Sen. Anthony Portantino

Existing law requires the State Department of Health Care Services to perform various health functions, including providing breast and cervical cancer screening and treatment for low-income individuals. Existing law provides that an individual is eligible to receive treatment services if, among other things, the individual has a family income at or below 200% of the federal poverty level as determined by the provider performing the screening and diagnosis. This bill would provide that, commencing no later than July 1, 2026, an individual is eligible to receive treatment services if the individual has a family income at or below 250% of the federal poverty level as determined by the provider performing the screening and diagnosis.

Existing law, the Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Act, authorizes specified adult persons to petition a civil court to create a voluntary CARE agreement or a court-ordered CARE plan and implement services, to be provided by county behavioral health agencies, to provide behavioral health care, including stabilization medication, housing, and other enumerated services, to adults who are currently experiencing a severe mental illness and have a diagnosis identified in the disorder class schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, and who meet other specified criteria. Existing law requires the Department of Health Care Access and Information to perform various duties with respect to implementing health professions scholarship and loan programs. This bill would, upon appropriation, establish the Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Scholarship Program. The bill would require the department to administer the annual scholarship for purposes of increasing the number of culturally competent marriage and family therapists, clinical social workers, professional clinical counselors, and psychologists, as specified. The bill would require scholarship recipients to agree to work for county behavioral health agencies in meeting their needs and obligations to implement the CARE Act for a minimum of 3 years upon degree completion. The bill would require the department to post information related to the scholarship on its internet website.

Existing law, subject to exceptions, provides that any person who has been convicted of certain misdemeanors may not, within 10 years of the conviction, own, purchase, receive, possess or have under their custody or control, any firearm and makes a violation of that prohibition punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony. Existing law, with certain exceptions, makes it a crime to maliciously and intentionally maim, mutilate, torture, wound, or kill a living animal. This bill would provide that any person convicted of a misdemeanor violation of the above-described crimes, on or after January 1, 2025, may not, within 10 years of the conviction, access a firearm as described above, and would make a violation of that prohibition a misdemeanor. Because a violation of these provisions would be a crime, and because this bill would expand the application of the crime to a larger class of potential offenders, this 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.

Existing law generally regulates the possession of firearms, including imposing storage requirements to prevent children from gaining access to firearms. This bill would, beginning on January 1, 2026, require a person who possesses a firearm in a residence to keep the firearm securely stored when the firearm is not being carried or readily controlled by the person or another lawful authorized user. For purposes of these provisions, a firearm is securely stored if the firearm is maintained within, locked by, or disabled using a certified firearm safety device or secure gun safe that meets specified standards. The bill would make a first and 2nd violation of this offense punishable as an infraction, and a 3rd or subsequent violation punishable as a misdemeanor. The bill would exempt unloaded antique firearms, as defined, or firearms that are permanently inoperable from these provisions. The bill would require the Department of Justice to seek to inform residents about these standards for storage of firearms. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor or a felony if a person keeps a firearm within any premises that are under the person's custody or control and the person knows or reasonably should know that a child is likely to gain access to the firearm without the permission of the child's parent or legal guardian, and the child obtains access to the firearm and causes injury, other than great bodily injury, or death or great bodily injury to the child or any other person, or carries that firearm off-premises, as defined, to a public place or a school. Existing law exempts a person from the above provisions if the person has no reasonable expectation, based on objective facts and circumstances, that a child is likely to be present on the premises. This bill would remove these exemptions. 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.

Existing law, commencing with the 2013–14 fiscal year, establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified. This bill would require the State Department of Education, by July 1, 2025, to update a salary and benefit schedule form, as described, to include salary data collection for classified school staff assigned to a schoolsite or sites in the same manner as that data is collected for certificated staff assigned to a schoolsite or sites, and to call this updated form the Salary and Benefit Schedule for the Bargaining Units (Form J–90) . The bill would require school districts, county offices of education, and direct-funded charter schools, by January 31, 2026, and annually thereafter, to complete the Form J–90 for specified classified and certificated staff assigned to a schoolsite or sites and report the Form J–90 to the department, and would authorize those local educational agencies to complete and report the Form J-90 for prior fiscal years, as provided. By imposing new duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the department, by August 31, 2026, and annually thereafter, to report to the Legislature on the progress of school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools in increasing salaries for classified and certificated staff assigned to a schoolsite or sites, as provided. 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, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified, that includes average daily attendance as a component of that calculation for these local educational agencies. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, on or before February 20 of each year, to make a first principal apportionment of funds and, on or before July 2 of each year, to make a 2nd principal apportionment of funds to each local educational agency. This bill would require the Legislative Analyst's Office to submit a report to the Legislature, on or before January 1, 2026, on the effects of changing the pupil count methodology of the local control funding formula from average daily attendance to pupil enrollment. The bill would require the report, at a minimum, to analyze specified information, to the extent data is available, including, among other things, a review of research regarding evidence-based approaches to improving pupil attendance and the extent to which a state's method of funding affects pupil attendance rates, the fiscal, programmatic, and administrative impacts of changing the pupil count methodology of the local control funding formula from average daily attendance to pupil enrollment, and the potential impacts on pupil attendance of changing the pupil count methodology of the local control funding formula from average daily attendance to pupil enrollment, as provided. The bill would require the report to include input from relevant stakeholders, as determined by the Legislative Analyst's Office. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2027.

