Existing law imposes various requirements on voting locations that qualify as "vote centers," including the number of locations that must be open and their hours of operation, and the requirements that they provide ballot dropoff boxes, voting machines for persons with disabilities, and conditional voter registration. Existing law authorizes the County of Los Angeles to conduct any election as a vote center election if, among other requirements, every permanent vote by mail voter receives a ballot. This bill would instead require that for Los Angeles County to conduct an election as a vote center election, every registered voter must receive a vote by mail ballot. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
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(1) Existing law requires the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to maintain plant quarantine inspection stations. Existing law requires that a sign be conspicuously posted at an inspection station maintained at or near the California border stating that the federal Gun Control Act of 1968 may prohibit persons from bringing firearms into the state that were acquired outside of the state. This bill would require that these inspection station signs also state, among other things, that California law may prohibit a person from bringing a firearm into the state that was acquired outside of the state. The bill would also require the signs to include a specified internet website address. (2) Existing law makes it a crime to acquire a firearm with the intent to transfer the firearm to a minor or to evade specified requirements on the transfer of firearms. This bill would expand that crime to apply to firearms brought into the state with that intent. By expanding the definition of a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (3) Existing law generally makes the violation of laws relating to the illegal transfer of a firearm a misdemeanor, except that the illegal transfer of a handgun to a minor or the illegal transfer of a handgun without conducting the transaction through a firearms dealer may be punished as a felony. Existing law also allows a dealer transaction involving a handgun to be punished as a felony if the dealer delivers the handgun sooner than 10 days from the date of purchase, is not presented with clear evidence of the transferee's identity and age, transfers the firearm after being notified that the transferee is prohibited from possessing a firearm, transfers a handgun to a person who does not present a handgun safety certificate, or delivers a handgun to a person who has made another application to purchase a handgun within the preceding 30 days. This bill would allow those illegal firearms transactions to be prosecuted as felonies if they involve a centerfire semiautomatic rifle. By increasing the punishment for a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (4) 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 state sales and use tax laws impose a tax on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. The Sales and Use Tax Law provides various exemptions from those taxes. This bill, on or after January 1, 2021, would provide an exemption from those taxes with respect to the sale in this state of, and the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of, an electric or a hybrid electric vehicle for which the final listing price is not greater than $25,000. The Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law authorizes counties and cities to impose local sales and use taxes in conformity with the Sales and Use Tax Law, and existing laws authorize districts, as specified, to impose transactions and use taxes in accordance with the Transactions and Use Tax Law, which generally conforms to the Sales and Use Tax Law. Amendments to the Sales and Use Tax Law are automatically incorporated into the local tax laws. Existing law requires the state to reimburse counties and cities for revenue losses caused by the enactment of sales and use tax exemptions. This bill would provide that, notwithstanding Section 2230 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, no appropriation is made and the state shall not reimburse any local agencies for sales and use tax revenues lost by them pursuant to this bill. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
Existing law requires the Instructional Quality Commission to develop and submit to the State Board of Education, on or before December 31, 2022, and requires the state board to adopt, modify, or revise, on or before March 31, 2023, a model curriculum relative to the Vietnamese American refugee experience, a model curriculum relative to the Cambodian genocide, and a model curriculum in Hmong history and cultural studies, as specified, for use in elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools. Existing law provides that implementation of these provisions is subject to the receipt of grants, donations, or other financial support from private or public sources for its purposes, including, but not limited to, an appropriation in the annual Budget Act or another statute. This bill would appropriate $2,929,628 from the General Fund to the State Board of Education to fund the development by the Instructional Quality Commission and the adoption, modification, or revision by the state board of those model curricula. Funds appropriated by this bill would be applied toward the minimum funding requirements for school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.
