Existing law provides for a system of postsecondary education in this state. This system includes as segments the University of California, administered by the Regents of the University of California, the California State University, administered by the Trustees of the California State University, and independent institutions of higher education. Existing law further provides for a Student Athlete Bill of Rights that applies to campuses of these segments that maintain intercollegiate athletic programs. This bill would add to the Student Athlete Bill of Rights a provision prohibiting an institution of higher education from upholding any rule, requirement, standard, or other limitation that prohibits a student athlete who transfers to that institution from participating in intercollegiate athletic competition immediately upon the student's transfer.
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Existing law, the Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists and Hearing Aid Dispensers Licensure Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of speech-language pathologists by the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensers Board, and makes a violation of the act a crime. The act defines the practice of speech-language pathology to include the application of instrumental procedures for specified purposes relating to the development and disorders of speech, voice, language, or swallowing. Existing law specifies that instrumental procedures are the use of rigid and flexible endoscopes to observe specified areas of the throat for specified purposes, including collecting data. Existing law prohibits the construction of the provisions on the application of instrumental procedures as a diagnosis and imposes a requirement that any abnormalities be referred to a physician and surgeon. This bill would add to the above-specified provisions on instrumental procedures a statement that the passage of those instruments without the presence of a physician and surgeon is subject to the existing prohibition on construing those provisions as a diagnosis and the requirement to refer abnormalities to a physician and surgeon. Existing law prohibits a speech-language pathologist from performing a flexible fiber optic nasendoscopic procedure unless they have received verification from an otolaryngologist that, among other things, they have performed a minimum of 25 flexible fiber optic procedures. This bill would instead require verification that the speech-language pathologist has performed a minimum of 25 supervised flexible fiber optic transnasal endoscopic procedures. Existing law authorizes a speech-language pathologist to pass a flexible fiber optic nasendoscopic instrument only under the direct authorization of an otolaryngologist and the supervision of a physician and surgeon. This bill would delete those provisions and would instead authorize a speech-language pathologist to pass a flexible fiber optic transnasal endoscopic instrument only upon the orders of a licensed physician and surgeon, which shall be deemed to allow a speech-language pathologist to perform fiber optic transnasal endoscopic procedures at a location based on the patient's medical needs. The bill would prohibit a speech-language pathologist from performing flexible fiber optic transnasal endoscopic procedures on patients who have contraindications to the procedure. 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 a specified reason.
Existing law provides for a system of postsecondary education in this state. This system includes as segments the University of California, administered by the Regents of the University of California, the California State University, administered by the Trustees of the California State University, and independent institutions of higher education. Existing law, the Student Athlete Bill of Rights, specifies rights of student athletes at campuses of these segments that maintain intercollegiate athletic programs. This bill would require campuses of these segments that receive, on average, more than $10,000,000 in annual income derived from media rights for intercollegiate athletics to establish a Student Athlete Post-Degree Fund and deposit moneys into that fund, with contributions designated for payment on behalf of student athletes participating on one or more intercollegiate athletic teams, as specified.
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.
The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act requires dealers within a convenience zone where no recycling location has been established, or within a convenience zone that is unserved for 60 days and not exempt from convenience zone requirements, to alternatively (1) submit an affidavit to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery stating that the dealer has met specified standards for empty beverage container redemption or (2) pay $100 per day to the department, for deposit in the continuously appropriated California Beverage Container Recycling Fund, until a recycling location is established or until the dealer meets the standards for redemption specified in the affidavit provisions. Existing law creates the Penalty Account in the fund and requires all civil penalties and fines collected by the department pursuant to the act to be deposited in that account. Existing law makes funds in the account available to the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for purposes of the act. A violation of the act or a regulation adopted pursuant to the act is a crime. This bill would revise that alternative requirement to instead require those dealers to submit that affidavit to the department unconditionally. The bill would make a dealer who does not submit that affidavit liable for a civil penalty of an unspecified amount per day that is greater than $100. To the extent that these provisions expand the scope of existing crimes relating to beverage containers, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would also repeal an obsolete provision. 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.
This measure would memorialize the achievements of Rosa Parks in the Civil Rights Movement and would commemorate the 20th Anniversary of Rosa Parks Day in California on February 4, 2020.
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The state board is required to approve a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020 and to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030. The act requires the state board to prepare and approve a scoping plan for achieving the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and to update the scoping plan at least once every 5 years. This bill would declare the policy of the state to achieve carbon neutrality as soon as possible, but no later than 2045, and to achieve and maintain net negative greenhouse gas emissions thereafter. The bill would require the state board to work with relevant state agencies to develop a framework for implementation and accounting that tracks progress toward achieving carbon neutrality, and to ensure that updates to the scoping plan identify and recommend measures to achieve carbon neutrality. The bill would require a specified plan prepared by the state board and other specified agencies to include sequestration targets consistent with achieving carbon neutrality, and would impose other requirements on state agencies relating to working toward carbon neutrality.