Existing provisions of the Warren-911-Emergency Assistance Act establish the number "911" as the primary emergency telephone number for use in the state and require the provision of enhanced service capable of selective routing, automatic number identification, or automatic location identification. The act requires a telephone corporation serving rural telephone areas that cannot provide enhanced 911 emergency telephone service capable of selective routing, automatic number identification, or automatic location identification to present to the Office of Emergency Services a comprehensive plan detailing a schedule by which their facilities will be converted to be compatible with the enhanced emergency telephone system. This bill would require the Office of Emergency Services, on or before July 1, 2020, to adopt, by regulation, appropriate thresholds for what constitutes a community isolation outage, as provided, and issue a specified notice for that regulation by January 1, 2020. The bill would, upon the adoption of those regulations, require a provider of telecommunications services, as defined, that provides access to 911 service to notify the office, as provided, whenever a community isolation outage limiting the provider's customers' ability to make 911 calls or receive emergency notifications occurs, within 60 minutes of discovering the outage. The bill would make the office responsible for notifying any applicable county office of emergency services, the sheriff of any county, and any public safety answering point affected by the outage. The bill would require the community isolation outage notification to the office to be provided by a medium specified by the office, and to include the telecommunications service provider's contact name, a calling number to be staffed as specified, a description of the estimated area affected, and the approximate communities affected by the outage. The bill would require the telecommunications service provider to notify the office of the estimated time to repair the outage and when service is restored. The bill would require the office, except as provided, to keep the community isolation outage notifications confidential. Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
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Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations and telephone corporations. Local publicly owned electric utilities are under the direction of their governing boards. Electrical cooperatives are subject to the regulatory authority of the commission, except as specified. Existing law requires each electrical corporation to annually prepare a wildfire mitigation plan and to submit its plan to the commission for review and approval, as specified. Existing law requires each local publicly owned electric utility and electrical cooperative, before January 1, 2020, and annually thereafter, to prepare a wildfire mitigation plan and to verify that the wildfire mitigation plan complies with all applicable rules, regulations, and standards, as appropriate. Existing law requires that the wildfire mitigation plans include, among other things, appropriate and feasible procedures for notifying a customer who may be impacted by the deenergizing of electrical lines and requires that the procedures consider the need to notify, as a priority, critical first responders, health care facilities, and operators of telecommunications infrastructure. This bill would require that the procedures for notifying a customer who may be impacted by the deenergizing of electrical lines by a local publicly owned electric utility, an electrical cooperative, or an electrical corporation direct notification to all public safety offices, critical first responders, health care facilities, and operators of telecommunications infrastructure with premises within the footprint of potential deenergization for a given event. The bill would require each electrical corporation to also include protocols for the deenergization of the electrical corporation's transmission infrastructure in the wildfire mitigation plan, for instances when the deenergization may impact customers who, and entities that, are dependent upon the infrastructure. The bill would require a facilities-based mobile telephony services provider to undertake specified steps in preparation for receiving notifications regarding the deenergization of electrical lines. The bill would require a facilities-based mobile telephony services provider, upon receipt of a notification regarding the deenergization of electrical lines, to communicate relevant situational information relative to communications capabilities during the projected outage to electrical corporations, local publicly owned electric utilities, electrical cooperatives, and appropriate public safety stakeholders, including, but not limited to, public safety offices and emergency response offices, for the affected area. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 8386 of the Public Utilities Code proposed by SB 70 and SB 167, contingent on the prior enactment of one or both of those bills. Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime. Because certain provisions of this bill would be a part of the act and because a violation of an order or decision of the commission implementing the bill's requirements would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime. 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.
Existing law establishes the California Broadband Council in state government for the purpose of promoting broadband deployment in unserved and underserved areas of the state and broadband adoption throughout the state, imposes specified duties on the council relating to that purpose, and specifies the membership of the council. This bill would add the Secretary of Food and Agriculture, or the secretary's designee, the State Librarian, or the librarian's designee, and the Governor's Tribal Advisor, or the advisor's designee, to the membership of the council.
