Existing federal law, the Federal Aviation Administration Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, provides for the integration of civil unmanned aircraft systems into the national airspace system by September 30, 2015. Existing federal law requires the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to develop and implement operational and certification requirements for the operation of public unmanned aircraft systems in the national airspace system by December 31, 2015. Existing law provides that a person is subject to civil liability for constructive invasion of privacy when the person attempts to capture, in a manner that is offensive to a reasonable person, any type of visual image, sound recording, or other physical impression of another person engaged in a personal or familial activity under circumstances involving a reasonable expectation of privacy, through the use of a visual or auditory enhancing device, as specified. Existing law makes it a crime for a person, intentionally, and without requisite consent, to eavesdrop on a confidential communication by means of any electronic amplifying or recording device. Existing law makes it a crime for a person to look through a hole or opening or otherwise view, by means of any instrumentality, the interior of bedrooms, bathrooms, and various other areas in which an occupant has a reasonable expectation of privacy, with the intent to invade the privacy of one or more persons inside. Existing law makes it a crime for a person to use a concealed camcorder, motion picture camera, or photographic camera to secretly videotape, film, photograph, or record by electronic means, without consent, another identifiable person, under or through the clothing being worn by that person or if that person may be in a state of full or partial undress, under circumstances when that person has a reasonable expectation of privacy and when there is an intent to invade the privacy of that person, as specified. This bill would, under the above-referenced civil and criminal provisions, provide that engaging in the prohibited activities through the use of an unmanned aircraft system is included within the prohibitions. With respect to the criminal provisions, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program by changing the definition of a crime. This bill would also provide that an unmanned aircraft system may not be equipped with a weapon, as defined. The bill would make equipping an unmanned aircraft system with a weapon a crime, punishable as specified. By creating a new crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would define "unmanned aircraft system" for all of these purposes. The bill would provide, subject to exceptions, that data collected by an unmanned aircraft system pursuant to a warrant be destroyed after one year. The bill would provide that data collected by an unmanned aircraft system would be subject to disclosure pursuant to the California Public Records Act. The bill would require local public agencies to provide reasonable public notice regarding the acquisition of an unmanned aircraft system. The bill would require, subject to exceptions, that data collected by a public agency not be disseminated or provided to a law enforcement agency without a warrant. The bill would require an unmanned aircraft system to be painted or labeled in a way that provides high visibility of the unmanned aircraft system. Existing law provides that a search warrant may only be issued upon probable cause, supported by affidavit, naming or describing the person to be searched or searched for, and particularly describing the property, thing or things, and the place to be searched. This bill would require a law enforcement agency to obtain a search warrant when using an unmanned aircraft, as specified, and require that an application for the search warrant specify if an unmanned aircraft system, as defined, will be used in the execution of the search warrant, and the intended purpose for which the unmanned aircraft system will be used. This bill would also state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would establish appropriate standards for the use of unmanned aircraft systems. 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.
