Existing law requires the Franchise Tax Board to make available to taxpayers tax forms to allow taxpayers to file returns under the Personal Income Tax Law and Corporation Tax Law. The Franchise Tax Board allows taxpayers to file their taxes through the Franchise Tax Board's internet website via the CalFile program. Existing law, beginning on or after January 1, 2015, in modified conformity with federal income tax laws, allows an Earned Income Tax Credit against personal income tax and a payment from the Tax Relief and Refund Account for an allowable credit in excess of tax liability to an eligible individual that is equal to that portion of the Earned Income Tax Credit allowed by federal law as determined by the Earned Income Tax Credit adjustment factor, as specified. This bill would, beginning January 1, 2023, require the Franchise Tax Board to notify potential eligible individuals, as defined, of available paperless filing options offered through the Franchise Tax Board, including the CalFile program, and free tax preparation services, including the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program. The bill would require these notifications to include information about the California Earned Income Tax Credit. The bill would require the Franchise Tax Board to submit a report on or before January 1, 2026, relating to the costs, efficacy, and savings realized based on these notification requirements, as provided.
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(1) Existing law requires peace officers in this state to meet specified minimum standards, including, among other requirements, that peace officers be evaluated by a physician and surgeon or psychologist and found to be free from any physical, emotional, or mental condition that might adversely affect the exercise of the powers of a peace officer. This bill would require that evaluation to include bias against race or ethnicity, gender, nationality, religion, disability, or sexual orientation. Under existing law, the minimum education requirement for peace officers is high school graduation from a public school or other accredited high school, passing an equivalency test or high school proficiency examination, or attaining a 2-year, 4-year, or advanced degree from an accredited institution. Existing law requires accreditation to be from a state or local government educational agency, a regional accrediting association, an accrediting association recognized by the United States Department of Education, or an organization holding full membership in specified organizations, including AdvancED. This bill would revise the accreditation standards to include an organization holding full membership in Cognia. (2) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 1031 of the Government Code proposed by SB 960 to be operative only if this bill and SB 960 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. (3) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law establishes the Office of Information Security within the Department of Technology for the purpose of ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of state systems and applications and to promote and protect privacy as part of the development and operations of state systems and applications to ensure the trust of the residents of this state. The law requires an entity within the executive branch that is under the direct authority of the Governor to implement the policies and procedures issued by the office. The law additionally authorizes the office to conduct, or require to be conducted, an independent security assessment of every state agency, department, or office, as specified. The law authorizes the Military Department to perform an independent security assessment of any state agency, department, or office. This bill would require state agencies not covered by the provisions described above to adopt and implement information security and privacy policies, standards, and procedures based upon standards issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Federal Information Processing Standards, as specified. The bill would require these state agencies to perform a comprehensive, independent security assessment every 2 years and would authorize them to contract with the Military Department, or with a qualified responsible vendor, for that purpose. This bill would require these state agencies to certify, by February 1 annually, to the President pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the Assembly that the agency is in compliance with all adopted policies, standards, and procedures and to include a plan of action and milestones, as specified. The bill would require that the certification be kept confidential and not be disclosed, except that the information and records would be allowed to be shared, maintaining a chain of custody, with the members of the Legislature and legislative employees, at the discretion of the President pro Tempore of the Senate or the Speaker of the Assembly. Because the required certification would be made under penalty of perjury, the bill would expand the crime of perjury and would thereby impose a state-mandated local program. 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 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 the licensure and regulation of health facilities, defined to include skilled nursing facilities, by the State Department of Public Health. The Long-Term Care, Health, Safety, and Security Act of 1973 generally requires the department to license, inspect, and regulate long-term health care facilities, including skilled nursing facilities. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor for any person to willfully or repeatedly violate the act, as specified. Existing regulations require a skilled nursing facility to have emergency planning, including an emergency lighting and power system. This bill would require a skilled nursing facility to have an alternative source of power, as defined, to protect resident health and safety, as defined, for no fewer than 96 hours during any type of power outage. The bill would impose specific compliance requirements based on whether a skilled nursing facility uses a generator as its alternative source of power, or batteries or a combination of batteries in tandem with a renewable electrical generation facility. The bill would require a facility to comply with its requirements by January 1, 2024. By expanding the scope of an existing 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 requires a manufacturer of a connected device to equip the device with a reasonable security feature or features that are appropriate to the nature and function of the device, appropriate to the information it may collect, contain, or transmit, and designed to protect the device and information contained in the device from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure. This bill would provide that a manufacturer of a connected device may elect to satisfy the above-described provisions by ensuring the connected device meets or exceeds the baseline product criteria of a labeling scheme that conforms to specified guidance published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for consumer Internet of Things (IoT) products, satisfies a conformity assessment as described by a NIST conforming labeling scheme, as specified, and bears the binary label as described by a NIST conforming labeling scheme. This bill would also make nonsubstantive changes that remove provisions redundant to the above-described existing provisions.
