Existing law authorizes the Director of General Services to convey to the City of Pomona certain property for use as a fire station and requires that the property revert to the state if the city ceases to use it as a fire station. This bill would repeal the requirement that the property revert back to the state if the city ceases to use it as a fire station. The bill would authorize, upon approval of the Director of General Services, and in accordance with any terms and conditions agreed upon by the city and the state that the director determines are in the best interest of the state, the City of Pomona to convey a portion of that property to the Consolidated Fire Protection District of the County of Los Angeles. The bill would require the terms and conditions agreed upon by the city and the state to include appropriate consideration for the state. The bill would authorize the director to take any action necessary to ensure that the transfer of that portion of the property not result in the reversion of any portion of the property to the state. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of Pomona.
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Existing law establishes a system of public elementary and secondary schools operated by local educational agencies throughout this state. Under existing law, public and private secondary schools participate in interscholastic sports, and are authorized to enter into associations or consortia to enact and enforce rules relating to eligibility for, and participation in, these activities. Existing law authorizes school districts to provide specified medical services in connection with athletic events that are under the jurisdiction of, or sponsored or controlled by, school districts. These services include medical or hospital insurance for pupils injured while participating in athletic activities, and ambulance service for pupils, instructors, spectators, and other individuals in attendance at athletic activities. Existing law authorizes a public school to solicit and receive nonstate funds to acquire and maintain an automated external defibrillator (AED) . Existing law provides that an employee of the school district is not liable for civil damages resulting from certain uses, attempted uses, or nonuses of an AED, except as provided. Existing law provides that a public school or school district that complies with certain requirements related to an AED is not liable for any civil damages resulting from any act or omission in the rendering of the emergency care or treatment, except as provided. If a school district or charter school elects to offer any interscholastic athletic program, this bill would require the school district or charter school to (1) ensure that there is a written emergency action plan in place, and posted as specified, that describes the location and procedures to be followed in the event of sudden cardiac arrest or other medical emergencies related to the athletic program's activities or events, (2) acquire, commencing July 1, 2019, at least one AED for each school within the school district or the charter school to be available on campus, (3) encourage that the AED or AEDs are available for the purpose of rendering emergency care or treatment, as specified, (4) ensure that the AED or AEDs are available to athletic trainers and coaches and authorized persons at the athletic program's on campus activities or events, and (5) ensure that the AED or AEDs are maintained and regularly tested, as specified. The bill would expressly state that an employee of a school district or charter school is not liable for civil damages resulting from certain uses, attempted uses, or nonuses of an AED in the rendering of emergency care or treatment pursuant to the bill's provisions, except as provided. The bill would expressly state that a public school, school district, or charter school that complies with certain requirements related to an AED is not liable for any civil damages resulting from any act or omission in the rendering of emergency care or treatment pursuant to the bill's provisions, except as provided.
Existing law creates the Commission on Emergency Medical Services, within the California Health and Human Services Agency, to, among other things, advise the Emergency Medical Services Authority on the development of an emergency medical data collection system. Existing law requires the Emergency Medical Services Authority to develop a statewide standard methodology for the calculation and reporting of ambulance patient offload time, as defined, by a local emergency medical services (EMS) agency. Existing law authorizes a county to develop an emergency medical services program, and authorizes a local EMS agency to adopt policies and procedures to calculate and report ambulance patient offload time. This bill would require a local EMS agency to submit quarterly data to the authority that, among other things, is sufficient for the authority to calculate ambulance patient offload time by local EMS agency jurisdiction and by each facility in a local EMS agency jurisdiction. The bill would require the authority to calculate ambulance patient offload time and report it twice per year to the Commission on Emergency Medical Services. The bill would also require the authority, in collaboration with local EMS agencies, on or before December 1, 2020, to submit a report to the Legislature on ambulance patient offload time and recommendations to reduce or eliminate ambulance patient offload time.
