This measure would urge the Congress of the United States to acknowledge the problem of a labor shortage in the agricultural industry in California and to work together with California to solve the issue.
Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to establish a list of reportable communicable and noncommunicable diseases and conditions and specify the timeliness requirements related to the reporting of each disease and condition. Existing law also supports research into the development of a vaccine to protect against coccidioidomycosis, also known as Valley Fever. This bill would require the department, when it receives a report of a case of coccidioidomycosis after the department's reporting deadline for a specified year, to include the case in its data collection for the next year and attribute it to the year of diagnosis in future data reporting. This bill would require the department to collect data on coccidioidomycosis cases by April 15 of each year, as specified. The bill would require the department, if it collects data on coccidioidomycosis cases and removes discrepant data from its internal dataset, to timely report sufficient information about its removal of the discrepant data to a local health officer and the local health officer may remove the discrepant data from the county's dataset. The bill would also require the department, if it publishes provisional data on coccidioidomycosis cases, to publish an explanation of data changes likely to occur and of discrepancies between data reported by a local health officer and data reported by the department. The bill would require the department to publish the date range of a dataset and the date on which the dataset was updated if the department publishes data on coccidioidomycosis cases.
This measure would declare October 23 to 31, 2018, inclusive, as Red Ribbon Week, and would encourage all Californians to help build drug-free communities and to participate in drug prevention activities.
This measure would declare July 27, 2018, as California Bullying Prevention Day, also to be known as Rosie's Day.
This measure would urge the United States Department of Justice not to direct its enforcement priorities towards California's lawfully and closely regulated cannabis industry, among other things.
(1) Existing law specifies the civil executive officers of the state. Existing law provides that a person is incapable of holding a civil office if, at the time of his or her election or appointment, he or she is not 18 years of age and a citizen of the state. This bill would authorize any pupil attending a California public secondary school who is under the age of 18 years to serve on any board or commission that includes members who are pupils or minors and is established under specified portions of the Education Code that relate to public elementary and secondary education and that includes members who are pupils or minors. (2) Existing law authorizes any student, including a person without lawful immigration status, or a person who is exempt from paying nonresident tuition pursuant to a specified statute to serve in any capacity in student government at the California State University or the California Community Colleges, as prescribed. This bill would authorize any student attending a campus of the California Community Colleges, the California State University, the University of California, or an independent institution of higher education, as defined, who qualifies for exemption from paying nonresident tuition pursuant to a specified statute to serve on any board or commission established pursuant to the portion of the Education Code relating to higher education and that includes members who are students. (3) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
(1) Existing law authorizes a tenant to notify the landlord in writing that he or she or a household member, as defined, was a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, or elder or dependent adult abuse and that the tenant intends to terminate the tenancy. If the tenant attaches to the notice a copy of a temporary restraining order or protective order, as specified, a report by a peace officer, as specified, or documentation from a qualified 3rd party, as specified, and satisfies other requirements, the tenant is released from paying rent and other obligations under the lease, subject to certain limitations. This bill would declare void, as contrary to public policy, a provision in a rental or lease agreement that limits or prohibits, or threatens to limit or prohibit, a tenant's, resident's, or other person's right to summon law enforcement assistance or emergency assistance as, or on behalf of, a victim of abuse, a victim of crime, or an individual in an emergency if the tenant, resident, or other person believes that the law enforcement assistance or emergency assistance is necessary to prevent or address the perpetration, escalation, or exacerbation of the abuse, crime, or emergency. The bill would also prohibit a landlord from imposing, or threatening to impose, penalties in this context as well. The bill would define various terms for these purposes. The bill would provide that a waiver of these provisions is contrary to public policy and is void and unenforceable. The bill would prescribe evidentiary presumptions in this connection to be applicable to unlawful detainer actions. The bill would authorize a tenant, resident, or other aggrieved person to seek an injunction for a violation of these provisions. (2) Existing law, in connection with actions for unlawful detainer, prohibits a landlord from terminating or failing to renew a tenancy based upon an act or acts against a tenant or a tenant's household member that constitute domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, or elder or a dependent adult abuse, if certain standards are met. In this regard, the acts must be documented by a copy of a temporary restraining order or protective order, as specified, or a report by a peace officer, as specified, and the person against whom the protection order has been issued, or who was named in the police report, is not a tenant of the same dwelling unit as the tenant or household member. This bill, for the purposes relating to unlawful detainer, described above, would authorize a tenant to document an act of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, or elder or a dependent adult abuse, by attaching a statement from a qualified 3rd party, as defined. The bill would require that this documentation be in substantially the same form as a statement that the bill would prescribe for this purpose. The bill would prohibit the landlord from disclosing information that a tenant has submitted in this context, except as specified. The bill would prescribe definitions for these purposes. The bill would require the Judicial Council, by September 1, 2019, to develop a new form or revise an existing form for use by a party to assert an affirmative defense to an unlawful detainer action, as specified. (3) Existing law prohibits a local agency from requiring a landlord to terminate a tenancy or fail to renew a tenancy based upon an act against a tenant or a tenant's household member that constitutes domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, or elder or dependent adult abuse, if specified requirements relating to unlawful detainer actions are satisfied. Existing law prohibits a local agency from requiring a landlord to terminate a tenancy or fail to renew a tenancy based upon the number of calls made to the emergency telephone system relating to the tenant or a member of the tenant's household being a victim of these acts. This bill would revise and recast these provisions. The bill would prohibit a local agency from promulgating, enforcing, or implementing any ordinance, rule, policy, or regulation, that authorizes, or requires the imposition or threatened imposition of, a penalty against a resident, owner, tenant, landlord, or other person as a consequence of law enforcement assistance or emergency assistance by, or on behalf of, a victim of abuse, a victim of crime, or an individual in an emergency. The bill would prescribe definitions in this regard. The bill would preempt inconsistent local rules and regulations in this regard. The bill would prescribe remedies for a violation of these provisions. The bill would declare that the need to protect parties to whom these provisions of the bill apply is a matter of statewide concern, and not a municipal affair, and that charter cities and counties would be subject to the provisions of the bill.
This measure would encourage the federal government to maintain or restore full funding to integral international exchange programs, such as the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.
