(1) Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified. Existing law requires funding pursuant to the local control funding formula to include, in addition to a base grant, supplemental and concentration grant add-ons that are based on the percentage of pupils who are English learners, foster youth, or eligible for free or reduced-price meals, as specified, served by the county superintendent of schools, school district, or charter school. Existing law specifies the amount of the base grant in the 2013–14 fiscal year, as provided, and requires that amount to be adjusted for changes in cost of living in subsequent fiscal years. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to compute the supplemental and concentration grant add-ons as certain percentages of the amount of the base grant. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature that the state aspire to increase the base grants in order to achieve specified educational goals. The bill would express the intent of the Legislature to apply a cost-of-living adjustment separate from, in addition to, and above the specified cost-of-living adjustment described above for purposes of certain funding provisions. Commencing with the 2022–23 fiscal year, this bill would increase the base grants to specified amounts. The bill would also make conforming changes. (2) Commencing with the first fiscal year after full implementation of the local control funding formula, existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, within 3 business days of the first principal, 2nd principal, and annual apportionments for each fiscal year, to publish on the State Department of Education's internet website the amount of a county office of education's, school district's, or charter school's funding derived from its local control funding formula allocation that is attributable to the supplemental and concentration grants. Commencing July 1, 2023, this bill would require the Superintendent to additionally publish on the department's internet website (A) the amount of a county office of education's, school district's, or charter school's funding derived from its local control funding formula allocation that is attributable to base grants and (B) the unduplicated pupil counts and percentages calculated for each school district, charter school, and county office of education. The bill would prohibit the Superintendent from publishing this information for any necessary small school, as defined.
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Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified. Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified, that includes average daily attendance as a component of that calculation for these local educational agencies. For purposes of the local control funding formula, this bill would, commencing with the 2022–23 school year, instead calculate average daily attendance based on a 3-year average for those local educational agencies or their current year average daily attendance calculation, whichever is greater, as provided. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law establishes the Department of Technology within the Government Operations Agency, which is supervised by the Director of Technology, to exercise various powers in creating and managing the information technology policy of the state. Existing law requires the department to be responsible for the approval and oversight of information technology projects, including, among other duties, establishing and maintaining a framework of policies, procedures, and requirements for the initiation, approval, implementation, management, oversight, and continuation of information technology projects. By July 1, 2023, this bill would require the department to establish a process to solicit research guideline applications from researchers in order to identify qualified research projects and guidelines and criteria used to determine how the department will review research applications seeking approval to be a qualified research project, as specified. The bill would require the department to establish reasonable privacy and cybersecurity safeguards for the qualified data and information, as defined, that the platform must share with qualified researchers pursuant to a qualified research project, and inform the platform of these requirements. This bill would require a platform to provide qualified data and information to qualified researchers under the terms dictated by the department to carry out a qualified research project, and limit the purposes for which a qualified researcher may use the data and information, as prescribed. The bill would require the department to issue specified regulations, including requiring platforms to make specified disclosures regarding the information those platforms share with qualified researchers. By July 1, 2024, and annually thereafter, this bill would require the director to submit a report to the Chairs of the Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee concerning operations of the department relating to these provisions, and would require that report to include specified information pertaining to a detailed statement of all qualified research projects. The bill would impose prescribed civil penalties upon a platform or qualified researcher that violates these provisions, and would exempt an individual who engages in certain activities related to qualified research projects from civil or criminal liability. Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.
Existing law, the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, provides for the involuntary commitment and treatment of persons with specified mental disorders for the protection of the persons committed. Under the act, when a person, as a result of a mental health disorder, is a danger to others, or to themselves, or gravely disabled, the person may, upon probable cause, be taken into custody and placed in a facility designated by the county and approved by the State Department of Health Care Services for up to 72 hours for evaluation and treatment. If certain conditions are met after the 72-hour detention, the act authorizes the certification of the person for a 14-day maximum period of intensive treatment, and then a 30-day maximum period of intensive treatment after the 14-day period. Existing law requires the professional person in charge of the facility providing the 72-hour evaluation and treatment or the intensive treatment to notify the county behavioral health director when the person is released and certain conditions apply. This bill would, for each person admitted for evaluation and treatment, require the facility providing the 72-hour evaluation and treatment to keep with the person's medical record contact information for an individual designated by the patient as their medical emergency contact, and would require that facility to develop a continuity of care plan for the person, which the facility shall make available to certain individuals and facilities, as specified. The bill would require, before the release of a person from the 72-hour detention or the intensive treatment, the professional person in charge of the facility providing the treatment to provide the county behavioral health director with the medical emergency contact information, the continuity of care plan, and the possible release date of the person, and would require the county behavioral health director to contact the person's medical emergency contact and provide that individual with the person's continuity of care plan. The bill would also require a county to offer a person who is released from involuntary detention after receiving 72-hour evaluation and treatment or intensive treatment, and who is homeless, a local crisis bed or recuperative care upon their release from the designated facility providing the involuntary treatment. By imposing new duties 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, 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 the statutory provisions noted above.
Existing law requires the court to impose specified conditions of probation for defendants convicted of domestic violence, including referral to a batterer's program in which participation in substance abuse counseling is a standard component for defendants who are chronic users or serious abusers of drugs and alcohol. If probation is granted in domestic violence cases, existing law authorizes the probation department or the court to make provisions for a defendant to receive alcohol and drug services using the defendant's own resources. This bill would establish a 3-year pilot program in the County of Los Angeles to require a sobriety-monitoring program for a person convicted of, and placed on probation for, a domestic violence offense if the offense was committed by a defendant with the presence of alcohol, and who has one or more prior convictions for a domestic violence offense where there is evidence of a prior offense having been committed by the defendant with the presence of alcohol, or who has a history of alcohol abuse. The requirement that the defendant enter the sobriety-monitoring program may be removed from the terms of probation if the court determines that the interests of justice would not be served by having the defendant participate in the program. The bill would require the County of Los Angeles to report to the Legislature, as specified, on or before April 1, 2026. 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 the statutory provisions noted above.
This measure would proclaim the month of March 2022 as Bleeding Disorders Awareness Month in California.
This measure would recognize February 2022 as Black History Month, urge all citizens to join in celebrating the accomplishments of African Americans during Black History Month, and encourage the people of California to recognize the many talents of African Americans and the achievements and contributions they make to their communities to create equity and equality for education, economics, and social justice. The measure would also recognize the significance in protecting citizens' right to vote and remedying racial discrimination in voting.
This measure would declare February 17, 2022, as PTA Day, commend the National Parent Teacher Association on the occasion of its 125th anniversary, and encourage all California residents to attend and participate in the celebration of this commemorative event.
This measure would proclaim March 2022 as American Red Cross Month and would dedicate it to all those who continue to advance the noble legacy of the organization's founder. The measure would encourage all Californians to reach out, support the organization's humanitarian mission, and join in their commitment to care for people in need.
This measure would proclaim March 20, 2022, to March 26, 2022, as California Down Syndrome Awareness Week and March 21, 2022, as California Down Syndrome Day, and would encourage all Californians to support and participate in related activities.