Existing law requires political advertisements to include specified disclosure statements that identify the name of the campaign committee paying for the advertisement and the top contributors, as defined, to that committee. Existing law requires a campaign committee that pays for the circulation of a state or local initiative, referendum, or recall petition to disclose its top contributors, as prescribed. Existing law establishes other requirements regarding the form, content, and presentation of initiative, referendum, and recall petitions. This bill would require an initiative, referendum, or recall petition to instruct voters to sign the petition only after viewing certain disclosures regarding the top contributors to the initiative, referendum, or recall, as specified. This bill would make additional changes to requirements regarding the form, content, and presentation of initiative, referendum, and recall petitions. This bill would make changes to the disclosure requirements for certain political advertisements to identify the top contributors to the campaign committee paying for the advertisement, including changes to the required form, content, and presentation of the disclosures depending on the medium in which the advertisement appears. Because political advertisements are regulated under the Political Reform Act of 1974, and a violation of the act is punishable as a misdemeanor, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by expanding the definition of a crime. 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. The Political Reform Act of 1974, an initiative measure, provides that the Legislature may amend the act to further the act's purposes upon a 23 vote of each house of the Legislature and compliance with specified procedural requirements. This bill would declare that it furthers the purposes of the act.
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Existing law defines a "hate crime" as a criminal act committed, in whole or in part, because of actual or perceived characteristics of the victim, including, among other things, race, religion, disability, and sexual orientation. Existing law provides punishments for hate crimes that range from misdemeanors with specified penalties to felonies with additional terms of one to 3 years in state prison, depending on the underlying criminal act and other circumstances. Existing law establishes the intent of the Legislature to encourage counties, cities, law enforcement agencies, and school districts to establish education and training programs to prevent hate crimes and to assist victims. This bill would require the Department of Justice to establish a grant program for the purpose of creating, supporting, or expanding vertical prosecution units for the prosecutions of hate crimes. The bill would authorize the department to provide one-time grants, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to selected prosecutorial agencies in a manner and in an amount determined by the department. The bill would require the department to administer the grant program, as specified. The bill would require grant recipients to report specified information to the department by no later than July 1, 2028, and would require the department to compile that information and report to the Legislature by no later than July 1, 2029.
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 establishes community college districts throughout the state, and authorizes these districts to provide instruction at the community college campuses they operate and maintain. Existing law provides for a formula for the calculation of general purpose apportionments of state funds to community colleges. Existing law provides a separate formula for the allocation of apportionments of state funds to community colleges, which uses the numbers of full-time equivalent students as its basis, for use for apportionments for noncredit instruction and instruction in career development and college preparation. This bill would, commencing with the 2022–23 academic year, authorize each community college district with an instructional service agreement with a public safety agency to annually submit a copy of its most up-to-date instructional service agreement and, beginning January 1, 2024, to annually submit specified data to the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office. The bill would require, on or before December 31, 2024, the chancellor's office to issue a recommendation to the Department of Finance and the Legislature on the instructional service agreement full-time equivalent student apportionment that community college districts are eligible to claim.
