Asm. Chad Mayes

This measure would constitute an application to the United States Congress to call a constitutional convention pursuant to Article V of the United States Constitution for the limited purpose of requiring the federal government to operate under a balanced budget. This measure would constitute a continuing application for such a convention until the legislatures of 23 of the states have made applications on the same subject and the convention has been called by the Congress of the United States.

This measure would designate the month of January 2020 as Positive Parenting Awareness Month in California.

Existing law creates in the State Treasury the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund for the receipt and deposit of moneys received by the state from certain Indian tribes pursuant to the terms of tribal-state gaming compacts entered into with the state. Existing law authorizes moneys in that fund to be used for specified purposes, including for grants for the support of state and local government agencies impacted by tribal government gaming. Existing law, until January 1, 2021, establishes the method of calculating the distribution of appropriations from the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund for those grants to local government agencies impacted by tribal gaming, and requires the Department of Finance, in consultation with the California Gambling Control Commission, to calculate and provide a recommendation regarding the total revenue in the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund that will be available for the current budget year for local government agencies. This bill would appropriate $13 million from the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund to the California Gambling Control Commission to provide grants to local agencies for the 2020–21 fiscal year, as described above.

This measure would proclaim January 13, 2020, as Korean American Day.

Existing law generally regulates classes of insurance, including fire insurance. Existing law prescribes the standard form for this issuance of fire insurance policies covering property. Existing law requires that all fire insurance policies in California be on the standard form, with no additions to or omissions from that form, except as provided. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision.

Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation has full possession and control of state highways and all property and rights in property acquired for state highway purposes. Existing law requires the department to adopt rules and regulations allowing the placement of various signs along state highways, including signs identifying roadside businesses offering fuel, food, lodging, or camping services. This bill would require the department to include a private stadium or sports arena as a facility that qualifies for supplemental destination signs in its regulations if the stadium otherwise meets the criteria for supplemental destination signs described in the California Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices.

(1) The California Whistleblower Protection Act prohibits an employee from interfering with a person's rights to disclose improper activity and authorizes the State Auditor to conduct an investigative audit upon receiving specific information that an employee or state agency has engaged in an improper governmental activity, as defined. The California Whistleblower Protection Act applies to state agencies, as defined, and to the University of California, the California State University, and courts, as specified. Under the California Whistleblower Protection Act, a person who intentionally engages in acts of reprisal, retaliation, threats, coercion, or similar acts against a state employee or an applicant for state employment for having made a protected disclosure is subject to civil liability and criminal penalties. The California Whistleblower Protection Act defines a "protected disclosure" to mean, among other things, a good faith communication that discloses information that may evidence an improper governmental activity. This bill would expand the definition of the term "protected disclosure" to include a complaint made to a Member of the Legislature, the Legislature, or any subdivision thereof. By expanding the definition of a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) Other existing law, the Whistleblower Protection Act, prohibits a state or local governmental employee from interfering with the right of a person to disclose an improper governmental activity, as defined, to an investigating committee of the Legislature. The Whistleblower Protection Act defines other terms for its purposes, including defining "employee" to mean any individual appointed by the Governor or employed or holding office in a state agency, including the California State University and the University of California, defined public entities, or any agency of local government. This bill would authorize a legislative investigative committee to investigate and report on improper governmental activities or to refer the improper governmental activity to the State Auditor for investigation pursuant to the California Whistleblower Protection Act. The bill would also authorize the committee to prepare and send copies of investigative reports to an employee's appointing power if it finds that the employee may have participated in improper governmental activities. The bill would authorize a committee to request additional information from a person submitting an allegation, as specified. The bill would prescribe various requirements for maintaining the confidentiality of people providing information in confidence and information obtained on investigation. The bill would authorize a legislative investigative committee to request assistance from a state department, agency, or employee in evaluating an allegation or conducting any investigation of an improper governmental activity and would generally require that such assistance be provided, as specified. (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. (4) 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.

The California Constitution provides for a right of privacy. Existing law prescribes a variety of consumer privacy protections, including those arising from particular business transactions. The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, operative January 1, 2020, grants consumers various rights with regard to personal information collected by a business, as defined, including the right to know what is collected and the right to have that information deleted. This bill would require a social networking service, as defined, to provide users that close their accounts the option to have the user's personally identifiable information permanently removed from the company's database and records and to prohibit the service from selling that information to, or exchanging that information with, a third party in the future, subject to specified exceptions. The bill would require a social media company to honor such a request within a commercially reasonable time. The bill would authorize specified relief for a consumer for a violation of these provisions.