Existing law, the Barbering and Cosmetology Act, establishes the State Board of Barbering and Cosmetology for the licensure and regulation of barbers and cosmetologists. A violation of the act is a crime, unless otherwise provided. The act requires the board to conduct certain reviews and report its findings and recommendations as prescribed by November 1, 2018. The act provides that it confers no authority to practice medicine or surgery. This bill would delete that obsolete report requirement. The bill would prohibit the practice of medicine from being performed by, or offered by, a licensee under the act without being authorized and licensed to perform that act pursuant to a license obtained in accordance with some other provision of law.
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Existing law required the Department of Real Estate, by January 1, 1991, to develop a booklet on common environmental hazards that are located on, and affect, real property. Existing law requires the Department of Toxic Control Substances to publish a new edition of the booklet. This bill would require the department to make the booklet available on its internet website, upon appropriation by the Legislature of funds for this purpose. The bill would make other nonsubstantive changes.
Existing law provides for the licensure, registration, and regulation of clinical laboratories and various clinical laboratory personnel by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to develop and provide to all licensed clinical laboratories a form in triplicate to be used by employees, agents, and couriers of licensed clinical laboratories to give notice when a specimen storage container has been improperly secured. Existing law requires the notice to be provided to the licensee by attaching the appropriate copy of the form to the unlocked storage container and mailed to the Department of Consumer Affairs. This bill would also require the notice of improper storage to be emailed to the Department of Consumer Affairs. The bill would require the Department of Consumer Affairs to make a copy of the form available on its internet website.
Existing law, the Physician Assistant Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of physician assistants by the Physician Assistant Board, which is within the jurisdiction of the Medical Board of California. The act provides that the board shall require physician assistants to take and pass a written examination for licensure. The act provides that the board may make arrangements for the examination to be administered under a uniform examination system. The act, however, requires the board to establish a passing score and time and place for each examination. This bill would remove the requirement that the board establish a passing score and time and place for each examination.
The Physician Assistant Practice Act provides for the licensure and regulation of physician assistants by the Physician Assistant Board and, among other things, authorizes a physician assistant to furnish or order a drug or device, in accordance with the practice agreement and consistent with the physician assistant's educational preparation, as provided. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions.
Existing law requires the Office of Emergency Services, in coordination with all interested state agencies with designated response roles in the state emergency plan and interested local emergency management agencies, to jointly establish by regulation a standardized emergency management system for use by all emergency response agencies, to include specified components. Existing law requires the office to approve, adopt, and incorporate the California Animal Response Emergency System (CARES) program developed under the oversight of the Department of Food and Agriculture into the standardized emergency management system. This bill would require the department to expand and develop, as part of its CARES program, under the oversight of the Secretary of Food and Agriculture, the Animal Care Network in Disasters program that represents a coordinated network of government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and volunteers to assist in the evacuation and care of household and domestic animals and livestock in emergencies. The bill would establish the Animal Care Network in Disasters Fund in the State Treasury to, upon appropriation, be used solely to support the program, including through an agreement with one or more schools of veterinary medicine, as specified. The bill would specify that moneys in the fund are not to be considered offsets to any other state funds appropriated to the program or contracting veterinary schools or their affiliated educational institutions. The bill would require the secretary to annually review and approve proposed uses of any program funds.
Existing law designates all parks, public campgrounds, monument sites, landmark sites, and sites of historical interest established or acquired by the state, or that are under its control, as the state park system, except as specified. Under existing law, the Department of Parks and Recreation controls the state park system, which is made up of units, one of which is the Carnegie State Vehicular Recreation Area. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would preserve the Carnegie State Vehicular Recreation Area for conservation purposes.
The California Constitution and existing property tax law authorize a person who is either severely disabled or over 55 years of age to transfer the base year value, as defined, of property that is eligible for the homeowners' property tax exemption to a replacement dwelling that is of equal or lesser value located within the same county as the property from which the base year value is transferred, and if a county ordinance so providing has been adopted, to a replacement dwelling that is located in a different county. This bill, on or after January 1, 2023, would expand this authorization to transfer the base year value of an original property to a person who is the parent or legal guardian of a severely and permanently disabled child and resides with the child. By changing the manner in which local assessors assess property for property taxation purposes, 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, 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. Existing law requires the state to reimburse local agencies annually for certain property tax revenues lost as a result of any exemption or classification of property for purposes of ad valorem property taxation. This bill would provide that, notwithstanding those provisions, no appropriation is made and the state shall not reimburse local agencies for property tax revenues lost by them pursuant to the bill. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy but would become operative only if Senate Constitutional Amendment __ of the 2019–20 Regular Session is approved by the voters.
The Personal Income Tax Law authorizes various credits against the taxes imposed by that law, including a credit for qualified renters, as specified. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the renters' credit.