(1) Existing law, until January 1, 2025, authorizes the Los Angeles Unified School District's Inspector General of the Office of the Inspector General to conduct audits and investigations, as specified, including administering oaths or affirmations. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor, punishable as specified, for a person, after the administration of an oath or affirmation by the inspector general, to state or affirm as true any material matter that they know to be false. Existing law requires the inspector general to submit to the Legislature annual interim reports and a final cumulative report. This bill would extend the authority of the inspector general of the Los Angeles Unified School District indefinitely. By extending the operation of a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the inspector general to instead submit an annual report to the Legislature on or before July 1 of each year. The bill would expressly require the inspector general to be appointed by the Board of Education of the Los Angeles Unified School District for a term of 3 years, subject to the terms of the inspector general's employment contract, and would require the Office of the Inspector General to conform to the Principles and Standards for Offices of Inspector General and would require audits performed by the Office of the Inspector General to be conducted in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards, as provided. (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. (3) This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Los Angeles Unified School District.
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Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing law establishes, under the Medi-Cal program, the Family Planning, Access, Care, and Treatment (Family PACT) Program, administered by the Office of Family Planning within the department. Under Family PACT, comprehensive clinical family planning services are provided to a person who has a family income at or below 200% of the federal poverty level and who meets other eligibility criteria to receive those services. Existing law makes the Family PACT Program inoperative if the program is determined to no longer be cost effective, as specified. If the program becomes inoperative, existing law requires all persons who have received, or are eligible to receive, comprehensive clinical family planning services pursuant to Family PACT to receive family planning services under other specified provisions of the Medi-Cal program or under the State-Only Family Planning Program, which is also established within the department. Existing law requires enrolled providers in the Family PACT Program or the State-Only Family Planning Program to attend a specific orientation approved by the department and requires providers who conduct certain services to have prior training in those services. This bill would, for the Family PACT Program, require a site certifier of a primary care clinic or affiliate primary care clinic, as those terms are defined, to be a clinician who oversees the provision of Family PACT services and would authorize certain clinic corporations to enroll multiple, but no more than 10, service addresses under one site certifier. The bill would require any orientation or training that the department requires of a site certifier to comply with specified requirements, including, among others, being offered through a virtual platform and being offered at least once every other month. For purposes of both of the above-described programs, existing law requires the program to disenroll as a program provider any individual who, or any entity that, has a license, certificate, or other approval to provide health care that is revoked or suspended by a federal, California, or other state's licensing, certification, or other approval authority, that is otherwise lost, or that is surrendered while a disciplinary hearing is pending, as specified. This bill would authorize the department to elect to not disenroll an individual or entity as a program provider if the revocation, suspension, loss, or disciplinary hearing in another state is based solely on conduct that is not deemed to be unprofessional conduct under California law. Under existing law, a provider is subject to disenrollment if the provider submits claims for payment for the services, goods, supplies, or merchandise provided to a program beneficiary, by an individual or entity that has been previously suspended, excluded, or otherwise made ineligible to receive reimbursement from one of the above-described programs or from the Medi-Cal program and the individual has previously been on one of certain lists, as specified. Under this bill, a provider would not be subject to disenrollment under that provision if the sole basis for an individual's listing is conduct that is not deemed to be unprofessional conduct under California law. The bill would condition implementation of the disenrollment exceptions described in the 2 provisions above on receipt of any necessary federal approvals and the availability of federal financial participation.
Existing law provides for various memorials and monuments on the grounds of the State Capitol. Existing law requires the Department of General Services to maintain state buildings and grounds. Existing law, the Apology Act for the 1930s Mexican Repatriation Program, makes findings and declarations regarding the unconstitutional removal and coerced emigration of United States citizens and legal residents of Mexican descent, between the years 1929 and 1944, to Mexico from the United States during the 1930s "Mexican Repatriation" Program. Existing law expresses the apology of the State of California to those individuals who were illegally deported and coerced into emigrating to Mexico and requires that a plaque to commemorate those individuals be installed and maintained by the Department of Parks and Recreation in an appropriate public place in the City or County of Los Angeles. This bill would authorize a nonprofit organization representing Mexican Americans or Mexican immigrants to enter into negotiations to plan, construct, and maintain a memorial to Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants who were forcibly deported from the United States during the Great Depression, as provided. The bill would require the memorial to be located at an appropriate public place in the City or County of Los Angeles. The bill would require the nonprofit organization to enter into negotiations with the Department of General Services and the state agency with jurisdiction over the state property where the memorial is proposed, where applicable, if the nonprofit organization proposes to locate the memorial on state property. The bill would require the nonprofit organization to submit a plan for the memorial to the department and the applicable state agency for review and approval. The bill would require these provisions to be funded exclusively through private sources. This bill would, if the nonprofit organization proposes a site owned by the City of Los Angeles or the County of Los Angeles for location of the memorial, require the nonprofit organization to follow any procedures that the City of Los Angeles or the County of Los Angeles require to consider approving the proposed memorial. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of Los Angeles and the County of Los Angeles.
