Existing federal law provides for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) , known in California as CalFresh (formerly the Food Stamp Program) , under which nutrition assistance benefits formerly referred to as food stamps, allocated to the state by the federal government, are distributed to eligible individuals by each county. Existing federal law requires all SNAP recipients, unless otherwise exempt, between 15 to 60 years of age, inclusive, who are physically and mentally fit, to register for employment and participate in the Food Stamp Employment and Training (FSET) program. This bill would require a county that elects to participate in the FSET program, which the bill would designate as the CalFresh Employment and Training program (CalFresh E&T) , to screen CalFresh work registrants to determine whether they will participate in, or be deferred from, the CalFresh E&T program, and would describe the criteria for deferral. The bill would authorize a CalFresh work registrant who is deferred from mandatory participation in the CalFresh E&T program to request to enroll in the program as a voluntary participant. This bill would require a county that elects to participate in the CalFresh E&T program to demonstrate in its CalFresh E&T plan how it is effectively using CalFresh E&T funds, as specified. The bill would further require that none of its provisions be construed to require a county to offer a particular component as part of its CalFresh E&T plan. The bill would provide that a CalFresh E&T participant is not an employee for the purposes of workers' compensation and would provide that it would not require a county to provide workers' compensation coverage for a CalFresh E&T participant. This bill would require the department to adopt implementing regulations by October 1, 2013.
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Existing law, the California Child Day Care Facilities Act, administered by the State Department of Social Services, provides for the licensure and regulation of child day care facilities, as defined. Willful or repeated violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor. The act defines a child as a person who is under 18 years of age who is being provided care and supervision in a child day care facility, with specified exceptions. Under existing law, a child day care facility is authorized to provide nonmedical care to children under 18 years of age in need of personal services, supervision, or assistance essential for sustaining the activities of daily living or for the protection of the individual on less than a 24-hour basis. Existing law provides for educational programs for persons with exceptional needs. Existing law includes within the definition of an individual with special needs a person between 19 and 21 years of age, who is enrolled in or eligible for a special education program prior to his or her 19th birthday, and who has not yet completed his or her prescribed course of study, has not met proficiency standards, or has not graduated from high school with a regular high school diploma. Existing law provides that a person who becomes 22 years of age during the months of January to June, inclusive, while participating in one of these special education programs, as specified, may continue his or her participation in the program for the remainder of the current fiscal year, including any extended school year program for individuals with exceptional needs established pursuant to specified state and federal law. This bill would authorize the department to approve or deny a written request from a schoolage child care center, as defined, for enrollment or retention of a nonminor student, as defined, at the schoolage child care center if the department makes a specified determination. This bill would require that, if a request is submitted to the department at least 30 days prior to the child's 18th birthday, the nonminor student be retained at a schoolage child care center, unless the request is denied in writing. This bill would prohibit a nonminor student from being enrolled at a schoolage child care center until the request is approved in writing by the department. By changing the definition of an existing crime with respect to the California Child Day Care Facilities Act, 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 authorizes a peace officer, without a warrant, to take into temporary custody a minor when the officer has reasonable cause for believing that the minor is in danger, as specified. Existing law provides for a hearing process to deem the child a dependent child of the court. Under existing law, during the hearing process the court is authorized to temporarily limit the right of a parent or guardian to make educational decisions for the child and to temporarily appoint, or make itself, these decisions, as specified. Under existing law, once the minor is adjudged a dependent child of the court, the court may limit the ability of a parent or guardian to make educational decisions for the minor. This bill would authorize the court to limit the right of a parent or guardian to make decisions about developmental services and to appoint a responsible adult, or to make itself, those decisions, as specified. Under existing law, a minor may be adjudged a ward of the court for specified reasons. The court may limit the control to be exercised over the ward by a parent or guardian, including educational decisionmaking, and appoint a responsible adult, as specified, to make those decisions. This bill would extend those provisions to decisions relating to developmental services. Existing law authorizes, during the pendency of any juvenile proceeding, the minor's counsel or the court to express a doubt as to the minor's competency. Existing law requires proceedings to be suspended if the court finds substantial evidence raises a doubt as to the minor's competency. Existing law requires the court to appoint an expert, as specified, to evaluate whether the minor suffers from a mental disorder or developmental immaturity, or other condition and, if so, whether the condition impairs the minor's competency. This bill would require that the court appoint an expert, as specified, to evaluate whether the minor suffers from a developmental disability. This bill would also require the court to appoint the director of a regional center for developmentally disabled individuals, or his or her designee, to evaluate the minor if the expert believes the minor is developmentally disabled, as prescribed, and would make related changes. Under existing law, the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act, the State Department of Developmental Services is authorized to contract with regional centers to provide support and services to individuals with developmental disabilities. The services and supports to be provided to a regional center consumer are contained in an individual program plan (IPP) , developed in accordance with prescribed requirements through an individual program planning process. Existing law defines "authorized representative" for purposes of the act to include a person having legal custody of a minor claimant or a person with written authority to act as representative of the claimant. This bill would add to the definition of "authorized representative" a responsible adult appointed through a court order made pursuant to the limitation of developmental services decisionmaking authority, as set forth above, and who does not have a conflict of interest, as defined. The bill would give a court-appointed developmental services decisionmaker the right to access the minor's information, to participate in the IPP process, and to participate in the fair hearing process. This bill would incorporate additional changes in Sections 4514 and 5328 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, proposed by SB 146, to be operative only if SB 146 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2012, and this bill is chaptered last.
