Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, working with specified state entities, to prepare a statewide assessment of the electric vehicle charging infrastructure needed to support the levels of electric vehicle adoption required to meet the goals of putting at least 5 million zero-emission vehicles in service by 2030 and of reducing emissions of greenhouse gases to 40% below 1990 levels by 2030. Existing law requires that the assessment expand on the commission's electric vehicle infrastructure projections to consider all necessary charging infrastructure, all vehicle categories, road, highway, and off-road electrification, port and airport electrification, and other programs to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles to meet those goals, and examine existing and future infrastructure needs throughout California, including in low-income communities. This bill would require the assessment's examination of existing and future infrastructure needs throughout California to also include emerging electric vehicle use cases such as electric autonomous vehicle fleets.
Sponsored bills
(1) Existing law establishes a system of public elementary and secondary schools in this state. This system comprises local educational agencies throughout the state that provide instruction to pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, at schoolsites operated by these agencies. Existing law requires the governing board of a school district and the county superintendent of schools to make applications for free or reduced-price meals available to pupils at all times during each regular schoolday. Existing law authorizes the governing boards of school districts and county superintendents of schools to make applications for free or reduced-price meals electronically available online. Existing law specifies requirements to be met by the governing boards of school districts, county offices of education, and school food authorities that choose to provide access to an online application. This bill would require applications for free or reduced-price meals made electronically available online by school district governing boards or county offices of education to comply with specified requirements, including provisions prohibiting the misuse of information provided online by applicants. The bill would require applications for free and reduced-price meals, which are authorized to be submitted at any time during a schoolday, to be processed within 10 days of submission. To the extent that this provision would impose new duties on local educational agencies, it would constitute a state-mandated local program. The bill would make private third-party vendors who violate its provisions subject to specified civil penalties. The bill would specify that its provisions would not prevent the use of information provided by a school meal applicant from being used by a governmental entity to increase access to a government-administered anti-hunger program. The bill would authorize each school district and county superintendent of schools to establish a secured internet website providing access to an online data collection form as part of the annual enrollment process, and would require the department to host a sample application by July 1, 2024, unless the Superintendent of Public Instruction determines that use of the form would negatively impact the local control funding formula. (2) Existing law provides for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) , administered in California as CalFresh, under which each county distributes nutrition assistance benefits provided by the federal government to eligible households. Existing law establishes the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, under which each county provides cash assistance and other benefits to qualified low-income families using federal, state, and county funds. Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income persons receive health care benefits. Existing federal law provides for the Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) program, under which the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States is authorized to approve state plans to provide eligible children with temporary emergency nutrition assistance benefits during fiscal years 2020 and 2021 in any case in which a school is closed or has reduced the number of days or hours that students attend the school during a public health emergency designation during which the school would otherwise be in session. This bill would establish the Better Out of School Time (BOOST) Nutrition EBT Program, to be administered by the State Department of Social Services, to provide benefits to eligible pupils during regularly scheduled summer breaks. The bill would make eligible pupils who receive benefits under Medi-Cal, CalFresh, or CalWORKs, or are in foster care. The bill would make implementation of the BOOST Nutrition EBT Program contingent upon an appropriation in the annual Budget Act or another statute for its purposes. The bill would require the department to seek all available funding for, and maximize participation in, the P-EBT program. The bill would also require the department to issue BOOST Nutrition EBT benefits to any pupil who was eligible to receive benefits under the P-EBT program, as of July 1, 2021, for the 5-month period following the end of the P-EBT program, and any child who was eligible to receive benefits under the P-EBT program, as of July 1, 2021, for the 5-month period following the end of the P-EBT program and who also receives benefits under Medi-Cal, CalFresh, or CalWORKs, or is in foster care. By imposing new duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (3) 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 requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to prescribe, by regulation, lighting, insulation, climate control systems, and other building design and construction standards that increase efficiency in the use of energy and water for new residential and new nonresidential buildings. Existing law requires the commission to also develop a public domain computer program that enables contractors, builders, architects, engineers, and government officials to estimate the energy consumed by residential and nonresidential buildings. Existing law regulates the terms and conditions of residential tenancies and imposes various requirements on owners of residential properties and their agents. This bill would grant a prospective tenant the right to obtain from the owner of a residential dwelling unit or the owner's agent a residential energy efficiency disclosure statement for the residential unit offered. The bill also would require the owner of a residential dwelling unit or the owner's agent to make specified residential energy efficiency disclosures to a prospective tenant before entering into a rental agreement with the prospective tenant or requiring or accepting payment for specified fees or writings that would initiate a tenancy, subject to certain exceptions. The bill would make these provisions operative on January 1, 2024. The bill would require the commission, on or before December 31, 2023, to prepare a residential energy efficiency disclosure statement form for owners of residential properties and their agents to use to comply with the above-described disclosure provision, as specified. The bill would require the commission to prepare suggested energy efficiency standards for owners of residential properties and their agents and would require the commission to post and maintain the above-specified information on the internet.
