This measure would recognize May 2018 as National Mental Health Awareness Month in California to enhance public awareness of mental illness.
This measure would recognize September 20, 2018, and every year on that date thereafter, as California Surfing Day to celebrate the California surfing lifestyle, would commend all those who honor the history, culture, and future of surfing, as well as the sport of surfing and the protection of our beach and ocean environments, would express support for future surfers and encourage potential surfing Olympians to work diligently, and would encourage all Californians to enjoy California Surfing Day.
This measure would proclaim the month of April 2018 as Black April Memorial Month.
(1) Existing law required, on or before July 1, 2014, the governing boards of school districts and county boards of education to adopt a local control and accountability plan using a template adopted by the State Board of Education. Existing law requires the governing board of each school district and each county board of education to update its local control and accountability plan before July 1 of each year. Existing law requires an update to include, among other things, a listing and description of the expenditures for the fiscal year, as specified. This bill would instead require that the annual update to a school district's local control and accountability plan include a listing and description of the expenditures at the school district level and by schoolsite for the fiscal year, as specified. The bill would also require that the annual update to a county board of education's local control and accountability plan include a listing and description of the expenditures at the county level and by schoolsite for the fiscal year, as specified. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) Existing law requires the governing board of each school district to establish standards of expected pupil achievement at each grade level in each area of study and to evaluate and assess certificated employee performance on a continuing basis as it reasonably relates to the progress of pupils toward the established standards and, if applicable, the state adopted academic content standards as measured by state adopted criterion referenced assessments, the instructional techniques and strategies used by the employee, the employee's adherence to curricular objectives, and the establishment and maintenance of a suitable learning environment, within the scope of the employee's responsibilities. This bill would require the superintendent of a school district and a county superintendent of schools to make available to the public, and post on its Internet Web site, if it has one, specified information relating to the evaluation of teachers and principals. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (3) 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 polling places to be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on election day and requires that voting commence as soon as polls are opened. Existing law requires a person desiring to vote to audibly announce his or her name and address, and requires a precinct board member to audibly repeat the voter's name and address after finding the voters name in the index of voter registration. Existing law then requires the voter to write his or her name and residence address on a roster of voters, except as specified. This bill would also require a voter to provide photographic identification at the polling place before receiving a ballot. The bill would specify the forms of photographic identification that are acceptable and would authorize the use of a photographic identification that has been expired for less than one year. The bill would require a precinct board to provide a voter who is unable to provide an acceptable form of photographic identification, and would require a voter who is provided a provisional ballot for this reason to present photographic identification to the elections official in order to have his or her provisional ballot counted. The bill would require that a voter be provided a free registered voter identification card that contains a photograph of the voter if the voter does not have an acceptable form of photographic identification. By expanding the duties of precinct board members and local elections 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 imposes various requirements on public and private employers with regard to federal immigration agency worksite enforcement actions, including, except as otherwise required by federal law, prohibiting an employer or other person acting on the employer's behalf from providing voluntary consent to an immigration enforcement agent to enter nonpublic areas of a place of labor unless the agent provides a judicial warrant or to access, review, or obtain the employer's employee records without a subpoena or court order, except as specified. Existing law, except as specified, subjects an employer who violates these prohibitions to civil penalties of $2,000 up to $5,000 for a first violation and $5,000 up to $10,000 for each subsequent violation, to be enforced by the Labor Commissioner or the Attorney General in a civil action. This bill would authorize an employer to provide voluntary consent to an immigration enforcement agent to enter any nonpublic areas of a place of labor, in the absence of a federal law requirement. The bill would define "voluntary consent" for those purposes. The bill would delete the penalties for a violation of entry and record access provisions. The bill would require a court to grant a prevailing defendant court costs and reasonable attorney's fees. Existing law, except as required by federal law, requires an employer to provide a current employee notice containing specified information, by posting in the language the employer normally uses to communicate employment information, of an inspection of I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification forms or other employment records conducted by an immigration agency within 72 hours of receiving the federal notice of inspection. Existing law requires an employer, upon reasonable request, to provide an affected employee a copy of the notice of inspection of I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification forms. Existing law requires the Labor Commissioner, by July 1, 2018, to create a template for these purposes and make it available, as specified. Existing law requires an employer to provide to a current affected employee, and to the employee's authorized representative, if any, a copy of the written immigration agency notice that provides for the inspection results and written notice of the obligations of the employer and the affected employee arising from the action, as specified. Existing law defines "affected employee" for these purposes. Existing law prescribes penalties for failure to provide the notices of $2,000 up to $5,000 for a first violation and $5,000 up to $10,000 for each subsequent violation, except as specified, to be collected by the Labor Commissioner. This bill would delete those penalties. Existing law, except as required by federal law, prohibits an employer from reverifying the employment eligibility of a current employee at a time or in a manner not required by specified federal law. Existing law prescribes a penalty of up to $10,000 for a violation of this prohibition to be recoverable by the Labor Commissioner. This bill would modify that prohibition to allow reverification if the employer receives specific and articulable information that causes the employer to believe reverification is necessary. The bill would delete the penalties for a violation.
