Asm. Cecilia Aguiar-Curry

Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt a state master plan for services to migrant children. Under existing law, with the concurrence of a child's parent, a child who has been identified as a "migrant child" may be deemed a migrant child for a period, not in excess of 3 years, during which the child resides in an area where programs are provided for migrant children. Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified, that includes average daily attendance as a component of that calculation. This bill, commencing with the 2021–22 fiscal year, would authorize up to 2 local educational agencies with instructional days between the first day of a fiscal year to the first principal apportionment of that fiscal year, and between the 2nd principal apportionment of a fiscal year and the last day of that fiscal year, attributable to pupils of migrant agricultural workers who are enrolled in kindergarten and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, to request average daily attendance funding for those pupils to be included in the annual apportionment for the applicable fiscal year. The bill would require this average daily attendance funding received by a local educational agency to be used on a program for those pupils, as specified. The bill would require a local educational agency operating the program to annually report to the State Department of Education information on the program, as specified.

(1) Existing law authorizes a resource conservation district to be formed, as provided, for the control of runoff, the prevention or control of soil erosion, the development and distribution of water, and the improvement of land capabilities. Existing law authorizes a proposal to form a resource conservation district by a petition of registered voters or by the adoption of a resolution of application. Existing law authorizes a county, pursuant to a resolution adopted by a its board of supervisors, to lend any of its available funds to specified districts, including recreation and park districts, as provided. This bill would also authorize a county to lend available funds to a resource conservation district, as provided. (2) Existing law establishes the California Land Conservation Act of 1965, otherwise known as the Williamson Act, and authorizes a city or county to enter into 10-year contracts with owners of land devoted to agricultural use, whereby the owners agree to continue using the property for that purpose, and the city or county agrees to value the land accordingly for purposes of property taxation, as specified. Existing law authorizes the cancellation of a Williamson Act contract under certain circumstances, and authorizes the city or county to charge a cancellation fee, as provided. Existing law requires these cancellation fees to be transmitted by the county treasurer to the Controller upon collection, and specifies that those cancellation fees are to be deposited in the General Fund, except for the first $5,000,000 of those cancellation fees in the 2004–05 fiscal year and any other amount as approved in the final Budget Act for each fiscal year thereafter, which are required to be deposited in the Soil Conservation Fund to be available upon appropriation by the Legislature to support, among other things, a specified soil conservation program and the costs to the Department of Conservation for administering specified provisions of the act pertaining to identifying structures that constitute material breaches of contract and providing an alternate remedy to a contract cancellation petition of the landowner. Instead of making cancellation fee moneys in that fund available upon appropriation by the Legislature to support that soil conservation program and the costs to the department for administering those provisions pertaining to identifying structures that constitute material breaches of contract and providing an alternative remedy to a contract cancellation petition of the landowner, this bill would make that cancellation fee moneys in that fund available upon appropriation by the Legislature to support costs of the Director of Conservation to carry out certain powers and duties. (3) Existing law establishes the State Resource Conservation Commission and the Division of Resource Conservation in the Department of Conservation and prescribes the powers and duties of the commission and the division with regard to the implementation of resource conservation services and programs. Existing law requires the Chief of the Division of Resource Conservation to assist in the formation, organization, and operation of resource conservation districts, as provided. This bill would, among other things, abolish the State Resource Conservation Commission and the Division of Resource Conservation. The bill would authorize the Director of Conservation to have powers and duties pertaining to resource conservation activities and programs, including providing specified funding. The bill would require a resource conservation district to be certified by the department as meeting specified criteria in order to be eligible for this funding. The bill would require the department to, on or before December 31 of each year, to post on its internet website a list of resource conservation districts that have been certified. Upon appropriation by the Legislature, the bill would authorize a state agency to enter into an interagency agreement with a resource conservation district for the district to provide conservation services, as specified. The bill would provide grants and other forms of local assistance to resource conservation districts meeting certain requirements. The bill would make conforming changes. (4) Existing law authorizes resource conservation districts to develop districtwide comprehensive annual and long-range work plans to address the full range of soil and related resource problems. Existing law prescribes various requirements for the contents of the plans and reports and when specified plans and reports are required to be adopted or completed, as provided. This bill would instead authorize each district to develop a long-range work plan, annual work plan, and annual district report to address the full range of projects that protect, conserve, restore, or enhance natural resources, or improve or enhance adaptation or resilience to climate change, or mitigate or sequester carbon emissions on natural lands and working lands, as defined, as provided. The bill would require districts that prepare long-range work plans and annual work plans to provide, for information purposes only, long-range work plans and annual work plans and updates to these plans to the boards of supervisors of every county with land in the district's jurisdiction, as provided. The bill would update the dates when specified plans and reports are required to be adopted or completed, as provided, among other things.

Existing law, the California Emergency Services Act creates, within the office of the Governor, the Office of Emergency Services (office) which is responsible for addressing natural, technological, or manmade disasters and emergencies, including responsibility for activities necessary to prevent, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of emergencies and disasters upon people and property. Existing law authorizes cities, cities and counties, and counties to create disaster councils, by ordinance, to develop plans for meeting any condition constituting a local emergency or state of emergency, including, but not limited to, earthquakes, natural or manmade disasters specific to that jurisdiction, or a state of war emergency. Existing law requires a disaster council to supply a copy of those plans to the office. This bill would require the office to provide, upon request, technical assistance to any county, city and county, or city in conforming the county's, city and county's, or city's emergency plan with statewide emergency planning guidance and federal emergency planning guidance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The bill would require the office to prioritize a plan submitted from a rural county or rural city when providing this technical assistance. This bill would require that a city, county, or city and county that declares a local emergency for which the Governor proclaims a state of emergency to provide to the office an after action report that contains information the city, county, or city and county deems pertinent in informing local and statewide emergency planning efforts. The bill would require the after action report to be provided to the office within 90 days following the city's, county's, or city and county's declaration that the local emergency has ended. The bill would require the office to conspicuously post any after action report it receives on its internet website within 10 days of receipt of the report. By imposing new duties on city, county, and city and county officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities. 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.

