Sen. Sabrina Cervantes

Existing law, the Bergeson-Peace Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank Act, establishes the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (I-Bank) . Among other things, the act authorizes I-Bank to make loans, issue bonds, and provide financial assistance to economic development or public development facilities. Existing law establishes the Disaster Assistance Fund and continuously appropriates the fund for these purposes. Existing law provides that when funds are available for these purposes, the Governor may allocate the funds, in connection with relief provided, in affected areas during the period of federal disaster relief, to the Small Business Expansion Fund for use by I-Bank to provide guarantees for low-interest interim loans to be made by lending institutions for the purpose of providing interim financing to enable small businesses that have suffered actual physical damage or significant economic losses, as a result of the disaster or state of emergency for which funding is made available. This bill would enact the California Manufacturing Emergency Preparedness Act of 2021, which would authorize I-Bank to establish the California Manufacturing Disaster Loan Program (disaster program) for the purpose of attracting, retaining, retooling, establishing, and expanding manufacturing and logistics capacity in the state, and would require I-Bank to establish directives and requirements for the implementation of the program. The bill would prohibit I-Bank from commencing the disaster program until it adopts a resolution finding that there is sufficient funding in the California Manufacturing Disaster Loan Program Subaccount to cover the costs of implementing the program and that the I-Bank has sufficient direction from the Director of the Office of Emergency Services, as provided. This bill would also authorize I-Bank to establish the California Manufacturing Competitiveness Loan Program (competitiveness program) for the purpose of attracting, retaining, and expanding manufacturing facilities and other companies in the state. The bill would prohibit the commencement of the competitiveness program unless there is sufficient money in the California Manufacturing Competitiveness Loan Program Subaccount, as specified. This bill would establish the Manufacturing Program Account within the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank Fund, a California Manufacturing Disaster Loan Program Subaccount (disaster subaccount) , and a California Manufacturing Competitiveness Loan Program Subaccount (competitiveness subaccount) within that account. The bill would create the competitiveness subaccount for purposes of providing direct loans issued pursuant to the competitiveness program, as provided. This bill would authorize the Governor to activate one or more programs to provide loans to private business enterprises for the creation, maintenance, expansion, protection, or restoration of capacity or the production of essential materials. This bill would also authorize the Governor to allocate disaster relief funds, including funds in the Disaster Assistance Fund, to the disaster subaccount for use by I-Bank, to cover the costs of administering the disaster program and to provide direct loans made by lending institutions, and to forgive those loans in appropriate circumstances, for the purpose of providing financing to enable the manufacturing and logistics sectors to support the emergency needs of Californians. This bill would provide that the moneys in the disaster subaccount be made available to I-Bank, upon a transfer of funds by the Director of Finance pursuant to an allocation by the Governor under the California Disaster Assistance Act, for specified purposes. The bill would authorize moneys in the Manufacturing Program Account to be allocated to a lending institution or financial company to act as trustee of the funds, with the approval of the Department of Finance. The bill would authorize I-Bank to create additional subaccounts in the account for specified purposes. Because this bill would expand the purposes for which a continuously appropriated fund is expended and would deposit moneys and fees into a new, continuously appropriated account, the bill would make an appropriation. This bill would require I-Bank to annually report, commencing with January 1, 2023, to the Governor and the Legislature on program activity, as specified, in any fiscal year that the program receives funding or has active loans. This bill would further provide that specified provisions of the bill would be implemented only to the extent that sufficient moneys are available to I-Bank to implement the disaster or competitiveness program. The bill would permit these provisions to be used to meet California's manufacturing and logistics needs in response to the state of emergency declared by the Governor on March 4, 2020, related to the COVID-19 virus. The bill would prohibit I-Bank from entering into loans or lines of credit pursuant to the bill on or after January 1, 2030.

Existing law, the Ralph C. Dills Act (Dills Act) , governs collective bargaining between the state and recognized state public employee organizations. Existing law excludes certain employees from coverage under the Dills Act, including, among others, managerial employees, supervisory employees, and confidential employees, as defined. Existing law creates the Public Employment Relations Board and authorizes it, among other things, to determine appropriate state employee bargaining units, as specified. This bill would enact the Legislature Employer-Employee Relations Act, to provide employees of the Legislature, including some supervisory and managerial employees, the right to form, join, and participate in the activities of employee organizations of their own choosing for the purpose of representation on all matters of employer-employee relations. The bill would prescribe rights, duties, and prohibitions in this context that parallel those in the Dills Act. The bill would prohibit the Public Employment Relations Board from including employees of the Legislature in a bargaining unit that includes employees other than those of the Legislature. The bill would make it a misdemeanor for any person to willfully resist, prevent, impede, or interfere with any member of the board, or any of its agents, in the performance of duties pursuant to its provisions. By expanding the definition of a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would provide that the provisions of the Legislature Employer-Employee Relations Act are severable. 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 law establishes the Office of Emergency Services within the office of the Governor and under the supervision of the Director of Emergency Services and makes the office responsible for the state's emergency and disaster response services for natural, technological, or human-made disasters and emergencies. Existing law defines the term "emergency plan" for purposes of emergency services provided by local governments. Existing law requires a county, upon the next update to its emergency plan, to integrate access and functional needs into its emergency plan by addressing, at a minimum, how the access and functional needs population is served by, among other things, emergency evacuation, including the identification of certain transportation resources and resources for individuals who are dependent on public transportation. This bill would require the emergency plan to include a plan for the movement, storage, acquisition, and deployment of durable medical equipment, as defined, to address how the access and functional needs population is served by emergency evacuation. The bill would also require a county, or city and county, upon the next update to its emergency plan, regarding the integration of access and functional needs into that emergency plan, to work with Mutual Aid and Administrative Regions, the Emergency Medical Services Authority (EMSA) , and the State Department of Public Health to coordinate the interregional agreements, as necessary, for acquisition or deployment of durable medical equipment. The bill would require EMSA to coordinate with city and county local emergency medical services agencies to provide prearranged assistance to those cities and counties for planning, organizing, implementing, and maintaining regional caches of durable medical equipment, subject to the availability of funds appropriated therefor. By increasing the duties of local officials, 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, 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 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. This bill would appropriate an unspecified sum of moneys from the General Fund to the Regents of the University of California each fiscal year, commencing with the 2021–22 fiscal year, to be expended only for the creation, construction, and establishment of a public Level IV neonatal intensive care unit in the County of Riverside administered by the University of California.

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. This bill would appropriate an unspecified sum of moneys from the General Fund to the Regents of the University of California each fiscal year, commencing with the 2022–23 fiscal year, to be expended only for the creation, construction, and establishment of a public law school in the County of Riverside administered by the University of California.

Existing law makes it a crime to hang a noose, place a sign containing a Nazi swastika, burn a religious symbol on the private property of another, and commit other acts for the purpose of causing terror. Existing law makes it a felony to explode, ignite, or attempt to explode or ignite a destructive device or explosive, or to commit arson, in a church, health facility, courthouse, school, or other specified facility for the purpose of terrorizing another or in reckless disregard of terrorizing another. This bill would make the commission of murder or kidnapping with intent to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, influence the policy of a unit of government by intimidation or coercion, or affect the conduct of a unit of government by intimidation or coercion punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for a term of 25 years to life or imprisonment in the state prison for a term of life without the possibility of parole. By creating a new 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.