Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law requires the PUC to open a proceeding to determine appropriate targets, if any, for each load-serving entity, as defined, to procure viable and cost-effective energy storage systems to be achieved by December 31, 2015, and December 31, 2020. If determined to be appropriate, the PUC is required to adopt the procurement targets, by October 1, 2013, and to reevaluate the determinations not less than once every 3 years. Pursuant to these provisions, the PUC has adopted decisions establishing energy storage system procurement targets. Existing law requires each load-serving entity, by January 1, 2016, and again by January 1, 2021, to submit a report to the PUC demonstrating that it has complied with the energy storage system procurement targets and policies adopted by the PUC. This bill would require the PUC and the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) to timely incorporate consideration of long-duration energy storage systems, as defined, into their energy and resource planning. The bill would require the PUC and the Energy Commission to consider measures to advance described objectives for long-duration energy storage, including support through research and development, demonstration, procurement, and incentives. Existing law requires the PUC to adopt a process for each load-serving entity to file an integrated resource plan and a schedule for periodic updates to the plan to ensure that load-serving entities accomplish specified objectives. Existing law requires each load-serving entity to prepare and file an integrated resource plan consistent with those objectives on a time schedule directed by the PUC and subject to PUC review. This bill would require the PUC, as part of the integrated resource planning process, to undertake specified activities to support eligible renewable energy resource goals, to support operational flexibility and reliability, and to enhance resiliency on the local and distribution level. Existing law provides for the establishment of an Independent System Operator (ISO) as nonprofit public benefit corporations and requires the ISO to ensure efficient use and reliable operation of the electrical transmission grid consistent with achieving planning and operating reserve criteria no less stringent than those established by the Western Electricity Coordinating Council and the North American Electric Reliability Council. Pursuant to existing law, the PUC sought and received authority for the ISO from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to enable the ISO to secure generating and transmission resources necessary to guarantee achievement of planning and operating reserve criteria no less stringent than those established by the Western Electricity Coordinating Council and the North American Electric Reliability Council. This bill would require the ISO, with stakeholder engagement, to review the modeling done by the PUC as part of the 2017–18 integrated resource planning proceeding or, if available, the modeling inputs and assumptions identified as part of the last succeeding integrated resource planning proceeding cycle, with regard to the 30,000,000 metric ton carbon emissions target for the electric sector under the high-load, low natural gas generation availability scenario, to make an assessment as to whether long-duration energy storage is needed under that scenario on or before 2030, and to make specified related determinations. The bill would require the ISO, by March 31, 2021, to report its conclusions based upon its review and assessment and the reasons supporting its conclusions to the PUC, the Energy Commission, and the Governor. Within 90 days after receipt of the conclusions of the ISO, the bill would require the Governor, in consultation with the PUC and the Energy Commission, to determine whether to accept the conclusions of the review and assessment. The bill would require the Governor, in determining whether to accept the conclusion of the review and assessment, to consider specified matters. If the Governor, after consideration of those matters, determines to accept the conclusions of the review and assessment and to proceed with the development of long-duration energy storage systems, the bill would require the Governor to notify the ISO that it is authorized to develop, pursuant to a public process, a competitive solicitation process and operational and cost-recovery mechanisms to enable the development of long-duration energy storage systems, meeting specified requirements. If, following submission of an application for approval by the ISO with the FERC, the FERC seeks to take certain actions, the bill would require the ISO to withdraw its application and the ISO would not be required to develop and implement a competitive solicitation process and operational and cost-recovery mechanisms to enable the development of long-duration energy storage systems.
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Existing law makes it unlawful to produce, process, sell, offer to sell, or possess olive oil that indicates on its label "California Olive Oil," or uses similar words, to suggest that California is the source of the oil, unless 100% of that oil is derived from olives grown in California. This bill would make it unlawful and subject to imprisonment, fine, or both, as specified, to make any false representation in a brand name, label, advertising matter, packaging material, letterhead, invoice, tag, sign, business card, or other oral, written, or printed matter that an olive oil is produced entirely from olives grown within California, including using the terms "California olive oil," "California olives," or substantially similar representations. This bill would apply a similar prohibition on representations that an olive oil was produced from olives from a specific region of California unless at least 85% of the olive oil, by weight, was produced from olives grown in that specific region. This bill would authorize the Department of Food and Agriculture to seize olive oil labeled in violation of these prohibitions and to dispose of the olive oil. By creating a new crime, this bill 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.
