Asm. Cecilia Aguiar-Curry

Existing law creates the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, to which is committed the authority for the administration and enforcement of alcoholic beverage laws in the state in a strict and impartial manner. Existing law, commonly referred to as tied-house restrictions, generally prohibits a licensed manufacturer, winegrower, manufacturer's agent, California winegrower's agent, rectifier, distiller, bottler, importer, or wholesaler from having an ownership interest in an on-sale license, among other things, subject to a variety of exceptions. Existing law excepts from tied-house restrictions the issuance or transfer of a retail on-sale or off-sale license with respect to premises that are an integral part of the operations of a hotel or motel, notwithstanding that a manufacturer, winegrower, manufacturer's agent, California winegrower's agent, rectifier, distiller, bottler, importer, or wholesaler has an interest in the premises, the retail license, or the retail licensee, provided certain conditions are met. In this regard, in the case of a hotel or motel, the hotel or motel must have not less than 100 guestrooms. This bill, for the purpose of excepting a transfer of a retail on-sale or off-sale license from the tied-house restriction described above, would reduce the necessary number of guestrooms in a hotel or motel to 25. The bill would also specify that this exception applies notwithstanding the fact that an out-of-state distilled spirits shipper has an interest in the premises, the retail license, or the retail licensee.

Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, through its Office of Migrant Services, to assist in the development, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, or operation of migrant farm labor centers and authorizes the Director of Housing and Community Development to contract with school districts, housing authorities, health agencies, and other appropriate local public and private nonprofit agencies for the procurement or construction of housing or shelter and to obtain services for migratory agricultural workers. This bill would establish the Napa County Farmworker Centers Account to be administered by the department, as specified, to assist in the financing, maintenance, and operation of the Napa County Housing Authority's Farmworker Centers for year-round use by migrant and nonmigrant farm labor employees. The bill would require the department to award, annually, up to $250,000 in matching funds to the Napa County Housing Authority upon demonstration that the Napa County Housing Authority is capable of continuing to effectively serve the housing needs of migrant or other farmworkers in Napa County and requires the Napa County Housing Authority, to be eligible for funding, to provide equal or greater funds from local sources. The bill, if SB 2 of the 2017–18 Regular Session is enacted, would require the department to use specified funds that would be allocated from the Building Homes and Jobs Trust Fund as provided by that bill, and would otherwise provide that these provisions would be inoperative until a funding source is identified. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for Napa County.

Existing federal law, the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988, provides for the negotiation and execution of tribal-state gaming compacts for the purpose of authorizing certain types of gaming on Indian lands within a state. The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to negotiate and conclude tribal-state gaming compacts, subject to ratification by the Legislature. Existing law expressly ratifies a number of tribal-state gaming compacts, and amendments of tribal-state gaming compacts, between the State of California and specified Indian tribes. The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project, as defined, that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment, as defined, or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. This bill would ratify the amendment to the tribal-state gaming compact entered into between the State of California and the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, executed on August 18, 2017. The bill would provide that, in deference to tribal sovereignty, certain actions related to that amended compact are not projects for purposes of CEQA. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

This measure would recognize September 11, 2017, as a day of solemn commemoration and extend the Legislature's deepest sympathies to the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

This measure would urge the Congress of the United States to not enact S. 446, H.R. 38, or any other similar "concealed carry reciprocity" legislation that would require the State of California to recognize the concealed carry standards of every other state.

This measure would recognize the importance of civic engagement across the State of California.

(1) Existing law, the California Finance Lenders Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of finance lenders and brokers by the Commissioner of Business Oversight. Existing law requires each finance lender and broker licensee to file an annual report with the commissioner giving relevant information concerning the business and operations conducted by the licensee within the state during the preceding calendar year for each licensed place of business. Existing law authorizes the commissioner to, by order, summarily suspend or revoke the license of any licensee if that person fails to file that report within 10 days after notice by the commissioner that the report is due and not filed. This bill would authorize the commissioner, except in certain circumstances, to impose, by order, a penalty on any licensee who fails to either provide the commissioner with any report required by law or any material information required by the commissioner to be included in a report. The bill would prohibit the penalty from exceeding $100 for each business day the report or information is overdue for the first 5 business days and thereafter from exceeding $500 for each day the report or information is overdue, not to exceed $25,000 in the aggregate. The bill would specify the due date for these penalties under specified circumstances. The bill would authorize a licensee ordered to pay the penalty to request in writing a hearing to challenge that order and would require that hearing to be held under specified administrative proceedings. (2) Existing law, the California Deferred Deposit Transaction Law, requires each licensee to file a specified annual report with the Commissioner of Business Oversight and requires the report to be kept confidential. Existing law requires the annual consolidated report to be prepared by the commissioner and made available to the public. This bill would instead require those annual reports to be made available to the public for inspection, except as specified, and would also require the reports to include any other information reasonably required by the commissioner. (3) Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.

This measure would proclaim the month of September 2017 as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and state the commitment of the Legislature to support efforts to find cures for, and achieve prevention of, childhood cancer.

This measure would recognize the month of September 2017 as Student Hunger Action Month.

This measure would recognize October 20, 2017, as Arirang Day and would celebrate the culture and contributions of Korean Americans to California.