Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) , working with the State Air Resources Board and the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) , to prepare a statewide assessment of the electric vehicle charging infrastructure needed to support the levels of electric vehicle adoption required for the state to meet its goals of putting at least 5 million zero-emission vehicles on California roads by 2030, and of reducing emissions of greenhouse gases to 40% below 1990 levels by 2030. Existing law require the Energy Commission to update the assessment at least once every 2 years. This bill would require the Energy Commission, as a part of each update to the assessment, to conduct an assessment of certain factors and how those factors will affect the market for and technological development of electric vehicles and infrastructure. The bill would require the Energy Commission to convene the EV Infrastructure Council, which the bill would establish, to develop, by January 1, 2022, an Electric Vehicle Charging Master Plan, as specified. The bill would require the Energy Commission to update the plan at least once every 2 years. The bill would establish a goal of the state to deploy no less than 250,000 publicly available electric vehicle charging station plugs by 2025 and would require the commission to develop an electric vehicle charging station deployment goal to support 5 million zero-emission vehicles by 2030. Existing law requires the Energy Commission to administer the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program to provide financial assistance to various entities for those entities to develop and deploy innovative technologies that transform California's fuel and vehicle types to help attain the state's climate change policies. Existing law requires the PUC, in consultation with the state board and the Energy Commission, to direct electrical corporations to file applications for programs and investments to accelerate widespread transportation electrification. Existing law requires the PUC to approve, or modify and approve, those programs and investments if they meet certain requirements. This bill would require the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program and those programs and investments required by the PUC to accelerate widespread transportation electrification to be consistent with the Electric Vehicle Charging Master Plan that would be developed by the council.
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Existing law imposes various requirements on voting locations that qualify as "vote centers," including the number of locations that must be open and their hours of operation, and the requirements that they provide ballot dropoff boxes, voting machines for persons with disabilities, and conditional voter registration. Existing law authorizes the County of Los Angeles to conduct any election as a vote center election if, among other requirements, every permanent vote by mail voter receives a ballot. This bill would instead require that for Los Angeles County to conduct an election as a vote center election, every registered voter must receive a vote by mail ballot. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law, until January 1, 2025, authorizes local agencies, as defined, to use the design-build procurement process for specified public works projects with prescribed cost thresholds. Existing law states that it is the intent of the Legislature that existing law provides general authorization for local agencies to use design-build for certain projects. Existing law establishes procedures for a contract awarded under these provisions on the basis of best value, including a requirement that competitive proposals be evaluated by using only the criteria and selection procedures specifically identified in the request for proposals. Existing law further requires that prescribed minimum factors be weighted as the local agency deems appropriate. This bill would modify the intent of the Legislature to specify that design-build for these purposes includes conventional, progressive, and target price. The bill, with regard to best value evaluation, would require the prescribed minimum factors be included only if applicable to the delivery method.
Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. The board of governors appoints the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to serve as the segment's chief executive officer. The segment comprises 73 community college districts and a total of 115 community colleges throughout the state. Existing law requires the California Community Colleges and the California State University, and requests the University of California and private postsecondary institutions, to adopt a common course numbering system for the 20 highest-demand majors in the respective segments. This bill would establish the Los Angeles County Community Colleges Common Course Numbering Pilot Project, and would require the chancellor to convene a pilot project task force. The bill would require the task force to develop a common course numbering system in the subjects of mathematics and language arts. The bill would require the chancellor to invite designated community college districts, all of which are located in Los Angeles County, to participate in the task force. The bill would require the task force to complete its work no later than December 31, 2021, and would require the chancellor to submit a report on that work to the Legislature no later than March 31, 2022, as specified.
Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of employment. Existing law requires every employer, for purposes of workers' compensation, to establish a utilization review process to prospectively, retrospectively, or concurrently review and approve, modify, or deny, based in whole or in part on medical necessity to cure and relieve, treatment recommendations by physicians prior to, retrospectively, or concurrent with the provision of medical treatment services, as provided. Existing law requires, for all dates of injury occurring on or after January 1, 2018, emergency treatment services and medical treatment rendered for a body part or condition that is accepted as compensable by the employer and is addressed by the medical treatment utilization schedule, as specified, to be authorized without prospective utilization review, except as provided, within the 30 days following the initial date of injury. Existing law requires the administrative director to contract with an outside, independent research organization on or after March 1, 2019, to evaluate the impact of the provision of medical treatment within the first 30 days after a claim is filed, for a claim filed on or after January 1, 2017, and before January 1, 2019. Existing law requires the report to be provided to the administrative director, the Senate Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations, and the Assembly Committee on Insurance before January 1, 2020. This bill, instead, would require the evaluation to cover a claim filed on or after January 1, 2017, and before January 1, 2021, and would require the report to be submitted to the administrative director and those legislative committees before January 1, 2022.
