Existing law establishes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation with jurisdiction over state prison facilities. Existing law requires the department to provide academic and vocational education to inmates as specified. Existing law authorizes the department to establish camps for the employment of inmates. This bill would establish the Wild Mustang Pilot Program for a period of 5 years to employ inmates in work related to the boarding, care, feeding, maintenance, training, and domestication of feral horses acquired from the Bureau of Land Management or Indian tribes. The bill would require the program to be funded by existing funds for rehabilitation programs and would require any revenue received by the program, as specified, to offset program costs. The bill would authorize the department to adopt emergency regulations to implement the program. The bill would require the Office of the Inspector General to conduct an evaluation of the program, as specified, and to prepare and submit a report to the Legislature by January 1, 2025, regarding this evaluation.
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Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, requires the State Water Resources Control Board to administer provisions relating to the regulation of drinking water to protect public health. Existing law declares it to be the established policy of the state that every human being has the right to safe, clean, affordable, and accessible water adequate for human consumption, cooking, and sanitary purposes. This bill would authorize a public water system to reduce the water charges imposed on a customer impacted by COVID-19 during the duration of the impact provided that the reduction does not increase the water charges imposed on another ratepayer.
Existing law establishes a system of public elementary and secondary schools in this state and authorizes local educational agencies throughout the state to operate schools, provide instruction, and provide home-to-school transportation to pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive. The Passenger Charter-party Carriers' Act defines a transportation network company as an organization, whether a corporation, limited liability company, partnership, sole proprietor, or other form, operating in California that provides prearranged transportation services for compensation using an online-enabled platform to connect passengers with drivers using a personal vehicle. Existing law requires a transportation network company to comply with specific requirements for liability insurance coverage, background checks, and other regulatory matters applicable to transportation network companies and their participating drivers, as defined. A violation of the act is a crime. If a local educational agency elects to have a transportation network company provide home-to-school transportation pursuant to a contract entered into on or after January 1, 2021, this bill would require the local educational agency to ensure that the contract is in compliance with established standards for the use of personal services contracts in school districts for all services currently or customarily performed by classified school employees to achieve cost savings and that the transportation network company's drivers meet all of the same requirements that apply to school bus drivers.
The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act of 2016 (AUMA) , an initiative measure approved as Proposition 64 at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, authorizes a person who obtains a state license under AUMA to engage in commercial adult-use cannabis activity pursuant to that license and applicable local ordinances. The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA) , among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities. Existing law establishes in state government a Cannabis Control Appeals Panel that consists of one member appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules, one member appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly, and 3 members appointed by the Governor and subject to confirmation by a majority vote of all of the members elected to the Senate. This bill would, instead, require the Cannabis Control Appeals Panel to consist of 2 members appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules, 2 members appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly, and 5 members appointed by the Governor and subject to confirmation by a majority of all of the members elected to the Senate. AUMA authorizes the Legislature to amend its provisions with a 23 vote of both houses to further its purposes and intent. This bill would declare that its provisions further the purposes and intent of AUMA.
Existing law authorizes an employer to propose a regularly scheduled alternative workweek that authorizes work by the affected employees for no longer than 10 hours per day within a 40-hour workweek without the payment to the affected employees of an overtime rate of compensation and that will be adopted if it receives approval in a secret ballot election by at least 23 of affected employees in a work unit. Existing law establishes a time and 12 overtime rate for affected employees for any work in excess of the regularly scheduled hours established by the alternative workweek agreement and for any work in excess of 40 hours per week. Existing law establishes a minimum double-time rate for work in excess of 12 hours per day and for any work in excess of 8 hours on those days worked beyond the regularly scheduled workdays established by the alternative workweek agreement. Other existing law relating only to agricultural employees phases in overtime requirements according to a prescribed schedule over the course of 4 years, from 2019 to 2022, inclusive. Beginning January 1, 2022, existing law prohibits any person employed in an agricultural occupation from being employed more than 8 hours in any one workday or working in excess of 40 hours in any one workweek, unless the employee receives one and 12 times that employee's regular rate of pay for all hours worked over 8 hours in any workday or over 40 hours in any workweek. Beginning January 1, 2022, existing law requires any work performed by a person employed in an agricultural occupation in excess of 12 hours in one day to be compensated at a minimum double-time rate. Under existing law, employers who employ 25 or fewer employees have an additional 3 years to comply with the phasing in of these overtime requirements. This bill would require, for purposes of those alternative workweek provisions, that an affected employee employed in an agricultural occupation working longer than 8 hours, but not more than 12 hours in a day, pursuant to an alternative workweek schedule, be paid an overtime rate of compensation according to the agricultural employee overtime phase-in provisions, as specified.
