(1) Existing law, enacted as part of the Marine Life Management Act of 1998, generally establishes a comprehensive plan for the management of marine living resources. Existing law requires the Department of Fish and Wildlife to develop, and submit to the Fish and Game Commission for its approval, a fishery management master plan, and provides for the preparation and approval of fishery management plans, which form the primary basis for managing California's sport and commercial marine fisheries. Existing law declares various state policies with regard to the management of fishery resources. Existing law authorizes the department to issue permits, subject to restrictions and regulations that the department determines are desirable, to take or possess, in any part of the state, for scientific, educational, or propagation purposes, mammals, birds and the nests and eggs thereof, fish, amphibians, reptiles, or any other form of plant or animal life. Existing law requires the commission to encourage the development of new types of commercial fishing gear and new methods of using existing commercial fishing gear by approving permits, known as experimental gear permits, to be issued by the department, consistent with specified policies, for that development or use, subject to certain restrictions. This bill would repeal these experimental gear permit provisions and instead would authorize the commission to approve experimental fishing permits to be issued by the department for specified purposes that would authorize commercial or recreational marine fishing activity otherwise prohibited by the Fish and Game Code or regulations adopted pursuant to that code. The bill would provide that an experimental fishing permit is subject to certain requirements, including a requirement that activities conducted under the permit be consistent with specified policies enacted as part of the Marine Life Management Act of 1998 and any applicable fishery management plan and a requirement that the permit be subject to certain commission conditions. The bill would require the department to post, and annually update, information regarding approved experimental fishing permits, as specified, on its Internet Web site. The bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2025, and every 5 years thereafter, to report to the appropriate legislative committees summarizing the benefits of the experimental fishing permit program, as specified. The bill would authorize the commission to charge a permit fee, as prescribed. The bill would make conforming changes. (2) Under existing law, any violation of the Fish and Game Code, or of any rule, regulation, or order made or adopted under the code, is generally a misdemeanor. Because a violation of the terms of an experimental fishing permit would be a crime, this 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.
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Existing law, the Occupational Therapy Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of the practice of occupational therapy by the California Board of Occupational Therapy. Existing law defines the "practice of occupational therapy" and specifies that occupational therapy services encompass occupation therapy, assessment, treatment, education, and consultation with individuals referred for those services after diagnosis of a disease or disorder. Existing law prohibits a person from practicing occupational therapy without being licensed under the act and makes a violation of that prohibition a crime. This bill would instead define "occupational therapy" for purposes of the act, and would make conforming changes. The bill would also eliminate the reference to a referral after diagnosis in the description of occupational therapy services. By expanding the scope of a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law defines the term "occupational therapist" and specifies that only the occupational therapist is responsible for the occupational therapy assessment of a client and the development of an occupational therapy plan of treatment. This bill would instead specify that the occupational therapist is responsible for and directs the evaluation process and develops the intervention plan. Existing law specifies that the Occupational Therapy Act does not authorize an occupational therapist to practice, among other things, physical therapy or psychology, as those terms are defined under specified law. This bill would additionally specify that the Occupational Therapy Act does not authorize an occupational therapist to practice marriage and family therapy, as that term is defined for purposes of the Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Act, professional clinical counseling, as that term is defined for purposes of the Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor Act, clinical social work, as that term is defined for purposes of the Clinical Social Worker Practice Act, or educational psychology, as that term is defined for purposes of the Educational Psychologist Practice Act. Existing law requires the occupational therapy board to ensure proper supervision of occupational therapy assistants and aides and allows an occupational therapist to supervise no more than 2 occupational therapy assistants at any one time. Existing law provides for aides to be supervised by occupational therapists or occupational therapy assistants and defines the term "aide" for purposes of the act to mean an individual who provides supportive services to an occupational therapist. This bill would increase the number of occupational therapy assistants an occupational therapist may supervise to 3. This bill would also revise the definition of "aide" to conform to the authority for an aide to also be supervised by an occupational therapy assistant. The bill would specify that the occupational therapist is responsible for the overall use and actions of the aide. Existing law requires an occupational therapist providing hand therapy services or using physical agent modalities to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the board that he or she has completed post professional education and training in specified areas. This bill would eliminate the post professional limitation. Existing law requires an applicant for an occupational therapist license to, among other things, complete a specified educational program and pass a specified examination. Existing law requires the board to approve the examinations for licensure and also authorizes the board to adopt rules relating to professional conduct to carry out the purposes of the act. Existing law requires the curriculum for an educational program for occupational therapists to contain the content required or approved by specified organizations, and specifies a list of subjects that must be included in the program. This bill would delete that list of subjects. The bill would also authorize, rather than require, the board to approve licensure examinations and would authorize the board to adopt rules necessary to effectuate the purpose of the act. Existing law authorizes the board to establish and require the satisfactory completion of continuing competency requirements as a condition of renewal of a license. The bill would instead require the board to do so, and would authorize only a portion of continuing competence requirements to be fulfilled through competency assessment activities performed in the context of a broader professional development plan. The bill would also provide a definition for the term "continuing competence." Existing law prohibits a person from using specified professional abbreviations and terms intended to represent that the person is authorized to practice occupational therapy or assist in the practice of occupational therapy unless the person is licensed to practice as an occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant. This bill would revise the list of abbreviations and terms that may not be used without a license. This bill would provide that an occupational therapist, or an occupational therapy assistant, that is serving as an educator in an education program for occupational therapists in California must be licensed. The bill would replace references to "patient" with "client" throughout the act and would enact other related provisions. 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.
