Existing law requires a continuing care retirement facility, as defined, to possess a certificate of authority issued by the State Department of Social Services before it can enter into a continuing care contract, as defined. Existing law requires that a continuing care contract be in writing and contain specified information. Existing law provides that a continuing care contract may be canceled without cause by written notice from either party within 90 days of the resident's initial occupancy. Existing law requires a provider to pay, during the cancellation period, all refunds owed to a resident within 14 days after a resident makes possession of the living unit available to the provider. Existing law requires a provider to pay a lump-sum payment that is conditioned upon resale of a unit to a resident within 14 days after resale of the unit. This bill would define a repayable contract as a continuing care contract that includes a promise to repay all or a portion of an entrance fee that is conditioned upon reoccupancy or resale of the unit previously occupied by the resident. The bill would require any amount owed that is not paid to a resident or the resident's estate within 180 days after termination of a repayable contract to accrue simple interest at a rate of 4% until the full amount owed is paid. The bill would require any amount owed that is not paid to a resident or the resident's estate within 240 days after termination of a repayable contract to accrue simple interest at a rate of 6% until the full amount owed is paid. The bill would require any amount owed that is not paid to a resident or the resident's estate within one year after the 240-day period to accrue compound interest annually at a rate of 6% until the amount owed is paid. The bill would provide that the above-mentioned provisions apply only to repayable contracts entered into on or after January 1, 2017. The bill would provide that, until January 1, 2018, these provisions do not apply to specified projects that are in development prior to January 1, 2017, provided that the initial contract for the project is entered into on or before January 1, 2018. The bill would provide that the repayment by a provider of all or a portion of an entrance fee before the resale of a unit would not subject any other entrance fee to the refund reserve requirements, except as provided. The bill would make corresponding changes to require a continuing care contract to contain a statement that a provider is prohibited from charging the resident or his or her estate a monthly fee once a unit has been permanently vacated by the resident, unless the fee is part of an equity interest contract. The bill would also require a continuing care contract that provides for a refund or repayment of a lump sum of all or part of the entrance fee to include a statement that the provider will make a good-faith effort to reoccupy or resell a unit for which a lump-sum payment is conditioned upon resale of the unit.
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Existing law requires a hosting platform, as defined, to provide a specific notice to an occupant listing a residence for short-term rental on a hosting platform that states, among other things, that, if the occupant is a tenant, listing the room, home, condominium, or apartment may violate the lease or contract and could result in legal action by the landlord, including possible eviction. Existing law requires the notice to be in a particular font size and be provided immediately before the occupant lists each real property on the hosting platform's Internet Web site in a manner that requires the occupant to interact with the hosting platform's Internet Web site to affirmatively acknowledge he or she has read the notice. This bill would require that notice to also be provided to mobilehome offerors and include a statement advising the offeror to review any restrictions on coverage under the offeror's homeowners' or renters' insurance policy related to short-term rental activities, as specified, and would make technical and conforming changes.
This measure would urge the Congress of the United States to lift an existing prohibition against publicly funded scientific research on the causes of gun violence and its effects on public health, and to appropriate funds for the purpose of conducting that research.
This measure would proclaim March 2016 to be Arts Education Month and would encourage all elected officials to participate with their educational communities in celebrating the arts.
Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to make specified findings before commencing the acquisition of real property for a new schoolsite in an area designated in a city, county, or city and county general plan for agricultural use and zoned for agricultural production, including a finding that the school district has notified and consulted with the city, county, or city and county within which the prospective schoolsite is to be located and that the school district will attempt to minimize any public health and safety issues resulting from the neighboring agricultural uses that may affect the pupils and employees at the schoolsite. This bill would require the school district to include within its findings that it has notified and consulted with the city, county, or city and county, including, but not limited to, the county agricultural commissioner. The bill would additionally require the school district to make a finding that the school district will attempt to minimize any land use incompatibilities that may arise when using a portion of land in an area zoned for agricultural production for a purpose other than agricultural use. Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district, by a 23 vote of its members, to render a city or county zoning ordinance inapplicable to a proposed use of school district property, except if the proposed use is for nonclassroom facilities. This bill would additionally condition this authorization upon compliance with a notice requirement regarding a schoolsite on agricultural land, and would require the governing board to notify the city or county, in writing, of the reason the governing board intends to take that vote at least 30 days prior to the vote. The bill would also require that vote to be based upon written findings that a zoning ordinance fails to accommodate the need to renovate and expand an existing public school or locate a new public school within the city or county.
