Existing law establishes the Office of Emergency Services within the office of the Governor. Existing law requires the office to develop a plan and timeline of target dates for the testing, implementation, and operation of a Next Generation 911 emergency communication system, including text to 911 service, throughout California. Existing law requires the Next Generation 911 emergency communication system to incorporate certain elements, including public safety communications, as specified. The bill would expressly authorize the office to establish requirements for the Next Generation 911 emergency communication system, including the costs, services, and terms and conditions for contractors selected by the office to provide Next Generation 911 services. The bill would authorize the office to direct the Public Utilities Commission to implement the terms of service requirements for those contractors selected by the office to provide Next Generation 911 services.
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Existing law establishes the Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program, which is funded in part by a continuously appropriated allocation of 10% of the annual proceeds of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, to fund transformative capital improvements that will modernize California's intercity, commuter, and urban rail systems and bus and ferry transit systems to achieve certain policy objectives. Existing law requires the Transportation Agency to evaluate applications for funding under the program and to approve a multiyear program of projects, as specified, and requires the California Transportation Commission to allocate funding to applicants pursuant to the program of projects approved by the agency. This bill would expand the purpose of the program to authorize funding for passenger tramway transit systems. By expanding the purposes for which continuously appropriated moneys may be used, the bill would make an appropriation.
Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income persons receive health care benefits. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing law also establishes the Family Planning, Access, Care, and Treatment (Family PACT) Program, administered by the Office of Family Planning within the department, under which comprehensive clinical family planning services are provided to a person who has a family income at or below 200% of the federal poverty level, and who is eligible to receive these services. Existing law provides that comprehensive clinical family planning services under the program includes preconception counseling, maternal and fetal health counseling, and general reproductive health care, among other things. This bill would expand comprehensive clinical family planning services under the program to include the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for persons of reproductive age.
This measure would designate the week of February 24, 2020, to March 1, 2020, as Eating Disorders Awareness Week.
Existing law establishes the Geologic Energy Management Division in the Department of Conservation, under the direction of the State Oil and Gas Supervisor, who is required to supervise the drilling, operation, maintenance, and abandonment of oil and gas wells, as provided. Existing law requires that the supervisor, on or before the first day of October of each year, make public, for the benefit of all interested persons, a report in writing showing specified information, including the total amounts of oil and gas produced in each county in the state during the previous calendar year. This bill would require the supervisor to include in the report an inventory of all surface expressions that have occurred in the previous calendar year, separated by low and high energy. Existing law requires an operator proposing to perform a well stimulation treatment on a well to apply to the supervisor or a district deputy for a permit to perform the well stimulation treatment and imposes other requirements and conditions on the use of well stimulation treatments. Existing law defines a well stimulation treatment as being any treatment of a well designed to enhance oil and gas production or recovery by increasing the permeability of the formation, including hydraulic fracturing treatments and acid well stimulation treatments. Existing law excludes from the definition of well stimulation treatments steam flooding, water flooding, or cyclic steaming. Under existing law, a person who fails to comply with this and other requirements relating to the regulation of oil or gas operations is guilty of a misdemeanor. This bill would qualify the exclusion from the definition of well stimulation treatment for cyclic steaming to that cyclic steaming that does not exceed the fracture gradient. Because the bill would limit the exclusion for cyclic steaming and thereby expand the scope of a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the division to review, evaluate, and update its regulations pertaining to cyclic steaming, by July 1, 2021, to include measures that ensure geologic and hydrologic isolation of the oil and gas formation during a cyclic steaming project, as specified. Upon the discovery of a surface expression leak from an oil and gas well, the bill would require the owner or operator of the oil and gas well to promptly notify the division of the jurisdiction in which the leak is located and require the division to post all relevant information regarding any surface expression reported to it and to promptly cooperate with all relevant state agencies on any surface expression leak. By imposing additional requirements on owners and operators of oil and gas wells, the violation of which would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law provides that a person who violates certain requirements related to the regulation of oil and gas is subject to specified civil penalties. The civil penalty amount for a well stimulation violation, as defined, is not less than $10,000 per day per violation and not more than $25,000 per day per violation. The civil penalty amount for a major violation, as defined, is not less than $2,500 per violation and not more than $25,000 per violation. This bill would make the maximum civil penalty for a well stimulation violation $50,000 per day per violation and make the maximum civil penalty for a major violation $50,000 per violation. The bill would authorize the supervisor to impose a greater civil penalty if the supervisor makes a written finding that a violation is a special circumstance that warrants a higher penalty than what is otherwise allowable. 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 makes a person who knowingly and fraudulently represents, through verbal or written notice, the person to be the owner or trainer of any canine licensed as, to be qualified as, or identified as, a guide, signal, or service dog, as defined, guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding 6 months, by a fine not exceeding $1,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment. This bill would make a person who knowingly and fraudulently represents, sells, or offers for sale, or attempts to represent, sell, or offer for sale, an emotional support dog as being entitled to the rights and privileges accorded by law to a guide, signal, or service dog guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding 6 months, by a fine not exceeding $1,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment. The bill would also require a person or business that sells or provides a dog as an emotional support dog to provide an explicit disclosure form to the potential receiver of the dog stating that the dog does not have the special training required of a guide, signal, or service dog and is not entitled to the rights and privileges accorded by law to a guide, signal, or service dog. The bill would require a person or business that offers to sell or provide a certificate, identification, tag, vest, leash, or harness for an emotional support dog to provide an explicit disclosure form, as specified, to the buyer or potential buyer, and would prohibit that person or business that offers to sell or provide a certification or registration, or both, for an emotional support dog from implying that there is a government validation or endorsement of the certification or registry. The bill would also prohibit a health care practitioner from providing documentation relating to an individual's need for an emotional support dog that is not a guide, signal, or service dog, as defined, unless the health care practitioner complies with specified requirements, including holding a valid license, establishing a client-provider relationship with the individual for at least 30 days prior to providing the documentation, and completing an in-person clinical evaluation of the individual regarding the need for an emotional support dog. The bill would make a person who fails to comply with these requirements or violates that prohibition subject to the criminal penalties described above and would make a business that fails to comply with these requirements or violates that prohibition subject to a criminal fine, as specified. By creating new crimes, 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 prohibits engaging in a motor vehicle speed contest or a motor vehicle exhibition of speed. Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to suspend the driver's license of a person convicted of engaging in a motor vehicle speed contest, as specified, if ordered by the court. This bill would require the department to also suspend the driver's license of a person convicted of engaging in a motor vehicle exhibition of speed, as specified, if ordered by the court.
