(1) The Private Investigator Act provides for the licensure and regulation of private investigators and requires the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services to consider, and authorizes the bureau to require, an applicant for licensure as a private investigator to submit proof of satisfactory completion of a course in professional ethics. That act authorizes the bureau to specify which courses and course providers satisfy the requirement if the bureau requires an applicant to submit proof of satisfactory completion of a course in professional ethics. This bill would require the bureau, if it requires an applicant to submit proof of satisfactory completion of a course in professional ethics, to both specify which courses and course providers satisfy the requirement and to make that information available on its internet website. (2) Existing law, the Private Security Services Act, a violation of which is a crime, provides for the regulation of private patrol operators by the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law requires a licensee to maintain an accurate and current record verifying that each of their employees has completed specified training related to security officer skills. Existing law requires that a licensee maintain the records for at least 2 years and make the records available to the bureau upon request. This bill would revise those provisions to, among other things, require that a security guard registrant maintain records verifying completion of certain required trainings, and to similarly maintain the certificate of completion of those trainings for at least 2 years from the date the trainings were completed and provide the bureau those records upon request. (3) Existing law requires a course provider to issue a certificate to a security guard upon satisfactory completion of a required course and permits a private patrol operator to provide additional training programs and courses. Existing law requires that the department develop and approve by regulation a standard course and curriculum for specified security officer skills training. Existing law authorizes those trainings to be administered, tested, and certified by any licensee or any organization or school approved by the department. This bill would instead require that a course provider issue a certificate of completion to a registrant after the registrant completes each training course, and would require each training course to meet certain requirements. This bill would require the bureau to develop and approve by regulation a standard course and curriculum for specified security officer skills training. This bill would authorize certain trainings to be administered, tested, and certified by a certified training facility or an organization or school approved by the bureau. This bill would require that the bureau approve any instructor of an organization or school who is used to administer those trainings. (4) Existing law prohibits an employee of a licensee who performs the function of a security guard or security patrolperson from being issued a registration card without first meeting specified requirements. Existing law requires that an employee who performs the function of a security guard or security patrolperson but is not registered with the bureau, upon accepting employment by a private patrol operator, complete and submit an application for registration, as specified. This bill would instead prohibit a licensee from permitting an employee to perform the functions of a security guard without certifying that the person holds a current and valid security guard registration. This bill would make conforming changes to that effect. (5) Existing law requires the licensee to maintain supplies of applications and fingerprint cards that must be provided by the bureau upon request. Existing law requires an employee, on the first day of employment and at the request of the client thereafter, to display to the client their registration card, as specified. This bill would delete those provisions. (6) Existing law requires that an application be verified and include specified information regarding, among other things, the employer's address and license number. This bill would modify the information required on that application by no longer requiring the employer's address and license number, and by requiring the application to include, among other things, the provider of the course in the exercise of the power to arrest. (7) Existing law requires a registration card to expire by a specified date, and establishes a process for a registrant to renew their registration. Existing law authorizes a registrant whose registration has been renewed but who has not yet received a renewed registration card by the time that their prior registration has expired to, for 90 days after the expiration of the card, continue to meet registration requirements by providing evidence of renewal. This bill would instead authorize a registrant to work as a security guard pending receipt of the renewed registration card if the renewed registration card has not been delivered to the registrant before the expiration of the prior registration, but the bureau has renewed the registration. (8) Existing law requires a firearm training facility, before allowing a person to participate in the course of training in the carrying and usage of firearms, to verify and certify that they have seen documentation verifying that the person is a United States citizen or possesses permanent legal alien status in the United States. This bill would require a firearms training facility to also verify and certify that they have seen the documentation specified above before allowing a person to participate in the requalification course in carrying and using a firearm. (9) Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of locksmiths by the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services and requires an