Existing law defines the ballot label as the portion of the ballot containing the names of the candidates or a statement of a measure. For statewide measures, existing law requires the Attorney General to prepare a condensed version of the ballot title and summary, including the fiscal impact summary prepared by the Legislative Analyst that is printed in the state voter information guide. This bill would additionally require the ballot label for statewide measures, and, at the option of a county, the ballot label or similar description on the ballot of county, city, district, and school district measures, to include a listing of nonprofit organizations, businesses, or individuals taken from the signers or the text of ballot arguments printed in the voter information guide that support and oppose the measure, as specified. The bill would require a nonprofit organization, business, or individual to meet certain criteria before being listed on the ballot label or similar description of the measure on the ballot. The bill would require the signers of the ballot arguments to submit the lists of supporters and opponents to the Secretary of State or the respective elections official and would require the Secretary of State or respective elections official to provide those lists to county elections officials as part of the ballot label. The bill would make conforming changes and related findings and declarations. 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. Because the bill would impose additional duties on local elections officials, and because it would expand the crime of perjury, it 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 with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Existing law requires hotels, as defined, to provide at least 20 minutes of training to their staff on how to recognize human trafficking as it pertains specifically to the hotel sector. Existing law does not create liability against a hotel or its employees for the lack of reporting a human trafficking case. This bill would allow civil penalties to be imposed against a hotel, as defined, if a supervisory employee, as defined, of the hotel knew of or acted with reckless disregard of the activity constituting sex trafficking activity, as defined, that occurred within the hotel and failed to inform law enforcement, the National Human Trafficking Hotline, or another appropriate victim service organization, as specified, or if any employee of that hotel was acting within the scope of employment and knowingly benefited from participating in a venture that the employee knew, or acted in reckless disregard of the activity constituting sex trafficking activity within the hotel. This bill would authorize a city, county, or city and county attorney to seek equitable relief against a hotel, and to seek a civil penalty of $1,000 for the first violation, $3,000 for a 2nd violation within the same calendar year, and $5,000 for a 3rd and any subsequent violation of sex trafficking within the same calendar year. The bill would authorize a court to consider specified factors and exercise its discretion to increase the amount of the civil penalty, not to exceed $10,000, for any 4th or subsequent violation. The bill would require that the action be commenced within 5 years of the violation, or within 5 years of the date the victim attains the age of majority.
Existing law, beginning January 1, 2025, prohibits the manufacture, sale, delivery, hold, or offer for sale in commerce of any cosmetic product that contains any of several specified intentionally added ingredients, including specified perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) . This bill would prohibit, beginning January 1, 2025, a person or entity from manufacturing, selling, delivering, holding, or offering for sale in commerce any cosmetic product that contains intentionally added perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances PFAS, as defined.
The Joint Exercise of Powers Act authorizes 2 or more public agencies, by agreement, to form a joint powers authority to exercise any power common to the contracting parties, as specified. The act authorizes the agreement to set forth the manner by which the joint powers authority will be governed. The act specifically authorizes the establishment of specified joint powers authorities, including the San Gabriel Valley Regional Housing Trust, for the purposes of funding housing specifically assisting the homeless population and persons and families of extremely low, very low, and low income, as specified. This bill would similarly authorize the establishment of the South Bay Regional Housing Trust, a joint powers authority, by the County of Los Angeles and any or all of the cities within the jurisdiction of the South Bay Cities Council of Governments, with the stated purpose of funding housing to assist the homeless population and persons and families of extremely low, very low, and low income within the South Bay. The bill would authorize the South Bay Regional Housing Trust to fund the planning and construction of housing, receive public and private financing and funds, and authorize and issue bonds. The bill would require that the joint powers agreement establishing the South Bay Regional Housing Trust incorporate specified annual financial reporting and auditing requirements. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the South Bay Cities region of the County of Los Angeles.
Existing law, the Safe Place to Learn Act, requires the State Department of Education to assess whether local educational agencies have taken certain actions related to educational equity, including adopting a policy that prohibits discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying based on specified characteristics. Existing law requires local educational agencies, as defined, to adopt procedures for preventing acts of bullying, including cyberbullying. Existing law also prohibits a pupil from being suspended from school or recommended for expulsion, unless the superintendent of the school district or the principal of the school in which the pupil is enrolled determines that the pupil has committed a specified act, including, among other acts, engaging in an act of bullying, which includes communications made in writing or by means of an electronic act, as defined. This bill would require a social media platform, as defined, and subject to specified exceptions, to disclose all cyberbullying, as defined, reporting procedures in the social media platform's terms of service, and would require a social media platform to establish a mechanism within its internet-based service that allows an individual, whether or not that individual has a profile on the internet-based service, to report cyberbullying or any content that violates the existing terms of service, as specified. Beginning September 1, 2023, this bill would make a social media platform that intentionally violates these provisions subject to specified civil penalties or injunction, to be prosecuted in a court of competent jurisdiction by the Attorney General. The bill would specify that its provisions do not create a private right of action or limit any existing private right of action.
