Existing law, the Irrigation District Law, with certain exceptions, requires a director on the board of an irrigation district that provides electricity for residents of the district to be a voter of the district and a resident of the division that the director represents. Existing law authorizes an irrigation district to sell, dispose of, and distribute electricity for use outside of the district's boundaries. This bill would require the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) , the Imperial County Local Agency Formation Commission, and the Riverside County Local Agency Formation Commission to meet to determine the sphere of influence of the Imperial Irrigation District and options for electrical service to the energy service area of the Imperial Irrigation District at the end of a certain lease of electrical rights and to evaluate related issues of the water rights of the Imperial Irrigation District and would, on or before June 30, 2021, require the Imperial Irrigation District to submit any requested documents and information to the Energy Commission for these purposes. The bill would require the Energy Commission to study options to extend representation on the board of directors of the Imperial Irrigation District, for a specified time, to residents within the energy service area of the Imperial Irrigation District but outside its jurisdictional boundaries. The bill would, on or before June 30, 2022, require the Energy Commission to submit a report to the Legislature on these issues, as specified. To the extent the bill would impose new duties on the Imperial Irrigation District or local agency formation commissions, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Imperial County Local Agency Formation Commission, the Riverside County Local Agency Formation Commission, and the Imperial Irrigation District. 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 with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
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(1) Existing law, the Manufactured Housing Act of 1980, requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to enforce various laws pertaining to the structural, fire safety, plumbing, heat-producing, or electrical systems and installations or equipment of a manufactured home, mobilehome, special purpose commercial coach, or commercial coach. The Manufactured Housing Act defines park trailer, also known as a recreational vehicle, as a trailer designed for human habitation for recreational or seasonal use only, that meets specified requirements, and imposes certain design and safety requirements on park trailers. The act requires a recreational vehicle that is offered for sale, sold, rented, or leased within the state to bear a label or an insignia indicating the manufacturer's compliance with specified standards. Under existing law, it is a misdemeanor for any person to knowingly remove or cause to be removed, among other prohibited acts, that label, insignia, or insignia of approval affixed on the recreational vehicle. This bill would redefine a park trailer as a trailer designed for human habitation for recreational, seasonal, or other use that meets specified requirements. By expanding the scope of a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) Existing law, the Mobilehome Parks Act (act) , requires every city, county, or city and county to enforce the act inside of a park, defined as a mobilehome park or manufactured housing community, in its jurisdiction when it has assumed responsibility for enforcement of the act and the Special Occupancy Parks Act and outside of parks in its jurisdiction. The act provides that it does not prohibit, among other things, the local authorities of a city, county, or city and county from regulating the construction and use of equipment and facilities located outside of a manufactured home or mobilehome used to supply gas, water, or electricity thereto, except facilities owned, operated, and maintained by a public utility, or to dispose of sewage or other waste therefrom when the facilities are located outside a park for which a permit is required, as described. This bill would instead provide that it does not prohibit the local authorities of a city, county, or city and county from regulating the construction and use of equipment and facilities located outside of a manufactured home or mobilehome used to supply gas, water, or electricity thereto, or to dispose of sewage or other waste therefrom, when the equipment or facilities are located outside a park for which a permit is required, as described, except for the construction and use of equipment or facilities owned, operated, and maintained by a public utility. Existing law requires that if, upon inspection, the enforcement agency determines that a manufactured home, mobilehome, an accessory building or structure, or lot is in violation of specified requirements, the enforcement agency shall promptly, but not later than 10 days, after completion of the inspection and determination that the alleged violation exists, issue a notice to correct the violation to the registered owner of the manufactured home or mobilehome, with a copy to the occupant thereof, if different from the registered owner. This bill would require a copy of the notice to also be sent to the owner or operator of the mobilehome park. Existing law requires that if, upon inspection, the enforcement agency determines that a manufactured home, mobilehome, an accessory building or structure, or lot is in violation of specified requirements and that violation constitutes an imminent hazard representing an immediate risk to life, health, and safety and requiring immediate correction, the notice of violation shall be issued immediately and served on the occupant, with a copy mailed to the registered owner, if different from the occupant, to the owner or operator of the mobilehome park, and to the responsible person for the mobilehome park. All violations are to be corrected within a reasonable time as determined by the enforcement agency and contained within the notice. This bill would authorize, when the registered owner of the manufactured home or mobilehome does not correct all of the imminent hazard violations within a reasonable time, the enforcement agency to provide, 30 days prior to taking enforcement actions, a notice of enforcement against that registered owner to the owner or operator of the mobilehome park for purposes of giving the owner or operator a reasonable opportunity to have the registered owner correct the violations. Existing law authorizes an enforcement agency to institute any appropriate action or proceeding to prevent, restrain, correct, or abate specified violations of the act, regulations adopted pursuant to the act, or any order or notice issued by the enforcement agency. Existing law also authorizes an enforcement agency to suspend a permit to operate if the person who holds the permit violates the permit or the act. This bill would prohibit an enforcement agency from suspending or revoking a permit to operate for uncorrected violations of the act, regulations adopted pursuant to the act, or any order or notice issued by the enforcement agency if