(1) Existing law, the California Industrial Development Financing Act, authorizes cities, counties, cities and counties, and redevelopment agencies to establish industrial development authorities that are authorized to issue industrial development bonds, the proceeds of which may be used to fund capital projects of private enterprise under terms and conditions specified in the act. The act authorizes an authority to issue tax-exempt bonds, and defines "tax-exempt" for these purposes to mean that the interest on the bonds is excluded from gross income of the holders thereof for federal income tax purposes. The act establishes the California Industrial Development Financing Advisory Commission, and requires the commission to approve the issuance of industrial development bonds pursuant to these provisions. The act also authorizes the commission to carry out other specified powers related to the issuance of industrial development bonds, including authorizing the commission to act as a bond pooling agent and requires fees to be charged to cover the costs of the commission in carrying out these provisions. Existing law requires these fees to be deposited in the Industrial Development Fund, which is available, upon appropriation, to the commission for expenses. This bill would abolish the California Industrial Development Financing Advisory Commission, and would make conforming changes to that effect. The bill would also provide that "tax-exempt" for purposes of the act includes that the interest on the bonds is otherwise entitled to any federal tax advantage. The bill would transfer any moneys, including interest earned, in the Industrial Development Fund to the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee Fund, established in existing law, and appropriate those moneys to the California Pollution Control Financing Authority to reimburse this authority for its administrative costs related to the abolishment of the California Industrial Development Financing Advisory Commission, as specified, and also to the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee. (2) Existing law establishes the Capital Access Loan Program to assist small businesses in financing the costs of complying with environmental mandates and the remediation of contamination on their properties. Existing law establishes the California Americans with Disabilities Act Small Business Capital Access Loan Program (ADA program) , within the Capital Access Loan Program, to assist small businesses in financing the eligible costs of projects that alter or retrofit existing small business facilities to comply with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act. Existing law defines a small business for purposes of the ADA program to mean a business that meets certain criteria, including that it be a small business concern, as defined under specified federal law, and additionally that it has 15 or fewer full-time employees, has less than $5,000,000 in total gross annual income from all sources, and does not provide overnight accommodations. Existing law establishes the California Americans with Disabilities Act Small Business Capital Access Loan Program Fund as a continuously appropriated fund, and requires the authority to use the fund for specified purposes related to the ADA program. This bill would modify the definition of a small business for purposes of the ADA program to instead mean a business that is independently owned and operated and not dominant in its field, and that has 30 or fewer full-time employees or that has less than $5,000,000 in total gross annual income from all sources. The bill would thereby expand the types of businesses that qualify for funding under the ADA program. By expanding the authorized uses of moneys in a continuously appropriated fund, the bill would make an appropriation. (3) Existing law establishes within the Capital Access Loan Program the California Seismic Safety Capital Access Loan Program to assist qualified residential property owners and qualified small business owners in seismically retrofitting qualified buildings by covering losses on qualified loans for those purposes. Existing law defines the term "qualified building" for these purposes to mean a building that is certified by the appropriate local building code enforcement authority as hazardous and in danger of collapse during an earthquake. Existing law requires a "qualified small business" and "qualified residential property owner" to own and occupy the qualified building, and prohibits a qualified loan under the program from being used to finance passive real estate ownership. Existing law requires the California Pollution Control Financing Authority to administer the program, including regulations and funds received for the program, as specified. Existing law establishes the California Seismic Safety Capital Access Loan Program Fund, which is continuously appropriated to the authority to carry out the purposes of the California Seismic Safety Capital Access Loan Program. This bill would modify the term "qualified building" to mean a residential or commercial building identified by the local building code official as a building in need of seismic retrofitting and is either a building of a type that is potentially vulnerable in the event of a catastrophic earthquake or a building constructed before 1981. This bill would no longer require a "qualified small business" or a "qualified residential property owner" to occupy a qualified building in order to be eligible under the program, and would authorize a qualified loan under the program to be used to finance passive real estate ownership. By expanding the purposes of a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation. (4) The California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority Act authorizes, until January 1, 2021, the authority to provide financial assistance in the form of a sales and use tax exclusion for projects, including those that promote California-based manufacturing, California-based jobs, the reduction of greenhouse gases, or the reduction in air and water pollution or energy consumption. The act prohibits the sales and use tax exclusions from exceeding $100,000,000 for each calendar year. The act authorizes the authority, until July 1, 2021, to grant financial assistance in the form of a sales and use tax exclusion for projects that promote the use of advanced manufacturing. This bill would expand the sales and use tax exemption to include the lease or transfer of tangible personal property, constituting any project, to any contractor for use in the performance of a construction contract that will use the property as an integral part of the approved project. (5) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law, the California Suicide Prevention Act of 2000, authorizes the State Department of Health Care Services to establish and implement a suicide prevention, education, and gatekeeper program to reduce the severity, duration, and incidence of suicidal behaviors. The act authorizes the State Department of Health Care Services to contract with an outside agency to establish and implement a targeted public awareness and education campaign on suicide prevention and treatment, and requires that the target population include junior high and high school students. Existing law requires the governing board or body of a county office of education, school district, state special school, or charter school that serves pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to, before the beginning of the 2017–18 school year, adopt a policy on pupil suicide prevention, as specified, that specifically addresses the needs of high-risk groups. Existing law requires the Instructional Quality Commission to consider developing, and recommending for adoption by the State Board of Education, a distinct category on mental health instruction to educate pupils about all aspects of mental health, including, among other things, depression and suicidal thoughts and behaviors, as specified. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to send a notice to each middle school, junior high school, and high school that encourages each school to provide suicide prevention training to each school counselor, provides information on the availability of certain suicide prevention training curriculum, informs schools about certain suicide prevention training, and describes how a school might retain those services. This bill would require a public school, including a charter school, or a private school, that serves pupils in any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, and that issues pupil identification cards to have printed on either side of the pupil identification cards the telephone number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, and would authorize those schools to have printed on either side of the pupil identification cards the Crisis Text Line and a local suicide prevention hotline telephone number. The bill would require a public or private institution of higher education that issues student identification cards to have printed on either side of the student identification cards the telephone number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, and would authorize the institution to have printed on either side of the student identification cards the Crisis Text Line, the campus police or security telephone number, or the local nonemergency telephone number, as provided, and a local suicide prevention hotline telephone number. The bill would require schools and public or private institutions of higher education subject to these requirements that have a supply of unissued, noncompliant identification cards as of January 1, 2019, to issue the noncompliant identification cards until that supply is depleted.
