This measure would declare the month of September 2023 as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.
This measure would declare the month of September 2023 as California Emergency Preparedness Month.
This measure would recognize the month of January 2024 as National Human Trafficking Awareness Month.
Under existing law, by executive order, CaliforniaVolunteers is established in the Office of the Governor and is charged with overseeing programs and initiatives for service and volunteerism. Existing law authorizes CaliforniaVolunteers to form a nonprofit public benefit corporation or other entity exempt from income taxation, as provided, to raise revenues and receive grants or other financial support from private or public sources, for purposes of undertaking or funding any lawful activity authorized to be undertaken by CaliforniaVolunteers. Existing federal law, the National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993, also requires the state to create a commission to carry out specified duties relating to national service programs to be eligible for grants or allotments under certain programs, or to receive distributions of approved national service positions. Existing state law continues into existence the Board of Commissioners under CaliforniaVolunteers for purposes of meeting the requirements of the federal act and the act's implementing rules and regulations. #CaliforniansForAll Youth Jobs Corps is a program of the CaliforniaVolunteers. This bill would establish in statute the #CaliforniansForAll Youth Job Corps Program. The bill would require the CaliforniaVolunteers to expand the program, upon appropriation by the Legislature, which would fund supportive services, as specified, that are necessary for homeless youth and current or former foster youth to enable their participation in the workforce development program, as defined. Under the bill, grants would be awarded on a competitive basis. The bill would require the CaliforniaVolunteers to conduct outreach activities and to provide technical assistance to eligible applicants to ensure that grants are awarded to qualified applicants providing a broad spectrum of supportive services. The bill would prescribe definitions, duties for the CaliforniaVolunteers, and requirements for applications and applicants, including the requirement that applicants agree to provide the office any information that the office deems necessary to meet reporting requirements and other grant requirements. The bill would require the CaliforniaVolunteers to evaluate how grants awarded under the program address the needs of eligible targeted populations and, beginning one year after the initial award of grant funds, to post an annual report on its internet website regarding the progress and success of the program.
Existing law, the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act, requires a mandated reporter to report whenever they know or reasonably suspect that a child has been the victim of child abuse or neglect. Existing law also authorizes any other person to report known or suspected child abuse or neglect. Under existing law, reports of suspected child abuse or neglect are made to any police department, sheriff's department, county probation department, if designated by the county to receive mandated reports, or county welfare department. This bill would require a county child welfare services department that receives a report of a child being endangered by abuse, neglect, or exploitation in which the alleged perpetrator is a person responsible for the child, as specified, to evaluate the report immediately and if the report contains sufficient information to warrant an investigation, require the department to make its best effort to commence an investigation of an allegation of imminent risk of physical harm to the child within 2 hours, but no later than 72 hours after receiving any report. The bill would require the department to conduct an in-home visit no later than 72 hours after receiving the report to determine if the child needs to be removed from the home during the pendency of the investigation, and would require the investigation to be completed within 30 business days of the initial report. By imposing additional duties on local agencies investigating reports of child abuse or neglect, 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 federal law, the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988, provides for the negotiation and execution of tribal-state gaming compacts for the purpose of authorizing certain types of gaming on Indian lands within a state. The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to negotiate and conclude compacts, subject to ratification by the Legislature. Existing law ratifies a number of tribal-state gaming compacts between the State of California and specified Indian tribes. Existing law creates in the State Treasury the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund for the receipt and deposit of moneys received by the state from Indian tribes pursuant to the terms of gaming compacts entered into with the state. Existing law authorizes moneys in that fund to be appropriated for certain purposes, and establishes an order of priority for funding, including, prioritizing an appropriation to the Office of Problem Gambling within the State Department of Public Health for problem gambling prevention programs. This bill would instead prioritize an appropriation to the Office of Problem Gambling for developing and providing, for the people of California, quality statewide prevention and treatment programs and services to address gambling disorder.
Existing law establishes the Board of State and Community Corrections. Existing law charges the board with providing the statewide leadership, coordination, and technical assistance to promote effective state and local efforts and partnerships in California's adult and juvenile criminal justice system. Under existing law, the board administers several grant programs, including a mentally ill offender crime reduction grant program, a medication-assisted treatment grant program, and a violence intervention and prevention grant program. This bill would establish two new grant programs until January 1, 2028: the Homeless and Mental Health Court Grant Program that would, subject to an appropriation by the Legislature, be administered by the Judicial Council and provide grants to counties for the purpose of establishing or expanding homeless courts and mental health courts, as specified; and the Transitioning Home Grant Program that would, subject to an appropriation by the Legislature, be administered by the board and provide grants to county sheriffs and jail administrators to fund programs aimed at reducing homelessness among inmates released from custody, as specified. The bill would require the board and council to prepare and submit reports to the Legislature, as specified, regarding the impacts of the grant program under their jurisdiction.
Existing law requires any person producing or operating a gun show, as specified, to obtain a certificate of eligibility from the Department of Justice. Existing law prescribes various requirements and prohibitions regarding the operation of a gun show. Existing law provides that the provisions regulating gun shows to not apply to the sale, delivery, or transfer of firearms to a law enforcement agency, as specified. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that exemption.
Existing law authorizes a school district, county office of education, and charter school to provide emergency naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist to school nurses or trained personnel who have volunteered, and authorizes school nurses or trained personnel to use naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist to provide emergency medical aid to persons suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering, from an opioid overdose, as provided. This bill would require each individual public school operated by a school district, county office of education, or charter school that has made a person who has received instruction in the administration of naloxone hydrochloride or any other opioid antagonist available at the school, as provided, to maintain at least 2 doses of naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist for purposes of those authorizations. The bill would require each school district, county office of education, and charter school that has made a person who has received instruction in the administration of naloxone hydrochloride or any other opioid antagonist available at its schools, as provided, to report to the State Department of Education and the State Department of Health Care Services on or before July 31, 2024, and annually thereafter, certain information regarding opioid antagonists. The bill would provide that it is the intent of the Legislature that school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools share information from the State Department of Public Health regarding naloxone hydrochloride or other opioid antagonists with parents or guardians of pupils.
