Existing law provides that specified contracts entered into by any state agency for goods, services, or other specified activities, whether awarded through competitive bidding or not, are void unless and until approved by the Department of General Services, and approval shall be denied if the contract does not meet the required specifications of the bidding process. That law exempts certain transactions and contracts from that law, as specified. Existing law requires state agencies to secure at least 3 competitive bids for each contract and exempts specified contracts from this requirement. This bill would make those laws inapplicable to any contract entered into by the Department of Water Resources for the acquisition, sale, or transmission of power, or for related services, as specified. This bill would authorize the Department of Water Resources to award contracts for the acquisition of specialized equipment for facilities of the State Water Resources Development System, and would require the Department of Water Resources, in collaboration with the Department of General Services, to establish the conditions under which a contract in excess of $25,000 is awarded without the competitive bidding process, as specified. This bill would include in the list of exempt contracts that do not require 3 competitive bids, contracts for services for the operation, maintenance, repair, or replacement of specialized equipment at facilities of the State Water Resources Development System and other specified contracts entered into by the Department of Water Resources, as provided. This bill would require the Department of Water Resources to be governed by the laws regarding contracting for goods and services by state agencies, as prescribed.
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Existing law authorizes the leasing of lands owned by the state and under the jurisdiction of the State Lands Commission for purposes the commission deems advisable. Existing law requires the commission to appraise lands and fix the annual rent or other consideration upon receipt of an application to lease the land. This bill would require the commission to charge rent for a private recreational pier, as defined, constructed on state lands and would require the rent to be based on local conditions and local fair annual rental values. The bill would except a lease in effect on July 1, 2011, for the term of that lease, and a lease for which the application and application fees were submitted to the commission prior to March 31, 2011. Existing law prohibits rent from being charged for a private recreational pier, as defined, constructed on state lands for the use of a littoral landowner, as defined. Existing law requires the littoral landowner to pay the commission's expenses in issuing a lease or permit for the state lands. This bill would repeal this law. Existing law makes legislative findings concerning the construction and maintenance of private recreational piers on state waterways, declares legislative intent to provide for rent free private recreational piers to encourage members of the public to construct these piers, and states that these findings and intent are declaratory of existing law. This bill would repeal those provisions.
Existing law requires each county to provide cash assistance and other social services to needy families through the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program using federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) block grant program, state, and county funds. Existing federal law provides for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) , known in California as CalFresh, formerly the Food Stamp Program, under which supplemental nutrition assistance benefits allocated to the state by the federal government are distributed to eligible individuals by each county. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services and the California Health and Human Services Agency Data Center to design, implement, and maintain a statewide fingerprint imaging system for use in connection with the determination of eligibility for benefits under the CalWORKs program, excluding the Aid to Families with Dependent Children‑Foster Care program, and CalFresh. Existing law, with specified exceptions, requires applicants for, and recipients of, CalWORKs and CalFresh benefits, as a condition of eligibility, to be fingerprint imaged, pursuant to the statewide fingerprint imaging system. This bill would remove the requirement that applicants for, and recipients of, CalFresh benefits, as a condition of eligibility, be fingerprint imaged and would make related conforming changes. Under existing law, the county is required to annually redetermine eligibility for CalWORKs benefits. Existing law additionally requires the county to redetermine recipient eligibility and grant amounts on a quarterly basis, using prospective budgeting, and to prospectively determine the grant amount that a recipient is entitled to receive for each month of the quarterly reporting period. Under existing law, a CalWORKs recipient is required to report to the county, orally or in writing, specified changes that could affect the amount of aid to which the recipient is entitled. Under existing law, the CalWORKs quarterly reporting system is also implemented by the State Department of Social Services in administering SNAP. This bill would make inoperative October 1, 2013, and repeal January 1, 2014, the requirements relating to quarterly reporting and prospective determination grant amounts, and would, instead, impose similar requirements for a semiannual reporting period, operative April 1, 2013, to be implemented no later than October 1, 2013. This bill would require each county to transition recipients to a semiannual reporting system simultaneously