(1) Existing law prescribes various requirements to be satisfied before the exercise of a power of sale under a mortgage or deed of trust. In this regard, existing law requires that a notice of default and a notice of sale be recorded and that specified periods of time elapse between the recordings and the sale. Certain laws enacted in 2012 and repealed on January 1, 2018, commonly referred to as the California Homeowner Bill of Rights, established a variety of requirements in connection with foreclosures on mortgages and deeds of trust, including restrictions on mortgage servicers actions while a borrower is attempting to secure a loan modification or has submitted a loan modification application. The foreclosure provisions of the act were generally limited to first lien mortgages and deeds of trust on owner-occupied residences, as specified. This bill would reenact various provisions of the California Homeowner Bill of Rights, as described above, and make other changes. With regard to first lien mortgages or deeds of trust on residential real property, as specified, the bill would prohibit an entity that forecloses on more than 175 real properties from recording a notice of default or notice of sale, or conducting a trustee's sale after a borrower submits a complete application for a first lien loan modification and that application is pending. The bill would require that the complete application be submitted at least 5 business days before a scheduled foreclosure sale. The prohibition on recording a notice of default or a notice of sale would continue until one of 3 specified events occur. The bill would grant a borrower 30 days to appeal if the loan modification is denied and authorize the borrower to provide evidence that the mortgage servicer's determination was in error. During this appeal period, the bill would prohibit filing a notice of default, or if that notice has already been filed, from recording a notice of sale or conducting a trustee's sale until the later of specified events. The bill would require a mortgage servicer to send a written notice to the borrower that identifies the reasons for denial and that includes certain information in connection with the denial. The bill would provide that a mortgage servicer satisfies specified telephone contact requirements if the borrower makes a written request to cease communications. This bill would also prohibit these entities from recording a notice of default until a mortgage servicer provides the borrower specified information in writing, 30 days have passed after contacting the borrower or after making diligent effort, as specified, to do so, and after compliance by the mortgage servicer with the requirements for completed applications for loan modification described above, as may be applicable. The bill would require that a notice of default include a specified declaration regarding contact with a borrower. The bill would make technical changes to provisions requiring a mortgage servicer to establish a single point of contact for a borrower requesting a foreclosure prevention alternative. In connection with the entities and mortgages and deeds of trust described above, among other things, the bill also would require a mortgage servicer that offers a foreclosure prevention alternative to send a written communication containing specified information regarding the alternative to a borrower within 5 days after recording a notice of default, except as specified. The bill would require a mortgage servicer to provide a borrower who submits a complete first lien loan modification application, or any document connected to that modification, written acknowledgment of receipt within 5 business days of receipt along with other information regarding the loan modification process. The bill would define "complete" for these purposes. The bill would prohibit recording a notice of default if a foreclosure prevention alternative is approved in writing before the notice is recorded and other specified conditions are met. If a foreclosure prevention alternative is approved after recording the notice, the bill would prohibit recording a notice of sale or conducting a trustee sale if specified conditions are met. The bill would require that a notice of default be rescinded or a pending trustee sale canceled when a borrower executes a permanent foreclosure alternative. The bill would prohibit a mortgage servicer from charging fees for a first lien loan modification or other foreclosure prevention alternative, as specified, and would require modifications and prevention alternatives previously approved to be honored following transfer or sale to another servicer. The bill would provide for liability to borrowers for material violations of these provisions, as specified, and would permit a court to award the greater of treble actual damages or specified statutory damages in cases of intention or reckless violations. Violations of certain of the provisions described above by licensees of the Department of Corporations, the Department of Financial Institutions, and the Department of Real Estate would also be deemed violations of those respective licensing laws. Because certain violations of those licensing laws are crimes, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would provide that a mortgage servicer that engages in multiple and repeated filing of unsubstantiated documents related to foreclosure is liable for a civil penalty of up to $7,500 per mortgage or deed of trust, in an action brought by specified state and local government entities, and would also authorize administrative enforcement against specified licensees by their regulatory agencies. With regard to first lien mortgages or deeds of trust on residential real property, as specified, in connection with an entity