Existing law establishes the California State University and the University of California as 2 of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Instruction is provided to students at the 23 institutions constituting the California State University and the 10 institutions constituting the University of California. This bill would require the California State University, and request the University of California, to publicly provide labor market outcome information relating to the graduates of their undergraduate programs and authorize the California State University and the University of California to publicly provide labor market outcome information relating to the graduates of their graduate programs. The labor market outcome information to be provided pursuant to the bill would include, but not necessarily be limited to, salary data, and the percentage distribution of graduates, classified by industry. The bill would specify requirements for presentation of this data, including the use of easily understood labor market measures, aggregation of the data to the systemwide level and by particular areas of study, timeframes after graduation for the presentation of the data in each labor market outcome category, and adherence to pertinent state and federal privacy laws. The bill would also express the intent of the Legislature that the California State University publicly provide prematriculation labor market data for graduates at the point in time 6 years before they received their degrees. The bill would require that this information be made publicly available through publication on the Internet Web sites of the respective segments, and updated no later than June 1 of each year.
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Existing law authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to issue specialty license plates, including environmental license plates and specified special environmental design license plates. Under existing law, a state agency is authorized to apply to the DMV to sponsor a specialized license plate program, and the DMV is required to issue those license plates if the agency meets certain requirements. The DMV is required to charge specified fees for certain services related to the issuance of those plates. Existing law establishes the Breast Cancer Control Account in the Breast Cancer Fund, and requires that funds in that account, upon appropriation by the Legislature, be allocated for the provision of early breast cancer detection services for uninsured and underinsured women. This bill would require the State Department of Health Care Services to apply to sponsor a breast cancer awareness license plate program, and would require the DMV to issue the license plates if the State Department of Health Care Services meets certain requirements. The bill would authorize the State Department of Health Care Services to accept and use donated artwork from California artists for the license plate. The bill would require the revenue generated from the license plates, as specified, to be deposited in the Breast Cancer Control Account in the Breast Cancer Fund. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
(1) Existing law, the Used Mattress Recovery and Recycling Act, requires a mattress recycling organization to be established by a qualified industry association to develop, implement, and administer a mattress recycling program, including the development of a state plan by July 1, 2015, for recycling used mattresses in the state that includes specified goals and elements. The plan is required to include an element that ensures that urban and rural local governments and participating solid waste facilities that accept mattresses are provided with a mechanism for the recovery of illegally disposed used mattresses that is funded at no additional cost to the local government or solid waste facility, as provided. This bill would require that element to ensure that urban and rural local governments and participating permitted solid waste facilities and authorized solid waste operations that accept mattresses are provided with the above mechanism. Existing law also requires the plan to include a provision that allows an individual to drop off a mattress, at no charge, at a mattress recycling center, permitted solid waste facility, or other municipal facility that accepts mattresses, and for the payment of a reasonable amount to that municipal or solid waste facility. This bill would require the plan to allow an individual to also drop off a mattress at a recycler, renovator, authorized solid waste operation, or other municipal facility that accepts mattresses consistent with solid waste regulations. The bill would also require the payment amount to be determined as reasonable by the municipal facility or solid waste facility or operation and the mattress recycling organization. The bill would also, for purposes of the act, make a clarifying change to the definition of a solid waste facility. (2) The act requires, commencing 90 days after the date the department approves or conditionally approves the mattress recycling plan, each manufacturer, renovator, retailer, or distributor that sells a mattress to add a charge to the purchase price of the mattress, as provided. Existing law requires the department to approve or disapprove a final used mattress recycling program budget. This bill would instead require, commencing 90 days after the date the department approves the budget, each manufacturer, renovator, retailer, or distributor that sells a mattress to add a charge to the purchase price of the mattress, as provided. (3) The act requires the mattress recycling organization to arrange for an audit conducted by an independent certified public accountant to be delivered to the department, allows the mattress recycling organization to obtain copies of that audit, and prohibits the department from disclosing any confidential proprietary information in the audit. The department is authorized to conduct its own audit if it determines that an audit is necessary. The act also requires a mattress recycler or mattress renovator to submit a report by July 1, 2017, and each year thereafter to the department, which the department is required to make public. This bill would in addition prohibit the department from disclosing any confidential proprietary information in the audit that the department is authorized to conduct, would instead allow the mattress recycling organization to obtain copies of that audit, and would also prohibit the department from disclosing this confidential information in the annual report submitted by recyclers and renovators. The bill would require the report to be submitted by May 1, 2017, and each year thereafter and would require the report to also be submitted to the mattress recycling organization. (4) The act authorizes the department to impose an administrative civil penalty on a manufacturer, organization, recycler, renovator, or retailer in violation of the act and to take other specified enforcement actions. The department is required to deposit these penalties into the Mattress Recovery and Recycling Penalty Account, which is available for expenditure by the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to implement and enforce the act and for offsetting certain costs reimbursed by the mattress recycling organization. This bill would additionally authorize the department to impose civil penalties on distributors and to take those specified enforcement actions against distributors and recyclers. The bill would delete the authorization for the expenditure of these penalties to offset those reimbursed costs. The bill would also make technical and clarifying changes. (5) Existing law authorizes the department to adopt emergency regulations relating to the used mattress recovery and recycling plan and the program budget. Existing law prohibits the department from adopting regulations with regard to any other provision of the act. This bill would prohibit the department from adopting emergency regulations with regard to any other provision of the act.