Existing law vests the Department of Transportation with full possession and control of the state highway system. Existing law requires the department, in consultation with the California Transportation Commission, to prepare a robust asset management plan that assesses the health and condition of the state highway system and with which the department is able to determine the most effective way to apply the state's limited resources. Existing law requires the department to prepare the California Transportation Plan for submission to the Governor and the Legislature, to complete the 3rd update to the plan by December 31, 2025, and to update the plan every 5 years thereafter, as a long-range planning document that incorporates various elements and is consistent with specified expressions of legislative intent. The plan is required to consider various subject areas for the movement of people and freight, including environmental protection. Existing law requires the Strategic Growth Council, by January 31, 2022, to complete a report that includes, among other things, an overview of the California Transportation Plan and specified sustainable communities strategies and alternative planning strategies. Existing law authorizes the commission, in cooperation with transportation planning agencies, to prescribe study areas for analysis and evaluation by those agencies and guidelines for the preparation of regional transportation plans. Existing law requires designated transportation planning agencies to prepare and adopt regional transportation plans. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would establish a new program to fund climate change adaptation planning for transportation impacts, data collection, modeling, and training. The bill would require the department, in consultation with the commission, to update the asset management plan on or before December 31, 2022, and every 4 years thereafter, and for the updates to take into account the forecasted impacts of climate change on transportation infrastructure. The bill would require the updates to the California Transportation Plan and the Strategic Growth Council's report to include a forecast of the impacts of climate change on transportation infrastructure and measures to address those impacts. The bill would require the commission's revisions to the guidelines for the preparation of regional transportation plans to include a requirement that designated transportation planning agencies take into account the forecasted transportation infrastructure impacts of climate change. By requiring regional transportation plans to take into account this additional factor, 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, 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.
The At-Store Recycling Program law, required, among other things, an operator of a store, as defined, to establish an at-store recycling program that provides customers the opportunity to return clean plastic carryout bags to that store. The law required a plastic carryout bag provided by a store to have specified information printed or displayed on the bag, and required the placement of a plastic carryout bag collection bin in each store that is visible and easily accessible to the consumer. The law also required the operator of a store to make reusable bags, defined to include specified durable plastic bags, available to customers, for purchase. The law required a manufacturer of plastic carryout bags to develop educational materials to encourage the reducing, reusing, and recycling of plastic carryout bags and to make the materials available to stores, as specified. A violation of these requirements was subject to specified civil penalties. The law repealed these provisions on January 1, 2020. This bill would reestablish the operation of those requirements and would additionally require an at-store recycling program established by the operator of a store to provide an opportunity for a customer of the store to return to the store clean durable plastic bags, as specified. The bill would require an online retailer that provides lockers for the secure pickup of purchased products at a store to provide a collection bin at the store near the lockers that is visible, easily accessible to the consumer, and clearly marked as available for the purpose of collecting and recycling plastic packaging and plastic shipping envelopes. The bill would require an online retailer that has a physical retail establishment with in-person sales in this state to accept at the retail establishment plastic packaging and plastic shipping envelopes of its purchased products for the purpose of collecting and recycling, at no cost to the customer. The bill would require an online retailer to pickup at the time of delivery of purchased products, plastic packaging and shipping envelopes from previously delivered products, at no cost to the customer. The bill would commence all of these requirements on January 1, 2023, and would require the operators and retailers to collect, transport, and recycle the collected plastic bags, plastic packaging, and plastic shipping envelopes, as specified. A violation of these requirements would be subject to the above-specified civil penalties. The bill's requirements would be repealed on January 1, 2030, unless a later enacted statute deletes or extends that date.
Existing law establishes the State Coastal Conservancy with prescribed powers and responsibilities for implementing a program of agricultural land preservation, area restoration, and resource enhancement within the coastal zone, as defined. Existing law requires the conservancy to develop and implement a Lower Cost Coastal Accommodations Program to facilitate improvement of existing, and the development of new, lower cost accommodations within 112 miles of the coast. Existing law requires, commencing on January 2, 1980, and every 3rd year thereafter, the conservancy to prepare and submit to the Governor and to the Legislature a report describing progress in achieving the objectives of the conservancy. Existing law specifies certain items to be included in the report. This bill would, among other things, additionally require the report to include a discussion of the conservancy's progress in implementing the Lower Cost Coastal Accommodations Program.