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The act requires the state board to consult with other states, the federal government, and other nations to identify the most effective strategies and methods to reduce greenhouse gases, manage greenhouse gas control programs, and facilitate the development of integrated and cost-effective regional, national, and international greenhouse gas reduction programs. The act also requires the state board to adopt rules and regulations to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions to ensure that the statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit, as defined, no later than December 31, 2030. This bill would require the state board, on or before July 1, 2024, to develop a plan, consistent with federal law, to reduce aviation greenhouse gas emissions and help the state reach its goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045, including a sustainable fuels target for the aviation sector of at least 20% by 2030. Contingent upon an appropriation, the bill would require the state board, on or before July 1, 2024, to commence implementation of the plan to achieve these goals. This bill would require the state board, in developing the plan, to, among other things, closely examine the shortfalls that exist in state greenhouse gas emissions policy frameworks with respect to incentives for sustainable aviation fuel and in support of the decarbonization of the aviation sector and to seek to address those shortfalls by assessing new incentives, as provided. The bill would require the state board to include in the plan specified elements, including, but not limited to, an evaluation of barriers and possible solutions to increasing sustainable aviation fuel production levels, actions that can be taken by the state to ensure that the state's policy incentives for sustainable aviation fuel are comparable to those provided to renewable diesel and other on-road fuels, and tools for increasing the state's sustainable aviation fuel supply and demand. The bill would also require the state board to consult with designated state agencies and encourage the state board to consult with designated stakeholders, including, but not limited to, commercial airports, aircraft and engine manufacturers, and aviation infrastructure providers, regarding development of the plan, on or before July 1, 2023.
Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license, inspect, and regulate skilled nursing facilities, as defined, and prohibits a person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, or political subdivision of the state, or other governmental agency within the state from operating, establishing, managing, conducting, or maintaining a skilled nursing facility in this state, without first obtaining a license from the department. Existing law prohibits a person from acquiring a beneficial interest of 5% or more in any corporation or partnership licensed to operate a skilled nursing facility, or in any management company under contract with a licensee of a skilled nursing facility, or from becoming an officer or director of, or general partner in, a corporation, partnership, or management company without the prior written approval of the department. Existing law requires a licensee for a skilled nursing facility to provide written notice of a proposed change in licensee or management company to all residents of the facility and their representatives at least 90 days prior to a finalization of the sale, transfer of operation, or other change or transfer of ownership interests, except as specified. Existing law requires an applicant for a skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility to submit certain information to the department, such as the name and address of a parent organization if the applicant is a subsidiary of another organization, and report any changes to that information within 30 days. Existing law imposes criminal penalties on a person who violates the licensing and regulatory requirements imposed on skilled nursing facilities. This bill would prohibit a person or an applicant for licensure from acquiring, operating, establishing, managing, conducting, or maintaining a freestanding skilled nursing facility without first obtaining a license from the department for that purpose. The bill would also apply the licensure requirement to a change of ownership or a change in management of such a facility. The bill would specify the requirements to apply for a license, after July 1, 2023, including evidence that the applicant is reputable and responsible to assume the license or management and evidence of specified financial capacity, and, if the applicant is part of a chain, providing a diagram indicating the relationship between the applicant and the persons or entities, as defined, that are part of the chain. The bill would require an applicant for a skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility to report any changes in information in an application 30 days prior to that change, except as specified. The bill would make all applications prepared in relation to these provisions public records, except as specified under any applicable federal or state privacy laws. The bill would authorize or require the department to deny an application for licensure, or to revoke a license, under certain circumstances. By expanding the duties on licensees, this bill would expand an existing crime, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program. The bill would authorize the department to take specified actions, including imposing civil penalties, if an applicant acquires, operates, establishes, manages, conducts, or maintains a skilled nursing facility before the department acts on its application or following the denial of its application, or if the person does not first apply to the department for a license. The bill would specify that its provisions do not preclude the department from taking additional state or federal enforcement actions, as specified, including misdemeanor penalties for willful or repeated violations. The bill would require the department to ensure a facility's operation is transitioned to a qualified operator, following the denial of an application. The bill would authorize the department, subsequent to licensure, to assess a civil penalty of $10,000 for a material violation of these provisions. The bill would specify that its provisions do not apply to a skilled nursing facility operated as a distinct part of an acute care hospital or to a receiver or temporary manager appointed in accordance with other laws. The bill would require the department to convene a stakeholder group on or before April 1, 2023, to determine the feasibility of establishing a new methodology to calculate application fees. 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.