Existing law provides for various memorials and monuments on the grounds of the State Capitol. Existing law requires the Department of General Services to maintain state buildings and grounds. Existing law, the Apology Act for the 1930s Mexican Repatriation Program, makes findings and declarations regarding the unconstitutional removal and coerced emigration of United States citizens and legal residents of Mexican descent, between the years 1929 and 1944, to Mexico from the United States during the 1930s "Mexican Repatriation" Program. Existing law expresses the apology of the State of California to those individuals who were illegally deported and coerced into emigrating to Mexico and requires that a plaque to commemorate those individuals be installed and maintained by the Department of Parks and Recreation in an appropriate public place in the City or County of Los Angeles. This bill would authorize a nonprofit organization representing Mexican Americans or Mexican immigrants to enter into negotiations to plan, construct, and maintain a memorial to Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants who were forcibly deported from the United States during the Great Depression, as provided. The bill would require the memorial to be located at an appropriate public place in the City or County of Los Angeles. The bill would require the nonprofit organization to enter into negotiations with the Department of General Services and the state agency with jurisdiction over the state property where the memorial is proposed, where applicable, if the nonprofit organization proposes to locate the memorial on state property. The bill would require the nonprofit organization to submit a plan for the memorial to the department and the applicable state agency for review and approval. The bill would require these provisions to be funded exclusively through private sources. This bill would, if the nonprofit organization proposes a site owned by the City of Los Angeles or the County of Los Angeles for location of the memorial, require the nonprofit organization to follow any procedures that the City of Los Angeles or the County of Los Angeles require to consider approving the proposed memorial. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of Los Angeles and the County of Los Angeles.
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Existing law, part of the hazardous waste control law, requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control to adopt regulations to establish a process by which chemicals or chemical ingredients in products may be identified and prioritized for consideration as being chemicals of concern and to adopt regulations to establish a process by which chemicals of concern may be evaluated. Existing law prohibits the manufacture, sale, or distribution in commerce of any bottle or cup that contains bisphenol A, as specified, if the bottle or cup is designed or intended to be filled with any liquid, food, or beverage intended primarily for consumption by children 3 years of age or younger. The prohibition above does not apply to a product subject to a regulatory response by the department as of the date that the department posts a prescribed notice regarding the department's adoption of the regulatory response. Existing law additionally requires manufacturers to use the least toxic alternative when replacing bisphenol A in containers and prohibits manufacturers from replacing bisphenol A with chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive harm, as specified. This bill would, on and after January 1, 2026, instead apply the above prohibitions and requirements to any juvenile's feeding product or juvenile's sucking or teething product, as defined, that contains any form of bisphenol, as defined, at a detectable level above the practical quantitation limit, as determined by the department. The bill would authorize the department to establish standards for the juvenile's products above that are more protective of public health, sensitive populations, or the environment than the standards established by the bill, and would authorize the department or the Attorney General to enforce the prohibitions and requirements, as specified. The bill would additionally prohibit manufacturers from replacing any form of bisphenol with any chemical identified by the department as a Candidate Chemical, as specified.
(1) Existing law requires all contracts entered into by a state agency for the acquisition of goods or services, as specified, to be void unless and until approved by the Department of General Services. Existing law requires a state agency to secure at least 3 competitive bids or proposals for each contract. Existing law establishes exceptions to these requirements for specified contracts. This bill would include in the list of exceptions a contract entered into by the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection for the purpose of providing logistical support for large-scale prescribed fire operations, as provided. (2) Existing law requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to do certain things with respect to fires, including provide fire prevention and firefighting implements and apparatus, organize fire crews and patrols, and establish observation stations and other necessary structures. This bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2026, to identify and map a comprehensive network of potential operational delineations that can be used for strategic wildfire response or the proactive use of prescribed fire, as provided. The bill would require the Fire and Resource Assessment Program in the department, on or before July 1, 2025, and updated annually thereafter, to develop maps of the severity of impacts from wildfires, as provided. The bill would also require the department to annually review the effects of recent fires in the context of community safety and ecological restoration goals to identify priority opportunities for prescribed fire that can further manage hazardous fuel conditions.