(1) Existing law establishes priorities and procedures that any state agency disposing of surplus residential property is required to follow, including specified procedures for the sale of specified property in the City of Pasadena and the City of South Pasadena. Under existing law, a state agency disposing of surplus residential property in the City of Pasadena is required to first offer the property to former owners and present occupants, as specified, then to specified present tenants at fair market value, and then, if not occupied by tenants, to the city, subject to terms and conditions that include the use of proceeds generated from the subsequent sale of unoccupied homes to finance the production or acquisition of affordable housing units, as prescribed. Existing law also requires, if the City of Pasadena does not resell a surplus residential property within 2 years of closure of the sale, that the property be used as affordable housing pursuant to prescribed provisions of existing law applicable to the City of South Pasadena. Existing law requires the City of Pasadena to commence construction or complete acquisition of all affordable units numbering at least 3 times the total number of unoccupied homes acquired by the city by December 31, 2026. After the foregoing order of offers, existing law requires the property in the City of Pasadena to be offered in accordance with specified generally applicable existing law. Existing law requires the Department of Transportation, before selling unimproved property within the State Route 710 corridor (SR710 corridor) in the City of Pasadena, to offer to sell the property to a housing-related entity for affordable housing purposes, pursuant to specified terms and conditions, but at the price paid by the department for original acquisition. Similar provisions govern a state agency disposing of surplus residential property in the City of South Pasadena. Existing law specific to the City of South Pasadena requires that a property within the City of South Pasadena that has a historic home not occupied by tenants be offered to the city, as prescribed. Existing law specific to the City of South Pasadena on the order of offers then requires that surplus residential property be offered to the City of South Pasadena, as a housing-related entity, and then to another housing-related entity, subject to prescribed terms and conditions, including the property's use as affordable housing. This bill would revise the City of South Pasadena provisions to more closely parallel the City of Pasadena provisions. The bill, in the case of the City of South Pasadena, would add to the terms and conditions for the use of property for affordable housing by the City of South Pasadena the requirements that any parcel used for the development of specified affordable units be granted streamlined ministerial approval and that such parcels be exempt from any initiative or other measure that may preclude achieving maximum densities, including, but not limited to, any height restriction requirements. The bill would make related findings. The bill would require the City of South Pasadena to commence construction or complete acquisition of all affordable units numbering at least 3 times the total number of unoccupied homes acquired by the city by July 1, 2028. This bill would require, for both cities, that if a surplus residential property purchased by a housing-related public entity is not resold as provided, that the property be used as affordable housing, subject to prescribed requirements. The bill, with regard to the SR710 corridor unimproved properties, would require the department to offer to sell the property to the City of Pasadena or the City of South Pasadena as a housing-related entity for affordable housing purposes, and then to another housing-related entity, pursuant to prescribed terms and conditions. This bill, by imposing new requirements on the City of Pasadena and the City of South Pasadena, would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) Existing law, known as the Administrative Procedure Act, governs the procedures for the adoption, amendment, or repeal of regulations by state agencies and for the review of those regulatory actions by the Office of Administrative Law. Under existing law, a regulation, amendment, or repeal adopted as an emergency regulatory action may only remain in effect for up to 180 days, unless the adopting agency complies with specified requirements relating to notice of regulatory action and public comment. Existing law required the Department of Transportation to file and adopt emergency regulations for specified provisions of law relating to surplus residential property along the SR 710 corridor and authorized those emergency regulations to remain in effect until specified dates, notwithstanding the 180-day limit for emergency regulations. This bill would, notwithstanding the 180-day limit for emergency regulations and for any of those emergency regulations in effect on September 15, 2024, extend the effective date of those emergency regulations to January 31, 2026, or until permanent regulations are adopted. The bill would also, notwithstanding the 180-day limit for emergency regulations, provide that any necessary emergency regulations adopted by the department to implement the bill shall remain in effect until January 31, 2026, or until new emergency regulations are adopted. (3) This bill would also make conforming changes. (4) This bill would make findings regarding the public purpose served by the bill. (5) This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of Pasadena and the City of South Pasadena. (6) 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. (7) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Existing law, the Alfred E. Alquist Hospital Facilities Seismic