Sen. Mike McGuire

This measure would declare the month of September 2023 as California Emergency Preparedness Month.

This measure would designate, in perpetuity, the 4th week of January as Data Privacy Week and the last Sunday of January as Data Privacy Day.

Existing law imposes various duties on local agencies relating to construction and property within its jurisdiction, including by requiring local agencies with jurisdiction to approve excavations to allow microtrenching, as defined, for the installation of underground fiber if the installation in the microtrench is limited to fiber, except as provided. Existing law requires, during the project planning phase of certain department-led construction projects, the Department of Transportation to notify companies and organizations working on broadband deployment of the project on its internet website to encourage collaborative broadband installations. This bill would require, prior to commencing any local agency-led excavation projects, as defined, a city, county, or city and county to notify interested parties of the project on its internet website to encourage collaborative installations of important utilities and infrastructure, including, but not limited to, fiber optic cable, undergrounding utilities, or other important services. By imposing additional duties on cities and counties, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities. 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 the Department of Housing and Community Development in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency and makes the department responsible for administering various housing programs throughout the state, including, among others, the Multifamily Housing Program, the CalHOME Program, and the California Emergency Solutions Grants Program. This bill would enact the Tribal Housing Reconstitution and Resiliency Act and would create the Tribal Housing Grant Program Trust Fund to be administered by the department. The bill would require the fund, upon annual appropriation from the Legislature, to be allocated in accordance with a specified formula, as provided. This bill would authorize the funds to be allocated for specific purposes, including, among others, housing and housing-related program services for affordable housing, housing and community development project costs, and management services for affordable housing. The bill would require the funds to be allocated only for the benefit of eligible beneficiaries, including, among others, Indian and essential families and individuals residing in an Indian area, as defined. This bill would require recipients of the funds to expend all funds allocated to programs and services within 3 years from the date of execution of a funding agreement with the department, and to expend all funds allocated to projects within 5 years from the date of execution of a funding agreement with the department, unless granted an extension by the department, as specified. The bill would require moneys paid and deposited into the Tribal Housing Grant Program Trust Fund to be continuously appropriated on an annual basis for a 5-year period starting January 1, 2024, through December 31, 2028.

Existing law generally regulates mortgages and mortgage servicers, as defined, including the transfer of servicing a borrower's debt to a subsequent mortgage servicer. Existing law provides that a covenant made by an owner or grantee of land to do or refrain from doing some act on the owner's or grantee's land, which doing or refraining is expressed to be for the benefit of the covenantee, is a covenant that runs with the land granted to the covenantor if specified requirements are met. The California Emergency Services Act establishes the effect of a proclamation of a state of emergency, as defined, or a local emergency, as defined. This bill would require a transferor mortgage servicer servicing a mortgage secured by property, as defined, within the geographic limits of a proclaimed state of emergency or local emergency to deliver to a transferee mortgage servicer any material written records between the borrower and the mortgage servicer relating to the borrower's election to use insurance proceeds to repair or replace property damaged by a disaster for which the state of emergency or local emergency was proclaimed, as specified. The bill would prohibit the transferee mortgage servicer from dishonoring a previous written agreement to repair property made prior to the transfer between the transferor mortgage servicer and the borrower and approved by the owner of the promissory note.

(1) Existing law, the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) , approved by the voters at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, regulates the cultivation, distribution, transport, storage, manufacturing, testing, processing, sale, and use of marijuana for nonmedical purposes by people 21 years of age and older. The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA) , among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities. Under existing law, the Department of Cannabis Control may issue cannabis cultivation licenses to commercial cannabis businesses that differ depending on the size of the cultivation site and whether the site is indoor, outdoor, or mixed-light. Existing law requires the department to charge each licensee a licensure and renewal fee, as applicable. This bill would require the department, beginning no later than March 1, 2024, to allow a cultivation licensee to change the type of size of a cultivation license or to place a cultivation license in inactive status. The bill would authorize a licensee, at the license renewal, to change an existing cultivation license to a type with a smaller maximum canopy size, and at each subsequent license renewal, to restore the original type, maintain the type that the license was changed to at the license renewal, or change to a different type with a maximum canopy size smaller than the original type. The bill would prohibit a licensee who holds a license in inactive status from engaging in the cultivation of cannabis, except as specified, would require a license in inactive status to remain in inactive status until the license is next renewed, and would require a licensee who holds a license in inactive status to pay a reduced license fee. The bill would require the department, in implementing these provisions, to allow each licensee a one-time opportunity to change the date of license renewal. (2) AUMA authorizes the Legislature to amend its provisions by a 23 vote of each house if the amendment furthers its purposes and intent. This bill would declare that its provisions further the purposes and intent of AUMA.

Existing law prohibits the name of a candidate for Governor from being printed on the ballot of the direct primary election unless the candidate, at least 88 days before the direct primary election, files with the Secretary of State 2 copies of every income tax return, as defined, the candidate filed with the Internal Revenue Service in the 5 most recent taxable years. Existing law requires the candidate to redact specified information from one copy of each submitted return, and authorizes the candidate to redact additional information as specified. Existing law requires the Secretary of State, within 5 days of receipt, to make the redacted versions of the candidate's tax returns available to the public on the Secretary of State's internet website, and to continuously post the returns until the official canvass for the direct primary election is completed. Existing law requires the Secretary of State to retain the paper copies of the submitted tax returns until the completion of the official canvass of the ensuing general election. This bill would extend these requirements to general elections and recall elections in addition to direct primary elections. The bill would require and authorize redaction of additional information on the returns, as specified. The bill would require the Secretary of State to make the redacted copies of the tax returns public at the time the Secretary of State issues the certified list of candidates for the election. The bill would require the Secretary of State to continuously post the tax returns until the official canvass is completed for the election at which a candidate is elected to the office, except that the tax returns of a candidate who was not nominated to participate in the general election need only be posted until the official canvass for the direct primary election is completed. The bill would require the Secretary of State to retain paper copies of the submitted tax returns until the completion of the official canvass of the election at which a candidate is elected to the office. The bill would exclude transcripts from the Internal Revenue Service and accountant notes from the definition of "income tax return" for these purposes.

Existing federal law, the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988, provides for the negotiation and execution of tribal-state gaming compacts for the purpose of authorizing certain types of gaming on Indian lands within a state. The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to negotiate and conclude those compacts, subject to ratification by the Legislature. Existing law expressly ratifies a number of tribal-state gaming compacts, and amendments to tribal-state gaming compacts, between the State of California and specified Indian tribes. The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project, as defined, that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment, as defined, or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. This bill would ratify the tribal-state gaming compacts entered into between the State of California and the Cahto Tribe of the Laytonville Rancheria, the Ewiiaapaayp Band of Kumeyaay Indians, California, the Manchester Band of Pomo Indians of the Manchester Rancheria, California, the Resighini Rancheria, and the Sherwood Valley Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California. The bill would provide that, in deference to tribal sovereignty, certain actions related to those compacts are not projects for the purposes of CEQA. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.