Existing law, the Mental Health Services Act, an initiative measure enacted by the voters as Proposition 63 at the November 2, 2004, statewide general election, funds a system of county mental health plans for the provision of mental health services, as specified. The act establishes the continuously appropriated Mental Health Services Fund to fund various county mental health programs by imposing a tax of 1% on annual incomes above $1,000,000. The act requires the State Department of Health Care Services to implement specified mental health services provided under the act through contracts with county mental health programs or counties acting jointly, as prescribed. The act provides that it may be amended by the Legislature by a 23 vote of each house as long as the amendment is consistent with and furthers the intent of the act, and that the Legislature may also clarify procedures and terms of the act by majority vote. Existing law requires county mental health programs to develop plans for innovative programs, and provides for funding for these programs from the Mental Health Services Fund. This bill would appropriate $10,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Health Care Services to be distributed to counties for the purpose of funding innovative programs to provide mental health services to California's homeless population.
Existing law, until January 1, 2026, authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a multifamily housing development, which satisfies specified planning objective standards, that is subject to a streamlined, ministerial approval process, as provided, and not subject to a conditional use permit. Existing law requires a local government to notify the development proponent in writing if the local government determines that the development conflicts with any of those objective standards by a specified time; otherwise, the development is deemed to comply with those standards. Existing law provides that if a local government approves a project pursuant to that process, that approval will not expire until a specified period of time depending on the nature of the development. This bill would authorize a development property to submit an application for a development to be subject to a streamlined, ministerial approval process provided that development meet specified objective planning standards, such as that the development contains fewer than 25 residential units and provides housing for persons and families of low or moderate income. The bill would require a local government to notify the development proponent in writing if the local government determines that the development conflicts with any of those objective standards within 30 days of the application being submitted; otherwise, the development is deemed to comply with those standards. The bill would provide that if a local government approves a project pursuant to this process, then that approval will not expire for 5 years. By imposing new duties upon local agencies with respect to the streamlined approval process described above, 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.
(1) Existing law makes it a misdemeanor for an individual to solicit, agree to engage in, or engage in, an act of prostitution with the intent to receive compensation, money, or anything of value from another person, as specified, or an act of prostitution with an adult or a minor in exchange for the individual providing compensation, money, or anything of value to the other person, as specified. Existing law makes it unlawful for a person to loiter in a public place with the intent to commit prostitution, as specified. Existing law exempts a child under 18 years of age who is alleged to have engaged in prostitution or related offenses from being prosecuted for those offenses. Existing law authorizes a commercially exploited child under those circumstances to be adjudged a dependent child of the court and to be taken into temporary custody if the conditions allowing temporary custody without warrant are met. This bill would instead make the prohibitions on prostitution and related offenses applicable to a person under 18 years of age. By expanding the application of those crimes to those persons, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would also make a technical nonsubstantive change to one of those provisions. (2) Existing law, until January 1, 2020, authorizes specified counties to establish and operate a deferred entry of judgment pilot program within the county's juvenile hall for an eligible defendant who is charged with committing a felony offense, except as specified, pleads guilty to the charge or charges, and meets specified criteria determined by the probation department. Existing law requires the court to grant deferred entry of judgment if the eligible defendant consents to participate in the program, waives his or her right to a speedy trial or a speedy preliminary hearing, pleads guilty to the charge or charges, and waives time for the pronouncement of judgment. Existing law also requires the court, at the end of the period in which deferred entry was granted, to dismiss the criminal charge or charges if the defendant performs satisfactorily during the period. Existing law requires the court to render a finding of guilt to the charge or charges pleaded, enter judgment, and schedule a sentencing hearing, and requires the return of the defendant to custody in a county jail, if the court finds that the defendant is performing unsatisfactorily in the program or that the defendant is not benefiting from the services in the program. This bill would authorize a county to establish and operate a deferred entry of judgment pilot program within the county's juvenile hall for an eligible defendant who is a commercial sexually exploited child charged with engaging in an act of prostitution with the intent to receive money or other consideration or loitering in a public place with the intent to commit prostitution, pleads guilty to the charge or charges, and has not previously been charged with committing those offenses. The bill would require the court to grant deferred entry of judgment if the eligible defendant consents to participate in the program, waives his or her right to a speedy trial or a speedy preliminary hearing, pleads guilty to the charge or charges, and waives time for the pronouncement of judgment. The bill would require the probation department to develop therapeutic rehabilitative programming that is specific to participants of the program, including, but not limited to, peer mentoring and trauma-informed therapy. The bill would require the court to, at the end of the period in which deferred entry was granted, dismiss the criminal charge or charges if the defendant performs satisfactorily during the period. The bill would require the court to render a finding of guilt to the charge or charges pleaded, enter judgment, and schedule a sentencing hearing, and require the return of the defendant to custody in a county jail, if the court finds that the defendant is performing unsatisfactorily in the program or that the defendant is not benefiting from the services in the program. A defendant shall serve no more than 6 months in custody within a county's juvenile hall pursuant to the program. The provisions of this bill would be repealed on January 1, 2021. (3) 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.
