Asm. Jacqui Irwin

This measure would declare August 2022 as Valley Fever Awareness Month.

This measure would declare the month of September 2022 as California Emergency Preparedness Month.

Existing law establishes the Office of Information Security in the Department of Technology for purposes of ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of state systems and applications and promoting and protecting privacy as part of the development and operations of state systems and applications, as specified. Existing law requires the office to be under the direction of a chief. This bill would require the chief to submit an annual statewide information security status report to the Assembly Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection and the Senate Governmental Organization Committee, as described. The bill would require the first report to be submitted no later than January 2023. The bill would require the status report and any information or records included with the status report to be confidential and prohibit the information or records from being disclosed, except as provided. 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.

Existing law, the Veterans Housing and Homeless Prevention Bond Act of 2014 (the 2014 bond act) , authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of $600,000,000, as specified, for expenditure by the California Housing Finance Agency, the Department of Housing and Community Development, and the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide housing to veterans and their families pursuant to the Veterans Housing and Homeless Prevention Act of 2014 (VHHPA) . This bill would enact the Veterans Housing and Homeless Prevention Bond Act of 2022 to authorize the issuance of bonds in an amount not to exceed $600,000,000 to provide additional funding for the VHHPA. The bill would provide for the handling and disposition of the funds in the same manner as the 2014 bond act. The bill would provide for the submission of the bond act to the voters at the March 5, 2024, statewide primary election.

(1) Existing law, the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act, requires that every beverage container sold or offered for sale in this state have a minimum refund value. A beverage distributor is required to pay a redemption payment to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery for every beverage container sold or offered for sale in the state to a dealer, and the department is required to deposit those amounts in the California Beverage Container Recycling Fund. The money in the fund is continuously appropriated to the department to pay refund values and administrative fees to processors, 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. A violation of the act is a crime. Existing law 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. This bill would revise this definition of beverage to include wine, or wine from which alcohol has been removed, sold in an aluminum beverage container and distilled spirits sold in an aluminum beverage container. 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 also impose a state-mandated local program by creating new crimes relating to the regulation of beverage containers. (2) Existing law requires the invoice or other form of accounting of a transaction submitted by a beverage distributor to a dealer to separately identify the amount of any redemption payment imposed on beverage containers and prohibits that identification from combining or including the gross wholesale price with the redemption payment, except as specified for distributors of beer and malt beverages and wine or distilled spirit coolers. This bill would additionally exempt distributors of wine sold in aluminum beverage containers and distributors of distilled spirits sold in aluminum beverage containers from those requirements. (3) Existing law provides, with regard to the sale of beer and other malt beverages or wine and distilled spirits cooler beverages, that any amount of redemption payment imposed is subject to a specified provision of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, a violation of which is a crime. This bill would additionally subject any amount of redemption payment imposed on wine sold in an aluminum beverage container or distilled spirits sold in an aluminum beverage container to that provision of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act. The bill would thereby impose a state-mandated local program by creating new crimes under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act. (4) 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 the Office of Information Security within the Department of Technology, under the direction of the Chief of the Office of Information Security, 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 all state agencies, as generally defined, to review and implement specified National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) guidelines for, among other things, reporting, coordinating, publishing, and receiving information about a security vulnerability relating to information systems and the resolution thereof, no later than July 1, 2023. The bill would require the chief to review the NIST guidelines and to create, update, and publish any appropriate standards or procedures in the State Administrative Manual and Statewide Information Management Manual to apply the NIST guidelines to state agencies and state entities no later than April 1, 2023. The bill would authorize a state agency, and require certain state agencies and state entities, to satisfy their requirement to implement NIST guidelines by adopting those standards and procedures published in the State Administrative Manual and Statewide Information Management Manual. The bill would require the office to provide assistance to any state agency or state entity that requests assistance in implementing the guidelines or the standards and procedures, and to provide operational and technical assistance to state agencies and state entities on reporting, coordinating, publishing, and receiving information about cybersecurity vulnerabilities of information systems, until that agency or entity withdraws their request for assistance with implementation or cybersecurity.

This measure would recognize that the Antelope Valley will henceforth be affectionately and acceptably referred to by the State of California as the Aerospace Valley.