Under existing law, the 3 segments of public postsecondary education in this state are the University of California, under the administration of the Regents of the University of California, the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University, and the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. Existing law establishes various student financial aid programs, including the California Work-Study Program, which provides eligible college and university students with the opportunity to earn money to help defray their educational costs, while gaining experience in educationally beneficial or career-related employment. This bill would authorize the trustees, the board of governors, and the regents to develop, for each of their respective campuses, a student service program, as specified, for students with financial need who are exempt from paying nonresident tuition under a certain provision of law. The bill would establish that personal information of a student collected or obtained for the student service program is confidential, shall not be open to the public for inspection or disclosed without the written consent of the student, and shall only be collected, used, and retained to determine a student's eligibility for the program or to administer the program, and would prohibit disclosure of that personal information to any other person, except as provided. Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect. The California Constitution requires local agencies, for the purpose of ensuring public access to the meetings of public bodies and the writings of public officials and agencies, to comply with a statutory enactment that amends or enacts laws relating to public records or open meetings and contains findings demonstrating that the enactment furthers the constitutional requirements relating to this purpose. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.
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The Government Claims Act sets forth the general procedure for the presentation of claims as a prerequisite to commencement of actions for money or damages against local public entities, as defined. The act exempts certain claims against local public entities from the presentation procedures of the act, including, but not limited to, claims made pursuant to a specific provision of the Code of Civil Procedure for the recovery of damages suffered as a result of childhood sexual abuse and arising out of conduct occurring on or after January 1, 2009. Under the act, claims against a local public entity for money or damages that are exempted and that are not governed by any other statutes or regulations expressly relating thereto, are authorized to be governed by the procedure prescribed in an enactment adopted by the local public entity. This bill would specifically exempt from that authorization for procedures prescribed by local enactment claims against a local public entity made pursuant to the above-described existing law for the recovery of damages suffered as a result of childhood sexual abuse.
Existing law requires the Governor to proclaim certain days each year for specified reasons. Existing law also designates particular days each year as having special significance and encourages all public schools and educational institutions to observe those days and to conduct suitable commemorative exercises on those days. This bill would require the Governor to annually proclaim April 10 as Dolores Huerta Day, would designate and set apart that date each year as having special significance, and would encourage all public schools and educational institutions to observe that date by conducting exercises remembering the life of Dolores Huerta and recognizing her accomplishments and the contributions she made to the state.
Existing law requires the Governor to proclaim various days in honor of a person, status, or an event. This bill would require the Governor annually to proclaim the month of June as LGBT Pride Month.
Existing law requires the Department of General Services to ensure that all claims that have been approved by the department, and for which there exists no legally available appropriation, are submitted for legislative approval at least once each calendar year. This bill would appropriate $8,383.98 to the Department of General Services for the payment of claims accepted by the Department of General Services, as specified. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
This resolution would recognize the role that Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders have played in the development of California throughout the state's history and encourage all federal, state, and local organizations to promote the preservation of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander history and culture.
Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975 (the act) , provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care, under the direction of the Director of the Department of the Managed Health Care, and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law requires a prepaid health plan to apply for licensure as a health care service plan if the prepaid health plan operating lawfully under the laws of Mexico elects to operate a health care service plan in this state. Existing law requires the application for licensure to demonstrate compliance with specified requirements, including that the prepaid health plan offers and sells in this state only employer-sponsored group plan contracts exclusively for the benefit of Mexican nationals legally employed in the County of San Diego or the County of Imperial, and for the benefit of their dependents regardless of nationality, that pay for, reimburse the cost of, or arrange for the provision or delivery of health care services that are to be provided or delivered wholly in Mexico, except as specified. Existing law also requires the plan to demonstrate that the plan maintains a specified tangible net equity or is able to demonstrate a reasonable acceptable alternative reimbursement arrangement. Existing law also authorizes the director to prescribe rules and regulations to provide safeguards with respect to the financial responsibility of health care service plans, generally. This bill would instead require that application for licensure to demonstrate that the plan offers and sells in this state only employer-sponsored group plan contracts exclusively for the benefit of persons, rather than Mexican nationals, legally employed in the County of San Diego or the County of Imperial. The bill would eliminate the tangible net equity requirement specified for these plans and would instead require these plans to maintain a tangible net equity as required by the director pursuant to the authority granted to the director with respect to health care service plans, generally. The bill would, for policies issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2019, authorize the director to exempt, for not more than 5 years, a prepaid health plan from requirements of the act, and would authorize exemptions granted prior to January 1, 2019, to remain in effect until January 1, 2021, as specified. The bill would require the director to post the formal decision regarding the exemption on the department's Internet Web site. The bill would also require, if a prepaid health plan that is subject to these provisions is issued or sold to a group subscriber, the group subscriber to offer to enrollees and dependents coverage that is fully consistent with the provisions of the act or federal law, as specified. The bill would also make technical changes. Because a violation of these provisions by a health care service plan would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Counties of San Diego and Imperial. 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.
(1) Existing law establishes a system of state prisons under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Existing law authorizes the department to institute various programs for inmates, including programs for education and job training. This bill would require the department to develop guidelines for inmate participation in preapprenticeship training programs, as specified. The bill would also require the department to coordinate with local state-approved apprenticeship programs and local building trade councils so that inmates who complete an inmate preapprenticeship program have a pathway to employment upon release. (2) Existing law authorizes the Department of General Services, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and various local agencies to use the design-build procurement process for specified public works under different laws. This bill would authorize the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to award contracts for construction projects over $500,000 using the design-build contracting process or construction manager at-risk contracts, as defined, if, on or before September 30, 2019, the department enters into a 10-year community workforce agreement with the State Building and Construction Trades Council of California that applies to all construction contracts over $500,000. The bill would require the community workforce agreement to include provisions to encourage work opportunities for previously incarcerated individuals who have completed an inmate preapprenticeship program and include a plan for outreach and retention of women and military service veterans to help increase employment opportunities in the building and construction trades. The bill would authorize the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to renew or modify the agreement for 5-year terms.
This measure would apologize for the enactment of past discriminatory laws and constitutional provisions that resulted in the persecution and oppression of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals and their communities. The measure would also express the Legislature's commitment to taking the steps needed to be a fully inclusive state and preserving the rights of all people.