Existing law, the Information Practices Act of 1977, declares that the right to privacy is a personal and fundamental right protected by the California Constitution and by the United States Constitution and that all individuals have a right of privacy in information pertaining to them. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that provision.
Existing law establishes the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development, and requires that office to serve the Governor as the lead entity for economic strategy and the marketing of California on issues relating to business development, private sector investment, and economic growth, and authorizes the office to exercise various powers, including, among others, making recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature regarding policies, programs, and actions to advance statewide economic goals. This bill would require the office to, on or before July 1, 2018, commission and complete a study that would evaluate the economic impact of California's cybersecurity industry, and would require that study to include certain information. The bill would require the office to provide the Legislature with the results of the study, along with recommendations for promoting the economic and workforce development of the state's cybersecurity industry. The bill would repeal these provisions as of January 1, 2022.
The Horse Racing Law authorizes advance deposit wagering to be conducted, with the approval of the California Horse Racing Board. That law requires the board to develop and adopt rules to license and regulate all phases of operation of advance deposit wagering for advance deposit wagering providers operating in California and authorizes a racing association, a fair, a satellite wagering facility, or a minisatellite wagering facility to enter into an agreement with an advance deposit wagering provider to accept and facilitate the placement of any wager at its facility that a California resident could make through that advance deposit wagering provider. The Horse Racing Law also authorizes every association that conducts a racing meeting to elect permanently to deduct an additional amount up to 0.33 of 1% from the total parimutuel wagers placed within its inclosure and any association that conducts a racing meeting or any fair that operates a satellite wagering facility to elect to deduct an additional amount of 0.33 of 1% from the total parimutuel wagers placed within its inclosure or at its satellite wagering facility. That law provides that the amounts deducted pursuant to these provisions be retained by the association or fair for the payment of possessory interest taxes, if any, assessed against the organization that operates the audiovisual signal system, the racing association, or fair, and after payment of these taxes be distributed to the city, or to the city or county, in which the racing meeting or wagering is conducted. This bill would require the California Horse Racing Board to review the payments made to a city pursuant to the above-described provisions to ensure that the additional amounts paid to a city based on 0.33 of 1 percent from the total parimutuel wagers and 0.33 of the 1 percent of the total amount handled by each satellite wagering facility include the total amount that was waged by advance deposit wagers at the racetrack. The bill would require the board to determine whether the total amount paid to a city included compensation from advance deposit wagers. The bill would also require the board to release its findings at a publicly noticed hearing and make its findings available to the public on its Internet Web site.
Existing law establishes a system of public elementary and secondary schools in this state, and authorizes school districts and other local educational agencies to provide instruction to pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive. Existing law establishes a course of study for pupils in these grades. This bill would establish the Computer Science Education Grant Pilot Program under the administration of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Under the program, eligible local educational agencies, as defined, could apply to receive grants, not to exceed 2 years, to establish and maintain computer science courses in underserved areas and among pupils from groups historically underrepresented in the field of computer science, and to provide professional development for teachers to teach computer science, either as a stand-alone course or as integrated into other courses. The bill would authorize any local educational agency in the state to apply for participation in the pilot program. The bill would specify minimum criteria to be applied by the Superintendent in evaluating applicant local educational agencies for possible participation in the pilot program, and authorize the Superintendent to consult with computer science experts to discuss and refine these criteria, as specified. The bill would establish the Computer Science Education Grant Matching Account in the State Treasury. The bill would authorize the State Treasury to receive, and deposit into the account, any gifts, grants, or donations received for purposes of the bill from private persons or entities. The bill would require local educational agencies receiving grants under the bill to provide local matching resources, which may include in-kind donations, constituting an amount equaling the amount that would be allocated to the local educational agency from the Computer Science Education Grant Matching Account. The bill would express the intent of the Legislature that no moneys from the state General Fund be used to fund the grant pilot program established by the bill. The bill would provide that the funds deposited in the account would be available, upon appropriation in the annual Budget Act or in another statute, to the Superintendent for purposes of the bill, provided that the Superintendent certifies, in writing, to the Director of Finance that there are sufficient funds, as defined, in the account to implement the bill. The bill would limit expenditures from the account to cover administrative costs to the State Department of Education to no more than 5% of the allocations made from the account in any fiscal year. The bill would authorize the Superintendent to refund to the donor all or a portion of any gift, grant, or donation made to the account by that donor if the funds received from that donor have not been encumbered because there are surplus funds in the account or because this provision has not become operative. The bill would require the Superintendent to submit an annual report, containing specified data about the grant program, to the Governor and the Legislature on or before January 10, 2020, and on or before January 10 in 2021, 2022, and 2023. The provisions of the bill would become inoperative on July 1, 2023, and would be repealed as of January 1, 2024.