The Personal Income Tax Law, in modified conformity with federal income tax laws, allows various deductions from gross income in computing adjusted gross income under that law. This bill, for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2022, would allow a deduction in computing adjusted gross income in an amount equal to attorney's fees and court costs included in gross income by a taxpayer during the taxable year in connection with any litigation involving a claim of a consumer protection violation, as defined. Existing law requires any bill authorizing a new tax expenditure to contain, among other things, specific goals, purposes, and objectives that the tax expenditure will achieve, detailed performance indicators, and data collection requirements. The bill also would include additional information required for any bill authorizing a new tax expenditure. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
The Guardianship-Conservatorship Law generally establishes the powers and duties of a guardian or conservator of a person, an estate, or both. Under existing law, the court, in its discretion, may make an order granting a guardian or conservator any one or more or of specified powers if the court determines that, under the circumstances of the particular guardianship or conservatorship, it would be to the advantage, benefit, and best interest of the estate to do so. These powers include the right to commence and maintain an action for partition. Existing law requires a conservator seeking authorization to sell a conservatee's present or former personal residence to notify the court of specified information, including that the personal residence is proposed to be sold and that the present or former personal residence is proposed to be sold and that the conservator has discussed the proposed sale with the conservatee. The court may authorize the sale of the personal residence only if it finds by clear and convincing evidence that the conservator demonstrated a compelling need to sell the residence for the benefit of the conservatee. Existing law also authorizes a guardian or conservatee to sell other real or personal property of the estate. This bill would revise the provisions authorizing the sale of a conservatee's present or former personal residence, or the sale of other real or personal property of the estate, to specifically include the power to consent and agree to partition the personal residence or other real or personal property of the estate, and the power to bring an action for partition of the personal residence or other real or personal property of the estate. The bill would subject partition of the conservatee's present or former personal residence to the same conditions as would be applicable to the sale of the residence under existing law.
The California Constitution declares that defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining safety, happiness, and privacy are inalienable rights, and that a person may not be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law or equal protection of the laws. Existing law, the Reproductive Privacy Act, declares that every individual possesses a fundamental right of privacy with respect to personal reproductive decisions and prohibits the state from denying or interfering with a person's right to choose or obtain an abortion before viability of the fetus, or when the abortion is necessary to protect the life or health of the person. This measure would amend the California Constitution to prohibit the state from denying or interfering with an individual's reproductive freedom in their most intimate decisions, which includes their fundamental right to choose to have an abortion and their fundamental right to choose or refuse contraceptives.
(1) Existing law establishes in the Natural Resources Agency the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, consisting of 5 members appointed by the Governor. Existing law requires the commission, among other things, to carry out, or cause to be carried out under contract or other arrangements, research and development into alternative sources of energy, improvements in energy generation, transmission, and siting, fuel substitution, and other topics related to energy supply, demand, public safety, ecology, and conservation that are of particular statewide importance. This bill would require the commission, on or before September 30, 2024, and contingent upon an appropriation of funds by the Legislature, to establish the Carbon Capture Technology Demonstration Project Grant Program, including program goals and objectives, to deploy and commercialize carbon capture technologies that will significantly improve the efficiency, effectiveness, cost, emissions reductions, and environmental performance of existing industrial facilities, natural gas electric generation facilities, and biomass electric generation facilities, as provided. The bill would require the commission to coordinate with specified government entities to establish goals and objectives for the program. This bill would require the commission, on or before January 1, 2025, to provide grants to eligible entities, as defined, for 3 projects that each capture or utilize carbon dioxide from an existing industrial facility, natural gas electric generation facility, or biomass electric generation facility, as provided. The bill would require the commission to develop guidelines and criteria for eligible entities to apply for and receive grants, including, but not limited to, a competitive, merit-based application process that gives priority to eligible entities that are applying for specified federal funding and to projects that substantially improve the efficiency, effectiveness, cost, emissions reductions, and environmental performance of carbon capture or utilization technologies for power, industrial, and other commercial applications. This bill would require the commission, on or before January 1, 2026, and annually thereafter, to publish on its internet website specified information regarding the projects for which the commission awards program funds, including, but not limited to, a detailed update regarding the status of the construction, development, permitting, and operation of the project. This bill would require the commission to convene a task force, as provided, to provide technical and policy assistance to eligible entities to obtain permits and licenses necessary to deploy and commercialize carbon capture technologies consistent with the purpose, goals, and objectives of the program. This bill would require any state agency that establishes, on or after January 1, 2023, a grant program for carbon capture, utilization, or sequestration projects to maximize federal funding for purposes of establishing, implementing, and administering that grant program. The bill would require the commission to maximize federal funding for purposes of establishing, implementing, and administering the program. (2) Existing law defines "public works," for purposes of regulating public works contracts, as, among other things, construction, alteration, demolition, installation, or repair work done under contract and paid for, in whole or in part, out of public funds. Existing law further requires that, except as specified, not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages be paid to workers employed on public works and imposes misdemeanor penalties for a willful violation of this requirement. This bill would require that a project that receives grant funding pursuant to the program constitutes a public works project for which prevailing wages are required to be paid. Because the willful violation of prevailing wage requirements when engaged in these public works projects would result in the imposition of misdemeanor penalties, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require, among other things, an eligible entity, as a condition of receiving a grant, to certify to the commission that a skilled and trained workforce, as defined, perform all work on the project that falls within an apprenticeable occupation in the building and construction trades. Because it would expand the scope of the crime of the penalty of perjury, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require an eligible entity, except as provided, to provide to the commission a monthly report demonstrating compliance with specified skilled and trained workforce requirements, and would subject an eligible entity that fails to provide the monthly report, or use a skilled and trained workforce as required, to specified civil penalties. 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.