(1) Existing law establishes the 21st Century High School After School Safety and Enrichment for Teens (ASSETs) program, and requires a high school after school program, established as specified, to consist of an academic assistance element and an enrichment element that include certain things. Existing law requires applicants for grants to ensure that certain requirements are fulfilled, as applicable, including a certification that each applicant or partner in the application agrees, among other things, to provide to the State Department of Education information on participating pupils' schoolday attendance rates, pupil test scores from a specified program, pupil achievement on the high school exit examination, as applicable, and program attendance. This bill would instead require a certification that each applicant or partner in the application agrees, among other things, to provide to the department information on participating pupils' schoolday attendance rates and program attendance. (2) Existing law requires priority for funding pursuant to the ASSETs program to be given to programs that serve pupils attending a school whose most recent score on the Academic Performance Index ranks the school in the lowest 3 deciles and programs that previously received funding, as specified, for expansion of existing grants up to a certain per site maximum or to replace expiring grants that have satisfactorily met their projected attendance goals and demonstrated other positive outcomes regarding, but not limited to, performance on the high school exit examination, graduation rates, schoolday attendance, and positive behavioral changes. This bill would instead require priority for funding to be given to programs that previously received funding, as specified, for expansion of existing grants up to a certain per site maximum or to replace expiring grants that have satisfactorily met their projected attendance goals. (3) Existing law establishes the After School Education and Safety Program (ASES) . Existing law requires a high school after school program established pursuant to the ASSETs program and a program established pursuant to ASES to submit to the department annual outcome-based data for evaluation, including research-based indicators and measurable pupil outcomes, as specified. Existing law requires grantees to submit certain attendance information to demonstrate program effectiveness, and, to demonstrate program effectiveness based upon individual program focus, requires programs to select one or more measures, as specified, to be submitted annually. Existing law provides that those measures include positive behavioral changes, as specified, for programs established pursuant to the ASSETs program pupil performance on the high school exit examination and graduation rates, pupil performance on the Standardized Testing and Reporting Program (STAR Program) test, homework completion rates, and skill development, as specified. This bill would instead require a high school after school program established pursuant to the ASSETs program and a program established pursuant to ASES to submit to the department annual outcome-based data for evaluation. The bill would require grantees to submit certain attendance information to demonstrate program effectiveness using the unique statewide pupil identifiers for participating pupils who are unduplicated pupils. The bill would require programs to submit evidence of a data-driven program quality improvement process that is based on the department's guidance on program quality standards, as specified. The bill would also require the State Department of Education to develop and submit a biennial report to the Legislature related to the pupils attending, and the program quality of, expanded learning programs, as defined, and would require the report to include data, as specified, and authorize the report to include aggregate reporting of certain information. (4) Existing law specifies that each school that establishes an ASES program is eligible to receive a 3-year direct grant. Existing law specifies the maximum total direct grant amount awarded annually and requires that a school that establishes a program, as specified, to be eligible to receive a supplemental grant to operate the program in excess of 180 regular schooldays or during any combination of summer, intersession, or vacation period for a maximum of the lesser of 2 specified amounts. This bill would replace a direct grant with an after school grant. The bill would specify the minimum total after school grant that may be awarded. The bill would replace a supplemental grant with a summer grant, as defined. The bill would specify the maximum total summer grant that may be awarded. The bill would also define the term "expanded learning." (5) Existing law provides that a school that establishes a program pursuant to