Existing law prohibits a person under 18 years of age from circulating a state or local initiative, referendum, or recall petition or nominating paper. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor to offer or give money or other valuable consideration to another in exchange for that person's signature on a state, county, municipal, or district initiative, referendum, or recall petition. This bill would prohibit a person from paying money or providing any other thing of value based on the number of signatures obtained on a state or local initiative, referendum, or recall petition. The bill would impose a civil penalty for violations of that prohibition, equal to the greater of $25,000 or $50 times the number of signatures gathered in exchange for compensation. The bill would authorize the Attorney General to bring a civil action for a violation, and it would also authorize a person, acting as a qui tam plaintiff, to bring a civil action for a violation and to share in the recovery, as provided. The bill would require specified portions of the proceeds of a civil action or settlement to be distributed to the Attorney General, the qui tam plaintiff, and the Secretary of State.
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(1) Existing law, the Cal Grant Program, establishes the Cal Grant A Entitlement Awards, the Cal Grant B Entitlement Awards, the California Community College Transfer Cal Grant Entitlement Awards, the Competitive Cal Grant A and B Awards, the Cal Grant C Awards, and the Cal Grant T Awards under the administration of the Student Aid Commission, and establishes eligibility requirements for awards under these programs for participating students attending qualifying institutions. This bill would require that, in a state of emergency, as defined, resulting from the COVID-19 public health crisis, specified Cal Grant Program eligibility requirements related to time limits for award eligibility and to the age of an award recipient would not apply. This bill would make this provision inoperative on July 1, 2023, and would repeal it as of January 1, 2024. (2) Existing law requires applicants for Cal Grant A Entitlement Awards and Cal Grant B Entitlement Awards to submit complete financial aid applications in the academic year of high school graduation or equivalent for the immediately following award year. Existing law also requires applicants for Cal Grant A Entitlement Awards and Cal Grant B Entitlement Awards to submit complete financial aid applications for the 2nd award year in the award year immediately following high school graduation or equivalent. This bill would instead, for applications made in the 2021–22 and 2022–23 academic years only, authorize applicants for these awards to submit complete financial aid applications for the first award year in the academic year immediately following their high school graduation or equivalent for the immediately following award year, and to submit complete financial aid applications for the 2nd award year in the 2nd academic year after high school graduation or its equivalent. (3) Existing law prohibits persons who will be 28 years of age or older by December 31 of an award year from receiving California Community College Transfer Cal Grant Entitlement Awards. For applications submitted in the 2021–22 and 2022–23 academic years only, this bill would provide that prohibition would instead apply to students who will not be 29 years of age or older by December 31 of the award year. (4) Under existing law, with an exception applicable only to students who attended a California community college in the 2011–12 academic year, a recipient of a California Community College Transfer Cal Grant Entitlement Award is required to have attended a California community college in the academic year immediately preceding the academic year for which the award will be used. This bill would authorize a student otherwise eligible to receive a California Community College Transfer Cal Grant Entitlement Award who attended a California community college in the 2019–20 academic year to use the award for the 2021–22 and 2022–23 academic years. (5) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law imposes various limitations on the emissions of air contaminants for the control of air pollution from vehicular and nonvehicular sources. Existing law assigns the responsibility for controlling vehicular sources of air pollution to the State Air Resources Board. This bill would require the state board, by July 1, 2022, consistent with federal law, to adopt cost-effective and technologically feasible regulations to prohibit engine exhaust and evaporative emissions from new small off-road engines, as defined by the state board. The bill would require the state board to identify and, to the extent feasible, make available funding for commercial rebates or similar incentive funding as part of any updates to existing applicable funding program guidelines to local air pollution control districts and air quality management districts to implement to support the transition to zero-emission small off-road equipment operations.