Existing law requires the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to appoint a Range Management Advisory Committee and to consult with the advisory committee on rangeland resource issues under consideration by the board. The bill would require, on or before July 1, 2025, the advisory committee, in consultation with specified entities, to develop guidance for local or regional prescribed grazing plans, as provided. The bill would require the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (department) and the Department of Conservation to consider and incorporate this guidance in specified grant programs, as provided. Existing law requires the department to establish a local assistance grant program for eligible groups for purposes of specified fire prevention and home hardening education activities in the state, including public education outreach activities and projects to improve compliance with defensible space requirements through increased inspections, assessments, and assistance for low-income residents, as provided. Existing law authorizes the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection to authorize advance payments from a local assistance grant award, subject to specified conditions, and requires the grantee of the advance payment to file an accountability report with the department 4 months from the date of receiving the funds and every 4 months thereafter. Existing law makes funding for this program subject to an appropriation by the Legislature. This bill would expand the fire prevention and home hardening education activities eligible for these grants to include projects involving the application of prescribed grazing, as provided. The bill would change the eligibility criteria for projects to improve compliance with defensible space requirements to make eligible, instead of low-income residents, those residents with socioeconomic characteristics that increase the risk of wildfire or adverse health outcomes, or that inhibit the ability to respond to a wildfire, as specified. For purposes of an advance payment of grant funds, the bill would instead require the grantee to file an accountability report with the department no later than 6 months from the date of receiving the funds and no later than every 6 months thereafter. Existing law requires the Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force, established by former Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., to develop a comprehensive implementation strategy to track and ensure the achievement of the goals and key actions identified in the state's "Wildfire and Forest Resilience Action Plan," as provided. Existing law requires, on or before March 1, 2026, and every 5 years thereafter, the task force to update the action plan. This bill would require the task force, on or before June 30, 2025, in consultation with the advisory committee, to develop a strategic action plan to expand the use of prescribed grazing, as provided. The bill would require the task force to consider incorporating prescribed grazing in the January 1, 2026, update to the "Wildfire and Forest Resilience Action Plan." This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 4124.5 of the Public Resources Code proposed by SB 504 to be operative only if this bill and SB 504 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
Existing law establishes the Department of Transportation in the Transportation Agency. Existing law authorizes the department subject to approval of the Secretary of Transportation, to enter into an interagency transfer agreement under which a joint powers board assumes responsibility for administering state-funded intercity rail service in certain rail corridors, including the LOSSAN Rail Corridor. Existing law defines the LOSSAN Rail Corridor as the intercity passenger rail corridor between San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Luis Obispo. Pursuant to this authority, the department entered into an interagency transfer agreement with the LOSSAN Rail Corridor Agency to administer intercity passenger rail service in the LOSSAN Rail Corridor. This bill would require the Secretary of Transportation to provide guidance and recommendations to, and coordination between, stakeholders as necessary to ensure the performance of the LOSSAN Rail Corridor, as specified. This bill would also require the Secretary of Transportation, with technical and subject matter assistance from the Secretary for Environmental Protection and the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency, to submit a report to the Legislature regarding the LOSSAN Rail Corridor that includes specified information no later than 2 years after an appropriation is made by the Legislature for purposes of this report. The bill would also require the Secretary of Transportation, in coordination with stakeholders responsible for operating rail services along the LOSSAN Rail Corridor, to submit a report to the Legislature on the performance of the LOSSAN Rail Corridor no later than 3 years after an appropriation is made by the Legislature for purposes of this performance report and biennially thereafter. This bill would require the Secretary of Transportation to convene a working group composed of representatives of certain types of entities, including, among others, metropolitan planning organizations from specified counties. The bill would require the working group to submit consensus recommendations and feedback in a report to the Legislature on or before February 1, 2026, on various topics relating to rail service in the LOSSAN Rail Corridor. Before submitting the report to the Legislature, the bill would require the recommendations and feedback to be submitted to the LOSSAN Rail Corridor Agency, the Southern California Regional Rail Authority, and the North County Transit District for review and consideration. By adding to the duties of local agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the LOSSAN Rail Corridor. 