(1) Existing law requires the Department of Justice to compile, publish, and maintain a roster listing all of the firearm safety devices that have been tested by a certified testing laboratory, have been determined to meet the department's standards for firearm safety devices, and therefore may be sold in this state. Existing law requires the department to collect and retain a prototype of each approved device. This bill would authorize the department commencing on January 1, 2026, to charge a fee for devices newly listed on the roster to cover costs related to the approval of the device, as specified. This bill would also, commencing on January 1, 2026, authorize the department to charge each entity that manufactures or imports into the state for sale any firearm safety device that is listed on the roster, an annual fee to cover the cost of storage of prototype devices. The bill would additionally require that any device newly added to the roster have certain information engraved or otherwise permanently affixed to the device. The bill would also require any entity seeking to list a device to comply with specified business standards. This bill would provide a process by which a device that has been removed from the roster for nonpayment of the fee, to be relisted. The bill would also provide a process for a device model that is identical to a listed model except for certain cosmetic differences to be listed without testing. These processes require the submission of certain statements signed under penalty of perjury. By expanding the offense of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would also require the manufacturer of any device listed on the roster that becomes subject to a product recall, as specified, to notify the department, as specified. The bill would authorize the department to remove the device from the roster if the device is subject to a product recall, as specified. (2) Existing law requires any person, within 60 days of bringing a firearm into the state, to mail or personally deliver to the Department of Justice a report, as prescribed by the department, describing the firearm and providing personal information. Existing law requires any sale, loan, or transfer of a firearm to be processed through a licensed firearms dealer. Existing law exempts from this requirement the transfer of certain firearms that are curios or relics to a licensed firearm collector, and certain transfers made by gift, bequest, intestate succession, or operation of law. Existing law requires a person who receives a firearm pursuant to these provisions, within 30 days after taking possession, to submit to the Department of Justice a report, as prescribed by the department, describing the firearm and providing personal information. Existing law also requires a collector who imports such a firearm into the state to submit a report to the department. This bill would require these reports to be submitted in a form and manner prescribed by the department and authorize the department to charge a fee for the processing of these forms, as specified. The bill would make the furnishing of false or fictitious information on these reports, as specified, punishable as a misdemeanor. The bill would also authorize the department to request photographs of the firearm to determine if it is a prohibited weapon, as specified. By creating new crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (3) Existing law exempts certain other transactions from the requirement to be processed through a licensed firearms dealer and does not require these transactions to be reported to the Department of Justice, including, without limitation, sales, deliveries, or transfers of firearms between importers and manufacturers of firearms, transfers of firearms to a gunsmith for repairs, loans of a firearm to a hunter, loans of a firearm to a person attending a police academy, and temporary transfers of a firearm for safekeeping, as specified. Existing law allows a person transferring or receiving a firearm pursuant to one of these provisions or a person moving out of state with a firearm to report that information to the department. This bill would require these reports to be submitted in a form and manner prescribed by the department and would prescribe the information to be included in these reports, as specified. The bill would require the department to establish a fee for submission of this information, as specified. The bill would also authorize the department to request photographs of the firearm to determine if it is a prohibited weapon, as specified. The bill would make the filing of any false information pursuant to this provision a crime punishable as a misdemeanor. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would also require the department, upon receipt of this information, to examine specified records to determine if the transferee is prohibited from possessing a firearm. (4) Existing law prohibits a person who is licensed to carry a firearm to carry a firearm in certain specified places including schools, government buildings, hospitals, zoos, parks, churches, libraries, bars, and casinos. Existing law, however, exempts from these prohibitions a firearm that is secured in a lock box, as specified, under certain circumstances. This bill would provide that a lock box is compliant with those specifications if, at the time the person purchased the lock box, it was listed on the roster of devices approved by the Department of Justice. The bill would make other conforming changes. (5) 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.
