Existing law requires an insurer, after a covered loss under a fire insurance policy, to provide the insured with a free copy of his or her policy within 30 calendar days of receiving a request from the insured, but allows the Insurance Commissioner to extend this period. Existing law also provides that an insured who does not experience a covered loss shall, upon request, be entitled to one free copy of his or her policy annually. This bill would specify that the copy of the policy provided shall be a complete copy of the policy in effect at the time of the loss and shall include the full policy, any endorsements to the policy, and the policy declarations page. The bill would authorize an insurer that is not compliant with specified electronic document transmission requirements to provide a copy of the entire policy in electronic form if the covered loss is the result of a state of emergency and the electronic copy is requested by an insured who has not elected to receive electronic documents. The bill would require an insurer that is compliant with those requirements to provide an electronic copy of the entire policy if the same criteria are met. The bill would provide that request by an insured under these circumstances is not a request to receive future electronic communications.
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This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 29 in the County of Lake as the Deputy Sheriff Robert Rumfelt Memorial Highway. The measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations and gas corporations. Existing law authorizes the commission, after a hearing, to require every public utility to construct, maintain, and operate its line, plant, system, equipment, apparatus, tracks, and premises in a manner so as to promote and safeguard the health and safety of its employees, passengers, customers, and the public. Existing law requires electrical corporations to annually prepare and submit a wildfire mitigation plan to the commission for review. Existing law requires the commission to establish standards for disaster and emergency preparedness plans, as specified, and requires an electrical corporation to develop, adopt, and update an emergency and disaster preparedness plan, as specified. The California Emergency Services Act, among other things, establishes the Office of Emergency Services for the purpose of mitigating the effects of natural, manmade, or war-caused emergencies and makes findings and declarations relating to ensuring that preparation within the state will be adequate to deal with those emergencies. This bill would require the office, in consultation with specified public entities, by September 30, 2019, to adopt standards for reducing risks from a major event, as defined. The bill would require those standards to include model policies that may be undertaken by local governments regarding, among other things, defensible space, and actions that may be undertaken by an electrical or gas corporation, a local publicly owned electric or gas utility, or a water utility to reduce the risk of fire occurring during a major event. The bill would require the office to update the standards at least once every 2 years. This bill would require an electrical or gas corporation, on or before July 1, 2019, and every July 1 every two years thereafter, to submit to the commission an application for review and approval of a safety, reliability, and resiliency plan that includes certain elements. The bill would require the commission, no more than 18 months after the submission of the plan, to approve the plan with or without modification. The bill would require the commission to authorize recovery of the costs of implementing the plan through rates, as provided. The bill would require the commission to conduct an annual proceeding to review each electrical corporation's and gas corporation's compliance with its plan, as provided. If, after completing the compliance review, the commission determines that an electrical corporation or gas corporation is in substantial compliance with its plan, the bill would authorize the commission to find the performance, operations, management, and investment addressed in the plan to be reasonable and prudent, as specified. The bill would require the commission to assess a penalty on an electrical corporation or gas corporation for noncompliance with its plan. The bill would, except as provided, prohibit an electrical corporation from delegating, transferring, or contracting out any of its distribution system safety or reliability performance obligations, except as specified. Existing law authorizes the commission to fix the rates and charges for public utilities, including electrical or gas corporations, and requires the rates and charges to be just and reasonable. Under its existing regulatory authority, the commission uses a general rate case to address the costs of operating and maintaining the systems of public utilities and the allocation of those cost among the public utilities' customer classes. The commission has used a 3-year general rate case cycle, in which electrical or gas corporations file a general rate case application with the commission every 36 months. This bill would explicitly authorize the commission to extend the general rate case cycle to 4 years.
This measure would designate the weekend of June 2, 2018, through June 3, 2018, as Batten Disease Awareness Weekend, and would call upon the President and Congress of the United States to enact legislation that provides more funding for research to be done on potential treatment and cures for rare diseases.
