(1) Existing law requires the Governor to create a California Interagency Council on Homelessness for specified purposes, including to create partnerships among various entities, like participants in the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development's Continuum of Care Program, and to identify mainstream resources, benefits, and services that can be accessed to prevent and end homelessness in California. This bill would enact the HELP (Homeless Equity for Left Behind Populations) Act. The bill would require cities, counties, and continuums of care receiving state funding to address homelessness, on or after January 1, 2024, to include families, people fleeing or attempting to flee domestic violence, and unaccompanied women within the vulnerable populations for whom specific system supports are developed to maintain homeless services and housing delivery. The bill would also impose other homelessness planning and data analysis requirements on these cities, counties, and continuums of care. The bill would prohibit victim service providers, as defined, from being required or expected to enter client-level data into specified homeless data systems and would permit any funding provided to cities, counties, and continuums of care, consistent with authorized program uses and limitations, to be used to support the development and the maintenance of comparable databases, as specified. By imposing new duties on local agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would require the California Interagency Council on Homelessness to set and measure progress toward goals to prevent and end homelessness among domestic violence survivors and their children and among unaccompanied women in California, as described. The bill would require initial goals to be established by January 1, 2025, and those goals to be evaluated at least every 2 years to determine whether updated goals are needed. The bill would also make related findings and declarations. (2) 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.
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Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, which is administered by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, regulates the application, issuance, and suspension of alcoholic beverage licenses. The act prescribes various requirements and prohibitions with regard to labeling alcoholic beverages and, with regard to wine, prescribes labeling requirements relating to the area of origin of the grapes used to produce the wine. Existing law generally provides that a violation of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act for which another punishment is not otherwise provided is a misdemeanor. This bill would prescribe labeling requirements for agave spirits produced entirely in California. By broadening the definition of a 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 authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to supervise and regulate every public utility in the state, including telephone corporations, and to fix just and reasonable rates and charges for public utilities. Existing law establishes the state's 6 universal service funds in the State Treasury, including the California High-Cost Fund-A Administrative Committee Fund and the California High-Cost Fund-B Administrative Committee Fund, and provides that moneys in each of the state's universal service funds are the proceeds of rates and are held in trust for the benefit of ratepayers and to compensate telephone corporations for their costs of providing universal service. Moneys in the funds may only be expended to accomplish specified telecommunications universal service programs, upon appropriation in the annual Budget Act or upon supplemental appropriation. Existing law, until January 1, 2023, requires the commission to maintain the California High-Cost Fund-A Administrative Committee Fund (the CHCF-A program) to provide universal service rate support to small independent telephone corporations, as defined, in certain amounts in furtherance of the state's universal service commitment to the continued affordability and widespread availability of safe, reliable, high-quality communications services in rural areas of the state. Existing law, until January 1, 2023, requires the commission to develop, implement, and maintain a suitable, competitively neutral, and broad-based program to establish a fair and equitable local rate support structure aided by universal service rate support to telephone corporations serving areas where the cost of providing services exceeds rates charged by providers, as determined by the commission (the CHCF-B program) . This bill would extend the CHCF-A program and CHCF-B program requirements to January 1, 2028. Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or an order or direction of the commission is a crime. Because the CHCF-A program and CHCF-B program, that are extended under the provisions of this bill, are within the act and a decision or order of the commission implements the programs' requirements, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program by expanding the definition of a crime. 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. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
(1) Existing law permits a proceeding to be brought for the purpose of having a child under 18 years of age declared free from the custody and control of either or both parents if the child's parent or parents have been convicted of a felony of a nature that proves the unfitness of the parent or parents to have future custody and control of the child. Existing law authorizes the court to consider the parent's criminal record prior to the felony conviction for these purposes, as specified. This bill would instead require the court to consider the parent's criminal record, without reference to the timeline of the criminal record, when making the above-described determination. Existing law requires certain individuals to render to the court a written report of the investigation with a recommendation of the proper disposition to be made in the proceeding in the best interest of the child, and specifies the contents of that report. This bill would recast and revise those provisions relating to the investigation and report, would add a social worker with the county child welfare department to the list of individuals, and would add to the required contents of the report a recommendation whether granting or denying the petition would serve the best interest of the child. The bill would authorize the court to order further investigation as it deems appropriate to the case, including, among other things, a summary of the child's past and current living circumstances and residence history and a background summary regarding each nonagency party to the case. The bill would require each party to cooperate with the investigation, as specified. By creating new duties for local officials relating to the investigation and report, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) Existing law declares that some adoptive children may benefit from contact with birth relatives, as specified, after being adopted, and that postadoption contact agreements are intended to ensure children of an achievable level of continuing contact when contact is beneficial to the children and the agreements are voluntarily executed by the parties. Existing law requires the Judicial Council to adopt rules of court and forms for motions