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Existing law requires the governing board of a community college district to employ persons for positions that are not academic positions and to classify those employees and positions, and requires that they be known as the classified service. Existing law requires the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, the Department of Industrial Relations, the Labor Commissioner, representatives of employee organizations, and representatives of voluntary local educational agencies to convene the Classified Employee Staffing Ratio Workgroup on or before December 31, 2024, as provided. Existing law defines, for the purposes of the above provision, "voluntary local educational agencies" to mean school districts, county offices of education, and special education local plan areas electing to participate in the workgroup. This bill would broaden the definition of "voluntary local educational agencies" to include community college districts. Existing law requires the above-mentioned workgroup to group classified assignments in a manner that reflects the environmental setting of the assignment, the type of work to be completed, the impact on the assignment made by enrollment at a schoolsite, specialized needs, including certifications or licenses, and other reasonable factors, as specified, and to recommend staffing ratios per grouping, as specified. Existing law requires the workgroup to report its recommendations to the Legislature on or before December 31, 2025, as specified. This bill would require the workgroup to group those classified assignments described above for both K–12 and community colleges. The bill would also require the workgroup to convene on or before July 31, 2025, rather than December 31, 2024, and report its recommendations to the Legislature on or before July 31, 2026, rather than December 31, 2025.
(1) Existing law, the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act, governs the formation and operation of common interest developments. Existing law requires common interest developments to be managed by an association. Existing law requires elections regarding specified matters concerning the governance of common interest developments to be held by secret ballot in accordance with certain procedures. Existing law requires an association to adopt certain operating rules that govern elections. Existing law requires an association to select an independent third party as the inspector or inspectors of elections. This bill would authorize an association to adopt an election operating rule that allows an association to utilize an inspector or inspectors of elections, as specified, to conduct an election by electronic secret ballot, as defined, except as specified, and notwithstanding the association's governing documents. The bill would require the rule to permit a member to change their preferred method of voting, as specified, no later than 90 days before an election, among other things. The bill would require the association to deliver individual notice to each member that includes certain information about voting by electronic secret ballot, as specified. The bill would specify that an electronic secret ballot is effective when transmitted, as specified, and irrevocable. This bill would require the inspector or inspectors of elections that conduct an election by electronic secret ballot to ensure, among other things, that the electronic secret ballots provide a method to authenticate the member's identity to the internet-based voting system and a method for the member to confirm that their electronic device can successfully communicate with the internet-based voting system at least 30 days before the voting deadline. The bill would require the internet-based voting system to have the ability to, among other things, authenticate the member's identity and the validity of each electronic secret ballot, and to transmit a receipt to a member that casts an electronic secret ballot. (2) Existing law, for elections of directors and for recall elections, requires an association to provide general notice of specified information at least 30 days before the ballots are distributed. Existing law requires the notice to include, among other things, the date and time by which ballots are to be returned by mail or handed to the inspector or inspectors of elections, the date, time, and location of the meeting at which a quorum will be determined, and a list of all candidates' names that will appear on the ballot. This bill, for an association that allows for voting in an election by electronic secret ballot, as described above, would require the notice to provide the date and time by which electronic secret ballots are to be transmitted to the internet-based voting system and preliminary instructions on how to vote by electronic secret ballot. (3) Existing law requires an association to mail ballots and 2 preaddressed envelopes with instructions on how to return ballots by first-class mail or delivered by the association to every member not less than 30 days prior to the deadline for voting. This bill, for an association that conducts an election by electronic secret ballot, as described above, would make this requirement to mail ballots and envelopes apply only to the members who will vote by written secret ballot, as specified. (4) Existing law authorizes an association to conduct an election entirely by mail, except for the meeting to count the votes or unless otherwise specified in the governing documents. This bill would, instead, authorize the association to conduct an election entirely by mail, electronic secret ballot, or a combination of mail and electronic secret ballot, pursuant to the above-described provisions, notwithstanding any contrary provision in the governing documents, except for the meeting to count the votes. (5) Existing law requires, in an election to approve an amendment to the governing documents, that an association deliver the text of the proposed amendment to the members with the ballot. This bill would, if an association conducts an election to approve an amendment of governing documents by electronic secret ballot, authorize the association to deliver by electronic means the text of the proposed amendment to those members who vote by electronic secret ballot, and would require the association to deliver a written copy of the text of the proposed amendment to those members upon request and without charge, as specified. (6) Existing law requires that an inspector or inspectors of elections, or the designee of an inspector or inspectors of elections, count and tabulate all votes at a properly noticed open meeting of the board or members. Existing law prohibits anyone from opening or otherwise reviewing any ballot before the time and place at which the ballots are counted and tabulated. This bill would additionally prohibit anyone from opening or otherwise reviewing any tally sheet of votes cast by electronic secret ballot before the time and place at which the ballots are counted and tabulated. (7) Existing law requires that the sealed ballots, among other things, remain in the custody of