Existing law prohibits, subject to exceptions, specified acts of animal abuse including, among others, the malicious and intentional maiming, mutilation, torture, or wounding of a living animal. Under existing law, a violation of those provisions is punishable as a felony by imprisonment in a county jail for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years, or by a fine of not more than $20,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment, or alternatively, as a misdemeanor by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year, or by a fine of not more than $20,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment. This bill would instead make a felony violation of the provisions described above punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for 2, 3, or 4 years, or by a fine of not more than $40,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment. By increasing the penalties for existing crimes, 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.
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Existing law provides that a law enforcement official has discretion to cooperate with federal immigration officials by detaining an individual on the basis of an immigration hold after that individual becomes eligible for release from custody only if the continued detention of the individual on the basis of the immigration hold would not violate any federal, state, or local law, or any local policy, and only under other specified circumstances. This bill would prohibit a local law enforcement agency from taking custody of a previously convicted felon who is being detained or incarcerated by another law enforcement agency if the felon is scheduled for deportation or transfer to federal authorities for deportation proceedings unless there is an outstanding felony warrant, and the agency has confirmed that the prosecutorial authority with jurisdiction to prosecute the felony has a current intent to prosecute that felony. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Under the Pharmacy Law, a violation of which is a crime, the California State Board of Pharmacy licenses and regulates the practice of pharmacy. That law authorizes a pharmacy to furnish prescription drugs only to certain entities, including specific health care entities, and individual patients either pursuant to prescription or as otherwise authorized by law. This bill would authorize a pharmacy that provides compounding services to provide to a clinic commercial products that are unique or otherwise unavailable to the clinic, if the compounding pharmacy and the clinic have entered into a professional compounding services agreement to provide nonpatient-specific compounded medications that cannot be planned for prospectively. The bill would require the board to adopt regulations for establishing a professional compounding services agreement.
(1) Existing law establishes in state government the Transportation Agency, which includes various departments and state entities, including the California Transportation Commission. Existing law vests the California Transportation Commission with specified powers, duties, and functions relative to transportation matters. Existing law requires the commission to retain independent authority to perform the duties and functions prescribed to it under any provision of law. This bill would exclude the California Transportation Commission from the Transportation Agency, establish it as an entity in state government, and require it to act in an independent oversight role. The bill would also make conforming changes. (2) Existing law requires the Department of Transportation to prepare a state highway operation and protection program every other year for the expenditure of transportation capital improvement funds for projects that are necessary to preserve and protect the state highway system, excluding projects that add new traffic lanes. The program is required to be based on an asset management plan, as specified. Existing law requires the department to specify, for each project in the program, the capital and support budget and projected delivery date for various components of the project. Existing law provides for the California Transportation Commission to review and adopt the program, and authorizes the commission to decline to adopt the program if it determines that the program is not sufficiently consistent with the asset management plan. This bill would additionally require the department to program capital outlay support resources for each project in the program. The bill would provide that the commission is not required to approve the program in its entirety, as submitted by the department, and may approve or reject individual projects programmed by the department. The bill would require the department to submit any change in a programmed project's cost, scope, or schedule to the commission for its approval.
Existing law authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to construct and establish a state prison for the confinement of male prisoners under the custody of the secretary. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
The Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act requires the State Department of Developmental Services to contract with regional centers to provide services and supports to individuals with developmental disabilities. Under existing law, the regional centers purchase needed services for individuals with developmental disabilities through approved service providers or arrange for those services through other publicly funded agencies. Existing law establishes specified rates to be paid to certain service providers and the rates to be paid for certain developmental services. Existing law requires that rates to be paid to other developmental service providers either be set by the department or negotiated between the regional center and the service provider. Existing law prohibits certain provider rate increases, but authorizes increases to those rates as necessary to adjust employee wages to meet the state minimum wage law and to provide paid sick leave. Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which basic health care services are provided to qualified low-income persons. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid Program provisions. Existing law requires, except as otherwise provided, Medi-Cal provider payments to be reduced, as specified. This bill would, to the extent that General Fund revenues for the 2014–15 fiscal year exceed the revenues estimated for that fiscal year in the Budget Act of 2015 and that General Fund revenues for the 2015–16 fiscal year are expected to exceed the revenues estimated for that fiscal year in the Budget Act of 2015, appropriate certain sums to the State Department of Developmental Services to increase rates for certain developmental service providers and to increase regional center operating budgets, and appropriate certain sums to the State Department of Health Care Services for the purpose of increasing Medi-Cal provider rates for providers whose rates were reduced. The bill would require the Director of Finance to determine the percentage increases to be provided to developmental service providers, regional center operating budgets, and Medi-Cal providers based on the amount by which General Fund revenues exceed, or are expected to exceed, the revenues budgeted for the 2014–15 and 2015–16 fiscal years. The bill would make the rate increases, if any, retroactive to July 1, 2015.
Existing law, the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, requires all groundwater basins designated as high- or medium-priority basins by the Department of Water Resources that are designated as basins subject to critical conditions of overdraft to be managed under a groundwater sustainability plan or coordinated groundwater sustainability plans by January 31, 2020, and requires all other groundwater basins designated as high- or medium-priority basins to be managed under a groundwater sustainability plan or coordinated groundwater sustainability plans by January 31, 2022, except as specified. The act authorizes any local agency or combination of local agencies overlying a groundwater basin to decide to become a groundwater sustainability agency for that basin, as prescribed. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions.
The Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 provides that a civil penalty for a violation of the Labor Code may be recovered through a civil action brought by an aggrieved employee, as specified. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
The California Constitution prohibits a committee or either house of the Legislature from hearing or acting upon a bill until 31 days after it has been introduced, unless the house dispenses with this requirement by a rollcall vote with ¾ of the membership concurring. The California Constitution also prohibits either house from passing a bill until the bill with amendments has been printed and distributed to the Members of the Legislature. This measure would authorize a committee to hear or act upon a bill before 31 days have passed following the bill's introduction if the bill, in the form to be considered by the committee, has been in print and published on the Internet for at least 15 days. This measure would also prohibit either house of the Legislature from passing a bill until it has been made available to the public, in print and on the Internet, for at least 72 hours before a vote on the measure, except for certain bills that address a state of emergency declared by the Governor. The California Constitution provides that the Budget Bill and other bills providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill may be passed by a majority vote in each house of the Legislature and shall take immediate effect upon being signed by the Governor. The California Constitution defines "other bills providing for appropriations related to the budget bill" to mean bills identified as related to the budget in the Budget Bill passed by the Legislature. The California Constitution requires that the Legislature pass the Budget Bill by midnight on June 15 of each year. If the Budget Bill is not passed by the deadline, the California Constitution prohibits an appropriation from the current budget or future budget to pay any salary or reimbursement for travel or living expenses for Members of the Legislature during any regular or special session for the period from midnight on June 15 until the day that the Budget Bill is presented to the Governor. This measure would require that the Budget Bill be enacted by midnight on June 15. The measure would require that other bills that provide for appropriations relating to the Budget Bill be necessary to implement the budget. The measure would provide that a Budget Bill or other bill providing for appropriations relating to the Budget Bill that is passed in each house by a majority vote shall not take effect if it is not enacted by midnight on June 15, thereby requiring a Budget Bill or other bill providing for appropriations relating to the Budget Bill that is enacted after midnight on June 15 to be passed by a 23 vote. The measure would prohibit an appropriation to pay any salary or reimbursement for travel or living expenses for Members of the Legislature and the Governor from midnight on June 15 until the Budget Bill and all other bills providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill are enacted.