Existing law, the Small Business Procurement and Contract Act, provides for various programs to encourage the participation of small businesses, as certified by the Department of General Services, in state agency contracts, including a microbusiness and a disabled veteran business enterprise. Existing law requires directors of state agencies, in awarding prescribed contracts, to provide a 5% preference to small businesses and microbusinesses, and a preference of up to 5% to a nonsmall business that provides for small business or microbusiness subcontractor participation, not to exceed prescribed amounts. Existing law provides, in solicitations where an award is made to the lowest responsible bidder, that the preferences shall not exceed $50,000 for any bid and that the combined cost of preferences granted shall not exceed $100,000. Existing law provides that, in bids in which the state has reserved the right to make multiple awards, the $50,000 maximum preference cost shall be applied. This bill would provide, in solicitations where an award is made to the lowest responsible bidder, that the preference to small business and microbusiness be 5% of the lowest responsible nonsmall business bidder meeting specifications and that the preference to nonsmall business bidders that provide for small business or microbusiness subcontractor participation be up to a maximum of 5% of the lowest responsible nonsmall business bidder. This bill also would provide that the preference not exceed $100,000 for any contract award and that the combined cost of preferences granted not exceed $150,000. This bill would require that the $100,000 maximum preference cost be applied in multiple contract awards. Existing law, the Target Area Contract Preference Act, requires, if the contract is for goods or services in excess of $100,000, except as specified, the state to award preferences to California-based companies submitting bids or proposals for state contracts who demonstrate and certify under penalty of perjury that of the total labor hours required to manufacture the goods and perform the contract, at least a specified percentage of the hours will be accomplished at an identified worksite or worksites located in a distressed area by persons with a high risk of unemployment. Existing law also provides that the maximum preference and incentive a bidder may be awarded pursuant to this act is $50,000 for any bid, and $100,000 for the combined cost of these preferences and incentives and those provided pursuant to any other provision of law. This bill would instead provide, if the bid includes preferences or incentives provided under the Target Area Contract Preference Act and the Small Business Procurement and Contract Act, that the maximum preference and incentive a bidder may be awarded pursuant to these provisions shall not exceed $150,000 for the combined cost of these preferences and incentives and those provided pursuant to any other provision of law. Existing law, the California Tire Recycling Act, provides, on state purchases of products that are made of, or contains components that can be derived from the recycling of used tires, to suppliers of recycled tire products, a bid preference of 5% of the lowest bid or price quoted by suppliers offering similar products made from nonrecycled components. That law limits the preference to $100,000 each year, or $50,000 if the preference exceeding that amount would preclude an award to a small business that offers a similar product made of nonrecycled tire components and is qualified in accordance with the Small Business Procurement and Contract Act. This bill would provide, notwithstanding those limitations, if the bid includes the preference authorized in the California Tire Recycling Act and the Small Business Procurement and Contract Act, the combined cost of preferences and incentives granted pursuant to California Tire Recycling Act and any other law is not to exceed $150,000.
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Existing law requires the State Department of Education, with the approval of the State Board of Education, to establish procedures for conducting an assessment of pupils who are English learners in order to determine the level of English proficiency. Existing law requires each school district that has one or more pupils who are English learners, to assess the English language development of each pupil. Existing law requires this assessment to be conducted upon initial enrollment, and annually thereafter, during a period determined by the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the state board. This bill would, contingent on the enactment of an appropriation in the annual Budget Act or related legislation for the purpose of implementing these provisions, require the Los Angeles Unified School District, in partnership with the University of California, Los Angeles Center X, to conduct an evaluation of the Los Angeles Unified School District's Academic English Mastery Program, as specified. The bill would require the evaluation to be completed by an unspecified date and submitted to the appropriate fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature. To the extent the bill would impose additional duties on the Los Angeles Unified School District, 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 these statutory provisions.
Existing law requires contracts awarded by any state agency, department, officer, or other state governmental entity, including school districts, as provided, to have statewide participation goals of not less than 3% for disabled veteran business enterprises, as defined. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
This measure would proclaim the month of January 2016 as Human Trafficking Awareness Month, encourage all Californians to become educated about human trafficking and work to eradicate these criminal practices within and beyond our borders, and encourage Members of the Legislature, as well as organizations, businesses, and individuals, to host or sponsor and attend community events in order to bring visibility and support to efforts made by nongovernmental organizations to recognize and combat human trafficking.