(1) Existing law regulating commercial fishing imposes, or authorizes the imposition of, various license, permit, and registration fees. Existing law requires specified persons to pay landing fees relating to the sale of fish quarterly to the Department of Fish and Wildlife, based on a rate schedule applicable to listed aquatic species. Existing law authorizes the department to assess a fee on persons growing aquaculture products on public lands and in public waters based on the price per pound of the products sold, not to exceed the rates provided in the rate schedule applicable to wild-caught aquatic species. Under existing law, the changes in the Implicit Price Deflator for State and Local Government Purchases of Goods and Services, as published by the United States Department of Commerce, is used as the index to determine an annual rate of increase or decrease in the fees for licenses, stamps, permits, tags, or other entitlements issued by the Department of Fish and Wildlife. This bill would make that landing fee rate schedule applicable to the 2020 calendar year, and require that the schedule be adjusted annually thereafter pursuant to that specified federal index. (2) Existing law provides for the appointment of a 5-member commercial salmon fishing review board to function as an advisory body to the Department of Fish and Wildlife regarding commercial salmon fishing. This bill would eliminate the review board and would make conforming changes. (3) Existing law makes it unlawful to take or possess salmon for commercial purposes on a vessel unless the owner of the vessel has a valid commercial salmon vessel permit for the use of that vessel. Existing law authorizes a vessel owner to apply to the Department of Fish and Wildlife to transfer a commercial salmon vessel permit to a replacement vessel, and requires the department to issue the permit for use of the replacement vessel if it determines, among other things, that the replacement vessel has the same fishing potential as, or less fishing potential than, the permitted vessel. Existing law requires the department to establish and adopt a vessel classification system to determine the fishing potential of replacement vessels for an application to transfer a permit. For applications to transfer a permit to a replacement vessel, this bill would instead require the department to determine the fishing potential of the permitted vessel and the replacement vessel by multiplying the length of the vessel by the breadth of the vessel by the depth of the vessel based on figures provided to the department in a vessel marine survey conducted by a licensed marine surveyor or on a current certificate of documentation issued by the United States Coast Guard. The bill would make other related changes with regard to the transferability of these permits. (4) Existing law provides that no person shall use a vessel to take, possess, or land Dungeness crab for commercial purposes using Dungeness crab traps without a Dungeness crab vessel permit. Existing law establishes one category of Dungeness crab vessel permit that becomes null and void upon the death of the permittee. Existing law prohibits the transfer of a Dungeness crab vessel permit except under certain circumstances. This bill would further restrict the transfer of the above-described category of Dungeness crab vessel permit by prohibiting the transfer of these permits under 3 of the authorized methods of transferring a Dungeness crab vessel permit. The bill would make other changes to 2 of the authorized methods of transferring a Dungeness crab vessel permit. (5) Existing law governs the sea cucumber fishery in this state. Under existing law, sea cucumbers cannot be taken, possessed aboard a boat, or landed by a person for commercial purposes except under a valid sea cucumber permit issued by the Department of Fish and Wildlife. The Fish and Game Commission is authorized to adopt regulations that it determines may reasonably be necessary to protect the sea cucumber resource and ensure a sustainable sea cucumber fishery or to enhance enforcement activities. A violation of these provisions or regulations adopted pursuant to those provisions is a crime. Existing law makes these provisions inoperative on April 1, 2020. This bill would extend the operation of those provisions until April 1, 2030. Because this bill would extend the operation of the sea cucumber permit program and thereby the crimes imposed for a violation of those provisions, the bill would create a state-mandated local program. (6) Existing law requires the Department of Fish and Wildlife, by June 30, 2019, and until April 1, 2029, to establish a retrieval permit that grants a person who obtains a retrieval permit the authority to retrieve Dungeness crab traps located in ocean waters belonging to another person without written permission from that person during the closed season of the Dungeness crab commercial fishery. Existing law authorizes the Director of Fish and Wildlife to restrict the take of Dungeness crab under specified circumstances to reduce the risk of marine life entanglement. This bill would also authorize a retrieval permitholder to retrieve Dungeness crab traps during a period of time in which the director restricts the take of Dungeness crab to reduce the risk of marine entanglement if the director authorizes retrieval permitholders to retrieve traps during that time period. (7) Existing law, the California Coastal Act of 1976, establishes the California Coastal Commission and prescribes the powers and responsibilities of the commission with regard to the regulation of development along the California coast. The act requires any person wishing to perform or undertake any development in the coastal zone, as defined, to obtain a coastal development permit, except as provided. This bill, by December 31, 2020, would require the commission, in consultation with the Department of Fish and Wildlife, any other state agency relevant to coastal permitting, and stakeholders, to develop guidance for applicants for coastal development permits for shellfish, seaweed, and other low-trophic mariculture production and restoration, as specified. The bill would repeal these provisions on July 1, 2021. (8) 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.