the violation is caused by the registered owner of a manufactured home or mobilehome and the owner or operator of the park has taken steps to correct the violation, unless the owner or operator of the park is the registered owner causing the violation. Existing law makes it unlawful, commencing January 1, 2021, for any person to use for occupancy any manufactured home or mobilehome, wherever the manufactured home or mobilehome is located, that does not conform to the registration requirements of the department, provided that the department has provided notice to the occupant of the registration requirements and any registration fees due. This bill would require the department to notify the owner or operator of a manufactured housing community of any notice provided to an occupant of a manufactured home or mobilehome in the manufactured housing community pursuant to that provision. (3) 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 requires the governing board of a school district to give diligent care to the health and physical development of pupils and authorizes the governing board of a school district to employ properly certified persons for that work. Existing law requires school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to provide emergency epinephrine auto-injectors to school nurses or trained volunteer personnel, and authorizes school nurses and trained personnel to use epinephrine auto-injectors to provide emergency medical aid to persons suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering, from an anaphylactic reaction, as provided. This bill would require the State Department of Education to create guidelines for local educational agencies, defined to mean school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools, to protect pupils with food allergies. The bill would require the guidelines to focus on best practices for school nurses and school food handlers, and to include specified protocols, including that food served or offered to pupils accurately label certain ingredients, to notify parents and guardians of those ingredients, and to establish communication with the parent or guardian of a pupil with a food allergy, as specified. The bill would encourage local educational agencies to follow those guidelines.
This measure would designate the week of February 24, 2020, to March 1, 2020, as Eating Disorders Awareness Week.
Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing law provides for a schedule of benefits under the Medi-Cal program, including certain dental services. Existing law provides that any county, political subdivision of the state, or other governmental entity in the state may elect to transfer funds in the form of cash or loans to the department in support of the Medi-Cal program, and provides the department discretion to accept or not accept any elective transfer from a county, political subdivision, or other governmental entity for obtaining federal financial participation. Pursuant to this provision, existing law authorizes the Director of Health Care Services to maximize federal financial participation to provide access to services provided by hospitals that are not reimbursed by certified public expenditure by authorizing the use of intergovernmental transfers to fund the nonfederal share of supplemental payments as permitted under federal law, and requires the department to establish various intergovernmental transfer programs, including the Nondesignated Public Hospital Intergovernmental Transfer Program. This bill would require the department to establish, implement, and maintain the Public University Dental School Intergovernmental Transfer Program, and to authorize public university dental schools to utilize intergovernmental transfers to support the training and dental care that these schools provide to Medi-Cal beneficiaries. The bill would require each transferring entity, upon providing any intergovernmental transfer of funds, to certify that the transferred funds qualify for federal financial participation, and would provide that any intergovernmental transfer of funds made is voluntary. The bill would prohibit the department from assessing any fee to reimburse the department for specified costs, including administrative costs. The bill would require the department to obtain federal approvals and federal matching funds, and to implement those provisions by various means, including policy letters.
Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies and community development agencies as of February 1, 2012, and provides for the designation of successor agencies to wind down the affairs of the dissolved redevelopment agencies and to, among other things, make payments due for enforceable obligations and to perform duties required by any enforceable obligation. Existing law authorizes the city, county, or city and county that created a former redevelopment agency to elect to retain the housing assets and functions previously performed by the former redevelopment agency. Existing law requires the housing successor to maintain any funds transferred to it, together with any funds generated from housing assets in a separate Low and Moderate Income Housing Asset Fund to be used in accordance with applicable housing-related provisions of the Community Redevelopment Law, except as specified. Existing law requires the housing successor to expend funds received from the successor agency to meet its enforceable obligations, and for specified administrative and monitoring costs relating to ensuring the long-term affordability of units subject to affordability restrictions. The housing successor may then expend a specified amount per fiscal year for homeless prevention and rapid rehousing services, including specified types of services described in that provision, and must use all funds remaining thereafter for the development of affordable housing, as specified. If a housing successor has an excess surplus, the housing successor is required to encumber those funds, within 3 fiscal years, for the development of affordable housing, or to enter into an agreement to transfer the funds for transit priority projects, as specified. Existing law defines the term "excess surplus" for these purposes to mean an unencumbered amount in the housing successor's Low and Moderate Income Housing Asset Fund that exceeds the greater of $1,000,000 or the aggregate amount deposited into the fund during the housing successor's preceding 4 fiscal years, whichever is greater. This bill would expand the definition of "excess surplus" to also include, for an entity operating as a housing successor in the City of Indian Wells, the City of La Quinta, or the County of Yolo that owns and operates affordable housing that was transferred to the housing successor as a housing asset of the former redevelopment agency, an unencumbered amount in the housing successor's Low and Moderate Income Housing Asset Fund that exceeds the greater of $1,000,000 or the aggregate amount deposited into the account during the housing successor's preceding 8 fiscal years, whichever is greater. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of Indian Wells, the City of La Quinta, or the County of Yolo.
