This measure would declare the month of April 2016 as the Month of the Military Child.
This measure would designate April 3, 2016, to April 9, 2016, inclusive, as Women and Girls in STEM Week and would encourage all citizens and community organizations to support the observance of California Women and Girls in STEM Week by encouraging and celebrating women in the STEM fields.
This measure would declare the week of March 7, 2016, through March 13, 2016, as Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week.
Existing law authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles, in conformance with certain provisions in existing law relating to personal services contracts with private parties, to establish contracts for electronic programs that allow qualified private industry partners to join the department to provide title and vehicle registration transactions. Existing law authorizes the department to enter into contractual agreements with 3 specified types of private industry partners for this purpose, and to charge a transaction fee for the information and services provided. This bill would expand the services for which the department would be authorized to establish contracts with private industry partners as described above, to include processing and payment programs for driver's license renewals, as specified.
This measure would proclaim the month of March 2016 as Grand Jury Awareness Month in California, recognize those who volunteer in a grand jury, and encourage all Californians to learn about its role in the judicial system.
Existing law establishes the county-administered In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program, under which qualified aged, blind, and disabled persons are provided with services in order to permit them to remain in their own homes and avoid institutionalization. Existing law, the Home Care Services Consumer Protection Act, beginning January 1, 2016, provides for the licensure and regulation of home care organizations, as defined, by the State Department of Social Services, and the registration of home care aides. The act excludes specified persons and entities from the definition of a home care aide for purposes of registration, including individuals providing home care services under the IHSS program. Existing law requires affiliated home care aides, as defined, to complete specified training, including a minimum of 5 hours of entry-level training prior to presence with a client. Willful or repeated violation of these provisions is a crime. This bill would additionally require an independent IHSS provider to be listed on the home care aide registry prior to providing home care services to a client, and would require an independent IHSS provider to complete the specified training required for an affiliated home care aide. The bill would define "independent IHSS provider" to mean an IHSS program provider who is not employed by a private, 3rd-party agency to provide home care services under the IHSS program. By expanding the definition of a crime, this 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.
Existing state and local public retirement systems provide defined benefits based on age at retirement, service credit, and final compensation. Existing law defines final compensation for various employment classifications in connection with the benefits provided by these systems. This bill would prohibit the retirement benefit paid to a member of any public retirement system whose service is not included in the federal social security system from exceeding $100,000. The bill would prohibit the retirement benefit paid to a member of any public retirement system whose service is included in the federal social security system from exceeding $80,000. The bill would require that those amounts be adjusted annually by each public retirement system using the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers. This bill would apply the above-described provisions to a public employee who is first employed by a public agency and becomes a member of any public retirement system on or after January 1, 2017. This bill would specify that if any of these provisions are in conflict with a memorandum of understanding that is current and in effect on January 1, 2017, the memorandum of understanding would be controlling while it remains in effect, but that upon expiration of that memorandum of understanding, these provisions would be controlling and would not be superseded by a subsequent memorandum of understanding.
Under existing law, a dwelling is deemed untenantable, as specified, if it substantially lacks certain affirmative standard characteristics including floors, stairways, and railings maintained in good repair. Existing law authorizes a landlord, after giving a tenant reasonable written notice, to enter a dwelling for certain purposes, including to make necessary or agreed repairs, decorations, alterations, or improvements. This bill would also authorize a landlord to enter a dwelling to comply with the obligation that the dwelling have certain affirmative standard characteristics, as described above, necessary for the dwelling to be deemed tenantable. Existing law provides that a tenant of real property for a term less than life, or the executor of his or her estate, is guilty of unlawful detainer if, among other things, he or she continues in possession, in person or by subtenant, of the property or any part of the property, after the expiration of the term for which it is let to him or her, except as specified. Existing law requires a complaint filed in an unlawful detainer proceeding to include certain information and requires a defendant to answer the complaint, as specified, within 5 days of being served with a summons and the complaint, unless the court orders otherwise for good cause shown. This bill would require a defendant in an unlawful detainer action, if he or she asserts an affirmative defense of breach of the implied warranty of habitability, to indicate on the appropriate Judicial Council answer form if he or she has lodged a complaint or complaints regarding the uninhabitability of the premises before the filing of the action, and would require the defendant to include information about who the complaint or complaints were lodged with. The bill would require the Judicial Council, on or before July 1, 2017, to revise the appropriate answer form to include spaces to input the information, as described above. Existing law provides that the proper location for the trial of an unlawful detainer action is the location of the court in which unlawful detainer actions are tried that is nearest or most accessible to where the real property that is the subject of the action is situated. This bill would prohibit a plaintiff or defendant in an unlawful detainer action from requesting a change in court location if the court location for trial of the action is the nearest to where the real property that is the subject of the action is situated. The bill would provide that this prohibition only applies if that court location has been designated as a proper court location for the trial and allows for a jury trial.