to enforce, terminate, or modify postadoption contact agreements. This bill would additionally declare that some adoptive children may benefit from contact with nonrelative extended family members, as defined, and would also add a definition for birth relatives. The bill would recast and revise certain provisions relating to postadoption contact agreements. Existing law authorizes the court, at the time an adoption decree is entered, to grant postadoption privileges if an agreement for those privileges has been executed. This bill would instead require the court to grant postadoption contact privileges, absent a specific finding that the privileges included in the agreement are not in the best interests of the child. The bill would require each petitioner to inform the court in writing whether the petitioners have entered or plan to enter into a postadoption contact agreement. The bill would set forth related filing requirements for petitioners and adoption agencies, if applicable. In the adoption of a child who is not in the legal custody of a public agency, if a postadoption contact agreement is executed but not approved by the court prior to finalization of the adoption, the bill would require the court, at any time during the child's minority, upon the request of any signatory to the agreement or by the minor's counsel, to enter the agreement as of the date of the adoption order, unless the court finds by clear and convincing evidence that it is not in the child's best interest to do so. Under the bill, the court would have discretion to award attorney's fees and damages against a licensed private adoption agency or any petitioner that fails to remedy, within a reasonable time after notice thereof, a previous failure to comply with the filing requirements. To the extent that these provisions would create new filing duties for local officials, the 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 with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Existing law requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to acquire, study, design, develop, construct, and equip a state-owned and state-operated Southern California Veterans Cemetery in the County of Orange at one of 2 possible sites, as specified. Existing law requires the department to, after completing acquisition studies on both sites, consult with the Department of General Services to determine which site to pursue based on the economic feasibility, benefits to veterans and City of Irvine residents, and availability of each location. Existing law makes honorably discharged veterans, their spouses, and dependent children eligible for interment in the cemetery, as specified. This bill would delete those site selection requirements and would instead require the department to acquire, study, design, develop, construct, and equip a state-owned and state-operated Southern California Veterans Cemetery in the County of Orange. The bill would require the department to conduct an acquisition study, in consultation with the Department of General Services, to assess the feasibility and costs of construction of the cemetery. The bill would additionally create the Southern California Veterans Cemetery Study Donation Fund, and would authorize any local governmental entity or private organization in the County of Orange to donate to the fund. The bill would authorize the department, upon receipt of sufficient moneys, to conduct a study of the feasibility of a site formally proposed by a local government in the County of Orange for the purpose of establishing a Southern California Veterans Cemetery, as specified. The bill would continuously appropriate moneys in the fund to the department for these purposes. The bill would require any excess funds to be returned to the donor if requested, and to otherwise be used for the design, development, construction, and equipment of the cemetery. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation to develop the full potential of all resources and opportunities that are now, and may become, available to the state for meeting California's transportation needs and to plan, design, construct, operate, and maintain those transportation systems that the Legislature has made, or may make, the responsibility of the department. This bill would require the department to develop an implementation plan for the use and integration of digital construction management technologies, as defined, for use on transportation infrastructure projects. The bill would require the implementation plan to include specified milestone goals, including that the department will begin using digital construction management technologies through construction by July 1, 2029. The bill would require the department to submit a report to the Legislature by December 1, 2029, as specified. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2032.
Existing law authorizes the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to prescribe, by regulation, energy efficiency standards, including appliance efficiency standards. Pursuant to this authority, the commission has established regulations requiring solar-ready buildings and for the installation of photovoltaic systems meeting certain requirements for low-rise residential buildings built on or after January 1, 2020. Existing law, until January 1, 2023, specifies that residential construction intended to repair, restore, or replace a residential building damaged or destroyed as a result of a disaster in an area in which a state of emergency has been proclaimed by the Governor before January 1, 2020, is required to comply with the photovoltaic requirements, if any, that were in effect at the time the damaged or destroyed residential building was originally constructed and is not required to comply with any additional or conflicting photovoltaic requirements in effect at the time of repair, restoration, or replacement. Existing law provides that this provision applies if certain requirements are met with respect to the owner's income and insurance coverage and the location and square footage of the construction. This bill would extend the operation of the above-described exemption from the commission's requirements for the installation of photovoltaic systems until January 1, 2024, and extend the exemption to residential buildings damaged or destroyed as a result of a disaster declared during the 2020 calendar year. The bill would require the commission to collect data on the use and application of the exemption from local permitting agencies and, on or before March 1, 2023, and again on or before March 1, 2024, to prepare and submit a report to the relevant policy committees of the Legislature concerning the exemption, as provided. Because a local agency would be required to determine whether those requirements are met, 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.
This measure would proclaim the month of September 2022 as Prostate Cancer Awareness Month.
This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 44, near Oak Run in the County of Shasta, as the Stan Statham Memorial Highway. This measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.
This measure would designate the East End Complex-Block 171 in Sacramento as the Mario Obledo Building, and would request the Department of General Services to determine the cost of erecting appropriate plaques and markers showing the designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources, to cover that cost to erect signage.