This measure would memorialize the achievements of Rosa Parks in the Civil Rights Movement and would commemorate the 20th Anniversary of Rosa Parks Day in California on February 4, 2020.
Existing law requires specified categories of law enforcement officers to meet training standards pursuant to courses of training certified by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training. Existing law requires the commission to implement a course or courses of instruction for the training of law enforcement officers in California in the handling of domestic violence complaints and also to develop guidelines for law enforcement response to domestic violence. Existing law authorizes an immediate family member of a person or a law enforcement officer to request a court to issue a gun violence restraining order that would prohibit a person from, among other things, purchasing or possessing a firearm or ammunition, as specified. This bill would require the commission to develop and implement, on or before January 1, 2022, a course of training for those law enforcement officers regarding gun violence restraining orders. The bill would require the course to be incorporated into the course or courses of basic training for law enforcement officers on or before January 1, 2022, and would require the course or courses to include specified topics, including the process of filing a petition for a gun violence restraining order and situational training to assist officers in identifying when a gun violence restraining order is appropriate. The bill would authorize law enforcement officers and administrators to participate in supplementary training that includes these topics.
This measure would urge the Congress of the United States to enact federal legislation to direct the Federal Aviation Administration to adopt new helicopter safety standards in coordination with the National Transportation Safety Board, including the requirement of a terrain awareness and warning system on board all helicopters.
Existing law, with certain exceptions, establishes 8 hours as a day's work and a 40-hour workweek, and requires payment of prescribed overtime compensation for additional hours worked. Existing law authorizes the adoption by 23 of employees in a work unit of alternative workweek schedules providing for workdays no longer than 10 hours within a 40-hour workweek. Existing law defines terms for those purposes. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those definitions.
Existing law establishes the Department of Motor Vehicles under the control of the Director of Motor Vehicles and sets forth the powers and duties of the department. Existing law requires the director to administer and enforce the provisions of the Vehicle Code relating to the department and to appoint and fix the salaries of a deputy director and any other officers, deputies, technical experts, and employees, as specified. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
Existing law defines a nuisance as anything injurious to health, indecent or offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, as specified. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the definition of nuisance.
The California Constitution establishes the Public Utilities Commission with jurisdiction over all public utilities, subject to control by the Legislature. The Public Utilities Act requires the commission to hold its sessions at least once in each calendar month in the City and County of San Francisco, authorizes the commission to also meet at such other times and places as may be expedient and necessary for the proper performance of its duties, and requires that meetings of the commission be open and public in accordance with the provisions of a specified state open meeting law. This bill would make nonsubstantive revisions to these provisions of the act.
Existing law ratifies, approves, and sets forth the provisions of the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, the purpose of which is to provide for mutual assistance between the states that are parties to the compact in managing any emergency or disaster that is duly declared by the governor of the affected state. Existing law separately requires the state to indemnify and make whole any officer or employee who is a resident of California, or their heirs, if the officer or employee is injured or killed in another state when rendering aid pursuant to the compact, as specified. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the indemnity provision.
Existing law requires the county assessor in a county to furnish an estimate of the assessed valuation of property within the county's jurisdiction, as specified. Existing property tax law makes the assessor and the assessor's sureties liable on the assessor's official bond for all taxes on property that is unassessed through their willful failure or neglect. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that liability provision.
