Existing law, the Administrative Procedure Act, in part, sets forth the requirements for the adoption, publication, review, and implementation of regulations by state agencies, and for review of those regulatory actions by the Office of Administrative Law. Existing law requires a state agency, prior to submitting a proposal to adopt, amend, or repeal an administrative regulation, to determine the economic impact of the regulation by preparing an economic impact assessment. Existing law requires a state agency proposing to adopt, amend, or repeal a major regulation to also prepare a standardized regulatory impact analysis, and defines a "major regulation" as a regulation that the state agency estimates will have an economic impact on California business enterprises and individuals in an amount exceeding $50,000,000. This bill would instead define "major regulation" to be a regulation that the state agency estimates will have an economic impact on California business enterprises and individuals in an amount exceeding $30,000,000.
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Existing law, which is known as the Time Deposit Program, requires the Treasurer, if possible, to deposit state money into an eligible bank. Existing law defines eligible bank to mean a bank selected by the Treasurer that meets certain requirements, including that it received an overall rating of not less than satisfactory in its most recent evaluation by the appropriate federal financial supervisory agency of the bank's record of meeting the credit needs of the state's communities, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods. This bill, on or before January 1, 2022, and on or before January 1 each year thereafter, would require the Treasurer to submit a report to the Legislature on the Time Deposit Program, as provided.
Existing law establishes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to operate the state prison system. Existing law establishes various rehabilitation programs for inmates in the state prison, including literacy, education, and vocational training programs. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations regarding rehabilitation programs operated in state prisons. The bill would require the department to improve performance measures for in-prison rehabilitation programs, and would require those performance measures to include specified information, including the percentage of inmates nearing release from prison with unmet rehabilitation needs. The bill would also require the department to offer a cognitive behavioral therapy program at every state prison, and to require inmates identified as having a high risk of recidivism and high need for rehabilitation services to participate in a cognitive behavioral therapy program before being released from prison.
Existing law authorizes the Public Utilities Commission, the State Air Resources Board, the California Transportation Commission, and the Labor and Workforce Development Agency to invest public moneys on various project and programs. Existing law requires some of those investments to be cost effective. This bill would require these agencies, by January 1, 2021, to provide a joint assessment of options for redefining the term "cost-effective" to the Legislature for the purposes of prioritizing public investment opportunities. The bill would require these agencies, in assessing the options for the definition, to consider the impact that investments would have on various specified factors. The bill would require these agencies to conduct a joint public process for completing the assessment and to solicit comments from interested stakeholders.
The Planning and Zoning Law authorizes the legislative body of a county or city to adopt ordinances that, among other things, regulate the construction of development projects. Existing law also requires cities and counties to approve an application to install electric vehicle charging stations through the issuance of a building permit or similar nondiscretionary permit, as specified. Existing law provides that the implementation of consistent statewide standards to achieve timely and cost-effective installation of electric vehicle charging stations is a matter of statewide concern. This bill would require a city or county, as a condition of approval of an application for construction or reconstruction for a development project with greater than 250,000 square feet of retail floor area, to require the application to include specified information, including a reasonable estimate of the total number of customers anticipated to visit the development and the proportion of those customers expected to utilize electric vehicles. The bill would require the parking spaces dedicated to electric vehicle charging to count towards the total number of parking spaces required by the city or county. By increasing the duties of local officials, the bill would create a state-mandated local program. The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities. 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Existing law prohibits a person from driving a motor vehicle when the person has 0.08 percent or more, by weight, of alcohol in their blood. This bill would instead prohibit a person from driving a motor vehicle when the person has 0.05 percent or more, by weight, of alcohol in their blood. The bill would also make other conforming changes. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, this bill would create 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to prepare a guidebook for use by certain public and private entities in the planning and development of a housing supply to meet the need created by employment growth. Existing law requires the final guidebook to be completed, in time for use following the availability of the 1990 Census of Population and Housing, no later than December 31, 1993. This bill would, instead, require the department to prepare the guidebook for use following the 2020 Census of Population and Housing and would require the guidebook to be completed by December 31, 2023.
Existing law establishes various programs that provide cash assistance and other benefits relating to health care, food, and housing, among other things, to qualified low-income families and individuals, including, among others, the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, the California Earned Income Tax Credit, Medi-Cal, CalFresh, the California Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC Program) , and the Emergency Housing and Assistance Program. Existing law also establishes the Lifting Children and Families Out of Poverty Task Force, until January 1, 2020, for the purpose of recommending future comprehensive strategies aimed at addressing deep child poverty and reducing child poverty in California. The task force is required to submit a report to the executive branch administration and the Legislature by no later than November 1, 2018. This bill would extend the operation of the task force to January 1, 2022. The bill would require the task force to examine the feasibility of developing and codifying the California Poverty Measure, as established by the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality and the Public Policy Institute of California. The bill would require the task force to report its findings and recommendations to the Legislature by January 1, 2021.
Existing law establishes systems of public elementary and secondary education in this state, and assigns numerous duties to the State Department of Education for the governance and funding of those systems. Existing law also establishes segments of postsecondary education that include the California Community Colleges, the California State University, the University of California, and independent institutions of higher education. Existing law establishes the associate degree for transfer program, under which community college students progressing through designated courses of study may be admitted as juniors to campuses of the California State University, the University of California, or certain other participating institutions of higher education in order to progress to baccalaureate degrees in similar majors or courses of study. The associate degree for transfer program is designed for students to avoid taking duplicate coursework and to progress to these degrees in an efficient manner. This bill would require the State Department of Education to collaborate with the Trustees of the California State University and the Chancellor's Office of the California Community Colleges to examine the feasibility of integrating academic pathways and degrees into the associate degree for transfer program that would require the attainment of more than 120 semester units for a student to progress to a baccalaureate degree. The bill would also require the department to request the Regents of the University of California to participate in this examination.
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations and gas corporations. Existing law requires the commission to submit various reports to the Legislature, legislative committees, and the Governor, as specified. Existing law prohibits an electrical corporation or gas corporation from sharing, disclosing, or otherwise making accessible to any third party a customer's electrical or gas consumption data, as defined, except as specified, and requires those utilities to use reasonable security procedures and practices to protect a customer's unencrypted electrical and gas consumption data from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure. This bill would require the commission, on or before January 1, 2022, and biennially thereafter, to report to the Legislature the extent to which advanced metering infrastructure, time-of-use rates, and customer education programs have contributed to reducing gas and electricity consumption. The bill would require the commission to require each electrical corporation and gas corporation to submit to the commission aggregate customer gas or electricity consumption data that does not include any individually identifiable customer information to assist the commission in preparing this report. Existing law makes any public utility and any corporation or person other than a public utility that violates any part of any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or other requirement of the commission guilty of a crime. Because a violation of a commission-ordered requirement under this bill would be a crime, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.