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 provides that every person who willfully obtains personal identifying information, as defined, of another person, and uses that information for any unlawful purpose, is guilty of a public offense. Existing law authorizes a person who has learned or reasonably suspects that their personal identifying information has been unlawfully used by another, as described, to initiate a law enforcement investigation, as specified. Existing law authorizes a person who has learned or reasonably suspects that their personal identifying information has been used unlawfully in a business entity filing, as defined, and has initiated a law enforcement investigation, as prescribed, to petition the superior court for an order directing the alleged perpetrator, if known, and the person using the personal identifying information in the business entity filing to appear at a hearing before the court, as specified. Existing law requires the court, after determining if the petition is meritorious, to order certain information in the business entity filing be redacted or removed from publicly accessible electronic indexes and databases, and file that order with the Secretary of State. This bill would, if an order has been filed with the Secretary of State as described above within the record of a limited liability company or a corporation, authorize the Secretary of State to cancel that business entity, as provided. This bill would also authorize a person who has learned that their personal identifying information has been used unlawfully in a business entity filing to file with the Secretary of State a disclaimer of proper authority, as prescribed, so long as the business entity has not been dissolved or terminated at the time of filing the disclaimer. The bill would prescribe a fee of $30 to file a disclaimer of proper authority to cover the reasonable costs to the Secretary of State of processing that form. The bill would require the disclaimer of proper authority to be signed and verified under penalty of perjury by the person claiming their personal identifying information was unlawfully used in the business entity filing. By expanding the scope of the crime of perjury, 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 California Building Standards Law establishes the California Building Standards Commission within the Department of General Services. Existing law requires the commission to approve and adopt building standards and to codify those standards in the California Building Standards Code, which is required to be published once every 3 years. Existing law requires the State Fire Marshal, before the next triennial edition of the California Building Standards Code adopted after January 1, 2023, to research and develop, and authorizes the State Fire Marshal to propose to the commission, mandatory building standards for fire resistance based on occupancy risk categories in very high, high, and moderate California fire severity zones, as provided. This bill would require the State Fire Marshal, before the next triennial edition of the California Building Standards Code adopted after January 1, 2025, to propose to the commission updates to the fire standards relating to requirements for lithium-based battery systems, as provided. The bill would require these updates to address the specific environments in which communications utilities are required to deploy the lithium-based battery systems in order to meet specified requirements relating to backup electricity for telecommunications infrastructure, as provided.
Existing law establishes the Geologic Energy Management Division in the Department of Conservation, under the direction of the State Oil and Gas Supervisor, who is required to supervise the drilling, operation, maintenance, and abandonment of oil and gas wells, as provided. A person who violates or fails, neglects, or refuses to comply with any of the oil and gas laws is guilty of a crime. Existing law requires the operator of any idle well to either (1) no later than May 1 of each year, for each idle well that was an idle well at any time in the last calendar year, file with the supervisor an annual fee according to a specified schedule of fees based on the length of time a well has been idle, applicable to wells that have been idle wells for 3 years or longer, or (2) file a plan with the supervisor to provide for the management and elimination of all long-term idle wells, as provided. Existing law also establishes the Hazardous and Idle-Deserted Well Abatement Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, for the deposit of all fees received pursuant to these provisions. This bill would revise and recast these provisions. The bill would, among other things, increase the fees for idle wells, and additionally impose fees for each idle well that has been an idle well for less than 3 years, as provided. By increasing the fees collected from operators of idle wells that are deposited into a continuously appropriated fund, the bill would make an appropriation. The bill would also revise and recast the provisions of the idle well plan. The bill would, among other things, require operators who do not file the above-described idle well fees to, no later than May 1 of each year, file a plan with the supervisor to provide for the management and elimination of all idle wells, instead of all long-term idle wells. The bill would require the plan to require the operator to consider specified factors when prioritizing idle wells for plugging and abandonment. The bill would revise the provision requiring operators to eliminate a specified percentage of long-term idle wells by making it applicable to all idle wells and by increasing the minimum percentages of idle wells that operators would be required to eliminate each year, as provided. By expanding the scope of crimes, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would exempt from its provisions an idle well (1) for which an operator has made a diligent effort to locate and access the well and has provided documentation demonstrating that it is infeasible to locate or physically access the wellbore, subject to the approval of the division, or (2) that is the subject of a court-approved settlement agreement entered into on or before December 31, 2024, between a local governmental entity and the operator of the idle well, if that settlement agreement imposes more stringent requirements relating to the management and elimination of idle wells than the requirements imposed by this bill. Existing law requires the supervisor to submit to the Legislature an annual comprehensive report, as specified, on the status of idle and long-term idle wells for the preceding calendar year. This bill would require that report to also include a list of wells that the division has approved as being inaccessible, as described above. 