This measure would dedicate the month of May 2018 as Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month.
This measure would designate May 29, 2018, as 529 College Savings Day, to raise awareness about the importance of saving for college with the help of 529 college savings plans.
This measure would recognize May 2018 as Blue Star Mothers of America Month in California, as specified.
Existing law provides that an injury to property consists in depriving its owner of the benefit of it, which is done by taking, withholding, deteriorating, or destroying it. Existing law requires an action seeking relief based on an injury to property to be commenced within 3 years after the time that the cause of action has accrued. This bill would provide that the presence of lead paint on the surfaces of a residence or other building constitutes a physical injury to property. The bill would provide that an action to recover damages for that injury would not accrue until three years from the date the aggrieved party has actual knowledge of the presence of lead-based paint in or on that property, as specified. The bill would provide that receipt or knowledge of disclosures that residences built before 1978 are presumed to contain lead-based paint are not alone sufficient to establish that knowledge. The bill would make related findings and declarations. The bill would make these provisions retroactive. The bill would make these provisions severable.
This measure would urge lawmakers in Poland to reverse or revise a recent Polish law on speech related to the Holocaust, would call on Congress to join that effort, and would call for a renewed commitment to Holocaust education in California.
This measure would recognize the month of May 2018 as Foster Care Month as an opportunity to raise awareness about the challenges that children, and particularly lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth, face in the foster care system, as specified.
This measure would recognize May 2018 as National Mental Health Awareness Month in California to enhance public awareness of mental illness.
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. The local government renewable energy self-generation program authorizes a local government to receive a bill credit to be applied to a designated benefiting account for electricity exported to the electrical grid by an eligible renewable generating facility, as defined, and requires the commission to adopt a rate tariff for the benefiting account. If a local government in the County of Santa Barbara has committed to a policy of supplying all of its demand for electricity from generation that qualifies as an eligible renewable energy resource pursuant to the California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program, this bill would require an electrical corporation to negotiate in good faith with the local government on offering mutually agreeable rates and other terms that enable the local government to construct and operate eligible renewable generating facilities sufficient to meet the local government's 100% renewables commitment. The bill would require that any mutually agreed upon rates and terms be submitted to the commission and would require the commission to approve the rates and terms if the commission determines them to be just and reasonable, and if the rates and other terms of the agreement, upon implementation, would not negatively affect reliability or safety, would not result in costshifting to other customers, and would not result in an increase in emissions of greenhouse gases.