and require each county to provide a certificate to the Director of Social Services certifying that semiannual reporting has been implemented in the county. The bill would also require the department to establish an income reporting threshold for CalWORKs recipients, as specified. The bill would make various related conforming changes, including revising provisions relating to the collection of CalWORKs grant overpayments. The bill would authorize counties to adopt staggered semiannual reporting requirements, as specified. This bill would prohibit administrative savings associated with the implementation of semiannual reporting from exceeding the amount necessary to fund the net General Fund costs of the semiannual reporting, and would authorize the reflection of possible additional savings in excess of this amount only to the extent that they are based on actual savings, as prescribed. The bill would authorize the department to implement these provisions through all-county letters until the adoption of implementing regulations, as prescribed. Existing law requires the Department of Community Services and Development to receive and administer the federal Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program block grant. This bill would, to the extent permitted by federal law, require the State Department of Social Services, in conjunction with the Department of Community Services and Development, to design, implement by January 1, 2013, and maintain a utility assistance initiative. Under the bill, the State Department of Social Services would be required to grant applicants and recipients of CalFresh benefits a nominal Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) service benefit, as specified, out of the federal LIHEAP block grant and any funds allocated for this purpose not expended and reinvested into the program, as prescribed. Existing law continuously appropriates moneys from the General Fund to defray a portion of county costs under the CalWORKs program. This bill would, instead, provide that the continuous appropriation would not be made for purposes of implementing the bill. To the extent that the bill would expand eligibility for CalWORKs and CalFresh benefits, the bill would create 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 these statutory provisions.
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities, including hospitals, by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law requires all general acute care hospitals and special hospitals providing maternity care to make available a breastfeeding consultant, or alternatively, to provide information to the mother on where to receive breastfeeding information. This bill would require all general acute care hospitals and special hospitals that have perinatal units, as defined, to have an infant-feeding policy and to clearly post that policy in the perinatal unit or on the hospital or health system Internet Web site. This bill would require that the infant-feeding policy be routinely communicated to perinatal unit staff and that the infant-feeding policy apply to all infants in a perinatal unit. This bill would become operative January 1, 2014.
(1) 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. Existing law establishes procedures for notifying interested persons of the proposed adoption, amendment, or repeal of a regulation. Existing law establishes procedures a state agency is required to use to make a determination of whether a proposed administrative regulation or proposed amendment to an administrative regulation has the potential for significant, statewide adverse economic impact directly affecting California business enterprises. This bill would revise various provisions of the act with respect to the duties of the Office of Administrative Law and state agencies in the adoption, amendment, or repeal of regulations. The bill would also require each state agency to prepare a standardized regulatory impact analysis, as specified, with respect to the adoption, amendment, or repeal of a major regulation, as defined, that is proposed on or after November 1, 2013. The bill would require that the agency submit the analysis to the Department of Finance for review and comments, as specified, which would be required to be included with the notice of proposed action. This bill would require the Department of Finance, in consultation with other state entities, to adopt regulations for conducting the standardized regulatory impact analyses, as specified, to be utilized by state agencies when promulgating major regulations pursuant to the act, and, in particular, in developing the standardized regulatory impact analysis. The bill would require, on or before November 1, 2013, the department to submit these adopted regulations to the Senate and Assembly Committees on Governmental Organization and publish the adopted regulations in the State Administrative Manual. (2) The Financial Integrity and State Manager's Accountability Act of 1983 provides that state agency heads are responsible for the establishment and maintenance of a system or systems of internal accounting and administrative control within their agencies, as specified. This bill would require that effective, independent, and ongoing monitoring of the internal accounting and administrative controls of state agencies be included within that system or systems. (3) The act requires that the Director of Finance establish a general framework to guide state agencies in conducting internal reviews of their systems of internal accounting and administrative controls. This bill would require that the Director of Finance also establish a general framework of recommended practices to guide state agencies in conducting active ongoing monitoring of processes for internal accounting and administrative control.
