This measure would proclaim March 2, 2020, to March 6, 2020, inclusive, as School Breakfast Week.
The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, an initiative measure approved by the voters as Proposition 65 at the November 4, 1986, statewide general election, prohibits a person, in the course of doing business, from knowingly and intentionally exposing any individual to a chemical known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity without giving a specified warning, or from knowingly discharging or releasing such a chemical into water, or into or onto land and passing into any source of drinking water, except as specified. The act defines "person in the course of doing business" to exclude persons employing fewer than 10 employees in that person's business. The act imposes civil penalties upon persons who violate those prohibitions, and provides for the enforcement of those prohibitions by the Attorney General, a district attorney, or specified city attorneys or prosecutors, and by any person in the public interest. The act authorizes a person, acting in the public interest, to bring an action to enforce the requirements of the act if that person has given a notice of violation to the Attorney General, the district attorney and a city attorney or prosecutor in whose jurisdiction the violation is alleged to have occurred, and the alleged violator, 60 days before the commencement of the action and neither the Attorney General nor a district attorney nor a city attorney or prosecutor has commenced and is diligently prosecuting an action against the alleged violator. The act provides that it may be amended by a statute, passed by a 23 vote of each house of the Legislature, to further its purposes. This bill would revise the definition of "person in the course of doing business" to include a person employing fewer than 10 employees on terms and conditions as that person states in writing to a person giving the above-described notice and the Attorney General. This bill would find and declare that it furthers the purposes of the act.
(1) Existing law, the Municipal Water District Law of 1911, provides for the formation of municipal water districts and grants to those districts specified powers. Existing law permits a district to acquire, control, distribute, store, spread, sink, treat, purify, recycle, recapture, and salvage any water for the beneficial use of the district, its inhabitants, or the owners of rights to water in the district. Existing law requires the board of directors of the Central Basin Municipal Water District (CBMWD) to be composed of 8 directors until the directors elected at the November 8, 2022, election take office, when the board would be composed of 7 directors, as prescribed. This bill would dissolve the board of directors of CBMWD and would provide that the November 3, 2020, election for directors of CBMWD shall not occur. The bill would require the Water Replenishment District of Southern California (WRD) to act as the receiver for CBMWD, would vest WRD with all necessary powers under the Municipal Water District Law of 1911 to take control of CBMWD, and would transfer all powers vested in the board of directors of CBMWD to the board of directors of WRD, except as specified. The bill would require CBMWD's board of directors to surrender all control of CBMWD and its resources to WRD. The bill would require the Local Agency Formation Commission for the County of Los Angeles to conduct a municipal service review of CBMWD and to seek ideas through a public process for governance of CBMWD. The bill would require the commission to report the results of those activities to the Legislature, as provided. The bill would make its provisions inoperative 18 months after the effective date of the bill and would repeal its provisions as of January 1 of the following year. By imposing additional duties on the board of directors of CBMWD, WRD, and the Local Agency Formation Commission for the County of Los Angeles, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Central Basin Municipal Water District. (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 with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above. (4) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
This measure would declare the week of February 17 to February 21, 2020, inclusive, as California Fitness Week, and would encourage Californians to enrich their lives through proper nutrition and exercise.
This measure would proclaim February 20, 2020, as Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day.
This measure would recognize February 2020 as Black History Month, urge all citizens to join in celebrating the accomplishments of African Americans during Black History Month, encourage the people of California to recognize the many talents of African Americans and the achievements and contributions they make to their communities to create equity and equality for education, economics, and social justice, and recognize the significance in protecting citizens' right to vote and remedying racial discrimination in voting.