application for a locksmith license to be made in writing and filed with the Chief of the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services. This bill would delete the requirement that the application be made in writing. (10) The Alarm Company Act requires the Director of Consumer Affairs to issue a firearms permit to an applicant who is a licensee under the act, a qualified manager of a licensee, a designated branch officer of a licensee, or a registered alarm agent who meets specified requirements. The Private Security Services Act requires the bureau to issue a firearms permit to a licensee, a qualified manager of a licensee, or a registered security guard who meets specified requirements. The Private Investigator Act requires the bureau to issue a firearms permit to an applicant who is a licensee or a qualified manager of a licensee who meets specified requirements. Existing law prohibits the director from renewing a firearms qualification card unless specified requirements are met, including that the applicant has successfully passed a written examination. This bill would require an applicant for a firearms permit under the above-specified provisions to be at least 21 years of age. The bill would, on an ongoing basis, require an applicant for a firearms qualification card to produce evidence to the firearm training facility that the applicant is a citizen of the United States or has permanent legal alien status in the United States. (11) Existing law provides that the powers and duties of the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services under the Alarm Company Act, the Collateral Recovery Act, the Private Security Services Act, the Proprietary Security Services Act, the Private Investigator Act, and under the provisions regulating locksmiths are subject to review by the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature and requires the review to be performed as if the act were scheduled to be repealed as of January 1, 2020. This bill would revise that date to January 1, 2024. (12) Existing law establishes the Private Investigator Fund and directs money derived from the Private Investigator Act to be deposited into that fund and expended for purposes of the act upon appropriation by the Legislature. This bill would abolish that fund and direct money derived under the act to be deposited into the Private Security Services Fund. The bill would increase the amounts of various fees under the act, including the application and examination fee, the branch office certificate fee, the fee for an original private investigator license, the fee to obtain a certificate of licensure, and the reexamination fee for applicants and qualified managers. The bill would increase the processing fee for the assignment of a license. The bill would establish a fee of $25 for an endorsed verification for licensure, certification, or permit and would limit the reinstatement fee following a suspension to not more than 50% of the renewal fee. The bill would make the provisions revising fees operative on July 1, 2020. (13) This bill would make other conforming and nonsubstantive changes, including deleting obsolete provisions. (14) Because the bill would expand the scope of a crime under the Private Security Services Act, and by expanding the crime of perjury, 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.
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The Contractors' State License Law provides for the licensure and regulation of contractors by the Contractors' State License Board (board) , which is within the Department of Consumer Affairs. (1) Under existing law, the board is responsible for the licensure and regulation of contractors and the board is required to appoint a registrar of contractors. Existing law repeals these provisions establishing the board and requiring it to appoint a registrar on January 1, 2020. This bill would extend the operation of these provisions to January 1, 2024. Existing law requires the board to meet once each calendar quarter for the purpose of transacting business that comes before it. Existing law requires the board to appoint a registrar and requires the registrar, as specified, to publish a list of the names and addresses of contractors registered under that law, including a license check search function that would permit consumers to search for a licensed contractor by either ZIP Code or geographic location. Existing law requires an applicant or licensee to file or have on file a contractor's bond in the sum of $15,000. This bill would require the board to maintain the contractor search function on the board's internet website. The bill would require the board to conduct a study and report to the Legislature regarding whether the current amount of the contractors' bond requirement is sufficient. The bill would also require the board to make every effort to provide a webcast of all regularly scheduled quarterly meetings of the board, as specified. (2) Existing law provides that authorized representatives of the United States government, the State of California, and other specified agencies and entities are exempt from the provisions of the Contractors' State License Law, except as specified. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to these provisions. (3) Existing law requires the registrar to make available to members of the public the date, nature, and status of all complaints on file against a licensee that meet specific qualifications. Under existing law, complaints resolved in favor of the contractor are not subject to disclosure. For legal actions against a licensee that require disclosure, existing law requires the disclosure to also appear on the license of record identified as a qualifier who is listed in the members of the personnel of record of the licensee issued the citation. This bill would make clarifying changes to these provisions relating to legal actions that require disclosure of disciplinary action against a licensee. (3) Existing law authorizes the board to set fees by regulation, according to a prescribed schedule, including an authorization to charge C-10 and C-7 contractors a fee, not to exceed $20, to be used by the board to enforce provisions of the Labor Code relating to electrician certification. This bill would instead require the board to only charge C-10 contractors a $20 fee, which would be assessed with the renewal fee for an active license, for that purpose. (4) Existing law requires, as a condition precedent to the board accepting an application for licensure, renewal, reinstatement, or to change officers or other personnel of record, that an applicant, previously found to have failed or refused to pay a contractor, subcontractor, consumer, materials supplier, or employee based on an unsatisfied final judgment, file or have on file with the board a bond sufficient to guarantee payment of an amount equal to the unsatisfied final judgment or judgments. Under existing law, if a judgment is entered against a licensee, then a qualifying person or personnel of record is prohibited from serving as a qualifying individual or other personnel of record on any license until the judgment is satisfied. This bill would extend that prohibition to when a judgment is entered against any personnel of record. (5) Existing law requires the board to receive and review complaints and consumer questions, and complaints received from state agencies, regarding solar energy systems companies and solar contractors. Existing law requires the board to annually compile a report documenting complaints it received relating to solar contractors that it shall make available publicly on the board's and the Public Utilities Commission's internet websites. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
(1) Existing law, until January 1, 2021, establishes the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians to license and regulate vocational nurses and psychiatric technicians. Existing law, before January 1, 2018, requires the board to select an executive officer to perform duties delegated by the board. Existing law, commencing January 1, 2018, requires the Governor rather than the board to appoint an executive officer and, commencing January 1, 2020, requires the executive officer to again be appointed by the board. This bill would extend the operation of the provisions requiring the Governor rather than the board to appoint an executive officer to January 1, 2021. (2) The Barbering and Cosmetology Act provides for the licensure and regulation of the practice of barbering and cosmetology by the State Board of Barbering and Cosmetology in the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law authorizes the board to appoint an executive officer. Existing law repeals those provisions on January 1, 2020. This bill would extend the operation of those provisions to January 1, 2021. (3) The Cemetery and Funeral Act provides for the licensure and regulation of cemeteries, crematories, funeral establishments, and their personnel, including embalmers, by the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau, which is within the Department of Consumer Affairs. The act makes the bureau's powers and duties, as set forth in this act, subject to review by the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature as if the act's provisions are scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2020. The act requires the bureau to require an applicant for licensure as an embalmer to pass 2 examinations. The act authorized an applicant who previously failed the examination administered by the bureau prior to January 1, 2010, to retake the examination until June 30, 2010. That act also authorizes the bureau, from time to time, to examine the requirements for the licensure of embalmers in other states, as specified. This bill would make the board's powers and duties subject to review as if the act's provisions are scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2024. The bill would delete the obsolete provision that authorized certain applicants to retake the examination, and would delete the phrase "from time to time" from the provision authorizing the bureau to examine licensure requirements for embalmers in other states.
This measure would proclaim the month of November 2019 as California Runaway and Homeless Youth Prevention Month to recognize the need for individuals, schools, communities, businesses, local governments, and the state to take action on behalf of runaway and homeless youth in California.
This measure would proclaim September 29, 2019, as Gold Star Mothers' and Families' Day.
Existing law, the Stop Tobacco Access to Kids Enforcement (STAKE) Act, prohibits the sale, distribution, or nonsale distribution of tobacco products, as defined, directly or indirectly to any person under 21 years of age through the United States Postal Service or through any other public or private postal or package delivery service. Existing law requires a person selling or distributing tobacco products directly to a consumer through the United States Postal Service or by another postal or package delivery service to comply with specified age-verification policies and deliver only to the consumer's verified mailing or billing address, as applicable. Existing law authorizes enforcing agencies to assess civil penalties for violations of the STAKE Act. This bill would additionally require sellers, distributors, and nonsale distributors to deliver tobacco products only in conspicuously marked containers, as specified, and to obtain the signature of a person 21 years of age or older before delivering a tobacco product. The bill would allow a person to designate an address for delivery that is different from the person's mailing or billing address, if the person's mailing or billing address has been verified in accordance with specified provisions.
