Sen. Richard Pan

This measure would recognize racism as a threat to public health.

Existing federal law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , enacts various health care market reforms. Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law requires a health care service plan that issues, sells, renews, or offers plan contracts for health care coverage in the state to comply with the requirements of the PPACA, and any rules or regulations issued under the PPACA, that generally prohibit a health plan offering group or individual coverage from imposing lifetime or annual limits on the dollar value of benefits for a participant or beneficiary. Existing law requires a plan to comply with those provisions to the extent required by federal law. This bill would delete the requirement that a plan comply with the prohibition on lifetime or annual limits to the extent required by federal law, and would instead prohibit an individual or group health care service plan contract from establishing lifetime or annual limits on the dollar value of benefits for an enrollee, thereby indefinitely extending the prohibitions on lifetime or annual limits, except as specified. Because a willful violation of these provisions by a health care service plan would be a crime, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

This measure would proclaim the month of March 2020 as Bleeding Disorders Awareness Month in the State of California.

This measure would designate Monday, May 4, 2020, 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.

The California Constitution creates the Citizens Redistricting Commission, which is required to adjust the boundary lines of the congressional, State Senatorial, Assembly, and State Board of Equalization districts in the year following the year in which the national census is taken under the direction of Congress at the beginning of each decade. The California Constitution requires the commission to be created no later than December 31 in each year ending in the number zero and requires the commission to approve 4 final maps by August 15 in each year ending in the number one. Existing statutory law also requires the commission, no later than July 1 in each year ending in the number one, to publicly display the first preliminary statewide maps for public comment. This measure would authorize the commission, for 2021 only, to extend the deadlines for final map approval and public display of preliminary maps if the United States Census Bureau fails to provide the commission with necessary state redistricting population data within one year after the decennial census date. The measure would not allow the commission to extend the deadline for final map approval beyond December 15, 2021.

Existing law provides for state cooperation with the federal government in the construction of specified flood control projects. Existing law establishes the Central Valley Flood Protection Board and authorizes the board to engage in various flood control activities along the Sacramento River, the San Joaquin River, their tributaries, and related areas. This bill would establish the Yolo Bypass Cache Slough Partnership Multibenefit Program to support the development and implementation of projects within the Yolo Bypass and Cache Slough region. The bill would define "Yolo Bypass Cache Slough Partnership" to mean the multiagency partnership established pursuant to a memorandum of understanding signed in May 2016 by a total of 15 participating federal, state, and local agencies. The bill would require the participating state agencies, including the Natural Resources Agency, the Department of Water Resources, the Department of Fish and Wildlife, the Central Valley Flood Protection Board, the State Water Resources Control Board, and the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board, to work in collaboration with the participating federal and local agencies to promote the discussion, prioritization, and resolution of policy and other issues critical to the successful implementation of projects to advance specified objectives in the Yolo Bypass and Cache Slough region.

Existing law provides for a private cause of action against a person who intentionally distributes a photograph or recording of another without their consent if specified conditions are met. This bill would require a social media internet website, as defined, to remove a photograph or video recording uploaded or posted to the internet website by the perpetrator of a crime that depicts the crime within 2 hours after receiving a request from a victim of the crime that was depicted in that photograph or video, or from the family of a victim if the victim has died, to remove that content, as specified. The bill would impose a civil penalty of $1,000 for each day that the photograph or video recording remains available on the internet website upon a social media internet website that fails to comply with these provisions. The bill would specify that the penalty imposed pursuant to these provisions would be deposited in the Restitution Fund in the State Treasury to be used, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for indemnification of victims of crimes.

Existing law, the California Secure Choice Retirement Savings Trust Act, establishes the CalSavers Retirement Savings Program to be administered by the California Secure Choice Retirement Savings Investment Board. Existing law requires the Treasurer, on behalf of the board, to appoint an executive director, who is not a member of the board and who serves at its pleasure. Existing law requires eligible employers to offer a payroll deposit retirement savings arrangement so that eligible employees may contribute a portion of their salary or wages to a retirement savings program account in the program, as specified. Existing law requires the board to take various actions upon implementation of the program and, for to up 3 years following its initial implementation of the program, requires the board to establish managed accounts invested in United States Treasuries, myRAs, or similar investments. Existing law states that the program is implemented as of January 1, 2017. This bill would rename the California Secure Choice Retirement Savings Trust Act as the CalSavers Retirement Savings Trust Act, the body that administers the act as the CalSavers Retirement Savings Board, and make conforming changes in this regard. The bill would make various changes in the act to reflect that it has been implemented, including eliminating the requirement to establish managed accounts invested in United States Treasuries, myRAs, or similar investments described above. The bill would authorize the board to delegate rulemaking authority to its executive director. The bill would authorize an employee to opt out of participation in the program by telephone and would eliminate a condition relating to contribution amounts that depends on the length of time that an employee has contributed to the program. Existing law, the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (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. Existing law, 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 generally divides responsibility for the state licensure and regulation of commercial cannabis activity among the Department of Food and Agriculture, the State Department of Public Health, and the Bureau of Cannabis Control, which are generally referred to as licensing authorities. This bill would require the licensing authorities described above to provide specified information regarding licensees to the CalSavers Retirement Savings Board upon request by the board.