(1) Existing law, the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) , an initiative measure approved as Proposition 64 at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, authorizes a person who obtains a state license under AUMA to engage in commercial adult-use cannabis activity pursuant to that license and applicable local ordinances. Existing law, the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA) , among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities. MAUCRSA generally divides responsibility for the state licensure and regulation of commercial cannabis activity among the Department of Food and Agriculture, the State Department of Public Health, and the Bureau of Cannabis Control, which MAUCRSA establishes within the Department of Consumer Affairs. This bill would, by December 31, 2019, require the bureau to establish a cannabis retail business emblem and would require, beginning on January 1, 2020, the bureau to issue an emblem to each retail licensee, microbusiness licensee, and nonprofit licensee, including provisional licensees, as provided, upon issuance of the license. The bill would, among other things, require a licensee issued an emblem to post the emblem in a specified location that is clearly visible to the general public and to patrons entering the facility and would require specified employees to carry the emblem when delivering cannabis or cannabis products. The bill would make specified violations of these provisions punishable under MAUCRSA. (2) MAUCRSA requires the Department of Food and Agriculture, in consultation with the Bureau of Cannabis Control, to establish a track and trace program for reporting the movement of cannabis and cannabis products throughout the distribution chain. Existing law requires the track and trace program to capture, at a minimum, information on the licensee receiving the product, the transaction date, and the cultivator from which the product originates. To facilitate the administration of the track and trace program, existing law requires the department to create an electronic database containing that information and requires licensing authorities, upon the request of a state or local law enforcement agency, to allow access to or provide information contained within this database to assist law enforcement in their duties and responsibilities pursuant to MAUCRSA. This bill would require a licensing authority to also allow a local jurisdiction access to, or provide information contained within, the electronic database. (3) The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act, an initiative measure, authorizes the Legislature to amend the act to further the purposes and intent of the act with a 23 vote of the membership of both houses of the Legislature, except as provided. This bill would declare that its provisions further the purposes and intent of the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act. (4) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
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Existing law, the Banking Law, provides for the regulation of banks by the Department of Business Oversight. Existing law establishes the Bank on California Program within the department as a voluntary collaborative initiative that assists underserved Californians in opening a bank or credit union account. Existing law, which is known as the Time Deposit Program, requires the Treasurer, if possible, to deposit state money into an eligible bank. Existing law defines eligible bank to mean a bank selected by the Treasurer that meets certain requirements, including that it received an overall rating of not less than satisfactory in its most recent evaluation by the appropriate federal financial supervisory agency of the bank's record of meeting the credit needs of the state's communities, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods. This bill would create the Banking Development District Program within the department, and would establish a process for a local agency, in conjunction with a bank, to submit an application to the department to establish a banking development district, in accordance with certain requirements. The bill would require the department to provide information on the Banking Development District Program to the Treasurer, and would specify that the Treasurer may utilize the Banking Development District Program when promoting the Treasurer's Time Deposit Program. The bill would require the department to adopt rules and regulations for the establishment and maintenance of banking development districts and to evaluate and approve applications for the designation of banking development districts in accordance with certain requirements. The bill would require the department to develop and provide certain incentives to banks located in a banking development district, and would authorize the department to work with local agencies and economic development officials to develop additional local incentives for participating banks. The bill would also require the department to establish and post on its internet website a performance review process for the program, as specified.
This measure would name the public street, circle, and plaza at 914 and 915 Capitol Mall in the City of Sacramento as the Willie L. Brown, Jr. Circle and Plaza. The measure would request the Department of General Services to determine the cost of erecting the appropriate signage commemorating this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources, to cover that cost to erect that signage.
Existing law establishes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and charges it with certain duties and powers, including, among other things, the operation of prisons and other specified institutions. This bill would require the department to establish a Peace Officer Peer Support Labor Management Committee tasked with crafting, updating, and monitoring the implementation of a standardized statewide peace officer policy for the department's peer support program to provide substantive assistance to the peace officers employed by the department. The bill would require the committee to be composed of an equal number of representatives of the employer and peace officer employees, and would require the members of the committee to be selected and hold their first meeting on or before July 1, 2020. The bill would require the policy to address, among other things, the selection process and training for peer support team members, and guidelines for the types of communication that would remain confidential within the peer support program. The bill would require the policy to be fully implemented by January 1, 2022. The bill would require the department to submit, beginning July 1, 2020, an annual report to the Legislature that contains data pertaining to the utilization rates of the peace officer peer support program statewide.