Existing law requires the Natural Resources Agency by July 1, 2017, and every 3 years thereafter, to update the state's climate adaptation strategy to identify vulnerabilities to climate change by sectors, including the biodiversity and habitat sector, and priority actions needed to reduce the risks in those sectors. As part of the update, existing law requires the Natural Resources Agency to coordinate with other state agencies to identify a lead agency or group of agencies to lead adaptation efforts in each sector. This bill would add 3 new sectors to the climate adaptation strategy: the land use and community development sector, the climate justice sector, and the parks, recreation, and California culture sector. The bill would also specify that the biodiversity and habitat sector includes habitat resilience areas, as defined.
Existing sales and use tax laws impose a tax on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state, or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. Those laws provide various exemptions from those taxes. This bill, on or after the effective date and until January 1, 2025, would exempt from those taxes the gross receipts from the sale in this state of, and the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of, specified bicycles purchased by the City of Santa Monica. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of Santa Monica. The Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law authorizes counties and cities to impose local sales and use taxes in conformity with the Sales and Use Tax Law, and existing laws authorize districts, as specified, to impose transactions and use taxes in accordance with the Transactions and Use Tax Law, which generally conforms to the Sales and Use Tax Law. Amendments to the Sales and Use Tax Law are automatically incorporated into the local tax laws. Existing law requires the state to reimburse counties and cities for revenue losses caused by the enactment of sales and use tax exemptions. This bill would provide that, notwithstanding Section 2230 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, no appropriation is made and the state shall not reimburse any local agencies for use tax revenues lost by them pursuant to this bill. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
The Warren-Alquist State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Act requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to adopt building design and construction standards and energy and water conservation standards for new residential and nonresidential buildings to reduce the wasteful, uneconomic, inefficient, or unnecessary consumption of energy, including energy associated with the use of water. The act requires those standards to be cost effective when taken in their entirety and when amortized over the economic life of the structure compared with historic practice. The act requires the commission to adopt standards for a program of electrical load management for each utility service area. This bill would require the commission, by January 1, 2021, to assess the potential for the state to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases from the state's residential and commercial building stock by at least 40% below 1990 levels by January 1, 2030. The bill would require the commission to include in the 2021 edition of the integrated energy policy report and all subsequent integrated energy policy reports a report on the emissions of greenhouse gases associated with the supply of energy to residential and commercial buildings.
This measure would urge the Congress and the President of the United States to support the retention of, and investment in, the Amtrak National Network of passenger trains, specifically the California Zephyr, the Coast Starlight, the Southwest Chief, and the Sunset Limited, as vital components of the state's rail program and would also urge Congress to reject President Trump's proposed Fiscal Year 2019 federal budget cuts to Amtrak and restore full funding for the Amtrak National Network through the appropriations process.
This measure would urge the federal government and the United States Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission to take immediate action to adequately address cross-border pollution in the Tijuana River Valley.
This measure would, among other things, call upon stakeholders in the health professions to foster the well-being of children born with variations of sex characteristics through the enactment of policies and procedures that ensure individualized, multidisciplinary care, as provided.
This measure would urge the Congress and the President of the United States to rename any federal buildings, parks, roadways, highway markers, landmarks, or other federally owned property, such as United States military bases, that bear the names of elected or military leaders of the Confederate States of America and would urge the Congress that statues or busts of elected or military leaders of the Confederate States of America in the United States Capitol be removed and placed in museums where they can be viewed in proper historic context.
Existing law vests exclusive jurisdiction over ungranted tidelands and submerged lands owned by the state to the State Lands Commission. Existing law confers the powers of the commission as to leasing or granting of rights or privileges to lands owned by the state upon a local trustee of granted public trust lands to which those lands have been granted. Existing law authorizes the commission to let leases for the extraction of oil and gas from coastal tidelands or submerged lands in state waters and beds of navigable rivers and lakes within the state in accordance with specified provisions of law. Existing law, notwithstanding those provisions or any other provision of law, prohibits a state agency or state officer from entering into any new lease for the extraction of oil or gas from the California Coastal Sanctuary, which includes certain state waters subject to tidal influence, unless either (1) the President of the United States has found a severe energy supply interruption and has ordered distribution of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the Governor finds that the energy resources of the sanctuary will contribute significantly to the alleviation of that interruption, and the Legislature subsequently acts to amend the law to allow the extraction, or (2) the commission determines that the oil or gas deposits are being drained by means of producing wells upon adjacent federal lands and the lease is in the best interest of the state. This bill would prohibit the commission or a local trustee, as defined, of granted public trust lands from entering into any new lease or other conveyance authorizing new construction of oil- and gas-related infrastructure upon tidelands and submerged lands within state waters associated with Pacific Outer Continental Shelf leases issued after January 1, 2018. The bill would require the commission or a local trustee when approving or disapproving any lease renewal, extension, amendment, or modification authorizing new construction of oil- and gas-related infrastructure upon tidelands and submerged lands within state waters associated with Pacific Outer Continental Shelf leases issued after January 1, 2018, to follow a specified process. The bill would provide that these provisions do not prevent specified activities, including, among others, issuance by the commission of leases pursuant to exceptions applicable to the California Coastal Sanctuary described above. The bill would authorize the commission to establish regulations for the implementation of these provisions. By adding to the duties of local agencies when approving or disapproving leases, this 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, 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.