The Sex Equity in Education Act states the policy of the state that elementary and secondary school classes and courses, including nonacademic and elective classes and courses, be conducted without regard to the sex of the pupil enrolled in these classes or courses. Under existing law, the sex discrimination provisions of the act do not apply to any program or activity of the American Legion undertaken in connection with the organization or operation of any Boys State conference, Boys Nation conference, Girls State conference, or Girls Nation conference, or to any program or activity of any secondary educational institution specifically for the promotion of any of those conferences or for the selection of pupils to attend those conferences if the conferences comply with other nondiscriminatory provisions of state and federal law. This bill, commencing January 1, 2023, would exempt from the act's sex discrimination provisions, and other specified provisions, any gender-segregated programs or activities of the American Legion or the American Legion Auxiliary related to their respective yearly Girls State and Boys State conferences and any promotion of, or selection of pupils for, any of those conferences by secondary educational institutions if the conferences comply with certain conditions, including providing substantially similar access to government officials and facilities, providing substantially similar programming, except as specified, providing an equal number of participation opportunities, and, for pupils who do not identify as either male or female, or with their assigned birth gender, allowing those pupils to participate in either conference.
(1) Existing law establishes the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development, known as "GO-Biz," within the Governor's office to serve the Governor as the lead entity for economic strategy and the marketing of California on issues relating to business development, private sector investment, and economic growth. This bill would require the office to coordinate with other relevant state and local agencies and national organizations to explore ways to facilitate streamlining of local land use approvals and construction permit processes for projects related to broadband infrastructure deployment and connectivity. (2) Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including telephone corporations. Existing law requires the commission to develop, implement, and administer the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) to encourage deployment of high-quality advanced communications services to all Californians that will promote economic growth, job creation, and the substantial social benefits of advanced information and communications technologies. Existing law establishes 5 accounts, the Broadband Infrastructure Grant Account, the Rural and Urban Regional Broadband Consortia Grant Account, the Broadband Public Housing Account, the Broadband Adoption Account, and the Federal Funding Account, within the CASF. Existing law provides that the goal of the Broadband Infrastructure Grant Account is, by no later than December 31, 2026, to approve funding for infrastructure projects that will provide broadband access to no less than 98% of California households. Upon the accomplishment of that goal, existing law makes up to $30,000,000 remaining in the Broadband Infrastructure Grant Account available for infrastructure projects that provide last-mile broadband access to households to which no facility-based broadband provider offers broadband service at speeds of at least 10 megabits per second (mbps) downstream and one mbps upstream. Existing law authorizes the commission to impose a surcharge to collect $330,000,000 for deposit into the CASF beginning January 1, 2018, and continuing through the 2022 calendar year. Existing law specifies the amount of surcharge revenues to be deposited into each account within the CASF, subject to appropriation by the Legislature. Existing law authorizes the commission, in administering Broadband Infrastructure Grant Account, to require each infrastructure grant applicant to indicate steps taken to first obtain any available funding from the Connect America Fund program or similar federal public programs that fund broadband infrastructure. This bill would provide that the goal of the Broadband Infrastructure Grant Account is to approve funding for infrastructure projects that will provide broadband access to no less than 98% of California households by no later than December 31, 2032, rather than December 31, 2026. The bill would delete the provision making up to $30,000,000 available for infrastructure projects upon the accomplishment of that goal, as specified. The bill would authorize moneys appropriated from the CASF to be used to fund projects that deploy broadband infrastructure to unserved nonresidential facilities used for local and state emergency response activities, including fairgrounds. The bill would delete the commission's authorization to collect $330,000,000 for deposit into the CASF beginning January 1, 2018, and continuing through the 2022 calendar year. The bill would authorize the commission, through imposition of a surcharge, to collect up to $150,000,000 per year. The bill would delete the commission's authorization to require each infrastructure grant applicant to indicate steps taken to first obtain any available funding from federal public programs, as specified. (3) Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime. Because certain of the above provisions would be part of the act and a violation of a commission action implementing this bill's requirements would be a crime, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. (4) This bill would become effective only if AB 14 of the 2021–22 Regular Session is enacted and takes effect on or before January 1, 2022. (5) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to, among other duties, establish standards for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits. Existing law requires the commission to develop, adopt, and administer a reading instruction competence assessment consisting of one or more instruments to measure an individual's knowledge, skill, and ability relative to effective reading instruction, as provided. Existing law requires the requirements for the issuance of the preliminary multiple subject teaching credential to include successful passage of one of specified components of the reading instruction competence assessment. This bill would additionally authorize the passage of a combination of those specified components, as approved by the commission to meet that requirement, and would extend these requirements