Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law requires every health care service plan contract to provide enrollees with basic health care services, except as specified. Existing law defines basic health care services to include, among other things, physician services and hospital inpatient and ambulatory care services. Existing law requires specified group health care service plan contracts issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 1990, to offer coverage for the treatment of infertility, as defined, except in vitro fertilization. This bill would clarify that, when a covered treatment may cause iatrogenic infertility to an enrollee, standard fertility preservation services are a basic health care service and are not within the scope of coverage for infertility treatment, as described above. The bill would state that these provisions are declaratory of existing law. The bill would state that these provisions do not apply to Medi-Cal managed care health care service plan contracts or any entity that contracts with the State Department of Health Care Services to deliver health care services pursuant to the Medi-Cal program.
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(1) Existing law provides, notwithstanding any other law, for purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act, that the preliminary project alternative referred to as Alternative F-6 in the December 2012 Alternative Analysis Report of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority is no longer deemed to be a feasible alternative for consideration in any state environmental review process for the Interstate 710 North Gap Closure project. This bill would revise this provision to instead provide that the preliminary project alternatives referred to as Alternative F-5, F-6, and F-7 in the December 2012 Alternative Analysis Report of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority and any other freeway or tunnel alternatives to close the Interstate 710 North Gap are no longer deemed to be feasible alternatives for consideration in any environmental review process for the Interstate 710 North Gap Closure project. (2) Existing law vests the Department of Transportation with full possession and control of all state highways and associated property. Existing law designates and describes state highway routes, and also describes the state highway routes in the California freeway and expressway system, including all of Route 710 in the County of Los Angeles. This bill would, on January 1, 2024, remove from the California freeway and expressway system the portion of Route 710 between Alhambra Avenue in the City of Los Angeles and California Boulevard in the City of Pasadena.
Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a health care service plan and a health insurer, at the request of an enrollee or insured, to provide for the completion of services by a terminated or nonparticipating provider if the enrollee or insured is undergoing a course of treatment for one of specified conditions, including a serious chronic condition, at the time of the contract or policy termination or the time the coverage became effective. This bill would, for purposes of an individual who presents written documentation of being diagnosed with a maternal mental health condition, as defined, from the individual's treating health care provider, require completion of covered services for that condition, not exceeding 12 months, as specified. By expanding the duties of health care service plans, the bill would expand the scope of an existing crime, thereby imposing 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, subject to exceptions, generally requires the loan of a firearm to be conducted by a firearms dealer. This bill would authorize the temporary transfer of a firearm without a firearms dealer's participation to a person who is 18 years of age or older for safekeeping to prevent it from being used to attempt suicide, as specified. The bill would also authorize the loan of a firearm without a firearms dealer's participation under other specified circumstances and if certain conditions are met, as specified. (2) Under existing law a person commits the crime of criminal storage of a firearm if the person keeps a loaded firearm within a premises with knowledge that a child is likely to gain access to the firearm. This bill would make the crime of criminal storage applicable to the storage of an unloaded firearm. The bill would make it a crime for a person who has been convicted of this crime to own a firearm for a period of 10 years. By expanding the application of a crime and creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (3) Existing law makes it a crime to keep a handgun within a premises with knowledge that a child or person prohibited from possessing a firearm is likely to gain access if the child or prohibited person obtains access to the handgun and carries it off premises. This bill would make this crime applicable to any firearm. The bill would make it a crime for a person who has been convicted of this crime to own a firearm for a period of 10 years. By expanding the application of a crime and creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (4) Existing law makes it a crime for an owner or legal occupant of a residence to store a firearm in that residence if the person knows another person residing in that residence is prohibited from possessing a firearm unless the firearm is secured, as specified. The bill would make it a crime for a person who has been convicted of this crime to own a firearm for a period of 10 years. The bill would also correct an erroneous cross-reference. