The State Historical Building Code provides for alternative regulations and standards for the rehabilitation, preservation, restoration, or relocation of qualified historical buildings or structures, and requires all state agencies and local authorities to administer and enforce that code with respect to historical buildings or structures under their respective jurisdictions. Those alternative building standards, enacted by regulations adopted by the State Historical Building Safety Board and specified other state agencies, are required to be applied by every city, county, and local agency. This bill would require a local agency to provide specified reductions in required parking for certain development projects in which a designated historical resource, as defined in the bill, is being converted or adapted, unless otherwise required by local ordinance. Because the bill imposes new duties on local agencies, 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.
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This measure would declare October 23 to 31, 2018, inclusive, as Red Ribbon Week, and would encourage all Californians to help build drug-free communities and to participate in drug prevention activities.
This measure would declare July 27, 2018, as California Bullying Prevention Day, also to be known as Rosie's Day.
Existing law establishes that it is the policy of the state that certain rivers that possess extraordinary scenic, recreational, fishery, or wildlife values shall be preserved in their free-flowing state, together with their immediate environments, for the benefit and enjoyment of the people of the state. Existing law provides that the classification or reclassification of rivers or segments of rivers within the state as wild, scenic, or recreational within the state wild and scenic rivers system shall be by statute, but authorizes the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency to recommend legislation to classify or reclassify rivers or segments of rivers within the system, and include specific land use restrictions relative to each particular classification in those recommendations. Existing law, with respect to potential additions to the state wild and scenic rivers system, requires the secretary to study and submit to the Governor and the Legislature specified reports on the suitability or nonsuitability for addition to the system of rivers or segments thereof that are designated by the Legislature as potential additions, and to report his or her recommendations in that regard. This bill would, if (1) the federal government takes action to enact a statute that, upon enactment, would require the removal or delisting of any river or segment of a river in California that is included in the national wild and scenic rivers system and not in the state wild and scenic rivers system; or (2) the secretary determines that the federal government by enactment of a statute or by executive order has exempted a river or segment of a river in California that is not in the state wild and scenic rivers system from the protection of certain federal provisions governing restrictions on water resources projects, require the secretary, after holding a public hearing on the issue, based on the information obtained through the public hearing, to determine whether the provision of state protection for the river or segment of the river that has been removed, delisted, or exempted from the federal wild and scenic rivers system is in the best interest of the state and, if so, to take specified actions, until December 31, 2025, to add the river or segment of a river to the state wild and scenic rivers system and to classify that river or segment of a river, as prescribed.
This measure would urge the United States Department of Justice not to direct its enforcement priorities towards California's lawfully and closely regulated cannabis industry, among other things.
(1) Existing law authorizes a tenant to notify the landlord in writing that he or she or a household member, as defined, was a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, or elder or dependent adult abuse and that the tenant intends to terminate the tenancy. If the tenant attaches to the notice a copy of a temporary restraining order or protective order, as specified, a report by a peace officer, as specified, or documentation from a qualified 3rd party, as specified, and satisfies other requirements, the tenant is released from paying rent and other obligations under the lease, subject to certain limitations. This bill would declare void, as contrary to public policy, a provision in a rental or lease agreement that limits or prohibits, or threatens to limit or prohibit, a tenant's, resident's, or other person's right to summon law enforcement assistance or emergency assistance as, or on behalf of, a victim of abuse, a victim of crime, or an individual in an emergency if the tenant, resident, or other person believes that the law enforcement assistance or emergency assistance is necessary to prevent or address the perpetration, escalation, or exacerbation of the abuse, crime, or emergency. The bill would also prohibit a landlord from imposing, or threatening to impose, penalties in this context as well. The bill would define various terms for these purposes. The bill would provide that a waiver of these provisions is contrary to public policy and is void and unenforceable. The bill would prescribe evidentiary presumptions in this connection to be applicable to unlawful detainer actions. The bill would authorize a tenant, resident, or other aggrieved person to seek an injunction for a violation of these provisions. (2) Existing law, in connection with actions for unlawful detainer, prohibits a landlord from terminating or failing to renew a tenancy based upon an act or acts against a tenant or a tenant's household member that constitute domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, or elder or a dependent adult abuse, if certain standards are met. In this regard, the acts must be documented