(1) The Surface Mining and Reclamation Act of 1975 prohibits a person, with exceptions, from conducting surface mining operations unless, among other things, a permit is obtained from, a specified reclamation plan is submitted to and approved by, and financial assurances for reclamation have been approved by the lead agency for the operation of the surface mining operation. The act exempts certain activities from the provisions of the act, including, among others, emergency excavations or grading conducted by the Department of Water Resources or the Central Valley Flood Protection Board for the specified purposes; surface mining operations conducted on lands owned or leased, or upon which easements or rights-of-way have been obtained, by the Department of Water Resources for the purpose of the State Water Resources Development System or flood control; and surface mining operations on lands owned or leased, or upon which easements or rights-of-way have been obtained, by the Central Valley Flood Protection Board for the purpose of flood control. This bill would additionally exempt from the provisions of the act emergency excavations or grading conducted by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California for the specified purposes and surface mining operations conducted on lands owned or leased, or upon which easements or rights-of-way have been obtained, by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California for the purpose of repairing, maintaining, or replacing pipelines, infrastructure, or related transmission systems used for the distribution of water in the specified counties. The bill would require the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California to provide an annual report to the Department of Conservation and any affected county by the date specified by the department on these surface mining operations. To the extent this bill adds to the duties of local governments acting as a lead agency, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. (3) 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 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. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to determine the amount of funding to be provided for each special education local plan area in accordance with specified calculations. Existing law requires the Superintendent, for the 2013–14 fiscal year, to compute an equalization adjustment for each special education local plan area for purposes of increasing the funding rates for special education local plan areas with funding rates below the 90th percentile, as specified. This bill would increase that percentile to the 95th percentile and would require the Superintendent to compute that equalization adjustment commencing with the first fiscal year after funds are apportioned pursuant to a specified formula and for each fiscal year thereafter in which an equalization appropriation is made, as specified. The bill would require the Superintendent to make certain computations following each year in which an equalization appropriation is made. The bill would establish the high-cost service allowance for the purpose of providing supplemental funding to a special education local plan area on the basis of the number of pupils who are severely disabled and the number of pupils with both deafness and blindness, traumatic brain injury, or multiple disabilities, and would require the Superintendent to make specified computations that would determine the high-cost service allowance for each special education local plan area. The bill would require, commencing with the first fiscal year after funds are apportioned pursuant to a specified formula, a special education local plan area that reports serving children 3 or 4 years of age who meet the definition of an "individual with exceptional needs" to count 3 times all units of average daily attendance generated by children enrolled in kindergarten less those children eligible for transitional kindergarten, for purposes of calculating units of average daily attendance, except as provided. By adding to the duties of special education local plan areas, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law defines "average daily attendance reported for the special education local plan area" for purposes of these and other provisions to mean the total number of units of average daily attendance reported in the school district or districts and in the county office of education or county offices of education, or portion of a county office of education that is a part of more than one special education local plan area, as specified. The bill would revise that definition to mean the total number of units of average daily attendance reported for the current school year or the prior school year, whichever is greater, in those same entities, as specified. 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.
Existing law requires that all expenses authorized and necessarily incurred to prepare for and conduct an election be paid from the county treasuries, except as otherwise provided. This bill would require the state to pay expenses authorized and necessarily incurred to prepare for and conduct certain vacancy elections, as specified.
Existing law establishes the Department of Technology within the Government Operations Agency and authorizes the Director of Technology to supervise the department and to report directly to the Governor on issues relating to information technology. This bill would establish, until January 1, 2031, the California Geographic Information Office within the Department of Technology for the purpose of coordinating the state's geographic information systems (GIS) projects, promulgating standards for data collection and sharing, and managing shared data resources. The bill would authorize the Geographic Information Officer, appointed by the Governor, to direct the office and to work closely with the Director of Technology. The officer's duties would include, among others, developing a state GIS strategic plan in consultation with key stakeholders, including, but not limited to, the California Geographic Information Advisory Council, which would be established by this bill. The bill would require the council to advise the officer on issues of policy and implementation.