(1) The Charter Schools Act of 1992 authorizes the establishment and operation of charter schools. Existing law generally requires a petition to establish a charter school to be submitted to the governing board of a school district, and, under specified circumstances, authorizes a petition to be submitted to and approved by a county board of education or the State Board of Education. Existing law authorizes a county board of education to approve a petition for the operation of a charter school that operates at one or more sites within the geographic boundaries of the county and that provides instructional services that are not generally provided by a county office of education. Existing law also authorizes a petition for the operation of a state charter school to be submitted directly to the state board, and authorizes the state board to approve a charter for the operation of a state charter school that may operate at multiple sites throughout the state. Existing law prohibits the governing board of a school district from denying a petition to establish a charter school unless it makes written factual findings in support of one or more specific findings. Existing law authorizes a charter school to appeal a school district's decision to deny a petition for a charter to the county board of education and, if the county board of education upholds the decision, to appeal the county board of education's decision to the state board. Existing law authorizes a charter to be granted by a chartering authority under designated provisions for a period not to exceed 5 years. Existing law requires that charter renewals are for periods of 5 years. This bill would revise and recast numerous provisions relating to the submission of petitions to establish charter schools, the appeal to county boards of education and to the state board of decisions of the governing boards of school districts to deny approval or renewal of charter schools, and the revocation of charters by chartering authorities. The bill would specify criteria and procedures for the consideration and determination of these issues. The bill would require that a petition to establish a charter school be submitted only to the governing board of the school district or county office of education within the boundaries of which the charter school proposes to locate. The bill would authorize a chartering authority to deny renewal of a charter school upon a finding that the school is demonstrably unlikely to successfully implement the program set forth in the petition due to substantial fiscal or governance factors, or is not serving all pupils who wish to attend, as specified. The bill would prohibit, from January 1, 2020, to January 1, 2022, inclusive, the approval of a petition for the establishment of a new charter school offering nonclassroom-based instruction and funded as specified. (2) Existing law requires teachers in charter schools to hold a Commission on Teacher Credentialing certificate, permit, or other document equivalent to what a teacher in other public schools would be required to hold. This bill would instead require teachers in charter schools to hold the Commission on Teacher Credentialing certificate, permit, or other document required for the teacher's certificated assignment, except that a person employed as a teacher in a charter school during the 2019–20 school year would have until July 1, 2025, to obtain that certificate, permit, or other document. The bill would require all teachers in charter schools to satisfy specified requirements for professional fitness by July 1, 2020. The bill would require the commission, by June 30, 2022, to conduct a comprehensive study to examine whether existing certificates, permits, or other documents adequately address the needs for noncore, noncollege preparatory courses in all schools and, if necessary, to make recommendations to appropriate policy committees of the Legislature. The bill would require the State Department of Education, in consultation with the State Board of Education, to collect data to track the implementation of the changes in law enacted by the bill. (3) This bill would prohibit certain provisions of the Education Code from being waived by the State Board of Education. The bill, except for the provisions (A) relating to prohibition of the approval of a petition for the establishment of certain new charter schools between January 1, 2020, and January 1, 2022, as described above, and (B) relating to the reimbursement of state-mandated costs, would become operative on July 1, 2020. The bill would also make conforming and nonsubstantive changes. To the extent the bill would impose additional requirements on local educational agencies and charter schools, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (4) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 47605 of the Education Code proposed by AB 1507 and AB 1595, to be operative only if this bill and AB 1507 or AB 1595, or both, are enacted and this bill is enacted last. (5) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 47605.6 of the Education Code proposed by AB 1595, to be operative only if this bill and AB 1595 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. (6) 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.
