This measure would recognize June 12, 2018, as the 120th Anniversary of Philippine Independence and would call upon the people of the state to observe the month of June with appropriate ceremonies, programs, and activities.
Existing law governs the execution, revocation, and effectiveness of a revocable transfer on death deed, defined as an instrument that makes a donative transfer of property to a named beneficiary that operates on the transferor's death, and remains revocable until the transferor's death. Existing law establishes a statutory form of revocable transfer on death deed that must be notarized and signed under penalty of perjury by the transferor and recorded with the county recorder, as specified. Existing law requires that subsequent pages of that form include common questions regarding the use of the form. Existing law requires that, in order to be effective, a revocable transfer on death deed must be recorded on or before 60 days after the date it was executed. This bill would provide that the requirement of recordation described above does not require the recordation of the pages of the statutory form that include the common questions about the use of the form, and a failure to record those pages does not affect the effectiveness of a revocable transfer on death deed. The bill would apply these provisions to revocable transfer on death deeds executed before, on, or after the effective date of these provisions, as specified. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing federal law, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) , establishes certain requirements relating to the provision of health insurance, including provisions relating to the confidentiality of health records. Existing state law, the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act, prohibits a provider of health care, a health care service plan, a contractor, a corporation and its subsidiaries and affiliates, or any business that offers software or hardware to consumers, including a mobile application or other related device, as defined, from intentionally sharing, selling, using for marketing, or otherwise using any medical information, as defined, for any purpose not necessary to provide health care services to a patient, except as provided. This bill would prohibit an operator of a commercial health monitoring program from intentionally sharing, selling, or disclosing individually identifiable health monitoring information in possession of or derived from a commercial health monitoring program to a 3rd party without first providing clear and conspicuous notice and obtaining the consumer's affirmative consent, except as provided. The bill would require an operator of a commercial health monitoring program, upon request, to delete a consumer's individually identifiable health monitoring information, and to maintain or delete individually identifiable health monitoring information in a manner that preserves security and confidentiality. The bill would define terms for its purposes and exempt entities and individuals subject to HIPAA or the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act from these requirements.
This measure would condemn the decision to end the Temporary Protected Status designation for El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Sudan. The measure would also urge the United States Congress to enact a bipartisan permanent solution for Salvadorans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, Hondurans, and Sudanese with Temporary Protected Status.
The California Constitution grants a right of privacy. Existing law provides for the confidentiality of personal information in various contexts and requires a business or person that suffers a breach of security of computerized data that includes personal information, as defined, to disclose that breach, as specified. This bill would enact the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018. Beginning January 1, 2020, the bill would grant a consumer a right to request a business to disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal information that it collects about the consumer, the categories of sources from which that information is collected, the business purposes for collecting or selling the information, and the categories of 3rd parties with which the information is shared. The bill would require a business to make disclosures about the information and the purposes for which it is used. The bill would grant a consumer the right to request deletion of personal information and would require the business to delete upon receipt of a verified request, as specified. The bill would grant a consumer a right to request that a business that sells the consumer's personal information, or discloses it for a business purpose, disclose the categories of information that it collects and categories of information and the identity of 3rd parties to which the information was sold or disclosed. The bill would require a business to provide this information in response to a verifiable consumer request. The bill would authorize a consumer to opt out of the sale of personal information by a business and would prohibit the business from discriminating against the consumer for exercising this right, including by charging the consumer who opts out a different price or providing the consumer a different quality of goods or services, except if the difference is reasonably related to value provided by the consumer's data. The bill would authorize businesses to offer financial incentives for collection of personal information. The bill would prohibit a business from selling the personal information of a consumer under 16 years of age, unless affirmatively authorized, as specified, to be referred to as the right to opt in. The bill would prescribe requirements for receiving, processing, and satisfying these requests from consumers. The bill would prescribe various definitions for its purposes and would define "personal information" with reference to a broad list of characteristics and behaviors, personal and commercial, as well as inferences drawn from this information. The bill would prohibit the provisions described above from restricting the ability of the business to comply with federal, state, or local laws, among other things. The bill would provide for its enforcement by the Attorney General, as specified, and would provide a private right of action in connection with certain unauthorized access and exfiltration, theft, or disclosure of a consumer's nonencrypted or nonredacted personal information, as defined. The bill would prescribe a method for distribution of proceeds of Attorney General actions. The bill would create the Consumer Privacy Fund in the General Fund with the moneys in the fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to be applied to support the purposes of the bill and its enforcement. The bill would provide for the deposit of penalty money into the fund. The bill would require the Attorney General to solicit public participation for the purpose of adopting regulations, as specified. The bill would authorize a business, service provider, or 3rd party to seek the Attorney General's opinion on how to comply with its provisions. The bill would void a waiver of a consumer's rights under its provisions. The bill would condition its operation on the withdrawal of a specified initiative from the ballot.
This measure would declare June 6, 2018, as Secure Your Load Day in California.
Existing law establishes the Department of Technology within the Government Operations Agency, headed by the Director of Technology, who is also known as the State Chief Information Officer. Existing law requires the chief to establish an information security program, including, among other things, the creation, updating, and publishing of information security and privacy policies, standards, and procedures the State Administrative Manual. Existing law requires certain state entities to implement and comply with the policies and procedures issued by the office. This bill would revise the implementation requirement described above to provide that all state agencies, as defined, must implement and comply with the policies and procedures issued by the office.
This measure would declare June 6, 2018, as California Nonprofits Day in recognition of the importance of nonprofit organizations to the economy and well-being of this state.
This measure would designate June 2018 as Second Chances Month in California, highlighting existing services and events to support reentry.
This measure would encourage the people of the State of California to recognize the potential and possibilities of our children, instead of focusing on their deficits.
