Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including telephone corporations. Existing law, with specified exceptions, directs the commission to require any call identification service offered by a telephone corporation, or by any other person or corporation that makes use of the facilities of a telephone corporation, to allow the caller to withhold, on an individual basis, the display of the caller's telephone number from the telephone instrument of the individual receiving the call. However, existing law prohibits a caller from withholding the display of the caller's business telephone number when that number is being used for telemarketing purposes. Existing federal law, with certain exceptions, makes it unlawful for any person within the United States, in connection with any telecommunications service or internet protocol enabled voice service, to cause any caller identification service to knowingly transmit misleading or inaccurate caller identification information with the intent to defraud, cause harm, or wrongfully obtain anything of value and authorizes the chief legal officer of a state, or any other state officer authorized by law to bring actions on behalf of the residents of a state, to bring a civil action on behalf of the residents of the state in an appropriate district court of the United States to enforce this prohibition. This bill would require a telecommunications service provider, on or before January 1, 2021, to implement specified technological protocols or alternative technology that provides comparable or superior capability to verify and authenticate caller identification for calls carried over an internet protocol network. The bill would authorize the commission and the Attorney General to bring an action pursuant to the above-described federal law and would authorize the commission, at the request of the Attorney General, to work with the Attorney General for the purpose of enforcing specified parts of that law.
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The California Constitution grants the retirement board of a public employee retirement system plenary authority and fiduciary responsibility for investment of moneys and administration of the retirement fund and system. The California Constitution qualifies this grant of powers by reserving to the Legislature the authority to prohibit investments if it is in the public interest and the prohibition satisfies standards of fiduciary care and loyalty required of a retirement board. Existing law prohibits the boards of administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System and the State Teachers' Retirement System from making investments in certain countries and in thermal coal companies, as specified, subject to the boards' plenary authority and fiduciary responsibility for investment of moneys and administration of the systems. This bill, upon the passage of a federal law that imposes sanctions on the government of Turkey for failure to officially acknowledge its responsibility for the Armenian Genocide, would prohibit the boards of administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System and the State Teachers' Retirement System from making additional or new investments, or renewing existing investments, of public employee retirement funds in an investment vehicle in the government of Turkey that is issued by the government of Turkey or that is owned by the government of Turkey. The bill would require the boards to liquidate existing investments in the government of Turkey within 18 months of the passage of the above-described federal law. The bill would require these boards to make specified reports to the Legislature and the Governor regarding these actions within one year of the passage of a federal law imposing those sanctions on the government of Turkey and on or before January 1, 2024. The bill would specify that its provisions do not require a board to take any action that the board determines in good faith is inconsistent with its constitutional fiduciary responsibilities to the retirement system. The bill would indemnify from the General Fund and hold harmless the present, former, and future board members, officers, and employees of, and investment managers under contract with, the boards, in connection with actions relating to these investments. The bill would repeal the above-described prohibited investment and reporting provisions on January 1, 2025, or if a determination is made by the board, the Department of State, the Congress of the United States, or another appropriate federal agency that the government of Turkey has officially acknowledged its responsibility for the Armenian Genocide, whichever occurs first.