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 generally regulates the possession of firearms, including imposing storage requirements to prevent children from gaining access to firearms. This bill would, beginning on January 1, 2026, require a person who possesses a firearm in a residence to keep the firearm securely stored when the firearm is not being carried or readily controlled by the person or another lawful authorized user. For purposes of these provisions, a firearm is securely stored if the firearm is maintained within, locked by, or disabled using a certified firearm safety device or secure gun safe that meets specified standards. The bill would make a first and 2nd violation of this offense punishable as an infraction, and a 3rd or subsequent violation punishable as a misdemeanor. The bill would exempt unloaded antique firearms, as defined, or firearms that are permanently inoperable from these provisions. The bill would require the Department of Justice to seek to inform residents about these standards for storage of firearms. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor or a felony if a person keeps a firearm within any premises that are under the person's custody or control and the person knows or reasonably should know that a child is likely to gain access to the firearm without the permission of the child's parent or legal guardian, and the child obtains access to the firearm and causes injury, other than great bodily injury, or death or great bodily injury to the child or any other person, or carries that firearm off-premises, as defined, to a public place or a school. Existing law exempts a person from the above provisions if the person has no reasonable expectation, based on objective facts and circumstances, that a child is likely to be present on the premises. This bill would remove these exemptions. 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, the Consumer Credit Reporting Agencies Act, defines and regulates consumer credit reports and consumer credit reporting agencies. The act prohibits a consumer credit reporting agency from making any consumer credit report containing specified items of information, including accounts placed for collection or charged to profit and loss that antedate the report by more than 7 years. Existing law, the Investigative Consumer Reporting Agencies Act, defines and regulates investigative consumer reports and investigative consumer reporting agencies. The act prohibits an investigative consumer reporting agency from making or furnishing any investigative consumer report containing specified items of information, including accounts placed for collection or charged to profit and loss that antedate the report by more than 7 years. This bill would prohibit a consumer credit reporting agency or an investigative consumer reporting agency from making a consumer credit report or an investigative consumer report containing information about medical debt, as defined. The bill would prohibit a person who uses a consumer credit report in connection with a credit transaction from using medical debt listed on the report as a negative factor when making a credit decision. The bill would prohibit a person from furnishing information regarding a medical debt to a consumer credit reporting agency, make a medical debt void and unenforceable if a person knowingly violates this provision by furnishing information regarding the medical debt to a consumer credit reporting agency, require a contract creating a medical debt entered into on or after July 1, 2025, to include a term describing these requirements, as specified, and make a violation of these provisions by a person holding a license or permit issued by the state to be deemed to be a violation of the law governing that license or permit. By providing that a violation of these provisions is deemed a violation of a licensing statute, and because the violation of some licensing statutes is a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law requires the Department of Health Care Access and Information to review a hospital's policies regarding, among other things, charity care or debt collection for compliance with the law whenever a significant change is made and submitted to the department, as specified. Existing law, among other things, prohibits a hospital from selling patient debt to a specified debt buyer unless several conditions are met and requires a hospital to have a written policy concerning patient debt, as specified. This bill would require a hospital to maintain all records relating to money owed to the hospital by a patient or a patient's guarantor, as specified. The bill would require any contract entered into by a hospital related to the assignment or sale of medical debt to require the assignee or buyer and any subsequent assignee or buyer to maintain records related to litigation for 5 years. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law authorizes a noncontracting individual health professional to advance to collections only the in-network cost-sharing amount that an insured has failed to pay, and prohibits reporting adverse information to a consumer credit reporting agency for a minimum of 150 days after the initial billing to the insured. This bill would require a health insurer to send notices, with specified information, to an insured and provider if the insurer sends payment directly to the insured and not to the provider for services provided. If the provider does not receive the payment from the insured within 60 days of the notice to the insured, or within one year after initial billing for the service, whichever is later, the bill would authorize the insurer's share of cost in possession of the insured that has not been paid to the provider to be reported to a credit reporting agency as medical debt. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 1788.14 of the Civil Code proposed by SB 1286 to be operative only if this bill and SB 1286 are enacted and this bill is enacted last, and to Section 127425 of the Health and Safety Code proposed by AB 2297 to be operative only if this bill and AB 2297 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.