Board of State and Community Corrections, upon appropriation of funds by the Legislature for deposit in the Recidivism Reduction Fund, to award grants in amounts of not less than $500,000 and not more than $2,000,000 to each of 3 counties, selected as specified, for the purpose of entering into a pay for success or social innovation financing contract, pursuant to which private investors agree to provide financing to service providers to achieve social outcomes agreed upon in advance and the government agency that is a party to the contractual agreement agrees to pay a return on the investment to the investors if successful programmatic outcomes are achieved by the service provider. The bill would limit the total amount of the grants awarded to $5,000,000. The bill would require each county receiving an award to report annually to the Governor and Legislature on the status of its program. The bill would require the board to compile the county reports and submit a summary report to the Governor and the Legislature annually. The bill would also make legislative findings and declarations in this regard.