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (5) Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of community care facilities for adults, residential care facilities for persons with chronic life-threatening illness, and residential care facilities for the elderly by the State Department of Social Services. Violations of the licensing requirements for these different types of care facilities are crimes. This bill would require the department to promulgate regulations prescribing the procedures for a firearm and ammunition to be centrally stored in a locked gun safe within any of those facilities if the facility permits licensees, residents, or clients to possess firearms on its premises. Because a violation of these requirements by a facility would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would additionally make other conforming changes to regulatory provisions for specified community care facilities for adults. (6) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 31700 of the Penal Code proposed by AB 1292 to be operative only if this bill and AB 1292 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. This bill would also incorporate additional changes to Section 26835 of the Penal Code proposed by AB 645 and SB 61 to be operative only if this bill, AB 645, and SB 61 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. (7) 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 requires a county office of education and county probation department to have a joint transition planning policy that includes collaboration with relevant local educational agencies to coordinate education and services for youth in the juvenile justice system. This bill would require, as part of the joint transition planning policy, the county office of education to assign transition oversight responsibilities to existing county office of education personnel who will work in collaboration with the county probation department, as needed, and relevant local educational agencies to ensure that specified transition activities are completed for the pupil, and to facilitate the transfer of, among other things, complete and accurate education records and the pupil's individualized education plan, when a pupil enters the juvenile court school, as specified. The bill would require a pupil detained for more than 20 consecutive schooldays to have an individualized transition plan, as specified, to be developed by the county office of education in collaboration with the county probation department, as needed, and to have specified items accessible to the holder of the educational rights of the pupil upon the pupil's release. The bill would require, for pupils detained for 20 consecutive schooldays or fewer, the pupil's individualized learning plan, if one exists, to be made available by the county office of education to the pupil upon the pupil's release. The bill would require the county office of education, in collaboration, as needed, with the county probation department, to establish procedures for the timely, accurate, complete, and confidential transfer of educational records, as specified. The bill would specify that these provisions also apply to juvenile court schools that are operated by, or as, charter schools. By imposing additional requirements on county offices of education and certain charter schools, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) 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 generally requires any person who sells, leases, or transfers firearms to be a licensed dealer, as specified. Existing law exempts infrequent sales, leases, and transfers from this requirement. Existing law generally prohibits the purchase or receipt of a firearm by, or sale, transfer, or loan of a firearm, to, a person who does not have a firearm safety certificate. Existing law exempts from this requirement, the infrequent loan of a firearm. Existing law defines "infrequent" for purposes of this exemption to mean less than 6 handgun transactions per calendar year, or, for firearms other than handguns, an indefinite number of transactions that are "occasional and without regularity." This bill would redefine "infrequent" to mean less than 6 firearm transactions per calendar year, regardless of the type of firearm, and no more than 50 total firearms within those transactions. Existing law exempts from the dealer requirement, the transfer of a firearm by bequest or intestate succession, or to a surviving spouse. This bill would extend that exemption to the transfer of a firearm to a trust beneficiary, as specified. This bill would also exempt from the requirement specified transfers made by a formerly licensed dealer that is ceasing operations, transfers made to a specified government entity as part of a "gun-buyback" program, and transfers made by a person prohibited from possessing a firearm to a dealer for the purpose of storing that firearm. Existing law provides certain exemptions to prohibitions on openly carrying a firearm, storage of firearms, dealer processing requirements, and off-premises transactions by a licensed dealer, for specified charity auctions and similar events. This bill would clarify that these exemptions also apply to charity raffles. This bill would also remove the limitation on the number of firearm transactions allowed by a charity auction and instead require all firearms sold or otherwise transferred by auction or raffle to be delivered to a licensed dealer for delivery to the recipient. Existing law requires a person manufacturing 100 or more firearms each year in the state to be licensed as a manufacturer. This bill would instead require anybody manufacturing 50 or more firearms to be licensed. Existing law requires a licensed dealer processing the transfer of a firearm to hold the firearm for a designated waiting period before releasing the firearm. Existing law exempts certain firearms transactions that occur as part of a charitable auction, as specified, from this waiting period. This bill would repeal the waiting period exemption for charitable auctions. This bill also makes technical and conforming changes and changes that are declaratory of existing law. A violation of various provisions involving the transfer, manufacture, and carrying of firearms is a crime. By changing the scope of these offenses, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would make conforming changes to Section 11108.2 of the Penal Code that would be operative only if AB 1669 becomes operative. This bill would make changes to Section 26556 of the Penal Code that would be operative only if AB 1009 becomes operative. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Sections 27966 and 28230 of the Penal Code proposed by AB 1009 to be operative only if this bill and AB 1009 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. 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 requests the University of California to compile specified information, including a survey of existing resources throughout California's governmental and administrative structure that are available to address the needs of an aging society. Existing law requires the Secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency, based upon the information compiled by the University of California and with the consultation or advice of specified entities, to develop a statewide strategic plan on aging for long-term planning purposes and submit the plan to the Legislature. By executive order, the Governor ordered that a master plan for aging be developed and issued to serve as a blueprint to implement strategies and partnerships that promote healthy aging and prepare the state for upcoming demographic changes. The executive order requires the Secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency to convene a Cabinet-level Workgroup for Aging to advise the secretary in developing and issuing the master plan. This bill would require the secretary, in coordination with the Director of the California Department of Aging, to lead the development and implementation of the master plan established pursuant to that executive order. The bill would require the secretary and the director, with the assistance of the workgroup, to work with specified agencies, as needed, to identify policies, efficiencies, and strategies necessary to implement the master plan. The bill would also require the workgroup to solicit input and gather information to assist with the implementation of the master plan. The bill would require the department to submit a report to the Governor and the Legislature by October 1, 2020, and submit updates annually thereafter, until October 1, 2030, regarding the master plan.
Existing law, subject to exceptions, prohibits a person from making more than one application to purchase a handgun within any 30-day period. A violation of that prohibition is a crime. Existing law prohibits a firearms dealer from delivering a handgun to a person whenever the dealer is notified by the Department of Justice that within the preceding 30-day period the purchaser has made another application to purchase a handgun that does not fall within an exception to the 30-day prohibition. A violation of that delivery prohibition by the dealer is a crime. This bill would, effective July 1, 2021, make the 30-day prohibition and the dealer delivery prohibition described above also applicable to semiautomatic centerfire rifles. Existing law prohibits a licensed firearm dealer from selling a firearm to a person under 21 years of age. Existing law provides an exemption to this prohibition for the sale of a firearm, other than a handgun, to a person 18 years of age or older who has a valid hunting license, is a law enforcement officer, as specified, or is an honorably discharged member of the Armed Forces. Existing law makes a violation of this prohibition a crime. This bill would prohibit the sale of a semiautomatic centerfire rifle to any person under the age of 21, except a law enforcement officer or active duty member of the Armed Forces, as specified. The bill would state that its provisions are severable. By expanding the scope of existing crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 26835 of the Penal Code proposed by AB 645 and SB 172 to be operative only if this bill and AB 645, SB 172, or both are enacted and this bill is enacted last. 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 establishes and funds various research centers and programs in conjunction with the University of California. Under existing law the University of California has the authority to establish and administer a Firearm Violence Research Center to research firearm violence. The bill would, upon adoption of a specified resolution by the Regents of the University of California, require the center to develop multifaceted education and training programs for medical and mental health providers on the prevention of firearm-related injury and death, as specified. The bill would, upon adoption of that resolution, require the university to report, on or before December 31, 2020, and annually thereafter, specified information regarding the activities of, and financial details relating to, the program. The bill would also make conforming changes.
Existing law prohibits an employee of a criminal justice agency from furnishing information obtained from specified records, including information accessed via the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (CLETS) to any person not authorized to obtain that information. This bill would authorize specified local law enforcement agencies to furnish limited information about persons on supervised release within their jurisdiction to a county, city, city and county, or nonprofit organization that provides transitional services to persons on supervised release. The bill would require a person on supervised release to be notified that they may consent to the release of their information for this purpose and would allow those persons to opt in to having their information released. The bill would require the law enforcement agency, prior to releasing any information, to contact the supervising agency, as specified, to verify whether the person has opted-in, and, in the case of persons on probation, to subsequently notify the probation department of any referral given to a service provider. By placing additional requirements on postrelease supervision agencies, 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, 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.