Asm. Blanca Rubio

Existing law, the California Cultural and Historical Endowment Act, establishes the California Cultural and Historical Endowment in the Natural Resources Agency. Among other things, the act authorizes the endowment to make grants and loans on a competitive basis to public agencies and nonprofit organizations, as defined, to encourage development of California's historical and cultural resources. Existing law establishes the Museum and Cultural Resources Program, under the administration of the endowment, to assist and enhance the services of California's museums and of other groups and institutions that undertake cultural projects that are deeply rooted in and reflective of previously underserved communities. This bill would establish the California Museums for All program, under the administration of the endowment. The bill would require a museum, as defined, participating in the program to offer free to $3 admission fees during its normal hours of operation for each person who presents an electronic benefits transfer card and a current and valid photo identification, and up to 3 guests who are accompanying that person. Under the bill, a participating museum would be eligible to receive a grant from the endowment to enhance its programs and exhibits to meet the needs of underserved communities or to provide its staff with adequate training and provide resources for collaborative outreach to low-income communities.

Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to establish a trustline registry for trustline providers who meet prescribed requirements after submitting an application to the department and undergoing a criminal background check, as specified. Existing law defines a trustline provider as a person 18 years of age or older who provides child care, supervision, or in-home educational or counseling services, and who is not required to be licensed as a child day care facility. Existing law requires the California Child Care Resource and Referral Network to establish and maintain a toll-free line to allow parents, employment agencies, child care referral groups and registries, alternative payment programs, and others to determine if a provider is a trustline applicant or a registered trustline child care provider. This bill would require the department to, on or before July 1, 2019, create and make operative a Web-based application process for submitting completed trustline applications to the department, as specified, and to make the Web-based application available to county welfare departments, local child care resource and referral agencies, and employment agencies, among others. The bill would also require the department to, on or before July 1, 2019, include on its Internet Web site information from the trustline registry, so that consumers may search for and obtain the status of trustline applicants and registered trustline child care providers. The bill would require the Internet Web site to enable consumers to obtain an applicant's status by providing the first and last name, and a specified identification number or applicant number of the trustline applicant or registered trustline child care provider. The bill would require the department to, on or before July 1, 2019, provide consumers with the ability to save in an electronic format, or to print out a document of, the Internet Web site search results for any trustline applicant or registered trustline child care provider, which shall include specified information, including, the department logo, the first and last name of the applicant or provider, his or her status, and the applicant number. Existing law requires the department to provide the California Child Care Resource and Referral Network with a continually updated record of the trustline applicants, trustline applicants that the department denied, the registered trustline child care providers, and providers whose registration that the department revoked. Existing law provides that a trustline provider's registration is considered forfeited under specified conditions, including if the trustline provider fails to maintain a current mailing address with the department. This bill would require the department to provide the California Child Care Resource and Referral Network with the above-mentioned updated record, at a minimum, on each business day. The bill would also require a trustline provider to maintain a current mailing address with the department and would authorize the department to forfeit a trustline provider's registration for failing to comply with this requirement.

(1) Existing law exempts a student, other than a nonimmigrant alien, as defined, from nonresident tuition at the California State University and the California Community Colleges if the student has a total of 3 or more years of attendance, or attainment of equivalent credits earned while in California, at California high schools, California adult schools, campuses of the California Community Colleges, or a combination of those schools, as specified, or if the student completes 3 or more years of full-time high school coursework, and a total of 3 or more years of attendance in California elementary schools, California secondary schools, or a combination of California elementary and secondary schools. Notwithstanding the exclusion of nonimmigrant aliens from the exemption from paying nonresident tuition, the bill would provide that any student enrolled at the California State University or the California Community Colleges shall remain eligible for the exemption from nonresident tuition if the nonimmigrant alien met the requirements for the exemption from nonresident tuition as a dependent of an individual with an E-2 nonimmigrant classification as long as the student remains continuously enrolled, irrespective of any change in the student's visa or immigration status. Because the bill would impose new duties on community college districts with respect to determining eligibility for exemptions from paying nonresident tuition, the bill would constitute a state-mandated local program. The bill would request the Regents of the University of California to enact exemptions for its students from requirements to pay nonresident tuition that are equivalent to those applicable to students of the California Community Colleges and the California State University pursuant to this bill. (2) 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.