Existing law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) , grants a consumer various rights with respect to personal information, as defined, that is collected or sold by a business, as defined, including the right to require a business to delete personal information about the consumer, as specified. This bill would require a processor, defined to mean an agency or natural or legal person that processes personal data on behalf of a controller, that provides facial recognition services to, among other things, make available an application programming interface or other technical capability, chosen by the processor, to enable controllers or third parties to conduct legitimate, independent, and reasonable tests of those facial recognition services for accuracy and unfair performance differences across distinct subpopulations, as specified. The bill would also require a controller, defined to mean an agency or natural or legal person that, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data, to, among other things, provide a conspicuous and contextually appropriate notice whenever a facial recognition service is deployed in a physical premise open to the public that includes specified elements, including any purpose for which the facial recognition service is deployed. The bill would require a controller to obtain consent from an individual before enrolling an image or a facial template of that individual in a facial recognition service used in a physical premise open to the public, unless the controller enrolls an image or a facial template of an individual in a facial recognition service for a security or safety purpose, as specified. The bill would require a controller using a facial recognition service to make decisions that produce legal effects concerning individuals or similarly significant effects concerning individuals to ensure that those decisions are subject to meaningful human review. The bill would grant to an individual the right to confirm if a controller has enrolled an image or a facial template of that individual in a facial recognition service used in a physical premise open to the public, the right to correct or challenge a decision to enroll an image or a facial template of the individual in a facial recognition service used for a security or safety purpose in a physical premise open to the public, the right to have an image or a facial template of the individual deleted that has been enrolled in a facial recognition service used in a physical premise open to the public, subject to the security and safety purpose exception described above, and the right to withdraw, at any time, consent to enroll an image or a facial template of that individual in a facial recognition service used in a physical premise open to the public. Existing law, the Information Practices Act of 1977, requires an agency to maintain in its records only personal information that is relevant and necessary for a required or authorized purpose. This bill would require an agency, defined as a state or local public entity, using or intending to develop, procure, or use a facial recognition service to produce reports regarding the use of that service, including an accountability report for that system. The bill would require an agency to clearly communicate that accountability report to the public at least 90 days before the agency puts the service into operational use, post the report on the internet website of the agency, and submit the report to an unspecified agency that is required to post each report on its internet website. The bill would require the report to include specified elements, including the name of the facial recognition service, vendor, and version and a description of its general capabilities and limitations. The bill would require, among other things, an agency to conduct specified periodic training of all individuals who operate a facial recognition service or who process personal data obtained from the use of a facial recognition service. The bill would prohibit an agency from using a facial recognition service to engage in ongoing surveillance, unless specified conditions are met relating to a law enforcement investigation of a serious criminal offense, as defined. The bill would subject a violation of its provisions to injunction and a civil penalty of not more than $2,500 for each violation or not more than $7,500 for each intentional violation, recovered only in an action brought by the Attorney General, as specified. 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.
Existing law authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to control and regulate the use of automatic dialing-announcing devices, which existing law defines as automatic equipment that incorporates a storage capability of telephone numbers to be called, or a random or sequential number generator capable of producing numbers to be called, and the capability to disseminate a prerecorded message to the telephone number called. Existing law prohibits a person from operating an automatic dialing-announcing device except for specified purposes and uses, including to transmit a message to an established business associate, customer, or other person having an established relationship with the person using the automatic dialing-announcing device to transmit the message or to call a recipient at the recipient's request. Existing law prohibits a person operating an automatic dialing-announcing device from making a telephone connection for which no person, acting as an agent or telemarketer, is available for the person called. This bill would instead define "automatic dialing-announcing devices" for these purposes as automatic equipment that stores and automatically calls, or automatically sends text messages to, telephone numbers without significant human involvement in the act of calling or sending, that generates in a random or sequential order and calls, or sends text messages to, telephone numbers without significant human involvement in the act of calling or sending, that makes telephone calls that include artificial or prerecorded voice messages, or that sends text messages that include prewritten text messages. The bill would repeal the authorization for the use of automatic dialing-announcing devices to make calls pursuant to an established business relationship or the recipient's request. Existing law authorizes the use of automatic dialing-announcing devices pursuant to a prior agreement between the persons involved, whereby the person called has consented to receive the call. This bill would specifically authorize the person called to revoke that consent at any time and in any reasonable manner, regardless of the context in which the consent was provided. The bill would establish a presumption of consent by a recipient of a telephone call, using an automatic dialing-announcing device, made to a telephone number selected from stored numbers obtained from a list of registered voters, to immediately connect the recipient with a person waiting to be connected for a live-voice communication regarding the recipient's plans to vote in an election, as specified. Under existing law, a violation of an order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime. Because a violation of an order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission implementing the bill's requirements would be a crime, the 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 proclaim March 15, 2020, to March 22, 2020, as California Down Syndrome Awareness Week and March 21, 2020, as California Down Syndrome Day, and would encourage all Californians to support and participate in related activities.