Existing law, part of the hazardous waste control law, requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control to adopt regulations to establish a process by which chemicals or chemical ingredients in products may be identified and prioritized for consideration as being chemicals of concern and to adopt regulations to establish a process by which chemicals of concern may be evaluated. The department is prohibited from duplicating or adopting conflicting regulations for regulated product categories. A violation of the hazardous waste control law is a crime. The bill would enact the Toxin-Free Infants and Toddlers Act, which would, except as specified, prohibit, on and after July 1, 2013, the manufacture, sale, or distribution in commerce of any bottle or cup that contains bisphenol A, at a detectable level above 0.1 parts per billion (ppb) , if the bottle or cup is designed or intended to be filled with any liquid, food, or beverage intended primarily for consumption by children 3 years of age or younger. This prohibition would not apply to a product subject to a regulatory response by the department, on the date that a prescribed notice is posted regarding the department's adoption of the regulatory response. The bill would also require manufacturers to use the least toxic alternative when replacing bisphenolA in containers in accordance with this bill.
Existing law requires every person who manufactures an optical disc, as defined, for commercial purposes to permanently mark the manufactured optical disc with an identification mark or a unique identifying code, as specified. Existing law sets forth various definitions for purposes of these provisions. Existing law makes a manufacturer that violates these provisions guilty of a crime punishable by specified fines. Existing law also makes a person that engages in specified prohibited acts in violation of these provisions guilty of a crime punishable by specified fines or imprisonment. This bill would recast the definitions applicable to these provisions. The bill would prohibit a person who manufactures optical discs for commercial purposes from possessing, owning, controlling, or operating manufacturing equipment or any optical disc mold unless it has been adapted to apply the appropriate identification mark or unique identifying code. The bill would prohibit a person who manufactures optical discs for commercial purposes from making, possessing, or adapting any optical disc mold for the purpose of applying a forged, false, or deceptive identification mark or identifying code. The bill would authorize law enforcement officers to perform inspections, as specified, at commercial optical disc manufacturing facilities during regular business hours without a warrant for the purpose of verifying compliance with these provisions and would authorize law enforcement officers, in performing these investigations, to seize any optical disc or production part manufactured in violation of these provisions. The bill would require a person manufacturing optical discs for commercial purposes to maintain specified records. The bill would also increase the fines applicable to a manufacturer or person that violates the provisions regulating manufactured optical discs. Because a violation of the bill's provisions by a person who manufactures optical discs would be a crime, 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 that no costs incurred by a qualified health care professional, hospital, or other emergency medical facility for the examination of the victim of a sexual assault for the purposes of gathering evidence for possible prosecution shall be charged directly or indirectly to the victim of the assault. Existing law provides that the law enforcement agency in the jurisdiction in which the alleged sexual assault was committed which requests the examination has the option of determining whether or not the examination will be performed in the office of a physician and surgeon, and bills for those costs shall be submitted to that local jurisdiction and the local jurisdiction shall bear those costs. This bill would delete the provision giving the local law enforcement agency the option of whether or not the examination will be performed in the office of a physician and surgeon. The bill would provide that victims of sexual assault who request a medical evidentiary examination shall be provided with one. The bill would provide that the victim is not required to participate in the criminal justice system, as specified. The bill would provide that the cost of the medical evidentiary examination is not chargeable, directly or indirectly, to the victim. The bill would provide that the cost of that examination is a cost chargeable to the local law enforcement agency in whose jurisdiction the alleged offense occurred, provided however, that the local law enforcement agency may seek reimbursement from the California Emergency Management Agency for the costs of those examinations, as specified, in those cases in which the victim does not participate in the criminal justice system. The bill would provide that the amount that a qualified health care professional, hospital, or other emergency medical facility may charge to perform the medical evidentiary examination portion of a medical examination of a victim of sexual assault may not exceed $300, and would specify certain federal grant moneys to be used by the California Emergency Management Agency for reimbursement to local law enforcement agencies for the cost of medical evidentiary examinations, as specified, in those cases where the victim does not participate in the criminal justice system. The bill would authorize the agency to use those federal funds for that purpose until January 1, 2014. This bill would make related conforming changes. (2) Existing law requires the California Emergency Management Agency to develop a course of training for qualified health care professionals relating to the examination and treatment of victims of sexual assault. Existing law requires that the agency consult with health care professionals and law enforcement agencies in developing the course. This bill would encourage the agency to designate a course of training for qualified health care professionals and require the agency to partner with allied professional training courses, such as sexual assault prosecutor training as administered by the California District Attorneys Association, regarding that course of training, as specified. (3) For purposes of these provisions, existing law defines a qualified health care professional as a licensed physician and surgeon, or a nurse who works in consultation with a physician and surgeon who conducts examinations for victims of sexual abuse. This bill would include a currently licensed nurse practitioner and a currently licensed physician assistant in the definition of a qualified health care professional.
This measure would designate the month of September of every year as Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month throughout the State of California, and would encourage and promote efforts to educate the people and the health care practitioners of the state regarding ovarian cancer and its early detection and prevention, the risk factors involved in its development, and the early warning symptoms and signs.
This measure would recognize the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks as a day of solemn commemoration.
This measure would proclaim the month of March of every year as Read Across California Month and request that public and private stakeholders work together to raise awareness of the importance of reading to young children and the importance of independent reading among our pupils and citizens of California by encouraging everyone to read for 30 minutes for 30 days during the month of March of every year, in conjunction with the Read Across America campaign held annually on March 2.
Existing law provides for public social services programs, such as the CalWORKs program, the Medi-Cal program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Foster Care (AFDC-FC) , and CalFresh. This bill would delete various obsolete reporting requirements, and would make other corrections and technical changes to provisions relating to public social services.