Existing law, the Public Employees' Retirement Law, establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System, which provides a defined benefit to members of the system, based on final compensation, credited service, and age at retirement, subject to certain variations. Existing law generally provides that retirement allowances are adjusted annually to reflect increases in the cost of living in relation to the consumer price index, as defined. Existing law defines "consumer price index" for these purposes to mean the United States city average "Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers," effective January 1, 1978. Existing law establishes the Department of Industrial Relations as an instrumentality of California government. This bill would change the definition of "consumer price index," effective January 1, 2021, to instead refer to the California Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers for all items, as determined by the Department of Industrial Relations.
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Existing law establishes an inspection tonnage tax for commercial feed, as specified, with a maximum rate of $0.25 per ton. The funds collected are deposited into the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund, and are continuously appropriated for purposes of provisions regulating commercial feed. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision relating to inspection tonnage tax rates.
Existing law allows a person convicted of a criminal offense who has successfully completed the term of probation to petition the court to withdraw their plea of guilty or nolo contendere and enter a plea of not guilty or, if convicted after a plea of not guilty, petition the court to set aside the verdict of guilty and dismiss the accusatory pleading, except as specified. Under existing law, a person granted relief pursuant to these provisions shall be released from all penalties and disabilities resulting from the offense, except as specified. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
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, among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities. Existing law authorizes local jurisdictions to issue local licenses for commercial cannabis activity in the local jurisdiction, as provided. Existing law, the California Cannabis Equity Act of 2018, requires the Bureau of Cannabis Control in the Department of Consumer Affairs to administer a grant program to assist with the development of a local jurisdiction's local equity program or to assist applicants and licensees in a local jurisdiction's equity program, and authorizes the bureau to provide technical assistance to the local equity program. Existing law defines local equity program for purposes of the act to mean a program adopted or operated by a local jurisdiction that focuses on inclusion and support of individuals and communities in California's cannabis industry who are linked to populations or neighborhoods that were negatively or disproportionately impacted by cannabis criminalization. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the provision defining terms for purposes of the California Cannabis Equity Act of 2018.
The Public Employees' Retirement Law requires that, upon the death of certain members after retirement and while receiving a retirement allowance, a specified sum of money be paid to the member's designated beneficiary. Existing law provides that the additional employer contributions required to fund these benefits be computed as a level percentage of member compensation, and requires the contributions to be deposited in the Public Employees' Retirement Fund, a continuously appropriated fund. This bill would authorize the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System, beginning on or after January 1, 2021, to adjust the death benefit amounts following each actuarial valuation to reflect changes in the All Urban California Consumer Price Index, as specified. By authorizing the board to increase contributions deposited in the Public Employees' Retirement Fund, this bill would make an appropriation.
This measure would proclaim January 23, 2020, as Maternal Health Awareness Day, to draw attention to the efforts that have improved maternal health in California and to highlight the need for continued improvement of maternal health for all women.
Existing law authorizes the Director of General Services to execute grants to real property belonging to the state in the name and upon behalf of the state, as provided. Existing law restricts, by quitclaim deed, the use of certain land of approximately 48 acres within the City of Galt that was quitclaimed to the city by the state. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would remove deed restrictions on that land.
This measure, among other things, would declare that California is a Reproductive Freedom State for All and provide that the Legislature is committed to guaranteeing the constitutionally protected right to an abortion and supporting efforts to increase access to the best available reproductive and pregnancy-related care for women and pregnant individuals.
This measure would honor the late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.