Existing law, the After School Education and Safety Program Act of 2002, enacted by initiative statute, establishes the After School Education and Safety Program to serve pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 9, inclusive, at participating public elementary, middle, junior high, and charter schools. The act provides that each school establishing a program pursuant to the act is eligible to receive a renewable 3-year grant for before or after school programs, as provided, and a grant for operating a program beyond 180 regular schooldays or during summer, weekend, intersession, or vacation periods, as provided, and specifies the maximum grant amount and related amounts for each of these grants. The act provides a formula for determining an amount to be continuously appropriated from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for the purposes of the program. This bill, commencing with the increases to the minimum wage implemented during the 2018–19 fiscal year, and each fiscal year thereafter, would, when calculating the total amount to be appropriated for a fiscal year, require the Department of Finance to annually adjust the total program funding amount for each minimum wage increase using a specified calculation. The bill would require the State Department of Education to adjust the maximum grant amounts and related amounts in accordance with the amount provided for the program for the 2017–18 fiscal year. The bill, commencing with the 2018–19 fiscal year, and each fiscal year thereafter, would require the State Department of Education to adjust those amounts by the amounts necessary to properly allocate funding increases made to the total program funding amount by the bill.
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(1) Existing law, the California Finance Lenders Law, generally provides for the licensure and regulation of finance lenders and brokers by the Commissioner of Business Oversight and makes a willful violation of its provisions a crime. That law, until January 1, 2023, establishes the Pilot Program for Increased Access to Responsible Small Dollar Loans, which requires licensees and other entities that wish to participate in the program to file an application and pay a specified fee to the commissioner to participate in the program. The program authorizes a licensee approved by the commissioner to participate in the program to impose specified alternative interest rates and charges, including an administrative fee and delinquency fees, on unsecured loans of at least $300 and less than $2,500, subject to certain requirements. The program permits a licensee to use a finder, which is defined as an entity that, at its physical location for business, brings together a borrower and a licensee to negotiate a loan under the program. The program requires the commissioner, annually until July 1, 2021, as specified, to post a report on his or her Internet Web site summarizing utilization of the program. Existing law requires licensed finance lenders to perform specified actions when a loan is repaid, including providing a borrower with certain documents marked paid or an optical reproduction of them. This bill would permit a licensee that consummates electronically an unsecured loan under the Pilot Program for Increased Access to Responsible Small Dollar Loans to satisfy the requirements to provide a borrower with documents marked "paid" by providing the borrower or person making final payment with a receipt, as specified. The bill would eliminate the upper limit on the amount of a permissible loan under the pilot program and make corresponding changes. The bill would revise the statement of legislative findings for the program and specify the applicability of certain pilot program requirements on licensees and specified associates, when making loans above $2,500. The bill would revise the term finder to instead be referral partner and would make various conforming changes in this regard. The bill would revise the conditions under which a licensee may refinance a loan under the pilot program to apply to borrowers who have been current on their loans for a minimum of 8 consecutive months. The bill would permit a referral agent's activities to be done through other means and not necessarily at his or her physical business location. The bill would delete other provisions connected to an entity who uses an electronic access point, as specified, or personally contacts a borrower at a physical business location, among other things. The bill would prohibit a referral partner from performing unsolicited door-to-door or telephonic solicitation. The bill would require licensees who that use referral agents to provide them training, as specified, and to implement procedures to ensure that referral partners act in compliance with the law. The bill would also eliminate the requirement that a licensee provide a borrower of a consummated loan a written copy of a specified disclosure notice within 2 weeks of consummation. The bill would revise requirements on compensating finders by eliminating a limit on total compensation paid over the life of a loan and would prescribe limits on compensation with reference to the contractual lengths of loans. The bill would revise the content of the report that the Commissioner of Business Oversight is required to provide to include certain information on loan applicants who were denied loans and for borrowers who did and did not have credit scores when they obtained loans, among other things. By expanding the definition of a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) 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.
This measure would designate the portion of State Highway 605 from Peck Road to Rose Hills Road in the County of Los Angeles as the Vicente Fernández Highway. This measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs consistent with the signing requirements for the state highway system showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources sufficient to cover the cost, to erect those signs.
The Outdoor Advertising Act provides for the regulation by the Department of Transportation of advertising displays, as defined, within view of public highways. The act exempts from certain of its provisions advertising displays that advertise the business conducted, services rendered, or goods produced or sold upon the property on which the display is placed, as specified. Existing law exempts from the act advertising displays located in specific geographic areas in the City of Los Angeles if those displays meet specified conditions and requirements, as specified. This bill would exempt from the act advertising displays located in specific geographic areas in the City of Artesia if those displays meet specified conditions and requirements, including authorization by, or accordance with, an ordinance by the City of Artesia, as specified. The bill would impose certain conditions if an advertising display authorized by this bill is a message center display. The bill would require the department to ensure that if the advertising display is lighted or a message center that it does not constitute a hazard to traffic. The bill would require the department, before the advertising display may be placed, to determine, or to request the Federal Highway Administration to determine, that the display will not cause a reduction in federal aid funds or otherwise be inconsistent with any federal law, regulation, or agreement between the state and a federal agency or department. The bill would make the City of Artesia primarily responsible for ensuring that a display remains in conformance with the ordinance and the bill's requirements, and would require the city to indemnify and hold the department harmless if the city fails to do so. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of Artesia.
This bill would recognize the month of June 2017 as Portuguese National Heritage Month.
This measure would declare June 10, 2017, as Portugal Day to celebrate Portuguese national heritage.
This measure would proclaim March 20, 2017, as Pakistani American Day and would urge all Californians to join in celebrating Pakistani American Day.
Existing law establishes the California Partnership for Long-Term Care Program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services. The purpose of the program is to link private long-term care insurance and health care service plan contracts that cover long-term care with the In-Home Supportive Services program and the Medi-Cal program and to provide Medi-Cal program benefits to certain individuals who have income and resources above the eligibility levels for receipt of medical assistance, but who have purchased certified private long-term care insurance policies. Existing law prescribes specified criteria for certification of a long-term care insurance policy under the program. Existing law requires a policy, certificate, or rider in which benefits are limited to the provision of all care settings, except nursing facility care, and that is offered under the California Partnership for Long-Term Care Program to be called a home care and community-based services policy, certificate, or rider. A long-term care policy, certificate, or rider that purports to provide benefits of home and community-based services under the California Partnership for Long-Term Care Program is required to provide specified minimum services, including assisted living facility services and residential care facility services. Existing law includes minimum policy definitions of those facilities. Existing law also requires the department to adopt regulations requiring that a long-term care insurance policy or health care service plan contract that includes long-term care services include, among other specified coverage categories, home care and community-based care coverage only. This bill would require a policy, certificate, or rider as described above to instead be called a home care, community-based services, and residential care facility only policy, certificate, or rider. The bill would delete assisted living facility services from the list of required minimum services to be provided, clarify that those required minimum services include care in a residential care facility, and delete the policy definitions. The bill also would make conforming name changes. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
This measure would proclaim May 10, 2017, as the Day of the Teacher and would urge all Californians to observe the day by taking the time to remember and honor all individuals who give the gift of knowledge through teaching.