Existing law requires an employer to provide a reasonable amount of break time for lactation purposes and specifies that the break time, if possible, shall run concurrently with any break time already provided to the employee. Under existing law, break time is unpaid if it does not run concurrently with the employee's authorized rest time. Existing law authorizes the Labor Commissioner to issue a citation for the violation of these provisions but exempts the violation from criminal prosecution. This bill would, instead, require an employer to provide a 20-minute paid rest period for lactation purposes during each 4-hour work period, immediately preceding or following the employee's rest period, and would specify that compliance with this requirement does not satisfy or affect an employer's separate obligation to provide a meal or rest period required by statute, an Industrial Welfare Commission order, or a collective bargaining agreement.
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Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation has full possession and control of all state highways. Existing law requires the department to prepare an annual report to the Legislature describing the status of the department's progress in locating, assessing, and remediating barriers to fish passage, as defined. Existing law requires the department to complete assessments of potential barriers to the passage of anadromous fish prior to commencing project design for any project using state or federal transportation funds that affects certain stream crossings. Existing law requires the department to submit the assessment to the Department of Fish and Game and to add it to the CALFISH database. Existing law requires new projects to be constructed without presenting barriers to fish passage. Existing law also requires the department to complete an assessment for any repair or construction project using those funds that affects those stream crossings. This bill would define the terms "barrier" and "project" for purposes of these provisions and would require the annual report submitted to the Legislature by the department to include the precise location of past, current, or future remediation projects and a schedule for the remediation of existing barriers to anadromous fish passage. The bill would repeal the provisions requiring the department to perform an assessment for repair or construction projects using state or federal transportation funds that affect those stream crossings. The bill would recast provisions that require the department to complete an assessment of potential barriers to the passage of anadromous fish prior to commencing the project design for any project, as defined, that affects a stream crossing and would require the assessment to include the status of barriers, as specified. The bill would require this assessment to be presented to the Department of Fish and Game and added to the California Fish Passage Assessment Database. The bill would require the department to remediate any barriers to fish passage associated with any project using state or federal transportation funds if the project affects a stream crossing on a stream where anadromous fish are, or historically were, found. The bill would require remediation costs for these projects to be programmed into the state transportation improvement program or the state highway operation and protection program. The bill wold require the department to provide notice to the Department of Fish and Game at least 6 month prior to initiating project design of any project and to post the notice in a conspicuous location on its Internet Web site. The bill would require the department to prioritize transportation projects that complement planned or active streambed remediation or restoration efforts. The bill would require the department and the Department of Fish and Game, by July 1, 2010, and annually thereafter, to jointly identify high-priority barriers in each district, as specified, and post a list of high-priority barriers in a conspicuous location on its Internet Web site. The bill would require the department to remediate barriers to fish passage using any federal funds received pursuant to the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, to the extent permitted by federal law.
Existing property tax law requires that all property subject to tax be assessed at its full value, and includes certain possessory interests among those property interests that are subject to tax. Existing property tax law defines a taxable possessory interest to be a use that is independent, durable, and exclusive. Existing property tax law specifies that, for purposes of the definition of a taxable possessory interest, a possession or use is not independent if it is pursuant to a contract that includes, but is not limited to, a long-term lease for the private construction, renovation, rehabilitation, replacement, management, or maintenance of housing for active duty military personnel and their dependents, if the housing units and the private contractor constructing the housing meet specified criteria. Existing law specifies that one of these criteria is a requirement that any reduction, as specified, in property taxes on leased property used for military housing, as defined, inures solely to the benefit of the residents of the military housing through improvements. This bill would delete the requirement that the housing be for military personnel and their dependents and instead specify that the housing be for military personnel or their dependents or both. This bill would clarify that, for the purposes of the definition of a taxable possessory interest, any reduction, as specified, in property taxes on leased property used for military housing, as defined, would inure solely to the benefit of the residents of the military housing through improvements, including community improvements, as specified, and housing improvements, as specified, and the renovation and refurbishment of those improvements. This bill would authorize the private contractor to use the reasonable estimate of property tax savings to construct, or to secure financing for the construction of, the community and housing improvements to be constructed as part of the initial construction of the project, as defined. This bill would authorize the private contractor and the county assessor to agree to extend the time for the initial construction of the project, as specified. This bill would extend the time period the county assessor may make an escape assessment, as specified, by a period equal to the extension of the initial construction period agreed upon by the county assessor and the private contractor. This bill would require the private contractor to submit specified information to the county assessor, as provided, and would require the private contractor's response that was accepted by the military, and the binding project documents, for certain leases, to include specified information.
