Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to supervise the maintenance and operation of dams and reservoirs as necessary to safeguard life and property. Existing law authorizes the department to impose reservoir restrictions and to levy property liens on an owner of a dam who fails to comply with certain provisions relating to dam safety or any approval, order, rule, regulation, or requirement of the department. This bill would require the department to post, and update annually, on its Internet Web site a report containing the name of each reservoir subject to a restriction and the reservoir's associated downstream hazard potential classification, the effective date of the reservoir restriction, the reason for the restriction, and any actions, planned or completed, that the dam owner reports to address the restriction. The bill, if no reservoir restrictions are in effect, would require the department to post this fact on its Internet Web site.
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(1) Existing law establishes the Department of Transportation and provides that the department has full possession and control of all state highways and all associated property. Existing law authorizes the department to provide information regarding, and to lease, airspace under the interchange of Route 4 and Route 5 in San Joaquin County and on the northeast corner of Route 101 and De La Vina Street in the County of Santa Barbara, to a city, county, or other political subdivision or another state agency for emergency shelter or feeding program purposes, as specified, but only if there is no buyer. This bill would delete the condition that the airspace may only be leased to a city, county, or other political subdivision or another state agency for emergency shelter or feeding program purposes if there is no buyer. (2) Existing law provides that, upon the declaration of a shelter crisis, as defined, a political subdivision, as defined, is immune from liability for ordinary negligence in the provision of emergency housing, as specified, and specifies that this limitation of liability applies only to conditions, acts, or omissions directly related to, and that would not occur but for, the provision of emergency housing. This bill would require that, notwithstanding this provision, a structure that is constructed or modified pursuant to the bill is required to comply with referenced minimum standards in the 2016 California Building Code or the 2016 California Residential Code or as otherwise specified. (3) Existing law requires that a lease executed pursuant to these provisions for airspace under the interchange of Route 4 and Route 5 in San Joaquin County shall provide for the rescission of existing leases of this airspace between the department and the City of Stockton and for the refunding of any rent paid pursuant to those leases for periods commencing on or after January 1, 1988. This bill would delete the requirement that the rescission of existing leases of airspace pursuant to these provisions between the department and the City of Stockton provide for the refunding of any rent paid pursuant to those leases for periods commencing on or after January 1, 1988. (4) Existing law authorizes the department, upon the request of the City of Stockton, to renew the lease executed pursuant to these provisions for the described airspace in San Joaquin County for the period requested by the city, but not to exceed 10 years, and authorizes, subsequent to that renewal, to agree to not more than 2 additional renewals of not more than 10 years each. This bill would delete the conditions that the renewal not exceed 10 years and that, subsequent to that renewal, the department may agree to not more than 2 additional renewals of not more than 10 years each.
The Charge Ahead California Initiative, administered by the State Air Resources Board, includes goals of, among other things, placing in service at least 1,000,000 zero-emission and near-zero-emission vehicles by January 1, 2023, and increasing access for disadvantaged, low-income, and moderate-income communities and consumers to zero-emission and near-zero-emission vehicles. This bill would require the state board, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, air pollution control and air quality management districts, and the public, to require existing agricultural vanpool programs to serve disadvantaged communities, as defined, and low-income communities, as defined, and to allocate a minimum of 25% of the moneys appropriated for agricultural vanpool programs to those programs servicing low-income communities.
This measure would urge the Congress and the President of the United States to support the retention of, and investment in, the Amtrak National Network of passenger trains, specifically the California Zephyr, the Coast Starlight, the Southwest Chief, and the Sunset Limited, as vital components of the state's rail program and would also urge Congress to reject President Trump's proposed Fiscal Year 2019 federal budget cuts to Amtrak and restore full funding for the Amtrak National Network through the appropriations process.
This measure would declare the week of September 10, 2018, and that week every year thereafter, as Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Week, with the purpose of expanding the acknowledgment of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta region's contributions to a higher quality of life for all Californians.
This measure would urge the Congress and the President of the United States to rename any federal buildings, parks, roadways, highway markers, landmarks, or other federally owned property, such as United States military bases, that bear the names of elected or military leaders of the Confederate States of America and would urge the Congress that statues or busts of elected or military leaders of the Confederate States of America in the United States Capitol be removed and placed in museums where they can be viewed in proper historic context.
This measure would express the support of the Legislature for the 23 Asilomar AI Principles as guiding values for the development of artificial intelligence and of related public policy.
This measure would proclaim the week of September 9, 2018, through September 15, 2018, as Suicide Prevention Week in California.
This measure would proclaim November 2018 as Epilepsy Awareness Month and call for a recommitment to increasing awareness and understanding of those living with epilepsy.
This measure would urge President Trump, United States Attorney General Sessions, the United States Department of Justice, the United States Department of Homeland Security, and all other relevant federal departments to immediately cease the implementation of the "zero tolerance" federal immigration policy and to not propose any additional inhumane immigration policies in the future. The measure would further call for compassion and decency for all individuals, families, and children who arrive at our borders seeking a better life.