Existing law requires a state agency, department, officer, or other state governmental entity, to meet an annual statewide participation goal of not less than 3% for disabled veteran business enterprises for specified contracts entered into by the awarding department during the year. The administering agency for the California Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program is the Department of General Services. Existing law requires the Director of General Services to adopt written policies and guidelines establishing a uniform process for state contracting that provides a disabled veteran business enterprise participation incentive to bidders. This bill would require a greater participation incentive to be provided to a prime contractor who owns a disabled veteran business enterprise, as specified, and has not previously entered into any contracts with the state as a prime contractor, and to a disabled veteran business enterprise that employs a workforce that is more than 50% veterans or that has not previously entered into any contracts with the state. The bill would require an awarding department to consider whether greater disabled veteran business enterprise participation in excess of 3% should be required on its contracts. Existing law requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to maintain complete records of its promotional efforts to promote the program and to establish a system to track the effectiveness of its promotional efforts. This bill would require the department to maintain additional information relating to its promotional efforts, as specified. Existing law requires a prime contractor who entered into a subcontract with a disabled veteran business enterprise to make certain disclosures to the awarding department after completion of the contract. This bill would require the awarding department that receives this information to maintain those records for a minimum of 5 years, as specified. The bill would require every awarding department to establish a procedure to ensure the accuracy and completeness of those records. The bill would further require a contractor who subcontracts with disabled veteran business enterprises to comply with additional requirements when providing its certification of expenditures to an awarding department, as specified. Existing law requires each awarding department to appoint an agency Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Advocate. Existing law requires the agency Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Advocate to, among other things, assist certified disabled veteran business enterprises in participating in that agency's contracting process. This bill would additionally require the advocate to maintain records of the promotional efforts hosted or attended by the advocate, as specified. Existing law requires a department, as defined under the State Contract Act, to report on contracting activity containing specified information. This bill would require a department, as defined, to establish guidelines for reporting multiyear contracts. The bill would make other minor, technical changes to the reporting requirements under the program.
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This measure would declare June 6, 2015, to June 14, 2015, inclusive, as the 2015 California Invasive Species Action Week and would urge all Californians to participate in activities that raise awareness of invasive species issues and to take action to prevent their spread.
This measure would commemorate the centennial of the founding of Locke, California, would recognize and honor Locke, California, as the last remaining Chinatown in North America, and would urge all Californians to learn about the important history of Locke, California, and its inhabitants.
This measure would congratulate the California Commission on the Status of Women and Girls on the celebration of its 50th anniversary, and recognize and commend the commission for its various contributions and accomplishments.
This measure would urge the Congress of the United States to support H.R. 167, the federal Wildfire Disaster Funding Act, in order to provide a long-term, stable source of funding for federal agencies to conduct the necessary fuels management on national forest lands, while retaining resources to suppress catastrophic wildfires.
This measure would urge the Congress of the United States to enact legislation allowing immigrants to serve in the military if they are eligible under the President's Executive Order for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or Executive Order for Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents.
