Sen. Suzette Valladares

This resolution would designate the week beginning on February 21, 2022, as Eating Disorders Awareness Week.

This measure would, among other things, honor the late civil rights pioneer and icon Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

This measure would proclaim January 27, 2022, as Rose Ann Vuich Recognition Day, in recognition of Senator Rose Ann Vuich as the first woman elected to the California State Senate, to honor Senator Vuich's service to the Senate, and to appropriately reflect the Senator's stature and legacy.

This measure would proclaim the month of February 2022 as Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month, and would call upon the people of California to observe the month with programs and activities that raise awareness about the dynamics of teen dating violence and that support youth in learning the skills to have safe and healthy relationships.

The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. CEQA includes exemptions from its environmental review requirements for numerous categories of projects. This bill would exempt from the requirements of CEQA emergency shelters and supportive housing, as defined.

This measure would recognize February 7, 2022, to February 11, 2022, as National School Counseling Week.

This measure would designate the week of January 30, 2022, to February 5, 2022, inclusive, as Physician Anesthesiologist Week.

This measure would declare that passengers in motor vehicles should be educated and encouraged to advocate for their own safety and the safety of others during National Passenger Safety Week, the week of January 23 to 29, 2022, inclusive.

Existing law requires school districts to be responsible for the overall development of a comprehensive school safety plan for each of its schools operating kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive. Existing law requires the schoolsite council of a school to write and develop the comprehensive school safety plan relevant to the needs and resources of that particular school, in consultation with a representative from a law enforcement agency, a fire department, and other first responder entities. Existing law requires a petition to establish a charter school to include, among other things, a reasonably comprehensive description of the procedures that the charter school will follow to ensure the health and safety of pupils and staff, including requiring the development and annual update of a school safety plan that includes certain safety topics and procedures. Existing law authorizes moneys transferred into the general fund of any school district pursuant to specified provisions to be made available for specified purposes relating to the training of persons employed and compensated as members of a police department of a school district. This bill would authorize a school district or charter school that serves pupils in any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to adopt an anonymous reporting program offered by a nonprofit organization and a threat assessment system offered by a nonprofit organization that meet specified requirements. The bill would require an anonymous reporting program adopted by a school district or charter school to, among other things, support 24/7 anonymous reporting, promptly forward reported information to the appropriate school-based team, and implement an evidence-based pupil violence prevention training for pupils and school personnel, as specified. The bill would require a threat assessment system adopted by a school district or charter school to, among other things, identify the types of threatening behavior that may represent a physical threat to the school community, identify members within the school community to whom threatening behavior should be reported and the steps to be taken afterwards, and offer threat assessment trainings, as specified. The bill would authorize the above-described moneys to also be made available for the implementation and continued use of an anonymous reporting program and threat assessment system that meet the above requirements.