This measure would declare the support of the Legislature for the expansion of sensory-friendly movie screenings and similar programs for people with autism, and would encourage families to attend a sensory-friendly movie screening during April 2018, which is National Autism Awareness Month.

This measure would, among other things, designate the year 2018 as "State of California Year of Commemoration of the Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide of 1915–1923," would designate April 24, 2018, as "State of California Day of Commemoration of the 103rd Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide of 1915–1923," and would call upon the President of the United States and the United States Congress to formally and consistently reaffirm the historical truth that the atrocities committed against the Armenian people constituted genocide.

This measure would proclaim April 16, 2018, as California Holocaust Memorial Day and would urge all Californians to observe this day of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust in an appropriate manner.

This measure would urge the Congress of the United States to implement revised dam safety and inspection requirements, with specified components, for all federally operated and regulated dams and reservoirs for the purpose of ensuring public safety.

Existing law, the Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act, establishes procedures for the reporting, investigation, and prosecution of abuse of an elder or dependent adult, which is defined to mean physical abuse, neglect, abandonment, and financial abuse, among other forms of abuse. Existing law requires specified persons, known as mandated reporters, who, have observed or have knowledge of an incident that reasonably appears to be, or is told by an elder or dependent adult that he or she has experienced behavior constituting, physical abuse, abandonment, abduction, isolation, financial abuse, or neglect to report the known or suspected instance of abuse, as specified. A failure to report is a misdemeanor. Under existing law, it is disorderly conduct, punishable as a misdemeanor, to look through a hole or opening into, or to otherwise view by means of any instrumentality, the interior of a bedroom, bathroom, changing room, fitting room, dressing room, or tanning booth, or the interior of any other area in which the occupant has a reasonable expectation of privacy, with the intent to invade the privacy of a person inside. Under existing law, it is disorderly conduct, punishable as a misdemeanor, for a person to use a concealed camera to secretly record another identifiable person under or through the clothing being worn by that other person, for the purposes of viewing the body or undergarments of that other person, without his or her consent, with the intent to arouse, appeal to, or gratify the lust, passions, or sexual desires of that person and invade the privacy of the other person, under circumstances in which the other person has a reasonable expectation of privacy. Under existing law, it is disorderly conduct, punishable as a misdemeanor, to use a concealed camera to secretly record another identifiable person who may be in a state of full or partial undress, for the purpose of viewing the body or undergarments of that other person, without the consent or knowledge of the other person, in the interior of a bedroom, bathroom, changing room, fitting room, dressing room, or tanning booth, or the interior of any other area in which that other person has a reasonable expectation of privacy, with the intent to invade the privacy of that person. Under existing law, it is disorderly conduct, punishable as a misdemeanor, to distribute the image of the intimate body part or parts of another identifiable person, or an image of the person depicted engaged in a sex act, under circumstances in which the persons agree or understand that the image shall remain private, the person distributing the image knows or should know that distribution of the image will cause serious emotional distress, and the person depicted suffers that distress. This bill would require a mandated reporter to report a violation of the above-specified disorderly conduct crimes committed against an elder or dependent adult, as specified. The bill would make a violation of this requirement a misdemeanor. By expanding the application of a crime, this 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.

This measure would recognize September 20, 2018, and every year on that date thereafter, as California Surfing Day to celebrate the California surfing lifestyle, would commend all those who honor the history, culture, and future of surfing, as well as the sport of surfing and the protection of our beach and ocean environments, would express support for future surfers and encourage potential surfing Olympians to work diligently, and would encourage all Californians to enjoy California Surfing Day.