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The existing restructuring of the electrical industry within the Public Utilities Act provides for the establishment of an Independent System Operator and a Power Exchange as nonprofit public benefit corporations. Existing law requires the Independent System Operator, within 6 months after receiving approval for its operation by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, to provide a report to the Legislature and the Electricity Oversight Board containing specified matter. This bill would repeal this reporting requirement, and would abolish the Power Exchange. Electrical restructuring makes legislative findings and declarations in order to provide guidance to the Public Utilities Commission in carrying out restructuring. This bill repeals those legislative findings and declarations. Electrical restructuring states the intent of the Legislature that individual customers not experience rate increases as a result of the allocation of transition costs, as specified, and requires the Public Utilities Commission to implement a methodology for calculating certain Power Exchange energy credits. This bill would repeal this provision. Electrical restructuring required the commission to identify and determine those costs and categories of costs for generation-related assets and obligations that were being collected in commission-approved rates on December 20, 1995, that might become uneconomic as a result of a competitive generation market. Electrical restructuring requires each electrical corporation to propose a cost recovery plan to the commission for the recovery of the uneconomic costs of an electrical corporation's generation-related assets and obligations, requires that the plan contain specified matter, and requires that the plan set rates for each customer class, rate schedule, contract, or tariff option, at levels equal to the level as shown on electric rate schedules as of June 10, 1996, provided that rates for residential and small commercial customers be reduced so that these customers receive rate reductions of no less than 10% for 1998 continuing through 2002. Electrical restructuring prohibits the commission, upon the termination of the 10% rate reduction for residential and small commercial customers, from subjecting those residential and small commercial customers to any rate increase or future rate obligations solely as a result of the termination of the 10% rate reduction. Electrical restructuring authorizes an electrical corporation to apply to the commission for a determination that certain transition costs, as defined, may be recovered through fixed transition amounts, which constitute transition property, as defined, and provides, until December 31, 2015, for the issuance of financing orders by the commission, and provides for the issuance of rate reduction bonds utilizing the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank, to be repaid out of rates. This bill would repeal these provisions. Electrical restructuring requires the commission to establish an effective mechanism that ensures recovery of specified transition costs from all existing and future consumers in the service territory in which the utility provided electricity services as of December 20, 1995, except that the costs shall not be recoverable for new customer load or incremental load of an existing customer where the load is being met through a direct transaction and the transaction does not otherwise require the use of transmission or distribution facilities owned by the utility. This bill would provide that competition transition charges that are authorized by the commission prior to January 1, 2015, continue to apply to all existing and future consumers in the service territory in which the utility provided electricity services as of December 20, 1995, subject to the exception described above. Electrical restructuring directed the commission to authorize direct transactions between electricity suppliers and end-use customers, subject to implementation of nonbypassable charges, as specified. Other provisions reference these charges as a nonbypassable charge, while other provisions reference these charges as an obligation to pay uneconomic costs, as specified. This bill would replace the various references to the specified statutory charges with "competition transition charges." Electrical restructuring requires any electrical corporation serving agricultural customers with multiple meters to conduct research based on a statistically valid sample of those customers and meters to determine the typical simultaneous peak load of those customers and to report the results to those customers and the commission by July 1, 2001. Electrical restructuring requires the commission to consider the research results in setting future electrical distribution rates for those customers. This bill would repeal this provision. Electrical restructuring requires the commission to allow recovery of reasonable employee related transition costs incurred and projected for severance, retraining, early retirement, outplacement, and related expenses for the employees in order to mitigate potential negative impacts on utility personnel directly affected by restructuring. This bill would repeal this provision. Existing law requires, for an electric generating facility sold by an electrical corporation in a transaction initiated prior to December 31, 2001, and approved by the commission by December 31, 2002, that the selling utility contract with the purchaser for the selling utility, an affiliate, or a successor corporation to operate and maintain the facility for at least 2 years, and authorizes the commission to require these conditions for transactions initiated on or after January 1, 2002. This bill would repeal this provision. Existing law, enacted as part of restructuring, prescribes how energy prices paid to nonutility electrical generators, known as qualifying facilities under federal law, by an electrical corporation based on the commission's "short run avoided cost energy methodology" are to be determined, subject to applicable contractual terms. Existing law authorizes a nonutility electrical generator using renewable fuels that entered into a contract with an electrical corporation prior to December 31, 2001, specifying fixed energy prices for 5 years of electrical output to negotiate a contract of an additional 5 years of fixed energy payments upon expiration of the initial 5-year term, at a price to be determined by the commission. This bill would repeal this provision. This bill would repeal a provision authorizing an electrical corporation that was also a gas corporation that served fewer than 4,000,000 customers as of December 20, 1995, to file a rate cap mechanism that includes a Fuel Price Index Mechanism, as specified, which authorization became inoperative on December 31, 2001. This bill would strike references to these repealed statutes.