the inspector or inspectors of elections or at a location designated by the inspector or inspectors of elections until after the tabulation of the vote, and until the time allowed for challenging the election has expired, when custody is required to be transferred to the association. Existing law requires the inspector or inspectors of elections to make the ballots available for inspection and review by an association member or the member's authorized representative, upon written request, if there is a recount or other challenge to the election process. This bill would additionally require the tally sheet of votes cast by electronic secret ballot to remain in the custody of the inspector or inspectors of elections. This bill would additionally require the inspector or inspectors of elections to make the tally sheet of votes cast by electronic secret ballot available for inspection or review by an association member or the member's representative. (8) Existing law requires an association to make association records available to members for copying and inspection, as specified. Existing law defines "association records" to include association election materials and also defines "association election materials" to include, among other things, returned ballots. This bill would expand the definition of association election materials to include the tally sheet of votes cast by electronic secret ballot. (9) Existing law requires certain requests be delivered in writing to the association, as specified, to be effective. This bill would additionally require a request to opt out of or opt into electronically voting by electronic secret ballot to be delivered in writing to the association to be effective. (10) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 5115 of the Civil Code proposed by AB 2460 to be operative only if this bill and AB 2460 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
(1) Existing law expresses the intent of the Legislature, for all public schools teaching kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, that are operated by a school district to develop, in cooperation with identified partners and other persons who may be interested in the prevention of campus crime and violence, a comprehensive school safety plan, as defined. This bill would revise that statement of intent to include local emergency medical services personnel and other persons who may be interested in the health and safety of pupils among the identified cooperating partners, and would revise the definition of "safety plan" for purposes of the statement of intent to expand its scope, as specified. Under existing law, each school district and county office of education is responsible for the overall development of a comprehensive school safety plan for each of its schools operating kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, in cooperation with certain local entities. Existing law requires that the plan include identification of appropriate strategies and programs that will provide or maintain a high level of school safety and address the school's procedures for complying with existing laws related to school safety. This bill would additionally require, as part of the comprehensive school safety plan when the plan is next reviewed and updated on or after July 1, 2025, procedures to respond to incidents involving an individual experiencing a sudden cardiac arrest or a similar life-threatening medical emergency while on school grounds, as provided. By imposing additional requirements on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law prohibits a chartering authority from denying a petition for the establishment of a charter school unless it makes written factual findings supporting at least one of specified bases for denial. One of those bases for denying a petition is if the petition does not contain a reasonably comprehensive description of the development of a school safety plan that includes the same safety topics required in the comprehensive school safety plan of a school district or county office of education. This bill would authorize a chartering authority to deny a charter school petition that does not include in its proposed development of a school safety plan the same provisions on procedures relating to the response to incidents involving an individual experiencing a sudden cardiac arrest or a similar life-threatening medical emergency while on school grounds as are required by the bill in a school district or county office of education comprehensive school safety plan. The bill also would make a change to conform a certain requirement for the approval of charter petitions by school districts and for the approval of countywide charters by county offices of education. To the extent the bill imposes additional duties on chartering authorities, which include governing boards of school districts and county boards of education, when reviewing the petition for the establishment of a charter school, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 32282 of the Education Code proposed by AB 1858, AB 2968, AB 176, and SB 176 to be operative only if this bill and any or all of those bills are enacted and this bill is enacted last. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 47605 of the Education Code proposed by AB 1858 to be operative only if this bill and AB 1858 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 47605.6 of the Education Code proposed by AB 1858 to be operative only if this bill and AB 1858 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. (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 establishes procedures through which a successor of the decedent may, without procuring letters of administration or awaiting probate of the will, dispose of a decedent's real and personal property by utilizing an affidavit or declaration under penalty of perjury if the gross value of the decedent's estate does not exceed $166,250. Existing law also establishes procedures through which a successor of the decedent may, without procuring letters of administration or awaiting probate of the will, dispose of a decedent's real property by filing a petition in the superior court if the gross value of the decedent's real property does not exceed $166,250. Existing law excludes certain property from the determination of the value of the estate, including property held in joint tenancy. Existing law requires the Judicial Council to adjust the dollar amounts under these provisions, as specified, every 3 years. This bill would exclude real property that was included in a petition to the superior court from the affidavit procedures. The bill would change the petition procedures to apply only to real property that was the decedent's primary residence in this state and has a gross value that does not exceed $750,000 or the amount specified by Judicial Counsel after review. The bill would require a successor who files a petition to deliver notice of the petition to each heir and devisee named in the petition. The bill would specify that, for these purposes, "primary residence" is not limited to the decedent's residence at the time of their death.