Existing law, as established in the case of Dynamex Operations W. Inc. v. Superior Court (2018) 4 Cal.5th 903 (Dynamex) , creates a presumption that a worker who performs services for a hirer is an employee for purposes of claims for wages and benefits arising under wage orders issued by the Industrial Welfare Commission. Existing law requires a 3-part test, commonly known as the "ABC" test, to establish that a worker is an independent contractor for those purposes. AB 5 of the 2019–20 Regular Session states the intent of the Legislature to codify the decision in the Dynamex case and clarify its application. AB 5 provides that for purposes of the provisions of the Labor Code, the Unemployment Insurance Code, and the wage orders of the Industrial Welfare Commission, a person providing labor or services for remuneration shall be considered an employee rather than an independent contractor unless the hiring entity demonstrates that the person is free from the control and direction of the hiring entity in connection with the performance of the work, the person performs work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity's business, and the person is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business. AB 5 also exempts specified occupations from the application of Dynamex, and would instead provide that these occupations are governed by the test adopted in S. G. Borello & Sons, Inc. v. Department of Industrial Relations (1989) 48 Cal.3d 341 (Borello) . This bill would, until January 1, 2021, also exempt a newspaper distributor working under contract with a newspaper publisher and a newspaper carrier working under contract, either with a newspaper publisher or newspaper distributor, from the Dynamex provisions proposed to be added by AB 5 described above. This bill would make its operation contingent on the enactment of AB 5 of the 2019–20 Regular Session.
Existing law establishes the Pierce's Disease Control Program in the Department of Food and Agriculture and requires the Governor to appoint a statewide coordinator. Existing law establishes the Pierce's Disease Management Account in the Food and Agriculture Fund and allows certain money in this account to be expended to combat Pierce's disease and its vectors, including the glassy-winged sharpshooter, and for purposes relating to other designated pests and diseases, as provided. Existing law makes these provisions inoperative on March 1, 2021, and repeals them on January 1, 2022. This bill would extend to March 1, 2026, the date on which the above provisions become inoperative, and would repeal those provisions on January 1, 2027. The bill would require the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to appoint a statewide coordinator. By extending the operative date for a partially continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation. Existing law creates in the department the Pierce's Disease and Glassy-winged Sharpshooter Board, which consists of specified members, and prescribes the functions and duties of the board with respect to implementation of the Pierce's disease program. Existing law provides for an annual assessment to be paid by grape processors, as defined, into the Food and Agriculture Fund and continuously appropriates the collected funds for the purposes of, among other things, research and other activities related to the Pierce's disease program. Existing law repeals these provisions on March 1, 2021. This bill would extend the repeal date of these provisions to March 1, 2026, and would make related conforming changes. By extending the date until which the assessments are collected, the bill would make an appropriation.
This measure would call upon all Californians to embrace the individual and social benefits of family and community acceptance, upon religious leaders to counsel on LGBTQ matters from a place of love, compassion, and knowledge of the psychological and other harms of conversion therapy, and upon the people of California and the institutions of California with great moral influence to model equitable treatment of all people of the state.
This measure would designate the bridge over Jordan Creek on State Highway 101 in the County of Humboldt as the Annette Brooks Memorial Bridge. The measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering the cost, to erect those signs.
Existing law allows an individual, until specified conditions are met, or until January 1, 2022, to designate on the individual's personal income tax return that a specified amount in excess of the individual's tax liability be contributed to the Prevention of Animal Homelessness and Cruelty Fund. Existing law requires that money contributed to the fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, be allocated to, among others, the Department of Food and Agriculture to, among other things, through the distribution of competitive grants, distribute up to $250,000 to a city, county, or city and county animal control agency or shelter, as specified, for the purpose of supporting spay and neuter activities by that entity to prevent and eliminate cat and dog homelessness. Existing law requires that contributions to the Prevention of Animal Homelessness and Cruelty Fund equal or exceed a $250,000 minimum contribution amount for a calendar year, which is required to be adjusted for inflation, in order to continue appearing on the tax return. Under existing law, there are general administrative provisions applicable to these voluntary contributions, which, among other things, provide for the disbursement of contributions following repeal of the fund provisions and require undesignated funds to be transferred to the General Fund. Existing law requires any new or extended voluntary contribution to include the words "voluntary tax contribution" in the name of the fund, to require the administering agency to include specified information about the fund on its internet website, to continuously appropriate from the fund the contributions made to the administering agency, and to set a minimum contribution amount for the continuation of any voluntary tax contribution on the tax return form and a generally applicable repeal date for a voluntary tax contribution. This bill would rename the fund as the Prevention of Animal Homelessness and Cruelty Voluntary Tax Contribution Fund and continuously appropriate those funds to be allocated as required by existing law. This bill would additionally permit a society for the prevention of cruelty to animals affiliate or a humane society affiliate that is under contract to provide all animal control services for a local public agency to receive funds from the distribution of up to $250,000 described above, from contributions received on and after January 1, 2020. The bill also would require the department to report on its internet website specified information regarding, among other things, the process for awarding money. The bill would repeal the provisions related to the fund on January 1, 2023, or on a specified earlier date if conditions relating to the minimum contribution amount are not met, and would delete the provisions requiring the minimum contribution amount to be adjusted for inflation. By continuously appropriating the funds described above, the bill would make an appropriation.
This measure would proclaim September 29, 2019, as Gold Star Mothers' and Families' Day.