to the issuance of a preliminary education specialist credential. The bill would impose these requirements relating to the reading instruction competence assessment, as revised by this bill, until the commission ensures that an approved teaching assessment assesses candidates for a preliminary multiple subject credential and a preliminary education specialist credential for competence in instruction in literacy. The bill would authorize a holder of a preliminary multiple subject credential or a preliminary education specialist credential, who was unable to take the reading instruction competence assessment due to the closure of assessment centers during the COVID-19 pandemic and who must complete this requirement in order to earn a professional clear credential, if the reading instruction competence assessment is no longer being administered, to complete this requirement through successful completion of an assessment required by another state that is identified by the commission as meeting certain requirements. Existing law requires, as a minimum requirement for a preliminary multiple or single subject teaching credential, the satisfactory completion of a program of professional preparation that includes a teaching performance assessment that meets specified requirements and has been approved by the commission. Existing law requires an internship program to provide interns who meet entrance criteria and are accepted to a multiple subject teaching credential program, a single subject teaching credential program, or a level 1 education specialist credential program that provides instruction to individuals with mild to moderate disabilities the opportunity to choose an early program completion option, culminating in a 5-year preliminary teaching credential. Existing law requires that this early program completion option be made available to interns who meet specified requirements, including, among others, that the intern pass the teaching performance assessment. This bill would require the commission, by July 1, 2025, to ensure that an approved teaching performance assessment assess all candidates, including intern candidates, for a preliminary multiple subject credential and a preliminary education specialist credential for competence in instruction in literacy, including, but not limited to, evidence-based methods of teaching foundational reading skills, as specified. The bill would make other revisions relating to those internship programs, as provided. Existing law specifies the minimum requirements for the preliminary multiple or single subject teaching credential, including, among other things, a baccalaureate degree or higher degree from a regionally accredited institution of higher education, demonstration of basic skills proficiency, satisfactory completion of a program of professional preparation, verification of subject matter competence, and the study of alternative methods of developing English language skills, including the study of reading, among all pupils, including those for whom English is a second language, in accordance with the commission's standards of program quality and effectiveness. This bill would extend all of those requirements to the education specialist teaching credential, as specified. The bill would change the requirement of the study of alternative methods of developing English language skills to a requirement of the study of effective means of teaching literacy to all pupils, as specified. The bill would allow coursework completed at a community or junior college that is regionally accredited by specified accrediting agencies to count towards the verification of subject matter competence requirement. The bill would require the commission to ensure that its standards of program quality and effectiveness and the teaching performance expectations for the preparation of candidates for the preliminary multiple subject credential, the preliminary English language arts credential, and the preliminary education specialist credential include the study of effective means of teaching literacy, as specified.
Existing law establishes the State Department of Social Services in the Health and Welfare Agency and sets forth its powers and duties relating to the administration of various programs relating to public social services. This bill would enact the Community Response Initiative to Strengthen Emergency Systems Act, or the C.R.I.S.E.S. Act, for purposes of creating, implementing, and evaluating the C.R.I.S.E.S. Grant Pilot Program, which the act would establish. The bill would require the department to administer the program if appropriate funding is made available to the department. The bill would require the department to award grants to qualified grantees, which include city, county, and tribal departments of social services, disability services, health services, public health, or behavioral health, based on grant eligibility criteria developed in partnership with a stakeholder workgroup. This bill would require each grantee to receive a minimum award of $250,000 per year under the program. The bill would require a grantee to award at least 90% of grant funds received to one or more qualifying community-based organizations, as defined. The bill would require funds awarded under the program to be utilized to create and strengthen community-based alternatives to law enforcement to lessen the reliance on law enforcement agencies as first responders to crisis situations unrelated to a fire department or emergency medical service response. This bill would require a grantee to report at least annually to the department on the use of funding awarded under the program. The bill would require the department to convene a stakeholder workgroup consisting of specified individuals to make recommendations to the department regarding the implementation of the program, as specified. This bill would establish the Community Response Initiative to Strengthen Emergency Systems Program Fund within the State Treasury, and would provide that, upon appropriation by the Legislature, the moneys may be expended by the department for purposes of the program. The bill would prohibit the department from expending more than 5% of appropriated funds on administrative costs, as specified. The bill would require the department to award all grants by January 1, 2023. This bill would authorize the department to implement, interpret, or make specific the provisions of the program without taking regulatory action, as specified. The bill would grant immunity to the state from liability resulting from the activities of a grantee or community-based organization under the program. This bill would repeal these provisions on June 30, 2026.
