Existing law requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control to, on or before January 1, 2006, revise and upgrade the department's database systems, as specified, and to install improvements to the database systems to maintain and display information that includes the number of brownfield sites, each brownfield site's location, acreage, response action, site assessments, and the number of orphan sites where the department is overseeing the response action. Existing law establishes in the government the California Environmental Protection Agency under the supervision of an officer known as the Secretary for Environmental Protection. Existing law requires the secretary to designate a brownfields ombudsperson whose responsibilities include, but are not limited to, assisting in the coordination of the brownfields activities of each office, board, and department within the California Environmental Protection Agency. This bill would require, by December 31, 2021, the California Environmental Protection Agency to complete a programmatic review of the department's existing grant and loan programs for brownfields and a comprehensive review of brownfields in the state that includes various information, as prescribed. The bill would require the agency to prepare and submit to the Legislature a report on the review by no later than February 1, 2021.
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The Personal Income Tax Law allows various credits against the taxes imposed by that law. This bill would allow a credit against the taxes imposed by the Personal Income Tax Law for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2021, and before January 1, 2025, in an amount equal to $725 for each taxpayer, spouse of the taxpayer, and each qualifying child of the taxpayer, that is an eligible member, which is defined to mean an individual who was naturalized as a citizen of the United States within the 12-month period preceding the start of the taxable year. The bill would specify that this credit be known, and may be cited to, as the "New Americans Incentive Tax Credit." Existing law requires any bill authorizing a new tax expenditure, including a tax credit, to contain, among other things, specific goals, purposes, and objectives the tax expenditure will achieve, detailed performance indicators, and data collection requirements. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to comply with those new tax expenditure requirements. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
Existing law establishes the Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program, which is administered by the State Air Resources Board. The program authorizes the state board to provide grants to offset the incremental cost of eligible projects that reduce emissions from covered vehicular sources. The program also authorizes funding for a fueling infrastructure demonstration program and for technology development efforts that are expected to result in commercially available technologies in the near-term that would improve the ability of the program to achieve its goals. Existing law authorizes the state board to delegate to an air quality management district or air pollution control district the administration of the program. This bill would require the state board, by January 1, 2022, to adopt an online application process for the submission of grant applications under the program. The bill would require the state board and air districts administering the program to use the online application process. The bill would require the state board, by January 1, 2022, to review the program and to submit to the Legislature a report on the review containing certain information. The bill would prohibit the state board from adopting or amending regulations making changes to the program until it has submitted the report.
Existing law, the Dental Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of dentists and dental assistants by the Dental Board of California. The act, prior to January 1, 2020, required the board to approve foreign dental schools based on specified standards, and required a foreign dental school seeking approval to submit an application to the board, including, among other things, a finding that the educational program of the foreign dental school is equivalent to that of similar accredited institutions in the United States and adequately prepares its students for the practice of dentistry. Existing law required the foreign dental school to submit a specified registration fee and to pay the board's reasonable costs and expenses to conduct an approval survey. Existing law also required an approved institution to submit a renewal application every 7 years and to pay a specified renewal fee. Existing law, beginning January 1, 2020, prohibits the board from accepting new applications for approval of foreign dental schools and instead requires foreign dental schools seeking approval to complete the international consultative and accreditation process with the Commission on Dental Accreditation of the American Dental Association (CODA) or a comparable accrediting body approved by the board. Existing law requires previously approved foreign dental schools to complete the CODA accreditation by January 1, 2024, to remain approved. This bill would repeal the provisions that, beginning January 1, 2020, prohibit the board from accepting new applications for the approval of foreign dental schools, and would instead require the board to approve foreign dental schools in the same manner as prior to January 1, 2020.
Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law authorizes the governing board of a community college district to construct and maintain dormitories in connection with any community college within the district for use and occupancy by students in attendance at the community college, as specified. Existing law establishes the Community College Facility Deferred Maintenance and Special Repair Program, and requires moneys received by community college districts under the program to be expended in accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the board of governors for the allocation of those moneys. This bill would provide that the governing board of a community college district is authorized to construct and maintain, instead of dormitories, student housing in connection with any community college campus within the district. The bill would further provide that, notwithstanding any other law, a community college district is authorized to expend, for the construction and maintenance of student housing, funds allocated pursuant to the Community College Facility Deferred Maintenance and Special Repair Program. To the extent that this bill would authorize the expenditure, for student housing, of funds previously allocated under the program for deferred maintenance and special repair, the bill would make an appropriation.
Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to give diligent care to the health and physical development of pupils and authorizes the governing board of a school district to employ properly certified persons for the work. Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to provide for a comprehensive educational counseling program for all pupils enrolled in the school district. This bill would establish the California Student Success Coach Grant Program to award competitive grants to local- and state-operated AmeriCorps programs to support and expand the presence of student success coaches, as defined, in high-need schools, as defined. The bill would make implementation of the grant program contingent on an appropriation being made for its purposes by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act or another statute.
This measure would designate the week of February 24, 2020, to March 1, 2020, as Eating Disorders Awareness Week.
Existing law establishes the San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Rivers and Mountains Conservancy in the Natural Resources Agency and prescribes the functions and duties of the conservancy with regard to the protection, preservation, and enhancement of specified areas of the Counties of Los Angeles and Orange located along the San Gabriel River and the lower Los Angeles River and tributaries along those rivers. Existing law, for purposes of those provisions, defines "territory" to mean the territory of the conservancy that consists of those portions of the Counties of Los Angeles and Orange located within the San Gabriel River and its tributaries, the lower Los Angeles River and its tributaries, and the San Gabriel Mountains, as described. This bill would additionally include the Dominguez Channel watershed and Santa Catalina Island, as described, within that definition of territory, and would make various related changes to the boundaries of that territory. Existing law requires the conservancy to prepare a San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Parkway and Open Space Plan with specified elements to be approved by specified entities. This bill would require the conservancy to update the San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Parkway and Open Space Plan to include the priorities for conservation and enhanced public use within the Dominguez Channel watershed and Santa Catalina Island.
Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to, among other duties, establish standards for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits. Existing law sets forth the minimum requirements for a services credential with a specialization in health for a school nurse, which include a baccalaureate degree for a preliminary credential and, for a professional credential, an additional year of coursework beyond a baccalaureate degree in a program approved by the commission. This bill would authorize the commission to approve a program offered by a local educational agency for one year of coursework beyond the baccalaureate degree.
Existing law authorizes a minor to be adjudged a dependent child or a ward of the juvenile court under specified circumstances. Existing law authorizes the juvenile court to retain jurisdiction over a ward or a dependent child until they attain 21 years of age. Existing law, the California Fostering Connections to Success Act (the act) , also authorizes a nonminor who has not yet attained 21 years of age and who exited foster care at or after the age of majority, to petition the court to resume dependency jurisdiction or to assume transition jurisdiction, as described. This bill would state the Legislature's intent to support transition-age youth in accessing available supports and services offered through the act and, among other things, that the State Department of Social Services consider stakeholder input on the feasability of collecting additional data to better understand the population currently accessing extended foster care. The bill would require the department to report to the Legislature and stakeholders, during the 2021–22 budget process, a detailed list of current data fields and types of information related to entry into foster care and reentry into extended foster care for youths 16 to 21 years of age, inclusive, collected as a result of calls to county hotlines and a summary of which types of data collection may be implemented in the existing child welfare data system and the types that can be included in subsequent data system updates on specified data collection points. Existing law provides aid and services to children placed in out-of-home care through various social service programs, including Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Foster Care (AFDC-FC) . Under existing law, a nonminor dependent, defined to mean a person between 18 and 21 years of age who is still within the jurisdiction or transitional jurisdiction of the juvenile court under specified placement and care responsibility and who has a transitional independent living case plan, continues to be eligible for AFDC-FC benefits until 21 years of age. This bill would require a nonminor dependent who is participating in a transitional independent living case plan, and who is not in an approved housing placement for more than 2 consecutive months during the period covered by the transitional independent living case plan as a result of a lack of available housing, to remain eligible for AFDC-FC benefits following the nonminor's 21st birthday for a period of time equivalent to the lack of approved housing. By imposing a higher level of service on county officials, 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.