Under existing law, the State Department of Public Health licenses and regulates health facilities, including, among others, pediatric day health and respite care facilities. Existing law defines "pediatric day health and respite care facility" as a facility that provides an organized program of therapeutic social and day health activities and services and limited 24-hour inpatient respite care to medically fragile children 21 years of age or younger, including terminally ill and technology-dependent children. This bill would authorize an individual who is 22 years of age or older to continue to receive care in a pediatric day health and respite care facility, if the facility receives approval from the State Department of Public Health for a Transitional Health Care Needs Optional Service Unit. The bill would also authorize a patient who previously received services from a pediatric day health and respite care facility and who is 22 years of age or older to receive care in an optional service unit, as provided. The bill would establish a licensing process for a pediatric day health and respite care facility to operate an optional service unit, and would impose certain requirements on those optional service units, including, among others, that the optional service unit provide care for patients who are 22 years of age or older in a distinct part of the pediatric day health and respite care facility or optional service unit, separate from the area where care is provided to younger patients, except under specified circumstances. This bill would authorize a pediatric day health and respite care facility to implement policies and procedures that prohibit smoking by patients, parents, staff, visitors, or consultants within the facility or on the premises, if the prohibition is clearly stated in the admission agreement and notices are posted at the facility. This bill would establish procedures for the issuance of a provisional license to a pediatric day health and respite care facility. The bill would specify additional procedures relating to the licensure of a pediatric day health and respite care facility and renewals of those licenses, including, among others, requiring the department to initiate an initial licensing inspection of an optional service unit within 60 days of receipt of a pediatric day health and respite care facility's completed application and requiring periodic inspections by a duly authorized representative of the department and specified reports related to those inspections. The bill would authorize the department to make reasonable accommodation for exceptions to the licensing standards if the health, safety, and quality of patient care is not compromised. The bill would also specify the grounds upon which those licenses may be revoked, including, among others, willful omission or falsification of a material fact in the application for a license. The bill would require proceedings for the denial, suspension, or revocation of licenses, or denial or withdrawal of approval, to be conducted in accordance with specified provisions of law. Existing law requires facilities serving persons who are terminally ill, catastrophically and severely disabled, mentally alert but physically disabled, or any combination of these persons, to comply with specified provisions of the California Code of Regulations, and exempts those facilities from certain requirements of that code relating to required services for skilled nursing facilities. This bill would provide additional exemptions from that code for a pediatric day health and respite care facility. Existing law specifies the services that a pediatric day health and respite care facility is required to provide, including, among others, pharmacy services. This bill would require that pharmacy services by a pediatric day health and respite care facility satisfy certain requirements, including, among others, that medications be administered only upon written and signed orders of the patient's attending physician. This bill would require a pediatric day health and respite care facility to have a patient care committee to address quality of care provided in the facility, including, but not limited to, patient care policies, pharmacy services, and infection control. The bill would specify the composition of the committee, impose specified meeting requirements, and outline the committee's responsibilities. Existing law requires pediatric day health and respite care facilities to meet the same fire safety standards adopted by the State Fire Marshal and the same seismic safety standards that apply to community care facilities. Existing law provides that a pediatric day health and respite care facility is not subject to architectural plan review or field inspection by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, and requires, as part of the application for licensure, an applicant to submit evidence of compliance with local building code requirements and that the physical environment is adequate to provide the level of care and service required by the clients of the facility as determined by the department. This bill would provide that those provisions do not prohibit the use of alternate space utilization, new concepts of design, treatment techniques, equipment and alternate finish materials, or other flexibility, if written approval is granted by the local building authority. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
The Joint Exercise of Powers Act authorizes 2 of more public agencies to enter into an agreement to jointly exercise any power common to the contracting parties. This bill would provide that, notwithstanding any other provision of the act, a private, nonprofit corporation that provides services to homeless persons or for the prevention of homelessness may form a joint powers agency or enter into a joint powers agreement with a public agency for the purpose of providing frequent user coordinated care housing services, defined by to mean housing combined with other supportive services, as defined, for homeless persons identified by a city or county as the most costly, frequent users of publicly funded emergency services. The bill would require the public agency or agencies to determine the composition of a board of directors to govern an agency formed pursuant to these provisions and would prohibit representation of private nonprofit corporations on the board in excess of 50%. The bill would repeal these provisions as of January 1, 2024. The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development that includes, among other things, a housing element. A housing element is required to include an analysis of any special housing needs. This bill would provide that the analysis of special housing needs by a city or county may include an analysis of the need for frequent user coordinated care housing services.
This measure would designate a portion of State Highway Route 44 in the City of Redding as the Richard "Dick" Dickerson Memorial Highway. The measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.
This measure would urge each University of California campus to adopt a resolution condemning all forms of anti-Semitism and racism, and would condemn any act of anti-Semitism at all publicly funded schools in the State of California.