This measure would designate April 3, 2022, to April 9, 2022, inclusive, as Women and Girls in STEM Week and would encourage all citizens and community organizations to support the observance of California's Women and Girls in STEM Week by encouraging and celebrating women in the STEM fields.
Existing law authorizes a county to establish a homeless adult and family multidisciplinary personnel team, as defined, with the goal of facilitating the expedited identification, assessment, and linkage of homeless individuals to housing and supportive services within that county and to allow provider agencies to share confidential information for the purpose of coordinating housing and supportive services to ensure continuity of care. Existing law authorizes the team to include, among others, housing or homeless services provider agencies, medical personnel, and legal counsel, as specified. This bill would require the Department of Justice, to the extent funding is provided for these purposes, to administer a competitive grant program to enable local law enforcement agencies to establish and operate homeless outreach teams. The bill would require a homeless outreach team funded with a grant to be composed of specified individuals.
Existing law requires specified categories of law enforcement officers to meet training standards pursuant to courses of training certified by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) . Existing law requires POST to require field training officers who are instructors for the field training program to have at least 8 hours of crisis intervention behavioral health training to better train new peace officers on how to effectively interact with persons with mental illness or intellectual disability. This bill would require the commission to revise that training to include instruction on how to effectively interact with persons with Alzheimer's disease or dementia. The bill would specify that a field training officer who completed the training prior to January 1, 2025, or who is exempt from completing the training, is not required to take the updated training, but would require a field training officer who has not completed the training on or after January 1, 2025, or who is not exempt from completing the training, to complete the revised training. This bill would also require the commission, upon the next regularly scheduled review of a training module relating to persons with disabilities, to create and distribute electronically a course on how to recognize and interact with persons with Alzheimer's disease and dementia. The bill would require peace officers appointed on or before July 1, 2029, to complete that course by January 1, 2030, and peace officers appointed after July 1, 2029, to complete that course within 180 days of being appointed, as specified. By creating new duties for local officials, 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, 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 generally requires the State Department of Social Services to license and regulate various types of child daycare facilities, including, among others, daycare centers and family daycare homes. Existing law sets forth various fingerprinting and criminal record clearance requirements for child daycare facilities. Under existing law, a willful or repeated violation of those licensing and regulation provisions is a crime. Existing law exempts from those provisions a public recreation program, which is defined to mean a program that is operated by the state or other specified governmental or educational entities and that meets certain criteria relating to the program's hours of operation and the ages or grades of children served by the program. Existing law requires a public recreation program employer to comply with certain fingerprinting and criminal record summary requirements for its employees who have direct contact with minors. This bill would also exempt a private recreation program, using the same criteria, from the above-described licensing and regulation provisions, except for the fingerprinting and criminal record clearance requirements for child daycare facilities as applied to certain persons who, among other things, provide care and supervision for, or have contact with, children in the private recreation program, and on the condition that they be 18 years of age or older.
(1) Existing law creates the California Interagency Council on Homelessness (council) and requires departments administering state programs created on or after July 1, 2017, to collaborate with the council for the purpose of adopting guidelines and regulations to incorporate core components of Housing First. Existing law defines "Housing First" as an evidence-based model that uses housing as a tool, rather than a reward, for recovery and that centers on providing or connecting homeless people to permanent housing as quickly as possible. Under existing law, Housing First providers offer services as needed and requested on a voluntary basis and do not make housing contingent on participation in services. This bill would require a local government entity to provide specified homelessness information for its jurisdiction to the council by January 1, 2025, including expenditures on homelessness programs and efforts provided to homeless persons within its jurisdiction, as well as related information regarding the funding of these services. The bill would specify how a local government would meet this requirement. This bill would require the council to develop and maintain a publicly available internet website homelessness dashboard for prescribed purposes. The bill would require the council to report to the Legislature, and post to its homelessness dashboard, information related to programs that the state has undertaken to reduce homelessness in California, including federal funding for state and local programs by January 1, 2026. The bill would require a state agency or office responsible for these programs to report data related to the programs, in a form prescribed by the council, to the council no later than January 1, 2025. The bill would require the council to perform a specified assessment of the success or failure of funded and implemented programs addressing homelessness. This bill would express that it is the intent of the Legislature that continuums of care collaborate with local government entities, state agencies, and the council to help collect the required information. The bill would repeal these provisions as of January 1, 2027. By increasing the duties of local government entities, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) 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.
