Asm. Matthew Dababneh

Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid Program provisions. Under existing law, certain aged, blind, and disabled Medi-Cal recipients are required to pay a share of cost as a condition of eligibility, with the share of cost determined in accordance with specified requirements. For purposes of determining the share of cost, existing law establishes a formula to calculate the personal and incidental needs deduction for an individual residing in a licensed community care facility. Existing law prohibits that deduction from exceeding the amount by which the Supplemental Security Income recipient retention amount, as defined, exceeds $20. This bill would revise the formula to determine the personal and incidental needs deduction. By increasing the responsibility of the counties in determining Medi-Cal eligibility, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would also require that its provisions be implemented only to the extent that federal financial participation is available and that the department receives any necessary federal approvals. 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 these statutory provisions.

Existing federal law provides for the allocation of federal funds through the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant program to eligible states. Existing law provides for the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program under which, through a combination of state and county funds and federal funds received through the TANF program, each county provides cash assistance and other benefits to qualified low-income families. Existing law, with certain exceptions, provides eligible families with homeless assistance, including temporary shelter assistance for one period of up to 16 consecutive calendar days. This bill would eliminate the requirement that the temporary assistance be provided during one period of consecutive days, and instead would limit the temporary assistance to a maximum of 16 calendar days. This bill would require the State Department of Social Services to issue an all-county letter or similar instructions by April 1, 2016, and to adopt regulations to implement the provisions of the bill by July 1, 2017. The bill also would make conforming and technical, nonsubstantive changes. Because this bill would create new administrative duties for counties, it would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law continuously appropriates moneys from the General Fund to defray a portion of county costs under the CalWORKs program. This bill would, instead, provide that the continuous appropriation would not be made for purposes of implementing the bill. 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 these statutory provisions.

Existing law requires an agency that owns or licenses computerized data that includes personal information, as defined, to provide notification of any breach in the security of that data to any California resident whose personal information may have been compromised by the breach, as specified. Existing law requires the notification to be written in plain language and contain specified information, including, but not limited to, the agency's contact information and a list of the types of personal information that were or are reasonably believed to have been the subject of the breach. This bill would additionally require an agency, if the agency was the source of the breach and the breach compromised a person's social security number, driver's license number, or California identification card number, to offer to provide the person with identity theft prevention and mitigation services at no cost for not less than 12 months, as specified.

This measure would commemorate the centennial of the founding of Locke, California, would recognize and honor Locke, California, as the last remaining Chinatown in North America, and would urge all Californians to learn about the important history of Locke, California, and its inhabitants.

This measure would urge the Congress of the United States to support H.R. 167, the federal Wildfire Disaster Funding Act, in order to provide a long-term, stable source of funding for federal agencies to conduct the necessary fuels management on national forest lands, while retaining resources to suppress catastrophic wildfires.

This measure would urge the Congress of the United States to enact legislation allowing immigrants to serve in the military if they are eligible under the President's Executive Order for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or Executive Order for Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents.

Existing law, the Consumer Cooperative Corporation Law, governs the organization and operation of consumer cooperative corporations. The law specifies the provisions that may be set forth in the articles of incorporation of a consumer cooperative. Existing law provides for, among other things, information to be included in a corporation's bylaws, definitions necessary for purposes of defining patrons, and requirements as to voting rights of members. Except as specified, existing law requires that the voting power of members having voting rights in a cooperative corporation be equal. Existing law also requires cooperative corporations to hold a meeting of members annually. Existing law makes the violation of specified provisions a crime. This bill would rename the law the Cooperative Corporation Law, and authorize a cooperative corporation to elect to designate itself as a worker cooperative in its articles of incorporation. The bill would require that 51% of the workers shall be worker-members or candidates. The bill would authorize a worker cooperative to apportion and distribute its net earnings and losses at the time and in the manner specified in the articles of incorporation or bylaws. The bill would require a worker cooperative to only make patronage distributions to the worker-member class. The bill would define the patrons of a worker cooperative as worker-members and authorize their patronage to be measured by work performed. The bill would authorize a worker cooperative to issue a membership, that is not divisible into partial memberships, having the rights, privileges, preferences, restrictions, or conditions as provided in the articles or bylaws. This bill would also authorize a worker cooperative to establish itself as a capital account cooperative in its articles or bylaws, in which case the entire net book value of the corporation would be reflected in member capital accounts, one for each member, and an unallocated capital account, if any, as specified. This bill would also authorize a worker cooperative to establish itself as a collective board worker cooperative, in which all worker-members serve on the board. A collective board worker cooperative would not be required to hold an annual meeting of members. This bill would authorize 2 or more worker cooperatives to consolidate, as specified, prescribe the actions to be taken upon the dissolution of a worker cooperative, and make other conforming changes. The Corporate Securities Law of 1968 generally regulates the offer and sale of securities in this state. That law requires the offer and sale of securities to be qualified with the Commissioner of Business Oversight, and exempts specified transactions or securities from qualification. That law makes it unlawful for a person in connection with the offer or sale of a security to engage in fraudulent or misleading acts or omissions. The shares or memberships by a corporation subject to the Consumer Cooperative Corporation Law are exempt from the qualification requirement, if the investment does not exceed $300. The bill would increase the investment limitation of the above-referenced exemption from qualification from $300 to $1,000.

Existing law prescribes the instruments in, and criteria by which, a local agency, as defined, may invest and deposit its funds, including its surplus funds. Existing law, until January 1, 2017, authorizes, under certain conditions, a local agency to invest up to a certain percentage of its surplus funds in deposits at specified types of financial institutions that use a private sector entity to assist in the placement of deposits, whether those investments are certificates of deposit or in another form. With respect to investments other than a certificate of deposit, existing law limits the percentage of local agency funds that may be invested by any one private sector entity. Existing law, on and after January 1, 2017, limits this authority to invest surplus funds to investments in certificates of deposit. This bill would extend the existing temporary authority for a local agency to invest its surplus funds, in certificates of deposit or in another form of investment, until January 1, 2021, and for that time period, would remove a limitation on the percentage of local agency funds that may be invested in certificates of deposit. This bill would, on and after January 1, 2021, indefinitely authorize a local agency to invest surplus funds to investments in certificates of deposit, as specified. This bill would also remove the limit on the percentage of local agency funds that may be invested by any one private sector entity, as specified.

This measure would proclaim April 14, 2015, as Equal Pay Day in recognition of the need to eliminate the gender gap in earnings by women and to promote policies to ensure equal pay for all.