(1) The Child Care and Development Services Act establishes a system of childcare and development services for children up to 13 years of age and requires the State Department of Education to contract with local contracting agencies for alternative payment programs for childcare services to be provided throughout the state. The act requires the alternative payment program to reimburse childcare providers based upon specified criteria, including the actual days and hours of attendance for those families with variable schedules, or for license-exempt childcare providers that provide part-time services, up to the maximum certified hours. This bill would delete the requirement that alternative payment programs provide reimbursement based on the actual days and hours of attendance to families with variable schedules or license-exempt childcare providers. (2) The act authorizes each licensed childcare provider to alter rate levels for subsidized children once per year and requires the provider to provide the alternative payment program and resource and referral agency with the updated information, as provided. Existing law requires an alternative payment program to verify childcare provider rates no less frequently than once a year, as provided. The act requires the department to develop regulations for addressing discrepancies in the childcare provider rate levels identified through the rate verification process described above. This bill would delete these provisions. (3) The act requires an alternative payment program to provide notice to a childcare provider of specified changes relating to childcare services at least 14 calendar days before the effective date of the intended actions. This bill would instead require the alternative payment program to provide the notice, as well as the effective date of any change described above, on the same day that a notice of action is issued to a family, as provided. (4) The act requires, on and after the date on which the Superintendent of Public Instruction determines that the Financial Information System for California (Fi$Cal Project) has been implemented within the department, at the request of a contractor, the department to request the Controller to make a payment via direct deposit by electronic funds transfer through the Fi$Cal Project into the contractor's account at the financial institution of the contractor's choice, as provided. This bill would instead require, at the request of a contractor, the department to require the Controller to make a payment via direct deposit by electronic funds into the contractor's account at the financial institution of the contractor's choice, as provided. (5) The act authorizes a contractor to retain a reserve fund balance for alternative payment model and certificate childcare contracts, as provided. The act prohibits these funds from exceeding either 2% of the sum of the parts of each contract, as provided, or $1,000, whichever is greater. This bill would instead prohibit the funds from exceeding either 15% of the sum of the parts of each contract, as provided, or $1,000, whichever is greater.
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Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt statewide academically rigorous content standards, pursuant to recommendations of the Commission for the Establishment of Academic Content and Performance Standards, in core curriculum areas, including reading, writing, mathematics, history-social science, and science. This bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to recommend to the state board, as prescribed, revisions to the history-social science academic content standards. The bill would require the Superintendent to select, as prescribed, a group of experts in history-social science to assist the Superintendent in developing the recommendations. The bill would require, on or before November 30, 2023, the Superintendent to present the recommendations to the state board and would require, on or before January 31, 2024, the state board to adopt, reject, or modify the recommendations, as specified. If the state board modifies the history-social studies academic content standards recommended by the Superintendent, the bill would require the state board to provide written reasons for the modifications, as prescribed, and then, no later than March 31, 2024, to adopt the revised standards. If the state board rejects the history-social science academic content standards recommended by the Superintendent, the bill would require the state board to transmit a written explanation of the reasons for the rejection to the Superintendent, the Governor, and the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature. The bill would authorize the state board to revise its adoption schedule for curriculum frameworks and certain instructional material items that are aligned to the history-social studies academic standards, as specified, if it adopts revised history-social studies academic content standards.
(1) Existing law, the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Act of 1991, establishes the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program (Program) , which is administered by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law requires the department to adopt regulations establishing a standard of care, at least as stringent as the most recent federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention screening guidelines. Existing law provides that the standard of care shall require a child who is determined to be at risk for lead poisoning to be screened. Existing law requires the regulations to include the determination of specified risk factors, including a child's time spent in a home, school, or building built before 1978. Existing law requires the department to develop the regulations, in consultation with specified individuals, including medical experts, and environmental experts, and to develop the regulations by July 1, 2019. This bill would add several risk factors to be considered as part of the standard of care specified in regulations, including a child's residency in or visit to a foreign country, or their residency in a high-risk ZIP Code, and would require the department to develop, by January 1, 2021, the regulations on the additional risk factors, in consultation with the above-specified individuals. (2) Existing law requires the department to ensure appropriate case management for children who have been identified with lead poisoning, and authorizes the department to contract with any public or private entity, including any local agency, to perform that duty. This bill would require the department to update its formula for allocating funds to any local agency that contracts with the department to administer the Program, and to revise funding allocations before each contract cycle.
This measure would designate Monday, May 4, 2020, as California Peace Officers' Memorial Day, urge all Californians to use that day to honor California peace officers, and recognize specified California peace officers who were killed in defense of their communities.