Existing law provides for the regulation and development of aquaculture and requires the owner of each aquaculture facility to register with the Department of Fish and Wildlife. Existing law authorizes the department, among other powers, to assess annual registration fees on owners of aquaculture facilities and to prohibit an aquaculture operation or the culturing of any species at any location where it would be detrimental to adjacent native wildlife. Existing law authorizes the Fish and Game Commission to lease state water bottoms or the water column to any person for aquaculture, as prescribed, and requires the department to notify the State Lands Commission of all applications for water bottom leases and of all leases for aquaculture executed, renewed, or assigned. Under existing law, the California Coastal Act of 1976, the California Coastal Commission is responsible for the implementation of the act and for state coastal zone planning and management. This bill would require the department to, by January 1, 2022, create, as prescribed, a master permitting program with 3 permit types, as specified, for shellfish, seaweed, and other low-trophic mariculture production and restoration projects. The bill would require the master permitting program to include and incorporate all necessary information and materials required by the State Lands Commission and the Fish and Game Commission to apply for, prepare, review, and finalize a water bottom lease or ground lease of state lands required by a proposed mariculture project. The bill would require the department to approve, deny, or return for revision a master permit application within 4 months and similarly require that the State Lands Commission or the Fish and Game Commission, or both, if applicable, approve or deny a water bottom lease or ground lease within 4 months, as prescribed. The bill would provide an administrative appeal process for applicants to contest the denial of a water bottom lease or ground lease. The bill would require the department, in consultation with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, if feasible, to develop best management practices for shellfish, seaweed, and other low-trophic mariculture production and restoration projects, as prescribed, and incorporate these practices into the master permitting program. The bill would require the department to incorporate all duties and responsibilities over shellfish, seaweed, and other low-trophic mariculture production and restoration currently possessed and implemented by the California Coastal Commission into the master permitting program, and, commencing January 1, 2022, would provide the department with all jurisdiction, duties, and responsibilities over shellfish, seaweed, and other low-trophic mariculture production and restoration projects, and eliminate the California Coastal Commission's authority and jurisdiction to approve, deny, or otherwise affect those projects. The bill would require, on or before January 1, 2023, the department, in consultation with several specified entities, to produce a comprehensive, publicly available map of state waters indicating the suitability of particular areas and sites for shellfish, seaweed, and other low-trophic mariculture production and restoration. The bill would require, commencing January 1, 2023, and each year for 5 years thereafter, the department, in consultation with several specified entities, to annually designate, as prescribed, at least 5 square miles of state waters as suitable for shellfish, seaweed, and other low-trophic mariculture production and restoration projects. The bill would require the department to ensure the inclusion of socially disadvantaged mariculturalists in the development, adoption, implementation, and enforcement of laws, regulations, and policies and programs relating to shellfish, seaweed, and other low-trophic mariculture production and restoration. The bill would also make legislative findings and declarations and adopt definitions to implement its provisions.
Existing law, the California Consumer Protection Act of 2018 (CCPA) grants a consumer various rights with regard to personal information relating to that consumer collected by a business, including the right to know the categories and the specific pieces of personal information that a business collects and to opt out of the sale of personal information. With regard to information sold to a third party about a consumer by a business, the CCPA prohibits the third party from selling that information unless the consumer has received notice, as specified, and an opportunity to exercise the right to opt out of the sale. Existing law commits the regulatory authority for these provisions with the Attorney General. This bill would require that a consumer's election to opt out of the sale of personal information, as described above, remain effective after the company that holds the information, or the information itself, is sold.
Existing law defines the crime of burglary to include entering a vehicle when the doors are locked with the intent to commit grand or petit larceny or a felony. Existing law makes the burglary of a vehicle punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony. This bill would make forcibly entering a vehicle, as defined, with the intent to commit a theft therein a crime punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period not to exceed one year or imprisonment in a county jail for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years. By creating a new crime, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Existing law authorizes a person to disclose on the affidavit of voter registration the name of the political party at the time of registering to vote or transferring a registration to vote. Existing law also authorizes the person to decline to disclose a political party preference, and requires the voter registration card to include an option allowing the person to do so. This bill would require the word "Independent" to be included with "No Party," "None," or similar wording as part of the option that permits the person to decline to disclose a party preference.
Existing law requires the governing board of any school district to give diligent care to the health and physical development of pupils and authorizes the governing board of a school district to employ properly certified persons for the work. This bill would, commencing January 1, 2022, require the governing board or governing body of a local educational agency, as defined, to have at each school under its jurisdiction at least one school employee who has received specified training relating to seizure recognition, treatment, and response. The bill would require a school, as defined, to provide training to school personnel with direct contact and supervision of pupils on recognizing the signs and symptoms of seizures and the appropriate steps for seizure first aid. The bill would authorize a school nurse or other designated school personnel who has received the training described above to administer, or a pupil to self-administer, seizure rescue medication or medication prescribed to treat seizure disorder symptoms, if certain conditions and requirements are met. The bill would require a school to collaborate with the parent or guardian of each pupil diagnosed with a seizure disorder to create a seizure action plan. The bill would require a school to provide to all pupils an age-appropriate seizure education program on seizures and seizure disorders. By imposing new duties on school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the State Board of Education to adopt regulations to implement these provisions. 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.
Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a city to control, dispose of, and convey property for the benefit of the city. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to subsequently enact legislation that would require a public bid on any city-owned property valued at $100,000,000 or more.