Sen. Richard Pan

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of clinical laboratories and various clinical laboratory health care professionals by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law sets forth standards for the issuance of a clinical laboratory scientist's (CLS) license, including certain educational and experiential requirements. This bill would require the State Department of Public Health to establish a pathway program by January 1, 2022, that would authorize a licensed medical laboratory technician (MLT) to apply their work experience and training from a department-approved MLT training program towards the completion of a CLS training program, as specified.

This measure would proclaim the month of May 2019 as Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month.

Existing law, contingent upon the appropriation of funds for that purpose by the Legislature, establishes the Aging and Disability Resource Connection (ADRC) program, to be administered by the California Department of Aging, to provide information to consumers and their families on available long-term services and supports (LTSS) programs and to assist older adults, caregivers, and persons with disabilities in accessing LTSS programs at the local level. This bill would establish the California Long-Term Services and Supports Benefits Board (LTSS Board) , to be composed of 9 specified members, including, among others, the Treasurer as chair, the Secretary of California Health and Human Services as vice chair, and 3 members to be appointed by the Governor. The bill would require the LTSS Board to manage and invest revenue deposited in the California Long-Term Services and Supports Benefits Trust Fund (LTSS Trust) , which the bill would create in the State Treasury, to, upon appropriation, finance long-term services and supports for eligible individuals. The bill would also create, until January 1, 2025, the Long-Term Services and Supports Advisory Committee for the purpose of providing ongoing advice and recommendations to the LTSS Board.

(1) Existing law, the Field Act, requires the Department of General Services to supervise the design and construction of any school building, as defined to include buildings used for elementary, secondary, and community college purposes, or the reconstruction or alteration of or addition to any school building if not exempted, to ensure that plans and specifications comply with adopted rules and regulations and specified building standards and to ensure that the work of construction has been performed in accordance with the approved plans and specifications, for the protection of life and property. Existing law requires the governing board of each school district, community college district, or other school authority, before adopting any plans for a school building, to submit the plans to the department for approval. Existing law requires a school district, before letting any contract for any construction or alteration of any school building, to first obtain written departmental approval of the plans as to safety of design and construction. Existing law provides that no contract for the construction or alteration of any school building is valid, and no public money shall be paid for any work done under such a contract, unless the plans, specifications, and estimates comply in every particular with specified provisions of the Field Act and the requirements prescribed by the department and unless written departmental approval of the plans, specifications, and estimates has been obtained. With respect to facilities for community colleges for projects where the estimated cost of reconstruction or alteration of, or addition to, a school building exceeds $100,000, but does not exceed $225,000, under existing law if a licensed structural engineer submits a report to the department stating that the plans or activities for those projects do not involve structural elements, then certain conditions apply. Those conditions include both (A) that before letting any contract for any construction or alteration of any school building, written departmental approval of the plans, as to safety of design and construction, is required, and (B) that no contract for the construction or alteration of any school building is valid, and no public money shall be paid for any work done under such a contract, unless the plans, specifications, and estimates comply in every particular with specified provisions of the Field Act and the requirements prescribed by the department and unless written departmental approval of the plans, specifications, and estimates has been obtained. Until January 1, 2025, this bill would authorize the department to authorize a school district or community college district on a first-come, first-served basis to procure a construction contract in excess of $1,000,000 subject to different conditions. Specifically, the bill would authorize departmental approval after the letting, making, or execution of the contract, as long as that approval is obtained before the commencement of any alteration or construction. The bill would limit the department to authorizing only a total of 20 construction contracts per year pursuant to these provisions. If the governing board of a school district or a community college district bases its award of a construction contract pursuant to these provisions on plans that do not yet have the approval of the department, the bill would require the school district or community college district to specify in its bidding instructions and construction contracts that the cost of changes to the plans and specifications required by the department shall be treated according to the changes clause of the construction contract. The bill would prohibit the waiver of these provisions by contract, or amendments to the contract, between a school district or a community college district and a design professional or contractor for the design, construction, or alteration of a school building. The bill would require a school district or community college district authorized to procure a construction contract pursuant to these provisions to follow all other applicable statutes and regulations pertaining to the construction of any school building or the reconstruction or alteration of, or addition to, any school building, including, but not limited to, the Field Act.