Existing law requires a public school maintaining any combination of classes from grade 6 to grade 12, inclusive, that meets a 40% pupil poverty threshold specified in federal law, to stock 50% of the school's restrooms with feminine hygiene products, and prohibits a public school from charging for any menstrual products provided to pupils. This bill would enact the Menstrual Equity for All Act of 2021, which would require a public school, as provided, maintaining any combination of classes from grades 6 to 12, inclusive, to stock the school's restrooms with an adequate supply of free menstrual products, as defined, available and accessible, free of cost, in all women's restrooms and all-gender restrooms, and in at least one men's restroom, at all times, and to post a designated notice, on or before the start of the 2022–23 school year, as prescribed. This bill would require the California State University and each community college district, and would encourage the Regents of the University of California and private universities, colleges, and institutions of higher learning, to stock an adequate supply of menstrual products, available and accessible, free of cost, at no fewer than one designated and accessible central location on each campus and to post a designated notice, as provided. By imposing additional requirements on public schools and community college districts, 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, 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.
(1) Existing law, the Private Investigator Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of private investigators by the Director of Consumer Affairs, and makes a violation of its provisions a crime. Existing law requires a licensee or qualified manager of a licensee who carries a deadly weapon in the course of that person's employment or business to complete a training course in the exercise of the power to arrest. This bill, on and after January 1, 2023, would eliminate that requirement. (2) Existing law, the Proprietary Security Services Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of proprietary private security officers by the director, and makes a violation of its provisions a crime. Existing law requires proprietary private security officers to complete a course of training in security officer skills developed by the Department of Consumer Affairs that includes power-to-arrest training. This bill, on and after January 1, 2023, would instead require the course in security officer skills to include training in the exercise of the power to arrest and the appropriate use of force. (3) (A) Existing law, the Private Security Services Act, provides for the regulation and licensure of private patrol operators and the registration of security guards by the director, and makes a violation of its provisions a crime. The act prohibits a person who is required to be registered as a security guard from carrying or using a firearm or baton unless they possess a valid and current permit, and makes a first violation subject to a $500 fine and each subsequent violation subject to a $1,000 fine. This bill would also prohibit a person required to be registered as a security guard from carrying or using a firearm or baton unless the security guard is an employee of a private patrol operator, the state, or a political subdivision of the state. By expanding the scope of a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (B) The act requires a licensed private patrol operator to deliver to the director within 7 days a written report describing the circumstances surrounding the discharge of any firearm or physical altercation with a member of the public while on duty by a licensee and specified others while acting within the course and scope of their employment. Existing law makes a violation of that provision subject to a $1,000 fine for a first violation and a $2,500 fine for each subsequent violation. This bill would instead require the report to be delivered to the director within 7 business days and would revise the types of incidents required to be reported, including, among other things, requiring any physical use of force or violence on any person while on duty to be reported. The bill would increase the amount of the fine for any violation to $5,000. (C) The act requires each applicant for registration as a security guard to complete training in security officer skills, and requires the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services to develop a standard course and curriculum for the training. This bill, on and after January 1, 2023, would require the bureau to develop an outline for the course and curriculum for security officer skills training in consultation with the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training. (D) The act requires an applicant for a security guard registration to complete a course of training in the exercise of the power to arrest as a condition of the issuance of the registration, and specifies topics to be included in that course, including responsibilities and ethics in citizen arrest. The act requires a registrant and employing licensee to maintain the certificate of completion for the training course for at least 2 years. The act requires a private patrol operator to provide a copy of a department guidebook in the exercise of the power to arrest to employees. This bill would instead require a registrant to maintain the certificate of completion for the course until their registration expires or has been canceled, and would require a licensee to maintain the certificate for the duration of the registrant's employment. The bill would require a registrant who is unable to provide their employing licensee with a certificate of completion to complete the training within 6 months of the registrant's employment date. The bill, on and after January 1, 2023, would require each applicant to complete a course of training in the exercise of the power to arrest and the appropriate use of force, would require the subject of appropriate use of force to include specified topics, including legal standards for the use of force, and would require appropriate use of force to be conducted through traditional classroom instruction. The