Sen. Ben Hueso

This measure would condemn the decision to end the Temporary Protected Status designation for El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Sudan. The measure would also urge the United States Congress to enact a bipartisan permanent solution for Salvadorans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, Hondurans, and Sudanese with Temporary Protected Status.

Existing law, the Outdoor Advertising Act, provides for the regulation by the Department of Transportation of advertising displays, as defined, within view of public highways. The act exempts from certain of its provisions advertising displays that advertise the business conducted or services rendered or goods produced or sold on the property upon which the display is placed, as specified. This bill would exempt from those provisions of the act 3 advertising displays located within 1,800 feet of the intersection of Interstate 8 and State Highway Route 111 in the County of Imperial if certain conditions are met. This bill would also make legislative findings and declarations as to the need for a special statute relating to the County of Imperial.

Existing law makes it a misdemeanor to commit a trespass by engaging in specified acts, including entering any lands for the purpose of injuring any property or property rights or with the intention of interfering with, obstructing, or injuring any lawful business or occupation carried on by the owner of the land, the owner's agent, or the person in lawful possession. This bill would additionally make it a misdemeanor to commit a trespass by entering a gaming facility, as defined, on the Indian lands of a federally recognized Indian tribe after receiving an order of exclusion from the designated agency of the tribal government, as defined. The bill would require the tribe, if the order of exclusion pertains to a labor organization or its representatives or eligible employees engaged in otherwise lawful labor activity, to first obtain a decision from the Tribal Labor Panel established by the tribal labor relations ordinance stating that the order of exclusion does not conflict with the tribal labor relations ordinance adopted by the tribe or with a labor contract that is subject to the authority of the Tribal Labor Panel and applicable to the gaming facility. The bill would authorize a tribe to enter into an agreement with a law enforcement agency to enforce an order of exclusion, as specified. Because this bill would expand the scope of an existing crime, it 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.

(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.

Existing law requires all schoolbuses to be equipped with certain safety features, as specified. Existing law requires, on or before the beginning of the 2018–19 school year, schoolbuses, school pupil activity buses, except as provided, youth buses, and child care motor vehicles to be equipped with an operational "child safety alert system," which is a device located at the interior rear of a vehicle that requires the driver to either manually contact or scan the device before exiting the vehicle, thereby prompting the driver to inspect the entirety of the interior of the vehicle before exiting. This bill would limit that requirement to those buses or vehicles that transport special needs pupils and would postpone that requirement until 6 months after the beginning of the 2018–19 school year for those buses or vehicles that do not transport special needs pupils. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Existing law establishes an Office of Binational Border Health within the State Department of Public Health to facilitate cooperation between health officials and health professionals in California and Mexico, to reduce the risk of disease in the California border region, and in those areas directly affected by border health conditions. Existing law requires the office to convene a voluntary community advisory group with no more than 12 California representatives, including a representative from an association of local health officers specializing in border health issues. Existing law requires the advisory group to develop a strategic plan, and requires the office to prepare an annual border health status report and to submit the report to the Director of Public Health, the Legislature, and the Governor. This bill would require that 2 members of the advisory group represent local nonprofit organizations or community-based organizations that provide services related to border health, with one member from San Diego and one member from the Imperial Valley. The bill would require the advisory group to update the strategic plan every 2 years, and would require the plan to include, among other things, solutions to address challenges to binational cooperation and communication relating to health. The bill would require the office to post the strategic plan and any updates to the strategic plan on its Internet Web site. The bill would also require the office's annual border health status report to identify and recommend changes in law necessary to achieve the goals of the office.

This measure would designate April 14, 2018, as Mendez v. Westminster School District Day.

This measure would designate April 2018 as Autism Awareness Month and would encourage residents to show support for autism awareness.

Existing law, with specified exceptions, provides that provisions, clauses, covenants, or agreements contained in, collateral to, or affecting any construction contract entered into on or after January 1, 2013, with the owner of privately owned real property to be improved and as to which the owner is not acting as a contractor or supplier of materials or equipment to the work, that purport to impose on any contractor, subcontractor, or supplier of goods or services, or relieve the owner from, liability are unenforceable to the extent of the active negligence of the owner, including that of its employees. This bill would clarify that the contractual provisions described above are unenforceable if the liability purported to be imposed is caused, in whole or in part, by the active negligence of the owner or its employees. The bill, in addition, would make unenforceable, except as specified, provisions, clauses, covenants, or agreements contained in, collateral to, or affecting any construction contract with the owner or privately owned real property to be improved as to which the owner is not acting as contractor or supplier of materials or equipment to the work, that purport to require a contractor or subcontractor to indemnify the owner for death or bodily injury to persons, or for injury to property, other than that caused by the negligence of the contractor or subcontractor.

This measure would designate April 1, 2018, to April 7, 2018, inclusive, as California Diversity in STEM and Tech Week and would encourage all citizens and community organizations to support the observance of California Diversity in STEM and Tech Week by encouraging and celebrating diversity in the STEM fields and in California's technology and innovation economy.