Existing law makes it unlawful for a minor who does not possess a valid driver's license to order, purchase or lease, attempt to purchase or lease, contract to purchase or lease, accept, or otherwise obtain, any vehicle of a type subject to registration. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those provisions.
Under existing law, a "reverse mortgage" means a nonrecourse loan secured by real property if the loan provides cash advances to a borrower based on the equity or the value in a borrower's owner-occupied principal residence, the loan requires no payment of principal or interest until the entire loan becomes due and payable, and the loan is made by a specified licensed or chartered lender. Existing law requires the lender to prominently disclose in the loan agreement any interest rate or other fees to be charged during the period that commences on the date that the reverse mortgage loan becomes due and payable, and that ends when repayment in full is made. Existing federal law authorizes the nonborrowing spouse of a reverse mortgage borrower to exercise an option, sometimes referred to as a mortgagee optional election (MOE) , to further defer the due and payable status of the reverse mortgage upon the death of the borrower, upon meeting specified conditions. This bill would prohibit a lender from making a reverse mortgage loan on a principle residence without informing the borrower, and nonborrowing spouse, as defined, of the opportunity for a nonborrowing spouse to exercise the option described above to permit that spouse to remain in the residence following the death of the borrowing spouse, upon the satisfaction of specified conditions. The bill would, for a reverse mortgage entered into on or after January 1, 2018, prohibit a lender from initiating a foreclosure on a principle residence after the death of the borrowing spouse unless the notice requirements regarding the option were met and the nonborrowing spouse was given the opportunity to exercise the option.
(1) The Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act excludes coroners and deputy coroners from the application of the act. This bill would include coroners and deputy coroners within the application of the act, thereby creating a state-mandated local program by imposing new duties on local agencies to follow the requirements of the act with respect to these officials. (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 these statutory provisions.
Existing federal law provides for the allocation of federal funds through the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant program to eligible states. Existing law provides for the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program under which, through a combination of state and county funds and federal funds received through the TANF program, each county provides cash assistance and other benefits to qualified low-income families. This bill would require the State Department of Social Services, in consultation with the County Welfare Directors Association of California, no later than July 1, 2018, to design and implement a 5-year pilot project under which monetary grants are provided to organizations operating programs that assist individuals receiving CalWORKs benefits achieve economic independence. The bill would require the department, in developing the pilot project, among other things, to develop a competitive review process for all grant proposals submitted, to develop eligibility requirements for organizations seeking a grant, and to develop an ongoing evaluation of the effectiveness of an organization receiving grant funding in teaching its program participants the skills necessary to achieve economic independence. The bill would authorize the department to enter into an agreement with an academic institution or other entity with sufficient expertise for the purpose of creating, performing, or both creating and performing the evaluation. This bill would authorize an organization receiving a grant to utilize the funds in any reasonable manner, as long as the funds are expended in furtherance of the organization's program or other requirements established by the department. The bill would require organizations receiving grant funding to collaborate and coordinate with the county human services agency or agencies that will be asked to refer CalWORKs recipients to the program in implementing procedures for referrals, regular progress reports, and other communication, as needed. The bill would require the department, or the academic institution or other entity the department contracted with, to send a report evaluating the effectiveness of the programs funded by the grants to the relevant policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature by December 31, 2022. This bill would appropriate $50,000,000 from the General Fund for the purpose of funding these provisions. This bill would make these provisions inoperative on July 1, 2023, and would repeal them as of January 1, 2024.
Existing law prohibits the operation of a place of business in which drug paraphernalia is kept, displayed, or sold unless the drug paraphernalia is completely kept within a separate room or enclosure to which persons under 18 years of age are excluded. Existing law prohibits the sale of synthetic cannabinoid compounds, as specified. This bill would allow a city, county, or city and county, to regulate, by ordinance, the sale of a substance used as a recreational drug that poses a threat to human life or health and a particular risk to minors if specified conditions are met, including the fact that the substance is sold under a product name or label that is clearly identifiable, there is substantial evidence that the substance has been advertised, purchased, sold, or consumed as a recreational drug, and there is substantial evidence that the substance can cause intoxication, disability, or death if ingested smoked, inhaled, or injected into the body. The bill would allow the city council or board of supervisors to require vendors to maintain records of sale, make inventory available for inspection by a peace officer, and store the substance in a secure place that cannot be accessed by minors. The bill would allow the city, county, or city and county, to prohibit the sale of the substance to minors and require the payment of a penalty for noncompliance with the ordinance, not to exceed $250.
This measure would urge the United States Congress to act swiftly to reauthorize the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for at least 5 years, as specified.
Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to establish a list of reportable communicable and noncommunicable diseases and conditions and specify the timeliness requirements related to the reporting of each disease and condition. Existing law also supports research into the development of a vaccine to protect against valley fever (coccidioidomycosis) . This bill would require the department to develop outreach programs to educate the public about valley fever.
Existing law generally grants to state officers and employees who are members of the Public Employees' Retirement System or the State Teachers' Retirement System, among others, a right to industrial disability leave, as defined. Existing law defines an excluded employee to include managerial employees and supervisors, among others. Existing law provides an enhanced industrial disability leave benefit to an excluded employee who is temporarily disabled for more than 22 consecutive working days by an injury or type of injury designated by the Director of the Department of Human Resources as qualifying for these purposes. This bill would provide an employee who is a member of State Bargaining Unit 8 and is temporarily disabled in the course of state employment for more than 22 days an extended industrial disability leave benefit based on his or her net salary, as defined. The bill would authorize the employee to receive this benefit for a period not to exceed 52 weeks after the date of injury or until the date the injury is declared permanent, whichever is earlier. The bill would additionally authorize an eligible employee whose injuries are burn-related to receive the benefit for up to 156 weeks.