that forecloses on fewer than 175 real properties in a reporting period, as specified, the bill would prohibit recording a notice of default, notice of sale, or conducting a trustee's sale while a complete first lien loan modification application is pending and until the mortgage servicer provides the borrower a written determination regarding his or her eligibility for the requested modification. The bill would require that the complete application be submitted at least 5 business days before a scheduled foreclosure sale. The bill would prohibit recording a notice of default if a foreclosure prevention alternative is approved in writing before the notice is recorded and other specified conditions are met. If a foreclosure prevention alternative is approved after recording the notice, the bill would prohibit recording a notice of sale or conducting a trustee sale if specified conditions are met. The bill would prescribe a process by which these entities become subject to the provisions described above that are applicable to entities that foreclose on more than 175 real properties. The bill would require modifications and prevention alternatives previously approved to be honored following transfer or sale to another servicer. The bill would authorize a borrower to seek injunctive relief to enjoin material violations certain of its provisions if a trustee's deed upon sale has not been recorded. If the deed has been recorded, the bill would provide for liability to borrowers for material violations of these provisions, as specified, and would permit a court to award the greater of treble actual damages or specified statutory damages in cases of intention or reckless violations. The bill would authorize a court to award attorney's fees and costs, as specified. Violations of certain of the provisions described above by licensees of the Department of Corporations, the Department of Financial Institutions, and the Department of Real Estate would also be deemed violations of those respective licensing laws. Because certain violations of those licensing laws are crimes, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would make a statement of legislative intent regarding the amendment, addition, or repeal of provisions of the California Homeowner Bill of Rights that took effect on January 1, 2018, on liability incurred prior to January 1, 2018. The bill would make conforming changes and repeal duplicate provisions of law. (2) 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 establishes the Air Quality Improvement Program that is administered by the State Air Resources Board for the purposes of funding projects related to, among other things, the reduction of criteria air pollutants and improvement of air quality. Pursuant to its existing statutory authority, the state board has established the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project, as a part of the Air Quality Improvement Program, to promote the production and use of zero-emission vehicles by providing rebates for the purchase of new zero-emission vehicles. Existing law, until January 1, 2019, requires the state board, for the purposes of the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project, to, among other things, offer rebates only to applicants who purchase an eligible vehicle and have a specified maximum gross annual income, increase rebate payments by $500 for low-income applicants, provide outreach to low-income households to increase consumer awareness of the rebate project, and prioritize rebate payments for low-income applicants. This bill would require the state board, for the purposes of the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project, to provide outreach to low-income households and low-income communities to increase consumer awareness of the rebate project and, until January 1, 2022, to prioritize rebate payments to low-income applicants.
Existing law imposes various limitations on emissions of air contaminants for the control of air pollution from vehicular and nonvehicular sources. Existing law generally designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency with the primary responsibility for the control of vehicular air pollution. Existing law requires the state board to adopt and implement motor vehicle emission standards, in-use performance standards, and motor vehicle fuel specifications for the control of air contaminants and sources of air pollution. Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to publish a penalty policy for specified civil or administrative penalties relating to vehicular air pollution, as specified. Existing federal regulations regulate the manufacture of glider vehicles, defined as new motor vehicles produced from a glider kit, as defined, or otherwise produced as a new motor vehicle with a used or remanufactured engine. This bill would make a person who operates a glider vehicle, as defined, in violation of specified emission standards or other requirements for glider vehicles to be subject to a minimum civil penalty of $25,000 per violation. The bill would prohibit the above-described requirement for the publication of a penalty policy from being construed as providing discretion to the state board to reduce that minimum civil penalty. The bill would require all moneys collected by the state board to be deposited in the Air Pollution Control Fund and be available upon appropriation.
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 declare that the State of California welcomes the hosting of World Cup 2026, would declare the state's full support of local organizing committees in the San Francisco Bay area and Los Angeles area to be selected as World Cup 2026 sites, and would encourage the Governor and all affected state departments to cooperate with those committees.