This measure would proclaim the week of March 5, 2023, to March 11, 2023, inclusive, as Women in Construction Week.
This measure would proclaim, in perpetuity, January 28 as the Stand Against Hate Action Day.
Existing law requires the application for an original driver's license or renewal of a driver's license to contain specified information, including the applicant's name, age, gender category, mailing address, and residence address. Commencing January 1, 2027, this bill would require the application for an original driver's license or renewal of a driver's license to include a statement that the applicant may also need to change their address for purposes of their vehicle registration. Under existing law, a vehicle that enters into or upon a vehicular crossing immediately becomes liable for any tolls and other charges. Existing law requires an issuing agency, as defined, that permits pay-by-plate toll payment to communicate, as practicable, the pay-by-plate toll amount in the same manner as it communicates other toll payment methods. This bill, with respect to a toll bridge, would require an issuing agency that permits pay-by-plate toll payment or that permits payment by a transponder or other electronic toll payment device to send an invoice by mail for any unpaid toll to the registered vehicle owner. The bill would require the invoice to include a notice to the registered owner that, unless the registered owner pays the toll by the due date shown on the invoice, a toll evasion penalty will be assessed. The bill would require that if the toll charge is not paid within a specified amount of time, the nonpayment would be deemed an evasion of tolls and would require the issuing agency or processing agency to mail a notice of toll evasion violation to the registered owner, as specified. These provisions would become operative on July 1, 2024. This bill would require an issuing agency to allow a driver of a rental vehicle to register the rental vehicle to a transponder or other electronic toll payment device account with the issuing agency prior to traveling on the issuing agency's toll facility, for the purpose of paying all tolls, and would require a rental car agency to provide the customer with written or electronic notice regarding information about how to open an account or acquire a transponder for use of each issuing agency's toll facility. These provisions would become operative on July 1, 2024. This bill would require an issuing agency that operates an electronic toll collection system that permits payment by a transponder or other electronic toll payment device to make the transponder or other electronic toll payment device available for acquisition online, by mail, and in person at retail outlets and at the issuing agency or processing agency office, as specified. The bill would prohibit the price of the transponder or other electronic toll payment device from exceeding the reasonable cost to procure and distribute the device. The bill would require the issuing agency's office to be open to the public during specified hours to allow a person to conduct specified transactions, including acquiring a transponder or other electronic toll payment device or paying a toll invoice. The bill would also require the issuing agency to maintain a customer service telephone line during specified hours. These provisions would become operative on July 1, 2024. Existing law authorizes a person, within the later of 21 days from the issuance of a notice of toll evasion violation or 15 days from the mailing of the notice delinquent toll evasion, to contest the notice of toll evasion violation or notice of delinquent toll evasion. Existing law requires the processing agency to investigate, or to request the issuing agency to investigate, the circumstances of the notice with respect to the contestant's reasons for contesting the toll evasion violation. This bill would extend the applicable number of days from the mailing of the notice of delinquent toll evasion to 30 days, and would specify that the contestant is not required to deposit the outstanding penalty. The bill would require the processing agency or issuing agency, at a minimum, to review the evidence on which the alleged violation was based, as specified. The bill would require the issuing agency to waive toll evasion penalties for a first violation with the issuing agency under designated circumstances. These provisions would become operative on July 1, 2024. Existing law requires a notice of delinquent toll evasion violation to include a notice to the registered owner that renewal of the vehicle registration will be contingent upon compliance with the notice, unless the registered owner pays the penalty within 15 days after mailing of the notice, or takes other specified actions. This bill would revise the notice requirements to apply when the toll evasion penalty has not been paid within 30 days after the notice of delinquent toll evasion violation has been mailed, and makes renewal of the person's vehicle registration contingent on compliance with the notice of delinquent toll evasion violation. The bill would require the department to refuse renewal of a person's vehicle registration if notified electronically by the issuing agency or processing agency that the registered owner has failed to pay the toll, toll evasion penalty, and related fees within the designated time period, or is delinquent under a payment plan for more than 10 business days, as prescribed. This bill would establish maximum toll evasion violation penalty amounts for toll bridge violations and toll highway, toll road, and express lane violations, as prescribed. These provisions would become operative on July 1, 2024. This bill would require an issuing agency to establish a payment plan option, as specified, applicable to all outstanding toll evasion penalties. The bill would require the issuing agency to post information regarding the payment plan policy on its internet website. The bill would require these provisions to be operative on July 1, 2023, for toll bridges. With respect to toll highways, toll roads, and express lanes, the bill would require the provisions to be operative on July 1, 2024. This bill, commencing July 1, 2023, would establish a one-time waiver program for outstanding toll evasion penalties for toll evasion violations on a toll bridge occurring from March 20, 2020 to January 1, 2023, inclusive. The bill would make the waiver program available, upon request, to individuals who meet specified income eligibility criteria and satisfy other requirements, including payment of the total amount of all outstanding tolls subject to the penalty waiver, as specified. The bill would require issuing agencies, processing agencies, or their designees to take specified actions to inform the public about the one-time waiver program, commencing January 1, 2023. This bill would make the waiver program provisions inoperative on September 30, 2024, and would repeal them as of January 1, 2025. By imposing new duties on local government issuing agencies, the 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.