Existing law, the California International Trade and Investment Act, specifies that the Governor is the primary state officer representing the state's interest in international affairs and the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency is the primary state agency responsible for international trade and investment activities in the state. Existing law requires the Office of Planning and Research to maintain, and update, a full and comprehensive list of all state agreements made with foreign governments, as provided. This bill would require the Governor to establish a memorandum of understanding to formalize a relationship between the state and Israel to foster technology development, business development, and educational opportunities in solar energy and environmental technology industries.
Existing law designates air pollution control districts and air quality management districts as having the primary responsibility for the control of air pollution from all sources other than vehicular sources. Existing law also designates the State Air Resources Board as the state entity responsible for the coordination and review of all levels of government in their efforts to control air pollution. This bill would require any person that imports certain electricity into the state, or causes that electricity to be imported into the state, to pay up to a $0.001 per kilowatthour air contaminant emission electricity generation mitigation fee for that electricity, but not to exceed the cost of mitigation, as determined by the state board. The bill would impose the fee only if the electricity is produced by an electrical generating facility, as defined, that is located within an air basin shared by a district and Mexico and located in Mexico within 100 kilometers of the United States' border, if construction of the electrical generating facility was completed after January 1, 2010, the facility provides incremental generating capacity that was not in operation prior to January 1, 2010, and if the electrical generating facility was not constructed to meet all existing California air pollution regulations and standards, including, but not limited to, best available control technology (BACT) and any offsets that would be required under California law to mitigate any additional pollution. The bill would establish the Imported Electricity Air Pollution Mitigation Subaccount in the Air Pollution Control Fund, and would require the mitigation fees to be deposited in that subaccount. The bill would make the moneys deposited in the subaccount available to the state board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for distribution to each district in the state that the state board determines is directly impacted by emissions of air contaminants from those electrical generating facilities. The bill would require each district receiving those revenues to fund projects within its jurisdiction to mitigate the environmental or health impacts of electricity generation facilities.
(1) Existing law requires the Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development to convene a biennial economic strategy panel, known as the California Economic Strategy Panel and consisting of specified appointed members, for purposes of providing recommendations regarding a California Economic Development Strategic Plan and to review those recommendations made by the panel in its biennial economic development strategic plan document, as specified. Existing law requires the panel to address various specified matters of concern, including the development of a system of accountability for use in the annual state budget process and in the legislative process to measure the performance of all state policies, programs, and tax expenditures intended to stimulate the economy. Existing law also requires the panel to submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the Legislature no later than one year after its first meeting after January 1, 2005. This bill would, instead, require the California Economic Strategy Panel to prepare and submit a preliminary version of the California Economic Development Strategic Plan to the Governor and the Legislature prior to May 1, 2010, and to prepare a final version of the plan within 5 months of the conclusion of required hearings by the Legislature on the preliminary version of the plan. The bill would require the development of the plan to be funded from private donations. The bill would require the Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development to collaborate with the Secretaries of Business, Transportation and Housing and Food and Agriculture in leading the preparation of the California Economic Development Strategic Plan and would require the panel to assess specified matters in preparing the plan, to consult with other state entities, and to review and include certain materials appropriate to completion of the plan. The bill would require that particular components be included in the plan and would delete a system of accountability for use in the state budget process from required elements for the panel's consideration. The bill would require the panel to review the plan 5 years after its finalization and every 5 years thereafter and to update the plan as the panel determines necessary. The bill would modify the composition of the California Economic Strategy Panel by adding the Secretary of Business, Transportation and Housing, the Secretary of Food and Agriculture, the Director of the Office of Small Business Advocate, and the Executive Director of the California Council on Science and Technology as members of the panel and would require, beginning October 1, 2010, the panel to report biennially to the Legislature on its activities. (2) Existing law creates the California Economic Development Fund, and provides for the deposit of government and private economic development funds into it. Under existing law, these funds, upon appropriation by the Legislature, may be expended by the Secretary of Business, Transportation and Housing for economic development purposes. This bill would authorize the Secretary of Business, Transportation and Housing to accept monetary gifts, which would be deposited in the California Economic Development Fund, for the cost of developing and updating economic and workforce development studies, strategies, and policies. The bill would require the secretary to record each gift and to file a copy of the record with the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency. (3) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of that act a crime. Existing law also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires every health care service plan or health insurer that covers hospital, medical, or surgical expenses on a group basis to provide certain preventive health care benefits for children, including immunizations. Existing law specifies the reimbursement rate with respect to immunizations that are not part of the current contract between a health care service plan or physician group. This bill would require a health care service plan or health insurer that provides coverage for childhood and adolescent immunizations to reimburse