(1) Existing law, the Dig Safe Act of 2016, generally regulates excavations around subsurface installations, defined as any underground pipeline, conduit, duct, wire, or other structure, except nonpressurized sewerlines, nonpressurized storm drains, and other nonpressurized drain lines. The act requires an excavator to comply with specified notification and delineation requirements before starting an excavation. Existing law provides for the enforcement of the act by the California Underground Facilities Safe Excavation Board. Existing law defines the terms "legal excavation start date and time," "working day," and "subsurface installation" for purposes of the act. This bill would revise the definition of "legal excavation start date and time" to, among other things, exclude weekends and holidays. The bill would revise the definition of "subsurface installation" to include nonpressurized sewerlines, nonpressurized storm drains, and other nonpressurized drain lines. The bill would revise the definition of "working day" by the deleting provision limiting the hours from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (2) Existing law requires every operator of a subsurface installation to become a member of, participate in, and share in costs of, a regional notification, except for the Department of Transportation. This bill would require the Department of Transportation, on and after January 1, 2025, to become a member of, participate in, and share in costs of, a regional notification center. (3) Existing law requires an excavator planning to conduct an excavation to delineate the area to be excavated before notifying the appropriate regional notification center. Existing law authorizes an operator, if the area is not delineated, to choose not to locate and field mark until the area to be excavated has been delineated. This bill would delete the authorization for the operator to choose not to locate and field mark until the area has been delineated. The bill would instead provide that if the operator has questions about the delineation that the excavator has placed, to contact the excavator for clarification. (4) Existing law, except in an emergency, authorizes an excavator planning to conduct an excavation on private property that does not require an excavation permit to contact a regional notification center if the private property is known, or reasonably should be known, to contain a subsurface installation other than the underground facility owned or operated by the excavator. Existing law requires an excavator to delineate the area to be excavated before notifying the regional notification center. This bill would specify that if the area is not delineated, an operator may choose not to locate and field mark until the area has been delineated. (5) Existing law, unless an emergency exists, prohibits an excavator from beginning excavation until, among other things, the excavator receives a response from all known operators of subsurface installations within the delineated boundaries of the proposed area of excavation. This bill would instead prohibit an excavator from beginning excavation until the excavator receives an electronic positive response from subsurface installations that are listed on a specified ticket. (6) Existing law requires an operator to take one of specified actions before the legal excavation start date and time, including locating and field marking within the area delineated for excavation and, where multiple subsurface installations of the same type are known to exist together, mark the number of subsurface installations. Existing law requires an operator or local agency to contact the excavator before pavement removal if an operator or local agency knows that it has a subsurface installation embedded or partially embedded in the pavement that is not visible from the surface. This bill would authorize an operator, if the excavation or work type is pavement grinding limited to removal of a portion of the solid pavement of a road or sidewalk surface, to locate and field mark, or provide information on the location of, subsurface installations known to be embedded in the pavement. (7) Existing law requires every operator to supply an electronic positive response through the regional notification center before the legal excavation start date and time. Existing law authorizes the board to extend the time by which the operator is required to comply with that requirement, and requires the board to determine which facts or circumstances constitute good cause. This bill would delete the provision authorizing the board to extend the deadline upon a showing of good cause. (8) Existing law authorizes an excavator to use a vacuum excavation device to expose subsurface installations within the tolerance zone if certain requirements are met, including if the operator has marked the subsurface installation, the excavator has contacted any operator whose subsurface installations may be in conflict with the excavation. This bill would revise the requirements for an excavator to use vacuum equipment, including requiring the vacuum equipment to be designed, engineered, and purpose built for vacuum excavation work. The bill would require an operator not agreeing to use vacuum excavation to include that information on their electronic positive response. (9) Existing law requires an excavator discovering or causing damage to a subsurface installation to immediately notify the subsurface installation operator. Existing law requires an excavator to call 911 emergency services upon discovering or causing damage to a high priority subsurface installation or to a gas or hazardous liquid pipeline resulting in escape of flammable, toxic, or corrosive gas or liquid. Existing law requires the excavator to notify the regional notification center within 48 hours of causing the damage. This bill would instead require an excavator discovering or causing excavation-related damage to a subsurface installation that may endanger life or cause serious bodily harm or damage to property to immediately call 911 emergency services, immediately notify the subsurface installation operator, and comply with any guidance to secure the scene. The bill would require the excavator to contact the regional notification center to obtain the contact information of the subsurface installation operator. The bill would require the excavator to notify the board within 2 hours of discovering or causing damage to any subsurface installation. This bill would require an excavator discovering or causing damage to a subsurface installation that may not immediately endanger life or cause serious bodily harm or damage to property to comply with specified other requirements, including notifying the subsurface installation operator within one hour, and within 2 hours of discovering or causing damage, to notify the board of the damage through the web portal on the regional notification center internet website or the board's internet website. (10) Existing law authorizes a local agency that is required to provide specified