Asm. Luz Rivas

Existing law authorizes the State Lands Commission to issue prospecting permits and leases for the extraction and removal of minerals, other than oil and gas or other hydrocarbon substances, from specified lands. Existing law prohibits the commission from issuing a permit or lease until it has been submitted to, and approved by, the Attorney General, as specified. This bill would delete the provision relating to Attorney General approval and would authorize the commission to grant nonexclusive geological or geophysical exploration permits for minerals upon those terms and conditions as the commission may prescribe, without giving the permittee any preferential treatment. Existing law requires an applicant to mark each of the corners of the tract described in the permit, as provided, within 90 days after receiving the permit, unless the tract consists of tide or submerged lands. Existing law grants an applicant preferential right to a permit if the applicant erects a monument on that land, as provided. This bill would repeal these provisions. Existing law grants a permittee entitlement to a lease for not more than 960 acres of land included in a prospecting permit if the presence of commercially valuable deposits of minerals has been discovered to the satisfaction of the commission. Existing law requires the permittee to pay an annual rental of not less than $1 per acre. This bill would delete that entitlement and instead grant the permittee priority over other applicants for 365 days, unless the permittee submits a complete lease application, in which case the priority will expire upon the commission's consideration or applicant's withdrawal of the application. The bill would also instead require the permittee to pay an annual rental of not less than fair market value. Existing law requires a permittee to pay the state 20% of the gross value of the minerals the permittee secures from the land included in the permit until the permittee applies for a lease for the same land. This bill would instead require the permittee to pay the state 20% of the gross value of all minerals secured from the land included in the permit until the permittee applies for a lease for the same land. Existing law limits the term for a lease to 20 years or less and grants the lessee preferential right to renew the lease for successive periods not to exceed 10 years each. This bill would delete that preferential right to renew the lease. Existing law requires the commission to prescribe additional terms, covenants, and conditions to permits and leases as in its opinion will effectually protect the interests of the state in the mineral deposits. This bill would delete "covenants" from that requirement.

Existing law, the Local Agency Public Construction Act, sets forth procedures that a local agency is required to follow when procuring certain services or work. Existing law also sets forth specific public contracting requirements for certain transit districts. Existing law authorizes certain local agencies to engage in job order contracting, as prescribed. This bill would establish a pilot program to authorize the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority to use job order contracting as a procurement method. The bill would impose a $5,000,000 cap on awards under a single job order contract and a $1,000,000 cap on any single job order. The bill would limit the term of an initial contract to a maximum of 12 months, with extensions as prescribed. The bill would establish various additional procedures and requirements for the use of job order contracting under this authorization. The bill would require the authority, on or before January 1, 2028, to submit to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature a report on the use of job order contracting under the bill. These provisions would be repealed on January 1, 2029. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

This measure would express the Legislature's support for the creation of policies to decrease the rising number of deaths of Americans as a result of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) . The measure would declare the importance of enhanced public awareness of comprehensive cardiovascular screening programs to allow for earlier identification of patients at risk of cardiovascular events. The measure would also declare the importance of collaboration on statewide cardiovascular planning to accelerate quality improvements in care rendered to these patients.

This measure would designate the month of June 2023 as Immigrant Heritage Month.

This measure would condemn the November 1984 anti-Sikh violence in India as genocide and would urge the United States Congress to formally recognize and condemn the November 1984 anti-Sikh violence in India as genocide.

This measure would designate the Ayala Drive overcrossing at postmile marker 17.437 on State Route 210 in the County of San Bernardino as the Scott "Buckshot" Schwingel Memorial Overcrossing. The measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.

The California Constitution provides that only a marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California, and federal law permanently enjoins the state from enforcing this constitutional provision. This measure would repeal this unenforceable constitutional provision and would instead provide that the right to marry is a fundamental right, as specified.

This measure would proclaim June 24, 2023, as Play Day and encourage all Californians to go out and play on that day.