Sen. Megan Dahle

This measure would designate the portion of Interstate 5 between the Pico-Lyons Overcrossing and the McBean Parkway Overcrossing in the City of Santa Clarita as the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Hagop "Jake" Kuredjian Memorial Highway. The measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources sufficient to cover the cost, to erect those signs.

Existing law sets wage, hour, meal break requirements, and other working conditions for employees and requires an employer to pay overtime wages as specified to an employee who works in excess of a workday or workweek, as defined, and imposes criminal penalties for the violation of these requirements. Existing law, the Phase-In Overtime for Agricultural Workers Act of 2016, imposes a schedule that phases in overtime requirements for agricultural workers each year, over the course of 4 years, from 2019 to 2022, inclusive. Existing law provides employers who employ 25 or fewer employees an additional 3 years to comply with the phasing in of these overtime requirements. In this regard, existing 1 2 times their regular rate of pay for the hours they worked in excess of certain numbers in a workday or workweek, depending on the year and the size of the employer."?> law, beginning on January 1, 2022, and January 1, 2025, in the case of smaller employers, prohibits any person employed in an agricultural occupation from being employed more than 8 hours in a work day or 40 hours in a work week unless they receive 1 12 times their regular rate of pay for the excess hours they worked. This bill would 1 2 hours in a workday and from 50 to 45 hours in a workweek. The bill would also delete the provision that, beginning on January 1, 2022, and January 1, 2025, in the case of smaller employers, further decreases those hours to 8 hours in a workday and 40 hours in a workweek."?> increase the number of hours worked in a work week before that overtime rate of pay becomes applicable from 40 to 48 hours in a workweek.

Under existing law, a person who lodges in a public or private place without permission is guilty of disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor. Existing law also provides that a person who willfully and maliciously obstructs the free movement of any person on any street, sidewalk, or other public place is guilty of a misdemeanor. Under existing law, a nuisance is anything that is injurious to health or indecent or offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property. Existing law also provides that a nuisance is anything that obstructs the free passage or use of any public park, square, street, or highway, among other things. Under existing law, a public nuisance is a nuisance that affects the entire community, neighborhood, or a considerable number of persons. Existing law provides various remedies against a public nuisance, including abatement by any public body or officer authorized by law. This bill would prohibit a person from sitting, lying, sleeping, or storing, using, maintaining, or placing personal property upon a street or sidewalk if a homeless shelter, as defined, is available to the person. The bill would also prohibit sitting, lying, sleeping, or storing, using, maintaining, or placing personal property within 500 feet of a public or private school, open space, or major transit stop, as specified. The bill would specify that a violation of this prohibition is a public nuisance that can be abated and prevented, as specified. The bill would also provide that a violation of the prohibition may be charged as a misdemeanor or an infraction, at the discretion of the prosecutor. The bill would prohibit a person from being found in violation of the bill's provisions unless provided notice, at least 72 hours before commencement of any enforcement action, as specified. By imposing criminal penalties for a violation of these provisions, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

This measure would proclaim the week of March 3, 2024, to March 9, 2024, inclusive, as Women in Construction Week.

The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. This bill would exempt from CEQA a project for wildfire prevention within 50 feet of either side of a roadway. Because a lead agency would be required to determine whether a project qualifies for this exemption, 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.