This measure would urge the Congress and the President of the United States to pass and sign legislation that would remove marijuana or cannabis and its derivatives from the federal drug schedules.
This measure would recognize September 2020 as Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Month and encourage the Legislature to appropriate funds for research, treatment, and monitoring of sickle cell disease, and for related education and outreach.
(1) The Ortiz-Pacheco-Poochigian-Vasconcellos Cal Grant Program establishes the Cal Grant A and B Entitlement awards, the California Community College Transfer Entitlement awards, the Competitive Cal Grant A and B awards, the Cal Grant C awards, and the Cal Grant T awards under the administration of the Student Aid Commission, and establishes eligibility requirements for awards under these programs for participating students attending qualifying institutions. The program prohibits a student who is incarcerated from being eligible to receive a Cal Grant award. This bill would repeal that prohibition and make conforming changes. (2) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 69433.9 of the Education Code proposed by SB 296 to be operative only if this bill and SB 296 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including telephone corporations. The Moore Universal Telephone Service Act established the lifeline telephone service program in order to provide low-income households, as defined, with access to affordable basic residential telephone service. Existing law requires that a lifeline telephone service subscriber be provided with one lifeline subscription at the subscriber's principal place of residence, and provides that no other member of that subscriber's family or household who maintains residence at that place is eligible for lifeline telephone service. This bill would revise the definition of "household" for these purposes and would authorize multiple lifeline telephone service subscribers to maintain the same address if they are not of the same household or if a subscriber meets one of certain requirements. The bill would require the commission, in a new or existing proceeding, to determine whether a lifeline telephone service subscriber shall be permitted an additional lifeline subscription for broadband services and would require the commission to issue a decision in the proceeding by no later than July 1, 2022. The bill would require the commission, by July 1, 2020, as part of an existing proceeding, to update the lifeline program to address certain issues. The bill would require the commission, by July 1, 2021, to adopt updated program rules for the lifeline program to, among other things, include various methods to increase participation of eligible low-income individuals in the lifeline program. The bill would require the commission, in consultation with relevant state agencies, to develop outreach and enrollment programs for the formerly incarcerated and for veterans. The bill would require the commission to consider accepting alternative forms of identification to increase participation in the lifeline program by members of certain vulnerable or disadvantaged groups.
(1) The California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) prohibits discrimination in housing and employment on specified bases and provides procedures for enforcement by the Department of Fair Employment and Housing, including authorizing the department to accept complaints alleging violations of FEHA. Under FEHA, it is the intention of the Legislature that FEHA occupy the field of regulation of discrimination in employment, but that FEHA not limit or restrict the application of the Unruh Civil Rights Act. The Unruh Civil Rights Act generally prohibits business establishments from discriminating on specified bases. This bill, among other things, would revise that preemption and authorize the legislative body of a local government, located within the County of Los Angeles, to enact a local antidiscrimination ordinance relating to employment, including establishing remedies and penalties for violations. The bill would authorize a local government to create a local agency to enforce local antidiscrimination laws (local enforcement agency) . The bill would additionally authorize a local government to designate a local enforcement agency to act as a fair employment practice agency (FEPA) if that local enforcement agency agrees to accept all charges of employment discrimination that would be accepted by the federal government, subject to requirements described below. The bill would authorize a local enforcement agency to perform certain administrative, investigative, and enforcement actions, including the award of the full scope of remedies available under FEHA and any remedies available under the local antidiscrimination ordinance. The bill would require that the local agency establish a specified internet website and publish an annual report relating to complaints accepted. The bill would authorize a party to seek judicial review of an agency's binding determination under these provisions. This bill would deem a complaint filed with the local agency to also be a complaint under FEHA, except as specified. The bill would require the department to coordinate with a local enforcement agency to establish a specified filing relationship that allows the agency to accept complaints under FEHA. The bill would authorize an individual to file a complaint with both a local enforcement agency and the department, but would provide that initially filing a complaint with the department extinguishes a complainant's right to file a complaint based on the same allegations with a local enforcement agency under a local antidiscrimination ordinance. The bill would require the department to notify a complainant of their right to dual file and of that extinguishment. (2) The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) works with various states' fair employment practice agencies to manage charges of discrimination under federal, state, and local laws. This bill would require a local enforcement agency that has been designated as a FEPA to enter into a work sharing agreement with the EEOC, as specified, to provide for dual filing at the federal and local level. The bill would require a local enforcement agency that is not designated as a FEPA to help facilitate the filing of a complaint at the federal level. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Los Angeles.