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(1) Existing law authorizes a charter school that is unable to locate within the jurisdiction or geographic boundaries of the chartering school district to establish one site outside the boundaries of the school district, but within the county in which that school district is located, if the school district where the charter school proposes to operate is notified in advance of the charter petition approval, the county superintendent of schools is notified of the location of the charter school before it commences operations, and either the charter school has attempted to locate a single site or facility to house the entire program, but a site or facility is unavailable in the area in which the school chooses to locate, or the site is needed for temporary use during a construction or expansion project. This bill would delete the authority of a charter school to locate outside the jurisdiction or geographic boundaries of the chartering school district because the charter school has attempted to locate a single site or facility to house the entire program, but a site or facility is unavailable in the area in which the charter school chooses to locate, or the site is needed for temporary use during a construction or expansion project. The bill would authorize a charter school that established one site outside the boundaries of the school district, but within the county in which that school district is located before January 1, 2020, to continue to operate that site until the charter school submits a request for the renewal of its charter petition, and would authorize a charter school to continue operating that site if the charter school either, before submitting the request for the renewal of the charter petition, first obtains written approval from the school district where the site is operating, or submits a request for the renewal of the charter petition, as specified, to the school district in which the charter school is located. The bill would authorize a charter school to relocate for not more than 5 years a site located within an area subject to a Presidential declaration of a major disaster or emergency, issued in accordance with federal law, to an area outside the area subject to the Presidential declaration, as specified. The bill would require a charter school to be allowed to return to its original campus location in perpetuity if that charter school was relocated from December 31, 2016, through December 31, 2019, due to a Presidential declaration of a major disaster or emergency in accordance with federal law. The bill would exempt from the above-described charter school location provisions a charter school located on a federally recognized California Indian reservation or rancheria or operated by a federally recognized California Indian tribe. The bill would require the State Department of Education to regard a charter school approved pursuant to the above-described provisions as a continuing charter school for all purposes. (2) Existing law authorizes a charter school to establish a resource center, meeting space, or other satellite facility located in a county adjacent to the county in which the charter school is authorized if specified conditions are met. This bill instead would authorize a charter school to establish one resource center, meeting space, or other satellite facility within the jurisdiction of the school district where the charter school is physically located if specified conditions are met, except as specified. The bill would require a charter school to notify the charter school's chartering authority of the name and physical location of any resource center, meeting space, or satellite facility operated by the charter school. The bill would prohibit the State Board of Education from waiving those restrictions on the establishment of a resource center, meeting space, or satellite facility. This bill would authorize a charter school or a countywide charter school that was operating a resource center, meeting space, or other satellite facility outside the jurisdiction of the school district or county, respectively, where the charter school is physically located before January 1, 2020, to continue to operate that resource center, meeting space, or other satellite facility until the charter school submits a request for the renewal of its charter petition, and would authorize a charter school to continue operating that resource center, meeting space, or other satellite facility if, before submitting the request for the renewal of the charter petition, the charter school first obtains written approval from the school district or the county office of education, as appropriate, where the resource center, meeting space, or other satellite facility is operating. The bill would authorize a charter school to relocate for not more than 5 years a resource center, meeting space, or other satellite facility located within an area subject to a Presidential declaration of a major disaster or emergency, issued in accordance with federal law, to an area outside the area subject to the Presidential declaration, as specified. The bill would authorize a charter school to establish additional resource centers, meetings spaces, or other satellite facilities within the jurisdiction of the charter school's chartering authority if specified conditions are met. The bill would require the department to regard as a continuing charter school for all purposes a nonclassroom-based charter school that meets specified requirements. This bill would make a conforming change. (3) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 47605 of the Education Code proposed by AB 1505 and AB 1595, to be operative only if this bill and AB 1505 or AB 1595, or both, are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
(1) Existing law, the Marine Invasive Species Act, requires the State Lands Commission (hereafter the commission) to implement and administer laws regulating the uptake or discharge of ballast water from vessels that impact marine species in the state's waterways. The act, among other things, requires the master, owner, operator, or person in charge of a vessel carrying, or capable of carrying, ballast water, that operates in the waters of the state to take various actions to minimize the uptake and release of nonindigenous species, including, among other things, to clean the ballast tanks regularly in mid-ocean waters, or under controlled arrangements in port or in drydock, to remove sediments and biofouling organisms, as specified, and to make available to the commission additional information, including a separate ballast water log to outline ballast water management activities for each ballast water tank on board the vessel. Existing law exempts the master, operator, or person in charge of a vessel from conducting a ballast water management practice upon a specified determination relating to safety. This bill would, for purposes of the act, define the term "land" and would revise the coastal boundaries used to define the "Pacific Coast Region," as specified. The bill would require the master, operator, or person in charge of a vessel to include in the ballast water log book for the vessel a description of the safety reasons for a determination to not conduct a ballast water management practice, to notify the commission of this determination, and to provide the commission a copy of the related entry in the ballast water log for the vessel. (2) The act required the commission, on or before January 1, 2012, in consultation with the State Water Resources Control Board (hereafter the board) , the United States Coast Guard, and a technical advisory group consisting of specified representatives, to develop and adopt regulations governing the management of biofouling on vessels arriving at a California port or place, as provided. The act required the commission, in consultation with the United States Coast Guard, on or before July 1, 2005, to adopt regulations governing the evaluation and approval of shipboard experimental ballast water treatment systems. The act also required the commission, in consultation with the board and in consideration of specified advisory panel recommendations, on or before January 31, 2006, to submit to the Legislature and make available to the public a specified report that