Existing law, the Cannella Environmental Farming Act of 1995, requires the Department of Food and Agriculture to establish and oversee an environmental farming program to provide incentives to farmers whose practices promote the well-being of ecosystems, air quality, and wildlife and their habitat. The act requires the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to convene the Scientific Advisory Panel on Environmental Farming, as prescribed, for the purpose of providing advice to the secretary on the implementation of the Healthy Soils Program and the State Water Efficiency and Enhancement Program and assistance to federal, state, and local government agencies on issues relating to the impact of agricultural practices on air, water, and wildlife habitat, as specified. The act requires the department to provide an update to the panel on or before January 31, 2021, on aspects of the grant program, as specified. This bill would require, after January 31, 2021, that the department provide to the panel subsequent reports on aspects of the grant program, as specified, every 2 years.
Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income persons receive health care benefits. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing law also establishes the Family Planning, Access, Care, and Treatment (Family PACT) Program, administered by the Office of Family Planning within the department, under which comprehensive clinical family planning services are provided to a person who has a family income at or below 200% of the federal poverty level, and who is eligible to receive these services. Existing law provides that comprehensive clinical family planning services under the program includes preconception counseling, maternal and fetal health counseling, and general reproductive health care, among other things. This bill would expand comprehensive clinical family planning services under the program to include the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for persons of reproductive age.
This measure would designate the week of February 24, 2020, to March 1, 2020, as Eating Disorders Awareness Week.
Existing law provides for programs relating to treatment of persons with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) . Under existing law, the Office of AIDS, in the State Department of Public Health, is the lead agency within the state responsible for coordinating state programs, services, and activities relating to HIV, AIDS, and AIDS-related conditions. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to develop and review plans and participate in a program for the prevention and control of venereal disease. Existing law authorizes the department to establish, maintain, and subsidize clinics, dispensaries, and prophylactic stations for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of venereal disease, and authorizes the department to provide medical, advisory, financial, or other assistance to those clinics, dispensaries, and stations, as may be approved by the department. This bill would require the Secretary of California Health and Human Services and the Chief of the Office of Aids to develop and implement a statewide master plan on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) , hepatitis C virus (HCV) , and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) , for the purpose of improving the health of people living with, and vulnerable to, those conditions, reducing new transmissions, and ending these epidemics. The bill would require the secretary and chief to create a stakeholder advisory committee and a cabinet-level workgroup to advise them in developing and implementing the master plan. The bill would require the master plan to be developed to accomplish key goals to end the HIV, HCV, and STD epidemics in California, including, but not limited to, increasing access to comprehensive HIV, HCV, and STD prevention services, and addressing social determinants of health that impact people living with, and vulnerable to, those conditions. The bill would require the California Health and Human Services Agency, in coordination with the Office of AIDS, to submit a report to the Governor and the Legislature by October 1, 2021, and submit updates annually thereafter, until October 1, 2031, regarding the master plan.
Existing law establishes the California Emergency Solutions and Housing Program, administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development. Existing law requires the department to allocate specified moneys under that program to administrative entities, as defined, that submit an application for funding for eligible activities relating to homelessness within specified Continuum of Care service areas in response to a notice of funding availability issued by the department, as provided. Existing law specifies the eligible activities for which an administrative entity may use funds allocated to it under the program, including operating support for housing interventions, as specified. This bill would additionally authorize an administrative entity to use funds allocated to it under the program to establish a reimbursement rate for emergency housing interventions, including navigation centers, street outreach services, and shelter diversions, as provided.
Existing law, notwithstanding the requirement that each person between 6 and 18 years of age who is not otherwise exempted is subject to compulsory full-time education, requires a pupil to be excused from school for specified types of absences, including, among others, if the absence was due to the pupil's illness. This bill would include as another type of required excused absence an absence that is for the benefit of the mental or behavioral health of the pupil. To the extent that this bill would impose additional duties on local educational entities, the bill 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, 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.
The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allow various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws, including, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2017, and before January 1, 2022, a credit for qualified taxpayers in an amount equal to 15% of the qualified value of fresh fruits or vegetables and specified raw agricultural products or processed foods donated to a food bank. This bill would extend the authorization for those tax credits to a taxable year beginning before January 1, 2027. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each city, county, and city and county to prepare and adopt a general plan that contains certain mandatory elements, including a housing element. Existing law requires the housing element to contain specified information and analysis of existing and projected housing needs, including an assessment of housing needs and an inventory of resources and constraints relevant to meeting those needs. Existing law requires the assessment to contain the identification of a zone or zones where emergency shelters are allowed as a permitted use without a conditional use or other discretionary permit. Existing law authorizes a local government to impose on the emergency shelters only those development and management standards that apply to residential or commercial development within the same zone, except a local government may additionally impose objective standards on the maximum number of beds or persons permitted to be served nightly by the facility, sufficient parking to accommodate all staff working in the emergency shelter, the size and location of client intake areas, the provision of onsite management, the proximity to other shelters, the length of stay, lighting, and security during operating hours. This bill would revise the objective standards local governments are authorized to impose on emergency shelters to only include the provision of onsite management and security during hours that the emergency shelter is in operation. By increasing the duties of local planning officials, this bill 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.