(1) Existing law establishes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to, among other duties, establish standards for the issuance and renewal of credentials. Existing law requires, as a minimum requirement for a preliminary multiple subject, single subject, or education specialist teaching credential, the satisfactory completion of a program of professional preparation that has been accredited by the Committee on Accreditation on the basis of standards of program quality and effectiveness that have been adopted by the commission. This bill would, among other things, require the commission, on or before January 1, 2027, to update its literacy standards of program quality and effectiveness, literacy teaching performance expectations, and literacy instruction preconditions for program sponsors offering Reading and Literacy Leadership Specialist Credentials and Reading and Literacy Added Authorizations, or any other reading- or literacy-specific credential, certification, or authorization developed by the commission, in order to ensure compliance with effective means of teaching literacy, as defined, and adherence to the science reading, as provided. (2) Existing law prescribes the powers of the commission regarding the accreditation system, including, among others, to adopt and implement an accreditation framework, which sets forth the policies of the commission regarding the accreditation of educator preparation in California. This bill, for program sponsors whose educator preparation programs are not in compliance with the literacy instruction preconditions, as defined, literacy standards of program quality and effectiveness, as defined, or literacy teaching performance expectations, as defined, would require the commission to establish a probationary accreditation process that includes mandatory requirements for faculty at the program sponsor to successfully complete professional development and training on the science of reading and effective means of teaching literacy in order to remove probationary status, or lose accreditation, as specified. (3) Existing law establishes the Committee on Accreditation, consisting of 12 members selected for their distinguished records of accomplishment in education, and requires the committee to, among other things, make decisions about the accreditation of educator preparation programs in accordance with the accreditation framework, adopt guidelines for accreditation reviews, and monitor the performance of accreditation teams and other aspects of the accreditation system. This bill would require at least one of the 12 members to have demonstrated expertise in the science of reading and effective means of teaching literacy, and would require the committee to make decisions regarding initial and existing accreditation status of programs of educator preparation, including program approval, with respect to the quality of educator preparation in literacy standards of program quality and effectiveness, the literacy instruction preconditions, and the literacy teaching performance expectations, as provided. (4) Existing law requires the accreditation framework to include provisions regarding well-trained accreditation teams, as specified. This bill would, among other things, require an accreditation or program review team to report to literacy personnel, as defined, on the results of their accreditation or program review team site visits, as specified, including a separate section with respect to literacy instruction preconditions, literacy standards of program quality and effectiveness, and literacy teaching performance expectations, including detailed summaries as to what evidence was gathered and reviewed during the site visit. The bill would state the intent of the Legislature to, among other things, provide funding so that by no later than June 30, 2025, the commission employs sufficient personnel with demonstrated expertise in the science of reading, as defined, and effective means of teaching literacy, as defined, to ensure that the commission's review for accrediting a program sponsor, and its review and approval of the program sponsor's programs and schools, be held to rigorous literacy program standards. (5) Existing law requires the State Department of Education to issue a request for proposals to contract for the development of standards for professional development for educators and instructional leaders. Existing law requires the standards to serve as guidelines for providers of professional development activities and authorizes them to be used to facilitate coordination among existing professional development programs. This bill would, among other things, require the department, on or before August 30, 2025, with technical assistance from the literacy staff, as defined, to designate a county office of education, or a consortium of county offices of education, with demonstrated expertise in the science of reading and evidence-based literacy instruction, with an emphasis on demonstrated, prior experience in literacy with pupils in transitional kindergarten, kindergarten, and grades 1 to 5, inclusive, to serve as the state literacy expert lead for purposes of administering, supporting, and monitoring specified professional development and training. The bill would require the state literacy expert lead, on or before January 1, 2026, to develop a list of professional development and training programs that it recommends and submit the list to the department of for approval, as specified. The bill would authorize the state literacy expert lead to also develop and provide professional development and training programs, as specified. The bill would, commencing March 1, 2026, require school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to ensure participation in, and would require all applicable personnel, as defined, to satisfactorily complete by no later than June 30, 2028, an approved professional development and training program that is listed on the department's internet website, as specified, and except as provided. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (6) Existing law, subject to an appropriation included in the annual Budget Act for these purposes, authorizes the department and the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence to establish a process, administered by the department, to select, subject to approval by the executive director of the State Board of Education, an expert lead agency based on specific expertise in an area of need to conduct activities and build statewide capacity to address that area of need within the statewide system of support, as specified. This bill would, commencing January 1, 2025, require any expert lead agency supporting literacy initiatives for those purposes to demonstrate expertise in the science of reading and proficiency in evidence-based literacy instruction, as specified. (7) Existing law requires the state board to adopt basic instructional materials for use in kindergarten and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, for governing boards, subject to specified provisions, including, among others, that the state board adopt at least 5 basic instructional materials for all applicable grade levels in each of the specified subject areas, including, among others, language arts, including, but not limited to, spelling, reading, and English language development. In reviewing and adopting or recommending for adoption submitted basic instructional materials, existing law requires the state board to use specified criteria, and to ensure that, in its judgment, the submitted basic instructional materials meet that criteria, including, among others, that the instructional materials are aligned to the content standards adopted by the state board in the subject area and the grade level or levels for which they are submitted. Notwithstanding any other law, existing law authorizes a local educational agency to use instructional materials that are aligned with the academic content standards previously adopted by the state board. This bill would revise and recast provisions relating to adoption of instructional materials for English language arts, English language development, and reading by, among other things, requiring the state board, on or before January 1, 2026, to adopt basic and supplementary instructional materials, as defined, for transitional kindergarten, kindergarten, and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, in English language arts, English language development, and reading. The bill would require the state board to, among other things, ensure that all instructional materials adopted pursuant to these provisions are aligned to the most recently adopted academic content standards and curriculum frameworks, and adhere to the science of reading. The bill would require the department to publish the complete list of the state board's adopted instructional materials on the department's internet website and to distribute the complete list to all local educational agencies, as specified. Upon the state board's adoption of those instructional materials, the bill would require all basic and supplementary instructional materials in English language arts, English language development, and reading for transitional kindergarten, kindergarten, and any of grades 1 to 8, inclusive, adopted by each school district, county office of education, and charter school to, among other requirements, adhere to the science of reading, and would prohibit those local educational agencies from adopting basic instructional materials in English language arts, English language development, or reading that have not been adopted by the state board unless the local educational agency is granted a waiver, as specified. On or before December 31, 2027, the bill would require each local educational agency to provide to the department, and the department to develop, maintain, and annually update, a current list of basic and supplementary instructional materials in English language arts, English language development, and reading, adopted by each local educational agency that is publicly accessible on the department's internet website. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (8) Existing law requires the University of California, Los Angeles and the California State University, Dominguez Hills, along with California State University campuses serving the Los Angeles Basin selected by the Board of Trustees of the California State University, to form a neurodiversity and learning collaborative in order to, among other things, create a framework for embedding neurodiversity knowledge into the teacher education programs at the University of California and the California State University. This bill would authorize that collaborative to be expanded to include any University of California campus or California State University campus willing to voluntarily participate in strengthening educational support and effective means of teaching literacy through faculty professional development and training programs that adhere to the science of reading. The bill would state the intent of the Legislature to provide grant funding to both expand the collaborative and to, among other things, provide faculty professional development aligned with the science of reading to faculty members who teach literacy and reading instruction at accredited institutions with approved educator preparation programs. (9) This bill would make Legislative findings and declarations relating to these provisions, conforming changes, and other nonsubstantive changes. (10) 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.