Safety Act of 1983, establishes, under the jurisdiction of the Department of Health Care Access and Information, a program of seismic safety building standards for certain hospitals constructed on and after March 7, 1973. Existing law requires that, by January 1, 2030, owners of these hospitals must either demolish, replace, or change to nonacute care use all hospital buildings that are not in compliance with these standards or seismically retrofit all acute care inpatient hospital buildings so they are in substantial compliance with these standards, unless subject to an abeyance. This bill would authorize a hospital owner or operator to submit an application, by specified dates, to the department for additional extensions to the compliance deadline. The bill would require the department to grant or deny an extension of the deadline for substantial compliance with seismic safety regulations or standards up to January 1, 2035. The bill would require the application to contain a seismic compliance plan, a specified evaluation report, a financial plan, and an attestation to the department that the appropriate governing board of that hospital is aware that the hospital building is required to be in substantial compliance with the seismic safety regulations or standards. By imposing the above-described attestation, this bill would expand the crime of perjury and impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would require the hospital and the department to identify specified milestones that are used for determining whether the hospital is making progress towards meeting the hospital's seismic compliance deadline. The bill would require the hospital to demonstrate efforts to comply with the seismic compliance deadline by providing the department with a plan outlining how seismic construction costs and other financial responsibilities will be met and what funding sources will be used if the hospital fails to meet an agreed-upon milestone due to circumstances that were within the hospital owner's or operator's control. The bill would require the owner or operator of that hospital to submit to the department an attestation that the appropriate governing board of that hospital is aware of the hospital's responsibility to comply with the associated construction costs to meet the seismic compliance deadlines. By requiring the owner or operator of a hospital to submit to the department an attestation, this bill would expand the crime of perjury and impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would require the department, before granting an extension past January 1, 2030, to provide public notice of a hospital's request for an extension, provide copies, upon request, of any publicly available material submitted by the hospital in support of their extension to interested parties, and allow the public to submit written comments on the extension proposal, as specified. The bill would require the department, beginning January 1, 2027, to post on the department's internet website specified information, including, among other things, its decision to grant or deny any extension. The bill would require the department to notify the county board of supervisors, the city council, and the Assembly and Senate representative in writing and electronically if a hospital within their district has been granted or denied an extension. This bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2026, to adopt regulations and standards or revise regulations and standards, or both, to extend the deadlines for meeting the structural performance and nonstructural performance requirements. The bill would specify that regulatory submissions made by the department to the California Building Standards Commission are deemed to be emergency regulations and that the adoption of these regulations are to be deemed an emergency and necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety, and general welfare. Existing law requires, before January 1, 2024, the owner of an acute care inpatient hospital that includes a building that does not substantially comply with seismic safety regulations or standards to post in a lobby or waiting area generally accessible to patients or the public a notice provided by the department that the hospital is not in compliance with the seismic safety requirements the hospital is required to meet by January 1, 2030. Existing law requires, on or before January 1, 2024, and annually thereafter, the owner of an acute care inpatient hospital that includes a building that does not substantially comply with seismic safety regulations or standards to provide an annual status update on the Structural Performance Category ratings of the buildings and the services provided in each hospital building on the hospital campus to specified entities until each of the hospital buildings owned by that hospital building owner is compliant. This bill would require, before January 1, 2025, the owner or operator of an acute care inpatient hospital that includes a building that does not substantially comply with the seismic safety regulations or standards to post in any lobby or waiting area generally accessible to patients or the public the notice mentioned above. The bill would also require, on or before January 1, 2025, and annually thereafter, the owner or operator to provide an annual status update, as specified. This bill would specify that the provisions of this act are severable. 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 designate a specified portion of Interstate 80 in the City and County of San Francisco as the Willie Mays Highway. The measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.

This measure would express the Legislature's support for President Joseph Biden's goal of ending hunger and increasing healthy eating and physical activity by 2030.