specified provisions of ASES is eligible to receive a supplemental grant to operate the program, as specified, for a maximum of 30% of the total grant amount awarded, per school year, to the school. Existing law authorizes an existing after school supplemental grantee to operate a 3-hour or 6-hour per day program, but prohibits a grantee from receiving additional grant funds for the purposes of operating a 6-hour per day program. This bill would instead provide that a school that establishes a program pursuant to specified provisions of ASES is eligible to receive a summer grant to operate the program, as specified, for a maximum of either 30% of the total grant amount awarded, per school year, to the school, or $33,750 for each regular school year for each elementary school and $45,000 for each regular school year for each middle or junior high school. The bill would also authorize an existing after school summer grantee to operate a 3-hour or 6-hour per day program. (6) Existing law authorizes the State Department of Education to terminate a program established pursuant to the provisions of ASES if the program consistently fails to demonstrate measurable program outcomes, as defined, for 3 consecutive years. Existing law authorizes measurable program outcomes to be demonstrated by, but not be limited to, comparing pupils participating in the program to nonparticipating pupils at the same schoolsite and pupils participating in the program who demonstrate improvement on one or more indicators collected by the program, as specified. Existing law authorizes program effectiveness to be demonstrated using performance levels from the STAR Program by specified documentation. This bill would instead authorize measurable program outcomes to be demonstrated by, but not be limited to, comparing pupils participating in the program to nonparticipating pupils at the same schoolsite. The bill would repeal the authority to demonstrate program effectiveness using performance levels from the STAR Program by specified documentation. (7) Existing law, to the extent consistent with federal and state privacy laws, authorizes local educational agency grantees funded pursuant to specified provisions to submit certain pupil data to an operator of an after school program with which the local educational agency has a contract, including STAR Program test scores and scores on individual California Standards Tests. This bill would instead, to the extent consistent with federal and state privacy laws, authorize local educational agency grantees funded pursuant to specified provisions to submit certain pupil data to an operator of an after school program or summer program, or both, with which the local educational agency has a contract, including statewide test and assessment scores. (8) Existing law prohibits a program established pursuant to the provisions of ASES located off school grounds from being approved unless safe transportation is provided to the pupils enrolled in the program. This bill would authorize additional funding to be provided for transportation, as specified, if a program is operated at a schoolsite located in an area that has a population density of less than 11 persons per square mile. (9) Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that the 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) program contained within a specified federal act complement ASES. Existing law requires at least 10% of the total amount appropriated pursuant to the 21st CCLC program, except as specified, to be available for direct grants to provide equitable access and participation in community learning center programs and to provide family literacy services, as specified. Existing law also requires at least 40% of the total amount appropriated pursuant to the 21st CCLC program, except as specified, be allocated to programs serving elementary and middle school pupils. Existing law requires core funding grants for programs serving middle and elementary school pupils in before and after school programs to be allocated according to the same funding provisions, and subject to the same reporting and accountability provisions, as described in specified provisions of ASES. This bill would instead require at least 5% of the total amount appropriated pursuant to the 21st CCLC program, except as specified, to be available for grants to provide equitable access and participation in community learning center programs. The bill would require after school and summer funding grants for programs serving middle and elementary school pupils to be allocated according to the same funding provisions, and subject to the same reporting and accountability provisions, as described in specified provisions of ASES. The bill would require priority to be given to grant applications that will provide year-round expanded learning programming, as defined.
