Sen. Sabrina Cervantes

Existing law creates the Capitol View Protection Act, which regulates development in areas around the State Capitol and Capitol Park. Existing law prescribes permissible height limits, as defined, in relation to specified streets and measurements in Sacramento. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change in provisions relating to height limits in the Capitol View Protection Act.

Existing law authorizes the Secretary of State to approve the use of ballot cards only under specified conditions, including if the ballot is designed with a section with places for the voter to punch holes to indicate the voter's choices of candidates and votes on measures. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.

Existing law authorizes county officials, with respect to any state or county highway within their respective jurisdictions and upon a resolution adopted by the respective county board of supervisors, to place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, at or near the county line and at county expense, signs stating, or to add to their existing signs, the statement "Where We Honor Veterans." Existing law requires the approval of the Department of Transportation if those signs are on a state highway. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that approval requirement.

Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to determine the size, color, and letters or number of the plate or device issued to an off-highway motor vehicle subject to identification and the life of the series of plate or device issued, as specified. Existing law also requires the department, on or before July 1, 2009, to report regarding recommendations to improve the identification of off-highway motor vehicles, as specified. This bill would delete those obsolete provisions relating to the report, and would make other technical, nonsubstantive changes.

The Capitol View Protection Act prescribes specific height limits and setback requirements applicable to the area surrounding Capitol Park and defines certain terms for its purposes. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to one of those definitions.

The State Aeronautics Act governs the creation and operation of airports in this state for the purpose of protecting the public interest in aviation and aeronautical progress through identified means. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the stated purposes of the act.

Existing law establishes the California Conservation Corps in the Natural Resources Agency, and prescribes the functions and duties of the corps relating to providing educational, employment training, and other opportunities for corpsmembers, including, among other things, participation in projects involving the preservation, restoration, and enhancement of public lands in the state. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to legislative findings and declarations relating to the mission of the corps.

Existing law authorizes the Secretary of State to approve the use of ballot cards only under specified conditions, including if the ballot is designed with a section with places for the voter to punch holes to indicate the voter's choices of candidates and votes on measures. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.

The California Constitution provides that the University of California constitutes a public trust administered by the Regents of the University of California, a corporation in the form of a board, with full powers of organization and government, subject to legislative control only for specified purposes. The University of California system includes 10 campuses, which are located in Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz. Existing law requires, on or before April 1 of each year, the University of California to provide progress reports and specified information consistent with the published mission and vision of the University of California, Riverside, School of Medicine to the relevant policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature pertaining to funding, recruitment, hiring, and outcomes for the University of California, Riverside, School of Medicine. This bill would appropriate to the regents $80,000,000 from the General Fund for the 2020–21 fiscal year to be expended solely on the construction of a new University of California, Riverside School of Medicine facility, and an additional $25,000,000 from the General Fund each fiscal year, commencing with the 2020–21 fiscal year, to be expended solely on ongoing operational support for the expansion of the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine. As a condition of receiving the additional annual $25,000,000 appropriation, the bill would require the University of California to comply with the annual reporting requirement under existing law pertaining to funding, recruitment, hiring, and outcomes for the University of California, Riverside, School of Medicine.

Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities. Existing law requires the commission to require every electrical, gas, water, wireless telecommunications service provider, and telephone corporation with annual gross revenues exceeding $25,000,000, and their regulated subsidiaries and affiliates, to annually submit a detailed and verifiable plan for increasing procurement from women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises, as defined, in all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, wireless telecommunications, broadband, smart grid, and rail projects. The commission, by its rulemaking authority, has adopted General Order 156, applicable to certain electrical, gas, and telephone corporations, to effectuate these and related requirements. Existing law requires the commission, by September 1 of each year, to report certain information relative to those activities undertaken in the implementation of those plans. This bill would replace the term "LGBT business enterprise" with "LGBTQ business enterprise" for those purposes, and would make conforming changes. The bill would require the report to also include information that differentiates the outreach, contracting, and other activities implementing those plans that are directed towards business enterprises that have at least a majority of their workforce in California from those activities that are directed towards out-of-state business enterprises, business enterprises that do not have at least a majority of their workforce within California, and business enterprises for which information is not readily accessible. Under existing law, a violation of any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime. Because a violation of the commission's order or decision implementing the bill's requirements 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.