Existing law, known as the Student Athlete Bill of Rights, requires intercollegiate athletic programs at 4-year private universities or campuses of the University of California or the California State University that receive, as an average, $10,000,000 or more in annual revenue derived from media rights for intercollegiate athletics to comply with prescribed requirements relating to student athlete rights. This bill would prohibit California postsecondary educational institutions except community colleges, and every athletic association, conference, or other group or organization with authority over intercollegiate athletics, from providing a prospective intercollegiate student athlete with compensation in relation to the athlete's name, image, or likeness, or preventing a student participating in intercollegiate athletics from earning compensation as a result of the use of the student's name, image, or likeness or obtaining professional representation relating to the student's participation in intercollegiate athletics. The bill also would prohibit an athletic association, conference, or other group or organization with authority over intercollegiate athletics from preventing a postsecondary educational institution other than a community college from participating in intercollegiate athletics as a result of the compensation of a student athlete for the use of the student's name, image, or likeness. The bill would require professional representation obtained by student athletes to be from persons licensed by the state. The bill would specify that athlete agents shall comply with federal law in their relationships with student athletes. The bill would prohibit the revocation of a student's scholarship as a result of earning compensation or obtaining legal representation as authorized under these provisions. The bill would prohibit a student athlete from entering into a contract providing compensation to the athlete for use of the athlete's name, image, or likeness if a provision of the contract is in conflict with a provision of the athlete's team contract. The bill would prohibit a team contract from preventing a student athlete from using the athlete's name, image, or likeness for a commercial purpose when the athlete is not engaged in official team activities, as specified. These provisions would become operative on January 1, 2023. This bill would require the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to convene a community college athlete name, image, and likeness working group composed of individuals appointed on or before July 1, 2020, as specified. The bill would require the working group to review various athletic association bylaws and state and federal laws regarding a college athlete's use of the athlete's name, image, and likeness for compensation and, on or before July 1, 2021, submit to the Legislature and the California Community College Athletic Association a report containing its findings and policy recommendations in connection with this review.
Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services, including Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT) services for any individual under 21 years of age who is covered under Medi-Cal consistent with the requirements under federal law. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Under existing law, one of the methods by which Medi-Cal services are provided is pursuant to contracts with various types of managed care plans, and existing law requires the department to pay capitation rates to the managed care plans. Existing federal law provides that EPSDT services include periodic screening services, vision services, dental services, hearing services, and other necessary services to correct or ameliorate defects and physical and mental illnesses and conditions discovered by the screening services, whether or not the services are covered under the state plan. This bill would require, consistent with federal law, that screening services provided as an EPSDT benefit include developmental screening services for individuals zero to 3 years of age, inclusive, and would require Medi-Cal managed care plans to ensure that providers who contract with these plans render those services in conformity with specified standards. The bill would require the department to ensure a Medi-Cal managed care plan's ability and readiness to perform these developmental screening services, and to adjust a Medi-Cal managed care plan's capitation rate. Until July 1, 2023, the bill would require an external quality review organization (EQRO) entity to review and report annually on Medi-Cal managed care plan metrics for developmental screenings, and would require the department to use the EQRO's technical report to monitor Medi-Cal managed care plans' compliance with providing enrollees access to developmental screenings. The bill would also make legislative findings and declarations relating to child development.
Existing law establishes the Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency as the successor to 2 former water districts, and provides that it is governed by a board of directors initially composed of 15 members, 14 of whom are members of the governing boards of those 2 former water districts. Existing law divides the agency into 3 electoral divisions, and designates an initial director as a representative of the electoral division in which the director resides. If any initial director resigns, vacates, or is removed from office before the expiration of the director's initial term, existing law requires the board of directors to appoint a successor if there will be fewer than 4 members representing the electoral division in which the vacancy occurs. This bill would instead require the board of directors to appoint a successor if there will be fewer than 3 members representing the electoral division in which the vacancy occurs. Existing law establishes election procedures for the successors to the initial members of the board of directors. Existing law requires 2 directors to be elected for each electoral division at the 2020 general election and every 4 years thereafter, and one director to be elected for each electoral division at the 2022 general election and every 4 years thereafter. This bill would require, under specified circumstances, one director to be elected for an electoral division at the 2020 general election and every 4 years thereafter, and 2 directors to be elected for that electoral division at the 2022 general election and every 4 years thereafter. If the specified circumstances do not occur, the bill would require one of the directors elected at the 2024 general election to be chosen by lot to serve a 2-year term, as provided. To the extent this bill would impose additional duties on the board of directors of the Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency, 