The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. Under the act, the state board is required to approve a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020 and to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by no later than December 31, 2030. Under the act, a violation of a rule, regulation, order, emission limitation, emission reduction measure, or other measure adopted by the state board under the act is a crime. This bill instead would require the state board to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 55% below the 1990 level by no later than December 31, 2030. By expanding the scope of a 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.
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The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The state board is required to approve a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020 and to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030. The act requires the state board to prepare and approve a scoping plan for achieving the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and to update the scoping plan at least once every 5 years. This bill, the California Climate Crisis Act, would declare the policy of the state both to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible, but no later than 2045, and achieve and maintain net negative greenhouse gas emissions thereafter, and to ensure that by 2045, statewide anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 90% below the 1990 levels. The bill would require the state board to work with relevant state agencies to ensure that updates to the scoping plan identify and recommend measures to achieve these policy goals and to identify a variety of policies and strategies that support carbon dioxide removal solutions, carbon capture and storage technologies, and nature-based climate solutions in California, as specified. The bill would require the state board to work with relevant agencies to establish criteria for the use of carbon dioxide removal technologies and carbon capture and storage technologies for purposes of achieving these policy goals. The bill would require the state board to identify interim 5-year greenhouse gas emission reduction goals that begin on January 1, 2025, and submit an annual report, as specified. The bill would impose other requirements on state agencies, as specified.
Existing law, the California Values Act, prohibits a California law enforcement agency from providing a person's release date, or responding to a request for notification of a release date, unless that information is available to the public, and prohibits the transfer of an individual to immigration authorities, as specified, unless the person has been convicted of specified crimes or arrested for a serious or violent felony. This bill would prohibit any state or local agency from arresting or assisting with the arrest, confinement, detention, transfer, interrogation, or deportation of an individual for an immigration enforcement purpose, except as specified. The bill would additionally prohibit state or local agencies or courts from using immigration status as a factor to deny or to recommend denial of probation or participation in any diversion, rehabilitation, mental health program, or placement in a credit-earning program or class, or to determine custodial classification level, to deny mandatory supervision, or to lengthen the portion of supervision served in custody. The bill would authorize a person to bring an action for equitable or declaratory relief in a court of competent jurisdiction against a state or local agency or state or local official that violates these provisions, and would make those agencies or officials liable for actual and general damages and reasonable attorney's fees. Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to implement and maintain procedures to identify inmates serving terms in state prison who are undocumented felons subject to deportation. Existing law requires the department to annually report to the Legislature the number of persons identified as undocumented aliens, as specified. This bill would repeal those provisions. Existing law requires all basic information stored in state or local criminal offender record information systems to be recorded in the form of specified standard data elements, including, among other things, place of birth. This bill would no longer require that information to include place of birth.
This measure would authorize and request that the California Law Revision Commission study, report on, and prepare recommended legislation to revise California law to remedy defects related to inclusion of discriminatory language on the basis of sex, and disparate impacts on the basis of sex upon enforcement thereof.
The Personal Income Tax Law authorizes various credits against the taxes imposed by that law, including a credit for qualified renters in the amount of $120 for spouses filing joint returns, heads of household, and surviving spouses if adjusted gross income is $50,000, as adjusted, or less, and in the amount of $60 for other individuals if adjusted gross income is $25,000, as adjusted, or less. This bill would require the Franchise Tax Board to prepare a written report by April 1, 2023, on the number of taxpayers claiming the credit, and the average credit amount on returns claiming the credit.
This measure would proclaim December 8, 2022, as Latina Equal Pay Day in California, in recognition of the need to eliminate the gender gap in earnings by women and to promote policies to ensure equal pay for all.
Existing law prohibits settlement agreements from containing provisions that prevent the disclosure of factual information related to specified claims or causes of action, such as information relating to an act of sexual harassment or an act that may be prosecuted as a felony sex offense. This bill would prohibit a provision within an agreement between the parties in an action the factual foundation for which establishes a cause of action for civil damages regarding a defective product or environmental hazard that poses a danger to public health or safety, as defined, that purports to restrict the disclosure of factual information related to the action. The bill would provide that those provisions are void as a matter of law and as against public policy and unenforceable, except as specified. The bill would provide that the disclosure of discoverable factual information relating to those actions must not be restricted by stipulation or by order of a court or arbitral tribunal, except for specified categories of information such as medical information, personal identifying information, the amount of the settlement, current proprietary customer lists, trade secrets, or citizenship or immigration status. The bill would allow a person for whom it is reasonably foreseeable that the person would be affected by a provision, agreement, or order, to challenge the provision, agreement, or order, as specified. The bill would allow a party, including an intervenor that has become a party, or a person whose attendance in the action or production of documents or other tangible things is required by subpoena, subpoena duces tecum, or other means, to file a motion for nondisclosure under these provisions. The bill would require a party requiring attendance in the action or production of documents of a person who is not a party to the action to provide a notice of the availability of a motion for nondisclosure of a proprietary customer list or trade secret to the person who is not a party to the action. The bill would provide that an attorney's failure to comply with these provisions may be grounds for professional discipline.
Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to provide for the transportation of pupils to and from school whenever, in the judgment of the board, the transportation is advisable and good reasons exist to do so. Existing law authorizes the governing board to purchase or rent and provide for the upkeep, care, and operation of vehicles, or to contract and pay for the transportation of pupils to and from school by common carrier or municipally owned transit system, or to contract with and pay responsible private parties for the transportation. This bill would require the State Department of Education to convene a workgroup comprising specified representatives to develop recommendations pertaining to safety standards for drivers of unaccompanied minors to school, as provided. The bill would, on or before April 1, 2023, require the department to submit the workgroup's recommendations to the appropriate budget and policy committees of the Legislature. The bill would repeal its provisions on January 1, 2024.
(1) The Teachers' Retirement Law establishes the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) and creates the Defined Benefit Program of the State Teachers' Retirement Plan, which provides a defined benefit to members of the program, based on final compensation, credited service, and age at retirement, subject to certain variations. Existing law also establishes the Cash Balance Benefit Program for the purpose of providing a retirement plan for specified teachers whose service is less than 50% of the full-time equivalent for the person's position or who are employed on a temporary basis or as a substitute, as specified. The Cash Balance Benefit Program and STRS are administered by the Teachers' Retirement Board. The Public Employees' Retirement Law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) , which provides defined benefits to members of the system based on final compensation, credited service, and age at retirement, subject to certain variations. PERS is administered by its board of administration. The California Constitution grants plenary authority for the administration of a public pension or retirement system to its retirement board, as specified, and provides that the assets of a retirement system are trust funds, as specified. Existing law creates the Teachers' Retirement Fund, which is continuously appropriated, and into which are deposited employer, state, and employee contributions, as well as funds connected with the Cash Balance Benefit Program. Existing law creates the Public Employees' Retirement Fund, which is also continuously appropriated, and into which, among other assets, employer and employee contributions are deposited. The Charter Schools Act of 1992 authorizes the establishment and operation of charter schools. Existing law authorizes charter schools to elect to make STRS, PERS, or both available to qualifying employees. This bill would require a charter school initially authorized to commence operations on and after January 1, 2025, to participate in STRS or PERS, or both. The bill would specify that this provision does not apply to a charter school seeking a renewal authorization on or after January 1, 2025, if the charter school initially received authorization to commence operations before January 1, 2025, and has continuously operated as a charter school since that initial authorization. The bill would generally require STRS, the Cash Balance Benefit Program, and PERS to apply to a charter school in the same manner as the systems and program apply to other public schools. The bill would require the chartering authority to provide notice to STRS or PERS, as applicable, of the occurrence of specified events, including approval of a charter school petition, within 30 days of the event's occurrence, on a form prescribed by the system. For the purpose of paying contributions on behalf of a charter school, the bill would require a county superintendent, district superintendent, or other employing agency that reports directly to STRS, upon state apportionment to a charter school, to draw requisitions against the funds of the charter school in amounts equal to the estimated contributions required to be paid by the charter school to STRS, as specified, and pay them to the system. The bill would prohibit these requisitions from exceeding an estimated 3 months of contributions to be paid by the charter school. The bill would also require a county superintendent, district superintendent, or other employing agency that reports directly to the retirement system to use any unencumbered funds, otherwise legally available for this purpose, to pay for any amounts due to the system that remain unpaid. The bill would require the estimated amount to be determined by the county superintendent, district superintendent, or other employing agency. The bill would create similar requirements and prohibitions for purposes of requisitions related to the Cash Balance Benefit Program and PERS. By depositing additional moneys in continuously appropriated funds, this bill would make an appropriation. (2) Existing law requires a county superintendent, district superintendent, chancellor of a community college district, or other employing agency that reports directly to STRS to draw requisitions for contributions required pursuant to specified provisions in favor of the system. Existing law requires employers participating in STRS to contribute monthly a specified percentage of the creditable contribution upon which member contributions are based in connection with funding the liability for benefits related to accumulated and unused sick leave. This bill would require that the monthly contributions for benefits related to accumulated and unused sick leave be subject to the above-described requisition process.
This measure would urge the Congress of the United States to pass House Resolution 891, resolving that the requirements have been met to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and that it shall now be known as the "Twenty-Eighth Amendment to the Constitution."