This measure would declare the month of September 2023 as Children's Emotional Wellness Month in California.
This measure would honor the late civil rights pioneer Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
This measure would proclaim October 21, 2023, and the same date each year thereafter, as Hanbok Day in the State of California.
This measure would declare that the month of January 2024 be recognized as National Mentoring Month, would thank those who participate in quality mentoring programs, and would call upon residents to help close the gap between the availability of mentors and the number of children facing challenging circumstances, as specified.
Existing law, the Employment Agency, Employment Counseling, and Job Listing Services Act, regulates employment agencies and job listing services. The act imposes certain obligations on an employment agency with regard to domestic workers referred by the agency. The act provides that an employment agency, as defined, is not the employer of a domestic worker for whom it procures, offers, refers, provides, or attempts to provide, work, if prescribed factors characterize the nature of the relationship between the employment agency and the domestic worker (nonemployment factors) . Nonemployment factors include the factor that payments for domestic services are made directly to either the domestic worker or to the employment agency and payments made directly to the employment agency are deposited into a trust account until payment can be made to the domestic worker (direct payment factor) . This bill, notwithstanding any other provision of law, including specified existing law relating to worker status as either employees or independent contractors, would require that the nonemployment factors set forth in the act be used to determine employee status of domestic workers, as defined, who are referred through an employment agency. The bill, with regard to the direct payment factor, would exclude the alternative of payments to the employment agency in the case of a domestic worker who provides care to an individual over 21 years of age and, instead, require that payments for domestic services in such a case be made only directly to the domestic worker.
Existing law establishes various state and local programs for the provision of mental health services within the jurisdiction of the State Department of Health Care Services, the State Department of Public Health, the California Behavioral Health Planning Council, the Department of Health Care Access and Information, and county public health or behavioral health departments, among other entities. Under existing law, those programs, services, and provisions include, among others, the Mental Health Services Act, the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative, the Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program, the Licensed Mental Health Service Provider Education Program, and Medi-Cal specialty mental health services. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to access to mental health care.
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.