The federal Reception and Placement Program (RPP) under the United States Department of State is established to serve refugees during their first 3 months after arrival in the United States, through contracts with local resettlement agencies to provide various services using federal funds. Existing state law requires the State Department of Social Services, after setting aside the necessary state administrative funds, to allocate federal funds appropriated for refugee social services programs to each eligible county or service provider, as defined, based on the number of refugees receiving aid, or who reside, in the eligible county. If an eligible county or service provider that receives funds declines all or part of those funds, or returns unexpended funds, existing law authorizes the department to exercise its discretion to reallocate the declined or returned funds among eligible counties and service providers. Existing law conditions the applicability of the requirements under these provisions on the availability of federal funds. This bill would make those requirements also applicable if state funds are available subject to an appropriation. Under the bill, if a refugee recipient of refugee social services under RPP completes 90 days of those services and exhausts the federal funds allocated for that recipient, the recipient would be eligible for a 90-day extension of those services using state funds within the first 12 months of arrival in the United States. The bill would require that services covered pursuant to these provisions include (1) English language and employment training and (2) case management services, as specified. The bill would authorize a qualified nonprofit organization, an eligible county, or any office or affiliate of the agencies authorized under RPP to provide these services. The bill would also make conforming changes to related provisions.
Existing law authorizes the operation of an autonomous vehicle on public roads for testing purposes by a driver who possesses the proper class of license for the type of vehicle operated if specified requirements are satisfied. Existing law prohibits the operation of an autonomous vehicle on public roads until the manufacturer submits an application to the Department of Motor Vehicles, as specified, and that application is approved. This bill would require a manufacturer of an autonomous vehicle to report to the department a collision on a public road that involved one of its autonomous vehicles with a gross vehicle weight of 10,001 pounds or more that is operating under a testing or deployment permit that resulted in damage of property, bodily injury, or death within 10 days of the collision. The bill would require a manufacturer of an autonomous vehicle to annually submit to the department specified information regarding the deactivation of the autonomous mode for its autonomous vehicles with a gross vehicle weight of 10,001 pounds or more that were operating under a testing or deployment permit that authorized the vehicle to operate on public roads. The bill would prohibit the operation of an autonomous vehicle with a gross vehicle weight of 10,001 pounds or more on public roads for testing purposes, transporting goods, or transporting passengers without a human safety operator physically present in the autonomous vehicle at the time of operation. The bill would require the Department of Motor Vehicles, by January 1, 2030, or 5 years after commencement of testing, whichever occurs later, and upon appropriation by the Legislature, to submit a report to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature evaluating the performance of autonomous vehicle technology and its impact on public safety and employment in the transportation sector for autonomous vehicles with a gross vehicle weight of 10,001 pounds or more. The bill would require the Department of the California Highway Patrol, the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, the Department of Transportation, the State Air Resources Board, and other relevant state agencies to provide additional information needed to research the report.
Existing law sets forth various health and safety requirements and prohibitions, including product safety label requirements. This bill would prohibit a person from selling, attempting to sell, or offering to sell to a consumer in this state a gas stove, as defined, that is manufactured or sold online on or after January 1, 2025, or sold in a store on or after January 1, 2026, unless the gas stove bears an adhesive label and, for online sales, unless the internet website prominently posts a warning, that sets forth a specified statement relating to air pollutants that can be released by gas stoves, as specified.
