Sen. Scott Wilk

This measure would declare August 7, 2018, as Purple Heart Day in California.

This measure would designate November 2018 as Diabetes Awareness Month and would, among other things, encourage individuals to seek screening to understand their diabetes risk.

Existing law regulates the use of wrap-up insurance or other consolidated insurance programs in connection with specified construction projects. Existing law distinguishes, in this regard, between residential construction projects, private residential works of improvement, as specified, and public works and other projects that are not residential, as specified. In this regard, among other things, for residential construction to which wrap-up insurance or another consolidated insurance program is applicable, existing law declares unenforceable a provision requiring a subcontractor who is enrolled and participating in the insurance to indemnify, hold harmless, or defend another for a claim or action covered by the insurance program. Existing law makes any waiver of these provisions void. Existing law permits a party to pursue an equitable indemnity claim in this context, subject to certain conditions, if these indemnification provisions have been deemed unenforceable. Existing law, with regard to a private residential work of improvement and public works, as specified, requires an owner, builder, or general contractor who obtains wrap-up insurance or other insurance to make specified disclosures regarding calculations of its cost and the premiums to be required from a subcontractor or other participant and, in the case of private residential works of improvement, that specified estimates are presumptively in good faith. Existing law requires a copy of the insurance policy to be provided to a subcontractor or other participant under certain circumstances. Existing law, with respect to construction contracts entered into on and after January 1, 2013, voids certain insurance and indemnity provisions, subject to a variety of exceptions that are reserved to the agreement of the parties. This bill would recast the wrap-up insurance or other consolidated insurance program requirements for public and other works of improvement that are not residential construction, entered into or amended on and after January 1, 2019, to track generally the requirements that apply to residential projects. The bill would require the owner, builder, or general contractor obtaining the wrap-up insurance policy, or other consolidated insurance program, to demonstrate that the policy limits are sufficient, on a replacement cost basis, to cover exposure associated with the total value of the replacement cost of the project based on the initial contract sum and ongoing and completed operations coverage. The bill would provide that, notwithstanding any other law, any waiver of these provisions is contrary to public policy and void.

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.

Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to establish a list of reportable diseases and conditions. Existing law requires, for each reportable disease and condition, the department to specify the timeliness requirements related to the reporting of each disease and condition, and the mechanisms required for, and the content to be included in, reports made. This bill would, until January 1, 2024, authorize the department, for the purpose of reports confirming a case of Valley Fever, to use laboratory criteria for diagnosis, with or without clinical criteria.

Existing law creates a Veterinary Medical Board in the Department of Consumer Affairs whose highest priority is to protect the public in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Existing law requires applications for a veterinarian license to be furnished on a form and accompanied by a diploma or other verification of graduation from a veterinary college recognized by the board. Existing law requires each veterinarian licensed by the board to biennially apply for renewal of his or her license. Existing law requires the board to issue renewal licenses to those applicants that have completed a minimum of 36 hours of continuing education in the preceding 2 years, including no more than 6 hours of self-study courses. This bill would instead authorize an applicant for renewal to earn a total of 6 hours or less of the 36 hours of continuing education by either taking up to 6 hours of self-study courses or providing up to 4 hours of pro bono spaying or neutering services to a household with a demonstrated financial need for reduced-cost services, or a combination thereof.

Existing law generally requires an inmate who is released on parole or postrelease community supervision to be returned to the county that was the last legal residence of the inmate prior to his or her incarceration. This bill would require an inmate who is released on parole or postrelease community supervision who was committed to prison for a registrable sex offense to be returned through all efforts reasonably possible to the city that was the last legal residence of the inmate prior to incarceration or a close geographic location in which he or she has family, social ties, or other economic ties and access to reentry services, unless return to that location would violate any other law or pose a risk to his or her victim.

The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allow various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws, including motion picture credits for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2016, to be allocated by the California Film Commission on or after July 1, 2015, and before July 1, 2020, subject to a computation and ranking of applicants based on a jobs ratio. Existing law, in lieu of the above-described credits, allows application of the credit amount against qualified state sales and use taxes, as provided. Existing law requires the Legislative Analyst's Office to prepare reports related to the effectiveness and administration of the qualified motion picture credit under the Sales and Use Tax Law, the Personal Income Tax Law, and the Corporation Tax Law on or before January 1, 2019. This bill would instead provide that the Legislative Analyst's Office prepare the report on or before January 1, 2023.

Existing law, the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act, establishes procedures for the reporting and investigation of suspected child abuse or neglect. The act requires certain professionals, including teachers and specified school employees, known as "mandated reporters," to report known or suspected child abuse or neglect to a local law enforcement agency or a county welfare or probation department, as specified. Existing law makes reports of child abuse or neglect confidential and only authorizes the disclosure of the reports to certain individuals or entities. This bill would authorize the disclosure of those confidential reports to a teacher or school administrator, but only for purposes of disclosing information about child abuse reports filed by that teacher or administrator. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Existing law establishes various programs, including, among others, the Emergency Housing and Assistance Program, to provide assistance to homeless persons. Existing law requires a state agency or department that funds, implements, or administers a state program that provides housing or housing-related services to people experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness, except as specified, to revise or adopt guidelines and regulations to include enumerated Housing First policies. Existing law establishes the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council to oversee the implementation of the Housing First guidelines and regulations and, among other things, to identify resources, benefits, and services that can be accessed to prevent and end homelessness in California. This bill would require the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council to develop and implement a statewide strategic plan for addressing homelessness in the state, as specified. The bill would require, by January 1, 2020, the council to implement 2 strategic plans to assist federal Housing and Urban Development Continuum of Care lead agencies in either or both better implementing Housing and Urban Development recommended activities and meeting Housing and Urban Development requirements.