Asm. Wilmer Amina Carter

Under existing law, the Mello-Granlund Older Californians Act, the California Department of Aging, and local area agencies on aging administer various programs for elderly persons. This act, with certain exceptions, does not contain a definition of "disability." This bill would define "disability" for purposes of the act as either a mental or physical disability, as those terms are defined.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various professions and vocations by boards and bureaus within the Department of Consumer Affairs, and places the department under the control of the Director of Consumer Affairs. Existing law authorizes the director to request specified reports from these boards. This bill would make nonsubstantive, technical changes to that provision.

Existing law requires an employer to provide a reasonable amount of break time for lactation purposes and specifies that the break time, if possible, shall run concurrently with any break time already provided to the employee. Under existing law, break time is unpaid if it does not run concurrently with the employee's authorized rest time. Existing law authorizes the Labor Commissioner to issue a citation for the violation of these provisions but exempts the violation from criminal prosecution. This bill would, instead, require an employer to provide a 20-minute paid rest period for lactation purposes during each 4-hour work period, immediately preceding or following the employee's rest period, and would specify that compliance with this requirement does not satisfy or affect an employer's separate obligation to provide a meal or rest period required by statute, an Industrial Welfare Commission order, or a collective bargaining agreement.

Existing law establishes the California State University and its various campuses under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University. Existing law requires the California State University to offer undergraduate and graduate instruction through the master's degree in the liberal arts and sciences and professional education, including teacher education. This bill would authorize the California State University to award the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree. The bill would distinguish the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from the doctor of philosophy degree offered at the University of California. The bill would require the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree program to be designed to enable professionals to earn the degree while working full time, train nurses for advanced practice, and prepare clinical faculty to teach in postsecondary nursing programs. The bill would require initial funding to come from existing budgets, without diminishing the quality of undergraduate programs or reducing enrollment therein. The bill would require the California State University to annually report on the status of the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree program, as specified.

(1) Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to comply with any city or county ordinance regulating drainage improvements and conditions, regulating road improvements or conditions, or requiring the review and approval of grading plans as these ordinance provisions relate to the design and construction of onsite improvements which affect drainage, road conditions, or grading. This bill would instead require the governing board of a school district to comply with any city or county ordinance regulating drainage improvements and conditions, regulating road improvements or conditions, requiring the review or approval of grading plans, or requiring sidewalk improvements as these ordinance provisions relate to the design and construction of onsite improvements which affect drainage, road conditions, grading, or pedestrian access. (2) Existing law authorizes the governing board of an elementary, high school, or unified school district, following notification by a local planning agency of a proposed action to adopt or substantially amend a general plan, to request a meeting with the planning agency to discuss possible methods of coordinating planning, design, and construction of new school facilities and schoolsites in coordination with the existing or planned infrastructure, general plan, and zoning designations of the city and county, as specified. Existing law requires the planning agency to meet with the school district within 15 days following the notification if a meeting is requested by the school district. The bill would instead require the governing board of an elementary, high school, or unified school district, following notification by a local planning agency of a proposed action to adopt or substantially amend its general plan, to request a meeting with the planning agency to discuss possible methods of coordinating planning, design, and construction of new school facilities and schoolsites in coordination with the existing or planned infrastructure, general plan, and zoning designations of the city and county, as specified. The bill would require the planning agency to meet with the school district within 15 days following the notification by the planning agency without regard to whether a meeting was requested by the school district. By adding to the duties of school district and local planning agency officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (3) Existing law requires the governing board of a school district, at least 45 days prior to completion of a school facility needs analysis, a master plan, or other long-range plan that relates to the potential expansion of existing schoolsites or the necessity to acquire additional schoolsites, to notify the planning commission or agency of the city or county with land use jurisdiction within the school district and to provide copies of any relevant and available information, master plan, or other long-range plan that relates to the potential expansion of school schoolsites or the necessity to acquire additional schoolsites. Existing law authorizes the affected city or county to request a meeting, as specified, with the school district, and requires the school district to meet with the city or county within 15 days following the notification by the school district if a meeting is requested. The bill would instead require the affected city, county, or city and county to request a meeting with the school district, as specified, following the notification by the school district. The bill would require the school district to meet with the city, county, or city and county within 15 days following the notification by the school district without regard to whether a meeting was requested by the city, county, or city and county. By adding to the duties of school district and city, county, or city and county officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (4) 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 these statutory provisions.

The California Public Records Act requires state and local agencies to make their records available for public inspection and, upon request of any person, to provide a copy of any public record unless the record is exempt from disclosure. This bill would, whenever it is made to appear by verified petition, authorize a superior court to issue a protective order limiting the number and scope of requests a requestor may make under the act. The bill would require the court, in issuing the order, to determine that the requestor has sought records under the act for an improper purpose, including, but not limited to, the harassment of a public agency or its employees.

Existing law establishes the Residential Rehabilitation Act, which, among other things, authorizes cities and counties to issue bonds for the purpose of financing residential rehabilitation. Existing law makes several legislative findings and declarations relating to the necessity of providing long-term, low-interest loans to finance residential rehabilitation in depressed residential areas. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the legislative findings and declarations.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these provisions.

Existing law authorizes a peace officer, or a regularly employed and salaried public employee who is engaged in directing traffic or enforcing parking laws and regulations, to remove a vehicle located within the territorial limits in which the officer or employee is allowed to act under specified and enumerated circumstances, including, among other things, when a vehicle is illegally parked and blocks the movement of a legally parked vehicle. A violation of this provision is an infraction. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these provisions.

Existing law classifies a person as a temporary employee if the person is employed to teach adults for not more than 60% of the hours per week considered a full-time assignment for permanent employees having comparable duties, and prohibits such an employee from becoming a probationary employee for purposes of gaining permanent status. This bill would make the right of certain temporary employees serving as part-time adult school teachers, as defined, to earn and retain annual reappointment rights a mandatory subject of collective bargaining with respect to any new or successor contract between a school district and the exclusive bargaining representative of the certificated employees of that district on or after January 1, 2010.