Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. The California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish a renewables portfolio standard requiring all retail sellers, defined as including electrical corporations, electric service providers, and community choice aggregators, to procure a minimum quantity of electricity products from eligible renewable energy resources, as defined, so that the total kilowatthours of those products sold to their retail end-use customers achieves 25% of retail sales by December 31, 2016, 33% by December 31, 2020, 44% by December 31, 2024, 52% by December 31, 2027, and 60% by December 31, 2030. Existing law requires the commission to direct each retail seller to prepare and submit an annual report to the commission that includes specified information on the retail seller's compliance with requirements related to eligible renewable energy resource procurement. This bill would require the commission to review each annual compliance report filed by a retail seller, to notify a retail seller if the commission has determined, based upon its review, that the retail seller may be at risk of not satisfying the renewable procurement requirements for the then-current or future compliance period, and to provide recommendations in that circumstance regarding satisfying those requirements. Existing law requires the commission to adopt a process for each load-serving entity, defined as an electrical corporation, electric service provider, or community choice aggregator serving end-use customers in the state, to file an integrated resource plan and a schedule for periodic updates to the plan to ensure that load-serving entities accomplish specified objectives. Existing law requires each load-serving entity to prepare and file an integrated resource plan consistent with those objectives on a time schedule directed by the commission and subject to commission review. This bill would expressly require the commission to ensure that load-serving entities do what is required to be done by their integrated resource plans, and ensure that load-serving entities comply with an existing requirement that at least 65% of the procurement that a retail seller counts toward the renewables portfolio standard requirement of each compliance period be from contracts of 10 years or more in duration or from its ownership or ownership agreements from eligible renewable energy resources.
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Existing law establishes the Department of Business Oversight, which is responsible for the administration and enforcement of regulations on the activities of various financial entities, including commercial banks, industrial banks, trust companies, credit unions, and savings and loan associations. Existing law requires specified fees, reimbursements, assessments, and other moneys collected by the Division of Corporations within the department to be deposited into the State Corporations Fund for specified purposes. This bill would, until January 1, 2025, require the department to provide grants of up to $100,000 to specified nonprofits for financial education and financial empowerment programs and services to unbanked and underbanked populations in the state, and would authorize the department to award up to $1,000,000 in grant moneys per fiscal year. The bill would appropriate the sum of $4,000,000 plus reasonable administrative costs, as estimated by the department, from the State Corporations Fund to the Financial Empowerment Fund, established in the State Treasury by the bill, and would continuously appropriate the moneys in the fund to the department for purposes of the program.
Existing law requires the Secretary for Environmental Protection to implement a unified hazardous waste and hazardous materials management regulatory program, known as the unified program. Existing law requires every county to apply to the secretary to be certified to implement the unified program, and authorizes a city or local agency that meets specified requirements to apply to the secretary to be certified to implement the unified program, as a certified unified program agency, or CUPA. Existing law authorizes a state or local agency that has a written agreement with a CUPA, and is approved by the secretary, to implement or enforce one or more of the unified program elements as a participating agency. Existing law defines "unified program agency," to mean the CUPA or its participating agencies, as provided. Existing law, the Water Replenishment District Act, provides for the formation, organization, and functioning of water replenishment districts. Existing law authorizes a water replenishment district, for the purposes of replenishing the groundwater supplies within the district, to, among other things, store, transport, recapture, recycle, purify, treat, or otherwise manage and control water for the beneficial use of persons or property within the district and build the necessary works to achieve groundwater replenishment. Existing law establishes the Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund and authorizes the State Water Resources Control Board to expend moneys in the fund for certain purposes, including for transfer to the Site Cleanup Subaccount, as provided. Existing law authorizes the board to expend funds in the subaccount, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for certain purposes, including to pay for the reasonable and necessary costs incurred by the board, a regional board, or a local agency to identify the source of surface or groundwater contamination or to remediate the harm or threat of harm to human health, safety, and the environment caused by existing or threatened surface or groundwater contamination at a location, if certain conditions apply. This bill would additionally authorize the board to expend moneys in the subaccount for the reasonable and necessary costs incurred by the Department of Toxic Substances Control or water replenishment districts to identify the source of surface or groundwater contamination, and for the above-mentioned remediation costs, as provided. Existing law authorizes the board to expend funds in the subaccount, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to issue grants for the reasonable and necessary costs of specified remediation actions at a location at which the board, a regional board, or a local agency has required the responsible parties to undertake or contract for investigation or cleanup, pursuant to an order, directive, notification, or approval issued pursuant to specified law, if the responsible parties lack sufficient financial resources to pay for the required response actions. This bill would additionally authorize the issuance of a grant for remediation actions at a location at which a responsible party has been required to undertake or contract for investigation or cleanup pursuant to a specified order issued by the department, subject to that same condition.
