Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of specified healing arts licensees, including, among others, physicians and surgeons, physician assistants, nurses, and nurse anesthetists. This bill would enact the Anesthesiologist Assistant Practice Act, which would make it unlawful for any person to hold himself or herself out as an anesthesiologist assistant unless he or she meets specified requirements. The bill would make it an unfair business practice to violate these provisions. The bill would require an anesthesiologist assistant to work under the direction and supervision of an anesthesiologist, and would require the anesthesiologist to be physically present on the premises and immediately available to the anesthesiologist assistant when medical services are being rendered and to oversee the activities of, and accept responsibility for, the medical services being rendered by the anesthesiologist assistant. The bill would authorize an anesthesiologist assistant under the supervision of an anesthesiologist to assist the supervising anesthesiologist in developing and implementing an anesthesia care plan for a patient.
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Existing sales and use tax laws impose taxes 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, and provides various exemptions from the taxes imposed by those laws. Existing law creates the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA) with specified powers and duties relative to transportation planning, programming, and operations in the County Los Angeles. This bill would partially exempt from those taxes the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, tangible personal property sold by, or purchased from, a retailer that is a small business, as defined, and whose property line abuts or faces the rail corridor or a designated construction staging or construction storage area of the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor Light Rail Line, the Regional Connector Transit Corridor Light Rail Line, or the Westside Subway Extension Light Rail Line, as specified. The bill would require a small business to provide a written certification to the Board of Equalization that it has suffered a negative financial impact during construction of those rail lines in order to receive the partial exemption, as provided. The bill would also make related findings and declarations. This bill would require the LACMTA to notify the board of the date construction ends for each project. To the extent the bill would require the LACMTA to report to the board regarding the completion of construction, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. 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 law authorizes districts, as specified, to impose transactions and use taxes in accordance with the Transactions and Use Tax Law, which conforms generally to the Sales and Use Tax Law. Exemptions from state sales and use taxes are incorporated into these laws. This bill would specify that this exemption does not apply to local sales and use taxes and transactions and use taxes. 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. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy. However, the provisions of this act shall become operative on January 1, 2016.
The Local Agency Public Construction Act requires the governing board of any school district to let any contract for a public project, as defined, involving an expenditure of $15,000 or more, to the lowest responsible bidder that gives security as the board requires, or else reject all bids. This bill would establish a pilot program to authorize the Los Angeles Unified School District to use, before December 31, 2020, a best value procurement method for bid evaluation and selection for public projects that exceed $1,000,000. The bill would establish various requirements applicable to the use of the best value procurement method under this authorization. The bill would require the school district to submit an interim and final report to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature on the use of the best value procurement method pursuant to the bill, in accordance with a specified schedule. These provisions would be repealed on January 1, 2021. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Existing law provides that a person is entitled to register to vote if he or she is a United States citizen, a resident of California, not in prison or on parole for the conviction of a felony, and at least 18 years of age at the time of the next registration. This bill would provide that a person is entitled to preregister to vote in an election if, among other things, that person is at least 16 years of age. Existing law authorizes county elections officials, under specified circumstances and in order to promote and encourage voter registrations, to deputize as registrars qualified citizens to register voters anywhere within the county. The bill would delete this authorization and make conforming changes to related provisions of law. Existing law requires the county elections official to accept affidavits of registration at all times except during the 14 days immediately preceding an election and requires the county elections official to accept an affidavit of registration executed as part of a voter registration card in the forthcoming election if the affidavit is executed on or before the 15th day prior to the election and if a specified circumstance applies. The bill would delete these provisions of law. Existing law authorizes the county elections official of any county to receive the affidavit of registration of any elector who resides or claims residence in another county in this state and provides that this method of registration is effective for all elections occurring 29 or more days after receipt of the affidavit of registration. Existing law also sets forth the acceptance procedure for the county elections official in the event a voter provides notification of a change of address. The bill would instead specify that registration by the above-described method would be effective for an election occurring 15 or more days after receipt of the affidavit of registration by the county elections official. The bill would also modify the procedure for the acceptance of affidavits of voter registration, reregistration, or notification of a transfer of registration for an election. Existing law authorizes any person filing with the county elections official a new affidavit of registration or reregistration to have the information relating to his or her residence address, telephone number, and email address appearing on the affidavit, or any list, roster, or index prepared therefrom, declared confidential upon a superior court order, as specified. The bill would impose new requirements on county elections officials relating to voters moving into a new county who wish to apply for confidential voter status. By imposing new requirements on local officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law requires the county elections official to print a complete index and authorizes the official to print a continuing index, by precinct, to the affidavits of registration current at the date of printing. Each county elections official is also required to send to the Secretary of State a summary statement of the number of voters in the county. The bill would modify these provisions of law and require that the county elections official provide an electronic copy of the index and of supplements to the index. The bill would also require a county elections official to provide detailed notice to the Secretary of State that specified voter information is available. The bill would correct incorrect cross-references and delete obsolete provisions of law. Existing law requires the county elections official to cancel voter registration at the signed, written request of the person registered, when the mental incompetency of the person registered is legally established, upon proof that the person is presently imprisoned or on parole for the conviction of a felony, upon the production of a certified copy of a judgment directing that the cancellation be made, or upon the death of the person registered. The bill would