Asm. Jesse Gabriel

The California Green Collar Jobs Act of 2008 requires the California Workforce Investment Board to establish a special committee, known as the Green Collar Jobs Council, comprised of the appropriate representatives from the board's existing membership, including the K–12 representative, the California Community Colleges representative, the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development representative, the Employment Development Department representative, and other appropriate members. The act authorizes the council to consult with other state agencies, other higher education representatives, local workforce investment boards, and industry representatives as well as philanthropic, nongovernmental, and environmental groups, as appropriate, in the development of a strategic initiative, as prescribed. The act authorizes the board to accept any revenues, moneys, grants, goods, or services from federal and state entities, philanthropic organizations, and other sources, to be used for purposes relating to the administration and implementation of the strategic initiative. The act requires the board to ensure the highest level of transparency and accountability and make information available on the board's internet website. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions.

Existing law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development and requires it to administer various programs intended to promote the development of housing, including the Multifamily Housing Program, pursuant to which the department provides financial assistance in the form of deferred payment loans to pay for the eligible costs of development of specified types of housing projects. Existing law defines various terms for purposes of that program, including "supportive housing." This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those definitions relating to the Multifamily Housing Program.

Existing law generally provides that peace officer and custodial officer personnel records are confidential, with certain exceptions. Existing law defines "personnel records" for those purposes. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.

The Planning and Zoning Law makes various legislative findings and declarations, including that the state has a positive interest in the preparation and maintenance of a long-term, general plan for the physical development of each of the state's urban areas and that the planning activities of counties and cities can be strengthened and more effectively performed when conducted in relation to studies and planning of an urban regional character. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.

Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to determine whether the housing element is in substantial compliance with those provisions. Existing law requires the department to designate jurisdictions as prohousing pursuant to emergency regulations adopted by the department, as prescribed. Existing law awards jurisdictions that are prohousing and that are in substantial compliance with specified provisions additional points or preference in the scoring of applications for specified state programs. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.

Existing law authorizes a local educational agency, nonpublic, nonsectarian school, or nonpublic, nonsectarian agency to petition the Superintendent of Public Instruction to waive specified laws relating to special education services for pupils provided by nonpublic, nonsectarian schools. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the law relating to the petition described above.

Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. Existing law requires a city, county, or city and county to submit a draft housing element or draft amendment to its housing element to the Department of Housing and Community Development for a determination as to whether the draft complies with state law governing housing elements. Existing law imposes certain requirements on an action brought by an interested party to review the conformity of a housing element with applicable state law. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the provision imposing certain requirements on those actions.

This measure would urge the federal Office of Management and Budget to update its Uniform Guidance in order to improve job creation, quality, and equity.

This measure would recognize the month of January 2024 as National Human Trafficking Awareness Month.