(1) Existing law, the Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act, grants public safety officers, as defined, a variety of administrative and procedural employment protections. The act excludes certain coroners and deputy coroners, who are defined as peace officers in specified circumstances, from the application of its provisions. This bill would include coroners and deputy coroners, as specified, within the application of the Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act. By creating new duties for local agencies in connection with the act, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) 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.
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Existing law prescribes various duties for the Department of General Services in connection with the development and maintenance of the park around the State Capitol Building. Existing law also authorizes the construction of various memorial monuments in the Capitol Historic Region. This bill would authorize the California Legislative LGBT Caucus Foundation, in consultation with the California Legislative LGBT Caucus and the department, to plan and undertake construction of a monument honoring California's LGBT movement's civil rights history within the State Capitol Park. The bill would require the California Legislative LGBT Caucus Foundation and the California Legislative LGBT Caucus, if they undertake responsibility to construct a monument pursuant to these provisions, to establish a schedule for the design, construction, and dedication of the monument. The bill would require the department to meet specified goals. The bill would also require the planning, construction, and maintenance of the monument to be funded exclusively through private donations.
This measure would declare October 3, 2018, as Inflammatory Breast Cancer Awareness Day of 2018, and encourage all Californians to learn about this rare and aggressive type of breast cancer and support all people who are impacted by a diagnosis of inflammatory breast cancer.
The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act of 2016 (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. 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 authorizes a licensee who obtains a retailer, microbusiness, or a specified type of nonprofit to deliver cannabis or cannabis products, and imposes requirements on the delivery of cannabis or cannabis products. MAUCRSA prohibits a local jurisdiction from preventing the delivery of cannabis or cannabis products on public roads by a licensee who is acting in compliance with MAUCRSA as well as any local law adopted pursuant to MAUCRSA. MAUCRSA generally authorizes a local jurisdiction to adopt and enforce local ordinances to regulate licensed businesses located within the local jurisdiction. This bill would prohibit a local government from adopting or enforcing any ordinance that would prohibit a licensee from delivering cannabis within or outside of the jurisdictional boundaries of the local jurisdiction. The bill would include findings that the changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern, rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities. 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. This bill would declare that its provisions further specified purposes and intent of the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act.
(1) Existing law creates the High-Speed Rail Authority with specified powers and duties relative to development and implementation of a high-speed train system, including acquisition of rights-of-way through purchase and eminent domain. Existing law, pursuant to the Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act for the 21st Century, approved by the voters at the November 4, 2008, general election, provides for the issuance of $9.95 billion in bonds for high-speed rail train capital projects and other associated purposes. The California Constitution permits the taking of private property for public use only when just compensation is paid. The Eminent Domain Law prescribes the procedures for the exercise of that constitutionally authorized power. Under that law, a public entity may not commence an eminent domain proceeding until its governing body has adopted a resolution of necessity that meets specified requirements. Existing law defines "governing body" for these purposes with respect to various state and local public entities. This bill would specify that the State Public Works Board is the "governing body" for these purposes in the case of a taking by the High-Speed Rail Authority. (2) Existing law generally requires the approval of the Director of Finance before the state may accept a gift or dedication of personal or real property and the approval of the Director of General Services before a state agency may acquire, hire, dispose, or let real property in fee or in a lesser interest. Existing law specifies that those provisions do not apply in certain circumstances, including the acquisition or hiring of real property by the Department of Transportation. Existing law requires the Department of General Services to inventory state-owned property, other than property owned by the Department of Transportation, among other agencies. This bill would enact similar exceptions relative to property obtained for high-speed rail purposes by the High-Speed Rail Authority. The bill would make various additional conforming changes. (3) Existing law, except as specified, prohibits the expenditure of funds for capital outlay by any state agency until the Department of Finance and the State Public Works Board have approved preliminary plans for the project to be funded from a capital outlay appropriation. Existing law authorizes the State Public Works Board to