authorize the Secretary of State to cancel a person's registration when the mental incompetency of the person registered is legally established, upon proof that the person is presently imprisoned or on parole for the conviction of a felony, and upon the death of the person registered. In specified circumstances, existing law requires a court to determine whether a person is capable of completing an affidavit of registration or otherwise qualified to vote. If the court determines that the person is not capable of completing the affidavit or is not qualified to vote, the court is required to order the person to be disqualified from voting and to notify the county elections official. In the event a person's right to register to vote is restored, the court is required to notify the county elections official. The bill would instead require the court to notify the Secretary of State in the event a person is disqualified from voting or his or her right to register to vote is restored. Existing law authorizes a county elections official to send an alternate residency confirmation postcard to a voter if the voter has not voted in an election within the preceding 4 years and his or her residence address, name, or party affiliation has not been updated during that time. A county elections official is required to send a forwardable notice to a voter to enable the voter to verify or correct residency information based on change-of-address data. The bill would modify the form and content of the alternate residency confirmation postcard and forwardable notice. Under existing law, any deputy registrar of voters having charge of affidavits of registration is guilty of a misdemeanor who knowingly neglects or refuses to return affidavits of registration. The bill would instead specify that any individual or organization having charge of affidavits of registration who knowingly neglects or refuses to return affidavits of registration is guilty of a misdemeanor. By creating a new crime, the bill would create a state-mandated local program. The bill would incorporate additional changes to Sections 2150, 2208, and 2209 of the Elections Code, proposed by SB 589, that would become operative only if SB 589 and this bill are chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2016, and this bill is chaptered last. The bill would also incorporate additional changes to Section 3019 of the Elections Code, proposed by AB 477, that would become operative only if AB 477 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2016, and this bill is chaptered last. 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 with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above. This bill, except as specified, would become operative only if the Secretary of State certifies that the state has a statewide voter registration database that complies with the federal Help America Vote Act of 2002.
The California Constitution requires that the water resources of the State be put to beneficial use to the fullest extent of which they are capable. Under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, which applies to all groundwater basins in the state, all basins designated as high- or medium-priority basins by the Department of Water Resources as basins that are subject to critical conditions of overdraft, as specified, are required to be managed under a groundwater sustainability plan or coordinated groundwater sustainability plans by January 31, 2020. This bill would establish special procedures for a comprehensive adjudication, which is defined as an action filed in superior court to comprehensively determine rights to extract groundwater in a basin. The bill would authorize the court to determine all groundwater rights of a basin, whether based on appropriation, overlying right, or other basis of right, and use of storage space in the basin. The bill would provide that these special procedures governing comprehensive adjudications do not apply in certain cases that do not involve a comprehensive allocation of a basin's groundwater supply. The bill would authorize a judge of the superior court to determine if the action is a comprehensive adjudication, as specified. This bill would require the plaintiff in a comprehensive adjudication to provide notice of the comprehensive adjudication within a specified amount of time after filing the complaint to certain persons including a city, county, or city and county that overlies the basin or a portion of the basin. The bill would require a draft notice and draft form answer, as specified, to be lodged by the plaintiff with the court when filing the complaint. Within 30 days of the assignment of a judge by the Chairperson of the Judicial Council, the bill would require the plaintiff to file a motion for approval of the draft notice and draft form answer. Following a court order approving the notice and form answer and authorizing service of landowners, as specified, the bill would require the plaintiff to identify the assessor parcel numbers and physical addresses of all real property in the basin and the names and addresses of all holders of fee title to real property in the basin, as specified; mail the notice, complaint, and form answer to all holders of fee title to real property in the basin, as specified; and publish the notice in one or more newspapers of general circulation, as specified. The bill would require the plaintiff to file with the court a notice of the completion of the mailing. The bill would deem fulfillment of the service and publication provisions as effective service of process of the complaint and notice on all interested parties of the comprehensive adjudication for purposes of establishing in rem jurisdiction and the comprehensive effect of the comprehensive adjudication. This bill would authorize a groundwater sustainability agency for the basin or a portion of the basin, a city, county, or city and county that overlies the basin or a portion of the basin, and certain persons to intervene in a comprehensive adjudication. This bill would require the court to convene a case management conference and would authorize the court to consider certain matters, including dividing the case into phases to resolve legal and factual issues, in the initial case management conference or as soon as practicable. In addition, the bill would require each party to serve within 6 months of appearing in the comprehensive adjudication, specified initial disclosures made under penalty of perjury to all other named parties and a special master, if one has been appointed in the action. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would authorize the court to appoint one or more special masters in a comprehensive adjudication, whose duties could include, among other things, investigating technical and legal issues, as directed by the court, and compiling a report of the findings, as specified. The bill would authorize the court to request the State Water Resources Control Board or the Department of Water Resources to recommend candidates for appointment as a special master or to review the qualifications of candidates. This bill would authorize the court, upon a showing that the basin is in a condition of long-term overdraft, to issue a preliminary injunction that could include, among other things, a moratorium on new or increased appropriations of water. The bill would provide that a judgment in a comprehensive adjudication is binding on the parties to the action, their agents and employees, and all their successors in interest. The bill would also provide the court with continuing jurisdiction to modify or amend a final judgment in a comprehensive adjudication in specified instances. This bill would require the Department of Water Resources and each county and groundwater sustainability agency that overlies the basin or a portion of the basin to post and maintain the notice and form answer on their Internet Web sites, as specified. By requiring counties to take certain actions related to the comprehensive adjudication, 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 with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above. This bill would provide that it will only become effective if SB 226 is enacted and becomes effective.
