Sen. Kelly Seyarto

Existing law prescribes requirements for the disposal of surplus land by a local agency. Existing law defines "surplus land" for these purposed to mean land owned in fee simple by any local agency for which the local agency's governing body takes formal action declaring that the land is surplus and is not necessary for the agency's use. Existing law provides that an agency is not required to follow the requirements for disposal of surplus land for "exempt surplus land," except as provided. Existing law categorizes as "exempt surplus land," surplus land that a local agency is transferring to another local, state, or federal agency for the agency's use. The Planning and Zoning Law requires that the housing element of a city's or county's general plan consist of an identification and analysis of existing and projected housing needs and a statement of goals, policies, quantified objectives, financial resources, and scheduled programs for the preservation, improvement, and development of housing. Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region, as specified. Existing law requires a planning agency to provide an annual report to the Department of Housing and Community Development that includes, among other things, its progress in meeting its share of regional housing needs. Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to designate jurisdictions that have enacted prohousing local policies, as defined, as prohousing. Existing law grants prohousing jurisdictions that have been found to have a substantially compliant housing element additional points or preferences in the scoring of programs and applications for specified state housing programs. This bill would add to the definition of "exempt surplus land," surplus land that is zoned for a density of up to 30 residential units, if residential properties within a radius of 500 feet of the site are zoned to have an allowable density of fewer than 30 dwelling units per acre and the most recent annual progress report, as described, submitted by the city or county that owns the surplus land shows that the total number of low-income and very low income housing units built within the city or county meets or exceeds proportionate annual progress toward the number of those housing units needed to meet the city's or county's share of regional housing need for the 6th cycle of its housing element, as described.

Existing law requires the Emergency Medical Services Authority to develop, using input from stakeholders and after approval by the Commission on Emergency Medical Services, and adopt a statewide standard methodology for the calculation and reporting by a local emergency medical services (EMS) agency of ambulance patient offload time (APOT) . Existing law defines APOT as the interval between the arrival of an ambulance patient at an emergency department and the time that the patient is transferred to an emergency department gurney, bed, chair, or other acceptable location and the emergency department assumes responsibility for care of the patient. Existing law requires the authority to report twice per year to the commission the APOT by local EMS agency jurisdiction and by each facility in that jurisdiction. This bill would instead require the authority to report the APOT data to the commission every 6 months. The bill would, subject to an appropriation, require the authority to take certain actions in collaboration with the Office of Emergency Services and the State Department of Public Health, for the purpose of reducing ambulance patient offload delays, protecting patients from unnecessary and life-threatening impacts to their overall health outcomes, and preparing for surges in demand for emergency medical services. Under the bill, those actions would include, among others, implementing a public education campaign, supporting staffing of EMS providers and additional resources for physical assets, issuing clear guidelines relating to triage and care, creating an expedited mechanism for a local EMS agency to obtain approval from the authority to implement alternate destination policies, designating urgent care overflow facilities that could serve as surge capacity for hospitals, and establishing policies relating to use of available fire department resources, telehealth, EMS-initiated refusal, assessment, and referral, as specified. The bill would also require the authority to develop policies to allow for the safe and efficient transfer of patients from emergency departments to nonhospital facilities, and would require the State Department of Public Health and the State Department of Health Care Services to engage local health departments with skilled nursing facilities and community behavioral health providers, at the election of those local health departments. The bill would require the authority to implement a specified set of those actions on or before July 1, 2023.

Existing law prohibits the possession, transportation, importation, sale, manufacturing, furnishing, administering, or giving away of specified controlled substances including, without limitation, cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl. Existing law defines voluntary manslaughter as the unlawful killing of a human being without malice upon a sudden quarrel or heat of passion. Existing law defines murder as the unlawful killing of a human being, or a fetus, with malice aforethought. Existing law holds a person, who is not the actual killer, criminally liable for murder in the first degree if that person is a major participant in the underlying felony and acts with reckless indifference to human life. Under existing law both manslaughter and murder are punishable as felonies. This bill would require a court to advise a person convicted of specified crimes, including, among others, selling, furnishing, transporting, or manufacturing certain controlled substances, that such conduct inflicts a grave health risk to those who ingest or are exposed to those substances, that it is extremely dangerous to human life to manufacture or distribute real or counterfeit controlled substances, and that if someone dies as a result, the defendant can be charged with voluntary manslaughter or murder. The bill would require the advisement to be provided in writing and the fact that the advisement was given to be recorded on the record and recorded in the abstract of judgment.

This measure would recognize March 2022 as Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood Awareness Month.

This measure would proclaim the month of March 2022 as Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Month.

This measure would resolve that the Legislature declares March 12, 2022, as National Girl Scout Day.