This measure would recognize the importance of California Native American Day, celebrated this year on September 23, 2022, and the annual California Indian Cultural Awareness Conference, to the enhancement of awareness of California Indian culture.
(1) The Uniform Parentage Act defines the parent and child relationship as the legal relationship existing between a child and the child's parents, and provides rebuttable presumptions as to the parentage of a child born under the circumstances of conception through assisted reproduction using donated ova, sperm, or both. The act defines "assisted reproduction" for these purposes to mean conception by any means other than sexual intercourse. This bill would establish that a provider of an embryo for use in assisted reproduction to an intended parent who is not the provider's spouse or nonmarital partner is treated in law as if the provider is not the natural parent of a child thereby conceived unless the court finds satisfactory evidence that the provider and the intended parent intended for the provider to be a parent. If the provider of ova, semen, or embryos is not the original source of the ova or sperm, the bill would require each original provider's written consent to the donation unless the person has executed a writing to consent, waive, or relinquish their right to the genetic material, or as otherwise ordered by a court of law. (2) Existing law authorizes an adoption request for the adoption of a nondependent minor to be filed with the court in the county in which one of specified criteria applies and sets forth those individuals who may file an adoption request. Under existing law, an order of adoption is required to contain the child's adopted name, but not the name of the child before the adoption. This bill would add to the list of persons authorized to file an adoption request a person named in a court order terminating parental rights as the child's legal guardian or prospective adoptive parent. The bill would require the adoption order to include both the child's adopted name and the name of the child before the adoption. The bill would replace references to an adoption petition and refer instead to an adoption request. (3) Existing law prohibits any person who has not petitioned to adopt a child from removing the child from the county in which the child was placed without first obtaining the written consent of the licensed adoption agency. Existing law further prohibits the child proposed to be adopted from being concealed within the county in which the adoption proceeding is pending. This bill would, among other things, prohibit the child proposed to be adopted from being concealed from the agency that is investigating the adoption or from the court with jurisdiction over the adoption proceeding. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (4) 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 establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University, the University of California, under the administration of the Regents of the University of California, independent institutions of higher education, and private postsecondary educational institutions as the segments of postsecondary education in the state. This bill would enact the California Ban on Scholarship Displacement for Foster Youth Act of 2022, which would prohibit each public and private institution of higher education in the state that receives, or benefits from, state-funded financial assistance, or that enrolls students who receive state-funded student financial assistance, from reducing an institution-based gift aid offer below the financial need of a student who is a foster youth or former foster youth, a resident of California, enrolled in an institution of higher education to obtain an undergraduate degree, and eligible to receive a federal Pell Grant award or financial assistance under the California Dream Act, except as specified. The bill would make its provisions severable.
Under existing law, the Department of Consumer Affairs is composed of various boards that license and regulate various professions and vocations. Existing law requires a board within the department to expedite, and authorizes a board to assist in, the initial licensure process for an applicant who supplies satisfactory evidence to the board that the applicant has served as an active duty member of the Armed Forces of the United States and was honorably discharged. Existing law, the Contractors State License Law, provides for the licensing and regulation of contractors by the Contractors State License Board, which is within the department. Existing law authorizes the board to set fees by regulation, according to a prescribed schedule. This bill would require the board to grant a 50% fee reduction for an initial license or registration fee to an applicant who provides specified documentation to the board that the applicant is a veteran who has served as an active duty member of the United States Armed Forces, including the National Guard or Reserve components, and was not dishonorably discharged.
This measure would proclaim, in perpetuity, the month of September as California Wine Month.
This measure would, on June 23, 2022, commemorate the 50th anniversary of the enactment of Title IX, and would urge Californians to continue to work together to achieve the goals set by Title IX, as specified.
This measure would recognize June 19, 2022, as Sickle Cell Awareness Day in California.
