Asm. Cecilia Aguiar-Curry

The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, generally regulates the disposal, management, and recycling of solid waste. The act requires a disposal facility operator to submit information to the department on the disposal tonnages that are disposed of at the disposal facility. This bill would require that information to be submitted to the department quarterly and would additionally require a disposal facility operator to submit information on the disposal tonnages that are applied to the land as green material. Existing regulations implement a 5-tier regulatory structure for solid waste facilities and solid waste handling operations and authorize certain facilities and operations to use the enforcement agency notification tier. This bill would require, for purposes of permitting and enforcement under the act, an owner of land who is engaged in the land application of over 200 tons of green material per parcel per year to use the enforcement agency notification tier pursuant to those regulations. The bill would require those owners of land to comply with the requirements of the enforcement agency notification. The bill would provide that "green material" includes municipally derived green material and does not include material from agricultural or forest sources. The bill would also make legislative findings and declarations relating to the significant impacts of the land application of green material.

Existing law vests the Department of Transportation with full possession and control of the state highway system and associated property. Existing law generally requires proceeds from the sale of excess state highway property to be made available for other highway purposes. Existing law generally requires the California Transportation Commission to program available funding for transportation capital improvement projects, other than state highway rehabilitation projects, through the State Transportation Improvement Program process, with available funds subject to various fair share distribution formulas. Existing law, in certain cases, requires the commission to instead reallocate funds from canceled state highway projects to a local alternative transportation improvement program within the same county and exempts those funds from the fair share distribution formulas that would otherwise apply. This bill, for state transportation facilities at the intersection of State Route 29 and State Route 221 in the County of Napa that are no longer planned to be constructed, would authorize the transportation planning agency having jurisdiction over the facilities, acting jointly with the County of Napa, to develop and file with the commission a local alternative transportation improvement program that addresses transportation problems and opportunities in the county. The bill would give the commission the final authority regarding the content and approval of the local alternative, and would prohibit the commission from approving the local alternative if it is submitted after July 1, 2022. The bill would require all proceeds from the sale of certain excess properties acquired by the department for the canceled state facilities, less any reimbursements due to the federal government and costs incurred in the sale of those excess properties, to be allocated by the commission to fund the approved local alternative and would exempt those funds from the fair share distribution formulas that would otherwise apply to state transportation funds.

Existing state law, the Sherman Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law, prohibits the manufacture, sale, delivery, holding, or offer for sale of adulterated foods or beverages. Existing law prescribes when a food or beverage is adulterated, including if it bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance that may render it injurious to the health of a person or other animal that may consume it. Violation of these provisions is a crime. This bill would state that a food or beverage is not adulterated by the inclusion of industrial hemp products, including cannabidiol derived from industrial hemp, and would prohibit restrictions on the sale of food or beverages that include industrial hemp products or cannabidiol derived from industrial hemp based solely on the inclusion of industrial hemp products or cannabidiol derived from industrial hemp.

Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish rules and regulations for the staffing of all center-based child care and development programs under contract with the State Department of Education. Existing law establishes staffing ratios for center-based programs. This bill would authorize the Superintendent, to the extent consistent with federal law, to waive staffing ratios established under existing state law for center-based programs that meet federal Head Start program performance standards.

This measure would call on the board of directors of both the Pacific Gas and Electric Company and the Pacific Gas and Electric Corporation to resign their positions to make way for a board of directors that will support the reformation of the practices and culture of the utility. The measure would also call on the shareholders of the Pacific Gas and Electric Corporation to select a board of directors that will prioritize the utility's duty to provide safe and affordable electricity over its requirement to enrich its shareholders.

This measure would declare March 5, 2020, as Family Justice Center Day in California and would recognize the lifesaving and hope-giving work of the California Family Justice Center Network and its member Family Justice Centers as they work with rape crisis centers, domestic violence shelters, human trafficking agencies, prosecutors' offices, law enforcement agencies, and other professionals and community-based organizations to ensure that adult and child survivors of trauma can access all of their services in one setting.

This measure would recognize March 7, 2020, as California Arbor Day, and would urge California residents to observe the day with appropriate tree-planting activities and programs.

Existing law prohibits a city, county, city and county, or special district from discriminating against any person on the basis of gender in the operation, conduct, or administration of community youth athletics programs, as defined, or in the allocation of parks and recreation facilities and resources, as defined, that support or enable these programs. This bill would repeal and re-enact that law as the Fair Play in Community Sports Act and would also enact additional data reporting and antidiscrimination policy requirements as part of the act. The act would define a local agency as a city, county, city and county, or special district. As part of the act, the bill would also require a local agency that has a community youth athletics program to publicly make available at the end of each calendar year, beginning in 2021 and annually thereafter, certain data regarding the program. The bill would require the local agency to post the data prominently on the internet website of the local agency or county or counties that the local agency serves or is a part of. The bill would require a local agency to provide the data to the Department of Parks and Recreation and to maintain the materials the local agency used to compile the data for at least 3 years after the data is posted on the internet website. This bill would require a local agency to adopt a nondiscrimination policy with specified provisions, including procedures for filing a grievance with the local agency regarding discrimination on the basis of sex or gender in a local agency's community youth athletics program. The bill would require the policy to be prominently posted on the internet website of the local agency or county or counties that the local agency serves or is a part of. This bill would also require the department to compile the local agency data into a publicly available annual report and post, by the end of each calendar year, beginning in 2022 and annually thereafter, the report on the department's internet website, as specified. The bill would also require the department to provide technical assistance and guidance on the obligations of local agencies under the act, including, but not limited to, data reporting requirements. Upon appropriation by the Legislature, this bill would require the department to establish and administer a training support program to train the department's and local agency's staff on specified matters regarding gender equity in community youth athletics programs. The bill permits the department to allocate 16 of the moneys to establish and administer the training support program and a competitive grant program and to train the department's staff under the program. The bill also requires the department to allocate the remaining moneys for competitive grants to local agencies for purposes of funding the training of local agency staff on the specified matters regarding gender equity in community youth athletics programs. The bill requires the department to develop criteria and guidelines, as specified, for awarding and using the grant funds. By requiring cities, counties, cities and counties, and special districts to collect, publish, and maintain specified data and to adopt a nondiscrimination policy, 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 the statutory provisions noted above. 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.