This measure would proclaim, in perpetuity, the month of April as California Wines: Down to Earth Month, to celebrate the sustainable leadership of California wineries and winegrape growers throughout the month of April.
Existing law establishes the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. The California State University comprises 23 institutions of higher education located throughout the state. This bill would establish the California State University Jump Start Grant Program to increase the number of tenure-track and full-time and part-time limited term bilingual faculty for bilingual authorization programs of accredited schools of education. The bill would require the office of the Chancellor of the California State University and schools of education to take certain actions related to the program, and would require the chancellor's office and each school of education awarded a grant under the program to report program information, as specified. The bill would require funds awarded to schools of education to supplement any other state or federal funds appropriated to schools of education for the purpose of hiring tenure track and full-time or part-time limited term faculty. The bill would make these provisions operative only upon an appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act or in another statute for purposes of the program.
Existing law establishes the special education early intervention preschool grant, which requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, in any year moneys are appropriated for this purpose, to allocate grant funding to school districts for preschool children with exceptional needs, as provided. Existing law requires the Superintendent to make specified computations to determine the amount of grant funding for each school district. This bill would require the Superintendent to add to that calculation an unspecified dollar amount, based on the total number of children from birth to 5 years of age, inclusive, who are deaf and hard of hearing to the amount to be apportioned to each school district in order to contract with the California Schools for the Deaf or nonprofit organizations for purposes of providing specified services to children from birth to 5 years of age, inclusive, who are deaf and hard of hearing, as provided. The bill would require this funding to be allocated to settings that offer both or one of the languages of American Sign Language and English, as defined. The bill would require the funding allocated to school districts pursuant to these provisions to be used to provide specified services to children from birth to 5 years of age, inclusive, who are deaf and hard of hearing, including for strategies to improve outcomes for deaf and hard of hearing children that involve early intensive language services and related specialized services, as provided. The bill would also make related findings and declarations regarding the need for early intervention services for deaf and hard of hearing pupils.
Existing law establishes the University of California, which is administered by the Regents of the University of California, the California State University, which is administered by the Trustees of the California State University, and the California Community Colleges, which is administered by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as the 3 segments of public postsecondary education in the state. A portion of the Donahoe Higher Education Act known as the Equity in Higher Education Act requires, among other things, each postsecondary educational institution in the State of California to have a written policy on sexual harassment, including information on the complaint process and the timeline for the complaint process. This bill, the Higher Education Student, Staff, and Faculty Protection Act, would, beginning January 1, 2023, require the 3 segments of public postsecondary education to take certain actions before extending an official offer of employment to an applicant, as defined, including requesting that an applicant sign a statement declaring whether the applicant is the subject of an informal resolution process with an outcome used to resolve an allegation following the filing of a formal Title IX sexual harassment complaint, or any substantiated Title IX sexual harassment complaints, as specified, and authorizing the applicant's current and past employers to disclose to the hiring institution whether the applicant was the subject of an informal resolution process with an outcome used to resolve an allegation following the filing of a formal Title IX sexual harassment complaint, or any substantiated Title IX sexual harassment complaints. The bill would prohibit these public postsecondary educational institutions from hiring an applicant who does not sign the requested statement. The bill also would require the public postsecondary educational institutions to request information related to whether the applicant was the subject of an informal resolution process with an outcome used to resolve an allegation following the filing of a formal Title IX sexual harassment complaint, or any substantiated Title IX sexual harassment complaints, from the applicant's current or former postsecondary educational institution employers, and require a public postsecondary educational institution that receives a request for information related to an informal resolution process with an outcome used to resolve an allegation following the filing of a formal Title IX sexual harassment complaint, or any substantiated Title IX sexual harassment complaints, by a current or former employee to provide the information as specified. This bill would require these public postsecondary educational institutions to complete an investigation into a Title IX sexual harassment complaint or allegation committed by an employee against a student or employee of the institution, regardless of whether the employee voluntarily or involuntarily leaves employment with the institution, unless the victim of the alleged Title IX sexual harassment complaint requests otherwise. The bill would prohibit, after June 1, 2023, a provision of a settlement agreement between one of the public postsecondary educational institutions and an employee that prohibits anyone from disclosing whether the employee has been the subject of a Title IX investigation for sexual harassment. This bill would require, no later than September 1, 2023, each campus of the California Community Colleges and the California State University, and encourage each campus of the University of California, to establish specified support roles, and designate persons to fill the roles, to assist complainants and respondents in instances of sexual harassment allegation or victimization, as specified. To the extent these provisions would add additional duties on community college districts, 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, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
This measure would respectfully memorialize the President of the United States and the Congress of the United States to take action to restore honor to Bernard B. James, and to take the necessary actions to ensure the treatment of Bernard B. James is rectified by a full exoneration, including having the military record of Bernard B. James cleared of any court judgment and less-than-honorable discharge.
This measure would designate a specified portion of Interstate Highway Route 405 in the County of Los Angeles as the Officer Tommy Scott Memorial Highway. The measure would request that the Department of Transportation determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, erect those signs.
This measure would declare March 13, 2022, to April 15, 2022, as Deaf History Month.
This measure would proclaim the month of April 2022 as Black April Memorial Month.