Existing law identifies various types of property of a judgment debtor that are exempt from the enforcement of a money judgment. Existing law provides that all of the exemptions that are applicable to the enforcement of a money judgment are applicable in a bankruptcy case, regardless of whether there is a money judgment against the debtor or whether a money judgment is being enforced by execution sale or any other procedure, unless the debtor elects certain alternative exemptions in lieu of all other statutory exemptions provided. Existing law provides that money held in an account owned by the judgment debtor and established pursuant to the Golden State Scholarshare Trust Act is exempt from the enforcement of a money judgment and also as an alternative exemption in a bankruptcy case, and the amount exempted is limited to contributions to the account, as specified, prior to the date of filing of the debtor's petition for bankruptcy, not to exceed the amount of the annual gift exclusion under Section 2503(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, in effect at the time of the contribution. Existing law requires the Judicial Council to adjust, every 3 years, the amounts of the exemptions applicable to exempt property based on the change in the annual California Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers. This bill would specify that the alternative exemption for money held in a Scholarshare account would instead be limited to an amount not to exceed the amount of the annual gift exclusion under Section 2503(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, in effect at the time of filing of the debtor's petition for bankruptcy. The bill would specify that the exemption applicable to the enforcement of a money judgment for money held in a Scholarshare account would instead be limited to contributions to the account, as specified, prior to the date of entry of a money judgment and not to exceed the amount of the annual gift exclusion under Section 2503(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, in effect at the time of entry of the money judgment. The bill would expressly specify that the amounts of these exemptions are not subject to adjustment by the Judicial Council.
This measure would urge the United States Congress and the Department of the Interior and its Bureau of Indian Affairs to reaffirm and restore the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe as a federally recognized Indian tribe and include the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe in the Federal Register as a recognized tribe.
Existing law, referred to as the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act of 1975 (MICRA) , prohibits an attorney from contracting for or collecting a contingency fee for representing any person seeking damages in connection with an action for injury or damage against a health care provider based upon alleged professional negligence in excess of specified limits. This bill would recast those provisions and base the amount of contingency fee that may be contracted for upon whether recovery is pursuant to settlement agreement and release of all claims executed before a civil complaint or demand for arbitration is filed, or pursuant to settlement, arbitration, or judgment after a civil complaint or demand for arbitration is filed, as specified. The bill would add and revise definitions for these purposes. Existing law provides that in any action against a health care provider based upon professional negligence, the injured plaintiff is entitled to recover noneconomic losses to compensate for pain, suffering, inconvenience, physical impairment, disfigurement, and other nonpecuniary damage. Existing law limits the amount of damages for noneconomic losses in an action for injury against a health care provider based on professional negligence to $250,000. This bill would remove the $250,000 limit on noneconomic damages and expand the recast provisions to include an action for injury against a health care institution, as defined. The bill would increase the applicable limitation based upon whether the action for injury involved wrongful death. The bill would specify that these limitations would increase by $40,000 each January 1st for 10 years and beginning on January 1, 2034, the applicable limitations on noneconomic damages for personal injury and for wrongful death would be adjusted for inflation on January 1st of each year by 2%. Existing law specifies that in any action for injury or damages against a provider of health care services, a superior court shall, at the request of either party, enter a judgment ordering that money damages or its equivalent for future damages of the judgment creditor be paid in whole or in part by periodic payments rather than by a lump-sum payment if the award equals or exceeds $50,000. This bill would increase the minimum amount of the judgment required to request periodic payments to $250,000. Existing law makes statements, writings, or benevolent gestures expressing sympathy or a general sense of benevolence relating to the pain, suffering, or death of a person involved in an accident and made to that person, or to the family of that person, inadmissible as evidence of an admission of liability in a civil action. This bill would specify that statements, writings, or benevolent gestures expressing sympathy, regret, a general sense of benevolence, or suggesting, reflecting, or accepting fault relating to the pain, suffering, or death of a person, or to an adverse patient safety event or unexpected health care outcome, as specified, shall be confidential, privileged, protected, not subject to subpoena, discovery, or disclosure, and shall not be used or admitted into evidence in any civil, administrative, regulatory, licensing, or disciplinary board, agency, or body action or proceeding, and shall not be used or admitted in relation to any sanction, penalty, or other liability, as evidence of an admission of liability or for any other purpose.