The California Hospice Licensure Act of 1990 (act) requires a person, political subdivision of the state, or other governmental agency to obtain a license from the State Department of Public Health to provide hospice services to an individual who is experiencing the last phase of life due to a terminal disease, as defined, and their family, except as provided. The act also provides for the renewal of a license. The act imposes criminal penalties on any person who violates any provision of the act or any rule or regulation promulgated under the act. Existing law prohibits any person, political subdivision of the state, or other governmental agency from establishing, conducting, maintaining, or representing itself as a hospice unless a license has been issued under the act. This bill would generally replace the term "hospice" with the term "hospice agency." The bill would provide that hospice agency licenses are not transferable. The bill would specify that only the person or entity initially issued the license may use the license for 5 years. The bill would prohibit the department from approving a change of ownership of a licensed hospice agency for 5 years from the date of initial licensure. The bill would authorize the department to make an exception to the 5-year prohibition under extenuating circumstances, as prescribed. Existing law requires an applicant for a hospice license to satisfy certain conditions, and to satisfy the definition of a hospice and provide specified services in order to be licensed as a hospice. Existing law authorizes the department to deny an application for licensure, or suspend or revoke any license issued to provide hospice services for various reasons, including, but not limited to, violation by the applicant or licensee of the act or related rules and regulations promulgated by the department. Existing law authorizes the department to conduct a survey of an accredited hospice to ensure that the accreditation requirements are met. This bill would revise and expand the department's application requirements, and would additionally require an applicant who has not previously qualified for a hospice agency license to, as a condition of licensure, demonstrate and provide evidence of an unmet need of hospice services in the geographic region the hospice would serve, except under specified circumstances. The bill would require a hospice agency to have specified personnel categories and would require the hospice agency to provide certain information for each individual on an initial application for those positions. The bill would add to the reasons for denial, suspension, or revocation of a license to include, among others, improperly certifying a patient as eligible for hospice care, and demonstrating a pattern and practice of violations of state or federal standards during the last 3 years of a hospice agency owned, operated, or managed by the applicant or licensee. The bill would require the department to conduct annual surveys of 5% of initial hospice agency licenses approved by accrediting organizations during the previous calendar year to ensure that the accreditation requirements are met, using a selective sample basis, and would authorize the department to survey an accredited hospice agency not included as part of the required surveys. The bill would establish a procedure for a person to request an investigation of an accredited hospice agency by making an oral or written complaint alleging a violation of the requirements applicable to hospice agencies. The bill would require the department to make a preliminary review and to make an onsite investigation within 10 business days after receiving the complaint, except as specified. The bill would require the department to notify the complainant in writing of its determination as a result of the investigation within 10 business days of completing the investigation. Existing law imposes a moratorium on the department issuing a new license to provide hospice services, except as specified. Existing law requires the moratorium to end on the earlier of 365 days from the date that the California State Auditor publishes a report on hospice licensure or on January 1, 2027, when the moratorium provisions are repealed. This bill would require the department, by January 1, 2024, to adopt emergency regulations to implement the recommendations in a specified report of the California State Auditor. The bill would require the department to maintain the general moratorium on new hospice agency licenses until the department adopts the regulations. The bill would require the regulations, among other things, to establish guidelines for assessing the appropriateness of a hospice agency's ratio of patients to nurses, require hospice agency management personnel to meet minimum standards of training and experience, and to establish timelines for reporting changes to application information, as specified. The bill would require the moratorium to end on the earlier of 2 years from the date that the California State Auditor publishes a report on hospice agency licensure, or the date the emergency regulations are adopted. The bill would exempt licensed hospice facilities, as defined, from the moratorium. Because a violation of certain of the bill's requirements would be a misdemeanor, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. 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 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.