The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act contains various provisions that govern collective bargaining of local represented employees, and delegates jurisdiction to the Public Employment Relations Board to resolve disputes and enforce the statutory duties and rights of local public agency employers and employees. The act requires the governing body of a public agency to meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment with representatives of recognized employee organizations. Under the act, if the representatives of the public agency and the employee organization fail to reach an agreement, they may mutually agree on the appointment of a mediator and equally share the cost. Existing law provides that after any applicable mediation and factfinding procedures have been exhausted, but no earlier than 10 days after the factfinders' written findings of fact and recommended terms of settlement have been submitted to the parties, a public agency that is not required to proceed to interest arbitration may, after holding a hearing regarding the impasse, implement its last, best, and final offer. This bill would revise the above-described timeframe to no earlier than 15 days after the factfinders' written findings of fact and recommended terms of settlement have been submitted to the parties.
Existing law authorizes a business to scan or swipe a driver's license or identification card issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles in any electronic device for prescribed verification and informational purposes. Existing law prohibits a business that swipes a driver's license or identification card in an electronic device from retaining or using that information for any other purpose. A violation of those provisions is a misdemeanor. This bill would prohibit a business from scanning or swiping a driver's license or identification card, except for specified purposes, and would prohibit the information used, collected, or disclosed pursuant to specified exceptions from being retained by the business for longer than 24 or 72 hours as provided. The bill would vest the Attorney General, any district attorney, and any city attorney with the duty to bring an action for violation of these provisions, including equity proceedings to restrain and enjoin a violation or prosecution of misdemeanor actions. Because this bill would increase the duties of local officials, 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.
Existing law, the Dental Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of dentists and dental assistants by the Dental Board of California. The act, prior to January 1, 2020, required the board to approve foreign dental schools based on specified standards, and required a foreign dental school seeking approval to submit an application to the board, including, among other things, a finding that the educational program of the foreign dental school is equivalent to that of similar accredited institutions in the United States and adequately prepares its students for the practice of dentistry. Existing law required the foreign dental school to submit a specified registration fee and to pay the board's reasonable costs and expenses to conduct an approval survey. Existing law also required an approved institution to submit a renewal application every 7 years and to pay a specified renewal fee. Existing law, beginning January 1, 2020, prohibits the board from accepting new applications for approval of foreign dental schools and instead requires foreign dental schools seeking approval to complete the international consultative and accreditation process with the Commission on Dental Accreditation of the American Dental Association (CODA) or a comparable accrediting body approved by the board. Existing law requires previously approved foreign dental schools to complete the CODA accreditation by January 1, 2024, to remain approved. This bill would repeal the provisions that, beginning January 1, 2020, prohibit the board from accepting new applications for the approval of foreign dental schools, and would instead require the board to approve foreign dental schools in the same manner as prior to January 1, 2020.
Existing law establishes the Labor and Workforce Development Agency in the Department of Industrial Relations to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of California and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment, among other duties. Existing law also requires specified state entities, in cooperation with the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, to foster and promote on-the-job training programs other than apprenticeship, in accordance with and agreed to by the parties to applicable collective bargaining agreements, as specified. This bill would require the Labor and Workforce Development Agency to develop a labor-management training partnership to identify workforce training methods appropriate for the grocery industry.
This measure would designate the week of February 24, 2020, to March 1, 2020, as Eating Disorders Awareness Week.