Existing law establishes rules for how revenue from oil and gas operations on the Long Beach tidelands is divided between the City of Long Beach and the State of California. Existing law establishes the Oil Trust Fund in the State Treasury and appropriates the moneys in the fund to the State Lands Commission commencing when specified requirements are met. Existing law requires the commission to expend the moneys in the fund to finance the costs of well abandonment, pipeline removal, facility removal, remediation, and other costs associated with removal of oil and gas facilities from the Long Beach tidelands that are not the responsibility of other parties. Existing law requires the Controller to transfer certain oil-revenue-related moneys to the fund, including, on the last day of each month beginning January 31, 2023, a transfer to the fund for the amount of $2,000,000 or 50% of remaining oil revenue from the City of Long Beach, as provided, whichever is less. This bill would instead require the Controller, on the last day of each month beginning January 31, 2025, to transfer to the fund the amount of $5,000,000 or 50% of remaining oil revenue from the City of Long Beach, whichever is greater, as provided. By increasing the amount of money that may be deposited into a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
(1) Existing law requires a committee, as defined, that pays for the circulation of a state or local initiative, referendum, or recall petition to create an Official Top Funders sheet, as specified. Existing law authorizes such a committee to create a page on an internet website that includes a link to the Official Top Funders sheet and a link to the full text of the initiative or referendum. Existing law also requires this committee to submit the Official Top Funders sheet to the Secretary of State. Existing law requires a state or local initiative, referendum, or recall petition that requires voter signatures and that a committee pays to circulate either to include a disclosure statement on the petition, as specified, or for the circulator for the petition to present as a separate document the Official Top Funders sheet to a prospective signer of the petition. This bill would remove the requirement that a committee that pays for the circulation of a state referendum create an Official Top Funders sheet and submit the Official Top Funders sheet to the Secretary of State. The bill would also remove the requirement for a state referendum petition that requires voter signatures and that a committee pays to circulate either to include a disclosure statement on the petition, as specified, or for the circulator to present as a separate document the Official Top Funders sheet to a prospective signer of the petition. The bill would instead require such a state referendum petition to include a different disclosure statement, as specified, on the first page of each section of the referendum petition. (2) Existing law requires the top of each page of a state referendum petition to contain, in 12-point boldface type, the following text: "Referendum Against an Act Passed by the Legislature." This bill would substantially revise the required form and contents of a statewide referendum petition by mandating, among other things, the petition to contain an official title and summary of the law proposed to be overturned, as prepared by the Attorney General. Among other things, the bill would require a committee, as defined, that circulates a statewide referendum petition to submit to the Secretary of State the first page of the petition and any updates required to reflect a change in the top contributors to the committee. The bill would require the Secretary of State to post the first page of the petition on the Secretary of State's internet website along with previous versions submitted by the committee. (3) Existing law requires a petition for a state initiative or referendum to contain, among other things, each signer's signature, printed name, residence address, and the name of the signer's incorporated city or unincorporated community. This bill would require a petition for a statewide referendum measure to include, in addition to the information above, before the space for the signer's printed name, a box preceding the following statement: "BY CHECKING THIS BOX, I confirm that I have reviewed the Official Top Funders listed on this page."
Existing law requires the State Oil and Gas Supervisor to supervise the drilling, operation, maintenance, and abandonment of wells and the operation, maintenance, and removal or abandonment of tanks and facilities attendant to oil and gas production, so as to prevent damage to life, health, property, and natural resources, as provided; to permit owners and operators of wells to utilize all known methods and practices to increase the ultimate recovery of hydrocarbons; and to perform the supervisor's duties in a manner that encourages the wise development of oil and gas resources to best meet oil and gas needs in this state. Existing California Supreme Court case law holds that these provisions preempt certain local ordinances that ban certain oil production methods, as provided. Existing law provides that the laws relating to oil and gas regulation apply to any land or well situated within the boundaries of an incorporated city in which the drilling of oil wells is now or may hereafter be prohibited, as provided. Existing law requires the operator of a well to file a written notice of intention to commence drilling with, and prohibits any drilling until approval is given by, the supervisor or district deputy. Existing law authorizes the supervisor to require other pertinent information to supplement the notice. Existing law requires an operator proposing to perform a well stimulation treatment to apply to the supervisor or district deputy for a permit to perform the well stimulation treatment and imposes other requirements and conditions on the use of well stimulation treatments. This bill would authorize a local entity, as defined, by ordinance, to limit or prohibit oil and gas operations or development in its jurisdiction, as provided, notwithstanding any other law or any notice of intention, supplemental notice, well stimulation treatment permit, or similar authorization issued by the supervisor or district deputy. The bill would authorize these limitations or prohibitions to include, but not be limited to, limitations or prohibitions related to the methods and locations of oil and gas operations or development. If a local entity limits or prohibits oil and gas operations or development of an owner or operator, the bill would require that owner or operator to comply with existing rules related to plugging and abandoning wells, decommissioning attendant production facilities, and related measures, as provided. This bill would state that its provisions are severable.
Existing law generally regulates the possession of firearms, including imposing storage requirements to prevent children from gaining access to firearms. This bill would, beginning on January 1, 2026, require a person who possesses a firearm in a residence to keep the firearm securely stored when the firearm is not being carried or readily controlled by the person or another lawful authorized user. For purposes of these provisions, a firearm is securely stored if the firearm is maintained within, locked by, or disabled using a certified firearm safety device or secure gun safe that meets specified standards. The bill would make a first and 2nd violation of this offense punishable as an infraction, and a 3rd or subsequent violation punishable as a misdemeanor. The bill would exempt unloaded antique firearms, as defined, or firearms that are permanently inoperable from these provisions. The bill would require the Department of Justice to seek to inform residents about these standards for storage of firearms. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor or a felony if a person keeps a firearm within any premises that are under the person's custody or control and the person knows or reasonably should know that a child is likely to gain access to the firearm without the permission of the child's parent or legal guardian, and the child obtains access to the firearm and causes injury, other than great bodily injury, or death or great bodily injury to the child or any other person, or carries that firearm off-premises, as defined, to a public place or a school. Existing law exempts a person from the above provisions if the person has no reasonable expectation, based on objective facts and circumstances, that a child is likely to be present on the premises. This bill would remove these exemptions. 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.