Existing law, known as the Student Athlete Bill of Rights, requires intercollegiate athletic programs at 4-year private universities or campuses of the University of California or the California State University that receive, as an average, $10,000,000 or more in annual revenue derived from media rights for intercollegiate athletics to comply with prescribed requirements relating to student athlete rights. This bill would prohibit California postsecondary educational institutions except community colleges, and every athletic association, conference, or other group or organization with authority over intercollegiate athletics, from providing a prospective intercollegiate student athlete with compensation in relation to the athlete's name, image, or likeness, or preventing a student participating in intercollegiate athletics from earning compensation as a result of the use of the student's name, image, or likeness or obtaining professional representation relating to the student's participation in intercollegiate athletics. The bill also would prohibit an athletic association, conference, or other group or organization with authority over intercollegiate athletics from preventing a postsecondary educational institution other than a community college from participating in intercollegiate athletics as a result of the compensation of a student athlete for the use of the student's name, image, or likeness. The bill would require professional representation obtained by student athletes to be from persons licensed by the state. The bill would specify that athlete agents shall comply with federal law in their relationships with student athletes. The bill would prohibit the revocation of a student's scholarship as a result of earning compensation or obtaining legal representation as authorized under these provisions. The bill would prohibit a student athlete from entering into a contract providing compensation to the athlete for use of the athlete's name, image, or likeness if a provision of the contract is in conflict with a provision of the athlete's team contract. The bill would prohibit a team contract from preventing a student athlete from using the athlete's name, image, or likeness for a commercial purpose when the athlete is not engaged in official team activities, as specified. These provisions would become operative on January 1, 2023. This bill would require the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to convene a community college athlete name, image, and likeness working group composed of individuals appointed on or before July 1, 2020, as specified. The bill would require the working group to review various athletic association bylaws and state and federal laws regarding a college athlete's use of the athlete's name, image, and likeness for compensation and, on or before July 1, 2021, submit to the Legislature and the California Community College Athletic Association a report containing its findings and policy recommendations in connection with this review.
This measure would condemn regulations recently adopted by the Department of Homeland Security to prescribe how a determination of inadmissibility for a person who is not a citizen or national is made based on the likelihood that the person will become a public charge. This measure would also urge the federal government to repeal the new regulations.
This measure would recognize the need to pursue avenues to implement proposed reparations for the descendants of African slaves in the United States. The measure would further recognize August 2019 as marking 400 years since Africans were brought to Virginia.
This measure would proclaim September 29, 2019, as Gold Star Mothers' and Families' Day.
This measure would urge the Congress and the President of the United States to work together to enact the robust bipartisan federal infrastructure legislation necessary to restore California's and other states' crumbling road and freight infrastructure, respond to growing traffic congestion, and increase investment in public transportation, most particularly, by expanding paratransit services for the elderly and those with special needs. The measure would additionally urge the Congress and the President of the United States to address the shortfall in the federal Highway Trust Fund by restoring the lost purchasing power of the federal fuel tax, in order to provide the long-term funding stability necessary for California and other states.
Existing law requires each admitted insurer with premiums written equal to or in excess of $100,000,000 to provide information to the Insurance Commissioner on all of its community development investments and community development infrastructure investments in California. This bill would require those insurers to also report to the commissioner on their minority, women, LGBT, veteran, and disabled veteran-owned business procurement efforts, as specified. Under the bill, a failure to report the information by the reporting deadline would subject the admitted insurer to civil penalties to be fixed and enforced by the commissioner, as provided. The bill would also require each of those insurers to report to the commissioner regarding the demographic makeup of the insurer's governing board and the insurer's goals regarding board diversity. The bill would require an insurer to provide each board member with an opportunity to participate in a survey for the purposes of collecting the demographic information, and would require an insurer to submit that information to the department in the aggregate. Under the bill, the demographic information would be confidential and the bill would prohibit the department or an insurer from releasing that information, except as provided by the bill. The bill would require the above-described information to be reported to the commissioner on July 1, 2020, and then biennially thereafter. The bill would require the commissioner, by November 1 of each reporting year, to establish and maintain a link on the department's internet website that provides public access to the reported information. The bill would require the commissioner to establish and appoint an Insurance Diversity Task Force to advise the department on the best methods to increase procurement with diverse suppliers and to increase diversity on governing boards within the insurance industry. 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.