This bill would call a special election to be consolidated with the November 8, 2016, statewide general election. The bill would require the Secretary of State to submit to the voters at the November 8, 2016, consolidated election a voter instruction asking whether California's elected officials should use all of their constitutional authority, including proposing and ratifying one or more amendments to the United States Constitution, to overturn Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010) 558 U.S. 310, and other applicable judicial precedents, as specified. The bill would require the Secretary of State to communicate the results of this election to the Congress of the United States. The bill would require the Secretary of State, if prohibited by court order from submitting the voter instruction to the voters at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, as specified, to submit the voter instruction to the voters at the next occurring election. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an act calling an election.
Existing law establishes the Monterey County Water Resources Agency as a flood control and water agency within the County of Monterey. Existing law authorizes the agency to award a design-build contract for the combined design and construction of a project to connect Lake San Antonio, located in the County of Monterey, and Lake Nacimiento, located in the County of San Luis Obispo, with an underground tunnel or pipeline for the purpose of maximizing water storage, supply, and groundwater recharge. This bill would appropriate $10,000,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Water Resources and would require the department to grant the $10,000,000 to the agency for the purpose of constructing a water conveyance tunnel between Lake Nacimiento and Lake San Antonio and spillway modifications at Lake San Antonio, as specified. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Monterey County Water Resources Agency. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law requires the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation to establish and maintain a worker and occupational safety and health training and education program and requires the Director of Industrial Relations to establish an insurance loss control services coordinator position, to be funded from the Workers' Occupational Safety and Health Education Fund. Existing law requires the director to levy and collect fees from workers' compensation insurers for purposes of the program, with the fees to be deposited in the fund. Existing law prohibits the fee assessed against any insurer from exceeding the greater of $100 or a specified percentage of paid workers' compensation indemnity amounts for claims reported in the previous year, as specified. Moneys in the fund are available for expenditure for the above purposes upon appropriation by the Legislature. This bill would revise the calculation of the fee described above to also include a specified percentage of paid workers' compensation medical amounts for claims reported in the previous year and would deposit those additional moneys in the Workers' Occupational Safety and Health Education Fund. The bill would authorize specified collaborative work by the commission in connection with its training and education program. The bill would expand the list of purposes of the training and education program, which would be referred to as the Worker Occupational Safety and Health Training and Education Program, or WOSHTEP, to increase the number of, and assure continued capacity of, specified organizations to train workers and provide services. The bill would require, as part of WOSHTEP, that the commission collaborate with the Occupational Health Branch of the State Department of Public Health and the University of California occupational health centers, as specified. The bill would repeal duplicative provisions. This bill would include a change in state statute that would result in a taxpayer paying a higher tax within the meaning of Section 3 of Article XIIIA of the California Constitution, and thus would require for passage the approval of 23 of the membership of each house of the Legislature.
This measure would proclaim the month of February 2016 as Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month, and would encourage all Californians to observe Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month with programs and activities that raise awareness about teen dating violence.
The End of Life Option Act, as enacted in the 2015–16 2nd Extraordinary Session of the Legislature, authorizes, until January 1, 2026, an adult who meets certain qualifications, and who has been determined by his or her attending physician to be suffering from a terminal disease, as defined, to make a request for a drug prescribed pursuant to the act for the purpose of ending his or her life through self-administration of the drug. The act establishes certain procedures for making a request, prohibits certain agreements or policies from being conditioned upon or affected by a request, and provides immunity from civil or criminal liability, with exceptions, to persons present when the qualified individual self-administers the drug or to persons preparing the drug. The act provides that action taken in accordance with the act shall not constitute, among other things, suicide or homicide. The act requires physicians to submit specified forms and information to the State Department of Public Health after writing a prescription for an aid-in-dying drug and after the death of an individual who requested an aid-in-dying drug. The act authorizes the Medical Board of California to update those forms. The act requires the State Department of Public Health to publish the forms on its Internet Web site, collect and review certain information, annually create a statistical report of the information collected, as specified, and post that report on its Internet Web site. This bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2017, to post a toll-free telephone number on its Internet Web site for the purpose of receiving and responding to inquiries in multiple languages regarding the End of Life Option Act, as specified.