(1) Existing law regulates the sales of motor vehicle fuels and lubricants. Existing law requires the Department of Food and Agriculture to establish standards for motor vehicle fuels and other petroleum products that are offered for sale in the state and requires the department, through the Division of Measurement Standards to enforce regulations and standards for motor vehicle fuels and lubricants. A violation of this law and those regulations and standards is a crime. This bill would revise and recast those provisions and would additionally subject the retail sale of electricity for the purposes of transferring electricity to, or storing electricity onboard, an electric vehicle primarily for the purpose of propulsion and other alternative fuels. The bill would authorize the department to establish interim specifications for alternative fuels, as defined, until specified conditions are met. The bill would require the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to establish the method of sale of motor vehicle fuels and lubricants sold at retail to the public. (2) Existing law prohibits the sale of a petroleum product that is conditioned on the purchase of another product, merchandise, or service, except that a person who operates a full service car wash facility may condition the sale of petroleum products on the purchase of a car wash. This bill would instead prohibit the conditional sale of motor vehicle fuel rather than petroleum products, and would delete the exemption for full service car wash facilities. (3) Existing law makes it unlawful for a person to sell or distribute engine oil or axle and manual transmission lubricant unless the SAE/API service classification is conspicuously marked on each container. A violation of this requirement is a crime. This bill would revise the classifications and specifications to which engine oil or lubricants and axle and manual transmission lubricants are required to conform. (4) Existing law regulates the sale of automotive products, such as engine coolant and antifreeze. Existing law requires the department to establish specifications for those products. Existing law deems an automatic transmission fluid as mislabeled under certain conditions. A violation of regulations governing the sale of automotive products is a crime. This bill would revise and recast those provisions and would additionally deem transmission fluid to be mislabeled if the container and carton do not bear information identifying the container lot or batch. The bill would require the secretary to establish the method of sale of diesel exhaust fluid sold at retail to the public. The bill would authorize the sealer to take samples reasonably necessary for enforcement purposes under certain conditions. The bill would require manufacturers or packagers of automotive products, upon request, to provide to a duly authorized representative of the department documentation of claims made on their products. (5) This bill would make conforming and nonsubstantive changes. (6) Because a violation of the above provisions would be a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (7) 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.
The Baldwin Hills Conservancy Act establishes the Baldwin Hills Conservancy in the Natural Resources Agency to, among other things, acquire and manage public lands within the Baldwin Hills area, and provide recreational, open space, wildlife habitat restoration and protection, and lands for educational uses within the area. Existing law provides that the act will remain in effect until January 1, 2018. This bill would extend the operation of the act until January 1, 2026.
Existing law gives the Department of Transportation full possession and control of all state highways. Existing law describes the authorized routes in the state highway system, including State Highway Routes 1 and 187, and establishes a process for adoption of a highway on an authorized route by the California Transportation Commission. Existing law requires certain conditions to be fulfilled before the construction of any portion of State Highway Route 187. Existing law authorizes the commission to relinquish certain state highway segments to local agencies. This bill would authorize the commission to relinquish a specified portion of State Highway Route 1 and State Highway Route 187 to the City of Los Angeles under certain conditions. The bill would delete the conditions relating to the construction of State Highway Route 187.
The Dental Practice Act provides for the licensure and regulation of persons engaged in the practice of dentistry by the Dental Board of California, and prohibits the practice of dentistry by any person without a valid license, except in certain circumstances. This bill would additionally exempt from that prohibition the practice of dentistry, as specified and as approved by the board, by a final year student, as defined, without compensation or expectation of compensation and under the supervision of a licensed dentist with a clinical faculty appointment at a sponsored event, as defined, if specified conditions are met. This bill would require the sponsoring entity of the sponsored event to provide the board with a list of the names of the students practicing dentistry exempted pursuant to this bill at the sponsored event, the name of the school of enrollment of those students, and the name and license number of the supervising licensed dentist.