bill, on and after January 1, 2023, would authorize the department to review and provide more guidance on courses of training when best practices are updated and would delete the requirement that private patrol operators provide copies of the department guidebook to their employees. (E) The act authorizes the director to deny, suspend, or revoke a license, firearm qualification card, or baton permit if the licensee or the licensee's manager, officer, director, or partner commits specified acts, including committing assault, battery, or kidnaping or for using force or violence on any person without proper justification. This bill, on and after January 1, 2023, would also authorize the director deny, suspend, or revoke a license, firearm qualification card, or baton permit for use of force in violation of standards prescribed by the bureau by regulation. (4) The Private Security Services Act and the Private Investigator Act require a private patrol operator, security guard, or private investigator to complete a course of training in the carrying and usage of firearms in order to obtain a firearms qualification card or firearms permit. Existing law requires the course of training in the carrying and usage of firearms to be in a format prescribed by the department and delineated in the Firearms Training Manual of the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services. Existing law requires any course textbook or manual to be used as a course in the carrying and usage of firearms to include aspects of employee restraint and defensive missions of security guards. This bill, on and after January 1, 2023, would include appropriate use of force in the course of training and would delete the provision requiring the textbook or manual to include aspects of employee restraint and defensive missions. (5) Existing law, the Alarm Company Act, provides for the regulation and licensure of alarm company operators, the registration of alarm agents, and the certification of qualified managers by the director. The act requires a person who is licensed, registered, or designated as a branch office manager who carries a firearm in the course of their employment to complete a course of training in the carrying and use of firearms and obtain a firearms qualification card from the director. Existing law also requires those individuals to complete a course of training in the exercise of the power to arrest that is approximately 2 hours in length and covers various topics, including responsibilities and ethics in citizen arrest. Existing law requires every licensee and every person entering the employ of a licensee performing the function of an alarm agent to complete a course in the exercise of the power to arrest. This bill, on and after January 1, 2023, would instead require those licensed, registered, or designated persons to complete a course of training in the exercise of the power to arrest and the appropriate use of force that is approximately 4 hours in length and would require the subject of appropriate use of force to be conducted through traditional classroom instruction and include specified topics, including legal standards for the use of force. The bill, on and after January 1, 2023, would require every licensee and every person entering the employ of a licensee performing the functions of an alarm agent to complete a course in the exercise of the power to arrest and the appropriate use of force. (6) This bill would make conforming and other nonsubstantive changes. (7) 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. (8) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 7596.3 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by AB 830 to be operative only if this bill and AB 830 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
Under existing law, classified employees of school districts and community college districts subject to layoff as a result of the expiration of a specially funded program at the end of a school year are required to be given written notice on or before April 29 informing them of certain rights. Existing law also requires that notice be given not less than 60 days before the effective layoff date if the termination date of a specially funded program is other than June 30, or if classified employees are subject to layoff as a result of a bona fide reduction or elimination of a service performed by a department. This bill instead would revise and recast provisions relating to the layoff of classified employees of school districts and community college districts to require certain notices and opportunities for a hearing when a permanent classified employee's services will not be required for the ensuing year due to lack of work or lack of funds. The bill would, for the purposes of specified notice and hearing rights, define "permanent classified employee" to include both an employee who was permanent at the time the notice or right to a hearing was required and an employee who became permanent after the date of the required notice. The bill would express the intent of the Legislature in enacting the bill to provide permanent classified school employees and those who become permanent classified school employees with the same rights to notice and hearing with respect to layoffs as are provided to certificated employees of school districts, including teachers and administrators, and academic employees of community college districts. If classified positions must be eliminated as a result of the expiration of a specially funded program, the bill would require written notice of the layoff date and certain rights be given to the classified employees not less than 60 days before the effective layoff date. If, after January 1, 2021, the Legislature provides certificated or academic employees with any additional rights to notice or hearing as to layoffs, the bill would require the respective permanent classified employees, as described, to be afforded the same rights by the school district or community college district, as applicable. To the extent school districts and community college districts are required to perform additional duties, 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 the statutory provisions noted above.