Sen. Janet Nguyen

Existing law, the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998, establishes a program in which the State Allocation Board is required to provide state per-pupil funding, including overcrowding relief grants, for new school facilities construction and school facilities modernization for applicant school districts. For purposes of overcrowding relief grants, existing law provides that an eligible school is a school for which the schoolsite pupil population density is equal to or greater than 175% of the schoolsite pupil population density recommended by the Superintendent of Public Instruction as of January 1, 2006, adjusted as specified. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that latter provision.

This measure would proclaim January 13, 2016, as Korean American Day.

The California Constitution prohibits a committee or either house of the Legislature from hearing or acting upon a bill until 31 days after it has been introduced, unless the house dispenses with this requirement by a rollcall vote with ¾ of the membership concurring. The California Constitution also prohibits either house from passing a bill until the bill with amendments has been printed and distributed to the Members of the Legislature. This measure would authorize a committee to hear or act upon a bill before 31 days have passed following the bill's introduction if the bill, in the form to be considered by the committee, has been in print and published on the Internet for at least 15 days. This measure would also prohibit either house of the Legislature from passing a bill until it has been made available to the public, in print and on the Internet, for at least 72 hours before a vote on the measure, except for certain bills that address a state of emergency declared by the Governor. The California Constitution provides that the Budget Bill and other bills providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill may be passed by a majority vote in each house of the Legislature and shall take immediate effect upon being signed by the Governor. The California Constitution defines "other bills providing for appropriations related to the budget bill" to mean bills identified as related to the budget in the Budget Bill passed by the Legislature. The California Constitution requires that the Legislature pass the Budget Bill by midnight on June 15 of each year. If the Budget Bill is not passed by the deadline, the California Constitution prohibits an appropriation from the current budget or future budget to pay any salary or reimbursement for travel or living expenses for Members of the Legislature during any regular or special session for the period from midnight on June 15 until the day that the Budget Bill is presented to the Governor. This measure would require that the Budget Bill be enacted by midnight on June 15. The measure would require that other bills that provide for appropriations relating to the Budget Bill be necessary to implement the budget. The measure would provide that a Budget Bill or other bill providing for appropriations relating to the Budget Bill that is passed in each house by a majority vote shall not take effect if it is not enacted by midnight on June 15, thereby requiring a Budget Bill or other bill providing for appropriations relating to the Budget Bill that is enacted after midnight on June 15 to be passed by a 23 vote. The measure would prohibit an appropriation to pay any salary or reimbursement for travel or living expenses for Members of the Legislature and the Governor from midnight on June 15 until the Budget Bill and all other bills providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill are enacted.

Existing law, under the Expanded Access to Primary Care program, requires the State Department of Health Care Services to select primary care clinics that are licensed as community clinics or free clinics, as defined, or those that are exempt from licensure due to their connection to a federally recognized Indian tribe or tribal organization, as specified, to be reimbursed for delivering medical services to program beneficiaries. Existing law requires a clinic applying for these funds to demonstrate that it meets certain conditions, including, but not limited to, providing specified services, and either being located in an area or a facility federally designated as a health professional shortage area, medically underserved area, or medically underserved population, or being a clinic in which at least 50% of the patients served are persons with incomes at or below 200% of the federal poverty level, or both. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to one of these provisions.

Existing law establishes the system of postsecondary education in this state, consisting of 4 segments: the University of California, the California State University, the California Community Colleges, and independent institutions of higher education, as defined. Existing law establishes the California Postsecondary Education Commission (CPEC) to be responsible for coordinating public, independent, and private postsecondary education in this state and to provide independent policy analyses and recommendations to the Legislature and the Governor on postsecondary education issues. The Budget Act of 2011 deleted funding and personnel from CPEC. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes in a provision containing legislative findings and intent related to CPEC.

Existing law establishes the State Department of Public Health and sets forth its powers and duties, including, but not limited to, the administration of provisions relating to the prevention and control of communicable diseases. Existing law requires each local health officer to immediately report every discovered, known, or suspected case of designated communicable diseases. A violation of these provisions is a crime. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.

The Product Recall Safety and Protection Act prohibits a commercial dealer, manufacturer, importer, distributor, wholesaler, or retailer from manufacturing, remanufacturing, distributing, selling at wholesale or retail, contracting to sell or resell, lease, or sublet, or otherwise placing into the stream of commerce, a product that is unsafe knowing that the product is unsafe. The act provides that it does not relieve these entities from compliance with stricter requirements that may be imposed by a federal agency. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to this law.

Under existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, the Department of Managed Health Care licenses and regulates health care service plans. Existing law requires a health care service plan to meet certain requirements, including, but not limited to, having the organizational and administrative capacity to provide services to subscribers and enrollees and providing basic health care services, as defined, to those subscribers and enrollees, and having facilities licensed, as specified. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.