(1) Existing federal law, the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, regulates, among other things, the quality and packaging of foods introduced or delivered for introduction into interstate commerce and generally prohibits the misbranding of food. Existing federal law, the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990, governs state and local labeling requirements, including those that characterize the relationship of any nutrient specified in the labeling of food to a disease or health-related condition. Existing state law, the Sherman Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law, generally regulates misbranded food and provides that any food is misbranded if its labeling does not conform with the requirements for nutrient content or health claims as set forth in the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the regulations adopted pursuant to that federal act. Existing law requires that a food facility, as defined, make prescribed disclosures and warnings to consumers. Existing law makes a violation of these requirements a crime. Existing state law, the Pupil Nutrition, Health, and Achievement Act of 2001, prohibits the sale of specified beverages to pupils at schools, except for vegetable-based drinks, drinking water with no added sweetener, milk, and in high schools, an electrolyte replacement beverage if those beverages meet certain nutritional requirements. This bill would establish the Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Safety Warning Act, which would prohibit a person from distributing, selling, or offering for sale a sugar-sweetened beverage in a sealed beverage container, a multipack of sugar-sweetened beverages, or a concentrate, as those terms are defined, in this state unless the sealed beverage container, multipack, or packaging of the concentrate bears a safety warning. The bill also would require every person who owns, leases, or otherwise legally controls the premises where a vending machine or beverage dispensing machine is located, or where a sugar-sweetened beverage is sold in an unsealed container, to place a specified safety warning in certain locations, including on the exterior of any vending machine that includes a sugar-sweetened beverage for sale. (2) Under existing law, the State Department of Public Health, upon the request of a health officer, as defined, may authorize the local health department of a city, county, city and county, or local health district to enforce the provisions of the Sherman Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law. Existing law authorizes the State Department of Public Health to assess a civil penalty against any person for a violation of that law in an amount not to exceed $1,000 per day, except as specified. Existing law authorizes the Attorney General or any district attorney, on behalf of the State Department of Public Health, to bring an action in a superior court to grant a temporary or permanent injunction restraining a person from violating the Sherman Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law. This bill, commencing July 1, 2021, would make the first violation of that law or regulations adopted pursuant to that law result in a notice of violation that would inform the recipient that they have an opportunity to remedy the violation without penalty, and a second or subsequent violation punishable by a civil penalty of not less than $50, but no greater than $500. This bill would also create the Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Safety Warning Fund for the receipt of all moneys collected for violations of those requirements, and would allocate moneys in this fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to the department for the purpose of enforcing those provisions. The bill would make legislative findings and declarations relating to the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages, obesity, and dental disease.

This measure would recognize May 2019 as Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month.

This measure would recognize June 6, 2019, as the 75th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy, also known as D-Day. This measure would express the gratitude and appreciation of the Legislature to the members of the United States Armed Forces who participated in D-Day, and would call upon the people of California to observe the anniversary with appropriate reflections and recognition.

(1) Under existing law, the Department of Water Resources operates the State Water Resources Development System, known as the State Water Project, in accordance with the California Water Resources Development Bond Act to supply water to persons and entities in the state. Existing law requires the department to present to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee and relevant policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature the details of the terms and conditions of a long-term water supply contract between the department and a state water project contractor and to submit a copy of one long-term contract, as prescribed. This bill would instead require the department to provide at least 10 days' notice to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee and relevant policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature before holding public sessions to negotiate any potential amendment of a long-term water supply contract that is of projectwide significance with substantially similar terms intended to be offered to all contractors. The bill would require the department, before the execution of a specified proposed amendment to a long-term water supply contract and at least 60 days before final approval of such an amendment, to submit to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee and relevant policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature certain information regarding the terms and conditions of a proposed amendment of a long-term water supply contract and to submit a copy of the long-term contract as it is proposed to be amended. (2) Existing law requires the California Water Commission to conduct an annual review of the progress of construction and operation of the State Water Resources Development System and make a report on its findings to the Department of Water Resources and the Legislature. This bill would require the commission to additionally include in that review and report the progress of the design, construction, and financing of any new water conveyance facility in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to be owned and operated by the department.