This measure would declare February 19, 2014, as a Day of Remembrance in order to increase public awareness of the events surrounding the internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II.
(1) Existing law requires a pharmaceutical manufacturer selling or distributing medication that is intended to be self-injected at home to submit, on an annual basis, to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery a plan supporting the safe collection and proper disposal of specified waste devices. This bill would require a producer of home-generated sharps or a stewardship organization designated by the producer to submit a home-generated sharps stewardship plan by April 1, 2015, to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery. The bill would require the plan to provide for the development and implementation of a recovery program to reduce the generation of, and manage the end of life of, home-generated sharps, and to include specified elements, including provisions to meet specified minimum collection rates for the home-generated sharps subject to the plan. This bill would provide for the review and approval of the plan by the department and would require the department, on January 1, 2016, or upon the date the first plan is approved, whichever is earlier, to post on its Internet Web site a list of producers for which the department has approved a plan. The bill would require a wholesaler, health care facility, retailer, or other distributor that distributes or sells home-generated sharps to monitor the department's Internet Web site to determine if the sale of a producer's home-generated sharps is in compliance with the bill. This bill would require a producer or stewardship organization, by April 1, 2017, and every subsequent year thereafter, to prepare and submit to the department an annual report describing the activities carried out pursuant to the plan during the previous calendar year. The department would be required to review the report and would direct the department, if the annual report does not demonstrate the achievement of an unspecified collection rate increase, to require the program to take additional actions with regard to improving and increasing the number of home-generated sharps collection points, ensuring accessibility to those points, and providing additional education and outreach activities. The bill would authorize the department to exempt a producer or stewardship organization from the annual report requirements if the department determines that the collection rate for the home-generated sharps subject to a plan meets a 95% collection rate. This bill would require a producer or stewardship organization submitting a plan to the department to pay the department an annual administrative fee in an amount that is sufficient to cover the department's full costs of administering and enforcing these provisions. The bill would require the department to deposit the fees in the Safe Sharps Disposal Account, which the bill would establish in the Integrated Waste Management Fund, and the department would be authorized to expend the moneys in that account, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to administer and enforce the bill's requirements. This bill would require the department to enforce these provisions and would authorize the department to impose an administrative civil penalty on a person who violates the bill's requirements or on a producer or stewardship organization that does not achieve the unspecified minimum collection rate. The department would be required to deposit all penalties collected into the Safe Sharps Disposal Penalty Account, which the bill would create in the Integrated Waste Management Fund, and the department would be authorized to expend the moneys in that account, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to enforce the bill's requirements. (2) The existing Medical Waste Management Act, administered by the State Department of Public Health, prohibits a person from knowingly placing home-generated sharps waste in certain types of containers, requires that home-generated sharps waste be transported only in a sharps container, as defined in the act, or other container approved by the department or local enforcement agency, and requires that this waste be managed only at specified locations. This bill would additionally allow home-generated sharps waste to be managed at a facility or collection point operated pursuant to an approved home-generated sharps stewardship plan.
Existing law, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit. Existing law requires the California Environmental Protection Agency to identify disadvantaged communities and requires the Department of Finance to develop a specified 3-year investment plan for the expenditure of funds in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund in the State Treasury to achieve reductions of greenhouse gas emissions, including increased in-state waste diversion through waste reduction, diversion, and reuse. This bill would enact the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Through Recycling, Composting, and Recycled Content Manufacturing Investment Program and would require the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to implement the program, including developing standards and guidelines and implementing the market development program required by the bill, by expending funds appropriated by the Legislature for purposes of the program. The bill would require the department, in consultation with the board, to annually identify industry sectors that can reduce their greenhouse gas emissions through the increased use of recycled content or by recovering putrescible materials that would have emitted greenhouse gases if disposed. The bill would require the department to develop a market development program that would provide incentives for those eligible industry sectors to make investments for waste reduction, recycling, composting, and recycled manufacturing projects that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The bill would require the department to implement the market development program by disbursing funds to private or public entities in the form of incentive payments or grants for capital equipment. The bill would require the department to give priority, when disbursing funds, to projects benefiting or located in disadvantaged communities, as specified. The bill would state the intent of the Legislature regarding the appropriation of funds for purposes of the program.
(1) The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. This bill would enact the California Farmland Protection Act, which would require that a lead agency reviewing a development project, as defined, require that all feasible mitigation of the identified significant environmental impacts associated with the conversion of agricultural lands be completed by the project applicant, as prescribed, and would require the lead agency to consider the permanent protection or replacement of agricultural land as feasible mitigation for identified significant effects on agricultural land caused by a development project. By imposing new duties on a lead agency with regard to the review and approval of the mitigation measures required by the act, the 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Existing law requires that persons released after serving a term in state prison for specified felonies be subject to parole supervision by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Under existing law, if the supervising parole agency has determined that other sanctions are inappropriate, the agency may petition the court to revoke parole for specified violations. The court may respond to this petition by returning the person to parole supervision with a modification of conditions, revoke parole and order confinement in county jail, or refer the person to a reentry court. This bill would authorize the court, upon petition, to revoke parole and return the person to state prison for a period not to exceed one year. The bill would require the Legislative Analyst's Office, on or before January 1, 2015, to produce a report, to be delivered to the Assembly, the Senate, and the Governor's office, evaluating the criminal justice realignment, specifically with regard to offenders under state supervision, as specified.
