Existing law establishes the Office of Small Business Advocate within the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development, also known as GO-Biz, and prescribes the duties and functions of the Small Business Advocate, who is also the Director of the Office of Small Business Advocate. Among these duties, the director is to serve as the principal advocate in the state on behalf of small businesses and to represent the views and interests of small businesses before other state agencies policies and activities of which may affect small businesses. This bill would require the Small Business Advocate to collaborate with the Office of Small Business and Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Services in their activities under the Small Business Procurement Act and to post a variety of information related to small business activities on the GO-Biz Internet Web site or the advocate's Internet Web site. Among other things, the bill would require the advocate to be prepared for designation by the Office of Emergency Services to serve as an official liaison between small businesses impacted by a state of emergency and other government and nonprofit service providers and to assist in the state emergency recovery, response, and preparedness efforts related to small businesses. The bill would eliminate the duty of the Office of Small Business Advocate to post information on its Internet Web site regarding small business financial development and the efficient use of energy, as specified.
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This measure would declare November 9, 2018, and each November 9 thereafter, as Dosan Ahn Chang Ho Day.
This measure would designate the month of November 2018 as California Runaway and Homeless Youth Prevention Month and would recognize the need for individuals, schools, communities, businesses, local governments, and the state to take action on behalf of runaway and homeless youth in California.
This measure would call on our state Congressional Representatives to voice their concerns on the proposed fiscal cuts to programs created by the federal Housing and Community Development Act. The measure would also call on the President of the United States and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to protect and these programs, to veto any legislation to do so, and to work with the Congress to further protect these programs.
This measure would state that the Legislature strongly and unequivocally supports the existing fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions standards and California's federal Clean Air Act waivers; will consider any and all appropriate actions to maintain vehicle emissions standards for the protection of public health, California residents, and the economy; and strongly urges the President and Vice President of the United States, the Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation, and the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency to reject the Safer and Affordable Fuel Efficient Vehicles Proposed Rule for Model Years 2021–2026.
This measure would affirm the Legislature's support for science-based action to conserve, protect, restore, and effectively manage California's coastal and ocean ecosystems, which the state holds in trust for the people of California, in the face of challenges presented by climate change, ocean acidification, hypoxia, and other changing ocean conditions, and would urge federal and state government entities to take specified actions to preserve the state's ocean and coastal resources as well as protect disadvantaged and low-income communities impacted by these challenges.
This measure would urge President Donald J. Trump to rescind three Executive orders issued on May 25, 2018, providing guidance to federal agencies regarding federal employees' representation, collective bargaining, and due process rights.
Existing law, until January 1, 2024, creates the California Small Business Development Technical Assistance Expansion Program within the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) , under the Director of the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development, for the purpose of assisting small businesses through free or low-cost one-on-one consulting and low-cost training by entering into grant agreements with one or more federal small business technical assistance centers, as defined. Existing law requires GO-Biz to make grants, upon appropriation of funds by the Legislature, to federal small business technical assistance centers that GO-Biz determines meet specified eligibility criteria. This bill would revise the definition of a federal small business technical assistance center to include a state trade expansion program as an eligible grant applicant.
This measure would proclaim September 30, 2018, as Gold Star Mothers' and Families' Day in California.