Existing law establishes the California State Library as a state government agency under the control of an executive, who is required to be a technically trained librarian and known as the "State Librarian." Existing law requires the State Librarian, among other duties, to give advisory, consultive, and technical assistance to librarians and library authorities in public libraries and to assist all other authorities, state and local, in assuming their full responsibility for library service. Existing law requires the State Librarian to establish the Reading Initiative Program with funds appropriated for that purpose and with funds received from private sources, and requires the State Librarian to administer the program, as provided. Existing law requires the State Librarian, in administering the program, to, among other things, develop a list of recommended books in consultation with various groups, including, but not limited to, teachers, librarians, parents, writers, publishers, and employees of the State Department of Education. Existing law requires the recommended books to supplement the state-recommended English/language arts curriculum framework and to include recreational reading selections for children. This bill would establish the Statewide Imagination Library Program under the administration of the State Librarian for purposes of developing, implementing, promoting, and fostering a comprehensive statewide initiative for encouraging preschool children to develop a love of reading and learning. The bill would create and continuously appropriate the Imagination Library of California Fund for purposes of the program, as provided, thereby making an appropriation. The bill would require moneys from the fund to be used to provide age-appropriate books on a monthly basis, at home, to each child registered in the program, from birth to their 5th birthday, inclusive, at no cost to families, through Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. The bill would require moneys from the fund to be allocated to qualified local entities that agree to a dollar-for-dollar match for purposes of the program, unless waived by the State Librarian, as provided. This bill would require the State Librarian to coordinate with a nonprofit entity, as specified, that is organized solely to promote and encourage reading by the children of the state, for purposes of implementing the bill's provisions, and would require the State Librarian to do certain things, including, among other things, promote the statewide development of local Dolly Parton Imagination Library programs, recruit volunteers to assist in the development, promotion, and coordination of the programs, administer the local match requirement, and coordinate the collection and remittance of local program costs for books and mailing. This bill would require the State Librarian, by January 1, 2028, and annually thereafter, to report to the Legislature on the implementation of the program, as specified. This bill would authorize the California State Library to promulgate regulations as may be needed for the administration of the program. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
The Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the State Department of Social Services, requires the department to administer childcare and development programs that offer a full range of services to eligible children from infancy to 13 years of age, inclusive. The Early Education Act requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to, among other things, provide an inclusive and cost-effective preschool program. Both acts require that families meet specified requirements to be eligible for federal- and state-subsidized childcare and development services and preschool programs, including, among other requirements, that the family needs childcare services or full-day preschool because, among other reasons, the family is homeless, the child's parents are seeking employment or permanent housing, or the child's parents are employed. The Child Care and Development Services Act requires, upon establishing eligibility for services, a family to be considered to meet all eligibility and need requirements for services and to receive those services without being required to report income or other changes for at least 12 months, except as specified. This bill would extend eligibility for childcare and development programs and the preschool program to families in which a member of the family has been certified as eligible to receive benefits from certain means-tested government programs, including Medi-Cal and CalFresh, as specified, and would require those families to submit a self-certification of income for the purposes of prioritizing enrollment and calculating family fees. The bill would also extend the time a family is to be considered to meet all eligibility and need requirements for services to 24 months, except as specified, and would require the State Department of Social Services to implement that requirement through management bulletins or similar letters of instruction on or before December 1, 2023, and until regulations are adopted. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 8208 of the Education Code proposed by AB 185 to be operative only if this bill and AB 185 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 8208 of the Education Code proposed by SB 185 to be operative only if this bill and SB 185 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 10271 of the Welfare and Institutions Code proposed by AB 321 to be operative only if this bill and AB 321 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