(1) The California Child Day Care Facilities Act generally requires the State Department of Social Services to license, inspect, and regulate various types of child day care facilities, defined to include, among others, family daycare homes and day care centers. The act generally requires licensees and certain employees of licensees to complete specified education and training requirements, including, among others, preventive health practices and pediatric first aid. A person who willfully or repeatedly violates any provision of the act or any rule or regulation promulgated under the act is guilty of a crime. This bill would require a licensee under the act and each employee of a licensee to complete trauma-informed childcare training. By expanding the duties of licensees under the act, this bill would expand an existing crime, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program. (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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires specified health insurance policies that provide coverage for outpatient prescription drugs to cover medically necessary prescription drugs and subjects those policies to certain limitations on cost sharing and the placement of drugs on formularies. Existing law authorizes a health care service plan and a health insurer to utilize formularies, prior authorization, step therapy, or other reasonable medical management practices in the provision of outpatient prescription drug coverage. This bill would require health care service plan contracts and health insurance policies issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2021, that provide outpatient prescription drug benefits to cover all medically necessary prescription drugs approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treating substance use disorders that are appropriate for the specific needs of an enrollee or insured. The bill would require those drugs to be placed on the lowest cost-sharing tier of the plan or insurer's prescription drug formulary, unless specified criteria are met. The bill would, among other prohibitions, prohibit prior authorization or step therapy requirements on a prescription drug approved by the FDA for treating substance use disorders, unless specified criteria are met. Because a willful violation of these provisions 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 law makes it unlawful to produce, process, sell, offer to sell, or possess olive oil that indicates on its label "California Olive Oil," or uses similar words, to suggest that California is the source of the oil, unless 100% of that oil is derived from olives grown in California. This bill would make it unlawful and subject to imprisonment, fine, or both, as specified, to make any false representation in a brand name, label, advertising matter, packaging material, letterhead, invoice, tag, sign, business card, or other oral, written, or printed matter that an olive oil is produced entirely from olives grown within California, including using the terms "California olive oil," "California olives," or substantially similar representations. This bill would apply a similar prohibition on representations that an olive oil was produced from olives from a specific region of California unless at least 85% of the olive oil, by weight, was produced from olives grown in that specific region. This bill would authorize the Department of Food and Agriculture to seize olive oil labeled in violation of these prohibitions and to dispose of the olive oil. By creating a new crime, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

The Mello-Granlund Older Californians Act establishes the Community-Based Services Network, administered by the California Department of Aging, which, among other things, requires the department to enter into contracts with local area agencies on aging to carry out the requirements of various community-based services programs. Among these programs is the Alzheimer's Day Care-Resource Center Program. The Alzheimer's Day Care-Resource Center Program is required to provide access to specialized daycare resource centers for individuals with Alzheimer's disease and other dementia-related disorders, and to provide support to their families and caregivers. This bill would require the department, by July 1, 2021, to develop an informational tool to assist individuals and their caregivers in communicating with health care providers after receiving a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and to make that tool available to the public, as specified. The bill would require the tool to be based on a specified publication, and would require the department to update the information provided in that publication and to ensure that the tool meets the needs of an increasingly diverse aging population. The bill would require the department to evaluate the tool for effectiveness at least once every 3 years, contingent on the availability of funding. The bill would be implemented using existing department resources.

Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income persons receive health care benefits. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing law also establishes the Family Planning, Access, Care, and Treatment (Family PACT) Program, administered by the Office of Family Planning within the department, under which comprehensive clinical family planning services are provided to a person who has a family income at or below 200% of the federal poverty level, and who is eligible to receive these services. Existing law provides that comprehensive clinical family planning services under the program includes preconception counseling, maternal and fetal health counseling, and general reproductive health care, among other things. This bill would expand comprehensive clinical family planning services under the program to include the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for persons of reproductive age.

Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including telephone corporations. Existing law establishes, among other funds related to telecommunications, the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) in the State Treasury. Existing law requires the commission to develop, implement, and administer the CASF to encourage the deployment of high-quality advanced communications services to all Californians that will promote economic growth, job creation, and the substantial social benefits of advanced information and communications technologies. Existing law requires the commission to approve infrastructure projects supported by expenditures from the fund that provide last-mile broadband access to households that are unserved by an existing facilities-based broadband provider. This bill would establish the Rural Broadband and Emergency Infrastructure Grant Act of 2020 to ensure that all California fairgrounds are equipped with adequate broadband and telecommunications infrastructure to support local, regional, and state emergency and disaster response personnel and systems. The bill would, upon appropriation, require the Department of Technology, Department of Food and Agriculture, Public Utilities Commission, California Broadband Council, and Office of Emergency Services to jointly develop the Rural Broadband and Emergency Infrastructure Grant Program to provide each California fairground with grant moneys to support broadband and telecommunications infrastructure deployment.

This measure would designate the week of February 24, 2020, to March 1, 2020, as Eating Disorders Awareness Week.