service to charge a fee to cover the cost of providing the service. This would revise services for which a local agency may charge a fee. The bill would require a local agency to consider specified factors with respect to charging fees, including whether the fee could deter an excavator from contracting the regional notification center. By imposing new duties on local agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (11) Existing law requires statewide information provided by operators and excavators regarding incident events to be compiled and made available in an annual report by regional notification centers and posted on the internet websites of the regional notification centers and made available to the board upon request. This bill would instead require that statewide information be compiled and made available in an annual report by the board and posted on the board's internet website. The bill would require the California Regional Common Ground Alliance to provide statewide information to the board by April 15 each year. (12) Existing law provides that an excavator who damages a subsurface installation due to an inaccurate field mark by an operator or third party under contract with the operator is not liable for damages to the subsurface installation if the excavator complied with specified provisions. Existing law defines "inaccurate field mark" as a mark that did not correctly indicate the approximate location of a subsurface installation affected by an excavation. This bill would define "approximate location" for purposes of those provisions. (13) 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 establishes various programs to provide assistance to homeless persons, including, among others, the Emergency Housing and Assistance Program and homeless youth emergency service pilot projects. Existing law also establishes the California Interagency Council on Homelessness to oversee the implementation of Housing First guidelines and regulations, and, among other things, identify resources, benefits, and services that can be accessed to prevent and end homelessness in California. This bill would require the California Health and Human Services Agency to convene a working group that includes representatives from all departments and agencies that currently receive funding relating to services for homeless individuals. The bill would require the working group to determine the best approach to creating a Department of Homelessness Prevention, Outreach, and Support and to submit its findings and recommendations to the Legislature no later than January 1, 2024. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2024.
Existing law establishes healing arts boards in the Department of Consumer Affairs to ensure private businesses and professions deemed to engage in activities which have potential impact upon the public health, safety, and welfare are adequately regulated in order to protect the people of California. Existing law requires each healing arts board to issue inactive licenses to holders of active licenses whose license is not punitively restricted by that board. Existing law prohibits the holder of an inactive license from engaging in any activity for which an active license is required. Existing law requires the renewal fee for an active license to apply to an inactive license, unless the board establishes a lower fee. This bill would instead require the renewal fee for an inactive license to be 12 of the amount of the fee for a renewal of an active license, unless the board establishes a lower fee. The bill would make conforming and other nonsubstantive changes.
The Political Reform Act of 1974 provides for the comprehensive regulation of campaign financing, including requiring the reporting of campaign contributions and expenditures and imposing other reporting and recordkeeping requirements on campaign committees. Under existing law, the Fair Political Practices Commission has primary responsibility for the impartial, effective administration and implementation of the Political Reform Act of 1974. Existing law makes a knowing or willful violation of the Political Reform Act of 1974 a misdemeanor and subjects offenders to criminal penalties. Under existing law, a person who files an original statement or report after a deadline imposed by the Political Reform Act of 1974 is liable in the amount of $10 per day after the deadline until the statement or report is filed, as specified. Existing law authorizes a filing officer to not impose this liability if the officer determines that the late filing was not willful and that enforcement of the liability will not further the purposes of the act, except as specified. Existing regulation directs the commission to develop a diversion program to allow for the education of a person who commits a minor violation of the act, as specified. This bill would authorize the commission to establish and administer a political reform education program as an alternative to an administrative proceeding, as specified. The bill would establish eligibility requirements for the political reform education program, including that the person has little or no experience with the act and that the violation resulted in minimal or no public harm. The bill would prohibit the commission from pursuing administrative action against a person if they completed the political reform education program, as specified. The bill would authorize the commission to impose additional eligibility requirements for participation in the program. The bill would authorize the commission to charge a fee to program participants in an amount not to exceed the reasonable cost to administer the political reform education program. The bill would require the fee be paid to the General Fund. The bill would express the intent of the Legislature to appropriate funds annually to the commission to administer the political reform education program. The bill would prohibit a filing officer from imposing the $10 per day liability if the person who filed the late report or statement completes the political reform education program. The Political Reform Act of 1974, an initiative measure, provides that the Legislature may amend the act to further the act's purposes upon a 23 vote of each house of the Legislature and compliance with specified procedural requirements. This bill would declare that it furthers the purposes of the act. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law defines the crime of human trafficking and imposes a penalty of at least 5, 8, or 12 years in state prison and a fine of not more than $500,000. This bill would prohibit plea bargaining in a case in which the indictment or information charges the crime of human trafficking and it is alleged that the victim is a minor, unless there is insufficient evidence to prove the people's case, or testimony of a material witness cannot be obtained, or a reduction or dismissal would not result in a substantial change in sentence. By increasing the penalty for 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.