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) Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of marriage and family therapists under the Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Act, of clinical social workers under the Clinical Social Worker Practice Act, and of professional clinical counselors under the Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor Act by the Board of Behavioral Sciences. Existing law prescribes requirements for an applicant for licensure as a marriage and family therapist, clinical social worker, or professional clinical counselor who holds a valid license in good standing by a corresponding authority in any state or country, including that the applicant's education is substantially equivalent, as specified, and that the applicant's supervised experience is substantially equivalent as determined by the board. Existing law requires the board to determine substantially equivalency for these purposes based on specified standards for an applicant who has held a license for less than 4 years. This bill would revise and recast requirements for an applicant who holds a license in another jurisdiction of the United States as a marriage and family therapist, clinical social worker, or professional clinical counselor at the highest level of independent clinical practice that has been current, active, and unrestricted for at least 2 years. The bill would delete the requirement that the applicant's education is substantially equivalent and instead would require the applicant's degree that qualified the person for licensure is a master's degree or, if applicable, a doctoral degree, obtained from an accredited or approved institution. The bill would delete a requirement for the applicant to pass a clinical licensing examination set forth in regulations adopted by the board, and would impose specified coursework requirements on those applicants, including coursework in California cultures and social and psychological implications of socioeconomic position. The bill would also require, on or after January 1, 2021, all applicants holding out-of-state licenses, regardless of how long they have held the out-of-state license, to complete specified coursework or training in suicide risk assessment and intervention. The bill would make conforming and other nonsubstantive changes. (2) Existing law requires that, with respect to an applicant for licensure as a marriage and family therapist, clinical social worker, or professional clinical counselor who does not qualify for licensure as described above, education and experience that the applicant gained outside of the state to be accepted for specified licensure or registration requirements if that education or experience is substantially equivalent, subject to certain standards. This bill would revise those requirements by requiring the amount of time that the applicant held an active license in good standing in another state or country to be accepted as qualifying supervised experience at a specified rate and up to a maximum of a specified amount of hours. The bill would also exempt an applicant who obtained a license or registration in another state or country from the clinical examination if certain conditions are met. The bill would also revise the requirements to determine whether education is substantially equivalent for these purposes by, among other changes, requiring coursework to be from an accredited or approved institution or continuing education provider, on or after January 1, 2021, and for the applicant to complete specified coursework or applied experience in suicide risk assessment and intervention. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 4980.03 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by AB 1651 to be operative only if this bill and AB 1651 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 4980.81 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by SB 786 to be operative only if this bill and SB 786 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
Existing law establishes the Pierce's Disease Control Program in the Department of Food and Agriculture and requires the Governor to appoint a statewide coordinator. Existing law establishes the Pierce's Disease Management Account in the Food and Agriculture Fund and allows certain money in this account to be expended to combat Pierce's disease and its vectors, including the glassy-winged sharpshooter, and for purposes relating to other designated pests and diseases, as provided. Existing law makes these provisions inoperative on March 1, 2021, and repeals them on January 1, 2022. This bill would extend to March 1, 2026, the date on which the above provisions become inoperative, and would repeal those provisions on January 1, 2027. The bill would require the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to appoint a statewide coordinator. By extending the operative date for a partially continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation. Existing law creates in the department the Pierce's Disease and Glassy-winged Sharpshooter Board, which consists of specified members, and prescribes the functions and duties of the board with respect to implementation of the Pierce's disease program. Existing law provides for an annual assessment to be paid by grape processors, as defined, into the Food and Agriculture Fund and continuously appropriates the collected funds for the purposes of, among other things, research and other activities related to the Pierce's disease program. Existing law repeals these provisions on March 1, 2021. This bill would extend the repeal date of these provisions to March 1, 2026, and would make related conforming changes. By extending the date until which the assessments are collected, the bill would make an appropriation.
This measure would commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Association of California Symphony Orchestras.
The Unclaimed Property Law provides that all tangible personal property located in this state, and, subject to specified conditions, all intangible personal property held for the owner by any government or governmental subdivision or agency, that has remained unclaimed by the owner for more than 3 years escheats to the state. Under existing law, a person who claims to have been the owner, as defined, of property paid or delivered to the Controller under that law may file a claim to the property or to the net proceeds from its sale. Existing law requires to Controller to consider each claim, as specified, to determine if the claimant is the owner. This bill would permit property reported to, and received by, the Controller in the name of a state or local agency, as defined, to be transferred by the Controller directly to that agency without the filing of a claim.
This measure would, among other things, recognize November 2019 as National Adoption Month.