Existing law requires specified businesses and other establishments to post a notice, as developed by the Department of Justice, that contains information relating to slavery and human trafficking, including information regarding specified nonprofit organizations that a person can call for services or support in the elimination of slavery and human trafficking. The California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) makes specified employment practices unlawful, including the harassment of an employee directly by the employer or indirectly by agents of the employer with the employer's knowledge. FEHA requires employers with 50 or more employees to provide at least 2 hours of prescribed training and education regarding sexual harassment to all supervisory employees within 6 months of their assumption of a supervisory position and once every 2 years, as specified. This bill would amend FEHA to require specified employers to provide at least 20 minutes of prescribed training and education regarding human trafficking awareness to employees who are likely to interact or come into contact with victims of human trafficking, as defined. The bill would establish a schedule for compliance commencing January 1, 2020. The bill would authorize the Department of Fair Employment and Housing, in the case of an employer violation of the bill's requirements, to seek an order requiring compliance.
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Existing law establishes various programs, including, among others, the Emergency Housing and Assistance Program, homeless youth emergency service pilot projects, and Housing First and the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council, to provide assistance to homeless persons. Existing law establishes the council to oversee the implementation of the 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 council to assume additional responsibilities, including setting specific, measurable goals aimed at preventing and ending homelessness among youth in the state and defining outcome measures and gathering data related to those goals. The bill would also require the council, in order to coordinate a spectrum of funding, policy, and practice efforts related to young people experiencing homelessness, to coordinate with certain stakeholders and, to the extent that funding is made available, provide technical assistance and program development support.
The Mobilehome Parks Act requires the Department of Housing and Community Development or a city, county, or city and county that assumes responsibility for the enforcement of the act to enter and inspect mobilehome parks with a goal of inspecting at least 5% of the parks each year to ensure enforcement of the act and implementing regulations. Existing law also requires an enforcement agency to issue notice to correct a violation and provides for procedures for owners or operators to dispute and appeal violation notices, as specified. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2019. A violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor. This bill would extend the repeal date of these provisions to January 1, 2024. The Mobilehome Parks Act imposes prescribed fees, including, among others, a fee of $4 per lot to be used exclusively for the inspection of mobilehome parks and mobilehomes to determine compliance with the act. Existing law repeals the $4 fee per lot on January 1, 2019. This bill would extend the repeal date of these provisions to January 1, 2024, thereby extending imposition of the $4 per lot fee until that date. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 18502 of the Health and Safety Code proposed by AB 3066 to be operative only if this bill and AB 3066 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. Because this bill would extend the application of a crime, it 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.
Existing law establishes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and charges it with certain duties and powers, including, among other things, the operation of prisons and other specified institutions. This bill would require the department to submit a report, as specified, to the Legislature on or before October 1 of each year, to include, among other things, descriptions of progress toward meeting the department's goals related to the completion of suicide risk evaluations, progress toward completion of 72 hour treatment plans, and progress in identifying and implementing initiatives that are designed to reduce risk factors associated with suicide. The bill would require the report to be posted on the department's Internet Web site.
Existing law establishes the Department of Industrial Relations and creates the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement within it. Existing law commits to the division the general responsibility for enforcing provisions of the Labor Code not specifically vested in any other officer, board, or commission, which includes a variety of provisions relating to wages and hours of employment. This bill would require the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, upon appropriation of funds by the Legislature, to establish and maintain a Domestic Work Enforcement Pilot Program in collaboration with qualified organizations, as defined. The bill would require the program to increase the capacity and expertise of the division to improve education and enforcement of labor standards in the domestic work industry. Among other things, the program would be required to address the education of employees and employers regarding minimum wage, overtime, sick leave, recordkeeping, retaliation, and wage adjudication. The bill would require qualified organizations that collaborate with the division in connection with the program to issue reports and meet quarterly with the division to review the implementation and success of the program.
Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing law authorizes the department to enter contracts with managed care plans to provide Medi-Cal services. Under existing law, Medi-Cal covers early and periodic screening, diagnosis, and treatment for individuals under 21 years of age, consistent with federal law. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to adopt regulations establishing a standard of care under which a child is evaluated for risk of lead poisoning by health care providers during the child's periodic health assessment. This bill would require the State Department of Health Care Services to ensure that a child enrolled in Medi-Cal receives blood lead screening tests at 12 and 24 months of age, or at any time at which the child is identified as having a high risk of lead exposure, as described by the State Department of Public Health, and that a child 2 to 6 years of age, inclusive, receives a blood lead screening test if there is no record of a previous test for that child. The bill would require the department to report its progress toward blood lead screening tests for all enrolled children, as specified, in its annual External Accountability Set as part of the annual external quality review organization review, and annually on its Internet Web site, to ensure Medi-Cal managed care plans make certain each enrolled child receives required blood lead screening tests, and to ensure Medi-Cal managed care plans require health care providers to test enrolled children, as specified. The bill would further require the department to ensure a Medi-Cal managed care plan notifies a child's parent, parents, guardian, or other person charged with his or her support and maintenance, and the child's health care provider, with specified information, including when a child has missed a required blood lead screening test, as specified. The bill would require a contract between the department and a Medi-Cal managed care plan to ensure the plan and its contractors meet the standard of care for early and periodic screening when providing lead testing. This bill would require the State Department of Public Health to prepare provider training guidelines, curriculum, and resources to educate providers about childhood lead poisoning prevention, exposure risks, exposure health effects, and sources of exposure. The bill would require the State Department of Health Care Services to ensure a Medi-Cal managed care plan notifies and educates a contracted health care provider that, for 2 consecutive 12-month periods, fails to blood lead test at least 80% of the enrolled children, as specified, and to ensure that education reflects the training guidelines, curriculum, and resources developed by the State Department of Public Health. The bill would provide that it is the goal of the state that all children at risk of lead exposure receive blood lead screening tests. The bill would also make findings and declarations.
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 United States 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 regulations require every health care provider who performs a periodic health assessment of a child to order a child who receives services from a publicly funded program for low-income children to be screened for lead poisoning. Existing law requires the department to collect and analyze all information necessary to effectively monitor appropriate case management efforts, prepare a biennial report on this material, and disseminate the report to local health departments and the general public. This bill would make it a goal of the state that all children at risk of lead exposure receive blood lead screening tests, and would require the department to take action, and to require local agencies to take action, necessary to ensure these goals are met. By requiring local agencies to take action to meet these goals, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the department to notify health care providers who perform periodic health assessments for children about, and would require those health care providers to inform parents and guardians about, the childhood lead exposure and blood lead screening tests, as specified. The bill would require the department to report on additional content, including the total number of children enrolled in Medi-Cal and who have secured blood lead screening tests. The bill would specify that any material in the report comply with state and federal privacy laws. The bill would require the department to prominently post the biennial report on the Internet Web site. The bill would require the department to collaborate with the State Department of Health Care Services to collect and analyze information related to children enrolled in Medi-Cal. Existing law requires the department to, by March 1, 2019, and by March 1 of each year thereafter, prepare and prominently post on its Internet Web site information that evaluates the department's progress in meeting the program goals. This bill would require the information to include the biennial report. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 105295 of the Health and Safety Code proposed by SB 1097 to be operative only if this bill and SB 1097 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. 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 requires the State Department of Public Health to collect and analyze all information necessary to effectively monitor appropriate case management efforts related to lead poisoning in children. Existing law authorizes the department to contract with a public or private entity, including local agencies, to conduct case management. Existing law requires the department to prepare a biennial report describing the effectiveness of appropriate case management efforts, and to make that report available to local health departments and the general public. This bill would require the report to contain specified information for each county, including the number of children tested for lead poisoning. The bill would require the department to post the report on the department's Internet Web site. The bill would additionally require the department to provide the collected data to its Healthy Communities Data and Indicators Project, as specified. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 105295 of the Health and Safety Code proposed by SB 1041 to be operative only if this bill and SB 1041 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a city or a county to establish an enhanced infrastructure financing district to finance public capital facilities or other specified projects of community significance. Existing law authorizes a district to finance, among other things, the purchase, construction, expansion, or rehabilitation of property and related planning and design work. Existing law prohibits a district from financing routine maintenance and repair work. Existing law authorizes the issuance of bonds for the funding of these purposes if approved by 55% of the voters voting on a proposal to issue the bonds. This bill, instead, would authorize a district to finance the ongoing or capitalized costs to maintain public capital facilities financed in whole or in part by the district, but would prohibit the use of proceeds of bonds issued to finance maintenance of any kind. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 53398.52 of the Government Code proposed by AB 1999 and SB 1078 to be operative only if this bill and either or both AB 1999 and SB 1078 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
Existing law requires the adopted course of study for grades 1 to 6, inclusive, and for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to offer courses in specified areas of study, including social sciences. This bill would require, on or before July 1, 2019, the State Department of Education to make available to school districts on its Internet Web site a list of resources and instructional materials on media literacy, as defined, including media literacy professional development programs for teachers.