(1) Existing law requires each school district that has one or more pupils who are English learners, and to the extent required by federal law, a county office of education and a charter school, to assess the English language development of each of those pupils in order to determine their level of proficiency. Existing law requires the State Department of Education, with the approval of the State Board of Education, to establish procedures for conducting the assessment and for the reclassification of a pupil from English learner to English proficient. Existing law requires the department, by January 1, 2014, to review and analyze the criteria, policies, and practices that a sampling of school districts that represent the geographic, socioeconomic, and demographic diversity of school districts in the state use to reclassify English learners and recommend to the Legislature and state board any guideline, regulatory, or statutory changes that the department determines are necessary to identify when English learners are prepared for the successful transition to classrooms and curricula that require English proficiency. Existing law requires the department, by January 1, 2014, to issue a report on its findings, research, analysis, recommendations, and best practices, and by January 1, 2017, to issue an updated report that reflects any changes in analysis and recommendations as a result of the adoption by the state board of the common core standards and related English language development standards. Existing law makes implementation of these provisions contingent on an appropriation of federal or state funds or on the availability of private funding. This bill would extend the due date for the department's report from January 1, 2014, to January 1, 2016. (2) Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, with the approval of the State Board of Education, to develop an Academic Performance Index, as specified, to measure the performance of schools and school districts. Existing law requires schools and school districts to demonstrate comparable improvement in academic achievement as measured by the Academic Performance Index by all numerically significant pupil subgroups at the school or school district, including ethnic subgroups, socioeconomically disadvantaged pupils, English learners, pupils with disabilities, and foster youth. This bill would add reclassified English learners to the list of numerically significant pupil subgroups designated in this provision. To the extent that this provision would impose new duties on schools and school districts, it would constitute a state-mandated local program. (3) 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 these statutory provisions.
The Political Reform Act of 1974 regulates certain communications, including mass mailings, slate mailers, and advertisements, by requiring those items to include specified information and disclosures. This bill would require a candidate for elective state office, a slate mailer organization, or a committee that authorizes an expenditure for a campaign communication, as defined, to file an electronic copy of the campaign communication with the Secretary of State, as specified. This bill would make this requirement operative on July 1, 2017, or on a date determined by the Secretary of State, whichever occurs earlier. The bill would require the Secretary of State to maintain an archive of the filed campaign communications and to make the campaign communications available for public inspection on his or her Internet Web site, as specified. This bill would permit the Secretary of State to promulgate regulations to implement these provisions. A violation of the act's provisions is punishable as a misdemeanor. By expanding the scope of an existing 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. 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 and compliance with specified procedural requirements. This bill would declare that it furthers the purposes of the act.
Existing law requires each pupil completing grade 12 to satisfy certain requirements as a condition of receiving a diploma of graduation from high school. These requirements include the successful passage of the high school exit examination and the completion of designated coursework in grades 9 to 12, inclusive. The coursework requirements include the completion of at least 2 courses in mathematics. Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to adopt additional coursework requirements. This bill would authorize the governing board of a school district that requires more than 2 courses in mathematics for graduation to award a pupil up to one mathematics course credit for successfully completing an approved computer science course, as provided.
Existing law, the Political Reform Act of 1974, provides for the comprehensive regulation of campaign financing and prohibits the use of campaign funds to pay or reimburse fines, penalties, judgments, or settlements, except as specified. Existing law makes a knowing or willful violation of the Political Reform Act of 1974 a misdemeanor and subjects offenders to criminal penalties. Existing law subjects any member of the Legislature or any member of the legislative body of a city, county, city and county, school district, or other special district who asks for or receives a bribe in exchange for influence over his or her official action to imprisonment in a state prison and imposes prescribed restitution fines based on whether a bribe has actually been received. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 89513 of the Government Code, proposed by AB 1692 and SB 831, that would become operative only if this bill and either or both of those bills are chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2015, and this bill is chaptered last. This bill would increase the restitution fines to twice the original amount and prohibit the use of campaign funds to pay for the restitution fines. By introducing a new prohibition, the violation of which would be a misdemeanor, the bill would create a crime, thereby imposing 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. 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 and compliance with specified procedural requirements. This bill would declare that it furthers the purposes of the act.
