Sen. Monique Limón

This measure would condemn the decision to end the Temporary Protected Status designation for El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Sudan. The measure would also urge the United States Congress to enact a bipartisan permanent solution for Salvadorans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, Hondurans, and Sudanese with Temporary Protected Status.

Existing law authorizes a caregiver, who properly completes and signs a caregiver's authorization affidavit, to enroll a minor in school and consent to school-related medical care on behalf of the minor. Existing law authorizes a caregiver who is a relative and properly completes and signs a caregiver's authorization affidavit to consent to additional types of medical and dental care for the minor. Existing law, the Power of Attorney Law, generally provides for the creation, modification, and revocation of a power of attorney, defined as a written instrument that is executed by a natural person having the capacity to contract and that grants authority to an attorney-in-fact, also known as an agent, to act for that person, as specified. This bill would enact the Power of Attorney to Care for a Minor Child Act to authorize one or both parents to execute a power of attorney to provide for the care of the parent's minor child only under certain terms and if specified information is included within the power of attorney, including the effective date of the power of attorney. The bill would relieve a person who acts in good faith reliance on the authorized powers set forth in a power of attorney and without actual contrary knowledge from criminal or civil liability or professional discipline for that reliance, but would not relieve a person from liability for violations of other provisions of law. The bill would require the grant of authority in a power of attorney to care for a minor child to supersede the authority of a caregiver pursuant to a caregiver's authorization affidavit. The bill would address the authority of an attorney-in-fact when 2 or more powers of attorney appoint 2 or more different attorneys-in-fact for the care of the same minor child. The bill would also make a power of attorney under these provisions act as the executing parent's nomination of a guardian, subject to specified requirements, for purposes of a legal guardianship proceeding if that proceeding commences. The bill would specify that a power of attorney executed pursuant to these provisions would not affect the rights of the minor child's parents regarding the care, custody, and control of the minor child, including the rights of a parent who had not executed the power of attorney.

Existing law, the California Financing Law (CFL) , provides for the licensure and regulation of finance lenders and brokers and, beginning on January 1, 2019, program administrators, by the Commissioner of Business Oversight. The CFL prohibits anyone from engaging in the business of a finance lender or broker without obtaining a license. Existing law defines a finance lender as any person who is engaged in making consumer loans or commercial loans, as defined. A willful violation of the CFL is a crime, except as specified. The CFL prescribes limits on the maximum rate of charges and administrative fees that a licensee may contract for, and receive, on consumer loans of up to $2,500. The CFL requires a licensee, with respect to loans secured by a lien on a motor vehicle, to comply with specified notice requirements related to the disposition of a repossessed or surrendered motor vehicle. The CFL requires that any person who is liable on a consumer loan secured by a lien on a motor vehicle has the right to reinstate the loan in the event of a default by the borrower, subject to certain conditions and exceptions. This bill would prohibit a licensee from receiving charges under a title loan agreement in an amount that is greater than 3% per month on the unpaid principal balance of the title loan. Because a willful violation of the bill's provisions would be a crime, 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.

(1) The California Financing Law (CFL) provides for the licensure and regulation of finance lenders and brokers by the Commissioner of Business Oversight. The CFL prohibits anyone from engaging in the business of a finance lender or broker without obtaining a license. A willful violation of the CFL is a crime, except as specified. Under the CFL, a licensee who lends any sum of money is authorized to contract for and receive charges at a maximum rate that does not exceed specified sums on the unpaid principal balance per month, ranging from 212% to 1%, based on the consumer loan amount, as specified. The CFL also authorizes a licensee, as an alternative to these rate charges, to instead contract for and receive charges at the greater of a rate not exceeding 1.6% per month on the unpaid principal balance or a rate not exceeding 56 of 1% per month, plus a specified percentage per month, as established by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, on advances to member banks under federal law, or if there is no single determinable rate, the closest counterpart of this rate. These provisions do not apply to a loan of a bona fide principal amount of $2,500 or more, as specified. This bill would authorize a licensee under the CFL, as another alternative to the above-described rate charges, to contract for and receive charges of a note rate of interest not to exceed 36%, and a monthly servicing fee of 5% of the originally contracted amount, not to exceed $25 per month, subject to certain conditions, including a prohibition on the total loan charges, including interest and servicing fees, exceeding 50% of the original loan principal. The bill would also prohibit the total required monthly payment from exceeding the greater of 5% of the borrower's verified gross monthly income or 6% of the borrower's verified net monthly income, as specified. These provisions would not apply to certain loans of a bona fide principal amount of $2,500 or more. Additionally, active duty military personnel of the United States Armed Forces and their dependents would be exempted from any monthly maintenance fees. The bill would require a licensee engaged in lending under these provisions to comply with certain written notice, disclosure, collection, loan origination, and related requirements. Because the bill would expand the scope of a crime under the CFL, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) The California Deferred Deposit Transaction Law provides for the licensure and regulation by the Commissioner of Business Oversight of persons engaged in the business of making or arranging deferred deposit transactions. Existing law, among other things, prohibits a licensee from entering into an agreement for a deferred deposit transaction with a customer during the period of time that an earlier written agreement for a deferred deposit transaction for the same customer is in effect. A knowing and willful violation of the provisions of this law is a crime. This bill would require the commissioner, by July 1, 2019, to develop operate, and maintain an Internet Web site and common database in which a licensee would be required to, by the time period described below, record each deferred deposit transaction for the purpose of preventing violations of the California Deferred Deposit Transaction Law. The bill would require the database to meet certain requirements, including that it allow real-time access to information entered into the database via an Internet connection. The bill would, alternatively, authorize the commissioner to contract with a provider to develop, operate, or maintain the database. The bill would require, on or after July 1, 2019, a licensee to conduct a search on the database before entering into any deferred deposit transaction, and would prohibit the licensee from entering into that transaction if the database reveals the customer has any outstanding deferred deposit transactions. The bill would require the licensee to adhere to generally accepted security safeguards to maintain the confidentiality and security of information transmitted to the database. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would provide that the information contained in the database is confidential and not subject to public inspection, and the database and its contents are not subject to requests under the California Public Records Act, except as specified. Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect. 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.

This measure would declare June 6, 2018, as California Nonprofits Day in recognition of the importance of nonprofit organizations to the economy and well-being of this state.

This measure would designate June 2018 as Second Chances Month in California, highlighting existing services and events to support reentry.

This measure would encourage the people of the State of California to recognize the potential and possibilities of our children, instead of focusing on their deficits.

This measure would apologize for the enactment of past discriminatory laws and constitutional provisions that resulted in the persecution and oppression of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals and their communities. The measure would also express the Legislature's commitment to taking the steps needed to be a fully inclusive state and preserving the rights of all people.

Existing law establishes an action for a public nuisance, which affects an entire community or neighborhood, or a considerable number of persons, although the extent of the annoyance or damage inflicted upon individuals may be unequal. Existing law authorizes a private party or a public body to bring an action to abate a public nuisance. This bill would provide that residential lead-based paint that affects the health of a considerable number of persons constitutes a public nuisance. Under the bill, a party may be subject to liability for public nuisance if that party promoted lead-based paint for a particular use with actual or constructive knowledge that such use would cause health hazards sufficiently serious to render that use unreasonable, as specified. The bill would provide that, in an action seeking solely abatement of residential lead-based paint, causation may be established without presenting evidence that a particular party caused a particular lead-based paint to be applied in a particular residence, as specified. The bill would provide legislative findings and declarations in support of these provisions.