Existing law, the California Community Care Facilities Act, requires the State Department of Social Services to license and regulate transitional housing placement providers pursuant to the act. Under existing law, a transitional housing placement provider is an organization licensed by the department to provide transitional housing to foster children at least 16 years of age and not more than 18 years of age and to nonminor dependents to promote their transition to adulthood. Existing law requires a transitional housing unit to include, among other things, a host family certified by a transitional housing placement provider or other designated entity, as prescribed. Existing law requires the department to adopt regulations governing transitional housing placement living arrangements requirements for minors and nonminor dependents, as prescribed. Under existing law, a violation of the act is a misdemeanor. This bill would require those regulations to include allowing a minor or nonminor dependent participant to share a bedroom or unit in a transitional housing placement with a nonparticipant roommate, sibling, or coparent, as specified. The bill would also require the regulations to allow a minor or nonminor dependent participant to share their living arrangement with another participant, including a participant sibling or coparent, as specified. The bill would require the regulations to require counties and program contracts to allow individual program participants and individuals sharing their living arrangements to share bedrooms, bathrooms, and units together, regardless of gender identity and would require county program contracts to allow providers and participants to make best matches to allow for gender flexibility. The bill would authorize the department to implement, interpret, or make specific the requirements of the bill by means of all-county letters or similar instructions from the department until regulations are adopted. By changing requirements for transitional housing placement program providers, a violation of which would be a crime, and by increasing related county duties, 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 specified reasons.
Existing law authorizes a superior court to appoint official court reporters and specifies the fees for court reporting services. Existing law prohibits courts from using remote court reporting, as defined, to produce the record of any court proceedings and from expending any funds to purchase equipment or software to facilitate the use of remote court reporting. This bill would, notwithstanding these provisions, authorize, beginning July 1, 2025, the Superior Courts of the Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Los Angeles, Mendocino, Monterey, Orange, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Joaquin, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Tulare, and Ventura to conduct pilot projects to study the potential use of remote court reporting to make the verbatim record of certain court proceedings. The bill would require, if the superior court elects to conduct a pilot project, the remote court reporting to be performed only by official reporters who meet specified qualifications and conditions. The bill would require the official reporters to be physically located in a court facility while performing the remote court reporting or, alternatively, authorize the superior court and the exclusive representative of the official reporters to meet and confer to reach agreement no later than June 30, 2025, to include additional offsite locations to test remote court reporting, as specified. The bill would authorize no more than 20 percent of full-time official court reporters, or for courts with fewer than 10 full-time official court reporters, 2 court reporters, in the participating county to participate in the pilot project. The bill would specify the requirements for participating superior courts to be equipped by June 30, 2025. The bill would authorize remote court proceedings to be used to report proceedings in limited civil, law and motion for unlimited civil cases, family law, child support, probate, juvenile dependency, juvenile delinquency, felony and misdemeanor criminal proceedings except preliminary hearings, trials, and death penalty cases, and would authorize transcripts created through remote court reporting to be used whenever a transcript of court proceedings is required. The bill would prohibit court reporters participating in the pilot project from being held responsible for failures in technology or equipment and, if technology or audibility issues inhibit the court reporter's ability to accurately capture and certify a verbatim record, the bill would require the court to temporarily suspend the proceeding until the issues can be resolved. The bill would prohibit a trial court from retaliating or threatening to retaliate against a court reporter who notifies the judicial officer that technology or audibility issues are impeding the creation and certification of the verbatim record of a proceeding. The bill would require each participating court to submit specified data and information to the Judicial Council on the results of the pilot project. The bill would require the Judicial Council to compile the results from each participating court and to prepare a report for the Legislature within 6 months of the conclusion of the pilot project. The bill would require the pilot projects to terminate no later than July 1, 2026, or earlier if a participating court determines that the use of remote court reporting is prejudicing the rights of litigants or the interests of justice.