(1) Existing law, the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act, requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to annually designate convenience zones and requires that at least one certified recycling center that meets certain requirements be located within every convenience zone. Existing law authorizes the department to grant a convenience zone an exemption from certain redemption requirements, including certain dealer and recycling center redemption requirements, based on certain factors. Existing law limits the total number of exemptions that may be granted to 35% of the total number of convenience zones identified as having one or more of those factors applicable. This bill would increase the total number of exemptions that may be granted to 40% of the number identified as eligible. The bill would require the department to review exemptions every 2 years to determine if each exemption still meets the prescribed exemption criteria. (2) The act requires dealers within a convenience zone where no recycling location has been established, or within a convenience zone that is unserved for 60 days and not exempt from convenience zone requirements, to submit an affidavit to the department stating that the dealer has met specified standards for redemption, including, among others, that the dealer is redeeming all empty beverage container types at all open cash registers or at one designated location on the dealer's premises, during all hours that the dealer is open for business. If the dealer does not submit that affidavit, existing law requires the dealer to pay $100 per day to the department, for deposit in the California Beverage Container Recycling Fund, a continuously appropriated fund described in (3) , until a recycling location is established or until the dealer meets the standards for redemption specified in the affidavit provision. This bill would revise these convenience zone redemption duties and exempt from those duties dealers with gross annual sales of less than $2,000,000 and dealers that are not supermarkets and that have less than 5,000 square feet of interior retail space. The bill, until January 1, 2022, would also exempt certain other dealers from these requirements. (3) The act establishes the California Beverage Container Recycling Fund and, except for administrative costs, continuously appropriates moneys in the fund to the department for specified purposes, including the amount necessary to pay handling fees to certain types of recyclers to provide an incentive for the redemption of empty beverage containers in convenience zones. This bill would require the department to offer a handling fee payment from the fund to certain certified recyclers within unserved convenience zones. The bill would make an appropriation by changing the terms and conditions under which the department is authorized to make payments from a continuously appropriated fund. The bill would authorize the department, until July 1, 2022, to annually expend $3,000,000 from the fund for specified supplemental handling fee payments to low-volume recycling centers. By authorizing the expenditure of a continuously appropriated fund for new purposes, this bill would make an appropriation. The bill would require the department to develop and submit to the Legislature recommended revisions to the handling fee provisions, as specified. The bill would require the department to suspend usage of surveys and calculations of recycling costs until at least January 1, 2021. (4) The act also continuously appropriates from the California Beverage Container Recycling Fund $10,500,000 annually for payments to cities and counties for beverage container recycling and litter cleanup activities. The act authorizes the department to withhold those payments to any city, county, or city and county that has restricted or prohibited the siting of a supermarket site, as provided. This bill would require the department, on or before July 1, 2020, to convene a public hearing, as specified, for purposes of discussing and receiving public testimony on the development of guidelines for evaluating the circumstances that might prompt the department to withhold beverage container recycling and litter cleanup activities payments to any city, county, or city and county that has restricted or prohibited the siting of a supermarket site. (5) Under the act, the department is required to calculate a processing fee for each beverage container with a specified scrap value, which is required to be paid by beverage manufacturers for each beverage container sold or transferred to a distributor or dealer. The department is required to calculate the processing fee in a specified manner, so that the processing fee generally equals 65% of the processing payment that the department is required to pay to processors if the scrap value of the container having a refund value pursuant to the act is less than the cost of recycling. The department is required to determine the statewide weighted average cost to recycle each beverage container type by conducting a survey, as specified. The department is required to establish a processing fee account in the continuously appropriated California Beverage Container Recycling Fund for each material type and to deposit processing fees and other amounts in the applicable account. This bill would authorize the director of the department, notwithstanding any other provision of the act, to declare a recycling exigency if the department makes specified determinations. If the director declares a recycling exigency, the bill would authorize the department to take the following actions: for any type of beverage container for which the annual recycling rate has dropped by a specified amount, adjust the processing payment to reflect a cost of recycling that is increased by at least 10%; increase the handling fee by at least 10%; establish and distribute from the fund supplemental recycling incentives totaling up to $500,000 per month to encourage the siting of new recycling centers; and establish and distribute from the fund PET quality incentive payments totaling up to $500,000 per month to material recovery facilities, as specified. The bill would establish a contingency for each of these actions that would trigger the termination of the department's authority to undertake the action. The bill would also authorize the department, if the director declares a recycling exigency, to approve limited-term pilot projects in accordance with prescribed criteria. By expanding the purposes of a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation.