The California Constitution grants a right of privacy. Existing law provides for the confidentiality of personal information in various contexts and requires a business or person that suffers a breach of security of computerized data that includes personal information, as defined, to disclose that breach, as specified. This bill would enact the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018. Beginning January 1, 2020, the bill would grant a consumer a right to request a business to disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal information that it collects about the consumer, the categories of sources from which that information is collected, the business purposes for collecting or selling the information, and the categories of 3rd parties with which the information is shared. The bill would require a business to make disclosures about the information and the purposes for which it is used. The bill would grant a consumer the right to request deletion of personal information and would require the business to delete upon receipt of a verified request, as specified. The bill would grant a consumer a right to request that a business that sells the consumer's personal information, or discloses it for a business purpose, disclose the categories of information that it collects and categories of information and the identity of 3rd parties to which the information was sold or disclosed. The bill would require a business to provide this information in response to a verifiable consumer request. The bill would authorize a consumer to opt out of the sale of personal information by a business and would prohibit the business from discriminating against the consumer for exercising this right, including by charging the consumer who opts out a different price or providing the consumer a different quality of goods or services, except if the difference is reasonably related to value provided by the consumer's data. The bill would authorize businesses to offer financial incentives for collection of personal information. The bill would prohibit a business from selling the personal information of a consumer under 16 years of age, unless affirmatively authorized, as specified, to be referred to as the right to opt in. The bill would prescribe requirements for receiving, processing, and satisfying these requests from consumers. The bill would prescribe various definitions for its purposes and would define "personal information" with reference to a broad list of characteristics and behaviors, personal and commercial, as well as inferences drawn from this information. The bill would prohibit the provisions described above from restricting the ability of the business to comply with federal, state, or local laws, among other things. The bill would provide for its enforcement by the Attorney General, as specified, and would provide a private right of action in connection with certain unauthorized access and exfiltration, theft, or disclosure of a consumer's nonencrypted or nonredacted personal information, as defined. The bill would prescribe a method for distribution of proceeds of Attorney General actions. The bill would create the Consumer Privacy Fund in the General Fund with the moneys in the fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to be applied to support the purposes of the bill and its enforcement. The bill would provide for the deposit of penalty money into the fund. The bill would require the Attorney General to solicit public participation for the purpose of adopting regulations, as specified. The bill would authorize a business, service provider, or 3rd party to seek the Attorney General's opinion on how to comply with its provisions. The bill would void a waiver of a consumer's rights under its provisions. The bill would condition its operation on the withdrawal of a specified initiative from the ballot.
This measure would proclaim the month of June 2018 and June of every year thereafter as Elder and Vulnerable Adult Abuse Awareness Month.
The measure would urge the United States Congress to act favorably in regard to legislation to have the Mare Island Naval Cemetery transferred to the United States Department of Veterans Affairs and that the National Cemetery Administration restore the cemetery to national cemetery standards and provide for perpetual care of the facility as dictated by those standards.
This measure would honor the men and women who have served and are serving in our nation's military, and would recognize the month of May 2018 as National Military Appreciation Month.
Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified. Existing law provides that if the average daily attendance of a school district, county office of education, or charter school has been materially decreased during any fiscal year because of specified emergencies, that fact shall be established to the satisfaction of the Superintendent of Public Instruction by affidavits of the members of the governing board or body of the school district, county office of education, or charter school and the county superintendent of schools. Existing law provides that in the event of a state of emergency declared by the Governor in a county, which causes a decrease in the average daily attendance in the county for a school district, county office of education, or charter school, the Superintendent shall determine the length of the period during which average daily attendance has been reduced by the state of emergency. Existing law requires the Superintendent to estimate the average daily attendance for the fiscal year in a manner that credits to the school district, county office of education, or charter school, for determining the apportionments to be made to it, the approximate total average daily attendance that would have been credited to the school district, county office of education, or charter school, had the emergency not occurred. This bill would allow the period determined by the Superintendent to be extended to the 2019–20 fiscal year, for a state of emergency declared by the Governor in a county due to the 2017 wildfires, for those wildfires, if a specified showing is made by a school district, county office of education, or charter school, to the satisfaction of the Superintendent. The bill would require the Superintendent to make a supplemental apportionment for the 2019–20 fiscal year to a school district, county office of education, or charter school in an amount that credits to the school district, county office of education, or charter school 50% of the apportionment the school district, county office of education, or charter school would have received from the State School Fund based on the average daily attendance the school district, county office of education, or charter school lost due to the 2017 wildfires, as determined by the Superintendent.