The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 (CERL) authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions for the purpose of providing pension, disability, and other benefits to county and district employees. CERL defines compensation earnable for purposes of its provisions, with particular application to the calculation of final compensation and the determination of pension amounts and other benefits. Existing law, the Public Employees' Pension Reform Act of 2013, prescribes various limitations on public employees, employers, and retirement systems concerning, among other things, the types of remuneration that may be included in compensation that is applied to pensions. This bill, which would apply only in Ventura County, would provide that compensation and compensation earnable include flexible benefits plan allowances paid by a county or a district on behalf of its employees as part of a cafeteria plan, as specified, if certain conditions are met. Among these conditions, the bill would require that the retirement system included the flexible benefit plan allowance as part of compensation earnable as of July 30, 2020, that the employer and employee paid contributions to the retirement system based on the flexible benefit plan allowance, and that the employer and employee continue to pay those contributions as the employee earns this allowance. The bill would apply these provisions to eligible members who retire on or before December 31, 2025. For members who retire after December 31, 2025, to the extent the retirement system excludes any remuneration, as described above, from the definition of compensation or compensation earnable, the bill would require the retirement system to refund contributions to the member, and to credit contributions to the employer, that were made based on the excluded remuneration in accordance with requirements under the Internal Revenue Code. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Ventura.
Existing law designates specific days as holidays in this state. Existing law requires the Governor annually to proclaim the date corresponding with the second new moon following the winter solstice, or the third new moon following the winter solstice should an intercalary month intervene, as the "Lunar New Year." Existing law entitles state employees, with specified exceptions, to elect to receive 8 hours of holiday credit for "Native American Day," in lieu of receiving 8 hours of personal holiday credit, and to elect to use 8 hours of vacation, annual leave, or compensating time off, consistent with departmental operational needs and collective bargaining agreements, for "Native American Day," as specified. This bill would repeal provisions requiring the Governor to annually proclaim the "Lunar New Year," and would instead recognize the "Lunar New Year" as a state holiday. The bill would authorize state employees, with specified exceptions, to elect to receive 8 hours of holiday credit for the "Lunar New Year" in lieu of receiving 8 hours of personal holiday credit, and to elect to use 8 hours of vacation, annual leave, or compensating time off, consistent with departmental operational needs and collective bargaining agreements, for "Lunar New Year," as specified. Existing law designates specific days designated as holidays in this state, every Saturday and the day after Thanksgiving Day as judicial holidays, except "Admission Day," "Columbus Day," and any other day appointed by the President, but not by the Governor, for a public fast, thanksgiving, or holiday. This bill would additionally exclude "Lunar New Year" from designation as a judicial holiday. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 135 of the Code of Civil Procedure proposed by AB 1801 to be operative only if this bill and AB 1801 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Sections 6700, 19853, and 19853.1 of the Government Code proposed by AB 1655 and AB 1801 to be operative only if this bill and AB 1655, AB 1801, or both are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of clinical laboratories and clinical laboratory personnel and health professionals by the State Department of Public Health and makes a violation of these provisions a crime. Existing law authorizes an unlicensed person employed by a licensed clinical laboratory to perform venipuncture or skin puncture for the purpose of withdrawing blood or for clinical laboratory test purposes upon specific authorization from a licensed physician and surgeon, if that unlicensed person meets certain requirements. Existing law requires an unlicensed person performing these duties to possess a valid and current certification as a certified phlebotomy technician issued by the department. This bill would authorize a certified phlebotomy technician to collect blood through a peripheral venous catheter under specified conditions, including that the blood collection procedure is performed under the general supervision of a physician and surgeon and the blood collection procedure is performed using a device or devices approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration.