(1) The Corporation Tax Law imposes taxes according to or measured by net income at a rate of 8.84%, or for financial institutions, at a rate of 10.84%, as specified. This bill would, for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2015, revise that rate for taxpayers that are publicly held corporations, as defined, and instead impose a tax rate from 7% to 13%, or for financial institutions, from 9% to 15%, based on the compensation ratio, as defined, of the corporation. This bill would increase the applicable tax rate by 50% for those taxpayers that have a specified decrease in full-time employees employed in the United States as compared to an increase in contracted and foreign full-time employees, as described. (2) Existing law establishes the California Competes Tax Credit Committee, which has specified duties in regard to tax credits for economic development. Existing law establishes the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development, also known as "GO-Biz," to, among other duties, serve the Governor as the lead entity for economic strategy and the marketing of California on issues relating to business development, private sector investment, and economic growth. The Corporation Tax Law allows various credits against the tax imposed by that law. This bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2015, would allow a credit to a qualified taxpayer, as defined, in an amount as provided in a written agreement between GO-Biz and the qualified taxpayer, agreed upon by the committee, and based on specified factors, including the number of jobs the qualified taxpayer will create or retain in the state and the amount of investment in the state by the qualified taxpayer. The bill would limit the total amount of the credit available to an amount equal to the amount of revenue generated by the application of the above-referenced tax rates on publicly held corporations. The bill would also impose various duties upon GO-Biz, including the adoption of regulations. (3) This bill would include a change in state statute that would result in a taxpayer paying a higher tax within the meaning of Section 3 of Article XIIIA of the California Constitution, and thus would require for passage the approval of 23 of the membership of each house of the Legislature. This act provides for a tax levy within the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate effect.
This measure would designate the portion of State Highway Route 710 between Pico Avenue and the Pacific Coast Highway in the City of Long Beach as the Senator Jenny Oropeza Memorial Freeway. The measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.
Existing law provides authority for a governing board, the president of a community college, or the president's designee, or an instructor to suspend a student for good cause. Existing law authorizes the governing board to expel a student for good cause when other means of correction fail to bring about proper conduct, or when the presence of the student causes a continuing danger to the physical safety of the student or others. Existing law requires the suspension or expulsion of a student to be accompanied by a hearing as provided. This bill would provide that, if good cause for the issuance of an order, requested by a community college district, to protect a campus of the district, or any person regularly present on a campus of the district, is issued by a court against a student of that district, and prevents that student from attending classes and maintaining his or her academic standing, the district may require the student to apply for reinstatement after the expiration of that order. If the district requires the student to apply for reinstatement, the bill would require the district to do so before the expiration of the protective order. The bill would require a review with respect to the application to be conducted at the request of the student. The bill would require the review to include consideration of specified issues. The bill would require, after the review, that the governing board or the person to whom the governing board delegates this authority deny reinstatement, permit reinstatement, or permit conditional reinstatement, as specified.
Existing law regulates various business activities and practices, including the sale of telephones. This bill would require that any smartphone, as defined, that is manufactured on or after July 1, 2015, and sold in California after that date, include a technological solution at the time of sale, which may consist of software, hardware, or both software and hardware, that, once initiated and successfully communicated to the smartphone, can render inoperable the essential features, as defined, of the smartphone to an unauthorized user when the smartphone is not in the possession of an authorized user. The bill would require that the technological solution, when enabled, be able to withstand a hard reset, as defined, and prevent reactivation of the smartphone on a wireless network except by an authorized user. The bill would make these requirements inapplicable when the smartphone is resold in California on the secondhand market or is consigned and held as collateral on a loan. The bill would additionally except from these requirements a smartphone model that was first introduced prior to January 1, 2015, that cannot reasonably be reengineered to support the manufacturer's or operating system provider's technological solution, including if the hardware or software cannot support a retroactive update. The bill would authorize an authorized user to affirmatively elect to disable or opt-out of the technological solution at any time. The bill would make the knowing retail sale in violation of the bill's requirements subject to a civil penalty of not less than $500, nor more than $2,500, for each violation. The bill would limit an enforcement action to collect the civil penalty to being brought by the Attorney General, a district attorney, or city attorney, and would prohibit any private right of action to collect the civil penalty. The bill would prohibit any city, county, or city and county from imposing requirements on manufacturers, operating system providers, wireless carriers, or retailers relating to technological solutions for smartphones.
Existing law, known as the Sex Equity in Education Act, declares that it is the policy of the state that elementary and secondary school classes and courses, including nonacademic and elective classes and courses, be conducted without regard to the sex of the pupil enrolled in those classes and courses. The act also prohibits public funds from being used in connection with any athletic program conducted under the auspices of a school district governing board or any student organization within the school district that does not provide equal opportunity to both sexes for participation and for use of facilities. This bill would express legislative findings and declarations relating to the participation of girls and women in competitive athletics. The bill would require, commencing with the 2015–16 school year and every year thereafter, each public elementary and secondary school in the state, including each charter school, that offers competitive athletics, as defined, to make specified data publicly available at the end of the school year, as specified.