Existing law governs the relationship between an employer and an employee with regard to hiring, promotion, discipline, wages and hours, working conditions, and administrative and judicial remedies. Existing law authorizes the Labor Commissioner to investigate employee complaints and to conduct a hearing in any action to recover wages, penalties, and other demands for compensation. This bill would require an employer, which includes a grocery store establishment, restaurant, or retail store establishment, to provide its employees with a work schedule at least 7 calendar days prior to the first shift on that work schedule, except as specified. The bill would require an employer, except as specified, to pay its employees modification pay for each previously scheduled shift that the employer cancels or moves to another date or time, for any previously unscheduled shift that the employer requires an employee to work, or for each on-call shift for which an employee is required to be available but is not called in to work that shift. The bill would require an employer to post a poster containing specified information regarding an employee's right to receive modification pay and would require the Labor Commissioner to create the poster and make it available. The bill would define terms for those purposes, including, among others, a grocery store establishment, restaurant, or retail store establishment. The bill would require the Labor Commissioner to enforce these requirements, including the investigation, mitigation, and relief of violations of these requirements. The bill would authorize the Labor Commissioner to impose specified administrative fines for violations and would authorize the commissioner, the Attorney General, an employee or person aggrieved by a violation of these provisions, or an entity a member of which is aggrieved by a violation of these provisions to recover specified civil penalties against an offender who violated these provisions on behalf of the aggrieved, as well as attorney's fees, costs, and interest. The bill would not apply to certain categories of employees who meet specified requirements.
Existing law, the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Act of 1991, establishes the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program (Program) , which is administered by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law requires the department to collect and analyze information to monitor appropriate case management efforts, to prepare a biennial report on the effectiveness of those efforts, and to post the report on the department's internet website. Existing law requires the report to include specified information, including the total number of children tested for lead poisoning in each county, identified sources of lead exposure for those children having lead poisoning, and whether the sources of lead exposure identified in, on, or around a residence or location associated with a child with lead poisoning have been removed, remediated, or abated. This bill would require the department to design, implement, and maintain an online lead information registry on the department internet website that enables the public to determine the lead inspection and abatement status for properties, and to use information it maintains for the registry to the extent that the department ensures that any personally identifying information is made unavailable to the public.
(1) Existing law establishes the California State University, the California Community Colleges, and the University of California as the 3 segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law requires the California State University and each community college district, and requests the University of California, with respect to each campus in their respective jurisdictions that administers a priority enrollment system, to grant priority in that system to certain foster youth or former foster youth whose dependency was established or continued by the court on or after the youth's 16th birthday. This bill would extend this requirement and request for enrollment priority for certain foster youth or former foster youth to those whose dependency was established or continued by the court on or after the youth's 13th birthday. To the extent that the bill would impose duties on community college districts, it would constitute a state-mandated local program. (2) Existing law, the Cooperating Agencies Foster Youth Educational Support Program, authorizes the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office to enter into agreements with up to 20 community college districts to provide additional funds for services in support of postsecondary education for foster youth. Existing law provides that these services include, when appropriate, but are not necessarily limited to, outreach and recruitment, consultation and eligibility verification, consultation and referrals for students deemed ineligible, service coordination, counseling, book and supply grants, tutoring, independent living and financial literacy skills support, frequent in-person contact, career guidance, transfer counseling, child care and transportation assistance, and referrals to health services, mental health services, housing assistance, and other related services. This bill would authorize the program to provide all of these services, as well as direct financial support, to enrolled students who meet all eligibility requirements but whose courses have not yet commenced, and who have completed required matriculation activities as described, if those services are deemed necessary to enable the student to be successful upon the commencement of the academic term. (3) Existing law requires a student participant in the Cooperating Agencies Foster Youth Educational Support Program to be a current or former foster youth in California whose dependency was established or continued by the court on or after the youth's 16th birthday. This bill would instead require a student participant in the program to be a current or former foster youth in California whose dependency was established or continued by the court on or after the youth's 13th birthday. (4) Existing law requires the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, in consultation with the State Department of Social Services, to adopt regulations for the program and to be responsible for the administration of funds for the program. This bill would further require regulations adopted by the board of governors to ensure that program application and enrollment processes implemented by community college districts are streamlined, do not impose barriers to entry, and allow programs to exercise professional judgment to waive any income criteria specified in the regulations as a condition of eligibility, as specified. (5) 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, the Gender Tax Repeal Act of 1995 (the act) , prohibits a business establishment from discriminating against a person because of the person's gender with respect to the price charged for services of similar or like kind and specifies that this prohibition does not apply to price differences based specifically upon the amount of time, difficulty, or cost of providing the services. The California Fair Employment and Housing Act protects and safeguards the right and opportunity of all persons to seek, obtain, and hold employment without discrimination, abridgment, or harassment on account of various personal characteristics. Under existing law, the Department of Fair Employment and Housing is responsible for receiving, investigating, conciliating, mediating, and prosecuting complaints alleging violations of specified civil rights. This bill would prohibit a business establishment from discriminating against a person because of a person's gender with respect to the price charged for any 2 consumer products from the same manufacturer that are substantially similar if those products are priced differently based on the gender of the individuals for whose use the products are intended or marketed, as specified. The bill would make the department responsible for receiving, investigating, conciliating, mediating, and prosecuting complaints alleging violations of these provisions.