Asm. Phillip Chen

Existing law establishes the Department of Industrial Relations within the Labor and Workforce Development Agency and provides that one of the functions of the department is to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of wage earners of this state. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that provision relating to the functions of the department.

Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license and regulate each health facility, defined to mean a facility, place, or building that is organized, maintained, and operated for the diagnosis, care, prevention, and treatment of human illness, and includes, among others, a general acute care hospital, an acute psychiatric hospital, and a skilled nursing facility. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.

Existing law authorizes a local government to grant franchises and other privileges to certain public utilities, and requires that those franchises or privileges be granted consistent with specified conditions. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that requirement.

Existing law, the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act, among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities, including delivery of cannabis. Existing law gives the Department of Cannabis Control the power, duty, purpose, responsibility, and jurisdiction to regulate commercial cannabis activity in the state. Existing law does not supersede or limit the authority of a local jurisdiction to adopt and enforce local ordinances to regulate commercial cannabis businesses within that local jurisdiction, as described. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that provision.

Existing law prescribes the powers and duties that are common to cities and counties, including the powers and duties of legislative bodies. Under existing law, if a statute requires a local agency to take legislative action by resolution, and the local agency's charter requires it to take legislative action by ordinance, action by ordinance is compliance with the statute for all purposes. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.

Existing law establishes within the State Treasury the Litigation Deposits Fund (LDF) , under the control of the Department of Justice and consisting of moneys received as litigation deposits for which the state is a party to the litigation. The State of California is a party to certain opioid-related settlements, through which the state receives funds for opioid remediation. Existing law also establishes the Opioid Settlements Fund (OSF) within the State Treasury, and requires the State Department of Health Care Services to administer the fund. Existing law requires moneys in the OSF, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to be used for opioid remediation in accordance with the terms of the judgment or settlement from which the funds were received. Existing law requires the Controller, upon order of the Director of Finance, to transfer funds received in the LDF allocated to the state for opioid remediation from the 2023 opioid settlements with manufacturers Teva and Allergan, and pharmacies CVS, Walgreens, and Walmart to the OSF. The bill would instead authorize the Controller, upon order of the Director of Finance, to transfer those above-described funds to the OSF.

This measure would urge the federal Office of Management and Budget to update its Uniform Guidance in order to improve job creation, quality, and equity.

This measure would recognize the month of January 2024 as National Human Trafficking Awareness Month.

This measure would designate, in perpetuity, the 4th week of January as Data Privacy Week and the last Sunday of January as Data Privacy Day.