(1) Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for school districts and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified. Existing law requires funding pursuant to the local control funding formula to include, in addition to a base grant, supplemental and concentration grant add-ons that are based on the percentage of pupils who are English learners, foster youth, or eligible for free or reduced-price meals, as specified, served by the school district or charter school. Existing law authorizes schools participating in certain federal school meals programs to establish a base year for purposes of calculating the number of pupils at the school who are eligible for free or reduced-price meals by determining each pupil's eligibility status in that base year and using that number to report eligibility for up to each of the following 3 school years. This bill would additionally allow schools participating in those federal school meals programs to establish a base year by carrying over the number of pupils at the school who were eligible for free or reduced-price meals from the school year in which the school applied to use a federal universal school meal provision. (2) Existing law requires a school district or county superintendent of schools maintaining kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to provide a needy pupil with one nutritionally adequate free or reduced-price meal during each schoolday, and authorizes the school district or county superintendent of schools to use funds available from any federal or state school meals program to comply with that requirement. Existing law sets the reimbursement rates a school receives for free or reduced-price meals sold or served to pupils in elementary, middle, or high schools in the annual Budget Act in prescribed amounts. Existing law generally requires a school district or a county superintendent of schools to provide breakfast and lunch free of charge to all pupils at a very high poverty school, as defined. This bill would provide that, on and after July 1, 2021, a school district, county superintendent of schools, or charter school that participates in a specified school meal service provision under federal law at a high poverty school, as defined, in its jurisdiction qualifies for supplemental state reimbursement, calculated as prescribed. The bill would require the supplemental state reimbursement to be provided, upon appropriation by the Legislature, in addition to existing state reimbursement for school meals.
Existing law, the California Emergency Services Act, authorizes the Governor to declare a state of emergency, and local officials and local governments to declare a local emergency, when specified conditions of disaster or extreme peril to the safety of persons and property exist, and authorizes the Governor or the appropriate local government to exercise certain powers in response to that emergency. Existing law defines the term "state of emergency" and "local emergency" to mean a duly proclaimed existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the state caused by, among other things, fire, storm, riot, or cyberterrorism. This bill would additionally include an electromagnetic pulse attack among those conditions constituting a state of emergency or local emergency.
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. The California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program requires the commission to establish a renewables portfolio standard requiring all retail sellers, defined to include electrical corporations, electric service providers, and community choice aggregators, to procure a minimum quantity of electricity products from eligible renewable energy resources, as defined, so that the total kilowatthours of those products sold to their retail end-use customers achieves 25% of retail sales by December 31, 2016, 33% by December 31, 2020, 44% by December 31, 2024, 52% by December 31, 2027, and 60% by December 31, 2030. The California Renewables Portfolio Standard program additionally requires every electrical corporation to file with the commission a standard tariff for electricity purchased from an electric generation facility, as defined, that qualifies for the tariff, is owned and operated by a retail customer of the electrical corporation, and is located within the service territory of, and developed to sell electricity to, the electrical corporation. The commission refers to this requirement as the renewable feed-in tariff. Existing law requires that the tariff provide for payment for every kilowatthour of electricity purchased from an electric generation facility for a period of 10, 15, or 20 years, as authorized by the commission, requires that the payment be the market price determined by the commission using a methodology established by the commission that considers specified matters, and requires the price to include all current and anticipated environmental compliance costs. This bill would authorize the commission, in its discretion, to instead determine payment through competitive solicitations held not less often than biannually by electrical corporations, or by any other mechanism determined by the commission.
Existing law generally requires that not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages, determined by the Director of Industrial Relations, be paid to workers employed on public works projects. Existing law defines "public works" to include, 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, but exempts from that definition, among other projects, an otherwise private development project if the state or political subdivision provides, directly or indirectly, a public subsidy to the private development project that is de minimis in the context of the project. Existing law, until January 1, 2024, further exempts graffiti abatement work performed pursuant to a contract between the City of Los Angeles and a nonprofit community-based organization from the requirement to pay a prevailing wage of per diem wages provided that the work is performed by certain persons. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Existing law establishes the Student Aid Commission as the primary state agency for the administration of state-authorized student financial aid programs available to students attending all segments of postsecondary education. Existing law establishes the Public Interest Attorney Loan Repayment Program, under the administration of the commission, as a student loan repayment program for licensed attorneys who practice or agree to practice in public interest areas of the law, as defined and who meet other designated criteria. Under the program, participants are eligible for a maximum of $11,000 in loan assistance for 4 years, as specified. An applicant for the program is required to apply for student loan repayment assistance from the applicant's educational institution, and only if the applicant receives no loan payment assistance or only partial assistance from other available sources, may the applicant apply to the program. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the provisions relating to student loan assistance from other sources.