Asm. Lisa Calderon

This measure would designate the interchange at State Route 65 (post mile R0.000) and State Route 99 (post mile R29.878) in the County of Kern as the Kern County Sheriff's Office Deputy Phillip Campas Memorial Interchange. The measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.

This measure would designate a portion of southbound State Route 101, from the Temple St. ramp to the Broadway St. ramp, adjacent to the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, as the Los Angeles Firefighter Kelly Wong Memorial Highway. This measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.

This measure would designate the portion of State Route 91, from the Pioneer Boulevard undercrossing to the Carmenita Road overcrossing, as the First Lady Pat Nixon Memorial Highway. This measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from non-state sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.

This measure would proclaim September 20, 2022, as Latino Veterans Day.

This measure would dedicate the month of May 2022 as Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month.

Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of the employee's employment. Existing law governs temporary and permanent disability indemnity payments. Existing law, until January 1, 2023, allows an employer to commence a program under which disability indemnity payments are deposited in a prepaid card account for employees. This bill would extend the authorization to deposit indemnity payments in a prepaid card account until January 1, 2024.

Existing law, the Midwifery Workforce Training Act, requires the Department of Health Care Access and Information to contract with programs that train certified nurse-midwives and programs that train licensed midwives to increase the number of students receiving quality education and training as a certified nurse-midwife or a licensed midwife, as specified. Existing law, the Song-Brown Health Care Workforce Training Act, establishes a state medical contract program with accredited medical schools, hospitals, and other programs and institutions to increase the number of students and residents receiving quality education and training in specified primary care specialties and maximize the delivery of primary care and family physician services to underserved areas of the state. This bill would, beginning upon the first appropriation by the Legislature for the purposes of the Midwifery Workforce Training Act, or on January 1, 2024, whichever occurs first, add programs that train certified nurse-midwives and programs that train licensed midwives to the list of programs eligible to contract with the state under the Song-Brown Health Care Workforce Training Act, and would add midwifery to the list of specified primary care specialties under that act. The bill would also, upon the implementation date described above, authorize programs that train certified nurse-midwives and programs that train licensed midwives to contract with the state pursuant to the Song-Brown Health Care Workforce Training Act if the program meets specified eligibility criteria for the Midwifery Workforce Training Act. The bill would, for programs contracting with state based on meeting the Midwifery Workforce Training Act eligibility criteria, require the department to determine the amount to pay a contracted program, and authorize the program to use funds received under the contract, pursuant to specified provisions of the Midwifery Workforce Training Act. The bill would authorize programs that train certified nurse-midwives and programs that train licensed midwives to contract with the state pursuant to either the Song-Brown Health Care Workforce Training Act or the Midwifery Workforce Training Act. The bill would make other related, conforming changes.

This measure would proclaim June 19, 2022, as Veterans of the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces Day.

This measure would declare the month of May 2022 as Foster Care Month.

This measure would recognize June 21, 2022, as the 2022 International Day of Yoga in California.