Sen. Melissa Hurtado

The Nursing Practice Act provides for the licensure and regulation of nurses by the Board of Registered Nursing within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law also requires the board to issue temporary or expedited licenses to specified applicants who hold a current, active, and unrestricted license in another state, district, or territory of the United States, in the profession or vocation for which the applicant seeks a license from the board. This bill would require the board to consult with the department no later than July 1, 2021, and develop recommendations for the implementation of the Nursys online license verification system for verifying the licenses of California nurses seeking to practice outside the state. The bill would require the board to implement those recommendations within a reasonable period.

Existing law establishes various programs to facilitate the expansion of the health care workforce in rural and underserved communities, including, but not limited to, the Health Professions Career Opportunity Program, the California Registered Nurse Education Program, and the Steven M. Thompson Medical School Scholarship Program. This bill would create the California Medicine Scholars Program, a 5-year pilot program commencing January 1, 2022, and would require the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to establish and facilitate the pilot program. The bill would require the pilot program to establish a regional pipeline program for community college students to pursue premedical training and enter medical school, in an effort to address the shortage of primary care physicians in California and the widening disparities in access to care in vulnerable and underserved communities, including building a comprehensive statewide approach to increasing the number and representation of minority primary care physicians in the state. The bill would require the office to contract with a managing agency for the pilot program, as specified. The bill would require the pilot program to consist of 4 Regional Hubs of Health Care Opportunity (RHHO) to achieve its objectives, and would require each RHHO to include, at a minimum, 3 community colleges, one public 4-year undergraduate institution, one public medical school, and 3 local community organizations. The bill would require the managing agency to appoint an objective selection committee, with specified membership, to evaluate prospective RHHO applications and select the RHHOs to participate in the pilot program. The bill would require each selected RHHO to enter into memoranda of understanding between the partnering entities setting forth participation requirements, and to perform other specified duties, including establishing an advisory board to oversee and guide the programmatic direction of the RHHO. The bill would require the selection process to be completed by June 30, 2021. The bill would require each RHHO to recruit and select 50 California Medical Scholars each year from 2022 to 2025, inclusive, in accordance with specified criteria, and to provide, by December 31, 2022, and by that date of each year thereafter, up to and including 2025, a status report on the implementation of the pilot program to the managing agency and the office, including data and information collected by each RHHO during the applicable program year. The bill would require the managing agency and the office to jointly prepare and submit to the Legislature a final report evaluating the success of the pilot program, including the data and information provided by the RHHOs, in accordance with specified metrics. The bill would declare that its provisions are severable. This bill would make these provisions inoperative on June 30, 2026, and would repeal the provisions as of January 1, 2027.

This measure would proclaim September 20, 2020, as Latino Veterans Day.

This measure would designate Monday, May 4, 2020, as California Peace Officers' Memorial Day, urge all Californians to use that day to honor California peace officers, and recognize specified California peace officers who were killed in defense of their communities.

Existing law allows the court to issue a protective order restraining a defendant from any contact with the victim if the defendant has been convicted of a crime of domestic violence, human trafficking, a crime in furtherance of a criminal street gang, or a registerable sex offense. Under existing law, the protective order may be valid for up to 10 years, as determined by the court. Existing law, commencing January 1, 2021, requires a person required to register as a sex offender to register for 10 years, 20 years, or life, depending on the conviction for which the person is required to register. This bill would, commencing July 1, 2022, in cases in which the defendant has been convicted for a felony offense that requires sex offender registration, allow the court to make the protective order valid for up to the duration of the period of registration. Because a violation of the protective order would be a crime, 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.

Under existing law, a person is guilty of disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor, if they intentionally distribute an image that was intended to remain private of the intimate body parts of another or of the person depicted engaged in a sex act, as specified. Existing law requires prosecution for this offense to be commenced within one year after commission of the offense. This bill would instead allow prosecution for this offense to commence within one year of the discovery of the commission of the offense.

Existing law prohibits school officials and employees of a school district, county office of education, or charter school, except as required by state or federal law or as required to administer a state or federally supported educational program, from collecting information or documents regarding citizenship or immigration status of pupils or their family members. Existing law requires the superintendent of a school district, the superintendent of a county office of education, and the principal of a charter school, as applicable, to report to the respective governing board or body of the local educational agency in a timely manner any requests for information or access to a schoolsite by an officer or employee of a law enforcement agency for the purpose of enforcing the immigration laws in a manner that ensures the confidentiality and privacy of any potentially identifying information. Existing law requires the governing board or body of a local educational agency to perform specified actions relating to pupils and immigration status, including, among others, providing information to parents and guardians, as appropriate, regarding their children's right to a free public education, regardless of immigration status or religious beliefs. This bill, for purposes of those provisions, would define "pupil" to mean a child enrolled in a childcare and development program, as defined, transitional kindergarten, kindergarten, or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, that is administered or operated by a local educational agency. To the extent the bill imposes additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the State Department of Education, provides that children from infancy to 13 years of age are eligible for federal and state subsidized child development services if their families meet at least one requirement in each of certain areas. The act requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer general childcare and development programs and requires the department to contract with local contracting agencies, as specified. Existing law requires the Attorney General, by April 1, 2018, in consultation with appropriate stakeholders, to publish model policies limiting assistance with immigration enforcement at public schools, to the fullest extent possible consistent with federal and state law, and ensuring that public schools remain safe and accessible to all California residents, regardless of immigration status. This bill would require the Attorney General, on or before March 31, 2021, in consultation with appropriate stakeholders, to expand upon the above-described published model policy to include model policies limiting assistance with immigration enforcement at childcare and development programs, as defined, to the fullest extent possible consistent with federal and state law, and ensuring that childcare and development programs remain safe and accessible to all California residents, regardless of immigration status. The bill would require the department, on or before June 30, 2021, to issue a management bulletin to childcare and development programs to provide certain information regarding a child's right to be safely enrolled in a childcare and development program, including the model policies established by the Attorney General. The bill would require the department to support childcare and development programs that contract directly with the department for childcare and development services, except licensed or license-exempt family childcare providers, in providing that information to parents and guardians, as appropriate. The bill would also require the department, on or before June 30, 2021, to issue a management bulletin to support those childcare and development programs in adopting the model policies developed by the Attorney General, or their equivalent. The bill would require those childcare and development programs to provide information to providers with whom they contract, including their adopted model policy and protocols for responding to, and interacting with, immigration enforcement agencies or their agents. Commencing July 1, 2021, the bill would require the department, before awarding, renewing, or expanding a contract for childcare and development services, to require those childcare and development programs to submit to the department a copy of their model policy and provider protocols and a copy of the notification to parents and guardians. 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.