a physician or physician group in an amount not less than the actual cost of acquiring the vaccine plus the cost of administration of the vaccine, as specified. The bill would prohibit a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy providing coverage for childhood or adolescent immunizations from imposing a deductible, copayment, coinsurance, or other cost-sharing mechanism for the administration of a childhood or adolescent immunization or for related procedures. The bill would also prohibit those contracts or policies from containing a dollar limit provision for the administration of childhood and adolescent immunizations or including the cost of those immunizations in a dollar limit provision. Existing law prohibits a risk-based contract between a health care service plan and a physician or physician group from including a provision requiring the physician or physician group to assume financial risk for the acquisition costs of required immunizations for children. Existing law prohibits a plan from requiring a physician or physician group to assume financial risk for immunizations that are not part of the current contract. This bill would make those provisions apply to all contracts between plans and physicians or physician groups rather than just risk-based contracts. The bill would prohibit a plan from requiring a physician or physician group to assume financial risk for immunizations, whether or not those immunizations are part of the current contract. The bill would make other related changes. Existing law prohibits a health care service plan from including the acquisition costs associated with required immunizations for children in the capitation rate of a physician who is individually captitated. This bill would additionally prohibit a plan from including in that capitation rate the administration costs of those immunizations. Because a willful violation of the bill's requirements relative to health care service plans would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law creates the Healthy Families Program, administered by the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board, to arrange for the provision of health, dental, and vision benefits to eligible children pursuant to a federal program, the State Children's Health Insurance Program. This bill would require a health plan participating in that program to reimburse a physician or physician group for immunizations administered to program subscribers in an amount not less than the actual cost of acquiring the vaccine plus the cost of administration of the vaccine, as specified. 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 law requires that an employee of a temporary services employer, as defined, be paid weekly. Existing law requires that an employee of a temporary services employer be paid at the end of the workday if the employee is assigned to a client of the temporary service employer, as defined, on a day-to-day basis or if the employee is assigned to a client engaged in a trade dispute. Existing law provides that these pay requirements do not apply to an employee of a temporary service employer who is assigned to a client for over 90 consecutive calendar days unless the temporary service employer pays the employee weekly. A violation of these provisions is punishable as a misdemeanor. This bill would provide that the pay requirements would not apply to an employee of a temporary service employer who is assigned to a client for over 91 consecutive calendar days unless the temporary service employer pays the employee weekly. By creating a new 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 law requires all pupils who are not otherwise exempt to attend courses in physical education for a total period of time of not less than 400 minutes each 10 schooldays. This bill would authorize the governing board of a school district to exempt any high school pupil from courses in physical education if the pupil participates in California Cadet Corps, cheer team or dance team, color guard or drill team, Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps, or marching band as part of the regular course of study or regular school-sponsored extracurricular activities. The bill would specify minimum standards for the physical education substitute courses, require that a certificated employee teach the course of study or sponsor the activity, and make other technical and clarifying changes.
The Donahoe Higher Education Act sets forth, among other things, the missions and functions of California's public and independent segments of higher education, and their respective institutions of higher education. The act applies to the University of California only to the extent that the Regents of the University of California, by appropriate resolution, act to make the act applicable. Existing law requires that a person, other than a nonimmigrant alien, as defined, who has attended high school in California for 3 or more years, who has graduated from a California high school or attained the equivalent thereof, who has registered at or attends an accredited institution of higher education in California not earlier than the fall semester or quarter of the 2001–02 academic year, and who, if he or she is a person without lawful immigration status, has filed a prescribed affidavit relating to obtaining lawful immigration status, is exempt from paying nonresident tuition at the California Community Colleges and the California State University. Existing law also requires the waiver of student fees charged by community college districts for students who demonstrate financial need or are otherwise eligible for the waiver. Existing law requires the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to allocate, to community college districts for determining financial need and delivering student financial aid services, an amount based on the amount of fees waived. This bill would amend the Donahoe Higher Education Act to require the Trustees of the California State University and the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, and to request the Regents of the University of California, to establish procedures and forms that enable persons who are exempt from paying nonresident tuition under that provision, or who meet equivalent requirements adopted by the regents, to be eligible to receive institutional financial aid awards. The bill would define institutional financial aid as financial assistance offered by a campus of the California Community Colleges, California State University, or University of California, including grant, scholarship, workstudy, and loan programs. The bill would specify that institutional financial aid does not include a specified board of governors fee waiver. The bill would declare that it is a state law within the meaning of a federal statute that permits a state to provide an alien who is not lawfully present in the United States with eligibility for a state or local public benefit only through the enactment of a state law affirmatively providing for that eligibility. The bill would apply to the University of California only if the regents, by appropriate resolution, act to make it applicable.