Existing law establishes the segments of the public postsecondary education system in the state, including the University of California, administered by the Regents of the University of California, and the California State University, administered by the Trustees of the California State University. This bill would establish the California First Act, which would require the trustees, and request the regents, to guarantee undergraduate admission at a campus, though not necessarily at a campus or in a major of the applicant's choice, within their respective systems, to all eligible California residents who submit timely applications for undergraduate admission. The bill would require the trustees, and request the regents, to submit an annual report to the Legislature on or before July 1, 2017, and on or before every July 1 thereafter, disclosing specified admissions statistics from the coming academic year.
Existing law establishes various public social services programs to provide protection, care, and assistance to the people of the state in need of those services, by providing appropriate aid and services to the needy and distressed. Existing law establishes homeless youth emergency service pilot projects in the Counties of Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Clara, and San Francisco. This bill would require, from moneys appropriated by the Legislature, as specified, for the purposes of the program, the State Department of Social Services to establish and operate a Homeless Youth Basic Material Needs Assistance Program for homeless youth in California. The bill would require the department to solicit proposals from, and contract with, nonprofit organizations for the purpose of providing basic material needs assistance to homeless youth as directed by the department. The bill would require contracted nonprofit organizations to, among other things, provide a minimum of 100% matching funds, as specified. The bill would require each contracted nonprofit organization to prepare a report for the department including, among other information, the number of homeless youth assisted. The bill would require, after the program has been operating for 3 years, each contracted nonprofit organization to issue and provide to the department, and the department to collect and issue, a report including, among other information, the number of homeless youth assisted each year, and a description of the assistance provided.
Existing law requires the State Board of Education to develop guidelines that school districts may use in the development of certain teach evaluation procedures and to distribute those guidelines to every school district. This bill would require the development of those guidelines to comply with the Administrative Procedure Act. Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that governing boards of school districts establish a uniform system of evaluation and assessment of the performance of all certificated personnel within each school district of the state. 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 specified matters, including pupil progress, as provided. Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to develop and adopt additional evaluation and assessment guidelines or criteria. This bill would provide, if applicable, multiple measures of pupil progress, pupil academic growth, pupil achievement, and pupil outcomes as used for certain purposes of evaluating and assessing certificated employee performance may include specified sources. The bill would require an employing authority to use a minimum of 3 rating levels of professional achievement for evaluation and assessment of certificated employees, as provided. By imposing additional duties on school districts, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law requires an evaluation to include recommendations, if necessary, as to areas of improvement in the performance of the employee. Existing law authorizes these evaluations to include a requirement that the employee participate in a specified program if a permanent certificated employee receives an unsatisfactory evaluation. This bill would instead require an employee, if that employee receives one of the specified rating levels of professional achievement for evaluation and assessment, to participate in the California Peer Assistance and Review Program for Teachers if the school district participates in that program. The bill would require, in order to endeavor to assist the employee in areas of improvement, the school district to, at minimum, consider the employee's eligibility for professional development identified in the school district and applicable school's local control and accountability plan, and prioritize the employee's eligibility for professional development, as provided. By expanding the duties of a school district, 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 these statutory provisions.
Existing law establishes the county-administered In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program, under which qualified aged, blind, and disabled persons are provided with services in order to permit them to remain in their own homes and avoid institutionalization. Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid Program provisions. Existing law provides, as part of the Coordinated Care Initiative, that not sooner than March 1, 2013, all Medi-Cal long-term services and supports, including IHSS, are required to be services that are covered under managed care health plan contracts and to be available only through managed care health plans to beneficiaries residing in Coordinated Care Initiative counties, except for the provided exemptions. Existing law allows managed care health plans to authorize personal care services and related domestic services in addition to the hours authorized for IHSS by existing law. Existing law requires the managed care health plans to be responsible for paying for these services at no share of cost to the county. This bill would require the State Department of Social Services to program its Case Management Information and Payroll System to be able to receive payments from managed care health plans for these personal care service and related domestic service hours, to issue a payroll check to providers of personal care service hours and related domestic service hours, which shall not include payment of wages for service hours provided pursuant to other specified provisions, and to track and differentiate between the two types of authorized hours.
This bill would make appropriations for the support of state government for the 2015–16 fiscal year. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.