(1) Existing law requires each law enforcement agency to annually furnish specified information to the Department of Justice regarding the use of force by a peace officer. Existing law requires the Department of Justice, once per year, to update a summary of information contained in the reports received on its internet website. Existing law requires a department or agency that employs peace officers or custodial officers to establish a procedure to investigate complaints by members of the public against those officers. This bill would, by no later than January 1, 2021, require each law enforcement agency to maintain a policy that provides guidelines on the use of force, utilizing deescalation techniques and other alternatives to force when feasible, specific guidelines for the application of deadly force, and factors for evaluating and reviewing all use of force incidents, among other things. The bill would require each agency to make their use of force policy accessible to the public. By imposing additional duties on local agencies, this bill would create a state-mandated local program. (2) Existing law establishes the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training in the Department of Justice and requires the commission to adopt rules establishing minimum standards regarding the recruitment of peace officers. Existing law requires the commission to develop guidelines and implement courses of instruction regarding racial profiling, domestic violence, hate crimes, vehicle pursuits, and human trafficking, among others. This bill would require the commission to implement a course or courses of instruction for the regular and periodic training of law enforcement officers in the use of force. The bill would require the commission to develop uniform, minimum guidelines for adoption and promulgation by California law enforcement agencies for the use of force, as specified. The bill would require law enforcement agencies to adopt and promulgate a use of force policy and would state the intent of the Legislature that each law enforcement agency adopt, promulgate, and require regular and periodic training consistent with the agency's policy that complies with the guidelines developed under this bill. This bill would make findings and declarations regarding the intent of the bill, as it pertains to law enforcement agencies' use of force polices, including that those policies may be introduced in legal proceedings and may be considered as a factor in determining the reasonableness of an officer's actions, but do not impose a legal duty on an officer to act in accordance with the policy. (3) 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. (4) This bill would also make its provisions operative contingent on the enactment of Assembly Bill 392 of the 2019–20 Regular Session.
Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation to engage in a Construction Manager/General Contractor project delivery method (CM/GC method) , as specified, for projects for the construction of a highway, bridge, or tunnel that has construction costs greater than $10,000,000. Existing law defines "construction manager" for that purpose to mean a partnership, corporation, or other legal entity that is able to provide appropriately licensed contracting and engineering services as needed pursuant to a CM/GC method contract. This bill would revise that definition to mean such an entity that is a licensed contractor pursuant to the Contractors' State License Law and that is able to provide, or that contracts with entities that are able to provide, appropriately licensed contracting or engineering services, or both appropriately licensed contracting and engineering services, as needed pursuant to a CM/GC method contract. Existing law authorizes regional transportation agencies, as defined, to use the CM/GC method, as specified, to design and construct certain projects, if there is an evaluation of the traditional design-bid-build method of construction and of the CM/GC method and the board of the regional transportation agency adopts the procurement strategy in a public meeting. Existing law defines "construction manager" for these purposes in the same manner as described for the department's CM/GC method authorization. Existing law defines the term "project" for these purposes to include expressways that are not on the state highway system and specified bridges that are not on the state highway system. Existing law requires specified information submitted under the CM/GC method to be verified under oath. This bill, with regard to regional transportation agencies, would revise the definition of "construction manager" in the same manner as described for the department's CM/GC method authorization. The bill would also expand the authorization to use the CM/GC method under these provisions by expanding the definition of the term "project" to include any other transportation project that is not on the state highway system. By expanding the scope of the crime of perjury, 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.
Existing law establishes the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council and requires the council to set and measure progress toward goals to prevent and end homelessness among youth in California by setting specific, measurable goals aimed at preventing and ending homelessness among youth in the state and defining outcome measures and gathering data related to the goals. This bill would require the council to develop and administer a grant program to support young people experiencing homelessness and prevent and end homelessness. The program would be funded by a combination of funds provided to the council by the State Department of Health Care Services from the Youth Education, Prevention, Early Intervention and Treatment Account, funds appropriated by the Legislature, and gifts and donations made to the council for that purpose. The bill would specify the entities eligible to apply for grant funding and identify specific information to be included in the grant application. The bill would require preference for funding to be given to entities with certain characteristics, including those that participate in the development of a local, youth-centered, coordinated entry system. The bill would require grant funds to be used both to provide supportive services, as specified, and to establish or expand housing programs. The bill would require a grant recipient to submit data and annual progress reports to the council and agree to meet quality improvement goals, accept technical assistance, and submit to annual site monitoring visits by the council, as specified. The bill would require the council, by January 10, 2021, and each January 10 thereafter, to submit a report to the Legislature on the data received from grant recipients.