augment a major project of up to 20% of the total capital outlay appropriations for the project, as provided, but also authorizes the Department of Finance to change the administratively or legislatively approved scope for major capital outlay projects. Under existing law, these provisions do not limit or control the Department of Transportation or the California Exposition and State Fair in the expenditure of all funds appropriated to those entities for capital outlay purposes. This bill would additionally state that these provisions do not limit or control the High-Speed Rail Authority in the expenditure of all funds appropriated to the authority for capital outlay purposes. (4) Existing law requires that any acquisition of land or other real property authorized in any appropriation be subject to the Property Acquisition Law, except for an appropriation from the California Water Fund or an appropriation to the Department of Transportation for capital outlay purposes. This bill would additionally exempt from this requirement an appropriation to the High-Speed Rail Authority for capital outlay purposes. (5) The Property Acquisition Law requires that all land and other real property to be acquired by or for any state agency to be acquired by the State Public Works Board in accordance with that law, except for land and other real property to be acquired by or for specified agencies. That law specifies that, with certain exceptions, the State Public Works Board is the only state agency that may exercise the power of eminent domain to acquire property needed by any state agency for any state purpose or function. This bill would exempt land and other real property acquired by or for, and the exercise of the power of eminent domain by, the High-Speed Rail Authority from these provisions. (6) Under the State Contract Act, projects that are not under the jurisdiction of specified departments are under the charge and control of the Department of General Services. This bill would add the High-Speed Rail Authority as an agency whose projects are not under the charge and control of the Department of General Services. (7) Existing property tax law requires a county assessor to disclose information, furnish abstracts, or permit access to all records in his or her office to specified state and local public entities. Whenever the assessor discloses information, furnishes abstracts, or permits access to records in his or her office to staff appraisers of specified state agencies, existing property tax law requires those agencies to reimburse the assessor for any cost incurred. This bill would additionally require the county assessor to disclose information, furnish abstracts, or permit access to records in his or her office to the High-Speed Rail Authority and require the authority to reimburse the assessor for costs. By adding to the duties of county assessors, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (8) 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.
This measure would recognize the month of May 2018 as Foster Care Month as an opportunity to raise awareness about the challenges that children, and particularly lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth, face in the foster care system, as specified.
Existing law prohibits the disclosure of the home addresses of certain public employees and officials that appear in records of the Department of Motor Vehicles, except to a court, a law enforcement agency, an attorney in a civil or criminal action under certain circumstances, and certain other official entities. This bill would extend that prohibition, subject to those same exceptions, to the disclosure of the home addresses of code enforcement officers and parking control officers, as defined. The bill would also require the department to charge a fee sufficient to cover the reasonable costs for this service commencing with requests for confidentiality made on or after January 1, 2019. 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.
Existing law establishes the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. The California State University comprises 23 institutions of higher education located throughout the state. This bill would establish the Emergency Student Housing Loan Program, commencing with the 2019–20 academic year, at 3 campuses of the California State University, contingent upon the enactment of an appropriation of state funds for this purpose. This bill would define homeless, homelessness, and rapid rehousing for the purposes of this article. Under the program, the 3 participating campuses of the university, as designated by the trustees, would establish an Emergency Student Housing Loan Program pursuant to which the participating campus would design a program enabling students at their campus who are experiencing an individual housing emergency, as specified, to receive a loan to pay for their housing for up to 12 months. The bill would establish eligibility requirements and priorities for the selection of participating students. The bill would require the trustees to submit a report, including specified information about the program, to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature no later than June 30, 2022. This bill would make these provisions inoperative on July 1, 2022, and would repeal them as of January 1, 2023.
This measure would designate Monday, May 7, 2018, as California Peace Officers' Memorial Day, urge all Californians to use that day to honor California peace officers, and recognize specified California peace officers who were killed in defense of their communities.
This measure would proclaim the month of April 2018 as California Wines: Down to Earth Month, to celebrate the sustainable leadership of California wineries and winegrape growers throughout the month of April.