Existing law, 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. "Contribution" is defined for purposes of the act as a payment, a forgiveness of a loan, a payment of a loan by a third party, or an enforceable promise to make a payment, except to the extent that full and adequate consideration is received, unless it is clear from the surrounding circumstances that it is not made for political purposes. The definition does not include a payment made by an occupant of a home or office for costs related to any meeting or fundraising event held in the occupant's home or office if the costs for the meeting or fundraising event are $500 or less. The act prohibits a lobbyist from making, and an elected state officer or candidate for elective state office from accepting, a contribution if the lobbyist is registered to lobby the governmental agency for which the candidate is seeking election or the governmental agency of the elected state officer. This bill would revise the definition of "contribution" to include a payment made by a lobbyist or a cohabitant of a lobbyist for costs related to a fundraising event held at the home of the lobbyist, as specified. The bill would make these payments attributable to the lobbyist for purposes of the prohibition against a lobbyist making a contribution to specified candidates and elected officers. The bill would also revise the definition of "contribution" to include a payment made by a lobbying firm for costs related to a fundraising event held at the office of the lobbying firm. A violation of the act's provisions is punishable as a misdemeanor. By expanding the scope of an existing 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. 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 and compliance with specified procedural requirements. This bill would declare that it furthers the purposes of the act.
Existing law requires the Office of Emergency Services to determine annually, on or before October 1, a surcharge rate that it estimates will produce sufficient revenue to fund the current fiscal year's 911 costs, as specified. This bill would require the office to develop a plan and timeline of target dates for testing, implementing, and operating a Next Generation 911 emergency communication system, including text to 911 service, throughout California. The bill would require the office, in determining the surcharge rate, to additionally include costs it expects to incur, consistent with the plan and timeline, to plan, test, implement, and operate Next Generation 911 technology and services, including text to 911 service. The bill would require the office, at least one month before determining the surcharge rate, to prepare a summary of the calculation of the proposed surcharge and make it available to the Legislature and the 911 Advisory Board, and on the office's Internet Web site. This bill would incorporate additional changes in Section 41030 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, proposed by AB 1717, to be operative only if AB 1717 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2015, and this bill is chaptered last.
The United States Constitution provides that it and other federal laws are the supreme law of the land. The 4th Amendment to the United States Constitution sets forth the right against unreasonable searches and seizures by the federal government and prohibits a federal warrant from being issued unless there is probable cause, supported by an oath or affirmation, that particularly describes the place to be searched, and the person or thing to be seized. This bill would enact the 4th Amendment Protection Act and prohibit the state from providing material support, participation, or assistance in response to a request from a federal agency or an employee of a federal agency to collect electronically stored information or metadata of any person if the state has actual knowledge that the request constitutes an illegal or unconstitutional collection of electronically stored information or metadata.
Existing law requires each campaign committee formed or existing primarily to support or oppose a statewide ballot measure to file with the Secretary of State periodic reports identifying the sources and amounts of contributions received during specified periods. Existing law, including the Political Reform Act of 1974, also specifies information required to be included in the state ballot pamphlet for each statewide ballot measure to be voted upon. This bill would require the Secretary of State to create an Internet Web site, or use other available technology, to consolidate information about each ballot measure in a manner that is easy for voters to access and understand. The Internet Web site would be required to include a summary of each ballot measure, the total amount of reported contributions made to support or oppose a ballot measure, and a list of a committee's top 10 contributors, as specified. The bill would require the state ballot pamphlet to include for each ballot measure a printed statement that refers voters to the Secretary of State's Internet Web site for a list of committees primarily formed to support or oppose a ballot measure, and information on how to access the committee's top 10 contributors. This bill would incorporate additional changes in Section 9082.7 of the Elections Code proposed by SB 1253, that would become operative only if SB 1253 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2015, and this bill is chaptered last. The bill would, contingent upon the enactment of SB 1442, incorporate additional changes. The Political Reform Act of 1974, an initiative measure, generally provides that the Legislature may amend the act to further the act's purposes upon a 23 vote of each house and compliance with specified procedural requirements. The act also provides that, notwithstanding this requirement, the Legislature may add to the ballot pamphlet information regarding candidates or other information. This bill, which would permit or require additional information to be included in the ballot pamphlet, would therefore require a majority vote.