This measure would, among other things, honor the late civil rights pioneer and icon Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Existing law establishes the Employment Training Panel within the Employment Development Department. Under existing law, the panel is charged with performing various duties, including establishing a 3-year plan based on the demand of employers for trained workers, changes in the state's economy and labor markets, and continuous reviews of the effectiveness of panel training contracts. Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development Program with the purpose of, among other things, using labor market information to advise the chancellor's office and regional community college bodies on the workforce needs of the state's competitive and emerging industry sectors, and collaborating and coordinating investment with other state, regional, or local agencies involved in education and workforce training in California. Existing law authorizes the governing board of any community college district to contract education programs by agreement with any public or private agency, corporation, association, or any other person or body, to provide specific educational programs or training to meet the specific needs of those bodies. This bill, upon appropriation by the Legislature, would require the Employment Training Panel to establish a pilot project to enhance the regionally focused statewide business training center network of community college contract education centers to partner with other assistance providers serving small businesses. The bill would authorize the pilot project to be guided through a partnership with the Employment Training Panel, including the California Community Colleges, the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development, the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, and the California Workforce Development Board. This bill would state that the purpose of the pilot project is to support the enhancement of a regionally focused statewide network of at least 10 regional business training centers, and their subcontracted community college partners, to support the upskilling of the regional workforce to meet the demand for jobs in essential industry sectors during the COVID-19 pandemic and in the emerging and dominant industry sectors in the post COVID-19 economy, and to strengthen the capacity of a region's small business service providers to meet the demands being placed upon it by the COVID-19 pandemic, as specified. The bill would require community colleges participating in the pilot project to offer short-term training programs that assist displaced and incumbent workers in obtaining the skills necessary to work within essential, emerging, and dominant industry sectors, as specified. The bill would authorize the Employment Training Panel, and its partners, to establish an advisory board of businesses, workforces, and economic development stakeholders to provide advice and to review the pilot project. The bill would require the Employment Training Panel to submit 2 annual reports on the activities of the pilot project and a final report that includes an overall summary of the activities of the pilot project and an assessment of the effectiveness of the pilot project, as specified. The bill would repeal these provisions January 1, 2025.
Existing law makes it an infraction to leave a child who is 6 years of age or younger inside a motor vehicle without being subject to supervision of a person who is 12 years of age or older if there are conditions that present a significant risk to the child's health or safety or if the vehicle's engine is running or the vehicle's keys are in the ignition, or both, and makes it a crime to willfully cause or permit a child to suffer, or inflict unjustifiable physical pain or mental suffering, or willfully place a child in a situation where their health is endangered. Existing law also makes it a crime to leave or confine an animal in an unattended motor vehicle under conditions that endanger the health or well-being of an animal due to heat, cold, lack of adequate ventilation, or lack of food or water, or other circumstances that could reasonably be expected to cause suffering, disability, or death to the animal. Existing law exempts a person from civil liability for property damage or trespass to a motor vehicle if the property damage or trespass occurs while the person is rescuing an animal pursuant to these provisions. Existing law similarly exempts a person from criminal liability for removing an animal from a motor vehicle under circumstances that reasonably could cause suffering, disability, or death to the animal, if certain steps are taken during the removal. Existing law provides that a person who in good faith, and not for compensation, renders emergency medical or nonmedical care or assistance at the scene of an emergency is not liable for civil damages resulting from any act or omission other than an act or omission constituting gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct. This bill would exempt a person from civil liability and criminal liability for property damage or trespass to a motor vehicle if the property damage or trespass occurs while the person is rescuing a child who is 6 years of age or younger from a motor vehicle under circumstances that reasonably could cause suffering, disability, or death to the child, if certain steps are taken during the removal. The bill would establish procedures that apply to a peace officer, firefighter, or emergency responder under those circumstances, including, but not limited to, arranging for the treatment and transport of the child according to existing policies of the local EMS agency.
Existing law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, grants, commencing on January 1, 2020, a consumer various rights with regard to personal information relating to that consumer that is held by a business. The act, among other things, requires a business that collects personal information about a consumer to disclose the consumer's right to delete personal information in a form that is reasonably accessible to consumers and in accordance with a specified process. The act, until January 1, 2021, exempts from its provisions certain information collected by a business about a natural person in the course of the natural person acting as a job applicant, employee, owner, director, officer, medical staff member, or contractor, as specified. The act also, until January 1, 2021, exempts from specified provisions personal information reflecting a written or verbal communication or a transaction between the business and the consumer, if the consumer is a natural person who is acting as an employee, owner, director, officer, or contractor of a company, partnership, sole proprietorship, nonprofit, or government agency and whose communications or transaction with the business occur solely within the context of the business conducting due diligence regarding, or providing or receiving a product or service to or from that company, partnership, sole proprietorship, nonprofit, or government agency. This bill would extend both exemptions until January 1, 2022. This bill would specify that the operation of this extension is contingent upon voters not approving a specified ballot proposition at the November 3, 2020, statewide general election.