by a copy of a temporary restraining order or protective order, as specified, or a report by a peace officer, as specified, and the person against whom the protection order has been issued, or who was named in the police report, is not a tenant of the same dwelling unit as the tenant or household member. This bill, for the purposes relating to unlawful detainer, described above, would authorize a tenant to document an act of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, or elder or a dependent adult abuse, by attaching a statement from a qualified 3rd party, as defined. The bill would require that this documentation be in substantially the same form as a statement that the bill would prescribe for this purpose. The bill would prohibit the landlord from disclosing information that a tenant has submitted in this context, except as specified. The bill would prescribe definitions for these purposes. The bill would require the Judicial Council, by September 1, 2019, to develop a new form or revise an existing form for use by a party to assert an affirmative defense to an unlawful detainer action, as specified. (3) Existing law prohibits a local agency from requiring a landlord to terminate a tenancy or fail to renew a tenancy based upon an act against a tenant or a tenant's household member that constitutes domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, or elder or dependent adult abuse, if specified requirements relating to unlawful detainer actions are satisfied. Existing law prohibits a local agency from requiring a landlord to terminate a tenancy or fail to renew a tenancy based upon the number of calls made to the emergency telephone system relating to the tenant or a member of the tenant's household being a victim of these acts. This bill would revise and recast these provisions. The bill would prohibit a local agency from promulgating, enforcing, or implementing any ordinance, rule, policy, or regulation, that authorizes, or requires the imposition or threatened imposition of, a penalty against a resident, owner, tenant, landlord, or other person as a consequence of law enforcement assistance or emergency assistance by, or on behalf of, a victim of abuse, a victim of crime, or an individual in an emergency. The bill would prescribe definitions in this regard. The bill would preempt inconsistent local rules and regulations in this regard. The bill would prescribe remedies for a violation of these provisions. The bill would declare that the need to protect parties to whom these provisions of the bill apply is a matter of statewide concern, and not a municipal affair, and that charter cities and counties would be subject to the provisions of the bill.
Existing law imposes specified requirements on manufacturers and dealers of motor vehicles and motorcycles sold or leased in this state. Existing law prohibits a dealer from selling, offering for sale, or displaying, any new, assembled motorcycle on its premises, unless there is securely attached to the handlebars of the motorcycle a label, approved by the Department of Motor Vehicles, furnished by the manufacturer of the motorcycle. Under existing law, that label is required to clearly indicate specified information, including the recommended retail price of the motorcycle and the recommended price for each accessory or item of optional equipment physically attached to the motorcycle at the time of its delivery to the dealer. A violation of these provisions is a crime. This bill would require that label to be in the form of a hang tag, and to include the manufacturer's suggested retail price, as defined, for that motorcycle, and the vehicle identification number of that motorcycle. The bill would prohibit a dealer from affixing a supplemental price label containing a price that represents the dealer's asking price that exceeds the manufacturer's suggested retail price unless the label complies with specified requirements and disclosures. The bill would make additional conforming changes. Because a violation of these requirements would be a 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.
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including gas corporations. Existing law requires that moneys collected by the commission from a gas corporation serving the Los Angeles Basin, pursuant to any settlement, unless restricted by a court for another purpose, abatement order, fine, or penalty relating to the well failure at the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility be deposited in the Aliso Canyon Recovery Account. Existing law authorizes moneys in the account to be allocated, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for purposes of mitigating impacts on local air quality, public health, and ratepayers resulting from the well failure at Aliso Canyon. This bill would require that moneys collected by the commission, a state agency, or the Attorney General pursuant to any settlement, unless restricted by a court for another purpose, abatement order, fine, or penalty relating to the well failure at the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility be deposited in the Aliso Canyon Recovery Account. The bill would additionally authorize moneys in the account to be allocated, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for purposes of promoting energy efficiency and decreasing reliance on fossil fuels in the Los Angeles Basin, the boundaries of which the bill would expand, as specified. The bill would require that priority be given to greenhouse gas mitigation projects that are located within the Los Angeles Basin.
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. This bill would authorize lead agencies, in describing and evaluating projects, to consider specific economic, legal, social, technological, or other benefits of, and the negative impacts of denying, the project.
This measure would encourage the federal government to maintain or restore full funding to integral international exchange programs, such as the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.