Asm. Phillip Chen

Existing law, the Financial Institutions Law, regulates the activities of various financial entities, including commercial banks, industrial banks, trust companies, credit unions, and savings associations. Existing law establishes the Department of Business Oversight, which is under the direction of the Commissioner of Business Oversight, and is responsible for the administration and enforcement of the Financial Institutions Law. Existing law authorizes the commissioner to charge 25 cents for each page copied when the department is required to furnish a copy of a filed paper, as prescribed. This bill would, instead, permit the commissioner to charge a maximum of 10 cents for each page copied in the above circumstances.

Existing law declares the need to have a well-educated and highly skilled workforce in the state. Existing law also declares specified principles to guide the state's workforce investment system. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these declarations.

Existing law abolishes the Office of Criminal Justice Planning. Existing law transfers the duties and obligations of that office to the Office of Emergency Services, except specified duties that are transferred to the Board of State and Community Corrections. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those provisions.

Existing law determines the type of regulation a business generating hazardous waste receives based, in part, on the quantity of that waste the business generates. Existing law requires that a generator of hazardous waste include all hazardous waste that it has generated in any month, except for universal wastes, as defined, when determining that quantity. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the provision requiring all hazardous waste generated in any month by a generator to be included in that quantity determination, as provided.

Existing law prohibits a bank organized under the laws of the state to offer or sell any security issued by it unless the Commissioner of Financial Institutions has issued a permit authorizing such sale. Existing law requires the commissioner to issue a permit authorizing an applicant to offer and sell securities, as specified, if the commissioner finds that the proposed sale of securities is fair, just, and equitable. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that latter provision.

Existing law establishes that the chief officer of the Department of Business Oversight is the Commissioner of Business Oversight, who is charged with regulating various business and financial entities. Existing law authorizes the commissioner to employ deputies, examiners, appraisers, and various other employees to discharge the duties imposed on the commissioner by law. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.

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.

Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue a driver's license to an applicant when the department determines that the applicant is lawfully entitled to a license. Existing law specifies the required contents of a driver's license, including a fullface engraved picture or photograph of the licensee. This bill would require the department, for purposes of the engraved picture or photograph, to allow a licensee to request that more than one, but not more than 3, photographs be taken onsite at the department field office and to select the photograph to be used on the license. The bill would require the department to establish a voluntary donation, not to exceed $5, for each additional photograph requested and would require the department to deposit the revenue derived from the donations into the Motor Vehicle Account in the State Transportation Fund. Moneys deposited into that account pursuant to the bill would be used by the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to support driver education and training programs. The bill would require the department to adopt regulations to implement its provisions on or before January 1, 2022.

This measure would designate the month of January 2020 as Positive Parenting Awareness Month in California.