Existing law establishes the Pet Lover's Fund in the Specialized License Plate Fund and requires the Department of Food and Agriculture to grant moneys in the Pet Lover's Fund to eligible veterinary facilities, as defined, that offer low-cost or no-cost animal sterilization services pursuant to a specified process. Existing law authorizes an individual to contribute amounts in excess of their tax liability for the support of specified funds. Existing law also sets forth administrative provisions applicable to voluntary contributions. Prior existing law established the Prevention of Animal Homelessness and Cruelty Voluntary Tax Contribution Fund for purposes of receiving voluntary contributions made by individuals from amounts in excess of their tax liability. This bill would require that all moneys in that prior fund continue to be transferred and disbursed in accordance with prior applicable law, as those read immediately prior to their repeal. This bill would additionally allow an individual to designate on their tax return that a specified amount in excess of their tax liability be transferred to the Prevention of Animal Homelessness and Cruelty Voluntary Tax Contribution Fund, which would be created by this bill. The bill would prohibit a voluntary contribution designation for the Prevention of Animal Homelessness and Cruelty Voluntary Tax Contribution Fund from being added on the tax return until another voluntary contribution designation is removed or a space is available. This bill would require moneys in the Prevention of Animal Homelessness and Cruelty Voluntary Tax Contribution Fund to be continuously appropriated and to be allocated to the Franchise Tax Board and the Controller for reimbursement of costs and the balance to the Department of Food and Agriculture for administrative costs and public awareness activities, as described, and the distribution of funds through the above-described grant program funded by the Pet Lover's Fund. By continuously appropriating these funds, the bill would make an appropriation. This bill would provide that these provisions would remain operative only until January 1 of the 7th calendar year following the first appearance of the Prevention of Animal Homelessness and Cruelty Voluntary Tax Contribution Fund on the tax return, but would further provide for an earlier repeal if the Franchise Tax Board determines that the amount of contributions estimated to be received during the 2nd and later calendar years after its first appearance on a return will not at least equal the minimum contribution amount, in which case these provisions would be repealed on December 1 of that year. The bill would require, notwithstanding the repeal of the bill's provisions, that any contribution amounts designated prior to the repeal of the bill's provisions be transferred and disbursed in accordance with those provisions, as specified.
Existing federal law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , requires each state to establish an American Health Benefit Exchange to facilitate the purchase of qualified health benefit plans by qualified individuals and qualified small employers. Existing state law creates the California Health Benefit Exchange, also known as Covered California, governed by an executive board, to facilitate the enrollment of qualified individuals and qualified small employers in qualified health plans as required under PPACA. Existing law specifies the powers of the executive board. Existing law authorizes the executive board to adopt necessary rules and regulations by emergency regulations until January 1, 2025, with the exception of regulations implementing prescribed provisions relating to criminal background history checks for persons with access to confidential, personal, or financial information. Existing law authorizes the Office of Administrative Law to approve more than 2 readoptions of emergency regulations until January 1, 2030. Existing law provides that these extensions apply to a regulation adopted before January 1, 2022. This bill would extend the authority of the executive board to adopt necessary rules and regulations by emergency regulations until January 1, 2030, and would extend the authority of the Office of Administrative Law to approve more than 2 readoptions of emergency regulations until January 1, 2035. The bill would provide that these prescribed time extensions apply to a regulation adopted before January 1, 2025.
This measure would, among other things, urge the United States Congress and President Joseph R. Biden to fully fund the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Comprehensive Infrastructure Solution for the Tijuana River due to the ongoing impacts to public health, the environment, and the local economy caused by cross-border pollution and would urge President Joseph R. Biden to declare a national emergency due to those ongoing impacts.