(1) The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act defines the term "beverage" to include certain types of products in liquid, ready-to-drink form and excludes, among other things, wine or wine from which alcohol has been removed in whole or in part, whether or not sparkling or carbonated. The act defines the term "beverage container" to mean the individual, separate bottle, can, jar, carton, or other receptacle, however denominated, in which a beverage is sold, and which is constructed of metal, glass, or plastic, or other material, or any combination of these materials. The act requires a distributor to pay a redemption payment for every beverage container sold or offered for sale in the state of $0.05 for a beverage container with a capacity of less than 24 fluid ounces and $0.10 for a beverage container with a capacity of 24 fluid ounces or more to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, and requires the department to deposit those amounts in the California Beverage Container Recycling Fund. The act also requires those beverage containers to have a refund value of $0.05 and $0.10, respectively. The money in the fund, except for civil penalties, fines, and administrative costs, is continuously appropriated to the department to pay refund values and administrative fees to processors, defined to mean persons certified by the department who purchase empty beverage containers from recycling centers and process the containers in a prescribed manner, to fund a reserve for contingencies and, after setting specified funds aside, for various purposes relating to beverage container recycling, litter cleanup and prevention, and education, including up to $10,000,000 annually for quality incentive payments for empty glass beverage containers. Under the act, the department is required to calculate a processing fee for each beverage container with a specified scrap value, which is required to be paid by beverage manufacturers for each beverage container sold or transferred to a distributor or dealer. The act requires processors and distributors of beverage containers to report specified information to the department, in the form and manner prescribed by the department. The act imposes certain requirements on the invoice or other form of accounting of a transaction submitted by a beverage distributor of beverages to a dealer, but authorizes a distributor of beer and malt beverages or wine or distilled spirit coolers to separately identify certain information. The act prohibits a person from offering to sell, or selling, to a consumer a beverage container that has not been labeled as required by the act. The act defines "wine and distilled spirit cooler" as a beverage containing wine or distilled spirits to which is added concentrated or unconcentrated juice or flavoring material and containing not more than 7% alcohol by volume. The act requires the total number of filled plastic beverage containers sold by a beverage manufacturer to contain specified amounts of postconsumer recycled plastic content per year, as provided. The act authorizes the department to impose a civil penalty of up to $1,000 for a violation of the act, and up to $5,000 for a violation that is intentional or negligent. A violation of the act is a crime. The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, which is administered by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, regulates the application, issuance, and suspension of alcoholic beverage licenses. Existing law authorizes a person licensed in California or any other state as a winegrower who obtains a wine direct shipper permit to sell and ship wine directly to a resident of California, who is 21 years of age or older, for the resident's personal use and not for resale. A violation of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act is a crime. This bill would require a wine direct shipper permitholder, before sending any shipment to a resident of California, to register with the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery as a beverage manufacturer and distributor under the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act. The bill would require a wine direct shipper permitholder to comply with the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act, including, but not limited to, the reporting and payment provisions applicable to the permitholder as a beverage manufacturer and distributor, and would authorize the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to suspend or revoke the wine direct shipper permit if the permitholder fails to comply with certain provisions of the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act. The bill would also authorize the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to adopt regulations related to the wine direct shipper permit. The bill would thereby impose a state-mandated local program by creating new crimes under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act. The bill would require, with respect to the payment of processing fees and redemption payments for beverages manufactured outside the state and sold directly to consumers within the state with a direct shipper permit, the beverage manufacturer or distributor to be deemed to be the person or entity named on the direct shipper permit issued pursuant to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, and would require the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to provide related notice. The bill would require the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery and the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to enter