This measure would honor the late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Existing law requires the Division of Apprenticeship Standards, which is within the Department of Industrial Relations, in collaboration with the California Firefighter Joint Apprenticeship Committee, to develop a statewide firefighter preapprenticeship program designed to recruit candidates from underrepresented groups. This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would provide a career pathway to individuals with previous criminal convictions who have demonstrated rehabilitation and desire to work as firefighters. The bill would provide Legislative findings in support of the measure.
The California Education for a Global Economy Initiative, approved by the voters as Proposition 58 at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, requires school districts and county offices of education to solicit input on, and provide to pupils, effective and appropriate instructional methods, including establishing language acquisition programs, in order to ensure that all pupils, including English learners and native speakers of English, have access to the core academic content standards and become proficient in English. This bill would express findings and declarations of the Legislature relating to the benefits of bilingual education programs and detailing efforts by the state to improve instruction for English learners. The bill would express the intent of the Legislature to later enact legislation to implement the California Education for a Global Economy Initiative, reflecting a commitment to providing bilingual and biliteracy opportunities for all pupils by appropriating a total of $84,000,000 to be allocated for the 2020–21 fiscal year through the 2022–23 fiscal year to support the expansion of biliteracy and bilingualism for all pupils in California through certain grant programs, as specified.
Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that local childcare and development planning councils provide a forum for the identification of local priorities for childcare and the development of policies to meet the needs identified within those priorities. Existing law requires the county board of supervisors and the county superintendent of schools to select members for the local planning council for that county. Existing law requires local planning councils, upon approval by the county board of supervisors and the county superintendent of schools, to submit to the State Department of Education the local priorities it has identified that reflect all childcare needs in the county, as provided. This bill would require local planning councils to provide information to cities and counties regarding facility needs for early childhood education, including, but not limited to, childcare and preschool, in their jurisdictions. By imposing new duties on local planning councils, 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, 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.
The Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the State Department of Education, provides that children from infancy to 13 years of age are eligible for federal and state subsidized child development services if their families meet at least one requirement in each of certain areas. The act requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer general childcare and development programs with funds appropriated for these purposes, as provided. The act also requires the department to contract with local contracting agencies for alternative payment programs for services provided throughout the state. This bill would provide that $1,000,000,000 shall be made available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to immediately improve access to alternative payment programs and general childcare and development programs.
Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of the employee's employment. Existing law requires the employer to provide medical, surgical, chiropractic, acupuncture, and hospital treatment, as specified, that is reasonably required to cure or relieve the injured worker from the effects of the worker's injury. Existing law also requires the employer to reimburse the employee for the employee's medical-legal expenses, as specified. Existing law requires the administrative director to adopt and revise a fee schedule for medical-legal expenses and requires the fee schedule to consist of a series of procedure codes, relative values, and a conversion factor to produce the fees that provide remuneration to physicians performing the medical-legal evaluations, as provided. This bill would require the conversion factor to be at least $18.75. The bill would require the administrative director to increase the conversion factor quarterly, as necessary, to reflect any increase in the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index for medical care, as specified. The bill would also require the administrative director, on or before January 15, 2020, to assign a reasonable relative value, greater than zero, for a missed or failed appointment for a comprehensive or follow-up medical-legal evaluation and for a review of medical records associated with a missed or failed appointment. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law requires the Director of Health Care Services to, among other things, maintain or enter into contracts directly with nonprofit caregiver resource centers to provide direct services to caregivers of cognitively impaired adults, as defined, throughout the state. Under existing law, by executive order, CaliforniaVolunteers is established in the office of the Governor and is charged with overseeing programs and initiatives for community service and volunteerism. This bill would establish, until July, 1, 2026, a pilot program, administered by the Chief Service Officer of CaliforniaVolunteers, under which nonprofit entities known as Care Corps Grantees that would contract with the officer would select, train, and place volunteers to provide care to persons who are at least 65 years of age, who have Alzheimer's disease or related dementia, and who have difficulty with self-care or living independently. The bill would establish selection criteria for prospective volunteers and specified training requirements. The bill would require the Care Corps Grantees to provide a stipend and an educational award, as specified, to volunteers. The bill would require the officer to appoint an advisory council and would require the officer and the advisory council to evaluate the program, as specified.
Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to submit to the Legislature a report with policy recommendations for increasing the use of light-duty, medium-duty, and heavy-duty zero-emission vehicles in the state that includes, among other things, recommendations as to how vehicle fleet operators can increase the number of zero-emission vehicles in vehicle fleet use. Existing law creates the California Clean Truck, Bus, and Off-Road Vehicle and Equipment Technology Program to fund development, demonstration, precommercial pilot, and early commercial deployment of zero- and near-zero-emission truck, bus, and off-road vehicle and equipment technologies, with priority given to projects benefiting disadvantaged communities, as provided. This bill would establish as a state goal the deployment of 100,000 zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty vehicles and off-road vehicles and equipment, and the corresponding infrastructure to support them, by 2030. The bill would require the Public Utilities Commission, the state board, the Department of Transportation, the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, and the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development to develop and update by January 1, 2021, and at least every 5 years thereafter, an integrated action plan for sustainable freight that identifies strategies relating to that state goal, with priority given to actions that significantly reduce air pollution in low-income communities, as defined, and disadvantaged communities, as identified by the California Environmental Protection Agency.
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations and gas corporations. Pursuant to existing law, the commission supervises various energy efficiency, renewable energy resource, self- and distributed-generation, and demand response programs. This bill would require the commission to (1) establish common definitions of nonenergy benefits and attempt to determine consistent values for use in all distributed energy resource programs, (2) meaningfully consider producing nonenergy benefits in distributed energy resource programs and projects, (3) incorporate nonenergy benefits in distributed energy resource programs and projects in environmental and social justice communities, as defined, and (4) track the nonenergy benefits produced in distributed energy resource programs and report those benefits during program evaluations.