This resolution would designate the week beginning on February 26, 2024, and the last week of February hereafter, as Eating Disorders Awareness Week.

Existing law authorizes the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to set a maximum gross gasoline refining margin, as provided, and requires the commission, if the commission establishes a maximum gross gasoline refining margin, to establish a penalty for exceeding the maximum gross refining margin, as specified. Existing law establishes the Division of Petroleum Market Oversight in the commission to, among other duties, provide guidance and recommendations to the Governor and the commission on issues related to transportation fuel pricing and transportation decarbonization in California. This bill would require the commission to post and update, on a monthly basis, on its internet website the difference between retail gasoline prices in California and the national average and a calculation of how much that difference has decreased since June 26, 2023, which is the effective date of the above-described provisions, due to the actions taken pursuant to those provisions.

Existing law, the Nursing Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of the practice of nursing by the Board of Registered Nursing. The Vocational Nursing Practice Act provides for the licensure and regulation of vocational nurses by the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians of the State of California. The Nursing Practice Act establishes the Board of Registered Nursing Fund and the Vocational Nursing Practice Act establishes the Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians Fund. This bill would enact the Nurse Licensure Compact, under which the Board of Registered Nursing and the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians would be authorized to issue a multistate license that would authorize the holder to practice as a registered nurse or a licensed vocational nurse, as applicable, in all party states under a multistate licensure privilege, as specified. The bill would designate the Board of Registered Nursing as the licensing board for registered nurses for purposes of the compact and would designate the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians as the licensing board for vocational nurses for purposes of the compact. The bill would require the boards to participate in a coordinated licensure information system that would include all of the licensure and disciplinary history of all licensed registered nurses and licensed vocational nurses. The bill would provide that the Board of Registered Nursing and the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians shall alternate as the administrator of the compact for the state and as members of an entity known as the Interstate Commission of Nurse Licensure Compact Administrators. The bill would authorize the commission to adopt rules that have the force and effect of law. The bill would prohibit fees collected by the Board of Registered Nursing or the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians for purposes of granting a multistate license pursuant to the bill from exceeding the cost of administering that multistate license under the compact and would require those fees to be deposited in the Board of Registered Nursing Fund or the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians Fund, as applicable. By authorizing out-of-state licensees to practice in this state under the multistate compact privilege created by the bill, the bill would expand the scope of the criminal provisions of the Nursing Practice Act and the Vocational Nursing Practice Act, thereby imposing 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.