Existing law gives control of the state park system to the Department of Parks and Recreation. Existing law authorizes the department to enter into agreements with an agency of the United States, a city, county, district, or other public agency or any combination thereof, for the care, maintenance, administration, and control by a party to the agreement of lands under the jurisdiction of a party to the agreement, for the purpose of the state park system. This bill would authorize the department to enter into an operating agreement for the development, improvement, restoration, care, maintenance, administration, or operation of a unit or units, or portion of a unit, of the state park system, as identified by the director, with a qualified nonprofit organization, as provided. This bill would require the operating agreement to include, among other things, a requirement that the nonprofit organization annually submit a report to the department, to be available on the Internet Web site of both the department and the nonprofit organization. The bill would require the nonprofit organization and the district superintendent for the department to hold a joint public meeting for discussion of the report. The bill would require the department to notify a Member of the Legislature of an intention to enter into an operating agreement relating to a park in the member's district, as well as notify specified committees of the Legislature. The bill would also require the department to report to the Legislature, on a biennial basis, the status of any operating agreement. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2019.
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.
(1) Existing law prohibits the manufacturing, shipping, selling, or offering for sale of jewelry, as defined, for retail sale in the state, unless the jewelry is made entirely from specified materials. Existing law also prohibits any person from taking those actions with regard to children's jewelry, as defined, unless the children's jewelry is made entirely of specified materials. Existing law, for purposes of those provisions, defines among other terms, "amended consent judgment" and "jewelry." Existing law excludes a person who violates those prohibitions from the criminal penalties otherwise imposed pursuant to the hazardous waste control laws and instead provides that a person who violates those prohibitions is liable for a civil penalty not to exceed $2,500 per day for each violation. Existing law specifies that a party that is a signatory to an amended consent judgment, or a party to a consent judgment entered in a specified consolidation action that contains certain terms is deemed to be in compliance with those provisions. Existing law requires these collected civil penalties to be deposited in the Hazardous Waste Control Account, for expenditure by the Department of Toxic Substances Control, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to implement and enforce those prohibitions. This bill would delete those provisions defining the term "amended consent judgment," and those provisions specifying that a party that is a signatory to the above-described amended consent judgment or consent judgment enacted in a specified consolidation action is deemed to be in compliance with those provisions. The bill would also revise the definition of the term "jewelry." (2) Existing law requires a manufacturer or supplier to provide a specified certification to a person who sells or offers for sale that manufacturer's or supplier's jewelry, upon the request of that person, or to display the certification prominently on the shipping container or on the packaging of jewelry. This bill would instead require a manufacturer or supplier of jewelry that is sold, offered for sale, or offered for promotional purposes to prepare this certification and would delete the condition that the certification be provided on request, thereby requiring the manufacturer or supplier to either provide the certification to a person who sells or offers for sale that manufacturer's or supplier's jewelry or to display the certification prominently on the shipping container or on the packaging of jewelry. (3) Existing law imposes criminal penalties upon a manufacturer or supplier of jewelry who knowingly and intentionally manufactures, ships, sells, offers for sale, or offers for promotional purposes jewelry containing lead or cadmium in violation of those provisions or who knowingly and with intent to deceive falsifies any document or certificate required to be kept or produced pursuant to those provisions. This bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime with regard to the sale, or offering for sale, of this jewelry and the preparation of the certification. (4) 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 provides that a pupil is deemed to have complied with the residency requirements for school attendance in a school district if the pupil satisfies one of the specified requirements. Until July 1, 2012, existing law authorizes a school district in which at least one parent or the legal guardian of a pupil is employed to allow that pupil to attend a school in that district through grade 12 if the parent or legal guardian of the pupil so chooses and if the parent or legal guardian of the pupil continues to be employed by an employer situated within the attendance boundaries of the district. This bill would extend the operation of the provision authorizing the school district in which a parent or the legal guardian of the pupil is physically employed to allow the pupil to attend a school in that district, through June 30, 2017, and would repeal the provision on January 1, 2018. The bill additionally would modify this provision by requiring that the parent or legal guardian's employment occur within the boundaries of that school district for a minimum of 10 hours during the school week. The bill would also make technical, nonsubstantive changes.
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.