This measure proclaims March 19 as California Celebrating Women in Public Office Day.
This measure would recognize Nowrūz, the Persian New Year celebration.
This measure would resolve that the Legislature is proud to join the Girl Scouts of the USA in recognizing their 106th Anniversary.
This measure would declare the Legislature's support for the creation of a California Institute for Aerospace in southern California's Antelope Valley.
This measure would proclaim March 18 to March 24, 2018, as California Down Syndrome Awareness Week and March 21, 2018, as California Down Syndrome Day, and would encourage all Californians to support and participate in related activities.
This bill would designate March 2018 as Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month in California.
Existing law generally provides for the confidentiality of information regarding a minor in proceedings in the juvenile court and related court proceedings and limits access to juvenile case files. Existing law authorizes only certain individuals to inspect a juvenile case file, including, among others, the minor, his or her parents or guardian, and the attorneys for the parties, judges, referees, other hearing officers, probation officers, and law enforcement officers who are actively participating in criminal or juvenile proceedings involving the minor. Existing law also authorizes some of those individuals to receive copies of the case file. This bill would authorize an investigator employed by a county auditor-controller, as defined, who is authorized by a county board of supervisors to investigate suspected acts of waste, fraud, or abuse, including, but not limited to, misuse of personally identifiable information or protected health information of minors, to access, inspect, and copy a juvenile case file, or portions thereof, as necessary for the performance of his or her duties. The bill would authorize access, inspection, and copying only when the investigator is conducting an investigation within the scope of his or her duties, the information contained in the juvenile case file is reasonably believed to be relevant to the investigation, and prior notice is given to the director of the county child welfare agency or the county probation department. The bill would impose restrictions on the use of the confidential information and require subsequent sealing of the confidential information. The bill would require, in the event the county auditor-controller determines a juvenile's confidential information was improperly used in a manner detrimental to the interests of the child, that the county auditor-controller inform the child's attorney so that the attorney can take appropriate action commensurate with his or her duties to protect the interests of the child.
(1) The Warren-Alquist State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Act requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) to adopt building design and construction standards and energy and water conservation standards for new residential and nonresidential buildings to reduce the wasteful, uneconomic, inefficient, or unnecessary consumption of energy, including energy associated with the use of water. Existing law requires the Energy Commission to take various actions, including the establishment of a formal process for certification of compliance options for new products, materials, and calculation methods for showing compliance with the above standards for new products, materials, or calculation methods. This bill would require the Energy Commission to provide compliance incentive credit for measures that result in reduced emissions of greenhouse gases beyond those the commission has determined to be cost effective. The bill would require the Energy Commission, for the year 2022 and thereafter, to require new residential and nonresidential buildings to be electric-ready buildings, as defined, and to develop standards pursuant to which emissions of greenhouse gases associated with new residential and nonresidential buildings could be reduced in a cost-effective manner. (2) Existing law authorizes the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to fix the rates and charges for every public utility, including electrical corporations, and requires that those rates and charges be just and reasonable. This bill would require the PUC to require electrical corporations to develop a tariff offering optional residential and commercial rates that encourages the deployment of flexible electric loads, removes disincentives customers face to adopt low-emissions heating technologies, and helps integrate renewable energy to support achieving the goals of the California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program in the most cost-effective manner. By requiring electrical corporations to develop the tariff, a violation of which would be a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the PUC, in a new proceeding, to identify barriers and adopt rules requiring electrical and gas corporations to make policy changes to their energy efficiency programs to support the adoption of space and water heating technologies that reduce emissions of greenhouse gases in new and existing buildings. The bill would require the PUC to (A) update its fuel substitution test, as specified, (B) include societal and environmental costs of energy use in determining the cost-effectiveness of programs under its jurisdiction, and (C) create or update incentive programs, including those specified, that encourage the transition to low-emissions heating technologies in residential and nonresidential buildings. (3) 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.