Existing law makes it a crime to commit various acts of sexual assault, including sexual battery and rape. Existing law makes it a crime to possess or use various controlled substances or for a person who is under 21 years of age to purchase or consume alcohol, as specified. Existing law provides, with respect to specified proceedings or investigations regarding felony offenses, that if a person refuses to answer a question or produce evidence on the ground that the person may be incriminated and if the person is ordered to comply but would have been privileged to withhold the answer given or the evidence produced except for the order, the person shall not be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for, or on account of, any fact or act concerning which the person was required to answer or produce evidence, except as specified. Under existing law, a district attorney or other prosecuting agency may request an order granting use immunity or transactional immunity to a witness compelled to give testimony or produce evidence. This bill would make the testimony of a victim or witness in a felony prosecution for a violation or attempted violation of specified crimes of sexual assault that states that the victim or witness, at or around the time of the violation or attempted violation, unlawfully possessed or used a controlled substance or alcohol inadmissible in a separate prosecution of that victim or witness to prove illegal possession or use of that controlled substance or alcohol. The bill would specify that evidence that the testifying witness unlawfully possessed or used a controlled substance or alcohol is not excluded from use in the felony prosecution for a violation or attempted violation of specified crimes of sexual assault. The bill would specify that evidence that a witness received use immunity for testimony is not excluded in the felony prosecution of a violation or attempted violation of specified crimes of sexual assault. The California Constitution provides for the Right to Truth-In-Evidence, which requires a 23 vote of each house of the Legislature to exclude any relevant evidence from any criminal proceeding, as specified. Because this bill would exclude from a criminal action a person's statement regarding their use of controlled substances or alcohol that would otherwise be admissible, it requires a 23 vote of each house of the Legislature.
(1) The Horse Racing Law establishes the California Horse Racing Board within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency. That law vests the board with all powers necessary and proper to enable it to carry out the Horse Racing Law and makes the board responsible for, among other things, adopting rules and regulations for the protection of the public and the control of horse racing and parimutuel wagering and administration and enforcement of all laws, rules, and regulations affecting horse racing and parimutuel wagering. This bill would add as a board responsibility the adoption of rules and regulations that protect and advance the health, safety, welfare, and aftercare of racehorses. The bill would require the board to establish and maintain a whistleblower program through which an owner, trainer, jockey, or stable-area employee may call designated persons under strict confidentiality to report questionable activity or concerns relating to the health and safety of humans or horses under the Horse Racing Law. (2) The Horse Racing Law also requires the board to adopt regulations to establish policies, guidelines, and penalties relating to equine medication in order to preserve and enhance the integrity of horse racing in the state. That law requires that those policies, guidelines, and penalties include, at a minimum, provisions that prohibit, among other things, a substance of any kind from being administered by any means to a horse after it has been entered to race in a horse race, unless the board has, by regulation, specifically authorized the use of the substance and its quantity and composition. That law provides that violations of this provision, as determined by the board, are punishable as set forth in regulations adopted by the board. A violation of the Horse Racing Law is a crime. This bill would prohibit a trainer from administering, directly or indirectly, or otherwise permitting to be administered, any medication to a horse under the trainer's care that is racing or training at a board-approved racetrack, unless the medication is prescribed for that specific horse and administered strictly in accordance with board regulations. The bill would prohibit a trainer from applying to a horse's feet on racing day any type of topical medication designed to alleviate pain, soreness, or tenderness of a horse's feet. (3) The Horse Racing Law requires every veterinarian who treats a horse within the inclosure to report, in writing, on a form prescribed by the board, to the official veterinarian in a manner prescribed by the official veterinarian, the name of the horse treated, the name of the trainer of the horse, the time of treatment, any medication administered to the horse, and any other information requested by the official veterinarian. Existing regulations of the board require that horses that are injured, unsound, or lame are subject to immediate placement on the Veterinarian's List with criteria for removal that may include diagnostic imaging, examination of blood, and counsel with attending veterinarians and that such a horse is prohibited from working out for 72 hours after being placed on the list without the permission of the official veterinarian. The regulations require the official veterinarian to require any horse placed on the list to undergo a veterinary examination before resuming training at any facility under the jurisdiction of the board. The regulations establish conditions for removal of a horse from the list and provide that a horse determined to be unsound or lame for the first, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th time in a 365-day period is ineligible to be removed from the list for a specified period of time. This bill would codify with certain modifications these regulations as to horses determined to be unsound or lame and would authorize the board to adopt rules and regulations to carry out the purposes of these provisions. The bill would also prohibit a thoroughbred or quarter horse that is 4 years of age or older that has not competed in a race or has previously raced but has not raced in the preceding 365 days from racing, unless the horse has passed an examination and a postwork official blood test or tests required by the official veterinarian or the equine medical director, administered by the official veterinarian or the equine medical director's designee. The bill would require the horse to race within 30 days of meeting these requirements. The bill would also require a thoroughbred or quarter horse that has not raced within 120 days but has raced within 365 days to have an examination performed by the official veterinarian or the equine medical director's designee within 14 days before entry, and based upon that examination, the bill would authorize the official veterinarian or the equine medical director's designee to require the horse to work before being allowed to enter in a race, as specified. The bill would require that all horses at a licensed thoroughbred, fair, or quarter horse race meet be subject to veterinary monitoring during morning training, as specified, and would require the use of diagnostic imaging as an accepted component of prerace examinations by an examining veterinarian, as specified. The bill would also require a racing association to provide a location within the inclosure where a horse can be observed jogging in a circle in both directions by the official veterinarian or the equine medical director's designee, if needed, as part of the prerace examination process. The bill would authorize, at the discretion of track stewards, the video surveillance of horses that ship in on racing days for purposes of monitoring compliance with the Horse Racing Law. (4) Existing law establishes the Fair and Exposition Fund for the purpose of allocating moneys to provide financial support for the network of California fairs. The Horse Racing Law provides that any unallocated balance from the total revenue received by the Department of Food and Agriculture pursuant to that law, except as specified, is hereby appropriated without regard to fiscal years for allocation by the Secretary of Food and Agriculture for capital outlay to California fairs for, among other things, fair projects involving public health and safety and projects that are required to protect fair property. That law also provides that a portion of these funds may be allocated to California fairs for general operational support. This bill would create the Horse and Jockey Safety and Welfare Account in the State Treasury. The bill would, notwithstanding the above provisions, require that moneys from specified license fees imposed pursuant to the Horse Racing Law be deposited in that account and be continuously appropriated without regard to fiscal years for allocation by the Department of Finance to the board for equine safety measures to improve the integrity and safety of horse racing that include, among other things, contracting for additional state veterinarians, stewards, and infrastructure support related to the safety and welfare of racehorses and jockeys. Because the bill would create the Horse and Jockey Safety and Welfare Account, a continuously appropriated fund, the bill would make an appropriation. (5) Existing law requires all money representing penalties or fines imposed by the stewards of a horse race meeting to be collected by the licensee of the meeting and paid to the board, as specified, for deposit in the State Treasury to the credit of the General Fund. This bill would instead require that all penalty or fine moneys under this provision be deposited by the board in the Horse and Jockey Safety and Welfare Account. The bill would continuously appropriate these moneys, without regard to fiscal years, for allocation by the Department of Finance to the board for horse welfare and safety measures, as described. The bill would require the board to publicly disclose on its internet website the horse welfare and safety measures it funds with these moneys. Because these moneys would be continuously appropriated to the board for specific purposes, this bill would make an appropriation. (6) By imposing new requirements under the Horse Racing Law, a violation of which would be a crime, the bill would create a state-mandated local program. (7) 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 designate a specified portion of State Route 50 in the County of El Dorado as the Deputy Sheriff Brian "Ish" Ishmael Memorial Highway. The measure would request that the Department of Transportation determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, erect those signs.
Existing law authorizes a search warrant to be issued upon specified grounds, including that the information to be received from the use of a tracking device constitutes evidence that tends to show that a felony or specified misdemeanors has been committed or is being committed, tends to show that a particular person has committed a felony or those specified misdemeanors, or will assist in locating an individual who has committed or is committing a felony or those specified misdemeanors. Existing law requires a warrant issued pursuant to these provisions to meet specified requirements. Existing law defines tracking device for these purposes as any electronic or mechanical device that permits the tracking of the movement of a person or object. This bill would specify that a tracking device includes any software that permits the tracking of the movement of a person or object.
