Existing law, the Unruh Civil Rights Act, specifies that all persons within the jurisdiction of the state are free and equal, and no matter their sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship, primary language, or immigration status are entitled to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges, or services in all business establishments of every kind. This bill would establish in state government the Commission on the State of Hate. The bill would provide for the appointment of 10 members, appointed by the Governor, the Speaker of the Assembly, and the Senate Committee on Rules, as provided. The bill would require the commission to advise the Legislature, the Governor, and state agencies on, among other things, policy recommendations to promote intersocial education designed to foster mutual respect and understanding among California's diverse population. The bill would require the commission to report to the Legislature annually, as provided.
Sponsored bills
Existing law establishes the State Department of Public Health and requires it to maintain a dental program that, among other things, includes the development of comprehensive dental health plans and the coordination of federal, state, county, and city agency programs concerned with dental health, as specified. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this provision.
Existing law requires the legislative body of each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city and requires that the plan include a land use element that addresses housing. Existing law states legislative findings and declarations regarding the need for affordable housing and the need to encourage development of new housing. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes in those legislative findings and declarations.
Existing law requires the California Building Standards Commission to mail notices of meetings with respect to its proposed action on any building standards to specified parties that have submitted a written request for notice at least 15 days before any meeting, as specified. This bill would instead require the commission to mail notices at least 21 days before any meeting.
Existing law requires the legislative body of each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city and requires that the plan include a land use element that addresses housing. Existing law states legislative findings and declarations regarding the need for affordable housing and the need to encourage development of new housing. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes in those legislative findings and declarations.
Existing law, the Permit Streamlining Act, requires a public agency to compile and make available, as specified, one or more lists that specify in detail the information that will be required from an applicant for a development project. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that provision.
Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing law authorizes the Director of Health Care Services to contract with other state agencies for services, as specified. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
Existing law authorizes the City and County of San Francisco (San Francisco) and the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District (AC Transit) to enforce parking violations in specified transit-only traffic lanes through the use of video imaging, and authorizes San Francisco and AC Transit to install automated forward facing parking control devices on city-owned public transit vehicles for the purpose of video imaging parking violations occurring in transit-only traffic lanes. Existing law requires a designated employee, who is qualified by San Francisco or AC Transit, to review video image recordings for the purpose of determining whether a parking violation occurred in a transit-only traffic lane, and to issue a notice of parking violation to a registered owner of a vehicle within 15 calendar days of the date of the violation. Existing law makes these video image records confidential, and provides that these records are available only to public agencies to enforce parking violations. Existing law establishes the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. This bill would extend those provisions to the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, thereby authorizing the authority to install automated forward facing parking control devices on authority-owned public transit vehicles, as specified. The bill would authorize the authority to issue parking citations for any parking violation collected by those devices, as specified. The bill would make conforming changes to related provisions. The bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 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. The bill would make legislative findings to that effect.
This measure would proclaim January 23, 2020, as Maternal Health Awareness Day, to draw attention to the efforts that have improved maternal health in California and to highlight the need for continued improvement of maternal health for all women.