recommends standards for the discharge of ballast waters into the waters of the state. This bill would repeal those provisions relating to shipboard experimental ballast water treatment systems and to ballast water standards. This bill would require those adopted regulations relating to the management of biofouling on vessels arriving at a California port or place to be regularly reviewed and revised as appropriate. (3) The act requires the commission to adopt regulations that impose specified requirements on an owner or operator of a vessel carrying, or capable of carrying, ballast water that operates in the waters of the state to implement certain interim performance standards for the discharge of ballast water recommended in accordance with a specified report approved by the commission, as described, in consultation with the board, the United States Coast Guard, and an advisory panel, and to meet the final performance standard for the discharge of ballast water of zero detectable living organisms for all organism size classes by January 1, 2030. This bill would, instead, require the commission to adopt regulations that would require an owner or operator of a vessel, as defined, carrying, or capable of carrying, ballast water that operates in the waters of the state to implement specified federal standards regulating ballast water discharges and to comply with certain federal performance standards for implementing approved ballast water management methods. The bill would also require that those regulations set a date no later than January 1, 2040, by which the final performance standard for the discharge of ballast water of zero detectable living organisms for all size classes would be required to be met, and would revise certain requirements for the submission of that report regarding ballast water discharges, as prescribed. This bill would also require the advisory panel to make recommendations regarding the content and issuance of the report and implementation of the performance standards to the commission. The bill would require that the advisory panel's meetings be open to the public. The bill would require the commission to provide notice of the advisory panel's meetings to any person who requests that notice in writing, as well as on the commission's internet website and to provide that notice at least 10 days before an advisory panel meeting and to include the meeting's agenda and the name, address, and telephone number of a person who can provide additional information before the meeting. (4) The act requires the commission, in consultation with the board, the United States Coast Guard, and a technical advisory group made up of specified representatives who are interested persons, to sponsor pilot programs for the purpose of evaluating alternatives for treating and otherwise managing ballast water and biofouling, with the goal of this effort to reduce or eliminate the discharge of nonindigenous species into the coastal waters of the state. This bill would additionally require the commission to consult with the United States Environmental Protection Agency regarding the sponsorship of those pilot programs and would also require that the meaningful participation of the State of California in federal rulemaking actions be included as one of the goals of those efforts. (5) The act requires the commission, the board, and the Department of Fish and Wildlife, in consultation with interested stakeholders, to identify and conduct any other research determined necessary to carry out the requirements of the act. This bill would authorize the commission to also take samples of ballast water, sediment, and biofouling from arriving vessels subject to the act for research purposes.
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law authorizes a community choice aggregator to aggregate the electrical load of electricity consumers within its boundaries and within the service territory of an electrical corporation. Existing law requires an electrical corporation to cooperate fully with any community choice aggregator that investigates, pursues, or implements community choice aggregation programs, including providing appropriate billing and electrical load data, which includes electrical consumption data, as defined. Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime. This bill would require the commission to post, in a consolidated location on its internet website, residential electric rate tariffs and programs of electrical corporations, electric service providers, and community choice aggregators to enable customers and local governments to compare rates, services, environmental attributes, and other offerings. The bill would require this information to also be available and easily accessible on those electricity providers' internet websites. The bill would require each of those electricity providers to make available to the commission all information about its residential electric rate tariffs and programs. Because the provisions of this bill would be a part of the Public Utilities Act and because a violation of a commission action implementing its requirements would therefore be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Because the bill would impose new reporting and posting requirements upon community choice aggregators, which are entities of local government, 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 specified reasons.
This measure would condemn regulations recently adopted by the Department of Homeland Security to prescribe how a determination of inadmissibility for a person who is not a citizen or national is made based on the likelihood that the person will become a public charge. This measure would also urge the federal government to repeal the new regulations.
This measure would state that the Legislature strongly and unequivocally supports the existing fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions standards, the preservation of California's authority to enact stricter air pollution standards pursuant to its federal Clean Air Act waiver, and the enactment of a voluntary agreement between the State Air Resources Board and automobile manufacturers that preserves California's status as a leader in the fight for clean air; will consider any and all appropriate actions to maintain and enact vehicle emissions standards for the protection of public health, California residents, and the economy; supports any and all appropriate actions that enhance longstanding protections for the public's health, California residents, and the economy; and strongly urges the President and Vice President of the United States, the Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation, and the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency to reject the Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient Vehicles Proposed Rule for Model Years 2021–2026.
This measure would call upon all Californians to embrace the individual and social benefits of family and community acceptance, upon religious leaders to counsel on LGBTQ matters from a place of love, compassion, and knowledge of the psychological and other harms of conversion therapy, and upon the people of California and the institutions of California with great moral influence to model equitable treatment of all people of the state.
This measure would recognize the need to pursue avenues to implement proposed reparations for the descendants of African slaves in the United States. The measure would further recognize August 2019 as marking 400 years since Africans were brought to Virginia.
This measure would proclaim September 29, 2019, as Gold Star Mothers' and Families' Day in California.
This measure would welcome refugees and declare its support for the resettlement of refugees in California, no matter their religion, race, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity, or country of origin, and calls upon other local governments and communities to join them in supporting a stronger national effort to resettle the world's most vulnerable refugees. This measure would call on the federal government to resettle all 30,000 refugees that the United States has committed to resettle in the fiscal year 2019, and would call on Congress and the presidential administration to raise the Presidential Determination to at least 75,000 refugees for fiscal year 2020.