into a contract concerning the implementation of that requirement for redemption payments, and would authorize the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to expend from the fund the amount necessary for reimbursing the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control for its costs incurred in implementing the requirement. The bill would thereby make an appropriation by authorizing the expenditure of moneys from the continuously appropriated fund for a new purpose. The bill would explicitly authorize the department to require the information reported to the department by a processor or distributor of beverage containers to be submitted electronically. The bill would, as of January 1, 2024, revise the definition of "beverage" to include distilled spirits, wine, or wine from which alcohol has been removed in whole or in part, whether or not sparkling or carbonated, and wine or distilled spirits contained in a beverage container that is a box, bladder, or pouch, or similar container, regardless of the material type from which the beverage container is made. The bill would require a beverage container that is a box, bladder, or pouch, or similar container, containing wine or distilled spirits to have a redemption payment and refund value of $0.25, would exclude a licensed wine or distilled spirits tasting room from the act's definition of "dealer," and would limit the exclusions in the act's definition of "dealer" to the sale of beverages in beverage containers to consumers for consumption onsite, as provided. The bill would grant wine and distilled spirits contained in a beverage container that is a box, bladder, or pouch, or similar container, an additional 2 years to comply with the act's postconsumer recycled plastic content requirements. The bill would require, commencing January 1, 2024, and until January 1, 2026, a processing fee equivalent to the processing fee applied to high-density polyethylene beverage containers to be applied to a beverage container that is a box, bladder, or pouch, or similar container, containing wine or distilled spirits. The bill would, as of January 1, 2024, revise the act's definition of "wine and distilled spirit cooler" by eliminating the requirement that the beverage contain not more than 7% alcohol by volume. Since the additional payments for the beverage containers that this bill would make subject to the act would be deposited in a continuously appropriated fund, the bill would make an appropriation. The bill would additionally authorize a distributor of wine, or wine from which alcohol has been removed in whole or in part, whether or not sparkling or carbonated, or distilled spirits to separately identify specified information on an invoice or other form of accounting of a transaction submitted to a dealer. The bill would require the department, to the extent feasible, to make efforts to streamline and consolidate forms used by wineries who are also distributors to register and provide payments under the act. The bill would increase from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000 the annual amount authorized to be expended from the fund for quality incentive payments for empty glass beverage containers, thereby making an appropriation, and would restrict those payments to beverage containers that are used for the manufacturing of glass beverage containers in this state. The bill would exempt a beverage container included within the scope of the act beginning on January 1, 2024, from the act's labeling requirements until July 1, 2025. The bill would require the department to create the Recycled Glass Processing Incentive Grant Program to provide grants to applicants who demonstrate the ability to expand glass cullet processing in the state, as prescribed. The bill would authorize the department to expend from the fund up to $4,000,000 annually for those grants, thereby making an appropriation. The bill would require the department to create the Increased Recycling of Empty Glass Beverage Containers Grant Program to assist in funding regional pilot programs furnishing bins for collection of empty glass beverage containers from restaurants and on-sale retail licensed establishments, as prescribed. The bill would authorize the department to expend from the fund up to $4,000,000 annually for those grants, thereby making an appropriation. The bill also would require the department to create the Empty Glass Beverage Transportation Grant Program to facilitate the use of rail transportation of empty glass beverage containers to glass processing facilities within the state, as prescribed. The bill would authorize the department to expend from the fund up to $1,000,000 annually for those grants, thereby making an appropriation. The bill would authorize the department to pay a market development payment to a glass beverage container manufacturer who purchases recycled glass collected within this state for use in manufacturing new beverage containers in this state. The bill would authorize the department to expend from the fund up to $60,000,000 annually for these glass market development payments, as prescribed, thereby making an appropriation. The bill would repeal these glass market development payment provisions as of January 1, 2028. The bill would appropriate $10,000,000 from the fund to the department to disburse to community conservation corps in the form of grants for beverage container litter reduction programs and recycling programs, thereby making an appropriation. The bill would increase from $1,000 to $5,000 the amount of the civil penalty that the department may impose for a violation of