Existing law makes it a crime for a person, with the intent to defraud, to acquire or retain possession of the personal identifying information, as defined, of more than 10 persons. Existing law makes that crime punishable by a fine, by imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed one year, or by both a fine and imprisonment, or by imprisonment in a county jail for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years. This bill would instead make that punishment applicable to a person who acquires or retains possession of the personal identifying information of more than 9 but not more than 50 persons. The bill would make it a crime punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years for a person who, with the intent to defraud, acquires or retains possession of the personal identifying information of more than 50 but not more than 100 other persons. The bill would make it a crime punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for 2, 3, or 5 years for a person who, with the intent to defraud, acquires or retains possession of the personal identifying information of more than 50 but not more than 100 other persons. The bill would make it a crime punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for 3, 5, or 7 years for a person who, with the intent to defraud, acquires or retains possession of the personal identifying information of more than 1,000 other persons. By creating new crimes, 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.
(1) The California Emergency Services Act sets forth the duties of the Office of Emergency Services with respect to specified emergency preparedness, mitigation, and response activities within the state. Existing law requires the Department of Technology, in consultation with the Office of Emergency Services and in compliance with the information security program required to be established by the Chief of the Office of Information Security, to update the Technology Recovery Plan element of the State Administrative Manual to ensure the inclusion of cybersecurity strategy incident response standards for each state agency to secure its critical infrastructure controls and critical infrastructure information. Existing law requires a person or business conducting business in California that owns or licenses computerized data that includes personal information to disclose expeditiously and without unreasonable delay a breach in the security of the data to a resident of California whose unencrypted personal information was, or is reasonably believed to have been, acquired by an unauthorized person, or whose encrypted personal information was, or is reasonably believed to have been, acquired by an unauthorized person if the encryption key or security credential was, or is reasonably believed to have been, acquired by an unauthorized person, and the person or business that owns or licenses the encrypted information has a reasonable belief that the encryption key or security credential could render that personal information readable or usable. This bill would require, on or after January 1, 2019, a critical infrastructure business that experiences a breach of security of critical infrastructure information or critical infrastructure controls and is required by federal law to disclose that breach to also disclose that breach to the Office of Emergency Services, as specified. The bill would deem a critical infrastructure business to be in compliance with this requirement with respect to a breach if it complies with specified requirements related to disclosing that breach to the multistate information sharing and analysis center. The bill would require a critical infrastructure business to disclose breaches in a form and manner provided by the office, and without unreasonable delay, except as provided. The bill would otherwise prohibit public disclosure of the information and reports required by its provisions. (2) Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.
Existing law, the Mental Health Services Act, an initiative measure enacted by the voters as Proposition 63 at the November 2, 2004, statewide general election, establishes the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission, and requires the commission to consist of 16 voting members, including, among others, two persons with a severe mental illness and a mental health professional. The act may be amended by the Legislature by a 23 vote of both houses and only so long as the amendment is consistent with and furthers the intent of the act. The Legislature may clarify procedures and terms of the act by majority vote. This bill would require the Governor to appoint an additional member to the commission who has knowledge and experience in reducing mental health disparities, especially for racial and ethnic communities. The bill would state the finding and declaration of the Legislature that this change is consistent with and furthers the intent of the act. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 5845 of the Welfare and Institutions Code proposed by AB 1688 to be operative only if this bill and AB 1688 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
This measure would recognize August 6, 2017, as the 52nd anniversary of the signing of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965.