the act and would increase from $5,000 to $10,000 the amount for an intentional or negligent violation. (2) The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to annually designate convenience zones statewide and requires at least one certified recycling center or location within every convenience zone that accepts all types of empty beverage containers and pays the refund value, if any, at one location. The act defines "convenience zone" as an area within a 12-mile radius of a supermarket or, alternatively, authorizes the department, in a rural region and upon petition by an interested person, if certain conditions are met, to increase a convenience zone to include the area within a 3-mile radius of a supermarket or to designate as a convenience zone the area within a 3-mile radius of a dealer. The 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 either (A) submit an affidavit to the department stating that the dealer has met specified standards for empty beverage container redemption or (B) pay $100 per day to the department, for deposit into the fund, until a recycling location is established or until the dealer meets the standards for redemption specified in the affidavit provisions. The act authorizes the department to grant a convenience zone an exemption from certain redemption requirements, including certain dealer and recycling center redemption requirements, based on certain factors. The act limits the total number of exemptions that may be granted to 35% of the total number of convenience zones identified as having one or more of those factors applicable. This bill would revise the act's definition of "convenience zone" to expand that area from a 12-mile radius to a one-mile radius of a supermarket. The bill would expand the area to which the department may increase a convenience zone in a rural region from a 3-mile radius to up to a 5-mile radius of a supermarket. The bill would decrease from 35% to 15% the percentage of the total number of those convenience zones that may be granted an extension. The bill would, as of January 1, 2025, eliminate the option to pay $100 per day to the department rather than submit that affidavit to the department. The bill would require a dealer, as an alternative to submitting that affidavit, to join a dealer cooperative, as defined, to provide a dealer cooperative redemption plan to the department and implement the approved plan to serve that convenience zone. The bill would exempt from those requirements a dealer that has demonstrated to the department that the dealer has gross annual sales of less than $1,500,000, excluding sales of fuel, or is less than 5,000 square feet. The bill would, by January 1, 2024, authorize the department to provide one or more model dealer cooperative redemption plans for dealer cooperatives to adopt and require the department to adopt emergency regulations that provide access and convenience for consumers that are comparable to specified existing law. The bill would impose requirements on a dealer cooperative, including, among others, assessing fees on the dealers in the zone or zones covered by the redemption plan necessary to cover operational costs and implementation of the approved plan and redeeming all material types and offering one or more redemption locations within the dealer cooperative zone. The bill would make a dealer cooperative eligible for reimbursement of California Redemption Value funds paid to consumers, processing payments, handling fees, and administrative fees unless a certified recycling center operates in a convenience zone in which a dealer participating in the dealer cooperative is located. By authorizing the expenditure of moneys from the continuously appropriated fund for a new purpose, the bill would make an appropriation. The bill would provide for enforcement of these provisions by the department, including requiring the department to audit each cooperative at least once every 24 months. (3) The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act authorizes the department to pay a market development payment to a reclaimer for empty plastic beverage containers that have been collected for recycling in the state, and that the reclaimer washes and processes into flake, pellet, sheet, or any other form that is then usable as input for the manufacture of new plastic products by product manufacturers in the state. The act also authorizes the department to pay a market development payment to a product manufacturer for plastic flake, pellet, sheet, or any other form of plastic purchased from a reclaimer and used by that product manufacturer to manufacture a plastic product in the state. The act makes these provisions inoperative on July 1, 2022. The act authorizes the department, for the 2019–20 fiscal year to the 2021–22 fiscal year, inclusive, to expend up to $10,000,000 each fiscal year from the fund for market development payments to reclaimers and product manufacturers for the activities described above. This bill would extend the market development payment inoperative date from July 1, 2022, to July 1, 2025. The bill would also instead authorize the department to expend an unspecified amount of funds for market development payments until the 2025–26 fiscal year. By extending the term of a continuous appropriation, the bill would make an appropriation. (4) This bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating new crimes under the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act relating to the regulation of beverage containers. The bill would also make conforming changes. (5) 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.